[WestMALocals] Fw: [ArisePeace] Stand Up for Truth in Recruiting, MAY 20 - SPRINGFIELD

[Owen Broadhurst]

----- Original Message -----
From: "American Friends Service Committee" <afsc at crocker.com>
Subject: [ArisePeace] Stand Up for Truth in Recruiting, MAY 20 - SPRINGFIELD
Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 13:01:46 -0400

> PROTEST FRIDAY MAY 20 AGAINST MILITARY RECRUITMENT
> 
> Where:  MILITARY RECRUITMENT OFFICE
> Federal Building, 1550 Main St. in Springfield, MA
> When: Friday May 20, 4-6PM
> 
> Sponsored by:  American Friends Service Committee, Springfield 
> Catholic Workers, International Socialist Organization, Traprock 
> Peace Center,  Lokapala Organization, Veterans for Peace, Waronoke 
> Peace Action  To add your organization to the list of sponsors 
> please call Charles at 413-949-0234 or email charles299792 at yahoo.com
> 
> Why We are Protesting on May 20:
> 
> In response to the recent exposure of serious recruiter 
> improprieties including fraud and coercion the U.S. Army is issuing 
> a stand down order to all Army recruiters for May 20th, 2005.  The 
> American Friends Service Committee is responding with a national 
> call to action for May 20th, 2005 under the banner, Stand Up for 
> Truth in Recruiting: One Day is not Enough!  Stand with us to 
> protest:
> 
> **exposure of the unethical and illegal tactics used by recruiters, 
> particularly in poor communities and communities of color
> **lack of parent & student awareness about the No Child Left Behind 
> Act Military Recruiter Provision (Sec. 9528) and school violations 
> of privacy clauses
> **the use of JROTC to create generations loyal to and unquestioning 
> of the military
> **the need for viable alternatives to military service college, 
> vocational training, living wage jobs
> 
> The military has clear regulations that are allegedly shared with 
> its recruiters during their job training, yet an Army spokesperson 
> recently revealed to the Associated Press that the Army has 
> investigated 480 allegations of impropriety by recruiters since 
> Oct. 1, 2005.  Some of these cases are still open while 91 of the 
> 480 allegations have thus far been considered founded. To date, 
> eight recruiters have been relieved of duty and another 98 have 
> been reprimanded by their commands.
> 
> Please join us at this picket. Bring signs, banners, friends, co-workers!
> And  If you haven't signed the petition for Pablo Paredes, you can 
> do it now at www.defendpablo.org.
> Jo Comerford
> American Friends Service Committee, Western Massachusetts
> 140 Pine Street, Room 10
> Florence, Massachusetts 01062
> 413.584.8975 (W)
> 413.584.8987 (F)
> 413.695.6059 (C)
> afsc at crocker.com
> www.WesternMassAFSC.org
> 
> Peace is not merely the absence of tension, it is the presence of justice.
> ~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.


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