Re: [Marxism] Addicted to War

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Hi Ken,

Addicted to War is an excellent educational tool. It may be a little out of 
date today. We used it in a city-wide proposition (“College Not Combat,” 
Proposition I) in 2005 against JROTC in the high-schools, which won by 60 
percent of the vote. Unfortunately, it was just an “opinion” proposition, so 
JROTC is still alive and well in our high-schools in San Francisco. 

As part of our campaign (a united front of anti-war and socialist groups—we had 
to collect, as I recall, over 200,000 signatures to get it on the ballot.) We 
set up tables at the schools on “career days” when the U.S. military showed up 
in force along with the colleges and businesses. 

We had these books on our table along with other informational flyers to hand 
out to students warning them of the lies the military may tell them such as, 
“you have the right to leave the military honorably any time you want.” And, 
“you don’t have to go into combat if you don’t want to.” 

All the various recruiters handed out “freebees” to students, pens, notebooks, 
etc., but the military handed out shopping-bags full of bells and whistles—way 
more than anyone else did to entice the kids—all five branches of the military 
attended and each handed out separate bags of stuff.

You also may be interested in this report which was very useful to us at the 
time:
Military Recruiters Lie About Dangers In Iraq

Army To Suspend Recruiting For Retraining Following Target 5 Investigation

May 18, 2005

http://www.wlwt.com/news/4508233/detail.html 


In solidarity,

Bonnie Weinstein, Co-Editor, Socialist Viewpoint



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> This week I was given a copy of Addicted to War, an illustrated exposé by 
> Joel Andreas.
> The man who gave it to me bought it in bulk to circulate it cheaply.
> 
> It seems familiar, in that the graphics are very recognizable.  But I had not 
> read it before.
> On the cover it says there are 450,000 in print worldwide.  There is an 
> impressive list of supporters.
> 
> I’d like to ask people on this list what they think of it as an educating 
> tool.
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>   ken h
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[Marxism] Addicted to War

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This week I was given a copy of Addicted to War, an illustrated exposé by Joel 
Andreas.
The man who gave it to me bought it in bulk to circulate it cheaply.

It seems familiar, in that the graphics are very recognizable.  But I had not 
read it before.
On the cover it says there are 450,000 in print worldwide.  There is an 
impressive list of supporters.

I’d like to ask people on this list what they think of it as an educating tool.

ken h
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