Free School University (FSU)

Free School University (FSU) is a learning community of Occupy Boston. Topics vary from fun-and-games to politics and revolution. Our goal is to form an autonomous zone to entertain educate and enliven Occupiers and the general public, and to share skills needed to maintain it. The FSU has provided support and created the space for skill sharing, self-organization, teaching, and more than 150 learning opportunities so far. ''' Our next FSU Working Group Meeting is TBD. '''Contact [mailto:fsu@occupyboston.org?subject=Inquiry fsu@lists.occupyboston.org] if you want to attend the next meeting or for general inquiries.  https://twimg0-a.akamaihd.net/profile_images/1619611750/KisP_copy.jpg     To schedule a teach-in, please submit the following information to [mailto:fsu@occupyboston.org?subject=POST%3A fsu@occupyboston.org]. If you know the exact date and time and have all of the information below ready, please include POST: (date / time) in the Subject of your email.   Date & Time      Location   <font class="Apple-style-span">Title &     <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font class="Apple-style-span">   Brief Description </li>  <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Short Biography   </li> <span style="color: rgb(255, 140, 0)"> <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Working Group Association  </li> <span style="color: rgb(255, 140, 0)"> <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Sponsors (if any)  </li> </ul> After everything is confirmed, you can use the Occupy Boston Event Submission Form to expedite posting to the occupyboston.org event calendar. = <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large; font-family: georgia, serif"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 140, 0)"> CURRENT TEACH-INS  =

<span style="color: rgb(255, 140, 0);"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">OB Community Gatherings
''Occupy Boston Community Gatherings are held every Monday night. The first half hour is set aside for socializing. The FSU will be joining with other Occupy Boston Working Groups to host the following community gatherings from 6pm - 9pm at the Community Church in Copley Square (565 Boylston St, 2nd Floor, Boston):''

<span style="color: rgb(255, 140, 0);"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Restorative Justice, Community Justice
Monday, June 18: The 99% are the new poor, and a primary reason for that is that they are poor in terms of power and access to it. They are the victims of abuses of authority and power, authoritarianism, and the abusers of power are the state, corporations, the parties of fear and the new Know Nothings. The assignment is to speak to restorative and community justice. “Restorative justice” is a term with many meanings, and it takes many forms, but it assumes that the best people to resolve a problem or conflict are those who have it. We need justice mechanisms that respond to the wants and needs of the people and those that address the core problem of poverty in the sense of ending imbalances of bargaining position. This talk will challenge audiences to consider the value of restorative and community justice (with short descriptions of the two) and how to articulate how to address actual need by way of balancing power relationships and promoting inclusion to challenge legal systems to be truly responsive. For more information, click here. Presented by Dr. James W. Zion, an international lawyer for the National Indian Youth Council and a longtime advocate of restorative justice, with close involvement with establishing the system of Navajo peacemaking of the Navajo Nation that is considered a model of restorative justice. Hosted by members of the FSU and Financial Accountability working groups.

<span style="color: rgb(255, 140, 0);"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Open House on Immigration
Monday, June 25: The FSU and Outreach Working Groups will host a community gathering <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">with Lydia Edwards (Brazilian Immigrant Center), members of the Student Immigrant Movement, Centro Presente, and Avi Chomsky (Salem State University). Topics include immigration rights, citizenship, secure communities and many other local issues that affect us all in the Boston area. For more information, click here.

<span style="color: rgb(255, 140, 0)"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif">Educational Programs on OB Radio
''The FSU's goal is to maintain an autonomous zone to entertain educate and enliven Occupiers and the general public. Our purpose is to provide support and space for skill sharing and sharing basic info regarding Occupy Boston and to encourage self-organization, teaching, and learning opportunities. Weekly educational programs stream live on' OB Radio. ''

<span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Free School University
FSU-RADIO is a weekly radio broadcast organized and hosted by David K of the Free School University Working Group. 'Programming streams live on OB Radio every Wednesday night from 7:00 - 8:00pm. For more information, visit the FSU-RADIO blog. Call 617-90-20-OBR (617-902-0027) with questions or comments during live broadcasts, or join the IRC chat at 'occupyboston.org/radio.


