FSU: Past Teach-Ins
PAST TEACH-INS
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The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series
- Saturday, December 10: Rich Levy, professor of history at Salem State University, "The Legacy of the Sixties and Occupy"
- Wednesday, December 7: Avi Chomsky, professor of history at Salem State University
- Wednesday, November 30: Norman Finkelstein (VIDEO)
- Tuesday, November 29: Bruno Bosteels (VIDEO)
- Tuesday, November 22: Mike Denning (VIDEO): The Culture of Debt
- Wednesday, November 9: Elaine Bernard (VIDEO): From Heroes to Zeros, The War on Public Employees & Their Unions
- Friday, November 4: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (VIDEO): The City on a Hill, Where it all Began
- Thursday, November 3: Luis Jimenez (VIDEO): The Perils of American Democracy, The Institutional Basis Behind Our 'Broken Politics'
- Sunday, October 30: Anthony Arnove (VIDEO): co-authored "Voices of a People's History of the United States" with Howard Zinn
- Friday, November 18: Paul Le Blanc (VIDEO)
- Thursday, November 17: Richard Wolf (VIDEO)
- Saturday, November 12: Noel Ignatiev (VIDEO): Race and Occupy
- Saturday, October 29: Fred Magdoff (VIDEO)
- Friday, October 28: Chad Montrie (VIDEO), author of "A People's History of Environmentalism in the United States"
- Monday, October 24: Tom Ferguson: Money and Politics
- Sunday, October 23: Vijay Prashad (VIDEO), author of "The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World"
- Saturday, October 22: Noam Chomsky (VIDEO)
- Thursday, October 20: Gary Leupp (VIDEO): Elite Control Over US Foreign Policy, Lessons from Vietnam, to Iraq, to Today
- Saturday, October 15: Nicole Aschoff: Neoliberal Dispossession and the Demand for Demands
- Thursday, October 13: Victor Wallis (VIDEO): Roots of the Current Crisis (BLOG)
Occupy Boston Economics Forum
Saturday, December 3, 2011: Gar Alperovitz (VIDEO), America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty, & Our Democracy, book launchMonday, November 28, 2011: How to Redistribute Wealth: Lessons from the 20th Century, a discussion with Molly Geidel and Patricia StuelkeSunday, November 20, 2011: Unemployment: Why Jobs Are Hard to Find and How We Can Create Many More with Juliet Schor
Saturday, November 19, 2011:
Occupy The Economy with Kerry Power (followed by Q&A) Teach-In: Globalization and How it Affects Us, an interactive presentation with Madeleine CousineauSunday, November 13, 2011:
The Effects of Class Background on Our Lives and Efforts for Change, United For Change Workshop Series Gender, Economy, and Citizenship with Carole Biewener and Jyoti Puri, organized by the Women's Caucus
Friday, November 11, 2011: Capitalism at a Dead End, synopsis of lecture given by Fred Goldstein, 6th National Meeting on Social Policy, with Gerry ScoppettuoloFriday, November 4, 2011: Responsible Investing, with Shelley Alpern and Catherine Pargeter (Trillium Asset Management), and Libby Edgerly (MSCI)Sunday, October 30, 2011: Dr. Ben Tafoya, The Decline of Middle Class Incomes and Political Inequality
Thursday, October 20, 2011:
Arthur MacEwan: The Economic Crisis: How Can We Fix Things?
