FSU: Past Teach-Ins - Revision history

Racheljmcneill at 03:08, 16 June 2012

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	== '''<span style="color: rgb(255, 140, 0); font-family: georgia, serif;">Occupy Boston Community ~~Gathering~~</span>''' ==		== '''<span style="color: rgb(255, 140, 0); font-family: georgia, serif;">Occupy Boston Community Gatherings</span>''' ==

	''<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Occupy Boston </span>[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Community_Gathering_Schedule Community Gatherings]<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> are held weekly on Monday evenings at St Paul's Cathedral on Tremont Street, from 6:00 to 8:30 PM. It will be broadcasted live on obr.[http://obr.fm/ http://obr.fm] by Bob Funke, of VFP-Radio on OBRadio. [http://obr.fm/ Listen online] if you can't make it! The first half hour of the Community Gatherings are set aside for socializing. FSU will be hosting the following community gathering:</span>''		''<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Occupy Boston </span>[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Community_Gathering_Schedule Community Gatherings]<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> are held weekly on Monday evenings at St Paul's Cathedral on Tremont Street, from 6:00 to 8:30 PM. It will be broadcasted live on obr.[http://obr.fm/ http://obr.fm] by Bob Funke, of VFP-Radio on OBRadio. [http://obr.fm/ Listen online] if you can't make it! The first half hour of the Community Gatherings are set aside for socializing. FSU will be hosting the following community gathering:</span>''
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	== <span style="font-size:large;">'''<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 140, 0);">Educational Programs on Occupy Boston Radio</span></span>'''</span><br/> ==		== <span style="font-size:large;">'''<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 140, 0);">Educational Programs on Occupy Boston Radio</span></span>'''</span><br/> ==

Racheljmcneill at 02:05, 16 June 2012

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	<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">For video archive of all recorded lectures from The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series at Occupy Boston</span>, [http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/FSU_Video_Archive#The_Howard_Zinn_Memorial_Lecture_Series click here].		<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">For video archive of all recorded lectures from The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series at Occupy Boston</span>, [http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/FSU_Video_Archive#The_Howard_Zinn_Memorial_Lecture_Series click here].
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	=== <font color="#ff8c00" face="georgia, serif~~" size="2~~"><span style="line-height: 19px;">2012</span></font> ===		== '''<span style="font-size:medium;"><font color="#ff8c00" face="georgia, serif"><span style="line-height: 19px;">2012 Lectures & Panel Discussions</span></font></span>''' ==
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	'''Friday, April 13~~, 2012~~ (Camp Charlie):''' [http://youtu.be/TfTKT9o_CYg From Occupy to Revolution: The Importance of Keeping a Radical Perspective] with radical scholar, marxist intellectual, and long-time social justice activist, [http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~bfoley/ Professor Barbara Foley]		'''Friday, April 13 (Camp Charlie):''' [http://youtu.be/TfTKT9o_CYg From Occupy to Revolution: The Importance of Keeping a Radical Perspective] with radical scholar, marxist intellectual, and long-time social justice activist, [http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~bfoley/ Professor Barbara Foley]

	'''Saturday, March 30~~, 2012~~:''' [http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE77EE49CE14338EA Boycott Politics & Global Responsibility]		'''Saturday, March 30:''' [http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE77EE49CE14338EA Boycott Politics & Global Responsibility]

	<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">'''Friday, March 23: '''[http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFAD592CD7A2DDE59 Carl Finamore], </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">a first-hand witness to the Egyptian Revolution last year that toppled Hosni Mubarak, o</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">n the Egyptian Revolution</span>		<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">'''Friday, March 23: '''[http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFAD592CD7A2DDE59 Carl Finamore], </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">a first-hand witness to the Egyptian Revolution last year that toppled Hosni Mubarak, o</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">n the Egyptian Revolution</span>
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	'''Friday, January 20: '''[http://bit.ly/s1Byah Panel: From Occupy to Workers Control], with Immanuel Ness and Elaine Bernard		'''Friday, January 20: '''[http://bit.ly/s1Byah Panel: From Occupy to Workers Control], with Immanuel Ness and Elaine Bernard
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	=== <span style="font-size:small;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 140, 0);"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">'''<span style="line-height: 19px;">Lectures Series at Dewey Square</span>'''</span></span></span> ===		=== <span style="font-size:small;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 140, 0);"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">'''<span style="line-height: 19px;">Lectures Series at Dewey Square</span>'''</span></span></span> ===
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	<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">For video archive of all recorded lectures from The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series at Occupy Boston</span>, [http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/FSU_Video_Archive#The_Howard_Zinn_Memorial_Lecture_Series click here].		<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">For video archive of all recorded lectures from The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series at Occupy Boston</span>, [http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/FSU_Video_Archive#The_Howard_Zinn_Memorial_Lecture_Series click here].
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			=== <font color="#ff8c00" face="georgia, serif" size="2"><span style="line-height: 19px;">2012</span></font> ===
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			'''Friday, April 13, 2012 (Camp Charlie):''' [http://youtu.be/TfTKT9o_CYg From Occupy to Revolution: The Importance of Keeping a Radical Perspective] with radical scholar, marxist intellectual, and long-time social justice activist, [http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~bfoley/ Professor Barbara Foley]

