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Update: Wednesday, November 8, 2006 6:39 PM

Below is a collection of infomation & stories about the war machine - military action & service, selective service enlistment, draft legislation, resistance, etc. -- click underlines for access. (Special thanks to Joe, Carl, Scott & Josh and many other other hard workinginformation mavins. Send contributions to resist@rcnv.org)

Headliners:
Zinn - Iraq the "Ultimate Betrayal"
Basic War & Peace Economics Lesson True Majority
Marine Staff Sgt. Massey, Iraq "brutality" against "innocents
Iraq War items: click here
RCNV Mid-East Israel/Palestine Report: click here

CENTURY OF U.S. MILITARY INTERVENSION - A LIST 1890-2002
MILITARY ENLISTMENT CONTRACT, read carefully, especially p. 2
ENLISTED MILITARY CAN GET HONORABLE C.O. DISCHARGE the process

RECRUITMENT: ~ Out to Get YOU! - Amry Recruiter Training Manual ~ Aggressive Recruitment Results in Limited Recruiter Access, Fort Worth Weekly 5/10/06 ~ No Soldier Left Behind Now Dead Columbia Tribune 3/5/06 ~ Angry Families Rein In Recruiters With AB 1778, SF CHRON 5/6/06 ~ Recruiting Data by Race/Ethnicity, 2004 stats. ~ Killing Civilians Reason to Not To Join Army, Common Dreams 4/29/06 ~ Civilian Recruiting Contractors, Laurence, KS World 2/17/06 ~ Military Recruiting Statistics for California Zips/Schools/Counties & Other States ~ Mining for Kids, Pentagon Recruitment Database, Vermont Guardian 1/17/06 ~ Join Central CA Counter Recruit List Serve (send blank e-mail) ~ High Schools, No Child Act & Opt-out; Colleges, Solomon Amendment & more ~ Recruiter Schmoozing Tatics Excludes War Reality NYT 6/16/05 ~ Recruting Letters Debate: Army Cptn. Will Griffin, RCNV's Bob Fitch & Others Indy Media 5/05 ~ AWOL & Deserter Crisis for Military, The Independent, 5/9/05 ~ Hard Times & Pressure for Recruiters, NYT 3/27/05 ~ Recruiters Short of Goals 3/3/05 Reuters ~ Marine Recruit Dead; Parris Island Boot Camp Abuse 2/21/05 ~ Army Reserves, a "Broken Force" 1/6/04 ~ Military: Soldiers Challange Back Door Draft & Stop Loss 12/6/04 ~ Fewer Soldier Join Guard 12/4/05 ~ Colleges Can Bar Recruiters 11/30/04 ~ Recruiters Target Low Income Schools/Students 11/29/04 ~ Military: Soldiers Challenge Back Door Draft & Stop Loss 12/6/04 ~ Recruiter Turns Activist and Tells All 10/10/04 ~ Army Web War Games Recruit Kids, 10/01/04 ~ "Operation Army Advertising" ~"Civilian" & "Private" Military Expands ~ Counter Recruitment in School Using Equal Access Law ~ Private Sector Contracting Recruitment Operations (08/04) / AP Article

REFUSENIKS, AWOL - SOLDIERS WHO LEAVE, SOME LEAVE THE COUNTRY: ~ "Why I Ran," Boise Weekly 5/10/06 ~ Bush went AWOL ~ AWOL Escallating, Democracy Now, 3/15/05 ~ AWOL When There's No Other Option, Harpers 3/05 ~ Army Pfc. Katherine Jashinski seeks CO, WI Journal 2/20/06 ~ Pablo Peredes, Navy Petty Officer Refuses to Ship, CO Refused 5/05 ~ Enlisted Departures On Rise Chi Daily News 1/22/06 ~ Camilo Mejia, 1st Iraq Vet Refusenick, Counterpunch 5/05 ~ Hinzman Denied Canadian Immigration 3/24/05 ~ 5,000 Discharge Themslves & go AWOL Dem. Now, 3/15/05 ~ Army Guide for Handling Returning AWOLs 10/20/04 ~ Options for SoldiersSayNo(9/30/04) ~ Soldier Jeremy Hinzman in Canada ~ Legal Ways to Leave Military ~ AWOL Staff Sgt. Camilo Mejia, 28, Nat. Guard (5/14/04) & Mejia sentenced to 1 yr. (5/22/04); ~ Pvt. Brandon Hughey (5/15/04 article) & (Hughey Canada Web Site) ~ Rad Times Encourages Canada to Accept U.S. Deserters 6/3/04 ~ Jeremy Hinzman, Army CO Denied, Moves to Canada

