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The Port Huron Statement at 50

Date:

February 2, 2012 - 2:30pm - February 3, 2012 - 8:00pm

Location

University of California at Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA

The conveners "invite you to attend a conference which brings together historians, social theorists, contemporary student activists, and Port Huron veterans to discuss the origins, historical impact, and contemporary relevance of the New Left's founding manifesto."

January 20, 2012 – Move to Amend Occupies the Courts!

Date:

January 20, 2012 - 9:00am - 5:00pm

Location

Across the Country

See map: Google Maps

Call to Action

Inspired by our friends at Occupy Wall Street, and Dr. Cornel West, Move To Amend is planning bold action to mark the second anniversary of the infamous Citizens United v. FEC decision!

Iowa Democracy Doubleheader: Join Ben Manski to learn about Move to Amend -and- Home Rule

Date:

January 13, 2012 - 5:00pm - 9:30pm

Location

Matyk Building

1029 3rd St. SE

Cedar Rapids, IA

See map: Google Maps

5-7pm - FREE PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY TRAINING & POT LUCK DINNER

DES MOINES, IA: Participatory Democracy Training with Ben Manski

Date:

January 12, 2012 - 6:30pm - 8:30pm

Location

Des Moines's EAST VILLAGE

501 E. Locust St (corner of E. 5th and E. Locust, 3rd floor).

Des Moines, IA

See map: Google Maps

Learn how to engage the public and gather signatures for a campaign to demand a Constitutional Amendment to end Corporate Personhood, get the money out of our political system, and reverse Citizens United.

Right here, in Iowa… as the movement spreads across America.

Building the Progressive Movement Inside and Outside the Democratic Party

Date:

December 30, 2011 - 1:30am - 5:30am

Location

1st Unitarian Church

1800 Bell Ave.

Des Moines, IA

See map: Google Maps

On the Eve of the Iowa Caucus, Progressives Present a Forum:

Building the Progressive MovementInside and Outside the Democratic Party

Discussion and Reception 1:30 to 5:30 PM Friday, December 30th
1st Unitarian Church, 1800 Bell Ave., Des Moines Free & Open to the Public

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Iowa

MA: Revolution is in the air ~ A reception with the Liberty Tree

Date:

October 31, 2011 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Location

Friends Meetinghouse

5 Longfellow Park

Cambridge, MA

See map: Google Maps

Where do the movement to abolish corporate personhood, the Wisconsin protest wave, global resistance to austerity, and the voting rights, election integrity, anti-war, and campus democracy movements come together? Beneath the branches of Liberty Tree, committed to "building a democracy movement for the U.S.A." since 2004.

CLEVELAND, OH: Community Forum: Corporations are Not People and Money is Not Speech

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Ohio

Date:

October 23, 2011 - 1:00pm - 3:00pm

Location

St. Coleman's Catholic Church

2027 West 65th Street

Cleveland, OH

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You’re invited to a free community forum, Corporations Are Not Persons and Money Is Not Speech. The event includes a presentation by and discussion with David Cobb, the national spokesperson for Move to Amend.

Cobb will discuss the national Move to Amend campaign and what we can do to abolish never-intended corporate constitutional rights and reverse the legal doctrine that money is speech! Download flyer here.

Event Contact

First Name:

Greg

Last Name:

Coleridge

Email:

gcoleridge@afsc.org

Phone:

330-928-2301/216-255-2184

Address:

2101 Front St., #111, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio 44221

All About ALEC

Date:

October 22, 2011 - 2:15pm

Location

ProMega BioTechnology Center

5445 E. Cheryl Parkway

Fitchburg, WI 53711

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Oregon Area Progressives is sponsoring All About ALEC, a forum on the American Legislative Exchange Council with an outstanding lineup of speakers, including Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D - IL) Sen. Mark Miller Rep. Mark Pocan Rep. Sondy Pope-Roberts Lisa Graves - Center for Media and Democracy Mike McCabe - Wisconsin Democracy Campaign Jack Norman -Institute for Wisconsin's Future Jim Cavanaugh - South Central Federation of Labor Dan Holub - WEAC Julie Underwood - UW Madison School of Education Joanne Ricca - Wisconsin AFL-CIO Robert Kraig - Citizen's Action of Wisconsin and Jay Heck - Common Cause Moderated by John Nichols Advance Registration $10 - includes lunch register now at www.allaboutalec.org

Event Contact

First Name:

Charles

Last Name:

Uphoff

Email:

cuphoff@hotmail.com

Phone:

608-213-6063 - cell phone

Address:

2475 Lalor Rd., Fitchburg, WI 53575

DOVER, DE: World Water Day & Banning Corporate Personhood Discussion Group

Date:

October 19, 2011 - 7:30am - 9:30am

Location

The Dover News Stand

25 Lockerman Street

Dover, DE 19904

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The Dover Delaware United Nations Association will be celebrating World Water Day!

