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== <span style="font-size:large;"><span style="color:#ff8c00;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">'''FSU-RADIO'''</span></span></span> == | == <span style="font-size:large;"><span style="color:#ff8c00;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">'''FSU-RADIO'''</span></span></span> == | ||
''FSU-RADIO is an educational series | ''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].'' | ||
<blockquote> | <blockquote><br/>'''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?” 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><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;">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><br/></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.</blockquote><blockquote><br/></blockquote> | ||
<br/>'''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?” 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><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;">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> | |||
'''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. | |||
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Revision as of 14:53, 4 February 2012
FREE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY at Occupy Boston
The 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.
FSU Working Group Meetings take place every Friday from 5:30 - 7:30pm and are currently held at the Harvest Food Coop Community Room, 581 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge (Central Sq. T stop). Note: We do not meet in the cafe. Go all the way to the rear of the store, behind the display case and up the stairs. The conference room will be on your left. It is not handicap accessible. Please let us know if this is a problem for you. For general inquiries, to volunteer as site-assistants, or to join the FSU-Working Group, please email: fsu@occupyboston.org.
To schedule a teach-in, please submit the following information to 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. After everything is confirmed, you can use the Occupy Boston Event Submission Form to expedite posting to the occupyboston.org event calendar.
- Date / Time:
- Location:
- Title:
- Brief Description:
- Short Biography:
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, FSU will host its first segment on February 18, programming TBA
- Occupy University, OWS Education for the Revolution's FSU Page
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
- Information for Volunteers
- Information for Teachers
- Information for Site-Assistants
- Living Agenda for upcoming FSU Working Group meetings
Meeting Notes
- February 3, 2012 (Agenda)
- January 27, 2012
- January 20, 2012
- January 13, 2012
- January 6, 2012
- December 26, 2011
- December 23, 2011
- December 16, 2011
- December 7, 2011
- December 2, 2011
- October - November 2011
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
- Past Lectures
- Occupied Peoples and People's Occupations, ongoing film series
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.
Wednesday, February 8, 2012: Grace Ross is a lifetime activist in democratic people’s movements and a two-time candidate for Governor of Massachusetts. She is presently the coordinator of the Mass Alliance Against Predatory Lending, the statewide coalition working to reverse the foreclosure-crisis in our Commonwealth. 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?” 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. We will be discussing some of these issues in a conversation that includes, “How did we get here?” “What do we do about it?” and “What is the role of the Occupy movement in solving these problems?”
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.
Military Forum
BLACK SOLDIERS IN THE WAR OF THE SLAVEOWNERS’ REBELLION: A Presentation Based on the Memoirs of Civil War Veteran Norman P. Hallowell
Monday, February 13, 2012 (3:30 - 5:00pm, doors at 3:15pm)
The book Black Soldiers in the War of the Slaveowners’ Rebellion, edited by Quentin Davis, is composed of selected letters and papers of Norwood Penrose Hallowell, one of the "Fighting Quakers" and a very active Abolitionist. Hallowell was for a time commander of the Massachusetts 55th Regiment, the second all-black regiment. Hallowell admired his men greatly and most of the book is about them. A presentation based on Hallowell's memoirs will be presented by Quentin Davis and members of the Peter Brace Brigade (Civil War re‑enactors of the Massachusetts 54th Regiment) will take place at the Community Church of Boston, 565 Boylston Street (Copley Square, between Arlington / Copley Square T stops). Click here for more information.
Occupy Film
Occupied Peoples & People's Occupations: A series of films and discussions presented by the organizers of The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series. Films will be shown at the Community Church of Boston every Thursday night beginning at 7:15pm through May 10, 2012. The 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.
Thursday, February 16, 2012: Left on Pearl, 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.Thursday, February 22, 2012: Three Thousand Years and Life, a 1973 film directed by Jaime Bisonette (based on the story told in the book When the Prisoners Ran Walpole, a true story of the prison abolition movement) featuring original footage of the occupation of Walpole prison. To download a PDF of the flyer, click here. 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. In the words of Jamie Bissonnette, author of When the Prisoners Ran Walpole), "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." Three Thousand Years and Life is a breath-taking documentary about about a forgotten period of prison reform and activism for prison abolition featuring the story of a local and historic prison struggle.
- Wounded Knee: Episode 5 of a PBS American Experience film, We Shall Remain, about the occupation of Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
- Freedom Riders, a PBS American Experience film
FSU-TV
Saturday, February 18, 2012: FSU has been invited by Occupy Boston TV (OBTV) to do a 30-minute show from 3:00 - 5:00pm with three guest panelists and a moderator. Programming is to be determined. The studio is in Brookline. If you are interested in planning something or participating as a guest panelist, contact us at fsu@occupyboston.org, or come to our Working Group meeting on Friday at 5:30pm.
PAST TEACH-INS & VIDEO ARCHIVE
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. 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 this list, please email us at fsu@occupyboston.org.
FSU in the News
- 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 by Editor (Boston Occupier, 1.27.2012)
- Citizens United Summit by FSU (Boston Occupier, 1.20.2012)
- The Fetishism of Debt by Michael Denning (Boston Occupier, 1.13.2012)
- Gar Alperovitz: Democratizing the Economy by Dan (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 by Dan (Boston Occupier, 11.3.2011)
- Vijay Prashad Speaks at Occupy Boston by Dan (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 Target Right by Kevin Gallagher and Mark Blythe (Real-World Economics Review, 10.14.2011)
- Occupy Wall Street: All the Power to Them, But Get 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)