Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors
(CCCO)

objector.org 

Signed Up for the Military?

If you change your mind, getting a discharge from the military's Delayed Entry Program is relatively simple. 
For help, contact the GI Rights Hotline at 800-394-9544 or www.girights.org  

CCCO supports and promotes individual and 
collective resistance to war and 
preparations for war.

While most of us are teaching our kids to avoid violence, the US military is extolling the virtues of war. Junior ROTC programs are sprouting like weeds around the country- they're now in over 2800 high schools.

The draft ended and the military had to get sneakier-along with JROTC we now have the poverty draft. The Pentagon spends $2 billion on recruiting. They entice youth into the military with promises of college and job training: sounds like a great way out. Eventually, young people learn the truth- instead of being caught in drive-bys, they're doing fly-bys.

In 1968 we joined together to protest killing and war. We mobilized successfully against the Vietnam War, but havent been able to free our government from its militaristic ways. The Gulf War, the poverty draft,

Junior ROTC, hazing, racism, sexual harassment and abuse arc all dangers of an unchallenged military. Its time again to act.

The Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors has been there continuously since 1948, helping people who get caught in the military's web. We still help them get out, just like we

helped people get out of the tragedy of Vietnam. Now we need your help.

CCCO is an independent, non-profit organization funded primarily by individual, tax-deductible contributions. Because of the nature of our work, it is difficult for us to obtain support from large foundations or corporations. Not surprisingly, none of our money comes from the government. We rely on people of conscience-people like you-to give generously. You make this work possible.

Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors 
888-231-CCCO  (888-231-2226)
1515 Cherry St. Philadelphia, PA 19102
and
630 20th St. #302, Oakland CA 94612
www.objector.org   

GI Rights Hotline

200,000 young people enlist in the military every year. Those who made a mistake don't know where to turn.

In the year 2000, CCCO and our partners on the GI Rights Hotline will answer 11,800 calls from members of the military seeking information about discharges, grievance and complaint procedures and other civil rights. Almost all calls to the Hotline are answered by volunteers, many of whom are veterans.

We also publish Helping (Jut: A Guide to Military Discharges and GI Rights, the most comprehensive reference work on military discharges in print.

Military  Out  of  Our  Schools

The military and it, recruiters arc present in almost every school in the United State,. Recruiters are ,n schools to sell students military enlistment, using half-truths and outright deception. We believe the military's s ,ale, pitch should not go unchallenged.

Despite tile military's yearly recruiting budget of $1.9 billion, activists in local communities have gained some astounding organizing victories.

• Three school districts ban recruiters entirely; ht dozens more, activists give alternative presentations in classrooms and career days.
• The military's Adventure Vol was ,stopped from making visits to school, m tile entire state of Minnesota.
• A peace flotilla greets the Navy', Great Lakes Recruiting Cruise every year.
• The 1996 expansion of Junior ROTC ended with 900 fewer new units than initially planned thanks in large part ill community protest. If Our Schools

Third World Outreach Program

CCCO's Third World Outreach program seeks to address the historical relationships between Third World people and militarism; establish community-wide dialogues oil issues of military recruiting, militarism of public schools, and our rich tradition of resistance to militarism; and to work in coalition with other national ;tad local groups and organizers, and to organize, inform and aid our communities in fighting the "economic conscription' "of young people.

Our REAL STORY campaign focuses on organizing 50 or more Equal Access presentations in inner city schools in Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Washington, DC:, and Oakland.

AWOL!

The fourth edition of CCCO's youth `zinc, produced in collaboration with War Resister League's YouthPeace program, will include a Hip Hop CD sound track! Over 25 artists affiliated with CCCO's Third World Outreach Program will contribute to the expanded zinc.

Volunteering with CCCO

We are looking for a few good men and women to work for peace--both in our Oakland and Philadelphia offices and in communities across the country.

Volunteer to answer the GI Rights Hotline in Our Oakland office! Or support the Hotline by helping out with mailings and other support work.

Confront the military recruiting trucks when they come to your community. Contact us to be put on our alert list.

Don't let the recruiters have access to your local school unchallenged. Take CCCO materials to your local guidance counselors office and ask that they be placed next to the recruiting brochures table at a career clay fair, or place ads in the high school newspaper telling young people they can get out of the Delayed Enlistment Program.

Our Freeman Bristol Internship is open to young people every summer. Contact us for details at 888-236-2226 or info@objector.org

• Confessions of a Traitor Editorial/Op-ed / FRANK RICH / New York Times 8dec01

Where Does the Money You Send Us GO

Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors
Fiscal Year 1999 April 1, 1999-March 31, 2000

Income 
Individual Donations $252,913 
Grants $15,000 
Program Income $27,975 
Endowment $73,082 
Total $368,970 

Expenses 
Program (84%) $308,656 
Fundraising and Administration (16%) $60,314 
Total $368,970

For help with GI Rights Hotline
800-394-9544
www.girights.org