From Reuters, 9/22/05:
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N22566920.htm

NY civil liberties group tackles Army recruiters

NEW YORK (Reuters) -

The New York Civil Liberties Union launched a campaign on Thursday to
help high school students remove their names from lists given to the
U.S. military in an effort aimed at ending what the group called
aggressive and abusive tactics to recruit for the Iraq war.

The civil rights group said it will hand out leaflets titled "No
Student Left Unrecruited?" outside schools.

The leaflets list students' rights on military recruitment and include
a form students can submit to their schools to remove their contact
information from lists sent to the military.

Military recruiters have solicited students in lunchrooms and phoned
them at home to take advantage of a provision in the "No Child Left
Behind" law, which gives the military access to student information,
the NYCLU said.

The law requires schools receiving federal funds to give student
contact lists to the military and gives recruiters access to campuses.

The campaign comes amid growing concern nationwide among civil rights
groups over military recruiting tactics as the military struggles to
fill its ranks for the war in Iraq, where over 1,900 U.S. soldiers
have already been killed.

The NYCLU said its latest campaign came after it received several
complaints from parents and students about intimidating calls and
heavy-handed tactics from recruiters.

"It's one thing to give out your materials, it's quite another to
bully and intimidate students," NYCLU director Donna Lieberman told
reporters outside the Army recruiting office in New York's Times
Square.

The military has also often focused its efforts on schools in
lower-income neighborhoods and communities with a high proportion of
minorities, she said.

"The military has targeted a vulnerable group of young people," said
Lieberman.

"We send our children to school to get an education, not to become
military targets."

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No more cannon fodder for Bush's bloodbath.

Harry