28 SEPTEMBER 2005
Join an October Street Team!

Fall is recruitment and counterrecruitment season in high schools around the country, and the New York Civil Liberties Union wants students to be armed with the tools to defend their rights to privacy and to make their own decisions about whether or not to enlist.

With that goal in mind, we’re looking for enthusiastic volunteers to go to help us get the word out to students about their rights regarding recruitment.

If you can help us, you’ll join a group of five to ten other volunteers for a thorough training on recruitment and first amendment issues. You and your fellow volunteers will then organize yourselves into several street teams, in which you will stand at the exits of high schools as the end-of-school bell rings in the afternoon, hand out pocket brochures about students' rights and military recruitment, and answer students' questions about what recruiters are doing in their schools and what their rights are when dealing with recruiters. The students will have many questions and lots of energy around the issue, and you’ll spend a lively hour handing things out and having conversations with students and then go home for the day. The job will take a maximum of an hour a day, and you can do it on any afternoon you have free.

Training sessions will happen this Friday, Monday, and Tuesday evenings in our office. If you're interested, please RSVP immediately with your date of choice to Maggie Gram, Organizer for the NYCLU’s Project on Military Recruitment and Students’ Rights, at 212.344.3005 x265 or mgram@nyclu.org.

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