You can begin by helping out our friends at Kings College who are facing cuts. http://www.protectphilosophyjobs.org.uk/
At the philosphy symposium I went to a few weeks ago I spoke about cuts in general but to philosophy departments (and other Arts & Humanities) specifically. The ruling class don't want more people to learn how to think incase we apply our knowledge to challenging them. The speakers, including Kings Philosphy lecturer David Papineau, didn't respond to me quoting Marx's 11th Thesis on Feuerbach (that quote above). I do hope they remember me asking to what extent are we going to attempt to change the world...
Finally, I hope the Kings students do what the Croatian Philosophy students did-they occupied the whole department. There was thousands of participants. Our friend Nina Power, a Philosophy lecturer at Roehampton (who is speaking at the Love On Trial event next Wednesday-tickets available from the top right hand corner of this blog) went over to speak with the students. U can read her wonderful post here: http://www.cinestatic.com/infinitethought/2009/05/student-occupation-in-zagreb.asp
The students turned the story of their action into a 'cookbook' manual sort of thing to 1) record their struggle as part of history (the ruling class media don't generally do it) and 2) to assist other students who may want to follow suit. Hint hint:-) http://slobodnifilozofski.org/?p=1901
Spread the word, sign the KCL petition, attend protests and more importantly learn from each other that we can make a difference.
...I wonder how this activism will change the Kings Philosophy department? Just a thought...
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