YANO in the Media

Project YANO in the Media

Books, articles, and web based news sources where Project Yano has been cited discussed, or takes part in the discussion

Seattle Schools: Career Counselors and Military Recruiting in High Schools. (PDF)
The primary place military recruiters look for and find potential enlistees is in high schools: in fact, 90% of enlistees come directly form high schools. In most schools, the career counselor is the main gatekeeper.
Socialist Worker: Why was the DREAM Act defeated?
THE IMMIGRANT bashers in the Senate have blocked passage of a law that would have allowed a section of undocumented youth to have a path to citizenship via higher education or military service.
Buzzsaw Magazine: Fighting for Citizenship
At the height of the Iraq War in 2007, Jesus Palafox was busy fighting his own personal battle in Chicago: navigating through the system of higher education in the United States as an undocumented citizen.
Thirdworld Traveler: U.S. Military Takes Education Hostage
It used to be understood in this country that the key to securing and protecting our democratic rights was to exercise strict control over the military.
New York Times: Army Effort to Enlist Hispanics Draws Recruits, and Criticism
DENVER — As Sgt. First Class Gavino Barron, dressed in a crisp Army uniform, trawls the Wal-Mart here for recruits, past stacks of pillows and towers of detergent, he is zeroing-in on one of the Army's "special missions": to increase the number of Hispanic enlisted soldiers.
San Diego Reader: A Cool Elective You Can't Get Out Of
Eduardo Ochoa teaches social justice at Lincoln High School in Chollas View. Ochoa is also a coordinator for the Advancement Via Individual Determination program, or AVID, as everyone calls it, a high school elective designed to help midlevel students prepare for college and meet college eligibility requirements.
Education Week: Court Backs Military Recruiting at Colleges
Congress is within its authority to require colleges to open their job fairs to military recruiters, even if campus nondiscrimination policies clash with federal law restricting gays in the military, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last week.
Counter Recruiter Network: Army spends $2 million on online video game
The Army is taking its popular video game and recruitment tool “America’s Army” to the web.
Chicago Tribune: War protesters target military recruiting
Military recruiters from Washington state to Vermont have recently faced a growing number of protests inside their offices or at recruiting efforts at public events.
Marginalized students pay the price of military recruitment efforts

With pandemic restrictions easing, military recruiters are returning to high school campuses while anti-recruitment efforts struggle.
'It's like she's my daughter': After Vanessa Guillén's killing, a California city reckons with the military

A California city reckons with the military. Richmond residents are sharing their own stories of abuse in the military and reconsidering the presence of recruiters at local schools. A display was erected on 6 July to commemorate the army specialist Vanessa Guillén, who had been sexually harassed by superiors at a base in Texas and was found murdered at the end of June 2020.
US Military Recruitment and the Weaponization of Poverty

Social Secretary Ella Kipling discusses how through access to high school students, Military Recruiters target vulnerable low-income students with recruitment tactics.
Dismantling the School-to-Soldier Pipeline

Inside the fight against JROTC, a Pentagon program that targets working-class teenagers at public schools.

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CAREERS IN PEACEMAKING AND SOCIAL CHANGE

"CAREERS IN PEACEMAKING AND SOCIAL CHANGE" Choosing a Career that Pays in Many Ways." Brochure for high school-age youths:discusses how to make a career choice that is compatible with both income needs and ethical values.
Print Size: 8½ x 11 (double sided)
Download in English - 77 Kb (v. 1/04)

ADVENTURES WORKING FOR PEACE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE

Adventures Working for Peace and Social Justice

A directory of youth service opportunities, including regional, national and international programs.
Print Size: 8½ x 14 (double sided)

Download (English only) in black and white version -
307Kb (v. 7/2014)

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