http://stopthedraft.com/ en-us Sat, 17 May 2008 05:01:56 -0400 editor@technologyinnovator.com http://stopthedraft.com/index.php?articleID=14977&sectionID=102 Many who supported the campaign for compulsory military service in Edwardian Britain saw it as a necessary measure against the threat of invasion and the shadow of German militarism. Others... Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:05:51 -0400 http://stopthedraft.com/index.php?articleID=14976&sectionID=102 THE lady said: "Bring back National Service, Mr Straw. That would sort them." I'd met her on Saturday last; she'd been listening to one of my open-air meetings. The "them"... Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:03:40 -0400 http://stopthedraft.com/index.php?articleID=14975&sectionID=102 Many youngsters rely on ingenious methods to dodge mandatory military services here. In this case they paid up to 2 million won each ($2,000) to a broker to learn how... Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:00:47 -0400 http://stopthedraft.com/index.php?articleID=14764&sectionID=62 Nigel Jones reviews We Will Not Fight: The Untold Story of World War One's Conscientious Objectors by Will Ellsworth-Jones The critic Lytton Strachey had his smartarse answer ready when he... Sat, 01 Mar 2008 11:17:04 -0500 http://stopthedraft.com/index.php?articleID=14764&sectionID=64 Nigel Jones reviews We Will Not Fight: The Untold Story of World War One's Conscientious Objectors by Will Ellsworth-Jones The critic Lytton Strachey had his smartarse answer ready when he... Sat, 01 Mar 2008 11:17:04 -0500 http://stopthedraft.com/index.php?articleID=14761&sectionID=64 Set in an America of the near future, Day Zero tells the story of lives changed by the reinstating of the draft for military service.  The war is still going... Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:05:27 -0500 http://stopthedraft.com/index.php?articleID=14762&sectionID=64 It's a crying shame that such a worthwhile conversation-starter got turned into this dull, forced, formulaic, and shallow exercise in obviousness. Set in the near future where the state of... Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:09:51 -0500 http://stopthedraft.com/index.php?articleID=14978&sectionID=64 While movies about Iraq haven’t been anything new to audiences in the past few years, one would think Hollywood would stop producing such films as there aren’t many that have... Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:15:27 -0500 http://stopthedraft.com/index.php?articleID=14763&sectionID=64 Directed by Bryan Gunnar, the film Day Zero revolves around a writer named Aaron (Elijah Wood), a cabbie Dixon (Jon Bernthal) and a lawyer George (Chris Klein) who have been... Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:11:52 -0500 http://stopthedraft.com/index.php?articleID=14434&sectionID=102 The youngsters do not want to join the Army, mainly because they lack a sense of patriotism. It is egregious that educated students are not impelled to join the Army... Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:23:17 -0500 http://stopthedraft.com/index.php?articleID=14428&sectionID=59 When Mitt Romney withdrew from pursuit of the presidency, he inadvertently performed a great public service: His speech announcing the suspension of his campaign demonstrated a major problem with the... Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:11:43 -0500 http://stopthedraft.com/index.php?articleID=14369&sectionID=64 Intro How would you react if you were drafted today? How would you react if you were drafted today? The Story Taking place in the near future where the military... Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:36:59 -0500 http://stopthedraft.com/index.php?articleID=14432&sectionID=102 Russia’s young clergymen will now be required to serve in the military, the RBK Daily business newspaper reported on February 18th. After an ordinance that went into effect last week,... Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:19:28 -0500 http://stopthedraft.com/index.php?articleID=14367&sectionID=64 Day Zero will hit the DVD shelves on February 26, but you can catch a glimpse at this DVD right now. We have an exclusive clip from this movie featuring... Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:51:25 -0500 http://stopthedraft.com/index.php?articleID=14433&sectionID=102 Georgetown, Guyana -- That the word conscription has been uttered by President Jagdeo is the clearest evidence yet of how far the Lusignan massacre has pushed the decision makers of... Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:20:43 -0500 http://stopthedraft.com/index.php?articleID=14427&sectionID=59 Waterloo, Iowa -- On February 16, 1863, The U. S. Senate passes the Conscription Act, requiring all men between the ages of 20-45 to register to become eligible for a... Sat, 16 Feb 2008 13:08:58 -0500 http://stopthedraft.com/index.php?articleID=14430&sectionID=102 New Delhi: Air Force chief Fali Major on Monday said that conscription or compulsory military service in India is a bad idea. His comments directly contradict Army Chief General Deepak... Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:15:56 -0500 http://stopthedraft.com/index.php?articleID=14429&sectionID=102 GANDHINAGAR: Air Chief Marshal F H Major on Monday said conscription was not feasible to overcome the shortage of officers in the armed forces. In a reply to a question... Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:14:07 -0500 http://stopthedraft.com/index.php?articleID=2104&sectionID=104 I Don't Cry About The Draft, But I'll Refuse It Daniel Trickett wrote: Re: Women Are Mothers, Not Soldiers by Sarah Eve Nichols (May 31, 2004) The person that wrote... Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:27:02 -0500 http://stopthedraft.com/index.php?articleID=14426&sectionID=102 92 current and former South Korean footballers have been charged for dodging military service by purposely injuring themselves to obtain medical exemptions. According a South Korean prosecutor, the players, which... Mon, 04 Feb 2008 13:06:36 -0500 http://stopthedraft.com/index.php?articleID=14370&sectionID=64 NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) -- For some reason, themes revolving around the Iraq War seem to be defying the best efforts of serious-minded filmmakers. Such is the case with this... Sat, 02 Feb 2008 14:41:45 -0500 http://stopthedraft.com/index.php?articleID=14425&sectionID=102 MOSCOW -- For two years, Oleg Kozlovsky has been a fixture at anti-Kremlin street demonstrations, confronting riot police and just as often getting arrested. One of the leaders of a... Sat, 26 Jan 2008 13:04:54 -0500 http://stopthedraft.com/index.php?articleID=14431&sectionID=102 The remains of 101 Koreans pressed into labor and the army by imperial Japan during World War II will return to Korea on Wednesday. A Korean government delegation and 50... Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:18:00 -0500 http://stopthedraft.com/index.php?articleID=14368&sectionID=64 Raised in Washington, D.C., country music-loving actor Jon Bernthal went to Russia to study acting and ended up playing professional baseball. He's no longer playing ball, but his acting career is... Sun, 20 Jan 2008 14:32:16 -0500 http://stopthedraft.com/index.php?articleID=14364&sectionID=64 Cast: Elijah Wood, John Bernthal, Chris Klein, Ginnifer Goodwin, Elisabeth Moss and Ally Sheedy. Original Release Date: In Theaters January 18, 2008 Official Website: CLICK HERE. Scores: Technical: 80, Story:... Sat, 19 Jan 2008 13:39:30 -0500 http://stopthedraft.com/index.php?articleID=14360&sectionID=64 Day Zero is a film that might have resonated more a year or two ago. It's a gloom-and-doom, "Iraq is the next Vietnam" type of protest film—and in light of... Sat, 19 Jan 2008 13:23:48 -0500 http://stopthedraft.com/index.php?articleID=14362&sectionID=64 For an Iraq war movie, Day Zero has a unique premise: What if the draft were reinstated, and three boyhood pals living in New York had 30 days to report... Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:31:17 -0500 http://stopthedraft.com/index.php?articleID=14365&sectionID=64 [An indieWIRE review from Reverse Shot.] Of all the varied strands of post-9/11 cinema, the speculative film--the one showing us what life would be like if it were slightly (but... Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:42:08 -0500 http://stopthedraft.com/index.php?articleID=14366&sectionID=64 Elijah Wood obviously doesn't let success get to his head. After starring in one of the biggest movie franchises in history, you know, the one with that Ring... you would've... Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:46:03 -0500 http://stopthedraft.com/index.php?articleID=14363&sectionID=64 Over the last year or two, we haven’t seen Elijah Wood on screen quite as much as you might expect, especially for someone who starred in the Lord of the... Wed, 09 Jan 2008 13:35:27 -0500 http://stopthedraft.com/index.php?articleID=14585&sectionID=60 Since President Carter announced the resumption of draft registration back in 1980, the draft registration form -- both the original, blue and white cardboard form found at Post Offices across America as... Tue, 01 Jan 2008 14:01:20 -0500 http://stopthedraft.com/index.php?articleID=14572&sectionID=66 View Selective Service's 2007 Annual Report to the Congress of the United States: >> View or Download the Report... Mon, 31 Dec 2007 14:46:29 -0500 http://stopthedraft.com/index.php?articleID=14361&sectionID=64 Anthony Moody from Indalo Productions sends along word on a recent screening of Elijah Wood’s latest film ‘Day Zero’. ‘Zero’ centers on Wood’s character Aaron Feller, Feller and his two... Wed, 07 Nov 2007 13:27:09 -0500 