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Tell Congress: REPEAL AUTOMATIC DRAFT REGISTRATION AND THE SELECTIVE SERVICE SYSTEM

Send an email message to your House and Senate members using this computerized system sponsored by the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL): tinyurl.com/bden99pr

Update: The bipartisan bill to repeal auto-registration and the Military Selective Service Act (S.4537) has been introduced by three Senators. Letters should encourage co-sponsorship/support for this legislation. 

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From Draft NOtices, October‐December 2026

— Lauren Reyna Morales and Simeon Man

Just some short years ago, artificial intelligence (AI) seemed like a promising technology of tomorrow for most people. Mainstream conversations around AI developments were typically met with enthusiasm from lay people and tech professionals alike. Maybe AI can cure cancer! It can at least give me a funny picture to upload to my Instagram story! Only scattered murmurs warning of AI’s potential dangers were reported by conventional media outlets. That’s not true anymore.

In September, former Anthropic and OpenAI researcher Jacob Coxin appeared on virtually every legacy media broadcast to share a doomsday prediction: there is a 10% chance AI will extinguish the human race by the end of the decade. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reinforced Coxin’s perilous forecast by simultaneously issuing their own calls for caution just days later. Altman published “We Must Pace the Frontier,” an open letter urging for a deliberate pacing of AI development to ensure public safety. Altman declared that AI could go “very badly” if the technology develops too quickly without proper protections.

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From Draft NOtices, July‐September 2026

— Simeon Man

Photo caption: "Activists march against RIMPAC 2024 in downtown San Diego, June 2024.” Photo: Simeon Man.

Military personnel from around the world have converged on the illegally occupied lands and waters of Hawai‘i this month (June 24-July 31) to participate in the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC), a biennial multinational maritime exercise led by the U.S. Third Fleet from Naval Base Point Loma in San Diego. From San Diego to Hawai‘i and throughout the Pacific, activists are mobilizing to stop the war drills, which are not “games” but an actual war on indigenous life and ocean life imperiling the planet.

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Ninth CIRCUIT COURT RULING: CONFRONTING MILITARISM BY USING EQUAL ACCESS TO HIGH SCHOOLS

When the military comes to your local high school, you have a legal right to give students an opposing view. This has been the position taken by federal district courts in Florida, Pennsylvania and Illinois and two federal appellate courts. The most broadly-worded decision came from a case that COMD took to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in the 1980s. Here is the background:

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