180/Movement for Democracy and Education or MDE was a U.S. national campus activist organization active from 1998 to 2004. Its mission was "dedicated to helping build a campus-based movement for political empowerment and participatory democracy. Through education and organizing we hope to encourage a radical political presence in our schools to transform them and our communities into truly democratic spaces." Its main goal was fighting against the corporatization of education, and subsequently aiming toward "campus democracy." In its mission statement it said,