Hey AISD, limit the military!
YAA students staged another successful event outside AISD headquarters today to promote education over warfare. We quietly read books, finished up some homework, and engaged in a discussion about military recruiter access in our schools. FOX 7 News devoted several minutes of coverage to the event in its nightly news program. Low-quality recorded video is below (turn up your volume, click the gray play button). As soon as FOX publishes a full transcript of the segment we'll quote that here as well.
You can read the new policy we are proposing to AISD in full here. Let us know in the comment section or at yaaustin@gmail.com what you think. YAA will be meeting again next Friday on the southwest Capitol lawn, as usual, to continue our resistance to military recruiters on behalf of the students they seek to send to war. Anyone is welcome to attend.
We give FOX 7 a big thumbs-up for their coverage of today's protest - however, a small correction. At the beginning of the segment the news anchor says that "two student groups" want to limit recruiter access in AISD schools. In fact, YAA is the only youth/student group actively working on this specific issue (while having the support of other student groups in the Austin area). The group that we have had the privilege to partner with in this AISD campaign is Nonmilitary Options for Youth, a group of concerned parents and veterans who go into schools to raise student awareness of non-violent alternatives to military service.
Also, for the record, today's protest was utterly and completely peaceful, like all YAA events.
You can read the new policy we are proposing to AISD in full here. Let us know in the comment section or at yaaustin@gmail.com what you think. YAA will be meeting again next Friday on the southwest Capitol lawn, as usual, to continue our resistance to military recruiters on behalf of the students they seek to send to war. Anyone is welcome to attend.
We give FOX 7 a big thumbs-up for their coverage of today's protest - however, a small correction. At the beginning of the segment the news anchor says that "two student groups" want to limit recruiter access in AISD schools. In fact, YAA is the only youth/student group actively working on this specific issue (while having the support of other student groups in the Austin area). The group that we have had the privilege to partner with in this AISD campaign is Nonmilitary Options for Youth, a group of concerned parents and veterans who go into schools to raise student awareness of non-violent alternatives to military service.
Also, for the record, today's protest was utterly and completely peaceful, like all YAA events.
posted by A at 9:26 PM -
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