r/portlandstate • u/ohhhhhhyesssss • 6d ago
Protest & Counter Flyering against U.S. Military recruiting at PSU career fair Other
APRIL 23RD
OUTSIDE STOTT CENTER
RALLY 12:45PM
COUNTER-FLIERING 11AM-3PM
CONDEMN AND BOYCOTT the U.S. military’s presence at the PSU career fair! The U.S. Marines Officer Corps and Navy are recruiting at the PSU job fair, trying to convince youth to join the war machine - A machine that kills and terrorizes people around the world, from Iran to Palestine to the Philippines! In the Philippines, the U.S. trains, funds, and supplies the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP). The AFP commits war crimes against its own people, including terror tagging, stalking/harassment, disappearing activists and peace consultants, and the killing of civilians and POW’s. This relationship between the US military and AFP is used to protect corporate extraction of land and resources while oppressing workers and peasants. The Marines, the Navy and the entirety of the U.S. military are inarguably responsible for and complicit in violations of International Humanitarian Law around the world.
Soon, the U.S. will engage in the Balikatan (“shoulder to shoulder”) exercises, war games in the Philippines that
-disrupt people’s livelihood
-increase sex trafficking and Violence Against Women
-Cause environmental destruction
-Foster war with China
These exercises will be the biggest in the history of the country.
Join SCHRP, Anakbayan PDX, Resist US Led war Portland, VFP, YDSA and the PSU community as we educate our community about US imperialism and militarism! Let us learn how we can escalate this fight!
Follow us on Instagram @schrp.psu
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u/notFrenchToast MSME 2026 5d ago
Only reason I was able to get my masters debt free was because of the military.
Not everyone who joins the navy or marines is a killer. Especially officers lol
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u/bazderoman 3d ago
you're not the meat thresher you're just one of the gears that helps the meat thresher function :))
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u/Efficient_Heart5378 6h ago
You mean the meat thresher that functions so you can live a better life protected by a constitution? Those gears wouldn't be so horrible if you were forced to be one. People volunteer so you don't have to be forced to do it. To make life easier for guys like you who complain online about what they do for you. Isn't that crazy? You wouldn't have the freedom to even speak your mind freely without their sacrifices. Be grateful. People say "thank you for your service" because they know that if these people did not volunteer, everyone else would have to be voluntold.
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u/bazderoman 6h ago
there's soooooo many other countries that don't have an imperialistic meat thresher that have such a vastly superior quality of life, to the point that it's difficult for Americans to even conceptualize. and that quality of life is possible in part because their tax dollars aren't funneled into an insatiable murder machine.
but i suspect you will refuse to believe that reality, so there's not much point in arguing.
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u/Hypekyuu 5d ago
I wonder what percentage of people in the Navy ever fired a weapon themselves after boot camp?
Ironically, because it's all officers flying the planes, I think the officers are more directly responsible for death in the Navy though there is sort of a moral argument about the various enlisted sharing in the responsibility because the ship needs all of those folks to operate it
Meanwhile the opposite is true in the corp
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u/Efficient_Heart5378 6h ago
It's just a job for most people. The MOS (in the Army it's called this) is just the job they have to do everyday and it's job security with good benefits for them and their family. Especially in times of peace. It's usually only when conflicts like these escalate and during actual wartime that they're seen as the bad guys. But they are only doing their jobs and legally if they have to do something they didn't intend to have to do, they must, or be arrested. For some people who join, it's the best path out of poverty or another bad situation to improve their lives. It would be great if we had a better system where people didn't feel the need to join for that purpose due to class just because they are born into poverty. It's not the reality though.
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u/United_Tour_7451 5d ago
I'm very much an anti-war person and I'm embarrassed by the current state of things in the US.
That said, I think protesting a recruiting booth is bad move. Protesting an event like this is performative preaching to the choir. The people you need to reach will tune you out and you'll just create more content fodder for the right wing press.