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Democratizing Education

The Democratizing Education Program works to unite student associations, labor unions, faculty organizations, and grassroots student, parent, and community groups in a national movement against the corporatization of education, and for the democratization of schools, colleges, and universities. This program promotes student - staff - faculty - community unionism and industrial action, including industrial strikes, as essential parts of effective education organizing.
 

Democratizing Higher Education Charter:


1) Full Public Funding for Public Higher Education

2) Free Access to Higher Education and Abolition of Tuition

3) Affirmative Action to End Institutionalized Racism and Sexism

4) Full Recognition of the Right of Students and Workers to Organize

5) Democratic Self-Government of Higher Education

6) Service to the Public Welfare, Not Corporate Profits

7) Free Speech and Academic Freedom

8) Debt Forgiveness of Student Loans

9) Civic Education for a Democratic Society

10) Education, not war. Schools, Not Jails



Please contact us if you have questions about the Democratizing Education Program.


 
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We shall strike. We shall organize boycotts. We shall demonstrate and have political campaigns. We shall pursue the revolution we have proposed. We are sons and daughters of the farm workers' revolution, a revolution of the poor seeking bread and justice.
~ Cesar Chavez