Email Wade Wright if you want information. A list of literature Wade can send you. Oppose PA S.B. 457, Automatic Selective Service Registration Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors Ask-A-Vet website on conscientious objection. The current Draft Bill submitted to Congress. |
Countering the Militarism
in our Society
Selective Service Registration—Adult Friends in the Quarter are thinking about how we can support draft-age young men and women. Of course the best way one can prepare for facing this issue is by working to build a deep and abiding spiritual faith, grounded in the Inner Light. Lewisburg Meeting, along with the Center for Nonviolent Living and the Bucknell college chaplaincy, recently sponsored a training event for draft and military counsellors and anti-recruitment workers. A group has formed to continue doing this work. Contact Rosemary Yaecker for information. Wade Wright recently took one day of draft registration counselling and is prepared to share what he learned regarding the current status of the selective service with Meetings, Adults, Youth in the Quarter. Email him if you want to be trained or just to talk. A very good website to learn about Conscientious Objection and the Military is the Mennonite Central Committee's Ask-A-Vet site. A bill to reinstate the draft (HR 3598), which would require all young men between the ages of 18 and 22, and women volunteers to receive basic military training and education as a member of the armed forces, and give a year of service in the Armed Forces had been introduced in Congress. To see the bill, click here. One website with good information about the Selective Service and how the Draft would likely function if reinstated is the Center for Consciennce & War (NISBCO). The Selective Service website is www.sss.gov. It is very easy to read and navigate. It is a good idea to look at it , and see what it says. Realize that much of the informatioon is biased in favor of the U.S. Military and Government's desire to prepare for war. The current Draft Law was set up as a sabre-rattling gesture in response to the Russian invasion of Afghanistan in 1980. We recommend that you do not register over the internet if you are considering conscientious objection. Some of the sections of the SSS website, usually one page in length are: Who must register. Conscientious objection and alternative service Sequence of events (if the US returns to a draft) Classifications (ex. "1-A -- available immediately for military service") Selective service lottery (and how it would work) How the draft has changed since Vietnam (ex. the draft would begin with 20 year olds) Surviving Sons (yes, they have to register)
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