Wednesday, October 19, 2011: Catherine Finnoff: 10 Phoney Facts About the US Economy, Keeping it Real for the 99 (CANCELLED)Saturday, October 15, 2011: Julie Matthaei (VIDEO): Occupy the Economy: An Introduction to the Solidarity EconomySunday, October 16, 2011: Julie Nelson: What Economists Got Wrong and What We've Got to Do to Fix It
Friday, October 14, 2011:
Alejandro Reuss: Class and the Shift in the Distribution of Income Against Workers and in favor of Capitalists Juliet Schor: Why Unemployment Is So High and How We Can Reduce It
Tuesday, October 11, 2011:
Bryan Snyder: A Primer on Financialization John Miller: Up Against the Wall Street Journal
Monday, October 10, 2011: Arjun Jayadev (VIDEO): The False Doctrine of Austerity
Citizens United & Elections Forum
- Sunday, December 18, 2011: Unrig the Elections - Let us Count! A discussion with Jonathan Simon, founding member of Election Defense Alliance
- Sunday, December 11, 2011: Public Financing of Election Campaigns -- A Way Station; Fair, Just and Good Government--Our Destination, with Jules Levine
- Saturday, December 10, 2011: Donna Palermino: History of Citizens United and its Implications, organized by Citizens United to End Political Bribery WG
- Sunday, December 4, 2011: Publicly-Funded Elections & Repairing Representative Government (CANCELLED)
- Sunday, November 27, 2011: Rigged Elections: Corporations--the 1 Percent--Own and Rig the Elections of the 99 Percent, Sheila Parks
- Sunday, November 13, 2011: Public Financing of Elections--A Way Station: Fair, Just & Good Government--The Destination, Julius Levine (VIDEO)
Non-Violence & Civil Disobedience (NVCD) Forum
Training facilitated by members of the New England Nonviolence Trainers Network, Alliance of Community Trainers and the Health Justice Working Group
- Sunday, December 18, 2011: Direct Action Strategy and Action: Planning - Digging a Little Deeper
- Saturday, December 17, 2011: Non-Violent Direct Action Training
Saturday, December 10, 2011: Facilitation and Group Process Training: agendas, running meetings, decision-making models, dealing with challenging people
Preparedness in Actions, Strengthening Our Spirit & Building Community - Training facilitated by members of the NVCD Working Group
- Friday, November 25: presented by John Bach
- Monday, November 21: presented by Catherine Hoffman
- Saturday, November 19
- Friday, November 18: presented by Minga Clagget-Borne
What is Violence? What is Nonviolence? - Roundtable Discussion co-facilitated by members of the NVCD Working Group
- Saturday, November 12
- Monday, November 7
The Practice of Nonviolence and Civil Disobediance - Workshop presented by Rick Colbath-Hess
- Wednesday, November 9
- Saturday, October 29
- Saturday, October 22
- Monday, October 10
Military Forum
Sunday, November 27, 2011:Jim Scarborough, A Matter of Honor: Veterans & the First Amendment (VIDEO)Tuesday, November 22, 2011:
Jim Scarborough, A Matter of Honor: Veterans & the First Amendment (VIDEO)
Saturday, November 12, 2011:
Cost of War Series, organized by the Peace Action Working Group</div>
Introduction
- Sarah Fuhro (VIDEO), mother of soldier who deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan: Opening Remarks
- Wayne Jaquith (VIDEO): How the Wars Started, their Impact, and Lessons to Learn to Avoid Future Wars
- Robert Funke (VIDEO), Vietnam Veteran
- Native American Drumming: Songs for Healing and New Beginnings (VIDEO)
- 22-year-old Iraqi Refugee (VIDEO)
Veteran Listening Sessions
- Vietnam Veteran, Corporal Jeffrey M. Lucey Chapter of Veterans for Peace (VIDEO)
- Rachel McNeill, Jason Mizula, and Ryan Cahill (VIDEO), Iraq Veterans
Military Family Listening Sessions
- Alice Copeland Brown (VIDEO), mother of Army officers from Canton, Massachusetts
- Joyce and Kevin Lucey (VIDEO), parents of Corporal Jeff Lucey, who committed suicide in 2004
