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''FSU-RADIO is an educational series by the Free School University at Occupy Boston that streams live on [http://occupyboston.org/radio OB Radio] every Wednesday night at 7pm. Our 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.Call 617-506-9726 with questions or comments during the show, or join the IRC chat at [http://occupyboston.org/radio occupyboston.org/radio].'' | ''FSU-RADIO is an educational series by the Free School University at Occupy Boston that streams live on [http://occupyboston.org/radio OB Radio] every Wednesday night at 7pm. Our 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.Call 617-506-9726 with questions or comments during the show, or join the IRC chat at [http://occupyboston.org/radio occupyboston.org/radio].'' | ||
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'''Wednesday, April 11, 2012: '''William C. Coughlan, Jr. will join David to talk about Cooperation. Coughlan has spent more than 40 years in the cooperative movement, written six books, and currently teaches at the Tri-C Community College, Metro Campus, in the Cleveland, Ohio area. He will talk about his experience in the Cooperative movement, ESOPS, consensus, and related topics. | |||
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CURRENT TEACH-INS
FSU-RADIO
FSU-RADIO is an educational series by the Free School University at Occupy Boston that streams live on OB Radio every Wednesday night at 7pm. Our 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.Call 617-506-9726 with questions or comments during the show, or join the IRC chat at occupyboston.org/radio.
Cooperation Wednesday, April 11, 2012: William C. Coughlan, Jr. will join David to talk about Cooperation. Coughlan has spent more than 40 years in the cooperative movement, written six books, and currently teaches at the Tri-C Community College, Metro Campus, in the Cleveland, Ohio area. He will talk about his experience in the Cooperative movement, ESOPS, consensus, and related topics.
OBRadio: Veterans for Peace
This weekly radio broadcast organized by members of the Smedley D. Butler Brigade of Veterans For Peace streams live on OB Radio every Monday night at 6:00pm. Call 617-506-9726 with questions or comments during the show, or join the IRC chat at occupyboston.org/radio. Hosted by Bob Funke, member of the Action For Peace Working Group at Occupy Boston and Vietnam Veteran For Peace. Veterans For Peace is a non-profit educational and humanitarian organization dedicated to the abolishment of war employing the motto "De Oppresso Liber" (Liberate the Oppressed).
- Monday, April 2, 2012
- Monday, April 9, 2012
Occupy Boston Community Gathering
Occupy Boston Community Gatherings are held weekly on Monday evenings at St Paul's Cathedral on Tremont Street, from 6:00 to 8:30 PM. The first half hour of the Community Gatherings are set aside for socializing. FSU will be hosting the following community gathering:
Peace & Economic Justice | What's the Connection Between War & the Economy?
Monday, April 23, 2012 (6:00pm, St. Paul’s Cathedral - 138 Tremont St, across from Park St T Stop): The teach-in will begin at 6:30 with a short presentation from the New Priorities Network, "The Price of War" and a panel discussion with activists from various movements who will discuss the impact of war on communities. Panelists include:
- Tyrek Lee (Vice President, 1199 SEIU Massachusetts)
- Oliver Hendricks (City Life / Vida Urbana, Coalition to Fund Our Communities / Cut Military Spending by 25%)
- Duncan McFarland (United for Justice with Peace)
- Rachel McNeill (Smedley Butler Brigade of Veterans For Peace)
The panel will be followed by an open group discussion: Where do we go from here? There will be snacks and door prizes!
The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series
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. More programming to be announced! For an archive of past lectures, click here.
RESOURCES
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
- YouTube
- Audre Lorde to Howard Zinn (A-Z) Library, Occupy Boston's Free Library
- Occupy Boston Radio, FSU broadcasts live every Wednesday from 7-8pm
- Occupy Boston TV
- Occupy University, FSU Page on OWS Education for the Revolution
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.
- 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
Meeting Notes
The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series
Website, WordPress Updates, keep up with the lecture series at OccupyBoston.org Facebook, group page Video Archive, playlist of past lectures on YouTube Occupied Peoples | People's Occupations, OCCUPYfilmArchives
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.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 fsu@occupyboston.org.Media Coverage
- Immigration, Environment, and Occupy by Avi Chomsky (Boston Occupier, 2.14.2012)
- From Occupy to Workers Control: Professors Elaine Bernard & Immanuel Ness by Doug Enaa Green (Boston Occupier, 2.2.2012)
- Paul LeBlanc: The Ancestors of Occupy (Boston Occupier, 1.27.2012)
- Citizens United Summit (Boston Occupier, 1.20.2012)
- The Fetishism of Debt by Michael Denning (Boston Occupier, 1.13.2012)
- Gar Alperovitz: Democratizing the Economy (Boston Occupier, 12.21.2012)
- Criticizing the Critique of Representation: Bruno Bosteels at Occupy Boston, by J.E. Hamilton (Boston Occupier, 12.6.2011)
- Zinn Lecture Series Brings Academia to Occupy Boston by Doug Enaa Greene (Boston Occupier, 12.6.2011)
- Their Crisis and Our Response by Victor Wallis (Boston Occupier, 12.6.2011)
- Reflections on Occupying by Dennis Fox (draft for publication in the Journal for Social Action in Counseling and Psychology, 11.20.2011)
- The Right to Protest for Right: Peniel E. Joseph on Economic Justice & MLK Jr by Julie Orlemanski (Boston Occupier, 11.19.2011)
- Papercut Zine Library & Lucy Parsons Center Re-Open by Liz Pelly (The Boston Phoenex, 11.9.2011)
- So That All Voices May Be Heard: Concensus and C.T. Lawrence Butler (Boston Occupier, 11.3.2011)
- Vijay Prashad Speaks at Occupy Boston (Boston Occupier, 10.25.2011)
- Blyth Asks: Should the Poor Insure the Rich? (Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University, 10.14.2011)
- Occupy Wall Street: Getting the Targets Right by Mark Blythe and Kevin Gallagher (Triple Crisis, 10.13.2011)
- Ivy League Professors Speak to Anti-Wall Street Protestors by Lauren Keiper (Reuters, 10.7.2011)