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DESCRIPTION:Emergency California Education Conference: Let’s Fight for Quality and 
 Free Public Education for All Students, Faculty and Staff\nBlueprints for a 
 Future: Transforming Education Conference\nEmergency California Education 
 Conference:\nLet’s Fight for Quality and Free Public Education for All 
 Students, Faculty and Staff\n\nApril 15th, 2017\n\nA strong public 
 education system is the foundation of every just and democratic society. 
 Yet for most working families—especially those from black and brown 
 communities— the right to free, high-quality education seems further than 
 ever: early childhood education is inaccessible to children whose parents 
 can’t afford it; k-12 schools are starved of resources while the 
 imposition of high-stakes tests penalizes low-income districts and the 
 explosion of charters exacerbates segregation and inequality; college and 
 graduate students are drowning in debt as tuition at the UC and CSU systems 
 continues to rise; black and brown students are terrorized by police 
 violence, constant raids, and ongoing deportations; LGBTQI students are 
 brutally bullied for their sexual and gender identity; and most students 
 today are delivered an education that does not embrace their histories and 
 experiences and does not educate them for liberation.\n\n9:30AM - 
 6:00PM\nUC Berkeley, 155 Dwinelle\nBerkeley\n\nMoreover, education workers 
 are under attack, as universities insist on replacing tenure and 
 tenure-track positions with precarious, contingent jobs and the prospect of 
 right-to- work legislation threatens to weaken teachers’ unions, thereby 
 undermining their working conditions and ability to advocate for themselves 
 and the needs of their students. Now billionaire and privatization lobbyist 
 Betsy DeVos begins her tenure as Secretary of Education, and she is 
 planning to escalate the oppression and corporatization of the current 
 education system.\n\nFor us, it’s time to propose another path: if we tax 
 corporations and billionaires in our state, and if we get students and 
 teachers to democratically run our schools, we can build the kind of 
 education system we need. In order to get these things, we need to build a 
 movement that takes mass action for our education, and we need to organize 
 democratically and independently from the Republican and the Democratic 
 Party, so we rely in our power and we have the final say of what needs to 
 be done.\n\nTo this end, we call on all California students, parents, and 
 education workers to join us in building a collective vision and strategy 
 for transforming public education. We need a system that guarantees free, 
 high-quality education from pre- school to doctoral degrees as a universal 
 right; provides just working conditions for all teachers and education 
 employees; and centers the needs of our most vulnerable and marginalized 
 students while openly combating racism, islamophobia, sexism, homophobia 
 and all forms of oppression.\n\nIt’s time to go on the offensive! Our 
 education labor unions and students have a key role to play and we need to 
 unite across sectors and build power through independent and grassroots 
 action! We want to propose to all education workers and students to join in 
 the May 1st General Strike, to support immigrant rights and workers, to 
 defeat “right-to- work” legislation and to demand the education we 
 need!\n\nAt the Conference we will:\n\n	• Discuss the multiple factors 
 that have led to the current crisis at all levels of public 
 education.\n\n	• Hold teach-ins and workshops on how to build collective 
 power in our education workers’ unions and schools.\n\n	• Discuss 
 strategies for taking action (including May 1st), in particular labor 
 action, to fight privatization and create an education system that gives 
 all people a future worth fighting for!\n\nWorkshop Proposals\n\nWE ARE 
 ACCEPTING WORKSHOP PROPOSALS UNTIL APRIL 1: we encourage facilitators to 
 submit workshop proposals on specific aspects of the education crisis, 
 educational activism, and/or visions for the future of public 
 education.\n\nTo submit a workshop proposal, please indicate your interest 
 in the form below, and follow up by emailing your proposal to 
 ever.upward.march@gmail.com with the subject header [Your Last Name] 
 Conference Proposal!\n\nYour proposal should be for a workshop of about one 
 hour, and include:\n\n	• Facilitator(s) name(s)\n\n	• Title of 
 Workshop\n\n	• A short blurb about the workshop main idea (2-3 
 sentences)\n\n	• A quick outline of your workshop (4-5 
 sentences)\n\nPlease use the survey to RSVP and submit your workshop 
 proposals! While the workshops are open to all\n\nwho’d like to 
 facilitate, we especially encourage high school students, university 
 students, teachers and education workers, university instructors, and 
 parents to apply. People of color, women and queers, differently abled 
 folks, immigrants, and the working class to the 
 front!\n\nSURVEY:\n\nhttps://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdW2Ybo3L7U5dFCsqACesX7Qtwm5sVgDU2rdhpkqkQlvfgwsg/ 
 viewform\nhttps://www.facebook.com/laborrisingagainstrump\nhttps://laborrisingagainsttrump.wordpress.com\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/03/03/18796991.php
SUMMARY:Emergency California Education Conference: Let’s Fight for Quality & Free Public Education
LOCATION:UC Berkeley, 155 Dwinelle\nBerkeley
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