	*'''Friday, April 13, 2012 (10:00am at Camp Charlie on the Statehouse steps):''' [http://youtu.be/TfTKT9o_CYg From Occupy to Revolution: The Importance of Keeping a Radical Perspective] with radical scholar, marxist intellectual, and long-time social justice activist, [http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~bfoley/ Professor Barbara Foley]		'''Saturday, March 30, 2012:''' [http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE77EE49CE14338EA Boycott Politics & Global Responsibility]
	*'''Saturday, March 30, 2012:''' [http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE77EE49CE14338EA Boycott Politics & Global Responsibility]
	*<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">'''Friday, March 23: '''[http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFAD592CD7A2DDE59 Carl Finamore], </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">a first-hand witness to the Egyptian Revolution last year that toppled Hosni Mubarak, o</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">n the Egyptian Revolution</span>
	*'''Thursday, Feb 9: '''Marx's Ghost: Midnight Conversations on Changing the World (Charlie Derber, Alexandra Pineros Shields, Brian Kwoba, Genevieve Butler
	*'''Friday, January 20: '''[http://bit.ly/s1Byah Panel: From Occupy to Workers Control], with Immanuel Ness and Elaine Bernard

	=== <span style="font-size:small;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 140, 0);"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">'''<span style="line-height: 19px;">Lectures at Dewey Square</span>'''</span></span></span> ===		<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">'''Friday, March 23: '''[http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFAD592CD7A2DDE59 Carl Finamore], </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">a first-hand witness to the Egyptian Revolution last year that toppled Hosni Mubarak, o</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">n the Egyptian Revolution</span>
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			'''Thursday, Feb 9: '''Marx's Ghost: Midnight Conversations on Changing the World (Charlie Derber, Alexandra Pineros Shields, Brian Kwoba, Genevieve Butler

