The National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth (NNOMY) is asking for your participation in its National Opt-Out Week, September 20-24. NNOMY s Opt-Out Week calls greater attention to the military recruitment provisions of the controversial No Child Left Behind Act, which requires school districts to share students' names, addresses, and telephone numbers with military recruiters. The schools are required to inform parents and students that their information can be withheld from the recruiters if that is what they desire. However, not all schools are following the spirit of the law and properly informing students and their parents of the right to protect their privacy.

Here is where YOU come in! Call your local schools! Find out when the Opt-Out deadline is, ask if they have informed their students of their options, ask if they have an Opt-Out form, give them an Opt-Out form, go to schools and hand out Opt-Out forms, pass out information about the realities of military service, hold a press conference with students, parents, teachers, allies, etc., hold teach-ins/town hall community forums on the NCLB, table with factsheets, Opt-Out letters, rally, resist, resist, resist!

Get more information by visiting NNOMY s website www.youthandthemilitary.org

Subscribe to the National counter-recruitment listserv:

counter-recruitment-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

Call for more info:

Liz Rivera Goldstein - liz@teenpeace.org, 360-379-9094

Janine Schwab - jschwab@afsc.org, 215-241-7176

% Lovella Calica American Friends Service Committee Peacebuilding and Demilitarization Program 215-241-7062

Oskar Castro National Youth & Militarism Program
American Friends Service Committee
215-241-7046
www.youth4peace.org

Peace, Respect & Guidance - for we are not human beings
having a spiritual experience, but spiritual beings having a
human experience.

"The recruiters have a lot of responsibility for the death of
our children. They tell them that new recruits will not be
sent to fight the war and it isn't true. Most of the Mexicans
who have died in Iraq had not yet completed a year of
military service." Fernando Suarez del Solar