Education & Activism

THE COMMUNITY
WORKER PROGRAM
THE 3RD ANNUAL TOMMY DOUGLAS INSTITUTE
Education & Activism
FEATURING
KEYNOTE
SPEAKER
CHRIS HEDGES
Thursday, May 21st, 2015
9:30am – 4:00pm
REGISTRATION FEE:
$55 (regular)
$20 (with GBC student /low wage subsidy)*
*Limited subsidies available
40 Anniversary Reception to Follow
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Includes lunch and refreshments
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(St. James Campus)
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THE TOMMY
DOUGLAS
INSTITUTE
THURSDAY, MAY 21ST, 2015 9:30 AM – 4:00 PM / RECEPTION
Education & Activism
RETHINK
resist
CHRIS HEDGES
A more humane and
accountable society
requires educational
institutions that are
ethical, critical, rigorous
and robust defenders
of social justice.
Join us in discussing
EDUCATION AND
ACTIVISM as we…
RETHINK
The role of education in
these times …
RESIST
Neoliberal incursion into
teaching and learning,
and…
RECLAIM
Our educational
institutions as vital
democratic centres
of thought, inquiry,
community-building
and advocacy for the
common good.
reclaim
FEATURED KEYNOTE SPEAKER
The 3rd Annual Tommy Douglas Institute at George Brown College is pleased to
announce celebrated writer, activist and public intellectual Chris Hedges as its
keynote speaker for Education & Activism: Rethink Resist Reclaim.
The one-day event welcomes educational communities and wider communities to
share in provocative discussions, interactive exhibits, and a community forum
featuring an intergenerational panel of activist-educators. An anniversary reception
in honour of the Community Worker Program will follow.
Participants will have the opportunity to share their thoughts in a range of roundtable
sessions on themes of: Students, Faculty, Labour, Policy, Aboriginal Education,
Access Education, Communities and Community Organisations, Popular Education,
and The Legacy of Tommy Douglas.
This year we celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Community Worker Program
at George Brown College. We also find ourselves marking another “anniversary”
– approximately 40 years of neoliberalism.
From its beginnings neoliberalism has entailed the systematic dismantling of
social welfare, leaving more and more communities neglected, excluded and
often devastated.
From our beginnings, the Community Worker Program has grown out of the tireless
struggles, creativity and challenges waged by communities in their demands for
a more just society.
Our colleges, schools and universities are by no means exempt from neoliberal
trends. As decreased funding, rising tuitions, disappearing job security and regressive
policy agendas attempt to transform students into “consumers”, teachers into
contract workers and curricula into extensions of competitive commerce, we ask:
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Are we witnessing a tipping point in post-secondary education?
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s neoliberal principles burrow into the very heart of our educational centres,
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how do we preserve these spaces of public debate, discourse and dissent that
have always been so essential to our democracy?
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