Those of you who are in high school or who know h.s. students might be interested in the campaign outlined below. We are increasingly hearing complaints from local students about recruiters wandering around schools at will, aggressively approaching students during lunch and at other times. Last year, military teams were going to PE classes at high schools like Lincoln, asking students to fill out contact cards without parental knowledge or permission. Last month, Mission Bay HS held a special assembly at the request of the Army that was turned into a big recruiting show. (FYI, the majority of students at Mission Bay are youth of color who are bused to Pacific Beach from less affluent communities.)
If anyone does take photos of recruiters in San Diego County schools, please send copies to the Education Not Arms Coalition care of projyano@aol.com.
Rick Jahnkow
Project on Youth and Non-Military Opportunities
From: photographarecruiter@gmail.com
Sent: 10/27/2009 9:53:41 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time
Subj: Photograph A RecruiterI am an artist and graduate student at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Before coming to graduate school, I taught art at a high school in West Palm Beach, Florida. While teaching, I witnessed the presence of army recruiters in our educational environment. I am initiating a nation wide participatory project, Photograph a Recruiter and am inviting high school students to contribute. The project invites high school students to photograph the military recruiters in their schools! Through the act of looking back at recruiters, students are encouraged to engage in critical discussion about war and recruitment.
The ongoing growing collection of photographs, taken by high school students, will be uploaded on the website www.photographarecruiter.com. Select images will also be printed for exhibit in a traveling Photograph A Recruiter art show. For more information, or to submit image(s), write to, photographarecruiter@gmail.com
This is a great opportunity to be part of a nation-wide activist anti-recruitment gesture that will also be a collaborative artwork.
Can you help get the word out? Can you send this link (www.photographarecruiter.com) to your email list? tell your friends? tell other anti-recruitment student groups? Let me know if you think of another way to involve more students.
Thank you & let me know if you have questions!
Alyse Emdur
photographarecruiter@gmail.com
www.photographarecruiter.com
646 263 0096
No comments:
Post a Comment