[Peace] Socialist Forum event on May 1 / CRISIS, RESISTANCE, AND RADICAL REFORM IN PUBLIC EDUCATION

[Karen Medina]

Socialist Forum event on May 1

CRISIS, RESISTANCE, AND RADICAL REFORM  IN PUBLIC EDUCATION:    MAY
DAY, SATURDAY, MAY 1, 9am-3pm
Lower Level of the Institute for Labor and Employment
			Relations, 504 E. Armory (plenty of parking in the lot
			on the corner of 6th and Chalmers)

	A One-Day Forum Sponsored by Socialist Forum and Jobs with Justice
on class, race, and the crisis in public education, and the political
and economic institutions and forces that now determine its character
and quality.
9 -10 AM continental breakfast and meeting folks
10 Welcome by Gene Vanderport, Region 9 UniServ Director of the
	Illinois Education Association

10:10 Keynote by Kerry Pimblott, Co-President of the Graduate
	Employees Organization and a leader of the successful
	struggle to gain union recognition from the U of I

10:30 The Growing Race/Class Divide
	Sundiata Cha-Jua, Professor of African American Studies
	Neil Parthun, teacher at Rantoul High School, IEA activist,
		and journalist at the Public i

11:30 The Political-Economy of the Crisis
Bill Barclay, economist and member of the Chicago Political
	Economy Group
	Lou Turner, scholar of Marxism and Assistant Director of
	 	the Department of African American Studies, U of I
	Gene Vanderport, member of IEA Popular Education Group
12:30 Complimentary lunch provided for all attendees

1 PM Education as a Democratization Role Model
	Antonia Darder, Professor of Educational Policy Studies and
		Producer, with her students, of Liberacion on WEFT
	Xian Barrett, teacher at Julian High School, southside Chicago
union activist & founding member of the Caucus of Rank-and- File
Educators within the Chicago Teachers’ Union.
Durl Kruse, C/U activist and former Mattoon school administrator

1:45 PM Breakout session into smaller groups
2:45 Groups report

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