Press release issed by students at NYU: A planned CIA recruiting event at New York University (NYU) was cancelled after the Campus Antiwar Network (CAN) called a protest demanding the CIA abandon its recruiting program at NYU. 20 hours before the recruiting event was scheduled to begin, its organizers sent ...
Articles tagged with: “Military Recruitment”
By Deborah S. Morris / Newsday Anti-war groups are putting the finishing touches on plans to take to city streets on Saturday, the second anniversary of the Iraq war's launch. The War Resistors League plans to rally, march and block the entrances to three military recruitment centers across the city ...
Students Protest Military Recruitment
By Lachlan Maclean and William Roller / SFSU Golden Gate XPress U.S. military recruiters left a campus career fair an hour early on March 9 after extensive student demonstrations for and against military recruitment. Over 100 students surrounded U.S. Air Force and Army Corps of Engineers recruiters’ tables at the ...
URI Faculty Considers Banning Military Recruiters On Campus
Professor Says School, Military Policies Are At Odds News Channel 10 SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. -- A faculty member at the University of Rhode Island says military recruiters should not be welcome at the school. News Channel 10's Mario Hilario reported that the debate will be taking shape in the next ...
High school students win right to counter-recruitment table
By Farheen Hakeem / Twin Cities Pulse School was letting out on a cold but sunny afternoon last Wednesday at Kennedy High School in Bloomington, and lingering around the exit doors were dozens of teenagers laughing, shouting and throwing snowballs. It did not seem like a center of controversy, until ...
Recruiter accused of sex assaults; Counts against guardsman involve 6 young women
By James A. Gillaspy and Dan McFeely / Indianapolis Star NOBLESVILLE, Ind. -- Investigators say he picked out teens and young women with backgrounds that made them vulnerable to authority. As a military recruiter, he had access to personal information, making the quest easier. Indiana National Guard Sgt. Eric P. ...
Protest of military spurs arrest
By Heather Kays / Herald News WAYNE - William Paterson University student Thomas Keenan was arrested and charged with defiant trespass after handing out fliers opposing military recruitment Monday afternoon. A small group of students had gathered in the campus's Atrium building around noon to protest student recruitment on campus ...
Military recruiters violate bias ban, school board says
By Jesse J. Smith / Daily Freeman NEW PALTZ - School board members say that there is a conflict between a federal law that requires military recruiters to be given access to high schools and the district's non-discrimination policy, which bars any group that practices discrimination based upon - among ...
Military's test at high schools brings a salvo of concerns
By Liz F. Kay / Baltimore Sun A few days before her holiday break, South River High School junior Emily Hawse took a three-hour standardized test offered by military officials that suggests possible careers for students while helping to identify promising recruits. Hawse, 16, of Davidsonville said she did not ...
Military Recruiters Target Schools Strategically
By Charlie Savage / Boston Globe POMFRET, Md. -- Military recruiting saturates life at McDonough High, a working-class public school where recruiters chaperon dances, students in a junior ROTC class learn drills from a retired sergeant major in uniform, and every prospect gets called at least six times by the ...
Activists United In Call To End Iraq War
By Ann Marie Somma / The Hartford Courant NEW BRITAIN -- Empire-building. Occupation. Pre-emptive warfare. The war in Iraq was called many things Saturday, but the goal of the 200 anti-war activists gathered at Central Connecticut State University was the same. "End the Occupation of Iraq and Bring the Troops ...
Wisconsin -- Police arrest 4 sit-in protesters
By James Davison / The Badger Herald Four University of Wisconsin students were arrested and charged with unlawful trespassing Thursday following a sit-in protest at the U.S. Army Military Recruitment Station in University Square. The anti-war protest, which drew between 35 and 50 protesters outside the office, sought to bring ...
FORTY RED WHITE AND BLUE SHOE STRINGS (on Interstate 69)
Last Friday the Must Read linked to a story about 13 year old Lauren Rainey whose life was in danger after Alabama Medicaid threatened to terminate her nursing care. We also included the phone number for Alabama's Medicaid office so you could share your thoughts with them. Well, WPMI in ...
Antiwar Movement; Colorado students occupy high school to protest war, Bush policies
By David Walsh / Axis of Logic Some 85 students opposed to the war and disturbed by the general direction of American life occupied Boulder High School in Colorado November 4, before leaving peacefully the next morning. The students told reporters they were disgusted with the Bush administration’s policies, in ...
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June 5th, 2013
Here's How We Built a Movie Theater for the People – and Why the MPAA Says It's #1 in the World
This past week, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), the main federation of Hollywood's six major studios, posted on their web site a list of what they believe ...
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March 23rd, 2013
This evening is going be a big moment in turning our country around on the issue of gun violence. That's why I desperately want you ...
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March 21st, 2013
I am hosting a nationwide series of house parties this Saturday night where tens of thousands of people will gather together in living rooms to ...
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March 15th, 2013
The response to my Newtown letter this week has been overwhelming. It is so very clear to everyone that the majority of Americans have had ...
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March 13th, 2013
America, You Must Not Look Away (How to Finish Off the NRA)
The year was 1955. Emmett Till was a young African American boy from Chicago visiting relatives in Mississippi. One day Emmett was seen "flirting" with ...
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February 26th, 2013
My Final Word on Buzzfeed and Emad Burnat's Detention at LAX
Thanks to everyone for bearing with me as I spend so much time on what happened to Emad Burnat. It's important to me because he's ...
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February 26th, 2013
Michael Moore Responds to Buzzfeed Story on '5 Broken Cameras' Co-Director Emad Burnat
On Tuesday, February 19th, Emad Burnat, the Palestianian co-director of the Oscar-nominated documentary '5 Broken Cameras,' was detained with his wife and son at Los ...
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September 11th, 2010
If the 'Mosque' Isn't Built, This Is No Longer America
OpenMike 9/11/10 Michael Moore's daily blog I am opposed to the building of the "mosque" two blocks from Ground Zero. I want it built on ...
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December 14th, 2010
Why I'm Posting Bail Money for Julian Assange
Yesterday, in the Westminster Magistrates Court in London, the lawyers for WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange presented to the judge a document from me stating that ...
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May 12th, 2011
Some Final Thoughts on the Death of Osama bin Laden
"The Nazis killed tens of MILLIONS. They got a trial. Why? Because we're not like them. We're Americans. We roll different." – Michael Moore in ...
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November 22nd, 2011
Where Does Occupy Wall Street Go From Here?
This past weekend I participated in a four-hour meeting of Occupy Wall Street activists whose job it is to come up with the vision and ...
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September 22nd, 2011
A STATEMENT FROM MICHAEL MOORE ON THE EXECUTION OF TROY DAVIS
I encourage everyone I know to never travel to Georgia, never buy anything made in Georgia, to never do business in Georgia. I will ask ...
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December 16th, 2010
Dear Swedish Government: Hi there -- or as you all say, Hallå! You know, all of us here in the U.S. love your country. Your ...
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November 2nd, 2010
This letter contains (almost) no criticisms of how the Democrats have brought this day of reckoning upon themselves. That -- and where to go from ...
