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Civic Education As per our Charter, the DEN calls for "Civic Education for a Democratic Society" Organizing ResourcesDemocratizing Education CharterAdopted at the 2005 Democratizing Education Convention in Madison, Wisconsin. NewsElection Officials Telling College Students They Can't VoteDate: September 24, 2008ZLATIC: Participatory budgeting: For us, by usDate: March 12, 2009100,000s students demand education for democracyDate: November 17, 2009Take ActionRECLAIM YOUR EDUCATION - Global Week of Actionsource: Emancipating Education for AllHelp defend higher education in Tennesseesource: United Campus Workers/CWA Local 3865Sign the Declaration: UNITED FOR EDUCATION!source: International Student MovementEventsReworking the University: Visions, Strategies, Demands(April 24, 2009 - April 26, 2009)We seek to create a space for collective re-evaluation of the university in crisis as an opportunity for real transformation. "Reworking the University" seeks to draw together academics, artists, and activists, to share and produce political visions, strategies and demands for building an alternative university in common. Extending Democracy w/The Progressive, Manski, Farsetta, Gray, Wellstone(May 1, 2009 - May 2, 2009)Major speakers include Robert Redford, Amy Goodman, Naomi Klein, Barbara Ehrenreich, Rev. Jesse Jackson, and the editorial staff of the Progressive Magazine. Liberty Tree's Ben Manski, together with various members of Liberty Tree's Board of Directors and Board of Advisors -- John Nichols and Robert McChesney, among them -- will also be speaking at this exciting event. 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 & TalksMANSKI: The New U.S. Democracy Movement(October 9, 2008)If the people are generally progressive, and the system is the problem, then a movement to establish rule by the people – a democracy movement – could be the solution. 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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