Student Movement in USA update?

[Rusty Shackleford]

So, anyone know about whats going on in the US regarding education?

i saw this
4.5% increase in 14 universities in pennsylvania (http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9H49PT80.htm)

and that got me remembering this coming fall. also, which coalitions and organizations are still working in the student movement?

if anyone could help with this it would be much appreciated.

[this is an invasion]

Heard there was an upcoming day of action, but I'm out of the loop. The student movement is pretty much a dead end after March 4th.

[Rusty Shackleford]

Heard there was an upcoming day of action, but I'm out of the loop. The student movement is pretty much a dead end after March 4th.

well it was still alive until the 22nd actually in CA but nationally im not sure. ill look up the days of action.


http://defendcapubliceducation.wordpress.com/


October 7th. Day of action for education.

[Stephen Colbert]

Wait. There's a student movement in the United States?

[Rusty Shackleford]

Wait. There's a student movement in the United States?

currently its mostly embryonic but its developing.

[this is an invasion]

well it was still alive until the 22nd actually in CA but nationally im not sure. ill look up the days of action.


http://defendcapubliceducation.wordpress.com/


October 7th. Day of action for education.

I mean dead end as in I believe it no longer has potential to be pushed outside of the university. I'm sure there is still a lot of potential for some reforms to be made (doubt a lot will though because there really isn't much of a budget left).

Not to mention that all of this totally ignores the role of education within capitalism.

[Rusty Shackleford]

I mean dead end as in I believe it no longer has potential to be pushed outside of the university. I'm sure there is still a lot of potential for some reforms to be made (doubt a lot will though because there really isn't much of a budget left).

Not to mention that all of this totally ignores the role of education within capitalism.


well the reason why i was looking for more information was to work to get it to not just be about high tuition, but to make it anti-war, and anti-capitalist. if we understand it and work at ti it may be one of many struggles that this year has seen that has potential.

[Who?]

So, anyone know about whats going on in the US regarding education?

i saw this
4.5% increase in 14 universities in pennsylvania (http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9H49PT80.htm)

and that got me remembering this coming fall. also, which coalitions and organizations are still working in the student movement?

if anyone could help with this it would be much appreciated.

I know that the SDS has been advertising a National Day of Action planned for October, 7th.

You can read about it here: http://www.studentsforademocraticsociety.org/?q=node/223

[Rusty Shackleford]

ugh ive been trying to contact some of the organizers on that link i posted earlier but no one is actively checking the forum since around march(whoda thunk)

[Who?]

The student movement must be on vacation.

[theblackmask]

ugh ive been trying to contact some of the organizers on that link i posted earlier but no one is actively checking the forum since around march(whoda thunk)

http://groups.google.com/group/defend-education?hl=en&pli=1

There is a decent amount of activity in this group. It might be worth posting on if you are looking to contact some people.

[Red Rebel]

Go to school in PA and in the 4 years I've been there they have increased tuition. Our student government (the worthless piece of shit that it is) goes to Harrisburg once a year to "protest" against tutition increases. Besides that it is amazing at the apathy at American universities. Hopefully the 7th of October will bring about something.

[RedScare]

The student movement at my university doesn't do much. The radical left exists, but it's mostly either social democrats or anarchists in SDS. Our student government is a bunch of bloody resume padders, and the united left front failed miserably in the last election, as well as in most of the things they've protested over, such as austerity cuts that pretty much sacked the entire cultural diversity department.

I dunno, the only even mildly radical presence is SDS. ISO apparently chapter here, but I've never seen them. And sometimes people from the Socialist Worker's Party stop by and sell newspapers, but they're kinda old and not very eloquent. Really, it's kind of a crap shoot. But that's just at my large, public university. I don't know about other places.

[Rusty Shackleford]

well hey, the PSL and ANSWER Coalition are in DC so if you need to, maybe contact them? If the SWP is just stopping by, and the ISO isnt coming then i guess thats the last option.

i dont know how their branch is but if its like the one im at, it might have a relatively new and developing youth and student wing.


also, we have some education related material at all the branches (i think) and if need be, can be printed.

also, SDS is probably not the most revolutionary group because it is merely academia and intelligentsia. PSL, ISO, and SWP are at least parties that are of working class ideology. and are not(for the most part) just academia oriented.