This workshop explores the experiences of high school students and community members in their efforts to restrict JROTC in high schools. Testimony will be given by students who organized to remove JROTC shooting ranges and stop illegal and immoral JROTC policies and procedures in San Diego high schools. Included will be documentation of their struggle to demilitarize their schools. The workshop will also cover recent efforts to remove JROTC in New Hampshire, and general facts and statistics on the program will be presented. We also wish to open up a space for dialogue in order to expand this struggle into a national movement.
Presenters: Will Thomas, Oskar Castro, Members of Education Not Arms Coalition: Mirna Cruz, Nancy Cruz, Marco Mendez, David Morales
Below are the documents from the Workshop: Strategize, Mobilize, Unite: Approaches to JROTC Organizing on High School Campuses
Strategize, Mobilize, Unite: Approaches to JROTC Organizing on High School Campuses
- ACLU letter: Infringement of Students' Freedom of Speech
- Demilitarize West High School
- Ideas for Brief Letters/Postcards to Board of Education
- JROTC Rifle Range Key Talking Points
- JROTC: the Antithesis to Education
- Petition to End Weapons Training and Require Informed Consent for Military Science Courses
- Request to meet with PTO
- Retired City Educator Protests West High [J]ROTC
- School Board Resolution Terminating Marksmanship Training and Rifle Ranges
- Supterintendent's Directive to Stop Involuntary JROTC Enrollment
- We should challenge militarism in schools
- We're You Placed in JROTC Without Wanting It?
- West Hight's JROTC Costs Questioned
- Why Are Students Being Taught to Shoot Weapons in San Diego High Schools?
