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
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Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women's Lives
Maneuvers takes readers on a global tour of the sprawling process called "militarization." With her incisive verve and moxie, eminent feminist Cynthia Enloe shows that the people who become militarized are not just the obvious ones...
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New Tactics - Engaging youth in non-violent alternatives to militarism
Governments around the world target youth for military recruitment and service. In response, human rights organizations have developed innovative ways of introducing youth to non-violent alternatives to military service and combating the culture of militarism.
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Boston Public Library - Project on Youth and Non-Military Opportunities (YANO)
Project YANO is a community organization that provides information on alternatives to military enlistment. Go to the website to find articles on what to know before enlisting, how to organize at your school, and more.
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Project YANO is a nonprofit organization, founded in 1984, that provides young people with an alternative point of view about military enlistment.
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Censored 2005: The Top 25 Censored Stories
The yearly volumes of Censored, in continuous publication since 1976 and since 1995 available through Seven Stories Press, is dedicated to the stories that ought to be top features on the nightly news, but that are missing because of media bias and self-censorship.
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Critical Race Counterstories along the Chicana/Chicano Educational Pipeline
Using a 'counterstorytelling' methodology, Tara Yosso debunks racialized myths that blame the victims for these unequal educational outcomes and redirects our focus toward historical patterns of institutional neglect.
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Schooling as Violence: How Schools Harm Pupils and Societies
Asking fundamental and often uncomfortable questions about the nature and purposes of formal education, this book explores the three main ways of looking at the relationship between formal education, individuals and society.
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Be the Change: Teacher, Activist, Global Citizen
This book examines the ways young people engage in action, dialogue, and activism, and how they become global citizens. The essays in the book illustrate how young people with deep convictions on how to change the world make a difference in their communities.
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Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps: Contributions to America's Communities (CSIS Reports)
Literature expressing opposition to JROTC in public schools.
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Educating for Peace in a Time of Permanent War: Are Schools Part of the Solution or the Problem
What is the meaning of peace, why should we study it, and how should we achieve it? Although there are an increasing number of manuscripts, curricula and initiatives that grapple with some strand of peace education, there is, nonetheless, a dearth of critical, cross-disciplinary, international projects/books that examine peace education in conjunction with war and conflict.
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Rules of Disengagement: The Politics and Honor of Military Dissent
Rules of Disengagement examines the reasons men and women in the military have disobeyed orders and resisted the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Veterans for Peace Chicago: Anti-Militarization of Youth Resources
Project on Youth and Non-Military Opportunities(YANO): downloadable educational literature & resources in English and Spanish
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Santa Barbara Independent: Military Recruiting On Our Local High School Campuses
What should be the military recruitment policy in the local area high schools?
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Marine Corps Times: Bill would give illegals citizenship through service
A Colorado lawmaker is urging Congress to pass legislation that would give illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children a path to citizenship through military enlistment.
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Peace News U.K.: http://peacenews.info/node/3910/school-violence-result-bad-parenting-or-militarism
High profile school shootings in the US have been the inspiration for much popular discussion about the causes of youth violence in recent years, with everyone—from bad parents and corrupt teachers, to rock stars—being blamed.
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Sustainable Options for Youth: War journalist, Ann Jones writes about JROTC
A message from Rick Jahnkow of the Project on Youth and Nonmilitary Opportunities about a recent article by journalist, Ann Jones about how JROTC programs train kids to be soldiers.
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Marketing the Military: Should Soldiering Be Sold Like Soap?
Since this article first appeared in Media&Values #39 "Militarism: The Media Connection," (Spring, 1987) the volunteer army--recruited through advertising and marketing programs like those described--has been to war.
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Popular Resistance: What if they threw a war and nobody came?
The National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth announces today the public release of the 2013 Back-to-school Kit for Counter-recruitment and School Demilitarization Organizing .
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Everyone plays a role in supporting militarism. We fuel this system with our money, labor, consent, votes, social traditions, and beliefs.
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NNOMY Articles : Items tagged with : Project on Youth and Non-Military Opportunities
Multiple articles written by Project YANO's program coordinator, Rick Jahnkow.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Dismantling the School-to-Soldier Pipeline
Inside the fight against JROTC, a Pentagon program that targets working-class teenagers at public schools.