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Guard recruit from South St. Paul has second thoughts about joining
By Randy Furst, StarTribune
Published July 10, 2006, page 1A
A South St. Paul teenager changed his mind after signing up to be in the Minnesota Army National Guard. The Guard says he must file a request to try to get out of his commitment now that he's a soldier...
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Students and Parents of Female and Male Students in Grades 11 or 12 Stop Your School from Supplying Private Information to Military Recruiters.
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Antiwar Grannies arm themselves with toy soldiers
by Doug Grow, Star Tribune
Published February 25, 2006

Rejected by the Army, Grandmothers for Peace has opened up a new front in expressing opposition to the war in Iraq. The Grandmothers, sometimes working in conjunction with Women Against Military Madness, are leaving toy plastic soldiers around the metro. Attached to each one is the message: "Please bring me home."...
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Grandmothers volunteer to enlist in military at U recruiting center
by Dane Smith, Star Tribune Staff Writer
Published December 6, 2005

Eleven anti-war activists who are the grandmothers of 48 grandchildren marched into an army recruiting station near the University of Minnesota campus Tuesday morning and volunteered to enlist...
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General advises parents to get out of the way. Here is what we say...
worldwide WAMM February 2005
General Peter Pace, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, doesn't want parents to stand in the way if their children want to enlist in the military, according to an item in the June 30, 2005 Pioneer Press World/Nation brief. It is known that the wisdom and experience of parents are one of the biggest obstacles to children joining the military now and so it is interesting the general tells parents to "not stand in the way" and wants children to listen to him and the Pentagon, not those who provide them with love and guidance in making decisions for their futures...
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Find out about opportunities working for peace, health, and better communities at the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits - click here
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
worldwide WAMM February 2005
We watch in horror the development of an expanding empire, destroying people, ancient and modern civilizations, the infrastructures on which they depend, their cultures, arts and environments. Country after country is occupied, through either overt or covert means, resources are looted and complicit puppet governments installed, which require military installations to maintain them. But, empire building not only demands the lives of those in foreign lands, it requires an endless supply of soldiers at its source. Hence, the United States Army is developing a constant stream of recruits here at home, among our youth, by mining American schools for soldiers...
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