Free School University (FSU)

 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 a title, 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
• YouTube
• Twitter
• 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)
• FSU Meeting Notes (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)

Economics Forum

• 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)
• Fred Magdoff (VIDEO 1 / VIDEO 2)
  
• Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, "The City on a Hill, Where it all Began" (VIDEO 1 / VIDEO 2 / VIDEO 3)
• Elaine Bernard, "From Heroes to Zeros: The War on Public Employees & Their Unions" (VIDEO)
• Noel Ignatiev, "Race and Occupy" (VIDEO 1 / VIDEO 2)
  

 TEACH-INS                                                                                               

WEDNESDAY, November 16

3:30pm - 4-30pm (Rescheduled from Tuesday)
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

*copies of the book are available at the Library, in the FSU box

5:00pm - 6:00pm
The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series: Paul Le Blanc, Associate Professor of History at La Roche College

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)

4:00pm - 5:00pm
"How “Free” Trade Kills Jobs, Reduces Wages, Wrecks the Environment & Destroys Democracy" with Steve D’Amico

SUNDAY, November 20

11:00am - 12:00pm
Transgender Awareness Workshop with Occupy Boston Queer and Trans Caucus

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

4:00pm - 5:00pm
The Case Against America's Militarized "Pacific Century" - Real Economic Security and Preventing Another War, with Joseph Gerson

5:00pm - 6:00pm
The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series: The Culture of Debt, Mike Denning

SUNDAY, November 27

1:00pm - 2:00pm
"Corporations--the 1 Percent--Own and Rig the Elections of the 99 Percent" 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