First Post!

Hello everyone!
I just set up this blog up so that we can:

-collect all the great media we've been generating
-post some of our own media coverage
-update everyone with news/ events
-our opinions on the media coverage

and
-post out opinons on and feelings about our ongoing efforts
-write about current news/ issues
-connect with other people interested in ending the war, and changing recruiting


Last week (maybe earlier this month?) we launched our "Out of Our Schools, Out of Iraq Campaign". Basically we want intentionally deceptive recruiting out of our schools, and the US out of Iraq.

So what are we doing about it?

-We sent a petition to our congressmen (Welch, Sanders and Leahy) on 11.16 asking them to reform No Child Left Behind to get rid of the provision about military recruiters. recruiting provision in NCLB. We have yet to hear back from any of them.

-Emily went to a public forum meeting with Sanders about NCLB and handed him a copy of our petition with 200 signatures (I think we're at 245) of students and teachers at MMU.

-We are continually running a counter-recruitment table whenever recruiters table at our school. At this table we hand out information about the lies of recruiting, the truth about promised benefits, statistics about vets (homeless, suicides, unemployment).

-We are organizing a united movement of students in VT and across the country who opposive aggressive, deceptive recruiting and who oppose the war in Iraq.

-We seek to use non-violent direct action to actively oppose recruiting and the war, and actively change the course of our futures.