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*<div>'''Saturday, November 12, 2011: '''[https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=235201626542103 Cost of War Series]</div> | *<div>'''Saturday, November 12, 2011: '''[https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=235201626542103 Cost of War Series]</div> | ||
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<li><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">[http://www.militaryfamiliesspeakout.com/2011/01/26/member-blog-sarah-fuhro/ Sarah Fuhro] ([http://youtu.be/q1todTbvYYE VIDEO]) | <li><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">[http://www.militaryfamiliesspeakout.com/2011/01/26/member-blog-sarah-fuhro/ Sarah Fuhro] ([http://youtu.be/q1todTbvYYE VIDEO]), mother of soldier who deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan: Opening Remarks</span></span></li> | ||
<li><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">[http://www.fundingpeace.org/ Wayne Jaquith] ([http://youtu.be/ZAWGt6WTQOg VIDEO]): How the Wars Started, their Impact, and Lessons to Learn to Avoid Future Wars</span></span></li> | <li><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">[http://www.fundingpeace.org/ Wayne Jaquith] ([http://youtu.be/ZAWGt6WTQOg VIDEO]): How the Wars Started, their Impact, and Lessons to Learn to Avoid Future Wars</span></span></li> | ||
<li><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"></span></span>Robert Funke | <li><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"></span></span>Robert Funke ([http://youtu.be/5L4kljydGh0 VIDEO]), Vietnam Veteran</li> | ||
<li><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Native American Drumming | <li><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Native American Drumming: Songs for Healing and New Beginnings ([http://youtu.be/wT7YiD0a74Y VIDEO])</span></li> | ||
<li>22-year-old Iraqi Refugee ([http://youtu.be/ihReeC4FMkA VIDEO])</li> | |||
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<span style="color:#ff8c00;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">'''Veteran Listening Sessions'''</span></span></span></span></span> | <span style="color:#ff8c00;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">'''Veteran Listening Sessions'''</span></span></span></span></span> | ||
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<li>Vietnam Veteran of the [https://sites.google.com/site/vfpcapecod/ Corporal Jeffrey M. Lucey Chapter]<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> of Veterans for Peace ( | <li>Vietnam Veteran of the [https://sites.google.com/site/vfpcapecod/ Corporal Jeffrey M. Lucey Chapter]<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> of Veterans for Peace ([http://youtu.be/_daT39W0J0A VIDEO])</span></li> | ||
<li><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"></span></span>Rachel McNeill, Jason Mizula, and Ryan Cahill (VIDEO), Iraq Veterans</li> | <li><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"></span></span>Rachel McNeill, Jason Mizula, and Ryan Cahill (VIDEO), Iraq Veterans</li> | ||
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Revision as of 03:08, 10 December 2011
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PAST TEACH-INS
The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series
Wednesday, December 7: Avi Chomsky, professor of history at Salem State University Wednesday, November 30: Norman Finkelstein (VIDEO) Tuesday, November 29: Bruno Bosteels (VIDEO) Tuesday, November 22: Mike Denning (VIDEO): The Culture of Debt Wednesday, November 9: Elaine Bernard (VIDEO): From Heroes to Zeros, The War on Public Employees & Their Unions Friday, November 4: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (VIDEO): The City on a Hill, Where it all Began Thursday, November 3: Luis Jimenez (VIDEO): The Perils of American Democracy, The Institutional Basis Behind Our 'Broken Politics' Sunday, October 30: Anthony Arnove (VIDEO): co-authored "Voices of a People's History of the United States" with Howard Zinn Friday, November 18: Paul Le Blanc (VIDEO) Thursday, November 17: Richard Wolf (VIDEO) Saturday, October 29: Fred Magdoff (VIDEO) Friday, October 28: Chad Montrie (VIDEO), author of "A People's History of Environmentalism in the United States" Monday, October 24: Tom Ferguson: Money and Politics Sunday, October 23: Vijay Prashad (VIDEO), author of "The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World" Saturday, October 22: Noam Chomsky (VIDEO) Thursday, October 20: Gary Leupp (VIDEO): Elite Control Over US Foreign Policy, Lessons from Vietnam, to Iraq, to Today Saturday, October 15: Nicole Aschoff: Neoliberal Dispossession and the Demand for Demands
Occupy Boston Economics Forum
Saturday, December 3, 2011: Gar Alperovitz (VIDEO), America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty, & Our Democracy, book launch
Thursday, October 20, 2011: Arthur MacEwan: The Economic Crisis: How Can We Fix Things?
