http://www.militaryfreezone.org/opt_outFound this at Michael Moore's website.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2079April 4th, 2005 12:35 pm
The Military: Punk-Rock Resistance
Newsweek
April 11 issue -
Military recruiters are already scrambling to enlist enough soldiers to meet wartime demands. Now they're facing a new obstacle: punk rockers. With militaryfreezone.org, an antiwar band from Pittsburgh, Anti-Flag, has started a campaign against an obscure provision of the No Child Left Behind Act dictating that public-school districts supply high-school students' names, phone numbers and addresses to military recruiters.
According to the Department of Defense, info about potential enlistees can significantly reduce recruiting costs, which have nearly doubled, from $6,500 to $11,600 per recruit, in the past decade. Justin Sane, Anti-Flag's spokesman, lead guitarist and lead vocalist, tells NEWSWEEK, "Schools should not be turned into military-recruitment centers." On the Web site, students can read about the provision and a clause preventing the release of personal info if a student requests in writing that it be withheld. The site also has opt-out forms, a petition and a plea urging students to lobby Congress to "fix" the law.This is going to be in this week's issue of Newsweek - so hopefully more kids will realize they're names are being sold to the military for recruitment purposes. This is an opportunity for kids to know what's going on and to opt-out of this horrible horrible plan in the NCLB act that forces schools to sell our children's name to the military for recruitment purposes!!!
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