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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. News100,000s students demand education for democracyDate: November 17, 2009UC Berkeley students end occupationDate: November 21, 2009BRUNING: Statement on his arrest at California education protestsDate: November 25, 2009Take ActionEducation Protests are Worldwidesource: International Student MovementSign the Declaration: UNITED FOR EDUCATION!source: International Student MovementOctober 7th: National Actions to Defend Public Educationsource: DefendEducation.orgEventsNLG CONVENTION: Law for People, not Corporations(September 23, 2010 - September 28, 2010)Look for the Move to Amend at this year's annual "Law for the People Convention," the annual convention of the National Lawyer's Guild. Join Leesa George Friday, Matt Nelson, Lisa Graves, and Ben Manski in a workshop entitled " We The Corporations? Life & Law In The U.S. After Citizens United v. FEC." GLOBAL 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. Rethinking the University: Labor, Knowledge, Value(April 11, 2010 - April 12, 2010)Conference at University of Minnesota on questions of neoliberalization and corporatization of higher education and the casualization of academic labor. Publications & TalksPRICE: Milwaukeeans vs. the Privatization Pandemic(December 6, 2009)"Yet here it is, that same message: “educate to outcompete the rest of the world, or die,” emblazoned on the flag being carried by the Obama administration as it wages a zero tolerance war on America’s public schools at the same time as it plays Santa Claus to the banking industry, the industries that profit from defense manufacture and war, and the private health insurance industry." RECOMMENDED: The Ottawa RetreatA report by Mishy Leiblum and Jed Murr on the Campus Organizing Retreat in Ottawa, Ontario. BADER: Review of The Lost Soul of Higher Education(June 1, 2010) |
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