We will be passing out statistics and requests for water advocacy as well as offering car pooling to events sponsored by the Greater Philadelphia UNA and the League of Women Voters luncheon to discuss Economic Disparity.

In the second half of the meeting we will read an article together and then and request support for "Move to Amend." Come join us!

Event Contact

First Name:

RuthAnn

Last Name:

Purchase

Email:

RuthAnnPurchase@gmail.com

Phone:

302-399-1235

Address:

PO Box 242 Cheswold, De 19936

March to End the Wars - Madison

Date:

October 15, 2011 - 11:30am - 1:30pm

Location

UW Library Mall

Park St. & Lake St.

Madison, WI

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March to End the Wars!
Ten Years in Afghanistan - Ten Billion Dollars a Month
March & Rally in Madison, Wisconsin
Saturday, Oct. 15

Join the Madison Area Peace Coalition (MAPC) for a March and Rally to mark 10 years of U.S.-led war in Afghanistan on Saturday, Oct. 15th. We will call for an end to this war and all wars. We want jobs, schools, and healthcare -- not war.

Please gather at UW Library Mall at 11:30 am. Bring your peace and labor signs. Come early for parking because it's a football Saturday and Farmer's Market Day. We'll begin marching after noon, and be up at the Capitol by quarter to 1:00 pm.

Sponsored by the Madison Area Peace Coalition. Endorsed by AFSCME 171 and the South Central Federation of Labor (SCFL).

Contact: 242-9232
www.madpeace.org

Event Contact

First Name:

Barbara

Last Name:

Smith

Email:

barbara@merr.com

Phone:

242-9232

Milwaukee: Speakout 10 Years of War Afghanistan

Date:

October 8, 2011 - 12:00pm - 3:00pm

Location

Milwaukee City Hall Rotunda

200 E. Wells Street

Milwaukee, WI

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Rally at noon Water & Wisconsin
12:45 pm March to City Hall
1pm - 2:30 pm Speak Out
Milwaukee City Hall Rotunda
200 E. Wells Street, Milwaukee WI

How has war effected you?
What is the impact on our community from the longest war in U.S. history?

Sponsored by Milwaukee Coalition for a Just Peace

More info here

EAU CLAIRE, WI: Chippewa Valley Move To Amend's October Meet-Up

Date:

Repeats every month until Mon Oct 10 2011 .

October 6, 2011 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Location

Infinitea Teahouse

112 East Grand Avenue

Eau Claire, WI 54701

See map: Google Maps

We're going public this month for the first time by holding our October meet-up at the Infinitea Teahouse! This month's notable attendees will be Eau Claire City Council member, Dana Wachs, as well as Eau Claire County Board member, John DeRosier, who are considering sponsoring a resolutions in support of reversing the Supreme Court's "Citizens United v. FEC" decision.

Come share how unlimited/undisclosed corporate influence of our elections has made an impact on the issues that you care about! We'll need your input as we propose, discuss, and vote on local resolutions to pass.

Event Contact

First Name:

Kyle

Last Name:

Butz

Email:

butzk@uwec.edu

Phone:

608-712-8891

Address:

427 Putnam Drive, Eau Claire, WI, 54701

DC: A People's Uprising: From Madison to DC

Date:

September 18, 2011 - 5:00pm - 8:00pm

Location

Busboys and Poets at 5th and K

1025 5th St NW

Washington, DC

See map: Google Maps

Bringing the inspiration of the Wisconsin protest wave -- from the occupation of the state's capitol to the recent national Democracy Convention in Madison -- to the planned October 2011 occupation of Freedom Plaza in D.C.:

Democracy Convention 2011

Date:

August 24, 2011 - 9:00am - August 28, 2011 - 5:00pm

Location

Madison, WI 53703

See map: Google Maps

From August 24th to August 28, 2011 over 1200 people from around the country covened in Madison for a Democracy Convention designed to further the growing nationwide Democracy Movmeent. This event, sponsored by the Liberty Tree Foundation (which also sponsors the Wisconsin Wave) gave participants and organizers alike the skills to return to their communities and fight for Democracy where it matters most -- in our schools, our workplaces and local economies, our military, our governm

MAY 14: ‘Don’t You Dare’ Rally: Wisconsin rejects this budget

Date:

May 14, 2011 - 2:30pm - 4:00pm

Location

Wisconsin State Capitol Madison, WI

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Walker and legislative allies plan to bypass courts, jam rights-stripping measures through with their budget proposal!

Counterprotest the Corporate Puppets: Dump Tea! Dump Palin!

Date:

April 16, 2011 - 12:00pm - 3:00pm

Location

Capitol Square, State Street Corner

State Street and North Caroll Street

Madison, WI

See map: Google Maps

Come one, come all, hear the call to . . .
DUMP TEA! DUMP PALIN!
Speakers and Music TBA…as confirmed.
MC's John "Sly" Sylvester and Sarah Manski.

NOON, SATURDAY, APRIL 16th
WI STATE CAPITOL
Change: STATE STREET CORNER

Please share widely. The puppets are coming, the puppets are coming! Corporate puppets Sarah Palin and "Americans" for "Prosperity" are rallying at our Wisconsin State Capitol on 4/16. For more information:http://www.danegop.org/latestnews.aspx

Wisconsin People's Assembly

Date:

April 9, 2011 - 12:00pm - April 10, 2011 - 6:30pm

Location

State Capitol, MATC Downtown, and O'Keefe Middle School Madison, WI 53703

See map: Google Maps

They have their house. It's time we built our own house. It's time for the . . .

WISCONSIN PEOPLE’S ASSEMBLY

Noon, Saturday, April 9th to 6:30pm, Sunday, April 10th

For the full schedule and locations, including speakers and workshop subjects, see: http://wisconsinwave.org/full-schedule-wisconsin-peoples-assembly

~ Saturday, April 9th ~

12:00pm-2:00pm RALLY AT STATE CAPITOL: Ride the Wave Back to the Capitol!

2:00pm-3:00pm MARCH TO WMC: Take Wisconsin Back from the Corporate Interests!

4:00pm Registration Opens at Georgia O'Keefe Middle School, 510 South Thornton Ave., Madison

5:00pm & 7:00pm MAJOR PANELS at Georgia O'Keefe Middle School:

5pm UNDERSTANDING AUSTERITY: Wisconsin in a global perspective

7pm BUILDING A POPULAR MOVEMENT: Overcoming inequality & uniting us all in common cause

~ Sunday, April 10th ~

8:30am Registration Reopens at Downtown Campus of Madison Area Technical College
9:30am-11:00am MAJOR PANEL: DIRECT ACTION CAMPAIGNING: Achieving the Will of the People when government closes its doors

11:30am-1:00pm WORKSHOPS

1:00-2:30pm Lunch Break

2:30pm-4:00pm WORKSHOPS

4:30pm-6:30pm MAJOR PANEL: DEMAND DEMOCRACY: Democratizing our elections, economy, budget process, and constitutions

For the full schedule and locations, including speakers and workshop subjects, see: http://wisconsinwave.org/full-schedule-wisconsin-peoples-assembly

Document:

WPA Wave postcard front and back.pdf

WPA Wave poster letter size2.pdf

Event Contact

First Name:

Adam

Last Name:

Porton

Email:

porton68@gmail.com

Phone:

6082571606

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Date:

April 27, 2010 - 6:00pm

Location

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State-by-State Information

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News

DAILY KOS: Pulaski WI Marching Band Plays "Union Maid" in Rose Bowl Parade

January 3, 2012

By:

AnnieJo

Pulaski WI Marching Band 'Sticking to the Union' in Rose Bowl Parade

The Pulaski High Marching Band, of Pulaski Wisconsin, made an awesome statement in yesterday's Rose Bowl Parade.

It was quite an honor for the Red Raiders from this small town (pop. approx. 3000) northwest of Green Bay to be marching in 80-degree weather in Pasadena, while their proud community looked on from windy 18-degree Wisconsin.