http://stopthedraft.com/index.php?articleID=13705&sectionID=28 The Democratic Congress should propose a bill to reinstate the National Military Conscription Act (the draft). If you think you saw a lot of war protesters in New York, San... Wed, 07 Nov 2007 11:38:05 -0500 http://stopthedraft.com/index.php?articleID=13698&sectionID=102 South Korea's military recruitment agency has been under fire for its alleged attempts to cover-up the results of its own in-house investigation into a high-profile draft dodging scheme by which... Wed, 07 Nov 2007 11:20:32 -0500 http://stopthedraft.com/index.php?articleID=13697&sectionID=102 The Israel Defense Forces said Tuesday that 27.7 percent of Israeli males of conscription age are not inducted into the army. Army statistics presented at the Sderot conference on societal... Tue, 06 Nov 2007 11:12:11 -0500 http://stopthedraft.com/index.php?articleID=13702&sectionID=102 "They tied up my two younger brothers and invited us to watch. Then they beat them with sticks until two of them died. They told us it would give us... Mon, 05 Nov 2007 11:31:11 -0500 http://stopthedraft.com/index.php?articleID=13699&sectionID=102 Some 53 per cent of the respondents in a poll carried out for Centre party news portal Apila said they preferred military non-alliance and general consctiption. About 11 per cent... Mon, 05 Nov 2007 11:23:04 -0500 http://stopthedraft.com/index.php?articleID=13700&sectionID=102 Minister of Defence Jyri Häkämies is not interested in creating alternatives for conscripts to fulfil military service requirements. Instead, he says more attention should be spent developing compulsory military service.... Sat, 03 Nov 2007 11:25:37 -0400 http://stopthedraft.com/index.php?articleID=13701&sectionID=102 It is usual for the Tiger outfit to go for desperate attacks targeting either Security Forces or civilians once they need to go for a large scale recruitment drive to... Fri, 02 Nov 2007 11:27:44 -0400 http://stopthedraft.com/index.php?articleID=13452&sectionID=102 Web sites will be soon banned from using phrases and words implying that they offer tips on how to evade military service, the Ministry of National Defense said Sunday. The... Sun, 28 Oct 2007 19:58:43 -0400 http://stopthedraft.com/index.php?articleID=13451&sectionID=102 WASHINGTON: Conscription or draft, terms normally used to describe the mandatory enrollment in the armed forces, is coming to the US diplomatic service. At least 50 foreign service officers will... Sun, 28 Oct 2007 19:55:42 -0400 http://stopthedraft.com/index.php?articleID=13703&sectionID=102 A majority of Swedes wish to abolish or fundamentally reform the country's system of conscription, a new poll shows. Only fourteen percent of people asked by pollsters Sifo said they... Sun, 21 Oct 2007 11:33:24 -0400 http://stopthedraft.com/index.php?articleID=13704&sectionID=102 The governing New Azerbaijan Party (NAP) is developing a project envisaging supplements and changes to the Law on Conscription Essentials. The project will be submitted to the Parliament by the... Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:36:12 -0400 http://stopthedraft.com/index.php?articleID=12938&sectionID=28 Sadly, I read yet another opinion advocating military conscription ("Bring back draft before next attack," Letters, Sunday). The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states in Section 1: "Neither slavery... Tue, 02 Oct 2007 09:55:00 -0400 http://stopthedraft.com/index.php?articleID=12937&sectionID=28 If the United States is committed to an all-volunteer military, then why do we still have draft registration? It’s hard to find a politician anywhere who supports a military draft.... Mon, 01 Oct 2007 09:51:39 -0400 http://stopthedraft.com/index.php?articleID=12939&sectionID=28 The Bush/Cheney administration looks to pre-emptive attacks to get rid of governments it doesn't like. Even before President Bush and Dick Cheney were elected, with a close group of confidants,... Sun, 30 Sep 2007 09:56:53 -0400 http://stopthedraft.com/index.php?articleID=13706&sectionID=64 DAY ZERO will be released theatrically on January 18, 2008 by First Look Studios. In the meantime, here are dates for several festivals DAY ZERO will screen at this Fall... Sat, 22 Sep 2007 11:42:47 -0400 http://stopthedraft.com/index.php?articleID=12739&sectionID=102 Alternative forms of duty will be permitted to conscientious objectors, who refuse mandatory military service due to their religious conviction, as early as 2009, the Defense Ministry said yesterday. Veterans... Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:00:00 -0400 http://stopthedraft.com/index.php?articleID=12738&sectionID=102 Alternative military service will be available for conscientious objectors, especially those who refuse military conscription due to religious beliefs. We hope that the introduction of substitute service will open the... Tue, 18 Sep 2007 19:00:00 -0400