Hearing in Boston on conscription of cyber/IT and STEM workers

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Edward Hasbrouck" <edward () hasbrouck org>
> Date: May 7, 2018 at 8:45:07 AM EDT
> To: dave () farber net
> Subject: Hearing in Boston on conscription of cyber/IT and STEM workers
>
> A "National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service" is 
> currently holding hearings throughout the US on the future of the draft, 
> draft registration, Selective Service, and compulsory service.
>
> The Commission has been directed to report and make recommendations to 
> Congress and the President on, among other issues, "the feasibility... of 
> modifying the military selective service process in order to obtain for 
> military, national, and public service individuals with skills (such as 
> medical, dental, and nursing skills, language skills, cyber skills, and 
> science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) skills) for which 
> the Nation has a critical need, without regard to age or sex."
>
> The Commission's next hearing is this Wednesday, May 9th, at Suffolk 
> University in Boston. It isn't necessary to sign up in advance to testify. 
>
> Background on the National Commission and these hearings:
>
> https://hasbrouck.org/blog/archives/002321.html
>
> Official commission notice of the hearing in Boston:
>
> http://inspire2serve.gov/news-events/please-join-us-our-public-forum-boston-massachusetts
>
> Other upcoming Commission hearings::
>
> http://inspire2serve.gov/news-events
>
> Most of the Commission's official publicity has been about promoting 
> volunteerism, so people who haven't read closely might not have realized 
> that their mandate is to study compulsory military and national service.
>
> Peace,
>
> Edward Hasbrouck
>
>
>
> --------------------
> Draft Registration and Draft Resistance:
> http://www.resisters.info
>
> Health Care Workers and the Draft:
> http://www.MedicalDraft.info
>
> Edward Hasbrouck
> edward () hasbrouck org
> http://hasbrouck.org
> +1-415-824-0214



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