Morgan, Molly

Morgan, Molly

Molly Morgan

1 March 2003Feature

Molly Morgan reports on a project to counter military propaganda in US schools.

San Diego County in California is home to not only one of the largest military installations in the world, but also the second-largest Iraqi population in the US. In autumn 2002, the San Diego Coalition for Peace and Justice began an outreach campaign to high school students to encourage them to question the US government's planned attack on Iraq.

Why the focus on high school students? The Vietnam War taught the Pentagon that conscription had limited effectiveness and could seriously…