The TV coverage started as they marched along playing "On Wisconsin," looking properly Badger-like in their red uniforms.

And then they got to the grandstand, at about 1:15 in the YouTube ... listen to what happened.

CAP TIMES: ACLU sues over Wisconsin voter ID law

December 13, 2011

By:

Jessica Vanegeren

ACLU sues over state's voter ID law

A federal lawsuit was filed Tuesday in Milwaukee alleging that Wisconsin's new voter ID law is unconstitutional and will deprive people of the right to vote.

The suit, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin and the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty, claims top state officials includng Gov. Scott Walker and Kevin Kennedy, executive director of the non-partisan state elections agency, as well as employees tasked with implementing the law at the state Department of Motor Vehicles and Social Security offices have created a poll tax and other obstacles that present a "severe and undue burden on the fundamental right to vote."

CAP TIMES: Gov. Walker's cuts to Wisconsin education decimating public education

December 4, 2011

By:

Kathleen Vinehout

Education budget cuts bring challenges, controversy

State officials recently announced this year’s final state aid sent to local school districts. All but 13 of Wisconsin’s 424 local school districts received cuts. The historic school aid reduction in Wisconsin is the second largest per pupil cut in the nation.

Local education leaders, parents and teachers are concerned about the long-term effects of such deep funding cuts.

At the same time, Gov. Walker’s recent radio address touted his commitment to education. “We kept education a priority,” he said. “We also passed reforms that will help protect taxpayers and improve government.”

Take Action

Stop government surveillance of student activists

From:

http://www.StandUpfortheLaw.org

What's happening:

Many student peace and civil liberties groups, most notably UC Santa Cruz Students Against War, UW-Madison's Stop the War, and NYU Law's chapter of OUTLAW, have been subjected to ongoing federal government surveillance. These and other non-violent campus organizations were recently described as "Threats to National Security" in a Pentagon report.

California statewide mobilizing conference against the privatization of public education

From:

Organizers of March 4 actions to defend public education

What's happening:

An all-day conference on April 24 at Santee Education Complex: 1921 South Maple Avenue, Los Angeles, bringing together schools, student organizations, labor unions, committees, coalitions, and parent and community organizations across the state with a call for involvement from all education sectors – Pre-K-12, Community College, CSU, UC, and Adult Education. The conference is intended to follow on the massive March 4 actions in California and natiowide to defend public education.

The organizers write:

The future of public education in this state - particularly for the working class and communities of color, who are being hit especially hard by the cuts - depends on our ability to unify and push forward the struggle in defense of public education.

The purpose of this Statewide Mobilizing Conference is therefore both simple and extremely urgent: to democratically discuss and decide on a unifying political platform and plan of action capable of bringing together schools, student organizations, labor unions, committees, coalitions, and parent and community organizations across the state to deepen and push forward this powerful and broad movement that shook the state and the country on March 4th.

We ask activists, organizations, and mobilized schools across the state to put their full organizational capacity into helping us collectively to build and promote this conference. We ask for maximum participation from all education sectors – Pre-K-12, Community College, CSU, UC, and Adult Education - and regions, and from all organizations of workers, teachers, and students, and we extend the invitation to all mobilized schools and organizations across the country. Get your union, student government or parent-teacher organization to endorse, attend, and participate in the conference.

The decision to call for this conference was made at the Statewide Mobilizing Conference of October 24th, 2009, where over 800 people from all of the sectors of public education decided together to call for the March 4th Strike and Day of Action in defense of public education.

October 7th: National Actions to Defend Public Education

From:

DefendEducation.org

What's happening:

Last fall, California sparked a movement that has grown drastically over the past year. Much energy went toward building March 4th 2010, National Day of Action to Defend Education, which as a resounding success in the struggle to defend public education. Thousands organized and participated in the events of that day which took place in 32 states. Major actions took place throughout California, but also in Milwaukee, New York City, Illinois, and Baltimore with hundreds of actions planned nationwide. University of Puerto Rico students capped off a two-month strike with a victory receiving many concessions from administration.

