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Debt Forgiveness As per our Charter, the DEN calls for "Debt Forgiveness of Student Loans" Organizing ResourcesDemocratizing Education CharterAdopted at the 2005 Democratizing Education Convention in Madison, Wisconsin. NewsNEW YORK TIMES commentary on Student Loan RipoffsDate: May 27, 2009REPORT: 250,000 German students protest corporatizationDate: June 18, 2009Kennedy Fights for Teaching and Research Assistants Collective Bargaining RightsDate: April 17, 2008Take ActionNational Days of Student Actionsource: Students for a Democratic SocietyRECLAIM YOUR EDUCATION - Global Week of Actionsource: Emancipating Education for AllWeek of Action for Higher Educationsource: Democratizing Education NetworkEventsReworking the University: Visions, Strategies, Demands(April 24, 2009 - April 26, 2009)We seek to create a space for collective re-evaluation of the university in crisis as an opportunity for real transformation. "Reworking the University" seeks to draw together academics, artists, and activists, to share and produce political visions, strategies and demands for building an alternative university in common. U.S. Social Forum II(June 22, 2009 - June 26, 2010)Another World is Possible! Another U.S.A. is necessary! NOVEMBER: Global Week of Action - Reloaded!(November 1, 2009)Public education systems, from kindergarten to university, must prioritize emancipating aspects, be free and accessible to all. A democracy only exists, if society consists of emancipated and self-determined individuals, that are able to critically reflect their society, developments and power structures. Any system that doesn’t fulfill these criteria is not a democracy. Publications & TalksPowerShift 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. 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." |
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