For a Democratic University: Grade-in! Noon-5 PM 3/16, Hub 1st Floor

Monday, March 15, 2010

Grade-in! Noon-5 PM 3/16, Hub 1st Floor

Grade-In with Grad Student Workers

Event by For a Democratic University

Noon-5 PM Tuesday March 16

Hub 1st Floor by info desk

Hi all! Join FaDU Tomorrow, Tuesday, between noon and 5 PM for us to take time out to grade, work, study, with some popular education on university struggles, the budget cuts, and labor power. We will be on the 1st floor of the hub, by the info desk.

Popular education will include: The Neoliberal University, How Budget Cuts and Privatization affect you, What is a Strike?, and History of Struggle at UW.

FaDU will also be calculating how much money we make for the University; comparing our wages to the amount of research money or money through student tuition we make an hour.

Our labor is our power! This is only one small step in building for the month of April and early May. Come out Tuesday, talk with other grads, eat snacks, and build for STRIKE May 3rd!

Please also keep in mind March 31st, the first Wednesday of the quarter; a rally outside South Campus Center where negotiations will be happening, 3:30 PM! Tell UW we demand fair wages, job security, health care, child care, and smaller class sizes!

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About FADU

Who we are
We are an independent rank and file graduate student labor group fighting privatization at the UW. We emphasize that as graduate students we are workers. We are moved by previous and ongoing struggles to reclaim the University for the public, including movements in the 60's and 70's for anti-war campuses, open access to admission, and ethnic and women's studies departments, as well as the contemporary strikes, occupations, and protests at NYU, New School, University of California campuses, and Oakland University in Detroit.

Our Vision
As our name shows, we envision a truly democratic university. We believe the university should be controlled by the community, by workers, and by students, and that access to the university should not be limited based on race, nationality, disability, sexuality, or the ability to pay tuition. We believe the University should be a place for democratic and public education, not a tool for war, corporate greed, or worker oppression. As it exists now the University is intimately connected to capitalism; it serves a social order where the rich profit and the poor are left to fend for themselves. If we are to create a democratic university this relationship must change.

Our values
We recognize that privatization disproportionately harms workers and students who are of color, from working class backgrounds, disabled, immigrants, women, and queer
We organize in solidarity with other rank and file workers and university struggles worldwide
We believe struggles are won by fighting collectively as workers
We value academic freedom, including the freedom to practice radical pedagogy
We are anti-imperialist, anti-racist, anti-patriarchy, and pro queer liberation. We refuse to be divided!

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Monday, March 15, 2010

Grade-in! Noon-5 PM 3/16, Hub 1st Floor

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