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<h3>Campus Organizer's Guide to Democratizing Education</h3>
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<p>February 22, 2007 <br>
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target="_blank"
href="http://www.libertytreefdr.org/democratizingEducation.php">Democratizing
Education Program</a> is pleased to release the <a target="_blank"
href="http://www.libertytreefdr.org/files_public/DEN%20Guide%20to%20Campus%20Organizing.pdf"
style="font-style: italic;">Campus Organizer's Guide to Democratizing
Education</a>,
authored by our Associate, Eric Prindle, a recent graduate of NYU Law.
Prindle wrote the 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.<br>
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>From the introduction to the guide . . . <br>
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<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-style: italic;">As
students,
faculty, and staff at campuses around the country organize around
issues like tuition reform, affirmative action, and labor rights,
very often they find themselves coming up against a deficit of
democracy on their campuses. Although universities and colleges are
supposed to be structured to serve the needs of students and the
interests of the general public, they are usually controlled by a
small group of administrators who increasingly tend to have a
corporate mindset that excludes democratic participation by their
“employees” and “customers.” <br>
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<span style="font-style: italic;">Other guides,
handbooks, manuals, etc. are out there to teach you about
“organizing” or more specifically “grassroots organizing” as
general subjects. This guide is less of a how-to manual than most of
those. It is less about skill sharing and more about experience
sharing. As new generations of students, staff, and faculty deal with
the question of democracy on their campuses, many of the same issues
come up over and over again. The purpose of this guide is to look at
what these issues are and what we can learn from what’s worked and
what hasn’t in the past.</span></div>
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<b>Additional Information:</b><br>
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download this pdf-format guide by <a
href="http://www.libertytreefdr.org/files_public/DEN%20Guide%20to%20Campus%20Organizing.pdf"
target="_blank">clicking here</a>.<br>
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Ben Manski
LIBERTY TREE
Foundation for the
Democratic Revolution
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.LibertyTreeFDR.org/">http://www.LibertyTreeFDR.org/</a>
"If ye love wealth better than liberty . . . may your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." ~ Samuel Adams </pre>
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Ben Manski
Co-Secretary, Four Lakes Green Party of Dane County
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.FourLakesGreenParty.org">http://www.FourLakesGreenParty.org</a>
"We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction 'If we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable'." ~ Petra Kelly
See also:
Wisconsin Green Party
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.WisconsinGreenParty.org">http://www.WisconsinGreenParty.org</a>
Green Party of the United States
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.GP.org">http://www.GP.org</a>
Liberty Tree
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.LibertyTreeFDR.org">http://www.LibertyTreeFDR.org</a>
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