Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, Congress could soon consider whether to end Selective Service registration or try to expand it to women. It's critically important to opponents of the draft and war to (1) contact your Representative and Senators and (2) educate,...
National Commission Recommends Extending Draft Registration to Women
This morning the National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service (NCMNPS) released its final report, recommending that Congress amend the Military Selective Service Act to require that young women, as well as young men, register for the draft when they...
Major Announcement Due This Week on the Military Draft
This week the National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service (NCMNPS) plans to release its final report including recommendations to Congress on whether Selective Service registration should be ended or extended to young women as well as young...
Anti-Draft Activists Call on Congress To End Draft Registration
As Congress prepares to debate the issue of the military draft, anti-draft activists are calling on Congress to enact legislation to end draft registration entirely. The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals will hear argument March 3, 2020, in New Orleans in a case in which a...
Bill Introduced To End Draft Registration
Thursday, just before Congress recessed until the new year, U.S. Representatives Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Rodney Davis (R-IL) introduced H.R. 5492, a bill "To repeal the Military Selective Service Act, and thereby terminate the registration requirements of such Act...
NPR: ‘Selective Service Registration Comes Under Fire Again’
NPR's Morning Edition today includes a report by David Welna, possibly the only journalist who sat through all of the two days of hearings on Selective Service at which I testified last month before the National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service,...
National Commission on Military Service report and hearing schedule
The National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service (NCMNPS) released its interim report and schedule of formal hearings today.Archived C-SPAN video of news conference announcing report:Part 1Part 2Article by Gregory Korte in USA TodayMy analysis of the...
National Commission on Military Service Interim Report Due Wednesday, January 23rd
The National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service (NCMNPS) will release an "interim report" this Wednesday, January 23rd, at a press conference from 9-10:30 a.m. EST at the Newseum in Washington, DC.Members of the public can attend the news conference...
National Commission on Military Service To Release Interim Report in January
No matter what happens in today’s voting, it won’t end the bipartisan support for war or the need for antiwar activism outside the sphere of electoral politics.Case in point: The bipartisan National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service is continuing to...
Hearing on the Draft and Draft Registration, Thursday, 9/20/2018 in Los Angeles
The "National Commission on Military, National and Public Service" has announced that the final event in its year-long series of "informal" open-mike public hearings on whether registration for a military draft should be ended or extended will be...
