No Detention, No Deportation; No Borders in Education:
Freedom of Movement for All
Migrating University, at Goldsmiths,
September 14-15th 2007;
From Goldsmiths to Gatwick.
The No Borders camp at Gatwick (www.noborders.org.uk) is an ideal opportunity for Goldsmiths University to rouse itself from sleepy London and show its solidarity with Britain's new settlers, condemn the Governments asylum and detention practices, and expose the hypocrisy of having unregulated capital flow alongside racist fortress restrictions on people.
So, let's get Goldsmiths on the move.
- tent university, courses and workshops on race, migration, Multiculturalism, gender and sexuality, Media, culture, literature, music, activism and education etc.
- practical and theoretical programs, taught by current Goldsmiths and invited international(ist) professors, general staff, gaduates and students,all welcome.
- a non-elitist and democratic administrative structure, not a teaching factory governed by commodity servicing
- a fighting representative education union, open to everyone
- for critical radical intellectual renewal drawing upon the vast creative and expressive resources of people's movement(s)
This will happen at Goldsmiths (14-15 September 07) as a feeder into the Gatwick No Borders Camp the next week, the programme is being devised now, it promises to be fantastic, watch this space.
There is an organising group you can join - email me - if you want to be involved, and further infos will be posted here and on Trinketization.
Updated 21 August 07:
General enthusiasm for this event is very high. A feeling of frustration, and therefore energy for exploring activist options, is strong on campus. This is the joint result of the ongoing managerialism that afflicts the ‘teaching factory’ at all levels, alongside the wider malaise of neo-liberal war-mongering imperialism/Border-ism evident in the current conjuncture, everywhere. The role of the university in relation to borders between people and knowledge, between different knowledges, between peoples, between students, between students who pay ‘overseas’ fees and those who pay too much (‘training’ for industrial gain, paid for by the student??) and the ever extended morale crush that afflicts staff… linked to the obsolescence of older ideas of ‘education’ in favour of opportunism and productivity… Exclusions and …racism, murder-death-kill… there is much good reason to explore these concerns in our workshop.
links with: No Borders London and No Borders general.
Confirmed speakers so far include: Ken Fero (Injustice), David Graeber (activist anthrop), Ava Caradonna (sex worker education group), Susan Cueva (union), Sanjay Sharma (author of Multicultural Encounters) and likely Harmit Athwal (Inst Race Relations).
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