Tent State National Timeline
Tent State National Timeline
January 2005- Tent State organizers decide to join a national network of antiwar groups (United for Peace and Justice- UFPJ) in order to present a proposal at their national assembly. Organizers also composed the first Tent State Organizing Model.
February 2005- Tent State organizers attend the UFPJ national assembly and hold pirate caucuses, which help to get the Tent State organizing model passed as an action proposal at the conference and also helped to bring the organizing model to other campuses (through the pirate caucus more so than the passing of the proposal).
March 2005- Tent State organizers travel to Fayetteville, North Carolina for a large scale demonstration at Fort Bragg. Using pirate caucuses, organizers networked and strengthened relationships with national organizers and groups.
April 2005- Tent States occur for the first time outside of the Rutgers University campus. These other campuses included University of Massachusetts-Amherst, University of Central Arkansas, University of Missouri- Kansas City, and University of California- Santa Cruz. Most Tent States that year went smoothly, with the exception of UCSC, where the university chancellor sent in riot police to violently break up the Tent State occurring there.
May 2005- Tent State organizers attended the future Democratizing Education Network (DEN) retreat.
Summer 2005- Tent State organizers traveled to Piscataway for the first Tent State National Retreat. Organizers attended from UCSC and UMass Amherst. The Tent State organizing model was rewritten.
October 2005- Tent State organizers got the Tent State model approved as a priority for the founding meeting of DEN.
Spring 2006- Tent States continued to occur across the country , and included coordinated actions on campuses nationwide, including: University of Missouri system, UC Santa Barbara, Carrillo Community College, SUNY system, UMass Amherst, UW Madison, Michigan, Macalaster, UConn, and Rutgers.
April 2006- Tent State received its first international coverage, with radio interviews in Austria and Germany, as well as a magazine spread in South Korea and coverage in the Guardian UK.
Spring/Summer 2007- Tent States occur for the first time internationally, in England at University of Sussex in England and at a political/anti-nuclear weapon gathering called Faslane 365in Scotland (the first time a Tent State occurred in a non-campus setting).
Summer 2007- Tent State Organizers update the organizing model and begin composing “The Revolution Starts Today,” in preparation for attending the SDS National Conference. At the Tent State Summer Retreat, it was decided that an SDS chapter would be established at Rutgers by those working in the local movement on campus. Organizers attended the SDS National Conference in Detroit.
Fall 2007- Adam Jung, who helped to organize the Tent State in UMKC announces the creation of a Tent State at the Democratic National Convention in Denver in August 2008.
Spring 2008- Tent States continue on campuses around the country, with a notable addition of UCLA (Take Hold! University), where we also had the opportunity to send an organizer to help them get started.
Summer 2008: ???????