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On a series of chilly evenings in November 2014, Barbara Harris, the counter-recruitment coordinator for the New York City chapters of Code Pink and Granny Peace Brigade, braved the cold to share a sidewalk with other group members, mostly women in their 50s and 60s. At one high school in Staten Island, she was also joined by what she described as “apprentice activists”: students from the school’s sociology class. “It was their first time doing a street action,” Barbara later recalled, “and they were effective in making a difference by adding their voice to the conversation.”
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Harding, S., Kershner, S. (2015). Why Counter-Recruitment?. In: Counter-Recruitment and the Campaign to Demilitarize Public Schools. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137493279_6
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