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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, 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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From Draft NOtices, July‐September 2026

— Edward Hasbrouck

In December 2026, the Selective Service System (SSS) will start trying to register male U.S. citizens and residents between their 18th and 26th birthdays “automatically” for a possible future military draft.

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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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