Public Education NOT FOR SALE II!

Webcast highlights from the Public Education NOT FOR SALE! II conference Feb. 18 and 19, 2005 in Vancouver. It focused on taking action against commercialization and privatization, and followed a previous Public Education NOT FOR SALE! conference in 2000.

Public Education Not for Sale conference

Public Education NOT FOR SALE! II was sponsored by The Coalition for Public Education, including the B.C. Teachers� Federation, the B.C. Government and Services Employee�s Union, the Canadian Union of Public Employees, the Canadian Federation of Students, the Confederation of University Faculty Associations Federation of Post-Secondary Educators of BC, the B.C. Federation of Labour, the Canadian Teachers� Federation, and the Charter for Public Education Network.

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Friday Feb. 18, 2005

Opening Plenary

Jinny Sims, President, British Columbia Teachers' Federation ( BCTF ), Welcome and introductions 14 pixel transparent gif

RT: 6:52

Results of surveys of schools and post-secondary
institutions on commercialization and privatization

Colleen Hawkey, BCTF Research Analyst 14 pixel transparent gif

RT: 12:01

Dileep Athaide, Federation of Post Secondary Educators 14 pixel transparent gif

RT: 7:56

Keynote address:
"Facing up to the many faces of privatization"

Heather-jane Robertson, Pt. 1 of 4 14 pixel transparent gif

RT: 14:43

Heather-jane Robertson, Pt. 2 of 4 14 pixel transparent gif

RT: 14:17

Heather-jane Robertson, Pt. 3 of 4 14 pixel transparent gif

RT: 14:52

Heather-jane Robertson, Pt. 4 of 4 14 pixel transparent gif

RT: 14:22

Saturday Feb. 19, 2005

Welcome

Jim Sinclair, President, British Columbia Federation of Labour, 14 pixel transparent gif

RT: 6:52

Keynote address:
"Those ads are enough to make your kids sick:
The privatization of childhood"

Juliet Schor, Professor of Sociology at Boston College, author of Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture
- Pt. 1 of 4 14 pixel transparent gif

RT: 13:48