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Military Separations and Counter-Recruitment Resources Third Circuit Rules on Solomon Amendment National Priorities Project Database Check out this mine of information on Federal spending! Third Circuit Rules on Solomon Amendment, Supreme Court May Hear Case In November 2004, the 3rd Circuit struck down a law known as the Solomon Amendment, which permitted the federal government to withdhold funding from any school that did not cooperate with military recruiters. The court ruled that law schools that had refused to support on-campus recruiting because of the military's ban on homosexuals were being denied rights to free speech. The Justice Department plans to ask the Supreme Court to set aside the ruling, which would allow colleges and universities to restrict military recruiting on campus without losing federal money. Lawyers for the government also asked the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for a stay of enforcement on its ruling until it's known whether or not the Supreme Court will take the case. The governments lawyers said implementation of the ruling would make it more difficult to hire lawyers enough to deal with the issues arising from U.S. involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq. For more information, see the article about Yale Law School. Find Out What the Right is Doing The Project for a New American Century (PNAC) has posted a letter to Congress seeking 25,000 more troops per year for the U. S. military for the next several years! See what they've written at http://www.newamericancentury.org/defense-20050128.htm -- then write to your representatives in Congress and let them know what you think. Read the CBS News account of unethical military recruiting practices at http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/05/02/earlyshow/main692361.shtml. Learn about a recruiting culture that "...violates trust, it violates integrity, it violates honor, and it violates duty." Not Your Soldier activist training camps give youth the tools they need to stop the military invasion of our schools and our communities. The camps will help develop political organizing skills and create real-life strategies to fight military recruitment, the poverty draft, and the corporations that profit from war. Attendees will learn what counter-military recruitment activism really means and how they can take creative nonviolent direct action to end militarism. Go to the Not Your Soldier web site for more information. College Not Combat in San Francisco The College Not Combat campaign is an exciting effort to get an anti-military recruitment initiative on the ballot in San Francisco. At the same time Congress approves another blank check for Bush to continue the occupation of Iraq, the SF School Board announced it was closing four of our public schools. As military recruiters prowl the halls of our high schools, colleges are closing their doors to students who cannot afford increasing fees. The College Not Combat proposition will give San Francisco voters a chance to voice their disapproval of these priorities. The College Not Combat proposition is an effort to support the students organizing against military recruitment on their campuses and to support the work of counter-recruiters offering alternatives to military service. Learn more at the College Not Combat web site.
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