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Right to Organize As per our Charter, the DEN calls for "Full Recognition of the Right of Students and Workers to Organize" Organizing ResourcesCEPR: Dropping the Ax: Illegal Firings During Union Election CampaignsThis 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. Democratizing Education CharterAdopted at the 2005 Democratizing Education Convention in Madison, Wisconsin. NewsKennedy Fights for Teaching and Research Assistants Collective Bargaining RightsDate: April 17, 2008Building Occupation at NYUDate: February 18, 2009UNIV. OF ILLINOIS: Strike ends in victoryDate: November 17, 2009Take ActionAdministrators move to expel campus organizerssource: United Students Against Sweatshops & Campus Anti-War NetworkDon't let the WTO Undermine Higher Education in the United Statessource: Midwest Peace & Justice Caucus/Public CitizenApril Mobilization for Higher Educationsource: Democratizing Education NetworkEventsExtending 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. Reworking 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. Publications & TalksProspects for Participatory Democracy in the U.S.A"The task . . . is to facilitate the growth of an aggressive democracy movement in the United States." Understanding Student Unionism: A Canadian PerspectiveCanadian lessons for U.S. organizers of student unions. Campus Organizer's Guide to Democratizing EducationAn organizing guide for students, faculty, staff, and community members interested in promoting democracy in higher education, and a higher education system in service to a democratic, inclusive, society. |
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