Arizona Counter Recruitment Coalition

You can get involved. Meeting times: We meet this Monday, August 11th, 2008 @ 2:45pm at a local Phoenix high school.
Contact CRC on Myspace.com/azcrc or email azcrc@riseup.net We welcome everyone who is interested in learning more about counter-recruitment, as well as those who are motivated to participate with this project.

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Drawing of a recruiter by a former army recruiter. Submitted on May 23, 2008

Are U Tired of Recruiters Calling? Here's an easy answer. Download the Joint Advertising and Marketing Research & Studies Office (JAMRS) Opt-out form (en Español) Print out the form, fill-in the information requested and send to:

Joint Advertising and Marketing Research & Studies Office (JAMRS)
Attention: Opt Out
4040 North Fairfax Drive, Ste. 200
Arlington, VA 22203

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Watch this video of Eli Painted Crow at the Veterans for Peace Conference 2006 in Seattle.

Please check out the Dennis Kyne videos. Dennis Kyne is a Persian Gulf War Veteran. He has worked with the Counter-Recruitment Coalition a few times in the past years.

Across the nation, students and activists are taking action,saying NO to increased militarization of our schools. Join us for weekly actions at High Schools in Maricopa County.

Here are some steps you can take to protect you or your loved ones from being targeted by recruiters.

1. Download and print an opt-out form. Download and print opt-out form en Español Fill-in the information and send it to: Joint Advertising and Marketing Research & Studies Office (JAMRS)
Attention: Opt Out
4040 North Fairfax Drive, Ste. 200
Arlington, VA 22203
To learn more about our group, download and print the Official CRC Flier.

2. Check out our resource guide to help you form counter-recruitment groups, both on campus and in your community. This guide is filled with great information on the No Child Left Behind Act, Opt-Out policies, military recruitment practices, and great ideas for public actions that will really get people in your community interested in our message.

3. Contact your school district and ask them to send a letter to students and parents explaining their right to refuse to release personal data to the military recruiters and include an opt-out form.

4. If you are planning an action, please share it with the rest of us! Write to azcrc@riseup.net to describe the who, what, when, where, and how of your particular action plan. These descriptions will then be shared on the arizonacrc.org website and at our next meeting.

5. Check out these sites:

Here you will find more resources like fliers, toolkits and ideas for starting a group at your school or in your community. There are also great links to other counter- recruitment groups across the country.
We hope you can find here everything you need to make a big impact this Fall!

If you would like to donate some of your time to CRC (Counter-Recruitment Coalition) but can't make it to the meetings or regular actions you can now adopt a high school. This simply entails taking on the responsibility of insuring that the counselor's/career office at your high school of choice remains stocked with CRC literature. We will provide you with all of the literature, please email us to discuss the details. We will need to know how, where, and when you would like to pick up the literature as well as which high school you would like to stock. We already have access to some of the high schools in the valley and just need volunteers to make copies and stock the literature racks. Other high school offices in the valley have yet to see our literature. If you have a connection or would like to make a connection to a high school that has never been stocked with literature, let's talk!
The high schools which we already have permission to place our flyers are: Marcos de Niza, McClintock, Phoenix College, and Carl Hayden. If interested, you can find our email address on the left navigation bar under "contact us".

You can now donate to Arizona Counter-Recruitment Coalition. Please click on "Donate" in the menu to the left.

Check out our new packet "AZ Counter-Recruitment Coalition: A Tool For Counter-Recruiting," now available in a pdf file. You can use it to start or improve your own counter-recruiting. Includes information on local schools and other useful information.