			'''Friday, January 20: '''[http://bit.ly/s1Byah Panel: From Occupy to Workers Control], with Immanuel Ness and Elaine Bernard
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			=== <span style="font-size:small;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 140, 0);"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">'''<span style="line-height: 19px;">Lectures Series at Dewey Square</span>'''</span></span></span> ===
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	<li>'''Saturday, December 10:''' Rich Levy, professor of history at Salem State University, "The Legacy of the Sixties and Occupy"</li>		<li>'''Saturday, December 10:''' Rich Levy, professor of history at Salem State University, "The Legacy of the Sixties and Occupy"</li>
	<li><div>'''<font class="Apple-style-span"><span class="event-when"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Wednesday, December 7</font>: </span></font>'''<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Avi Chomsky, professor of history at Salem State University</span></div></li>		<li><div>'''<font class="Apple-style-span"><span class="event-when"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Wednesday, December 7</font>: </span></font>'''<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Avi Chomsky, professor of history at Salem State University</span></div></li>
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	<li><div>'''Thursday, October 13: '''<span class="Apple-style-span">Victor Wallis: Roots of the Current Crisis</span></div></li>		<li><div>'''Thursday, October 13: '''<span class="Apple-style-span">Victor Wallis: Roots of the Current Crisis</span></div></li>
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	=== <span style="font-size:small;"><span style="color:#ff8c00;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">'''<span style="line-height: 19px;">Left Forum</span>'''</span></span></span> ===		=== <span style="font-size:small;"><span style="color:#ff8c00;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">'''<span style="line-height: 19px;">Left Forum</span>'''</span></span></span> ===
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	<div>'''Saturday, March 10, 2012''' (10am): Doug Enaa Greene (Occupy Boston activist, member of the [http://kasamaproject.org/ Kasama Project]), Irv Kurki (coordinator for ''essential discussions'' on advanced theory), and Mario Rendon ([http://www.aipnyc.org/ American Institute of Psychoanalysis]) will offer their reflections on [http://monthlyreview.org/2010/02/01/istvan-meszaros-pathfinder-of-socialism Istvan Meszaros]' latest work and relate it to the current situation. The presenters contend that the American mind is stocked with the categories, symbols, and rules of the 1 percent, and that it is absolutely necessary to start discarding and restocking with the relevant structures of the 99 percent. ([http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE9E1C3A001FF3524 VIDEO])</div></blockquote><div class="yiv1030804791WordSection1" lang="en-us" dir="ltr" align="left" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><blockquote>		<div>'''Saturday, March 10, 2012''' (10am): Doug Enaa Greene (Occupy Boston activist, member of the [http://kasamaproject.org/ Kasama Project]), Irv Kurki (coordinator for ''essential discussions'' on advanced theory), and Mario Rendon ([http://www.aipnyc.org/ American Institute of Psychoanalysis]) will offer their reflections on [http://monthlyreview.org/2010/02/01/istvan-meszaros-pathfinder-of-socialism Istvan Meszaros]' latest work and relate it to the current situation. The presenters contend that the American mind is stocked with the categories, symbols, and rules of the 1 percent, and that it is absolutely necessary to start discarding and restocking with the relevant structures of the 99 percent. ([http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE9E1C3A001FF3524 VIDEO])</div></blockquote><div class="yiv1030804791WordSection1" lang="en-us" dir="ltr" align="left" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><blockquote>
	==== <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 140, 0);"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Radical Theory in Social Change: The Work of Michael Lebowitz</span></span></span> ====		==== <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 140, 0);"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Radical Theory in Social Change: The Work of Michael Lebowitz</span></span></span> ====
	<div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">'''Sunday, March 11, 2012''' (1pm): Chair Irv Kurki (coordinator for ''essential discussions'' on advanced theory) and speakers Amy Hendrickson (activist with Brookline Peaceworks, [http://www.wilpf.org/ Women's International League for Peace and Freedom], and [http://www.stopthewars.org/start/ Boston Stop the War]) and Jim Barton (independent scholar and co-author of ''Thinking on Paper'' and ''Thinking Together'') will discuss the separation of radical theory from practical struggles as a weakness that can be overcome. Michael Lebowitz's recent work ([http://monthlyreview.org/press/books/pb1455/ ''Build It Now: Socialism for the 21st Century'']) elucidate the powerful potential of integrating radical theory and practice as in the trasformative struggles in revolutionary Venezuela. The speakers will illustrate universal lessons in Lebowitz's work and discuss possible applications.</div></blockquote></div></div></div~~></blockquote><blockquote~~>		<div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">'''Sunday, March 11, 2012''' (1pm): Chair Irv Kurki (coordinator for ''essential discussions'' on advanced theory) and speakers Amy Hendrickson (activist with Brookline Peaceworks, [http://www.wilpf.org/ Women's International League for Peace and Freedom], and [http://www.stopthewars.org/start/ Boston Stop the War]) and Jim Barton (independent scholar and co-author of ''Thinking on Paper'' and ''Thinking Together'') will discuss the separation of radical theory from practical struggles as a weakness that can be overcome. Michael Lebowitz's recent work ([http://monthlyreview.org/press/books/pb1455/ ''Build It Now: Socialism for the 21st Century'']) elucidate the powerful potential of integrating radical theory and practice as in the trasformative struggles in revolutionary Venezuela. The speakers will illustrate universal lessons in Lebowitz's work and discuss possible applications.</div></blockquote></div></div></div>
	=== <span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">'''<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">OCCUPY''film'': Occupied Peoples \| People's Occupations</span>'''</span></span> ===		=== <span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">'''<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">OCCUPY''film'': Occupied Peoples \| People's Occupations</span>'''</span></span> ===
	<div>This '''FREE''' series of films and discussions presented by the organizers of [http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Free_School_University_(FSU)#The_Howard_Zinn_Memorial_Lecture_Series The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series] will take place at the '''Community Church''' of Boston (tentatively) every Thursday nights at 7:30pm through Thursday, May 10, 2012. This series is being organized with the intent to shed historical and social light on our current situation, by bringing people together to reflect on past and present people's struggles, in particular those struggles which are most often buried in the mainstream historical narrative. Check back soon for more details about the [http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5881ADB8877E1FE3 Occupied Peoples \| People's Occupations] series. <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The following films have been shown:</span></span></span></div~~></blockquote><blockquote~~>		<div>This '''FREE''' series of films and discussions presented by the organizers of [http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Free_School_University_(FSU)#The_Howard_Zinn_Memorial_Lecture_Series The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series] will take place at the '''Community Church''' of Boston (tentatively) every Thursday nights at 7:30pm through Thursday, May 10, 2012. This series is being organized with the intent to shed historical and social light on our current situation, by bringing people together to reflect on past and present people's struggles, in particular those struggles which are most often buried in the mainstream historical narrative. Check back soon for more details about the [http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5881ADB8877E1FE3 Occupied Peoples \| People's Occupations] series. <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The following films have been shown:</span></span></span></div>
	==== <span style="color: ~~rgb(255, 0, 0)~~;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Three Thousand Years and Life</span></span></span> ====		==== <span style="color:#ff8c00;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Three Thousand Years and Life</span></span></span> ====
	<div style="margin-left: 40px;">'''Thursday, February 23, 2012 ([http://www.occupyboston.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/OccupyFilm-3000yearsandlife-790x1024.jpg POSTER]):''' [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1929428/ Three Thousand Years and Life] is a breath-taking 1973 documentary, featuring original footage of the occupation of Walpole prison. Two years after the massacre at Attica, prison guards at the Massachusetts Correctional Institute at Walpole walked out in response to progressive reforms at the facility. Bobby Delello (a former prisoner who participated in the event) and Jamie Bisonette, author of [http://southendpress.org/2007/items/87705 When the Prisoners Ran Walpole: A True Story of the Prison Abolition Movement] (a book about the event) will both be present for discussion after the film. Bisonette wrote of the event: "The prisoners stepped ably into the void—and all-out peace ensued. They shrank the murder rate from the highest in the country to zero. Even more significantly, they worked hard to bury racial antagonism and longstanding feuds so even 'lifers' with no hope of going home could find ways to live together, learn, and grow—to regain the humanity that the system intended to squash."</div>		<div style="margin-left: 40px;">'''Thursday, February 23, 2012 ([http://www.occupyboston.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/OccupyFilm-3000yearsandlife-790x1024.jpg POSTER]):''' [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1929428/ Three Thousand Years and Life] is a breath-taking 1973 documentary, featuring original footage of the occupation of Walpole prison. Two years after the massacre at Attica, prison guards at the Massachusetts Correctional Institute at Walpole walked out in response to progressive reforms at the facility. Bobby Delello (a former prisoner who participated in the event) and Jamie Bisonette, author of [http://southendpress.org/2007/items/87705 When the Prisoners Ran Walpole: A True Story of the Prison Abolition Movement] (a book about the event) will both be present for discussion after the film. Bisonette wrote of the event: "The prisoners stepped ably into the void—and all-out peace ensued. They shrank the murder rate from the highest in the country to zero. Even more significantly, they worked hard to bury racial antagonism and longstanding feuds so even 'lifers' with no hope of going home could find ways to live together, learn, and grow—to regain the humanity that the system intended to squash."</div>
	==== <span style="color: ~~rgb(255, 0, 0)~~;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">'''Left on Pearl'''</span></span></span> ====		==== <span style="color:#ff8c00;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">'''Left on Pearl'''</span></span></span> ====
	<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'''Thursday, February 16, 2012 ([http://www.occupyboston.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/OccupyFilm-leftonpearl42.jpg POSTER]): '''</span>[http://www.leftonpearl.org/ Left on Pearl], a work in progress directed by Susie Rivo, is a film that honors the International Women's Day marchers who turned left on Pearl on March 6, 1971 to take over a Harvard building at 888 Memorial Drive, declaring it the first Women's Center. The film employs multiple perspectives to tell the story of this little-known but highly significant chapter in the history of the Second Wave of the Women's Movement. The event marked a surprise ending of that year’s International Woman’s Day march and through the occupation, hundreds of women tranformed the hopes, glories, conflicts and tensions of Second Wave feminism into the establishment of the longest continually operating Women’s Center in the United States and sparked the development of many other feminist and community organizations both locally and nationally.</div><div><br/></div></blockquote><div></div>		<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'''Thursday, February 16, 2012 ([http://www.occupyboston.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/OccupyFilm-leftonpearl42.jpg POSTER]): '''</span>[http://www.leftonpearl.org/ Left on Pearl], a work in progress directed by Susie Rivo, is a film that honors the International Women's Day marchers who turned left on Pearl on March 6, 1971 to take over a Harvard building at 888 Memorial Drive, declaring it the first Women's Center. The film employs multiple perspectives to tell the story of this little-known but highly significant chapter in the history of the Second Wave of the Women's Movement. The event marked a surprise ending of that year’s International Woman’s Day march and through the occupation, hundreds of women tranformed the hopes, glories, conflicts and tensions of Second Wave feminism into the establishment of the longest continually operating Women’s Center in the United States and sparked the development of many other feminist and community organizations both locally and nationally.</div></blockquote><blockquote><div><br/></div></blockquote><div></div>

