180: The Movement for Democracy and Education

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  Year Founded:

  0000
  

  Street:

  PO Box 251701
  

  City:

  Little Rock
  

  State:

  AR
  

  Zip Code:

  72225
  

  Telephone:

  501-244-2439
  

  Fax:

  501-374-3935
  

  Email:

  info@180mde.org
  

  Website:

  http://www.corporations.org/campusdemocracy/
  

  Org Type:

  Campus-based, Electoral Campaign
  
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  Issues:

  Corporate Accountability
  

  Mission:

  180/Movement for Democracy and Education was a U.S. national campus activist organization active from 1998-2004. Its mission was:
  
  "dedicated to helping build a campus-based movement for political empowerment and participatory democracy. Through education and organizing we hope to encourage a radical political presence in our schools to transform them and our communities into truly democratic spaces."
  

  Its main goal was fighting against the corporatization of education, and subsequently aiming toward "campus democracy." In its mission statement it said, We oppose corporate control of the university and society, inequitable and disempowering elementary education, shrinking access to higher education, and the racism, sexism, homophobia, and other forms of systemic oppression in our world. We support all efforts in these and other struggles for democratic empowerment; the focus of our organizing will evolve in practice. Our goal is to help build a mass movement to reinvigorate a political culture of engaged democracy and social justice in our schools, in our communities, across our country and beyond.  This organization is now dormant.

  
  
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