Northwest Suburban Peace & Education Project

Relevant Websites

Our numbers continue to grow. There are (literally) hundreds of websites with information about       counter recruitment. These are a few of our favorites:

• The American Friends Service Committee Youth & Militarism Program has been active since 1986 in movements to reduce the impacts of war and military institutions on young people's lives. Northwest Suburban Peace & Education Project works closely with AFSC's Truth in Recruitment program.

• Center on Conscience and War is committed to supporting those who question participation in war, whether they are U.S. citizens, permanent residents, documented or undocumented immigrants -- or citizens in other countries.

• The Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors has been there continuously since 1948, helping people who get caught in the military's web.

• Project YANO (Youth and Non-Military Opportunities) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit community organization that provides young people with an alternative point of view about military enlistment.

• By building on the traditions of leaders like Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., we, at The Ruckus Society, provide our partner organizations and activists with the tools, training, and support necessary to tackle these problems and achieve their goals.

• The United States’ oldest secular pacifist organization, the War Resisters League has been resisting war at home and war abroad since 1923.

• The Ya-Ya Network is a citywide anti-racist, anti-sexist organization and allies with the LGBTQ community.

• Committee Opposed to Militarism and the Draft (COMD) is an anti-militarism organization that also challenges the institution of the military, its effect on society, its budget, its role abroad and at home, and the racism, sexism and homophobia that are inherent in the armed forces and Selective Service System.

• The National Network Opposing Militarization of Youth (NNOMY) is a national coalition of groups working on counter recruitment activities. Northwest Suburban Peace & Education Project is a member of this national coalition.

• The GI Rights Hotline is staffed by a coalition of volunteers who provide information to members of the military about discharges, grievance and complaint procedures and other civil rights. Call them at 800-394-9544 or 877-447-4487.

• Iraq Veterans Against the War is a group of veterans from Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom committed to saving lives and ending the violence in Iraq by an immediate withdrawal.

• Military Families Speak Out is an organization of people opposed to the war in Iraq who have relatives or loved ones who are currently in the military or who have served in the military since the buildup to the Iraq war in the fall of 2002.