Get Involved :: Reach out to bomb-makers in-training
According to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) Director, Michael Anastacio, approximately 20% of the workforce at LLNL will retire in the next five years. There is a high-level of anxiety among Anastacio and his peers regarding who will replace these individuals and essentially become the next generation of bomb-makers. Subsequently, these administrators have made significant investments in identifying talented young scholars, including but not limited to creating slick materials providing general information and elaborate displays at various job and career fairs, as well as offering well paying student fellowships at the labs and high starting salaries.
A term often applied to organizing efforts in low-income communities of color targeted by military recruiters, “counter recruitment” campaigns are needed among the nation’s top undergraduate and graduate institutions as well. Whereas research suggests that youth from low-income communities of color end up fighting on the frontlines of wars, students at the nation’s top undergraduate and graduate institutions experience the increasing militarization of our society in being pursued by various defense companies and agencies. This is especially true for students excelling in mathematics, physics, engineering, and chemistry. Please contact us if you are interested in reaching out to students being recruited to work on weapons development projects. Consider becoming a conversation partner around various issues, especially US foreign policy, the Manhattan Project, and stockpile stewardship. Help them role play various interview situations and if they are willing to do so, help them articulate their opposition to working on weapons-related research projects. Remind them that they have career options beyond weapons research, and encourage them to use their genius on behalf of humanity. Upcoming Opportunity May 13-14, 2005 - United Teachers Los Angeles Human Rights Committee Annual Conference Related Links “Former Lab Workers Encourage Scientists to Halt Nuclear Research: Ex-employees Say They Were Misled about Nature of Work" by Erin McLaughlin, August 21, 2001 "Why I quit my job at LLNL: the truth about the Stockpile Stewardship Program" by Isaac Trotts, March 21, 2001 National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth Coalition Against Militarism in our Schools Get Involved :: Reach out to bomb-makers in-training |
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