September 6, 2024 Rick Jahnkow, Project YANO; 12:30 Florence Ives, Chico Palestinian Advocacy Network; Zack Connell, Candidate for Paradise Board of Trustees.

Rick Jahnkow is a co-founder and board member of the Project on Youth and

Non-Military Opportunities (Project YANO), a nonprofit counter-recruitment

organization based in San Diego County. For 34 years he worked as the

organization’s full-time program coordinator. During that time, he researched

and organized around the issues of military recruiting, high school Jr. ROTC,

and the general militarization of K-12 schools. He has done extensive writing

and media work on these topics and continues to serve as a background

resource for journalists working on recruiting-related stories.

During the 1980s, Rick was an advisor for a lawsuit that resulted in a 9th

Circuit Appeals Court ruling establishing the right of counter-recruitment

activists to have the same access to schools as military recruiters. (San Diego

Committee Against Registration and the Draft (CARD) v. Governing Board of

the Grossmont Union High School District, 790 F .2d 1471 (9th Cir. 1986)).

www.projectyano.org 


Florence Ives is a recent Butte College graduate and was born and raised on Mechoopda land that we call Chico, CA. They are involved with several local community building and activist efforts including Chico Red Star Movement, Chico Red Meals, and Chico Palestinian Advocacy Network. The event that they're here to talk about, Tea Time for Palestine, has been a team effort from over a dozen dedicated community members. They hope that it will bring awareness to the global struggle for liberation of all oppressed people, from Palestine to Turtle Island.

Zack Connell is a Paradise native who is a legal studies major at CSUChico. He is a current Paradise H.S. member of the Site Council, Board and Treasurer of the Gold Nugget Museum and he is running for Board of Trustees for the Paradise School District. He is the 2023 winner of the Steven Tadeo Award. 


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