On AlterNet: recruiting

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "recruiting"

How Racist Anti-Immigrant Groups Are Trying to Recruit Environmentalists

Heidi Beirich, Southern Poverty Law Center. July 27, 2010.

Xenophobes have launched a cynical campaign to recruit environmentalists to their cause by blaming immigrants for urban sprawl and other environmental problems.

The Pentagon's Long-Term Plan to Get Back on Campus

Michael Schwartz, AlterNet. November 13, 2009.

The military wants to integrate itself into campus life and therefore gain routine access to rank-and file students to recruit regular soldiers

Kids Learn That Killing Is Fun at the Army's Lethal New Theme Park

Penny Coleman, AlterNet. December 19, 2008.

The Army's new recruitment tool lets high-tech video game centers desensitize, condition, train and even enlist America's youth.

Webb GI Bill Would Encourage Young People to Join the Military

Amanda Terkel, ThinkProgress AlterNet: PEEK. May 12, 2008.

The American Legion comes out in support of the Webb GI Bill.

Military Recruitment Lie: Pentagon's Education Pitch is a Scam

Aaron Glantz, The Nation. November 29, 2007.

Today's GI Bill is a hollow recruiting tool, not a ticket to college.

Pentagon's Teen Recruiting Methods Would Make Tobacco Companies Proud

Terry J. Allen, In These Times. May 22, 2007.

With over half of America's 1 million active and reserve soldiers enlisted as teens, the military is luring kids as young as 13 using a PR machine that would make Joe Camel proud.

Small-town kids ground up in the War on Terra

Susan Wallace, AlterNet: PEEK. February 21, 2007.

Joshua Holland: But, but … they're all volunteers!

L.A. parents, students and teachers at war with junior ROTC program

Susan Wallace, AlterNet: PEEK. February 19, 2007.

Joshua Holland: Perma-war? Not with my kid!