	== '''<span style="color: rgb(255, 140, 0);"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Occupy Boston Economics Forum</span></span></span>''' ==		== '''<span style="color: rgb(255, 140, 0);"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Occupy Boston Economics Forum</span></span></span>''' ==

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	*'''January 18, 2012: '''Jerry Friedman (University of Massachusetts-Amherst) will be on OB Radio with David from FSU to talk about the economy as part of our new weekly broadcast.		*'''January 18, 2012: '''Jerry Friedman (University of Massachusetts-Amherst) will be on OB Radio with David from FSU to talk about the economy as part of our new weekly broadcast.
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	=== <span style="font-size:~~medium~~;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">'''<span style="color: rgb(255, 140, 0);">Wall Street's Global Reach</span>'''</span></span> ===		<blockquote>
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	'''Friday, December 16, 2011: '''Kevin Gallagher and Tim Wise discuss how Wall Street lobby groups affect the Eurozone and food crises on Occupy Boston Radio with Free School University. Kevin Gallagher is an associate professor of international relations at Boston University and research associate at the [http://ase.tufts.edu/gdae/ Global Development and Environment Institute](Tufts University). Tim Wise is Director of the Research and Policy Program at the Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University, and leads its Globalization and Sustainable Development Program.		'''Friday, December 16, 2011: '''Kevin Gallagher and Tim Wise discuss how Wall Street lobby groups affect the Eurozone and food crises on Occupy Boston Radio with Free School University. Kevin Gallagher is an associate professor of international relations at Boston University and research associate at the [http://ase.tufts.edu/gdae/ Global Development and Environment Institute](Tufts University). Tim Wise is Director of the Research and Policy Program at the Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University, and leads its Globalization and Sustainable Development Program.
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	=== <span style="font-size:large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 140, 0);">VFP-RADIO</span></span></span> ===		=== <span style="font-size:large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 140, 0);">VFP-RADIO</span></span></span> ===

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	''This weekly Veterans For Peace (VFP) radio broadcast, organized and hosted by Bob Funke a Vietnam veteran and member of the [http://smedleyvfp.org/ Smedley D. Butler Brigade] of [http://www.veteransforpeace.org/ Veterans For Peace] and Occupy Boston's [http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/WG/Peace_Action Action For Peace Working Group], streams live on [http://occupyboston.org/radio 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 [http://occupyboston.org/radio occupyboston.org/radio]. ''		''This weekly Veterans For Peace (VFP) radio broadcast, organized and hosted by Bob Funke a Vietnam veteran and member of the [http://smedleyvfp.org/ Smedley D. Butler Brigade] of [http://www.veteransforpeace.org/ Veterans For Peace] and Occupy Boston's [http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/WG/Peace_Action Action For Peace Working Group], streams live on [http://occupyboston.org/radio 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 [http://occupyboston.org/radio occupyboston.org/radio]. ''
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			*'''June 11, 2012'''

			*'''June 4, 2012'''

			*'''May 28, 2012'''

			*'''May 21, 2012'''

			*'''May 14, 2012'''

			*'''May 7, 2012'''

	*'''April 30, 2012: '''Live broadcast of FSU's Peace & Economic Justice Community Gathering		*'''April 30, 2012: '''Live broadcast of FSU's Peace & Economic Justice Community Gathering
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	#To seek justice for veterans and victims of war		#To seek justice for veterans and victims of war
	#To abolish war as an instrument of national policy.		#To abolish war as an instrument of national policy.
	</blockquote><blockquote>		</blockquote><blockquote>To achieve these goals, members of Veterans For Peace pledge to use non-violent means and to maintain an organization that is both democratic and open with the understanding that all members are trusted to act in the best interests of the group for the larger purpose of world 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).</blockquote>
	To achieve these goals, members of Veterans For Peace pledge to use non-violent means and to maintain an organization that is both democratic and open with the understanding that all members are trusted to act in the best interests of the group for the larger purpose of world 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).
	</blockquote>

