Latino JROTC Cadets Resign to Protest Border Militarization

This news is from L.A., but it’s the nearest protest we could locate:

Latino Cadets Publicly Resign From JROTC in Protest to U.S. Troops Being Deployed to U.S.-Mexico Border
The Coordinadora Estudiantil de la Raza (CER), a coalition of middle school, high school, college and university students from over twenty campuses throughout the southland, will hold a press conference at the Edward Roybal Federal Building on Thursday, June 1st, 2006 at 5:30 pm.

During the press conference the CER, along with allies, internationally known conscientious objector Pablo Paredes, Spokesperson of the Frente Continental Isaura Rivera, UCLA Professor Juan Gomez Quinones, will publicly declare their opposition to the deployment of U.S. military troops at the U.S. Mexico-Border. The CER and allies believe that 3,000 human lives lost at the border since 1994 is already too much blood spilt for a broken immigration policy. Therefore they reject current presidential and legislative proposals for troop deployment and demand an immediate demilitarization of the U.S.-Mexico Border.

At the press conference Latino cadets will publicly resign from JROTC in protest the militarization of the U.S. Border. The CER is not asking youth to resign or refrain from joining the military, but it seeks to make a clear statement: its members and sympathizers will not be used by the U.S. military to kill their own people at the U.S.-Mexico Border.

From Indymedia LA