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  • These days, everyone knows that a lavishly financed and powerfully organized political network within the billionaire class is tearing apart our democracy, preventing action on climate change, and trying to privatize everything except the military, the police, and the courts.

  • We also know that the same group of plutocrats has usurped most of the wealth and political power in our country and doesn’t care that half the citizenry will live increasingly unhealthy and impoverished lives because of the oligarchy these plutocrats are creating.

  • If you knew that this group bribes public and state universities into hosting “freedom” schools and think tanks across the country to preach their anti-democratic, free-market fundamentalist ideology, would you fight them?

  • If you knew one of those “freedom” schools was embedded in your very own community, would you fight it?

Well, we know all this — and more — and that is why we say, ABSOLUTELY YES! WE WILL FIGHT THEM TOOTH AND NAIL!


WHAT IS THE KOCH “FREEDOM” SCHOOL IN TUCSON?

Koch’s freedom school outpost in Tucson is the Center for the Philosophy of Freedom (Freedom Center) at the University of Arizona (UA). It opposes taxation (especially of the wealthy) and protective regulations. It promotes the privatization of government services such as Social Security, Medicare, veterans’ benefits, public schools, prisons, roads and highways, and more. Most ominously, it recruits students to join the Koch network, where they are trained and helped to find jobs as professors, lawyers, judges, and politicians who will advance the Koch agenda.

 

The Freedom Center was founded in 2008 with millions of dollars from the Charles Koch donor network. Since 2014, the Arizona State Legislature (swayed by privatizing laissez-faire ideology) has subsidized the Freedom Center with over twenty million more dollars, using Arizona taxpayers’ hard-earned money. 

The Freedom Center has harmed academic integrity at UA, and it has demonstrated its intention to infiltrate, undermine, and ultimately destroy the public education system (both K-12 and higher education) in this state.


KOCHS OFF CAMPUS! IN ACTION!

This website details how Kochs Off Campus! is fighting the Freedom Center. It showcases our victories and reveals how the Freedom Center has undermined the UA Faculty Senate and co-opted the UA Administration.