	== '''<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 140, 0);"><span style="font-size: large;">The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series</span></span></span>''' ==		== '''<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 140, 0);"><span style="font-size: large;">The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series</span></span></span>''' ==

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+<blockquote>
-''This weekly radio broadcast organized by members of the&nbsp;[http://smedleyvfp.org/ Smedley D. Butler Brigade]&nbsp;of Veterans For Peace streams is live on&nbsp;[http://occupyboston.org/radio OB Radio]&nbsp;every Monday night at 6:00pm.&nbsp;Call 617-506-9726 with questions or comments during the show, or join the IRC chat at&nbsp;[http://occupyboston.org/radio occupyboston.org/radio]. Unless otherwise noted, the VFP radio show will be hosted by Bob Funke, member of the&nbsp;[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/WG/Peace_Action Action For Peace Working Group]&nbsp;at Occupy Boston and Vietnam Veteran For Peace.''
+''This weekly Veterans For Peace (VFP) radio broadcast, organized and hosted by Bob Funke a Vietnam veteran and member of the&nbsp;[http://smedleyvfp.org/ Smedley D. Butler Brigade]&nbsp;of [http://www.veteransforpeace.org/ Veterans For Peace] and Occupy Boston's&nbsp;[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/WG/Peace_Action Action For Peace Working Group],&nbsp;streams live on&nbsp;[http://occupyboston.org/radio OB Radio]&nbsp;every '''Monday night''' at 6:00pm.&nbsp;Call 617-506-9726 with questions or comments during the show, or join the IRC chat at&nbsp;[http://occupyboston.org/radio occupyboston.org/radio].&nbsp;''
-'''Monday, April 30, 2012:&nbsp;'''Live broadcast of FSU's Peace & Economic Justice Community Gathering
+*'''April 30, 2012:&nbsp;'''Live broadcast of FSU's Peace & Economic Justice Community Gathering
 #Toward increasing public awareness of the costs of war
 #To restrain our government from intervening, overtly and covertly, in the internal affairs of other nations&nbsp;
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 #To seek justice for veterans and victims of war
 #To abolish war as an instrument of national policy.
-To achieve these goals, members of Veterans For Peace pledge to use non-violent means and to maintain an organization that is both democratic and open with the understanding that all members are trusted to act in the best interests of the group for the larger purpose of world peace.&nbsp;[http://www.veteransforpeace.org/ Veterans For Peace]&nbsp;is a non-profit educational and humanitarian organization dedicated to the abolishment of war employing the motto "De Oppresso Liber" (Liberate the Oppressed).</blockquote>
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 == '''<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 140, 0);"><span style="font-size: large;">The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series</span></span></span>''' ==

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	== <span style="font-size:large;">'''<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 140, 0);">~~Free School University~~ on Occupy Boston Radio</span></span>'''</span><br/> ==		== <span style="font-size:large;">'''<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 140, 0);">Educational Programs on Occupy Boston Radio</span></span>'''</span><br/> ==

	''[http://occupyboston.org/radio Occupy Boston Radio] is currently available by internet only. [http://fsuradio.wordpress.com/ FSU-RADIO] is an educational series by Occupy Boston's Free School University. Our '''Wednesday night''' program consists of TALK radio featuring educational content such as lectures, panel discussions and interviews, with host David Knuttunen. Call 617-506-9726 with questions or comments. Visit [http://occupyboston.org/radio occupyboston.org/radio] for more information about [http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/WG/radio OB Radio]<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px;"> and to join IRC chat during broadcasts. </span>To propose a guest for the program or to be a guest host, please email [mailto:fsu@occupyboston.org <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1328150391_3">fsu@occupyboston.org</span>], or call David Knuttunen at 617-558-5853. ''''To listen to archived recordings of the broadcast, [http://dsaboston.org/testing/TestMP3.html click here] (under construction).'''''

	~~''<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"></span>''~~

			''[http://occupyboston.org/radio Occupy Boston Radio] is currently available by internet only. [http://fsuradio.wordpress.com/ FSU-RADIO] is an educational series by Occupy Boston's Free School University. Our '''Wednesday night''' program consists of TALK radio featuring educational content such as lectures, panel discussions and interviews, with host David Knuttunen. Call 617-506-9726 with questions or comments. Visit [http://occupyboston.org/radio occupyboston.org/radio] for more information about [http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/WG/radio OB Radio]<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px;"> and to join IRC chat during broadcasts. </span>To propose a guest for the program or to be a guest host, please email [mailto:fsu@occupyboston.org <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1328150391_3">fsu@occupyboston.org</span>], or call David Knuttunen at 617-558-5853. To listen to archived recordings of the broadcast, [http://dsaboston.org/testing/TestMP3.html click here] (under construction).''
			<blockquote>
			=== <span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 140, 0);">'''FSU-RADIO'''</span></span></span> <span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 140, 0);"><span style="line-height: 19px;"></span></span></span></span> ===
			</blockquote><blockquote>
	*'''June 13, 2012: '''"[http://fsuradio.wordpress.com/2012/06/11/wed-613-money-debt-the-federal-reserve-bank-w-prof-arjun-jayadev-rebroadcast/ Money, Debt, and the Federal Reserve]" with Arjun Jayadev (originally aired on February 15). Dr. Arjun Jayadev is a young Assistant Professor of Economics at U. Mass – Boston with a strong commitment to progressive policies to make the economy work for the 99%. He explains what money “really” is, and discusses matters such as how banks “create” money, why we don’t want to be on a “gold standard”, the role of the Federal Reserve Bank, the differences from a policy standpoint between household and national debt… and what genuinely progressive policies on money, debt and banking would look like.		*'''June 13, 2012: '''"[http://fsuradio.wordpress.com/2012/06/11/wed-613-money-debt-the-federal-reserve-bank-w-prof-arjun-jayadev-rebroadcast/ Money, Debt, and the Federal Reserve]" with Arjun Jayadev (originally aired on February 15). Dr. Arjun Jayadev is a young Assistant Professor of Economics at U. Mass – Boston with a strong commitment to progressive policies to make the economy work for the 99%. He explains what money “really” is, and discusses matters such as how banks “create” money, why we don’t want to be on a “gold standard”, the role of the Federal Reserve Bank, the differences from a policy standpoint between household and national debt… and what genuinely progressive policies on money, debt and banking would look like.

