Articles from Draft NOtices, April - June 2012

San Diego Students Give Pink Slip to High School Military Program

— Rick Jahnkow

Students at Mission Bay High School in San Diego are now celebrating what amounts to a very rare organizing victory: the expulsion of a Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps unit from their school. The accomplishment is especially remarkable given that it happened in an area with one of the largest concentrations of military personnel and war industry in the world. -Full Article

Vets Memorial Monument at Chicano Park

— Rodrigo de la Rosa

The Latino/a population enlisted in the United States military is rapidly increasing and is projected to be as much as 22.3% of the armed forces by 2020. Without a doubt as the population of Latinos and Latinas increases in the U.S. the amount of Latino/Latina military personnel will do so as well. -Full Article

World Economic Crisis Has Had Limited Effect on Arms Sales

The top 100 global sellers of arms (including sales of military services) maintained their upward trend in 2010, although the increase of one percent was slower than in 2009. This is according to a February 27, 2012, news release from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), which monitors the arms industry and maintains several databases on military spending and related issues.-Full Article