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Free Speech As per our Charter, the DEN calls for "Free Speech and Academic Freedom" Organizing ResourcesCCFS: Free Speech Organizing ToolkitThe 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. Democratizing Education CharterAdopted at the 2005 Democratizing Education Convention in Madison, Wisconsin. NewsBRUNING: Statement on his arrest at California education protestsDate: November 25, 2009Building Occupation at NYUDate: February 18, 2009Tent State Universities sweep countryDate: April 28, 2006Take ActionApril Mobilization for Higher Educationsource: Democratizing Education NetworkDon't Let Missouri End Secular Public Higher Education!source: American Association of University Professors, UMKC ChapterDon't let the WTO Undermine Higher Education in the United Statessource: Midwest Peace & Justice Caucus/Public CitizenEventsReworking 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. Extending Democracy w/The Progressive, Manski, Farsetta, Gray, Wellstone(May 1, 2009 - May 2, 2009)Major speakers include Robert Redford, Amy Goodman, Naomi Klein, Barbara Ehrenreich, Rev. Jesse Jackson, and the editorial staff of the Progressive Magazine. Liberty Tree's Ben Manski, together with various members of Liberty Tree's Board of Directors and Board of Advisors -- John Nichols and Robert McChesney, among them -- will also be speaking at this exciting event. Democratizing Our Universities to Confront Climate Change(March 1, 2009)Join Liberty Tree's Ben Manski, together with the New School's Atlee McFellin and Meaghan Linick-Loughley in this Powershift2009.org workshop. Publications & TalksCenter for Campus Free Speech: Facts Still Count(April 13, 2009)Campus Free Speech proves with its new report, Facts Still Count, that David Horowitz's recent books are not honest in their criticisms of campuses and faculty. The Center for Campus Free Speech is affiliated with the Democratizing Education Network, and a great source of information regarding important academic freedom and campus free speech issues. 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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