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	*'''January 18, 2012: '''Jerry Friedman (University of Massachusetts-Amherst) will be on OB Radio with David from FSU to talk about the economy as part of our new weekly broadcast.		*'''January 18, 2012: '''Jerry Friedman (University of Massachusetts-Amherst) will be on OB Radio with David from FSU to talk about the economy as part of our new weekly broadcast.
			</blockquote><blockquote>
			=== <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">'''<span style="color: rgb(255, 140, 0);">Wall Street's Global Reach</span>'''</span></span> ===

	~~<span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">'''<span style="color: rgb(255, 140, 0);">Wall Street's Global Reach: How Wall Street Lobby Groups Affect the Eurozone & Food Crises</span>'''</span>~~		'''Friday, December 16, 2011: '''Kevin Gallagher and Tim Wise discuss how Wall Street lobby groups affect the Eurozone and food crises on Occupy Boston Radio with Free School University. Kevin Gallagher is an associate professor of international relations at Boston University and research associate at the [http://ase.tufts.edu/gdae/ Global Development and Environment Institute](Tufts University). Tim Wise is Director of the Research and Policy Program at the Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University, and leads its Globalization and Sustainable Development Program.
			</blockquote>
	'''Friday, December 16, 2011:~~ ~~'''Kevin Gallagher and Tim Wise discuss the Eurozone and ~~the~~ food crises on Occupy Boston Radio with Free School University. Kevin Gallagher is an associate professor of international relations at Boston University and research associate at the [http://ase.tufts.edu/gdae/ Global Development and Environment Institute](Tufts University). Tim Wise is Director of the Research and Policy Program at the Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University, and leads its Globalization and Sustainable Development Program.

	== <span style="font-size:large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 140, 0);">Veterans For Peace on Occupy Boston Radio</span></span></span> ==		== <span style="font-size:large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 140, 0);">Veterans For Peace on Occupy Boston Radio</span></span></span> ==