What is clear is that this fight is not over. The lines are drawn. As working families struggle to recover from the crisis, access to education is diminishing as cuts continue to come. California activists have proposed October 7th as the next Day of Action. Internationally, activists are focusing on October and November as crucial moments in the struggle to fight back against neoliberalism and defend education rights. We, the below signed organizations and individuals, call on students, teachers, faculty, staff, workers, and parents to unite together and Defend Public Education this fall.

In Texas, the Board of Education has drastically changed the content of Texas textbooks, to include praise of Joseph McCarthy, and many other clauses. In Arizona, The state has passed the racist SB1070 that mandates police detain anyone looks like an undocumented worker. Following this, Arizona is also shutting down ethnic studies programs. In New York City, Chicago, and Detroit, districts are facing massive school closings. Public universities throughout the country are raising tuition costs and looking for more private investors. Budget cuts, tuition hikes, school closings, and right-wing reforms are hitting working families the hardest, especially in communities of color.

As these cuts continue to come, we see the costs of neoliberalism hit home harder than they have before. Public education has been losing funding for years, much of which disappeared because of neoliberal changes to the economy. The current budget crisis in many states will result in further drastic cuts to public education, including further cuts to underfunded schools, increases in unpaid days off for staff, a incentive program promoting “reforms” that are outright attacks on teachers, a restructuring of the public university around the needs of private business – largely supported by massive private grants, and tuition hikes that threaten accessibility to higher education for working families and people of color.

As the education disparities between poor and affluent grow ever wider, public schools serving communities of color are swiftly being re-segregated, provided fewer resources, and less-experienced teachers. These students are being tracked into non-academic, dead-end programs while ethnic and multi-cultural classes and opportunities are being cut.

This crisis and this solution are a direct result of neoliberal-era ideology, reducing or dissolving taxes on the rich and corporations while working people struggle to provide for their families out of their ever-shrinking pockets. As private interests gain more power, as the private dollar begins to strengthen its influence in education, our democratic rights are being stripped away.

Law Clinics Under Attack

From:

Center for Campus Free Speech

What's happening:

UPDATE: The bill pushed by the Louisiana chemical industry to restrict the activities of Tulane University's law clinic has died in a Senate committee. More here...

The New York Times recently wrote an article on a new legislative attack on academic freedom.[1] In two states, Louisiana and Maryland, legislators have introduced bills to restrict the cases and clients that law clinics at public universities can take on. These bills come hot on the heels of two high profile public interest lawsuits filed by clinics at the University of Maryland and Tulane.

Law clinics provide important hands-on training for law students at public universities across the nation. Challenges to the academic freedom of these law clinics are not new. Research from Professor Robert R. Keuhn at St. Louis University found that more than a third of faculty at law clinics expressed fears about university or state reaction to their casework and a sixth had turned down unpopular clients because of these fears.[2] But the two bills currently being considered are the first time that legislators have directly tried to restrict the opportunities afforded law students through these clinics. Both of these bills have been introduced at the behest of industries that have recently been the targets of lawsuits from public law clinics.

In Maryland the state senate tacked a provision onto a routine budget bill threatening millions of dollars of funding for the University of Maryland if its law clinic did not disclose information about its clients and finances. While our allies in Maryland were able to get the state assembly to remove this amendment, some of these provisions appear to have been reinserted in the final draft bill.

In Louisiana, State Senator Robert Adley has introduced a bill to prevent public law clinics from litigating against government entities, corporations, or individuals unless approved by the state legislature. The bill, being promoted by oil and gas companies, comes on the heels of a suit from the law clinic pushing for better enforcement of the Clean Air Act.

Both of these bills are attempts by powerful interests to restrict what amounts to course content and take control of those decisions out of the hands of faculty members. This legislation shows us that while Horowitz and his Academic Bill of Rights may have fallen out of style with the opponents of the academy, the attack on the free exchange of ideas is not over.

Publications & Talks

Teleconference on the Global Wave of Resistance

October 12, 2011

Liberty Tree

On Wednesday, October 12, 2011, the Liberty Tree Foundation convened a special briefing, the Teleconference on the Global Wave of Resistance. This global conference featured over 100 participants, and updates from leading organizers of the global wave of student and labor strikes, occupations, and revolutions. Panelists include core organizers from the UK, Germany, Israel, and Chile, as well as Wisconsin, Boston, Oakland, Washington D.C., and Wall Street, among others. This was the second such teleconference on corporatization and austerity org

Additional Information:

Panelists included Nicolas Valenzuela, Uri Gordon, Mo Gas, James Sevitt, Adam Porton, Sarah Manski, Nadeem Mazen, Elaine Brower, Matt Nelson, plus moderator Ben Manski.