 * June 20, 2012
 * June 27, 2012
 * July 4, 2012

<span style="font-family: georgia, serif; color: rgb(255, 140, 0); font-size: small;">Veterans For Peace
VFP-RADIO radio is a weekly radio broadcast organized and hosted by Bob Funke, a Vietnam veteran and member of the Smedley D. Butler Brigade of Veterans For Peace and Occupy Boston's Action For Peace Working Group. Programming streams live on OB Radio every Monday night from 6:00 - 7:00pm. Call 617-506-9726 with questions or comments during the show, or join the IRC chat at occupyboston.org/radio.

= <span style="font-family: georgia, serif"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 140, 0)"> RESOURCES  =
 * June 18, 2012
 * June 25, 2012
 * July 2, 2012

<span style="font-family: georgia, serif"><span style="color: rgb(255, 140, 0)">Free School University

 * Website, students and teachers can build a free page here
 * Announcements, sign up to receive announcements for FSU events and learning opportunities
 * Facebook, group page
 * Twitter
 * YouTube
 * Audre Lorde to Howard Zinn (A-Z) Library, Occupy Boston's Free Library
 * Occupy Boston Radio
 * FSU-RADIO, blog
 * Occupy Boston TV
 * Occupy University, FSU Page on OWS: Education for the Revolution

<span style="color: rgb(255, 140, 0)"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif">Working Group Information

 * Working Group, register and login to participate. You do not have to login to view the FSU files on our working groups page.
 * Information for Volunteers
 * <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Information for Teachers
 * <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Information for Site-Assistants
 * List Serve, sign up for our working group's email list
 * Living Agenda for upcoming FSU Working Group meetings
 * Wiki Talk Page, space to share ideas for building this wiki page and FSU generally

<span style="font-family: georgia, serif"><span style="color: rgb(255, 140, 0)">The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">''From the Organizers of The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series: We, as citizens, academics, and members of the 99%, would like to contribute to the conversation taking place at Occupy Boston about how to make a better, more equitable world for all of us. In the radical and participatory spirit of Occupy Boston and similar radical movements of the past, we see our role, as Giovanni Arrighi once argued, as helping the movement to develop its "own autonomy through an understanding of the broader processes, both national and global, in which their struggles [are] taking place" (The Winding Paths of Capital, New Left Review, Mar-Apr 2009).  We wish to participate in the movement not from a position of authority, but one of mutual dialogue. While people know their situation much better than we ever will, as academics we are better positioned "to understand the wider context in which it develops" (Ibid). For this reason we have created a series of lectures in which academics lead a dialogue with Occupy Boston participants on issues of economic, political, and social justice. We call these lectures The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series at Occupy Boston in honor of the late, great Boston Historian. For an archive of past lectures, click here.'' ""
 * Website, WordPress
 * Updates, keep up with the lecture series at OccupyBoston.org
 * Facebook, group page
 * Video Archive, playlist of past lectures on YouTube
 * Upcoming Lectures
 * Occupied Peoples | People's Occupations, OCCUPYfilm
 * Past Lectures

<span style="color: rgb(255, 140, 0)"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif">Past Teach-Ins
Since our first teach-in on October 7, 2011, the Occupy Boston Free School University has created the space for more than 150 teach-ins! For a complete list of past teach-ins, click here.

<span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Videos
To access our video archive, including nearly 40 videos of our past teach-ins, click here. If you have video you would like us to add to the archive or links to coverage of FSU events in the news, please email them to us at [mailto:fsu@occupyboston.org?subject=Post%3A%20Video%20of%20Past%20Teach-In fsu@occupyboston.org].