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	</blockquote><blockquote>'''Wednesday, March 14, 2012: '''<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Gordon Fellman (PhD), Professor of Sociology at Brandeis, will be talking with us about Marxism and its ongoing relevance to understanding how Occupy helps clarify the meaning of central Marxian concepts like alienation, ruling ideas, false consciousness, genuine consciousness, and social class. He will reason that one's understanding of Occupy is greatly enhanced by applying Marx to it.</span></blockquote><blockquote><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">'''Wednesday, March 7, 2012: '''On the day before International Women’s Day, our guest will be feminist economist Randy Albelda (PhD), Professor of Economics at University of Massachusetts-Boston, who will be discussing women and poverty (and what we need to do about it).</span></span></blockquote><blockquote><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 19px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">'''Wednesday, February 29, 2012: '''Nativism and Paranoia in American Politics--Past and Present--wiith historian </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 19px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Lester “Africanus” Lee. Lee has studied at Antioch College, The University of Ghana,</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 19px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The Bologna Center, Bologna, Italy (Johns Hopkins University), and the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. He is a Senior Lecturer of History at Suffolk University.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 19px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 19px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">What better day than a Leap Day to think about the curiosities of time, and what bigger curiosity than the way history seems inevitably to repeat itself? Why don’t people learn from the past?</span></div></blockquote><blockquote>'''Wednesday, February 22, 2012: '''<span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Grace Ross, activist, author and former Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate Grace Ross will be discussing her book, </span>''Main Street''' '''''<i>$marts: Who got us into this economic mess and how we get through it?</i><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> The book is a comprehensive survey of the damage done to the 99% by an economy managed for the benefit of the few, and provides common sense prescriptions for solving the problems, ranging from banking, foreclosures and homelessness, to health care, to jobs - all the while empowering people and building a more democratic society.</span></blockquote><blockquote>'''Wednesday, February 15, 2012: '''Arjun Jayadev (PhD), assistant professor of Economics at University of Massachusetts-Boston, whose areas of expertise include international economics, economics of distribution, development, political economy, macroeconomic dynamics, and economics of power. <span style="font-family: Arial;">We will be discussing money, debt and the Federal Reserve Bank.</span></blockquote><blockquote>'''Wednesday, February 8, 2012''': <span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Grace Ross is a lifetime activist in democratic people’s movements and a two-time candidate for Governor of Massachusetts. </span><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She is presently the coordinator of the Mass Alliance Against Predatory Lending, the statewide coalition working to reverse the foreclosure-crisis in our Commonwealth.</span><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She has written a book on the current economic crisis entitled “Main Street $marts – Who got us into this economic mess and how we get through it?” </span><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We will be discussing some of these issues in a conversation that includes, “How did we get here?”</span><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“What do we do about it?” and “What is the role of the Occupy movement in solving these problems?”</span></blockquote><blockquote style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">'''<font class="Apple-style-span"><span class="event-when">Wednesday, February 1: "</span></font>'''<font class="Apple-style-span"><span class="event-when">[http://dsaboston.org/testing/TestMP3.html Anarchism, Democracy, and Occupy]" with</span></font>'''<font class="Apple-style-span"><span class="event-when"> </span></font>'''[http://www.dennisfox.net/ Dennis Fox], retired professor of Legal Studies and Psychology University of Illnois-Springfield and co-founder of the [http://www.radpsynet.org/ Radical Psychology Network]. Dennis Fox is an anarchist and social psychologist who has been involved with Occupy Boston since the beginning. Back in the fall, he taught a number of courses for FSU on the intersections of anarchism, psychology, and law, topics he began exploring in the 1970s while participating in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clamshell_Alliance Boston Clamshell Alliance] and Coalition for Direct Action at Seabrook. The conversation was about anarchism and democracy, and the lessons that are being learned from the Occupy movement.</blockquote><blockquote style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">'''Wednesday, January 25, 2012: '''Cooperative Businesses and Low Cost Computing with Wayne Clark and Marlene Archer of Occupy Newton. Wayne Clark has been involved with cooperative businesses over many years, and will talk about what a cooperative is and is not, and how by organizing production in cooperatives we can build for a non-capitalist future. Marlene Archer works with a non-profit that acquires old computers, including relatively recent ones being replaced by corporations and rich institutions, and recycles them to make low cost computers available to individuals and smaller non-profits. She will talk about computer recycling, and other ways of accessing computing power on a limited budget.</blockquote><blockquote style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">'''Wednesday, January 18, 2012: '''Jerry Friedman (University of Massachusetts-Amherst) will be on OB Radio with David from FSU to talk about the economy as part of our new weekly broadcast.<br/></blockquote><blockquote style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">'''Friday, December 16, 2011: '''Kevin Gallagher and Tim Wise discussed "Wall Street's Global Reach: How Wall Street Lobby Groups are affecting the Eurozone and Food Crises." Kevin Gallagher is an associate professor of international relations at Boston University and research associate at the [http://ase.tufts.edu/gdae/ Global Development and Environment Institute] (Tufts University). Tim Wise is Director of the Research and Policy Program at the Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University, and leads its Globalization and Sustainable Development Program.</blockquote>		</blockquote><blockquote>'''Wednesday, March 14, 2012: '''<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Gordon Fellman (PhD), Professor of Sociology at Brandeis, will be talking with us about Marxism and its ongoing relevance to understanding how Occupy helps clarify the meaning of central Marxian concepts like alienation, ruling ideas, false consciousness, genuine consciousness, and social class. He will reason that one's understanding of Occupy is greatly enhanced by applying Marx to it.</span></blockquote><blockquote><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">'''Wednesday, March 7, 2012: '''On the day before International Women’s Day, our guest will be feminist economist Randy Albelda (PhD), Professor of Economics at University of Massachusetts-Boston, who will be discussing women and poverty (and what we need to do about it).</span></span></blockquote><blockquote><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 19px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">'''Wednesday, February 29, 2012: '''Nativism and Paranoia in American Politics--Past and Present--wiith historian </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 19px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Lester “Africanus” Lee. Lee has studied at Antioch College, The University of Ghana,</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 19px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The Bologna Center, Bologna, Italy (Johns Hopkins University), and the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. He is a Senior Lecturer of History at Suffolk University.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 19px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 19px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">What better day than a Leap Day to think about the curiosities of time, and what bigger curiosity than the way history seems inevitably to repeat itself? Why don’t people learn from the past?</span></div></blockquote><blockquote>'''Wednesday, February 22, 2012: '''<span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Grace Ross, activist, author and former Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate Grace Ross will be discussing her book, </span>''Main Street''' '''''<i>$marts: Who got us into this economic mess and how we get through it?</i><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> The book is a comprehensive survey of the damage done to the 99% by an economy managed for the benefit of the few, and provides common sense prescriptions for solving the problems, ranging from banking, foreclosures and homelessness, to health care, to jobs - all the while empowering people and building a more democratic society.</span></blockquote><blockquote>'''Wednesday, February 15, 2012: '''Arjun Jayadev (PhD), assistant professor of Economics at University of Massachusetts-Boston, whose areas of expertise include international economics, economics of distribution, development, political economy, macroeconomic dynamics, and economics of power. <span style="font-family: Arial;">We will be discussing money, debt and the Federal Reserve Bank.</span></blockquote><blockquote>'''Wednesday, February 8, 2012''': <span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Grace Ross is a lifetime activist in democratic people’s movements and a two-time candidate for Governor of Massachusetts. </span><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She is presently the coordinator of the Mass Alliance Against Predatory Lending, the statewide coalition working to reverse the foreclosure-crisis in our Commonwealth.</span><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She has written a book on the current economic crisis entitled “Main Street $marts – Who got us into this economic mess and how we get through it?” </span><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We will be discussing some of these issues in a conversation that includes, “How did we get here?”</span><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“What do we do about it?” and “What is the role of the Occupy movement in solving these problems?”</span></blockquote><blockquote style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">'''<font class="Apple-style-span"><span class="event-when">Wednesday, February 1: "</span></font>'''<font class="Apple-style-span"><span class="event-when">[http://dsaboston.org/testing/TestMP3.html Anarchism, Democracy, and Occupy]" with</span></font>'''<font class="Apple-style-span"><span class="event-when"> </span></font>'''[http://www.dennisfox.net/ Dennis Fox], retired professor of Legal Studies and Psychology University of Illnois-Springfield and co-founder of the [http://www.radpsynet.org/ Radical Psychology Network]. Dennis Fox is an anarchist and social psychologist who has been involved with Occupy Boston since the beginning. Back in the fall, he taught a number of courses for FSU on the intersections of anarchism, psychology, and law, topics he began exploring in the 1970s while participating in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clamshell_Alliance Boston Clamshell Alliance] and Coalition for Direct Action at Seabrook. The conversation was about anarchism and democracy, and the lessons that are being learned from the Occupy movement.</blockquote><blockquote style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">'''Wednesday, January 25, 2012: '''Cooperative Businesses and Low Cost Computing with Wayne Clark and Marlene Archer of Occupy Newton. Wayne Clark has been involved with cooperative businesses over many years, and will talk about what a cooperative is and is not, and how by organizing production in cooperatives we can build for a non-capitalist future. Marlene Archer works with a non-profit that acquires old computers, including relatively recent ones being replaced by corporations and rich institutions, and recycles them to make low cost computers available to individuals and smaller non-profits. She will talk about computer recycling, and other ways of accessing computing power on a limited budget.</blockquote><blockquote style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">'''Wednesday, January 18, 2012: '''Jerry Friedman (University of Massachusetts-Amherst) will be on OB Radio with David from FSU to talk about the economy as part of our new weekly broadcast.<br/></blockquote><blockquote style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">'''Friday, December 16, 2011: '''Kevin Gallagher and Tim Wise discussed "Wall Street's Global Reach: How Wall Street Lobby Groups are affecting the Eurozone and Food Crises." Kevin Gallagher is an associate professor of international relations at Boston University and research associate at the [http://ase.tufts.edu/gdae/ Global Development and Environment Institute] (Tufts University). Tim Wise is Director of the Research and Policy Program at the Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University, and leads its Globalization and Sustainable Development Program.</blockquote>