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MANSKI: The Protest Wave: Why the Political Class Can’t Understand Our Demands

October 3, 2011

Ben Manski

Common Dreams

The protests that began in Wisconsin this year, and which now also fill the streets of Manhattan, Boston, Chicago, and this week, Washington D.C., have gotten the attention of the American political class. And how could they not? 2011 is becoming a remake of the 1999 Battle of Seattle, except this time the protests are ongoing, national and global, and the target is not just the World Trade Organization, but the entire edifice of corporate capitalism.

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BADER: Review of The Lost Soul of Higher Education

June 1, 2010

Eleanor J. Bader

Ellen Schrecker, a history professor at New York City's Yeshiva University, starts "The Lost Soul of Higher Education" with a blunt assessment: "In reacting to the economic insecurities of the past forty years, the nation's colleges and universities have adopted corporate practices that degrade undergraduate instruction, marginalize faculty members, and threaten the very mission of the academy as an institution devoted to the common good."

Additional Information:

Original article here... http://www.truth-out.org/the-lost-soul-higher-education-corporatization-...

EDUCATION FOR ALL COALITION: Resources for March 4 Day of Action to Defend Public Education

February 21, 2010

Resources provided by Education For All Coalition members and coordinating affiliates. We’ve also included flyers, and with each flyer you’ll find a BLANK TEMPLATE version for you to utilize for your own specific purposes.

Free Speech Organizing Toolkit – A helpful handbook on your Free Speech Rights with an emphasis on educational institutions, provided by The Center for Campus Free Speech.

Guide To Occupying Buildings – A help informational guidebook on how to make occupying a building a success.

Organizing Resources

CCFS: Free Speech Organizing Toolkit

June 19, 2009

The Free Speech Organizing Toolkit is designed to provide campus leaders and free speech supporters with the tools to work with higher education leaders to remove impediments to a marketplace of ideas on their campus.

This valuable toolkit was produced by the Center for Campus Free Speech. The Center acts as a clearinghouse of information, provides specialized support to campuses, and connects concerned educators, administrators, lawyers and students into a national network. The Center draws advice and guidance from a group of leaders in the higher education and legal communities.

Democratizing Education Charter

June 16, 2009

Adopted at the 2005 Democratizing Education Convention in Madison, Wisconsin:

Full Public Funding for Public Higher Education
Free Access to Higher Education and Abolition of Tuition
Affirmative Action to End Institutionalized Racism and Sexism
Full Recognition of the Right of Students and Workers to Organize
Democratic Self-Government of Higher Education
Service to the Public Welfare, Not Corporate Profits
Free Speech and Academic Freedom
Debt Forgiveness of Student Loans
Civic Education for a Democratic Society
Education, not war. Schools, Not Jails

CENTER for CAMPUS FREE SPEECH: Guide to Student Activity Fees

March 31, 2009

The Center for Campus Free Speech releases there Guide to Student Activity Fees - a primer on the legal issues involved in creating and managing a student activity fee system.

Student fee systems are used by students across the country to provide the resources for a wide variety of out-of-classroom activities.

Students fund everything from service organizations to advocacy to educational forums and guest speakers. They debate and learn about critical issues like multiculturalism, the environment, education policy, conflicts in the Middle East and religion. They learn new skills and create change on major problems the world faces.

Student activity fees give involved students the resources to create a vibrant marketplace of ideas on campus.

CEPR: Dropping the Ax: Illegal Firings During Union Election Campaigns

March 9, 2009

This report, by John Schmitt and Ben Zipperer of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, updates an earlier report from January of 2007, which found a steep rise in illegal firings of pro-union workers in the 2000s relative to the last half of the 1990s. It updates the index of the probability that a pro-union worker will be fired in the course of a union election campaign, using published data from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). It also takes into consideration the increase in card-check organizing campaigns that began in the mid-1990s and adjusts the index for this factor.

Areas of Focus

Affirmative Action

Books not Bombs

Campus Democracy

Civic Education

Corporatization

Debt Forgiveness

Free Speech

Full Funding

Right to Organize

Tuition Abolition