MAJOR COUNTER-RECRUITMENT Equal Access -- When military is on a California high school or community college campus counter-recruiters have legal equal access: legal decision and history. Student-led victory - "OPT-IN Truth & Privacy Resolution," alternative to "No Child Left Behind" Act adopted by Santa Cruz City Schools: Organizing case study & resource/document links ~ Personal narrative by Opt In Student-Organizer Josh Sonnenfeld ~ Federal Challenge to "Opt-In" ~ Final Compromise, "Airtight Opt-Out Plus"

WOMEN IN THE MILITARY Abuse & Rape: ~ Women Sexism & Abuse in Military, Aimee Allison 5/06 ~ Pentagon Covers Up Wide Sexual Abuse, 2/6/06 Workers World ~ Denver Post, Extensive Documentary "Betrayal In the Ranks" w. video testimony 10/03

MILITARY LIFE, REALLY! ~Soldier Haunted by War Gets Orders, Patriot News 5/10/06 ~ Military Death Penalty, a Look Inside the "Castle," Counter Punch 5/6/06 ~ "Bad Stuff" Happening in Iraq Causes Severe Mental Problems, Washington Post 5/14/06 ~ Army Recruit Ethnicity 5/4/06 ~ Injury Ignored, Soldier takes Own Life, Alternet 5/9/06 ~ Mentally Unfirt Pressured into Combat, Chi. Trib. 5/15/06 ~ 72% Iraq Troops Want to "Go Home" Counterpunch 3/2/06 ~ 1/3 Seek Mental Health Treatment, LA TIMES 3/1/06 ~ For One Marine, Torture Came Home, LA Times 2/14/06 ~ Iraq 'Marlboro Man' Returns Home With Serious Battle Scars, SF Chronicle 1/29/06 ~ "Hold On to Your Humanity" Stan Goff (US Army Retired) 11/03 ~ Vet Crusader for Soldier Rape Victims, Seattle PI 4/05 ~ Marine Corps Suicides Up 02/26/05 ~ 4yr Army Air Vet Goes C.O. 1/3/04 ~ Army Reserve Specialist Became Conscientious Objector After Witnessing Abuse, Killing at Abu Ghraib 12/17/04 ~ Combat Trauma Not a Viedo Game (7/20/04) ~ What It's Like to Kill (7/18/04) ~ The Price of Valor, New Yorker (7/20/04) ~ A Quick Film ~ Military Myths and Military Myths Video (Can be rented, borrowed from RCNV, 831/423-1626 x309)

A DRAFT - CAN YOU FEEL IT? ~ ACLU Wins Opt Out Notification Requirement Case in Texas 1/28/05 ~ Watsonville "No Child" Resistance, Sentinel 6/26/05 ~ Most Reject Draft, SJ Mercury News 6/25/05 ~ Draft Inevitable? Del. News Journal 2/17/05 ~ Mothers Against the Draft 2/15/05 ~ Recruiting in Trouble, Draft Possible; Ret. Col. Hackworth 12/6/04 ~ Pressure for a Draft 10/20/04 ~ Draft Bill voted down 10/07/04 ~ Will a Draft Return? Mercury News 9/28/04 ~ Agency France via. Common Dreams 8/6/04 ~ TRUTHOUT Discussing Draft Rumors 7/1/04 ~ Reflection on Possible Draft 05/04 ~ Is a Draft Fair 5/7/04 ~ Only 7 Members of Congress w. Kids in Miltary, Fox News 3/28/03 ~

MILITARY DETAILS: ~ Global Military Sites/Commads ~ Pay ~ Grades ~ Pay & Benefits ~ gen. military pay & benefits ~ military salary ~ monthly basic pay schedule ~ monthly pay calculator ~ feeling the pinch of Marine salary ~ keeping military pay competitive with civilian

