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Campus Democracy As per our Charter, the DEN calls for "Democratic Self-Government of Higher Education" Organizing ResourcesDemocratizing Education CharterAdopted at the 2005 Democratizing Education Convention in Madison, Wisconsin. CENTER for CAMPUS FREE SPEECH: Guide to Student Activity FeesThe Center for Campus Free Speech releases there Guide to Student Activity Fees - a primer on the legal issues involved in creating and managing a student activity fee system. Download a copy today: http://campusspeech.org/student_fees NewsANOMALOUS WAVE: Eight Italian universities under occupationDate: July 6, 2009BRICKER: Honduran teachers defy coupDate: July 7, 2009REPORT: 250,000 German students protest corporatizationDate: June 18, 2009Take ActionGlobal Wave of Action for Education!source: International Student MovementRECLAIM YOUR EDUCATION - Global Week of Actionsource: Emancipating Education for AllSign the Declaration: UNITED FOR EDUCATION!source: International Student MovementEventsDemocracy Track at the U.S. Social ForumThe Democracy Track is a series of sessions and community spaces at the U.S. Social Forum in Atlanta, Georgia, June 27-July 1, 2007. The purpose of these sessions is to centralize democracy in all of our everyday struggles. Democratizing Education Convention IIIStay tuned . . . the Democratizing Education Convention is coming back! NOVEMBER: Global Week of Action - Reloaded!(November 1, 2009)Public education systems, from kindergarten to university, must prioritize emancipating aspects, be free and accessible to all. A democracy only exists, if society consists of emancipated and self-determined individuals, that are able to critically reflect their society, developments and power structures. Any system that doesn’t fulfill these criteria is not a democracy. Publications & TalksRECOMMENDED: The Ottawa RetreatA report by Mishy Leiblum and Jed Murr on the Campus Organizing Retreat in Ottawa, Ontario. PowerShift 2009 - Democratizing Our Universities to Confront Climate Change(February 28, 2009 - March 1, 2009)"Democratizing Our Universities to Confront Climate Change" was a workshop held at PowerShift 2009, in Washington, DC. The speakers are Ben Manski of Liberty Tree and Meaghan Linick-Loughley and Atlee McFellin of New School University. Prospects for Participatory Democracy in the U.S.A"The task . . . is to facilitate the growth of an aggressive democracy movement in the United States." |
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