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Corporatization As per our Charter, the DEN calls for "Service to the Public Welfare, Not Corporate Profits" Organizing ResourcesDemocratizing Education CharterAdopted at the 2005 Democratizing Education Convention in Madison, Wisconsin. NewsPARRISH: A Lesson from California's Students - 'WE make the crisis'Date: March 3, 2010VIDEO: November 2009: Global Day and Week of Action for Education!Date: August 4, 2009ANOMALOUS WAVE: Eight Italian universities under occupationDate: July 6, 2009Take ActionSign the Declaration: UNITED FOR EDUCATION!source: International Student MovementEducation Protests are Worldwidesource: International Student MovementDon't let the WTO Undermine Higher Education in the United Statessource: Midwest Peace & Justice Caucus/Public CitizenEventsGLOBAL ACTION: Education is not for Sale! ~ November, 2009(November 5, 2009 - November 19, 2009)Students, teachers, workers and parents around the world ask themselves: Is the public education system still serving the interests of the public, or is the focus shifting to implement education systems that primarily serve private and business interests? Tuition fees are – once introduced – sky-rocketing, universities and schools are turned into businesses, student debt keeps increasing and education budgets cut. Democracy 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! Publications & TalksReport on the Ottawa RetreatA report by Mishy Leiblum and Jed Murr on the Campus Organizing Retreat in Ottawa, Ontario. Corporatization: An Internal Clash of CivilizationsCorporatization: An Internal Clash of Civilizations by Ben Manski and John Peck Published in "Beyond the Market: The Future of Public Services" BERNE: The Showdown at Schottenstein(June 22, 2009)"Once my dad and I got involved," he said, "we traveled to some of the wealthier districts in Ohio and some of the poorest. I think I can speak for both of us when I say we were shocked. The wealthier schools had every college prep class you could imagine and extracurricular activities I thought only colleges offered. They had facilities and learning materials rivaled by none, then we visited some of the poorest schools and it was like being in a third world country. Buildings falling down, textbooks from the 60s and 70s, and minimal college prep courses, if any.” |
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