180/Movement for Democracy and Education
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180/Movement for Democracy and Education was a U.S. national student activist organization active from 1998-2004. Its mission was
"dedicated to helping build a campus-based movement for political empowerment and participatory democracy. Through education and organizing we hope to encourage a radical political presence in our schools to transform them and our communities into truly democratic spaces."
Its main goal was fighting against the corporatization of education, and subsequently aiming toward "campus democracy." In its mission statement it said,
We oppose corporate control of the university and society, inequitable and disempowering elementary education, shrinking access to higher education, and the racism, sexism, homophobia, and other forms of systemic oppression in our world. We support all efforts in these and other struggles for democratic empowerment; the focus of our organizing will evolve in practice. Our goal is to help build a mass movement to reinvigorate a political culture of engaged democracy and social justice in our schools, in our communities, across our country and beyond.180/MDE
At its peak at least 15 chapters were affiliated with 180/MDE.