<span style="font-family: georgia, serif; "><span style="color: rgb(255, 140, 0); ">FSU in the News
<ul style="padding-right: 40px;"> Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series: Richard Seymour by Doug Enaa Greene (Boston Occupier, 6.7.2012)</li> The Great Inequality: Part 1 by Michael D. Yates (Boston Occupier, 5.29.2012)</li> Barbara Foley: From Occupy to Revolution by Doug Enaa Greene (Boston Occupier, 4.14.2012)</li> 2011 Presidential Address: Empire & the Study of Religion by Kwok Pui-lan (Oxford Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 4.10.2012)</li> Making Sense of the MBTA Mess by Doug Enaa Greene (Boston Occupier, 4.9.2012)</li> 10 Compelling Lectures on Occupy (Boston Occupier, 3.29.2012)</li> Change in Occupation by Osahh Aim (Mass Media, UMass Boston, 3.27.2012)</li> Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series: Noel Ignatiev, at Occupy Boston on November 12, 2011 (Boston Occupier, 3.12.2012)</li> Immigration, Environment, and Occupy by Avi Chomsky (Boston Occupier, 2.14.2012)</li> From Occupy to Workers Control: Professors Elaine Bernard & Immanuel Ness by Doug Enaa Green (Boston Occupier, 2.2.2012)</li> Report of the Boston Chapter to the CCDS & NCC (CCDS Mobilizer, Winter 2012)</li> Paul LeBlanc: The Ancestors of Occupy (Boston Occupier, 1.27.2012)</li> Citizens United Summit (Boston Occupier, 1.20.2012)</li> <li>The Fetishism of Debt by Michael Denning (Boston Occupier, 1.13.2012)</li> <li>Gar Alperovitz: Democratizing the Economy (Boston Occupier, 12.21.2012)</li> <li>Criticizing the Critique of Representation: Bruno Bosteels at Occupy Boston, by J.E. Hamilton (Boston Occupier, 12.6.2011)</li> <li>Zinn Lecture Series Brings Academia to Occupy Boston by Doug Enaa Greene (Boston Occupier, 12.6.2011)</li> <li>Their Crisis and Our Response by Victor Wallis (Boston Occupier, 12.6.2011)</li> <li>Reflections on Occupying by Dennis Fox (draft for publication in the Journal for Social Action in Counseling and Psychology, 11.20.2011)</li> <li>The Right to Protest for Right: Peniel E. Joseph on Economic Justice & MLK Jr by Julie Orlemanski (Boston Occupier, 11.19.2011)</li> <li>Union for Radical Political Economics at #OWS (URPE, 11.14.2011)</li> <li>Papercut Zine Library & Lucy Parsons Center Re-Open by Liz Pelly (The Boston Phoenex, 11.9.2011)</li> <li>So That All Voices May Be Heard: Concensus and C.T. Lawrence Butler (Boston Occupier, 11.3.2011)</li> <li>Center for Popular Economics, Occupy! (The Popular Economist, Fall 2011)</li> <li>Occupy Boston (The Occupy Wall Street Movement) by Jada (Minstrone Soup for the Teenage Soul Blog, 10.27.2011)</li> <li>Vijay Prashad Speaks at Occupy Boston (Boston Occupier, 10.25.2011)</li> <li>Our Kayne: Noam Chomsky to Occupy Boston by Carli Carioli (Boston Phoenix Blog, 10.17.2011)</li> <li>Blyth Asks: Should the Poor Insure the Rich? (Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University, 10.14.2011)</li> <li>Occupy Teach-In: An Evening of Protest Histories, Economics, Activism, Social Media (Global Conversation Blog, 10.14.2011)</li> <li>Occupy Wall Street: Getting the Targets Right by Mark Blythe and Kevin Gallagher (Triple Crisis, 10.13.2011)</li> <li>OB Crackdown; More Teach-Ins; Etc by Chris Sturr (Dollars & Sense, 10.11.2011)</li> <li>Inside the Crackdown at Occupy Boston by Zach Schwartz-Weinstein (The Chronicle of Higher Education, 10.11.2011)</li> <li>Boston Protest Group Sees a Nation in Trouble by Krista Kano (The Metrowest Daily News, 10.8.2011)</li> <li>Ivy League Professors Speak to Anti-Wall Street Protestors by Lauren Keiper (Reuters, 10.7.2011)</li> </ul>