June 30-July 3, at the Seabeck Conference Center in Seabeck WA; FOR’s 60th Annual Northwest Regional Conference, theme “Complicating Narratives.” Complicating Narratives involves us looking at the systematic ways in which toxic narratives permeate our world, as well as the…
Monthly Archives: June 2018
Washington Senators vote to pass $716 million dollar defense bill
Washington Senators Maria Cantrell and Patty Murray joined with an almost full house of Republicans to pass a $716 billion dollar defense bill. Shame on them. But love of war, at the expense of high school students, is a non-partisan…
Posted in antiwar, counter military recruiting, militarism, Recruiting, Washington Tagged with: budget, Maria Cantwell, neoliberal, Patty Murray, students, Trump
“Toward What Ends? A Critical Analysis of Militarism, Equity, and STEM Education”
“Toward What Ends? A Critical Analysis of Militarism, Equity, and STEM Education”, authored by Shirin Vossoughi and Sepehr Vakil, describes the parallel tracks of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) as a way to find technologically- adept recruits for the military,…
Posted in antiwar, counter military recruiting, militarism, Recruiting, students of color Tagged with: counter military recruiting, counter recruiting, Sepehr Vakil, Shirin Vossoughi