- Carlos and Melida Arredondo (VIDEO), parents of Lance Corporal Alexander Arredondo, who was killed in 2004 on his 2nd tour of duty in Iraq
Thursday, November 10, 2011: Black Soldiers in the War of the Slaveowners Rebellion, stories from the Massachusetts 54th and 55th in the Civil WarSaturday, November 6, 2011: The Wall Street ComplexSaturday, October 22, 2011: Cut Military Spending, Fund Our CommunitiesThursday, October 20, 2011: Brian Wilson, author of "Blood on the Tracks," founding member of Smedley D. Butler Brigade of Veterans For PeaceWednesday, October 19, 2011: Afghanistan: Why Obama Must Change CourseSunday, October 16, 2011: Cindy Sheehan, activist, mother of soldier killed in Iraq (CANCELLED)Saturday, October 8, 2011: US Wars in the Middle East: Much Ado About Oil (VIDEO)
Health Justice Forum
Sunday, November 20, 2011
- Reproductive Justice and Economic Justice, with Marlene Fried, organized by the Women's Caucus
Saturday, November 12, 2011, Health Justice Speak Out, organized by the Health Justice Working Group
- Joyce & Kevin Lucey (VIDEO), parents of Jeff Lucey, who committed suicide after returning from Iraq talk about the VA Hospital
Saturday, November 5, 2011: Health Justice Forum, organized by the Health Justice Working Group
- Jim Recht and Mardge Cohen (VIDEO): Reoccupy the Health System through Single Payer Health Reform
- Jeremy Barofsky, Jacob Bor, and Ashley Winning: Economic Crisis, Austerity, and the Health of the 99%
- Katrina Ciraldo: How a Financial Transaction Tax Can End AIDS
Immigration Forum
Sunday, December 4, 2011
- Teach-In on Secure Communities, presented by Centro Presente and the Immigration Working Group
Sunday, October 23, 2011: Immigration Forum
- Neighbors United for a Better East Boston (NUBE): Opening Address and Welcome
- Tania Bruguera, Immigrant International Movement
- Peter Lowber: Opposing Secure Communities and Other Anti Immigrant Attacks; Vigils; Support for Human Rights and Immigrant Workers Rights
- Heloisa Maria Galvao, co-founder and the Executive Director of the Brazilian Women’s Group
- Carlos Rosales, Immigrant Worker Center Collaborative
- Break Out Discussion Group
Anarchism Forum
- Tuesday, October 25, 2011: Dennis Fox, retired professor of Legal Studies and Psychology University of Illnois-Springfield, "Anarchism & Psychology"
- Tuesday, October 11, 2011: Dennis Fox, retired professor of Legal Studies and Psychology University of Illnois-Springfield, "Anarchist Occupation Issues"
- Sunday, October 9, 2011: An Intro to Modern Anarchism: Isn't Libertarian Socialism a Contradiction? (VIDEO)
- Saturday, October 8, 2011: Anarchism, Psychology, and Law (VIDEO)
Film Screenings
Monday, December 19, 2011: The Take, a film by Avi Lewis and Naomi Klien about thirty unemployed auto-parts workers who walk into their idle factory, roll out sleeping mats and refuse to leave.
Saturday, December 17, 2011: This Is What Democracy Looks Like, film documenting mass demonstrations and coordinated direct actions in Seattle, WA in 1999 that shut down the WTO ministerial meeting, springboarding the US anti-globalization movement
Saturday, December 10, 2011: We Interrupt This Empire, a film documenting the mass coordinated direct action in San Francisco after the start of the Iraq WarWednesday, November 9, 2011: How To Start A Revolution, followed with commentary by Ruaridh Arrow (director) and Jamila Raqib (Albert Einstein Institute)
Other Teach-Ins
DECEMBER
Saturday, December 31, 2011: Roving Soap Box Street Corner Teach-Ins at First Night New Year's Eve Celebration in BostonMonday, December 19, 2011: Antonio Gramsci and the Occupy Movement, Lecture / Discussion with anthropologist Elizabeth Ferry (POSTPONED)Wednesday, December 14, 2011: OWS Forum on Jobs for All: Proposed DemandSunday, December 11, 2011: Adopt an Occupier, hosted by Occupy NewtonSaturday, December 3, 2011: Corporate Negligence & Bhopal, India: An Ongoing Disaster with The International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal (VIDEO)Thursday, December 1, 2011: Reading Group Planning Meeting (meet in front of the Library)
