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*'''The False Doctrine of Austerity''' with Arjun Jayadev ([https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=627806311078 VIDEO])
*'''The False Doctrine of Austerity''' with Arjun Jayadev ([https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=627806311078 VIDEO])
[https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=171351852951701 Teach-In: Movement Building and Organizing Strategies with Marshall Ganz] ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkjXqiQhu_o VIDEO 1])


<span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span style="color: rgb(59, 89, 152); text-decoration: none;">[https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=184813188261750 Active Listening 101: How to Have a Friendly Disagreement]</span>&nbsp;</span>([https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=627835622338 VIDEO 1]&nbsp;/&nbsp;[https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=627838631308 VIDEO 2]&nbsp;/&nbsp;[https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=627851335848 VIDEO 3]&nbsp;/&nbsp;[https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=627857024448 VIDEO 4])
<span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span style="color: rgb(59, 89, 152); text-decoration: none;">[https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=184813188261750 Active Listening 101: How to Have a Friendly Disagreement]</span>&nbsp;</span>([https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=627835622338 VIDEO 1]&nbsp;/&nbsp;[https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=627838631308 VIDEO 2]&nbsp;/&nbsp;[https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=627851335848 VIDEO 3]&nbsp;/&nbsp;[https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=627857024448 VIDEO 4])
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'''3:30pm - 4:30pm'''<br/><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span style="color: rgb(59, 89, 152); text-decoration: none;">[https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=134607646640426 The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series]</span></span>: Vijay Prashad, author of The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World
'''3:30pm - 4:30pm'''<br/><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span style="color: rgb(59, 89, 152); text-decoration: none;">[https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=134607646640426 The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series]</span></span>: Vijay Prashad, author of The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World


'''4:00pm - 6:00pm'''<br/>[https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=171351852951701 Teach-In: Movement Building and Organizing Strategies with Marshall Ganz]
'''4:00pm - 6:00pm&nbsp;'''([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkjXqiQhu_o VIDEO 1])<br/>[https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=171351852951701 Teach-In: Movement Building and Organizing Strategies with Marshall Ganz]




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Free School University (FSU) at Occupy Boston
The FSU is an on-site learning community. Topics vary from fun-and-games to politics and revolution. Our goal is to form an autonomous zone and share skills needed to maintain that, to entertain educate and enliven visitors and Occupiers. 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. To schedule a teach-in, submit a title, brief description, and short bio, along with the day(s) and time(s) you are available to: rachel@freeschooluniversity.org



Follow the Free School University online:


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Upcoming Teach-Ins


MONDAY, October 24

5:30 - 6:30pm
The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series: Money and Politics, with Professor Tom Ferguson



TUESDAY, October 25

1:00pm - 3:00pm
Anarchism & Psychology with Dennis Fox



WEDNESDAY, October 26

3:00pm - 4:00pm
The USA PATRIOT ACT and You: Nancy Murray, Director of Education at the ACLU of Massachusetts 

5:00pm - 6:00pm
Discussion with Author Roar Sheppard

6:00pm - 7:00pm
The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series: Chand Montrie (UMass Lowell) author of ”A People’s History of Environmentalism in the United States”



THURSDAY, October 27

11:00am - 12:00pm
Van Jones, author of "The Green Collar Economy," Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and American Progress Action Fund

5:00pm - 6:00pm
The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series: The Perils of American Democracy, The Institutional Basis Behind Our 'Broken Politics' with Professor Luis Jimenez


 FRIDAY, October 28


3:00pm - 4:30pm
Challenging Basic Assumptions: Personal & Political with Dennis Fox

4:00pm - 5:00pm
Crafting Your Story: A Fiction Workshop with Askold Melnyczuk



SATURDAY, October 29


4:00pm - 5:00pm
Glenn Greenwald: With Liberty and Justice for Some

5:00pm - 6:00pm
The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series: Fred Magdoff



SUNDAY, October 30

1:00pm - 3:00pm
How To Run For Office

1:30pm - 3:00pm
Occupy Boston Writing Workshop: The Other 99%



FRIDAY, November 4

5:00pm - 6:00pm
Responsible Investing



WEDNESDAY, November 30

5:00pm - 6:00pm
The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series: Norman Finkelstein