	== <span style="font-size:large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; "><span style="color: rgb(255, 140, 0); ">Veterans For Peace on Occupy Boston Radio</span></span></span> ==		== <span style="font-size:large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 140, 0);">Veterans For Peace on Occupy Boston Radio</span></span></span> ==

	''This weekly radio broadcast organized by members of the [http://smedleyvfp.org/ Smedley D. Butler Brigade] of Veterans For Peace streams is live on [http://occupyboston.org/radio 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 [http://occupyboston.org/radio occupyboston.org/radio]. Unless otherwise noted, the VFP radio show will be hosted by Bob Funke, member of the [http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/WG/Peace_Action Action For Peace Working Group] at Occupy Boston and Vietnam Veteran For Peace.''		''This weekly radio broadcast organized by members of the [http://smedleyvfp.org/ Smedley D. Butler Brigade] of Veterans For Peace streams is live on [http://occupyboston.org/radio 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 [http://occupyboston.org/radio occupyboston.org/radio]. Unless otherwise noted, the VFP radio show will be hosted by Bob Funke, member of the [http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/WG/Peace_Action Action For Peace Working Group] at Occupy Boston and Vietnam Veteran For Peace.''

	'''Monday, April 30, 2012: '''Live broadcast of FSU's Peace & Economic Justice Community Gathering		'''Monday, April 30, 2012: '''Live broadcast of FSU's Peace & Economic Justice Community Gathering

			*'''Monday, April 30, 2012'''
			*'''Monday, April 23, 2012'''
	*'''Monday, April 16, 2012'''		*'''Monday, April 16, 2012'''
	*'''Monday, April 9, 2012'''		*'''Monday, April 9, 2012'''
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	*'''Monday, February 13, 2012'''		*'''Monday, February 13, 2012'''
	*'''Monday, February 6, 2012: '''Hosted by Bob Funke. Bob will introduce [http://www.veteransforpeace.org/ Veterans For Peace], talk about what the organization stands for and how they support various community peace organizations and community groups, including Occupy Boston. Veterans For Peace affirm a greater responsibility to serve the cause of world peace, working with others to this end		*'''Monday, February 6, 2012: '''Hosted by Bob Funke. Bob will introduce [http://www.veteransforpeace.org/ Veterans For Peace], talk about what the organization stands for and how they support various community peace organizations and community groups, including Occupy Boston. Veterans For Peace affirm a greater responsibility to serve the cause of world peace, working with others to this end
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	#Toward increasing public awareness of the costs of war		#Toward increasing public awareness of the costs of war
	#To restrain our government from intervening, overtly and covertly, in the internal affairs of other nations		#To restrain our government from intervening, overtly and covertly, in the internal affairs of other nations
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	#To abolish war as an instrument of national policy.		#To abolish war as an instrument of national policy.
	To achieve these goals, members of Veterans For Peace pledge to use non-violent means and to maintain an organization that is both democratic and open with the understanding that all members are trusted to act in the best interests of the group for the larger purpose of world peace. [http://www.veteransforpeace.org/ 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).</blockquote>		To achieve these goals, members of Veterans For Peace pledge to use non-violent means and to maintain an organization that is both democratic and open with the understanding that all members are trusted to act in the best interests of the group for the larger purpose of world peace. [http://www.veteransforpeace.org/ 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).</blockquote>

	== '''<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 140, 0);"><span style="font-size: large;">The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series</span></span></span>''' ==		== '''<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 140, 0);"><span style="font-size: large;">The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series</span></span></span>''' ==
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