For a Democratic University: September 2011

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Fall 2011 Happy Hour

For a Democracy University is holding our first happy hour of the school year on Thursday, October 6, at 4:30 at Cafe Solstice at 4116 University Way. Join us to talk about labor on campus, meet other grad students, and talk about what you'd like to see in a campaign for this school year. Cafe Solstice is all ages, and serves coffee/tea as well as beer/wine. Children are welcome.

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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Thursday, September 29, 2011

Fall 2011 Happy Hour

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