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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif">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. | <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif">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.</span></span> | ||
<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;">To schedule a teach-in, submit a</span><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span>'''title, brief description, and short bio, along with the day(s) and time(s) you are available to'''<span class="Apple-style-span">: </span>[mailto:rachel@freeschooluniversity.org rachel@freeschooluniversity.org]<span class="Apple-style-span">. </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;">If you have questions, or would like to be added to our volunteers email list, please contact: </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">[mailto:fsu@occupyboston.org fsu@occupyboston.org].</span> | |||
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= <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif"><span style="font-size: x-large">'''<span style="font-family: georgia,serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold"><span style="background-color:#ff8c00;"> RESOURCES </span></span></span>'''</span></span> = | = <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif"><span style="font-size: x-large">'''<span style="font-family: georgia,serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold"><span style="background-color:#ff8c00;"> RESOURCES </span></span></span>'''</span></span> = | ||
*[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Solidarity/FSU/PastTeachIns Past Teach Ins] | |||
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Free_School_Volunteer_Page Information for Volunteers]</span> | *<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Free_School_Volunteer_Page Information for Volunteers]</span> | ||
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">[[Information for Teachers|Information for Teachers]] (under construction)</span> | *<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">[[Information for Teachers|Information for Teachers]] (under construction)</span> | ||
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== <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;">'''FRIDAY, November 18'''</span></span></span></span> == | == <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;">'''FRIDAY, November 18'''</span></span></span></span> == | ||
'''1:00pm - 2:00pm'''<br/><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">"P</span>olitical Policing in the United States: Historical Perspectives on the Challenges Confronting the Occupy Movement" with Brendan McQuade | '''1:00pm - 2:00pm'''<br/><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">"P</span>olitical Policing in the United States: Historical Perspectives on the Challenges Confronting the Occupy Movement" with Brendan McQuade | ||
'''2:00pm - 3:00pm'''<br/>[https://www.google.com/calendar/b/0/render?eid=MGg1ZWUzdDhidWw5cm9raTE5bnZuYjd0MGsgOW85MG90NnBsOGJqbWdqcGUzN2J2NWh0NDRAZw&ctz=America/New_York&pli=1&sf=true&output=xml Power & Visibility]<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">: “The Means of Correct Training,” from Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish</span> | '''2:00pm - 3:00pm'''<br/>[https://www.google.com/calendar/b/0/render?eid=MGg1ZWUzdDhidWw5cm9raTE5bnZuYjd0MGsgOW85MG90NnBsOGJqbWdqcGUzN2J2NWh0NDRAZw&ctz=America/New_York&pli=1&sf=true&output=xml Power & Visibility]<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">: “The Means of Correct Training,” from Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish</span> | ||
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== <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-size: x-large"><span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif">'''SATURDAY, November 19'''</span></span></span></span> == | == <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-size: x-large"><span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif">'''SATURDAY, November 19'''</span></span></span></span> == | ||
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">'''12:00pm - 2:00pm'''</span><br/>"Corporate Negligence and Bhopal, India: An Ongoing Disaster" with [http://www.boston4bhopal.org The International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal] | <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">'''12:00pm - 2:00pm'''</span><br/>"Corporate Negligence and Bhopal, India: An Ongoing Disaster" with [http://www.boston4bhopal.org The International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal] | ||
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Revision as of 23:59, 14 November 2011
Free School University 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 atitle, brief description, and short bio, along with the day(s) and time(s) you are available to: rachel@freeschooluniversity.org. If you have questions, or would like to be added to our volunteers email list, please contact: fsu@occupyboston.org.
ON THE WEB
- The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series
- Facebook Group
- Occupy Boston Globe
- tumblr (under construction)
- Internet Archive (under construction)
- Free School University (under construction)
RESOURCES
- Past Teach Ins
- Information for Volunteers
- Information for Teachers (under construction)
- Information for Greeters (under construction)
VIDEO ARCHIVE
- Van Jones (VIDEO)
- Anonymity & Security on the Web (VIDEO 1 / VIDEO 2)
- 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 / VIDEO 4)
- From the Battlefield to the Home Front: Technologies of Control in America (VIDEO)
- Arjun Jayadev, "The False Doctrine of Austerity" (VIDEO)
The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series
- Noam Chomsky (VIDEO 1 / VIDEO 2 / VIDEO 3)
- Gary Leupp, "Elite Control Over US Foreign Policy: Lessons from Vietnam, to Iraq, to Today" (VIDEO 1 / VIDEO 2 / VIDEO 3)
- Victor Wallis, "Roots of the Current Crisis"' (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)
- Chand Montrie, author of "A People’s History of Environmentalism in the United States" (VIDEO)
- Anthony Arnove, co-author of "Voices of a People's History of the United States" with Howard Zinn (VIDEO 1 / VIDEO 2 / VIDEO 3)
- Elaine Bernard, "From Heroes to Zeros: The War on Public Employees & Their Unions" (VIDEO)
TEACH-INS
TUESDAY, November 15
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Fight for Our Basic Property Rights: The Big Bank's Fraud at Registries of Deeds, presented by John O'Brien
THURSDAY, November 17
3:00pm - 4:00pm
Martin Luther King Jr, Stokely Carmichael, American Democracy, and the Search for Economic Justice: From the Civil Rights Movement to the Occupy Movement
6:00pm - 7:00pm
The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series: "Economic Crisis and System Change" with Richard Wolf
FRIDAY, November 18
1:00pm - 2:00pm
"Political Policing in the United States: Historical Perspectives on the Challenges Confronting the Occupy Movement" with Brendan McQuade
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Power & Visibility: “The Means of Correct Training,” from Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish
SATURDAY, November 19
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Teach-In: Globalization and How it Affects Us, an interactive presentation with Madeleine Cousineau
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Occupy The Economy, with Kerry Power (followed by Q&A)
SUNDAY, November 20
12:00pm - 1:30pm
Speaker: Harvey Wassermann
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Reproductive Justice and Economic Justice with Marlene Fried
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Unemployment: Why Jobs Are Hard to Find and How We Can Create Many More, with Juliet Schor
TUESDAY, November 22
5:00pm - 6:00pm
The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series: The Culture of Debt, Mike Denning
SUNDAY, November 27
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Speaker: "Our Elections Are Rigged. Why Voting Still Matters. What Occupiers Can Do." with (Sheila Parks)
TUESDAY, November 29
5:00pm - 6:00pm
The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series: Bruno Bosteels
WEDNESDAY, November 30
5:00pm - 6:00pm
The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series: Norman Finkelstein
SATURDAY, December 3
12:00pm - 2:00pm
"Corporate Negligence and Bhopal, India: An Ongoing Disaster" with The International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal