Did you know that Bush's "No Child Left Behind Act" requires schools to give
students' home phone numbers & addresses to the military?
You have the right to Opt Out - refuse to have the school release that info.

 Wed, JULY 20, 6pm
Next Opt Out check-in meeting
Friends Center - 1501 Cherry St, Phila 

For parents, students, veterans, military families & others to discuss
next steps in OPTING the military OUT of our schools & communities!
All welcome. Spanish translation available

Schools are for learning, not a military hunting ground!
$Billions for war & occupation, but there's "no money" for schools &
communities

Be part of a growing national movement to
Opt Out!
A grassroots campaign to let students and parents know our right to
Opt Out & demand that money for war & prisons go to caregivers, youth &
communities.

FACT: Military recruiters offer $30,000 to sign up, while on average only $7,000 is spent on education per student in public schools.

FACT: Military recruiters have been caught lying to young people to get them to enlist, making unrealistic promises and coaching students to cheat on exams and drug tests. Most enlistees receive no money for college from the GI bill.

FACT: Five times the $ is spent to keep a young person in prison than to educate them. One in four Black youth are in prison, jail or under the jurisdiction of the courts. In low-income communities the options often are prison or the military. The US has the world's largest prison population.

FACT: 50% of women soldiers in Iraq reported rape by fellow soldiers; 80% reported sexual harassment. A torturer at Abu Ghraib was a former US prison guard.

FACT: $160 million or more is spent on war in Iraq each day. Meanwhile schools are under-funded, welfare is cut, we are told there is not enough $ for social security, there is no national healthcare plan, women lack pay equity & most families barely make it on wages that don't keep up with inflation, & they don't earn a living wage.

FACT: 85% of the parents in Montclair NJ schools have opted out and so can you!

Congress is proposing that those who die in combat are worth $100,000, but what are we worth alive? Mothers did not raise our children to be cannon fodder!

Contact the Global Women's Strike/Phila at 215-848-1120 fax
215-848-1130 philly@crossroadswomen.net
Payday, a network of men: 215-848-1120; www.refusingtokill.net Coming
soon! www.optoutofwar.net

____Yes I would like to be part of a campaign to "Opt Out", Please
send information.

Name: ______________________________ Email ____________________

Tel/fax ______________________________

Address: ______________________________________________________

School/Org (if any) _________________________________

Student Parent Teacher Veteran Other (circle one or more)

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