VETERANS INFO: ~ "The War Within" Trauma There When Combat Ends, SJ Mercuty News 8/28/05 ~ Trauma Haunts 1/3 Returning Iraq Vets 2/28/05 ~ Organizations/Program helping Returning Vets ~ Homeless Verterans talk about Coming Home 12/23/04 ~ Vets Left in Dark about Benefit Cuts (7/7) ~ Bush supports Veteran...benefit CUTS 6/04 ~ Soldiers as experiments - Gulf War Nuclear/Toxic Esposure ~ "Friendly Fire" 75% Ally Casualties Desert Storm 6/6/04 ~ Killing is quick; living with it difficult - Viet Vet Bill Green (5/23/04) ~ Veteran Speaks "Hold On To Your Humanity" 11/16/03 ~ After Veteran'sDay Vets Neglected ~ Cuts in Veteran's Services "Shameful" 12/12/03 ~ Bush Abandon's Gulf War Vet Healtchare ~ Benefits, in Prison, Homeless ~ Promised Benefit Funding Denied

IRAQ War: ~ U.S. Military Casualties & Details, Palm Beach Post 07/05 ~ It's Official, No WMDs, "My Brother Died In Vain," LA Times 1/14/05, up-to-date body count ~ 9/23/03 Injury/Death Real Count Update ~ costs ~ corporate contract invasion

IRAQ - U.S. SOLDIERS: ~ Stress Problems for 30% Returning Iraq Troops, Times Argus 7/29/05 ~ 4yr Army Air Vet Goes C.O. 1/3/04 ~Conscientious Objector Witnessed Abuse, Killing of Iraqi Detainees at Abu Ghraib 12/17/04 ~ 12,000 Battlefield Casualties, ABC News 8/8/04 ~ Faces/Facts U.S. Spec. Pat Tillman Friendly Fire Death & Coverup 12/5/04 ~ Military: Soldiers Challnge Back Door Draft & Stop Loss 12/6/04 ~ 12,000 Battlefield Casualties, ABC News 8/8/04 ~ Faces/Facts U.S. Military Dead ~ Solder Suicides Increse 6/5/04 ~ "Shameless" expansion of Stop Loss 6/2/04 ~Suicide Watch for troubled Iraq Military 5/21/04 ~ Reserves manditory "volunteer" call up 5/13/04 ~ Serious Casualties, Long Recovery 12/30/03 ~ 45 Casualties a Day 11/30/03 ~ 1,700 Soldiers Quit Iraq 12/04/03 ~ Faces of the Fallen, a Memorial 12/11/03 ~ 7,500 Casualties and More 11/15/03 ~ "morale plummets" ~ Morale "rock bottom" ~ Quotes from combat troops ~ Soldiers For The Truth ~ White House Ambushed by Military Dissent ~ Poor & Immigrants Dying in Front Lines ~ Returning from Iraq War not simple ~ Reserves, Get Ready to Go! ~ Monterey CA Defense Language Institute, Language as a Weapon ~ Latino Families, "Bring Our Children Home" ~ Sgt. Duffey, N. Guard "Return" Repeatedly Revoked ~ Rise in AWOLs & Desperation to Get Out ~ Hispanics Pay Extra Price of War ~ Excessive Suicides ~Pentagon Survey, Half Of Troops Dissatisfied, Won't Reenlist ~ Oct 22, 30,000 More Reserves ~Lt. Gen. Metz - Stay 'til '06 ~ Terrible Treatment for Sick & Wounded Soldiers ~ No Job for Reserves Coming Home (11.7.03)

IRAQ & Military Families: Dead Soldiers Father Advises Latinos Not to Join 12/8/03 ~ Families Condemn War 10/27/03 ~ Military Families Speak Out ~ "bring them home " say friends, families & lovers ~ Mothers, Fathers & Families Pay the Price of War

IRAQ Front Line: Reports/Actions from the Front Occupation Watch

FUTURE OF THE MILITARY: Here is the basic plan for "The New American Century" of US Militarism, 09/2000 ~ Rumsfeld's New Army, A plan for the Future 11/25/03 ~ Army Stretched to Breaking Point" 10/03

MILITARY COURTS & LAW: Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) / Court Martial Manual ~ Court Martial 2002 Update

GETTING OUT OF THE MILITARY, REGULATION FOR: from GI Rights manual "Helping Out:" Army ~ Navy ~ Marines ~ Air Force ~ Coast Guard ~ DOD, Department of Defense

SELECTIVE SERVICE Link

HOT COUNTER-RECRUITMENT POSTERS Link

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PRESS RELEASES: http://www.defenselink.mil/news/dodnews.htms#e--mail

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