"Reclaim your Education - Global Week of Action 2009" was called by a loose network of groups from around the world. While each group planned its own action, the goal was to unify the action around a common message and slogan.

There were two central goals to the action: free access to education and emancipatory education. Underlying the complaint is the spread of the corporatization of higher eduction, where universities are more and more dependent on corporate contributions to fund their departments. But corporations are not interested in funding well-rounded liberal arts education or the social sciences. The corporatization of education results in stronger support and lower tuition for university departments that feed into the jobs corporations want to fill. Other departments either are dropped or face higher tuition. Universities are supposed to educate, a broader mission than job training that corporations are more interested in paying for.

A summary of the many actions taken during the week was prepared by the students involved and can be read here.
 

More info:

Summary of Global Week of Action events

Global Week of Action website

A description of emancipatory education

Areas of Focus:

Democratizing Education (Liberty Tree), Full Funding, Global Democracy (Liberty Tree), Tuition Abolition

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