Topics to be covered

 The Poverty Draft
This session is like a counter-recruitment 101. It explores how the military is reaching out to youth and how larger societal forces like poverty, racism, and classism impact who is targeted most by recruiters. The connections between education funding cuts and increased militarism in schools are made, and the lies that recruiters tell are examined. Alternatives to the military are presented.

Core Organizing Skills
What is organizing and how do we do it? This workshop explains how organizing differs from other forms of social change (like service providing/advocacy). It then moves into specific skills for being persuasive, in settings such as school board meetings, and other skills for building relationships and becoming an effective organizer. 

 Campaign Strategy

How to Build a Campaign: Setting Goals, Making Allies, and  Evaluating Outcomes
Campaigns wage struggles for specific outcomes that further larger social change goals. Like a story, they have a beginning, middle and end - setting goals, waging the struggle, and eventually winning. This workshop focuses on defining a campaign and building skills to create a counter-recruitment campaign. The skills include setting specific goals that lead to larger outcomes, reaching out to new allies to win that campaign, and evaluating a campaign.

Materials
We will be using the AFSC counter recruitment training manual:  Before You Enlist and After You Say No.  Copies of pertinent pages of the manual will be available to workshop participants and are included in the cost of the workshop.  However, full copies of the manual are available for $15 prior to and at the workshop.  For more information on the manual go to www.afsc.org/youthmil/resources/TrainingManual.htm.

Facilitator
Our facilitator will be Darlene Gramigna, Director of the AFSCs Truth in Recruitment in Chicago, IL. 
Cost
The cost for this workshop is $10 which includes copied materials and lunch.  For low income participants and students who cannot afford this cost, the fee will be $5.00 for lunch.

Location
The workshop will be held in the Fellowship Hall at Mack Memorial Church of the Brethren, 1717 Salem Ave, in Dayton.

Date & Time
The workshop will be on  May 10 , 2008 from 12:00 Noon until 5:00 PM.    

REGISTRATION FORM

NAME _______________________________________________________________________

ADDRESS____________________________________________________________________

CITY, STATE, ZIP _____________________________________________________________

TELEPHONE___________________________________     EMAIL________________________

 _____  I will attend the Truth In Recruitment workshop on Feb 23.  Enclosed is $10 for registration.

_____  I am a student/low income participant.  Enclosed is $5 for registration.

_____  Send me the full training manual.  Enclosed is $15 per copy.

Please return to AFSC, 915 Salem Avenue, Dayton, OH 45406 by May 5. 

For more information about the workshop or to register by phone or email, please contact:

Barb Roberts

American Friends Service Committee

915 Salem Avenue * Dayton, OH 45406

937 278-4225  ext. 101 * 937 278-2778 (fax)

broberts@afsc.org

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