Community Forum: Students or Soldiers?
13 MAY 2008
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 With the increasing pressure to fill wartime quotas, military recruiters are aggressively targeting New York City students while school officials turn a blind eye. With consistent reports of recruitment in classrooms, wholesale violations of student and parent privacy, and deliberate recruiter misinformation, the NYC Department of Education continually refuses to address or acknowledge this crisis.
Tuesday, May 13 at 6 pm,
El Faro, Harlem United, 179 116th Street
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Military Recruitment at Select New York City Public Schools Violates Students Rights, Report Finds
9 SEPTEMBER 2007
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 The New York Civil Liberties Union and Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer today released a report urging the New York City Department of Education (DOE) to take immediate steps to protect students against aggressive military recruitment practices in public high schools.
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Volunteer to Help the NYCLU Survey NYC High School Students on Military Recruitment in their Schools
6 APRIL 2007
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In an effort to gather key information about recruiter presence in New York City high schools, the NYCLU, in collaboration with the Students or Soldiers? Coalition* and the Office of the Manhattan Borough President, is conducting a large-scale survey of New York City high school students. Volunteers from all over New York are needed to make this survey a success.
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To Settle NYCLU Lawsuit, Defense Department Reforms Student Military Recruiting Database
9 JANUARY 2007
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In an agreement to settle a lawsuit brought by the New York Civil Liberties Union, the Department of Defense today announced major changes to its database of information about high school students, which is used for military recruitment efforts. The changes will protect the privacy of American high school students and give students and their families more tools to exempt themselves from aggressive military recruitment in their schools and their homes. Learn more and opt out now. READ MORE.
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Be Part of an NYCLU Street Education Team on NYC Parent-Teacher Night, October 26th
18 OCTOBER 2006
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In coalition with United for Peace and Justice and other organizations around New York City, the NYCLU will be out in force on October 26th educating parents about their rights to keep their children's information private from aggressive military recruiters. Volunteers are encouraged to sign up with the NYCLU to protect the privacy rights of New York City high school students. READ MORE.
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NEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION
125 Broad Street, New York NY 10004 | 212.344.3005 | |
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The NYCLU's Project on Military Recruitment and Students' Rights seeks to give students, families, educators, and advocates the tools to defend their rights against intrusive military recruiting.
Why is this necessary? The military has launched an aggressive campaign to recruit students to fill the ranks of the armed services. And since some recent laws have gone into effect, many educators, students and parents have complained that recruiters are using heavy-handed tactics to harass students, violate students' privacy rights, and target poor students and students of color.
But students and parents do have the right to limit the information the military has about them and to report abuses if they happen. This site is intended to provide resources for students, parents and teachers who want to exercise those rights.
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If you have a problem with a military recruiter in your school, please report it by contacting our anonymous recruiting abuses hotline: 212.607.3300 or arosmarin@nyclu.org.
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