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Tuition Abolition As per our Charter, the DEN calls for "Free Access to Higher Education and Abolition of Tuition" Organizing ResourcesDemocratizing Education CharterAdopted at the 2005 Democratizing Education Convention in Madison, Wisconsin. News2009 IN REVIEW: Education protests go globalDate: January 7, 2010REPORT: 250,000 German students protest corporatizationDate: June 18, 2009100,000s students demand education for democracyDate: November 17, 2009Take ActionWeek of Action: Virtual March & Phone-Insource: Democratizing Education NetworkSign the Declaration: UNITED FOR EDUCATION!source: International Student MovementWeek of Action for Higher Educationsource: Democratizing Education NetworkEventsGLOBAL 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. SDS National Convention(July 10, 2009 - July 12, 2009)Join students and youth from across the United States for Students for a Democratic Society's 4th National Convention. 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. Publications & TalksBACON: A constitutional right to an education(November 29, 2009)Is there a “constitutional right to education”? Legal scholar and civil rights advocate Erwin Chemerinsky says there is. “There has to be a right to education in the Constitution,” he declares, “and equal protection is a Constitutional imperative.” 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." 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. |
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