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Alternatives to the Military
GI Rights Hotline
We are a network of nonprofit, nongovernmental organizations who provide information to servicemembers about military discharges, grievance and complaint procedures, and other civil rights.
Northstar
Northstar provides student loans. The Total Higher Education (T.H.E.) Loan Programs are a product of NorthStar, one of the most respected names in the student loan industry.
Anti-war, anti-military
Committee Opposed to Militarism and the Draft
COMD is an anti-militarism organization that also challenges the institution of the military, its effect on society, its budget, its role abroad and at home, and the racism, sexism and homophobia that are inherent in the armed forces and Selective Service System.
Military Families Speak Out
Military Families Speak Out is an organization of people opposed to the war in Iraq who have relatives or loved ones in the military.
Student Peace Action Network (SPAN)
SPAN is a grassroots peace and justice organization working from campuses across the United States. We organize for an end to physical, social, and economic violence caused by militarism at home and abroad.
Students Against War
A student group at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities that formed in the days following the tragic events of September 11th, the subsequent backlash, and ultimately the calls for war. The group is founded on three main principles:
1. Peaceful & Diplomatic Resolutions To Conflicts 2. The Protection Of Civil Liberties & 3. Equal Rights & Justice
United for Peace and Justice
United for Peace and Justice is a coalition of more than 1300 local and national groups throughout the United States who have joined together to protest the immoral and disastrous Iraq War and oppose our government's policy of permanent warfare and empire-building.
Movement Support and Training
Applied Research Center (ARC)
The Applied Research Center is a public policy, educational and research institute whose work emphasizes issues of race and social change.
Campus Activism
Tools, resources, and event calendars for campus-based activists.
Colours of Resistance (COR)
Colours of Resistance (COR) is a grassroots network of people who consciously work to develop anti-racist, multiracial politics in the movement against global capitalism.
Project South
Project South creates popular education to build grassroots leaders. We provide opportunities for organizers to learn and develop movement building tools. We strive to build a stronger movement for social & economic justice by connecting local organizing efforts to consciousness, vision, and strategy.
Speak Out
Institute for Democratic Education and Culture is the country's only national non-profit organization that promotes progressive voices on campuses and in communities.
The People's Institute
The People’s Institute was created to develop more analytical, culturally-rooted and effective community organizers. The People’s Institute believes that effective community and institutional change
happens when those who would make change understand how race and racism function as a barrier to community self determination and self sufficiency.
Truth Force Training Center
The Truth Force Training Center offers training in the philosophy and methods of nonviolent action, or "truth force". TFTC contributes to the power of racial, economic, and social justice movements through trainings grounded in the traditions of community organizing and popular education.
Youth Empowerment Center
YEC provides the infrastructure that lets C-Beyond: Youth Making History, Underground Railroad, Youth Force Coalition, and School of Unity & Liberation (SOUL) fight the good fight and build youth power. If the groups of the YEC are the muscle, then the YEC is their bones, the skeleton, the frame that holds everything together.
Opt-out
Leave My Child Alone
A campaign helping families to protect their right to privacy by removing their child's information from recruitment lists.
Military Free Zone
Military Free Zone encourages students to OPT OUT of the recruitment process and to speak out against the misleading recruitment tactics of the US military.
Partner Organizations
National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth
The National Network Opposing Militarization of Youth (NNOMY) will be integral in bringing our groups together so we can help the nation understand that providing youth with peaceful and viable alternatives to achieve success in life is an important sign of a civilized society.
The League of Pissed Off Voters
The League of PISSED OFF Voters is doing national voter-organizing out of New York City. Our mission is to engage pissed off 17-35 year olds in the democratic process to build a progressive governing majority in our lifetime.
The Ruckus Society
The Ruckus Society provides environmental, human rights, and social justice organizers with the tools, training, and support needed to achieve their goals.
War Resisters League’s Youth and Counter Militarism Project
provides youth with the resources and training necessary to agitate against military recruitment in their schools and communities. Our long term goal is to bring youth organizers and young veterans together to help build a unified, national anti-war movement. To help accomplish this, we produce materials, conduct trainings, and work in a number of national coalitions.
Veterans
Iraq Vets Against War
Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) is a group of veterans who have served since September 11th, 2001 including Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. We are committed to saving lives and ending the violence in Iraq by an immediate withdrawal of all occupying forces.
Sir! No Sir!
In the 1960s, thousands of American GIs rebelled against the Vietnam War, changing the course of U.S. history and society. No film has ever told their story...until now.
Veterans for Peace
Veterans Working Together for Peace & Justice Through Non-violence. Wage Peace!
Youth Organization
Campus Progress
A project of the Center for American Progress, is an effort to strengthen progressive voices on college and university campuses nationwide; counter the growing influence of right-wing groups on campus; and empower new generations of progressive leaders.
Harlem Live
Internet Publication covering arts and culture by local teens.
National Hip Hop Political Convention
The National Hip Hop Political Convention (NHHPC) is a developing national organization operating in 20 states throughout the country working on issues facing the hiphop generation.
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