Counter Recruitment Resources

What Every Young Woman Should Know About the Military

  • What Every Young Woman Should Know About the Military (And What You Can Do About It)
  • Lo Que Toda Joven Deberia Saber Sobre las Fuerzas Armadas

And what you can do about it. If you are thinking about joining the military, you should know about the sexism, racism, and white supremacy; about being sex and gender diverse in the military; about what military life is like for women; and how military experiences change people. Includes stories, info on alternatives, and links to more info.

Available in English. 

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Beyond Border Patrol

  • Beyond Border Patrol
  • Beyond Border Patrol - front
  • Beyond Border Patrol - back

WRL has long challenged military and police recruitment. Our newest counter-recruitment resource, Beyond Border Patrol, takes on the lies of Border Patrol recruiters - particularly in the borderlands - and debunks them with the realities of the job and the agency's legacy of abuse. Like military and police recruiters, Border Patrol recruiters target poor people and young people of color in border communities, and promote careers in law enforcement as a stable way of life and a means to "protect" your community.

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So You Wanna Be a Cop?

  • So You Wanna Be a Cop?
  • ¿Piensa usted qu quisiera ser policía?

NOW Available in Spanish!

Building on decades of counter-military recruitment activism and resource-making, WRL presents this ground-breaking counter-police recruitment resource. Similar to military recruiter lies, police recruiters and branding use strategies to recruit young people, targeting youth of color and poor youth in the promotion of law enforcement careers.

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Lo Que Toda Chica Debe Saber Sobre la Milicia de EE.UU. *COMING SOON*

** UPDATED VERSION TO BE PRINTED IN JANARY 2025 **

Written for girls, queer and trans youth, youth of color and poor youth, full-color Spanish translation of the "What Every Girl Should Know About the U.S. Military" brochure is focused on sexual & gender-based violence: perfect for distributing at schools & community centers.

Available in only in Spanish: Lo Que Toda Chica Debe Saber Sobre la Milicia de EE.UU.

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The Military is Not Just a Job, It's 8 Years of Your Life//¿Solo un empleo? No… ¡Son ocho años de tu vida!

  • The Military is Not Just a Job, It's 8 Years of Your Life
  • ¿Solo un empleo? No… ¡Son ocho años de tu vida!

*UPDATED SPANISH VERSION COMING EARLY 2025*

You’ve probably heard the ads and the recruiter’s sales pitch. Sounds pretty good, doesn’t it? All advertising does. But if military life doesn’t live up to the advertising, you can’t bring your enlistment agreement back to the recruiter for a refund. You are obligated to the military for a total of eight years, including time in the reserves when you could be recalled.

This essential counter military recruitment pamphlet, produced by Project on Youth and Non-Military Opportunities (Project YANO) includes information that should be seen by every person considering joining the military. Activists across the country distribute this flyer in schools, at job fairs and community gatherings.

Copies are available in English or Spanish for $0.20 each plus 20% shipping, or $0.15 for orders of 200 or more!

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Women Conscientious Objectors

Conscientious objectors are generally seen as male - as are soldiers. This book breaks with this assumption. Women conscientiously object to military service and militarism, not only in countries that conscript women - such as Eritrea and Israel - but also in countries without conscription of women. In doing so, they redefine antimilitarism from a feminist perspective, opposing not only militarism, but also a form of antimilitarism that creates the male conscientious objector as the "hero" of antimilitarist struggle.

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