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Past Teach-Ins


Video Archive

The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series

  • Noam Chomsky (VIDEO 1 / VIDEO 2 / VIDEO 3)
  • Elite Control Over US Foreign Policy: Lessons from Vietnam, to Iraq, to Today with Gary Leupp (VIDEO 1 / VIDEO 2 / VIDEO 3)
  • Roots of the Current Crisis with Victor Wallis, professor of Liberal Arts, UC Berkeley (VIDEO 1 / VIDEO 2 / VIDEO 3 / BLOG)
  • Vijay Prashad, author of "The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World" (VIDEO 1 / VIDEO 2 / VIDEO 3 / VIDEO 4 / VIDEO 5)

Economics Forum

  • The False Doctrine of Austerity with Arjun Jayadev (VIDEO)

Teach-In: Movement Building and Organizing Strategies with Marshall Ganz (VIDEO 1)

Active Listening 101: How to Have a Friendly Disagreement (VIDEO 1 / VIDEO 2 / VIDEO 3 / VIDEO 4)

An Intro to Modern Anarchism: Isn't Libertarian Socialism a Contradiction? (VIDEO 1 / VIDEO 2)

Anarchism, Psychology, and Law (VIDEO 1 / VIDEO 2 / VIDEO 3)

US Wars in the Middle East: Much Ado About Oil (VIDEO)

Austerity Games and the Global Impacts of Wall Street (VIDEO 1 / VIDEO 2 / VIDEO 3 / BLOG)

From the Battlefield to the Home Front: Technologies of Control in America (VIDEO)


SUNDAY, October 23

IMMIGRATION FORUM

12:00pm
Opening Address and Welcome, Neighbors United for a Better East Boston (NUBE)

12:30pm
Tania Bruguera, Immigrant International Movement

1:00pm
Opposing Secure Communities and Other Anti Immigrant Attacks; Vigils; Support for Human Rights and Immigrant Workers Rights with Peter Lowber (Steering Committee of Boston New Sanctuary Movement and member of Arlington Street Church Social Action Committee

1:30pm
Heloisa Maria Galvao, co-founder and the Executive Director of the Brazilian Women’s Group

2:30pm
Carlos Rosales, Immigrant Worker Center Collaborative

3:00pm
Break Out Discussion Group open to all interested to form a fluid conversation, topic of discussion will be generated by the interest of the group.

1:30pm - 3:00pm
Occupy Boston Writing Workshop: The Other 99%

3:30pm - 4:30pm
The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series: Vijay Prashad, author of The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World

4:00pm - 6:00pm (VIDEO 1)
Teach-In: Movement Building and Organizing Strategies with Marshall Ganz



SATURDAY, October 22

1:00pm - 2:00pm
Cut Military Spending, Fund Our Communities

2:00pm - 4:30pm
The Practice of Non-Violence and Civil Disobedience
(meet at the Gandhi statue on the plaza)

2:00pm - 3:00pm
Workshop: Prisoners Realities, with the Asheville Tranzmission Prison Project

3:00pm - 4:30pm
Anonymity & Security on the Web

6:00pm - 8:00pm (VIDEO 1 / VIDEO 2 / VIDEO 3)
The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series: Noam Chomsky



FRIDAY, October 21

1:00pm - 2:00pm
The Wall Street Complex



THURSDAY, October 20

1:00pm - 2:30pm
Occupy Boston: Challenging Basic Assumptions

3:00pm - 4:00pm (CANCELLED)
Food, Corporations, and Justice: The Human Face of Free Trade in Nicaragua

4:00pm - 5:00pm
Author Brian Wilson at Occupy Boston

4:00pm - 5:00pm
Occupy Boston Economics Forum: The Economic Crisis, How Can We Fix Things? (Arthur MacEwan)

6:00pm (VIDEO 1 / VIDEO 2)
The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series: Elite Control Over US Foreign Policy: Lessons from Vietnam, to Iraq, to Today, with Gary Leupp



WEDNESDAY, October 19

3:00pm - 4:00pm
Afghanistan: Why Obama Must Change Course

5:00pm (POSTPONED)
Occupy Boston Economics Forum: 10 Phoney Facts about the US Economy, Keeping It Real for the 99 (Catherine Finnoff)