NOVEMBER
Saturday, November 26, 2011: Right on the Marx: New Insights From Some Old Ideas with Gordon Fellman (POSTPONED)Sunday, November 20, 2011:
Friday, November 18, 2011:
- Political Policing in the United States: Historical Perspectives on the Challenges Confronting the Occupy Movement, with Brendan McQuade
- Power & Visibility: “The Means of Correct Training,” from Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish
Thursday, November 17, 2011: From the Civil Rights Movement to the Occupy MovementWednesday, November 16, 2011: Fight for Our Basic Property Rights: The Big Bank's Fraud at Registries of Deeds, presented by John O'BrienSunday, November 13, 2011:
- From Occupation to Revolution with John Spritzler
- Workshop: Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed, a selection of games and exercises for social justice
Thursday, November 10, 2011:
- The Neuroscience of Greed with Rick Heller
- Public Class Meeting: Prisoner's Rights Legal Clinic, Northeastern University School of Law
Wednesday, November 9, 2011: Workshop: Your Rights at Work with Anneta Argyres and Tess EwingMonday, November 7, 2011:
- Workshop: Increasing Awareness and Protecting Your Sacred Fire
- Gaza & Palestine: The Israeli Siege and the Passion of Human Rights Activists throughout the World with Ridgely Fuller
- Your Public School Under Attack, Organizing to Fight Back! A workshop with Citizens for Public Schools
- Lecture: Historical Conversations for Democracy with Monica Poole
Sunday, November 6, 2011: Workshop: Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed, a selection of games and exercises for social justiceSaturday, November 5, 2011:
- Discussion: Where Do We Go From Here? with Todd Gitlin
- Youth, Justice, and Democracy in El Salvador with Margarito Nolasco
Tuesday, November 1, 2011: C.T. Butler, Consensus: So That All Voices May Be Heard
OCTOBER
Sunday, October 30, 2011:
Saturday, October 29, 2011: Glenn Greenwald: With Liberty and Justice for Some (CANCELLED)Friday, October 28, 2011:
- Dennis Fox, retired professor of Legal Studies and Psychology, "Challenging Basic Assumptions: Personal & Political"
- Askold Melnyczuk, Crafting Your Story: A Fiction Workshop
Wednesday, October 26, 2011:
- Nancy Murray, Director of Education, ACLU-Massachusetts, "The USA PATRIOT ACT and You"
- Roar Sheppard, author, Group Discussion
Sunday, October 23, 2011:
Saturday, October 22, 2011:
- Prisoners Realities, workshop with the Asheville Tranzmission Prison Project
- Anonymity & Security on the Web (VIDEO)
Thursday, October 20, 2011: Dennis Fox, retired professor of Legal Studies and Psychology, "Challenging Basic Assumptions"
Sunday, October 16, 2011:
Saturday, October 15, 2011:
Wednesday, October 12, 2011:
- Matthew Lowe, Active Listening 101: How to Have a Friendly Disagreement
- On Labor Day: Importance and Tactics of Building a Worker's Party
Monday, October 10, 2011:
- Indigenous People's Day Teach-in on Palestine
- Student Power: Building a New University in the Shell of the Old
- Active Listening 101: How to Have a Friendly Disagreement (VIDEO)
- Capitalism is Failing: The Socialist Alternative
Sunday, October 9, 2011:
- Capitalism, Energy, and Climate Change (VIDEO)
- The Case for Socialism: Human Need, Not Corporate Greed!
- Open Discussion: Tools Against Sexism within the Occupy Boston Movement
- Alex Gourevitch, professor, post-doctoral student at Brown University, The Meaning of "We Are The 99 Percent" (BLOG)
Friday, October 7, 2011:
- Kate Bonner-Jackson: "Translation Is Not A Crime: The Case for Tarek Mehanna"
- Effective Deep Green Resistance: A Strategy Conversation
- From the Battlefield to the Home Front: Technologies of Control in America (VIDEO)