MAY DAY FREE UNIVERSITY

http://www.maydaynyc.org/freeuniversity

The Free University is a collective educational experiment that will be held on May 1, 2012, from 10am-3pm. In solidarity with the general strike, the Free University offers a public space for the 99% to disengage from an unequal system and imagine a model for alternative education. Those gathered in Madison Square Park, and those meeting in other spaces in solidarity, will create a university that is open to all, without debt or tuition for students, without pre-requisites, age limits or any other disqualifying requirements. Learning can only happen through interaction, exchange, and dialogue. To create a living future together, all must be included and welcome.

The Free University is an open invitation to educators around New York City to participate in May Day 2012. During the day, lectures, workshops, skill-shares, and discussions will be held — all open to the public. If you are in solidarity with the general strike but cannot cancel your class, bring it here! We also invite all educators interested in volunteering special sessions and classes for the day. We will have designated spaces for the quieter and more intimate classes.

No single day, park, or effort can contain our vision; instead, we propose and will struggle to make all our universities places of free education, inquiry, and access to knowledge for all. We demand that our society put forward the necessary resources to provide such an education for all.

Free U is a project made in partnership with educators and students from Brooklyn College/CUNY Grad Center/Eugene Lang College/New School for Social Research/Hunter College/ /Pratt Institute/New York University/Queensborough Community College/ Rutgers/Columbia University/Princeton.

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[NewYorkRawVideos]

that's because some of that footage was ripped from my april 26 nyc student debt video

/watch?v=GjNtEiUpM8k

[North Star]

Great video!!

[complitdave]

If you went to the Free University, I would gladly teach you that there should be a comma after "WORLD" and before "DUMBASSES"-- absolutely free of charge! And I'm a genuine college professor!

[Dustin Jussila]

Government guaranteed student loans is the reason education is so expensive.

[elmosigay]

Just saying but if all universities will be free their budget will run quite low and you'll be going into a run-down warehouse instead of schools but I agree, the cost is way too high.

[bozanggas]

GO EDUCATE URSELF THERES GOOGLE N STUFF BUNCH OF FREELOADERS