Thus, the “crisis” that many currently refer to in relation to public education, from a decolonizing perspective, really began when Western Europe initiated mass colonization, and the inception of mass public education during the industrial era was reflective of an always already unjust, faulty, and straight-up hypocritical democracy claiming that (individual) voting is the means to representing an equal voice. “Budget cuts” translates to the further exclusion of many working class/person of color at this university, and a “mass democratic movement” really means a deceitful liberal form of accepted racism and classism.
Xamuel Bañales, “The Coloniality of Organizing at UC Berkeley: November 2 Speech”
A new journal, Reclamations has been launched “to address the need for critical reflection and debate on the new political front forming to fight the privatization of public education.” It’s available free of charge on the website: http://www.reclamationsjournal.org/index.html
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