The military has launched a new recruitment campaign to sign up youth needed in Afghanistan. This campaign is called Operation Connection. In General Hillier's words: "...we're moving from a passive approach on recruiting where essentially we sat around waiting for you to come to us to a more active and aggressive one..."

To help young people withstand this pressure, ACT for the Earth, one of the founding organizations of the Toronto Coalition to Stop the War, has launched a counter-recruitment campaign called Operation Objection. Check it out and be sure to tell all concerned parents and young people you know about the website: http://operationobjection.org.