[uberculture] TONIGHT! 5pm: ConU Inc: How Your Fee Increases Keep Corporations in the Black

[reclaim your culture]

Hey all, join us for this talk (we're co-sponsoring it!) with a veteran of the anti-corporate movement at Concordia. 

A talk with David Bernans, Author of Con U Inc. 

5pm to 8pm at the 7th floor of the HALL Building & Reggies' afterwards! 

In 2001, the Concordia Student Union published a book written by David Bernans, the union’s very own Researcher/Archivist. The book was called Con U Inc: Privatization, Marketization and Globalization at Concordia University (and beyond). 

Con U Inc contrasts Concordia’s claim to offer public education and research in the public interest with the reality of an institution whose campus increasingly resembles a shopping mall, whose students are increasingly treated as “customers” and “human resources” and whose corporate partners increasingly influence research and even curriculum, using public resources for private gain. 

Dr. Bernans will discuss developments that have taken place at Concordia in the decade since Con U Inc was published. In what ways have private interests succeeded in remaking the university in their corporate image? What strategies have been used to resist privatization and how successful has such resistance been? And most importantly, what is the way forward? Come and participate in the discussion about the past and the future of your university. 

David Bernans was once a faculty member in Concordia’s Political Science Department and he is a past President of Concordia’s GSA. On the fifth anniversary of 9/11, Concordia University’s secret “Risk Assessment Committee” banned Dr. Bernans from doing a public on-campus reading from his novel, North of 9/11 (Cumulus Press, 2006). 
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