SUNDAY, October 16

10:00am
Big Pharma: Another Big Player on Wall Street

2:00pm
Occupy Boston Economics Forum: What Economists Got Wrong and What We've Got to Fix, with Julie Nelson

2:30pm
Occupy Boston: Talking to People Passing By

6:00pm (CANCELLED)
Cindy Sheehan at Occupy Boston



SATURDAY, October 15

2:30pm - 3:30pm
Taking Back Our Economy: An Intro to the Solidarity Economy

3:00pm - 4:00pm
On Conflict and Consensus: Consensus for Cities

3:30pm
The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series: Neoliberal Dispossession and the Demand for Demands with Nicole Aschoff, Sociology Department at Boston University.

5:30pm
Discussion: Whiteness and Ally-Ship



FRIDAY, October 14

2:30pm - 3:30pm
Occupy Boston Economics Forum: It's Not Just the Banks, Class and the Shift in the Distribution of Income Against Workers and in favor of Capitalists (Alejandro Reuss)

3:30pm - 4:30pm
Occupy Boston Economics Forum: Why Unemployment Is So High and How We Can Reduce It (Juliet Schor)

4:00pm
The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series: Class and the Shift in the Distribution of Income Against Workers and in Favor of Capitalists (part of Occupy Boston Economics Forum), with Alejandro Reuss (Smith).



THURSDAY, October 13

4:30pm (VIDEO 1 / VIDEO 2 / VIDEO 3 / BLOG)
The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series: Roots of the Current Crisis with Victor Wallis, professor of Liberal Arts, UC Berkeley



WEDNESDAY, October 12

1:30pm
Active Listening 101: How to Have a Friendly Disagreement

3:00pm
On Labor Day: Importance and Tactics of Building a Worker's Party



TUESDAY, October 11

3:00pm
Occupy Boston Economics Forum: A Primer on Financialization with Bryan Snyder

3:30pm - 5:00pm
Anarchist Occupation Issues

4:00pm
Occupy Boston Economics Forum: Up Against the Wall Street Journal with John Miller



MONDAY, October 10

1:00pm - 3:30pm
The Practice of Non-Violence and Civil Disobedience

1:30pm - 2:30pm
Indigenous People's Day Teach-in on Palestine

3:00pm - 3:30pm
Student Power: Building a New University in the Shell of the Old

3:30pm - 4:30pm (VIDEO 1 / VIDEO 2 / VIDEO 3 / VIDEO 4)
Active Listening 101: How to Have a Friendly Disagreement

4:00pm (VIDEO)
Occupy Boston Economics Forum: The False Doctrine of Austerity with Arjun Jayadev

5:00pm
Capitalism is Failing: The Socialist Alternative



SUNDAY, October 9

12:00pm - 1:30pm (VIDEO)
Capitalism, Energy, and Climate Change

2:30pm
The Case for Socialism: Human Need, Not Corporate Greed!

3:30pm - 4:30pm (VIDEO 1 / VIDEO 2)
An Intro to Modern Anarchism: Isn't Libertarian Socialism a Contradiction?

3:30pm - 4:30pm
Open Discussion: Tools Against Sexism within the Occupy Boston Movement

5:00 - 6:00pm (BLOG)
The Meaning of "We Are The 99 Percent"



SATURDAY, October 8

1:00pm - 2:00pm (VIDEO 1 / VIDEO 2 / VIDEO 3)
Anarchism, Psychology, and Law

4:00pm - 5:00pm (VIDEO)
US Wars in the Middle East: Much Ado About Oil



FRIDAY, October 7

12:00pm - 1:00pm
Translation Is Not A Crime: The Case for Tarek Mehanna, with Kate Bonner-Jackson

1:30 - 2:30pm (VIDEO 1 / VIDEO 2 / VIDEO 3 / BLOG)
Austerity Games and the Global Impacts of Wall Street

1:00pm - 4:00pm
Effective Deep Green Resistance: A Strategy Conversation

3:00pm - 6:00pm (VIDEO)
From the Battlefield to the Home Front: Technologies of Control in America


Based on: FSU at wikispaces

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