The webpage is a collective work-in progress. Staff and students in adult education and peace studies are developing it to provide a resource for ourselves and others at UNE who want to examine issues surrounding the impending war on Iraq in more depth. It is designed to make it easier for people to access resources for self- and group study, including material we discuss at our regular teach-ins. We will also include brief summaries of the teach-ins, so people who miss them can keep up with the debate at UNE.
Over time we will make it possible for users to upload material directly to the site. In the meantime, if you have any suggestions or queries please contact the convenor of the teach-in working group:-
Bob Boughton x2913 email bob.Boughton@une.edu.au or Adult Education program webmaster, Paul Reader. Email: Paul.Reader@une.edu.au
Why teach-ins? Popular education and peace in universities
How to get involved
Reports on teach-ins
Resources
- things to read
- actions
- contacts
Discussion list
The first UNE Antiwar teach-in took place 14th March 2003, a join intitiative of staff and students in two programs in UNEÕs School of Professional Development and Leadership, with support from the UNE Branch of the National Tertiary Education Union. Peace studies and adult education share a common history, and a concern with the links between education and democracy. The first peace studies programs in universities in the 1970s developed in adult education, with strong support coming via UNESCOÕs adult learning and development programs, and the International Council of Adult Education. Teach-ins were also a common thing in the 1960s and 1970s antiwar movement, a way that staff and students on campuses around the world could ask questions and examine issues which mainstream curricula at that time refused to consider, including the complicity of higher education institutions themselves in the Vietnam war. The inclusion of peace studies in the curriculum of schools and universities was a direct consequence of the work of peace activists at that time. Thirty years later, the wheel has turned us back on ur past. Once again, it is time to challenge the hegemony of dominant curriculum, research and work practices, which continue to require university staff and students NOT to ask the most important question of our times, the question first asked by the Chartist movement, the 19th Century pioneers of democracy and trade unionism: What do we need to know to get ourselves out of our present troubles?
Our teach-ins are held fortnightly, during lunchtime (1pm Ð 2pm). Email the convenors for details.
You can just attend, offer to give a paper or presentation, bring some resources to show around, help us develop this site, help publicise our existence, make a poster, write a poem, send us an email.
Under construction. Anyone who wants to summarise the first one, pls do and send it in
- actions planned
- things to read
National Convergence, Canberra 23-24 March. Details at www.convergenceonparliament.net
by Gore Vidal London, The Observer Sunday 27 October 2002. A highly provocative, some would say borderline paranoid, attempt to investigate the underlying agenda of US foreign policy. http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/EnemyWithin.html
Something to die for -- helping the US go head-to-head with Europe over world economic dominance, by Geoffrey Heard © 2003.
Asks why George Bush is so hell bent on war with Iraq? Why does his administration reject every positive Iraqi move? It all makes sense, according to Heard, when you consider the economic implications for the USA of not going to war. Cited by Izabel Soliman in her contribution to the first teach-in. http://www.surf.net.au/gheard//Iraq_war_oil_dollars.htm
A collection of articles covering and analysing the crisis in Iraq. From Z Magazine. http://www.zmag.org/crisescurevts/Iraq/Iraqcrisis.htm
Conflict: Iraq
and the United States
This site provides links to background material on Iraq and to resources related to the United States-Iraq situation. Created for The Journalist's Toolbox by Tim Rozgonyi, assistant technology systems editor, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
http://www.journaliststoolbox.com/newswriting/iraq.html
This organization "exists to spur informed national debate about Bush administration policy toward Iraq and to broaden US media coverage of the impending Iraq policy crisis." It offers resources for those "seeking credible sources on the consequences of a precipitous US-led attack on Iraq." There are celebrities' statements in support of the Win Without War coalition, Issue Briefs, a list of Expert Sources, and related links. Sponsored by the Center for International Policy. http://iraqpolicy.com/
DonÕt forget UNE Library pages:
LexisNexis indexes and provides full text content of all Australi's national capital daily newspapers. It has a 'quick link' on the library's eresources page http://www.une.edu.au/library/elecres/indexes.htm Proquest, also with a quick link, provides indexing content for a number of wire services and is added to daily. Google www.google.com has a 'News' tab that provides copy from newspapers around the world, with an indication of when the story hit the web eg. 50 minutes ago, 1 hour ago etc.
This email discussion list for the UNE community is maintained by Bea Turing. Go to this page to subscribe to the list, find out who else is on it, and view the archives of whatÕs been posted there since the list opened in 2002. http://pobox.une.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/paf