Williston, VT: High School Students Shut Down Military Recruitment Offices
06:00 PM Nov 30, 2007
In collaboration with Iraq Veterans Against the War, students from Mount Mansfield Union High School shut down 2 military recruitment offices, encompassing all 5 branches of the military, on Friday. Approximately 75 people united under the banner, “Out of Our Schools – Out of Iraq." ...

An excerpt of the students' statement: "We're sitting in here today to raise our voices against lies in recruitment, to raise our voices to protest military occupation of our schools and military occupation of Iraq. We're specifically in this recruiting station in order to save the lives of young men and women, some of whom are not even out of high school, who might join the military here because of lies. We are stopping recruiting here by physically impeding it. But even more we want people to see us here, and then question and confront recruiting wherever they are. Even if one young person does not get recruited today based on lies, this will be worth it. ..."

Click here for photos, video and reports from the organizers.

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