FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Universities Set to Rally Against Budget Cuts, Pay Cuts, and Tuition Hikes
Daniel Jaeckle
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Tracy Molm
Universities Set to Rally Against Budget Cuts, Pay Cuts, and Tuition Hikes
Campaign for Education Rights launching National Day of Action for Education Rights on Nov. 10
Nationwide – Nov. 8, 2009 – In the midst of budget cuts, pay cuts, and tuition hikes in the face of the worst economic recession since the Great Depression, youth groups from around the country have assembled the Campaign for Education Rights and are launching a National Day of Action for Education Rights on Nov. 10 all over the country.
"We are ready and believe it is necessary to build a nation-wide movement that will address economic injustices to our higher education system,” said Tracy Molm, a Campaign for Education Rights organizer and member of Students for a Democratic Society. “I’m very pleased to be coordinating this action with a national movement that is unifying the struggle for affordable and just education at our universities across the country.”
Endorsing groups of the Campaign for Education Rights include Ben Manski, Esq. –Madison College Chicago SDS (University of Illinois Chicago & Colombia College), Ericka Alonzo – Student at MTSU, Fernando Figueroa – President of Progress Student Alliance, Gainesville Area SDS, Liberty Tree Foundation, North Carolina Education Rights Coalition, Robert Palmer – Rosemount, MN, University of Alabama SDS, University of California Los Angeles SDS, University of California Berkeley SDS, University of Minnesota SDS, University of North Carolina Asheville SDS, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill SDS, University of North Carolina Charlotte SDS, University of North Dakota SDS, University of Oklahoma SDS, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee SDS, and the UWM Education Rights Campaign.
The Campaign for Education Rights describes the state of universities across the country as in a serious crisis. “We will not stand by while the rich are bailed out on the backs of students and workers. It is time for our generation to stand up to the plate and build a better future for ourselves and our children,” explains their website.
The Campaign for Education Rights is the product of a student and youth discussion at the We Say Fight Back conference (wesayfightback.com). The National Day of Action for Education Rights will include over ten participating schools and can be read more about at http://educampaign.wordpress.com/. National organizers say the purpose of the national day of action is to help build the movement to demand education as a fundamental right, not a privilege.
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If you’d like more information about this event, or to schedule an interview with a Campaign for Education Rights organizer, please contact Tracy Molm at 612-432-4756 or trac...@gmail.com.
natalie fair-albright
This is Natalie Fair-Albright. I am the person from Cincinnati. I was inquiring about if anything is going on in Cincinnati that I could participate in. I am no longer a student but education is near and dear to my heart. I didn't go back to school until I was 39 years old and it took 7 years to complete my Bachelor Degree while going part-time and working full-time AND I still have a pile of student debt. I have so many bright and creative people who have not been able to go because they lacked the funds not the desire. I beleive that if someone can make the grades, they should be able to obtain higher education. I work with people from many parts of the earth and have found that more and more countries in the world have come to the realization that education should be available to everyone, Why can't the U.S. universities do the same?
I may not be in a position to start something here in Cincinnati but I could participate or at least be supportive.
Natalie Fair-Albright
International Center of Greater Cincinnati
542 Findlay Street
Cincinnati, Ohio 45214
(513) 344-0915
fairal...@hotmail.com
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 20:19:49 -0600
Subject: [educationrights] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Universities Set to Rally Against Budget Cuts, Pay Cuts, and Tuition Hikes
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