Location:

Chicago, Illinois

Full Description:

calling students, faculty, and campus workers . . .

    Over the weekend of Sept 22-24, 2006, we will gather in Chicago some 40-60 campus organizers from a score colleges and universities, to compare experiences, recent advances and setbacks, and to plan coordinated action for the coming year. You, or people you work with on your campus, could be among those organizers.

    Please take five minutes to read through this notice. Contents include an initial meeting agenda, initial travel and lodging logistics, and so on. At the end is a short application due August 1st. Lodging is covered, and we hope to be able to help with transportation (donations for transportation scholarships gratefully accepted). Please call or email immediately with any questions.

    We are looking for participants from many campuses. Maybe you, or some people you work with, would be ideal for this meeting. We are looking for participation from diverse campus communities, including especially communities of color, undergrads and grads, and staff and faculty. Gender balance is also a priority. The idea is to bring the campus communities together, and get ready to fight for higher education, and a democratic society, in '06-'07.

    For Education for Democracy!

   Carl Williams, Ben Manski, Pabitra Benjamin
    Liberty Tree Fellows ~ Democratizing Education Program

    608 257 1606

	p.s. ~ The next Democratizing Education Convention - less oriented to
	planning actions, and more oriented to networking, skills, and issues
	workshops, will occur in the Spring.

    MEETING AGENDA

    Friday, Sept 22
        4pm - Check-In
        6pm - Dinner
        7:30pm - Campus Reports & Discussion

    Saturday, Sept 23
        8:00am - Breakfast
        9:00am - Organizing Updates & Discussions:
            Militarization
            Affirmative action
            Student unionism
            Campus labor
            Tent States
            Academic freedom
            Internationalism in education activism
            The GATS and higher ed
        Noon - Lunch
        2:00pm - Coordination for the Coming Year:
            The Network
            Survey of upcoming crises, events
            Coordinated action(s)
        7:00pm - Dinner
        9:00pm - Social

    Sunday, Sept 24
        9:00am - Breakfast
        10:00am - The Democratizing Education Convention
        1:00pm - Goodbyes and Check-Out

    LODGING

We will be staying at a conference center in Chicago. The facilities are
dorms, and we will be meeting on-site. Lodging will be covered for
retreat participants; however, should you or your organization be able to
pay for your lodging, we can apply the savings toward travel scholarships
for others.

    TRANSPORTATION

Liberty Tree is prepared to provide some limited transportation
assistance for participants who need this assistance. If you or your
organization is able to make a contribution to help others attend the
meeting, that would help a great deal.

Additional Information:

APPLICATION for CHICAGO DEN MEETING PARTICIPATION

Return to Carl Williams at Williams@LibertyTreeFDR.org

NAME:

EMAIL:

PHONE:

ADDRESS:

CAMPUS:

STUDENT/STAFF/FACULTY/UNION:

AFFILIATIONS:

PLEASE PROVIDE BRIEF ANSWERS TO THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:

    1. Why do you want to participate?

    2. What is your campus organizing and other organizing background?

    3. What will your participation add to the meeting?

    4. Will you be on campus next year?

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