This warms my little hippie heart

From the Minneapolis Star-Tribune:

The St. Paul School Board this afternoon will debate the merits of how military recruiters operate at Central High School.

Dozens of students and supporters in recent months have called on the school board for three changes for how the Army looks for new soldiers on campus.

The group wants to restrict military recruiters to the career resource center and prevent any unsupervised contact with students.

The students also want to stop recruiters from coming to the high school more often than other post secondary school or job recruiters might come.

Finally, they want their group -- Youth Against War and Racism-- to receive seven days' notice before recruiters enter school grounds.

The board will discuss the matter today at 4:30 p.m. at district headquarters."

Back in the day, I was a member of Youth Against Militarism (YAM) and Youth for Change (YFC) at my high school. YAM also organized counter-recruiting efforts and Gulf War protests in local city and suburban high schools. On the one hand, it makes me sad that students still have to make this argument. (That military recruiters are allowed too much access to impressionable high school students. Often, recruiters told out right lies and made promises that couldn't be kept. Their tactics are similar to stalking and their favorite group to target are young black men who come from lower to middle income families. My school had plenty of those -and not surprisingly, still does.) But on the other hand, it warms my heart that someone else still cares. Though I have to say that YAM is a way better acronym than YAWR... (or maybe they are YAWAR- which seems ironic)