Activists fight against military recruitment
Black Enterprise
12/14/05
Allied with the New York Civil Liberties Union, Congressman Charles Rangel has launched a counter-offense to the Department of Defense's aggressive $1 billion drive to target people of color and people from low-income families- mainly black and Latino youth-for military service. In particular, Rangel and NYCLU Executive Director Donna Lieberman cite a little-known provision made to the No Child Left Behind Act in 2002, which requires school districts to provide lists of their students with addresses and telephone numbers on demand to military recruiters, or risk losing federal funds. The NYCLU's 'No Student Left Unrecruited?' campaign charges that the DOD's tactics violate the privacy rights of young people and their families and established an unprecedented, intrusive, and abusive military presence in schools...
http://www.blackenterprise.com/ExclusivesEKOpen.asp?id=1459
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
12/14/05
Allied with the New York Civil Liberties Union, Congressman Charles Rangel has launched a counter-offense to the Department of Defense's aggressive $1 billion drive to target people of color and people from low-income families- mainly black and Latino youth-for military service. In particular, Rangel and NYCLU Executive Director Donna Lieberman cite a little-known provision made to the No Child Left Behind Act in 2002, which requires school districts to provide lists of their students with addresses and telephone numbers on demand to military recruiters, or risk losing federal funds. The NYCLU's 'No Student Left Unrecruited?' campaign charges that the DOD's tactics violate the privacy rights of young people and their families and established an unprecedented, intrusive, and abusive military presence in schools...
http://www.blackenterprise.com/ExclusivesEKOpen.asp?id=1459
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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