User:Jmbranum/Oklahoma GI Rights Hotline

The Oklahoma GI Rights Hotline is a project of the Oklahoma Center for Conscience. It offers free and confidential counseling by trained volunteers, who assist soldiers with seeking military discharges. Counselors are supervised by a licensed attorney.

The Oklahoma GI Rights Hotline is an associate member of the national GI Rights Network, and is in the process of being a fully functional node of the national hotline.

OCC (formerly known as Oklahoma Committee for Conscientious Objectors) was founded in 2004 and is supported by Joy Mennonite Church, Veterans for Peace of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Catholic Peace Fellowship and the Oklahoma City Religious Society of Friends.

The Oklahoma GI Rights Hotline began operations on September 24, 2007. It was created in large part to respond to the massive call up of 3,500 members of the Oklahoma Army National Guard to participate in the Iraq war.

Since the creation of the hotline, it has been covered by local and state-wide media.