Wednesday, October 19, 2011: Catherine Finnoff: 10 Phoney Facts About the US Economy, Keeping it Real for the 99 (CANCELLED)
Sunday, October 16, 2011: Julie Nelson: What Economists Got Wrong and What We've Got to Do to Fix It
Friday, October 14, 2011:
Alejandro Reuss: Class and the Shift in the Distribution of Income Against Workers and in favor of Capitalists Juliet Schor: Why Unemployment Is So High and How We Can Reduce It
Tuesday, October 11, 2011:
Bryan Snyder: A Primer on Financialization John Miller: Up Against the Wall Street Journal
Monday, October 10, 2011: Arjun Jayadev (VIDEO): The False Doctrine of Austerity
Elections & Campaign Financing
Sunday, December 4, 2011: Publicly-Funded Elections & Repairing Representative Government (CANCELLED) Sunday, November 27, 2011: Rigged Elections: Corporations--the 1 Percent--Own and Rig the Elections of the 99 Percent, Sheila Parks Sunday, November 13, 2011: Public Financing of Elections--A Way Station: Fair, Just & Good Government--The Destination, Julius Levine (VIDEO)
Non-Violence & Civil Disobedience (NVCD)
Preparedness in Actions, Strengthening Our Spirit & Building Community - Training
- Friday, November 25: presented by John Bach
- Monday, November 21: presented by Catherine Hoffman
- Saturday, November 19
- Friday, November 18: presented by Minga Clagget-Borne
What is Violence? What is Nonviolence? - Roundtable Discussion, co-facilitated by members of the NVCD Working Group
- Saturday, November 12
- Monday, November 7
The Practice of Nonviolence and Civil Disobediance - Workshop, presented by Rick Colbath-Hess
- Wednesday, November 9
- Saturday, October 29
- Saturday, October 22
- Monday, October 10
Military Forum
- Sunday, November 27, 2011: A Matter of Honor: Veterans & the First Amendment, speech by Jim Scarborough (VIDEO)
- Tuesday, November 22, 2011: The Case Against America's Militarized "Pacific Century": Real Economic Security and Preventing Another War, with Joseph Gerson
- Saturday, November 12, 2011: Cost of War Series
- Sarah Fuhro (VIDEO), mother of soldier who deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan: Opening Remarks
- Wayne Jaquith (VIDEO): How the Wars Started, their Impact, and Lessons to Learn to Avoid Future Wars
- Robert Funke (VIDEO), Vietnam Veteran
- Native American Drumming: Songs for Healing and New Beginnings (VIDEO)
- 22-year-old Iraqi Refugee (VIDEO)
Veteran Listening Sessions
- Vietnam Veteran of the Corporal Jeffrey M. Lucey Chapter of Veterans for Peace (VIDEO)
- Rachel McNeill, Jason Mizula, and Ryan Cahill (VIDEO), Iraq Veterans
Military Family Listening Sessions
- Alice Copeland Brown (VIDEO), mother of Army officers from Canton, Massachusetts
- Joyce and Kevin Lucey (VIDEO), parents of Corporal Jeff Lucey, who committed suicide in 2004
- Carlos and Melida Arredondo (VIDEO), parents of Lance Corporal Alexander Arredondo, who was killed in 2004 on his 2nd tour of duty in Iraq
- Thursday, November 10, 2011: Black Soldiers in the War of the Slaveowners Rebellion, stories from the Massachusetts 54th and 55th in the Civil War
- Saturday, November 6, 2011: The Wall Street Complex
- Saturday, October 22, 2011: Cut Military Spending, Fund Our Communities
- Thursday, October 20, 2011: Brian Wilson, author of "Blood on the Tracks," founding member of Smedley D. Butler Brigade of Veterans For Peace
- Wednesday, October 19, 2011: Afghanistan: Why Obama Must Change Course
- Sunday, October 16, 2011: Cindy Sheehan, activist, mother of soldier killed in Iraq (CANCELLED)
- Saturday, October 8, 2011: US Wars in the Middle East: Much Ado About Oil (VIDEO)
Health Justice Forum
Sunday, November 20, 2011
- Reproductive Justice and Economic Justice, with Marlene Fried
Saturday, November 5, 2011, organized by the Health Justice Working Group
- Jim Recht and Mardge Cohen (VIDEO): Reoccupy the Health System through Single Payer Health Reform
- Jeremy Barofsky, Jacob Bor, and Ashley Winning: Economic Crisis, Austerity, and the Health of the 99%
- Katrina Ciraldo: How a Financial Transaction Tax Can End AIDS
Immigration Forum
Sunday, December 4, 2011
- Teach-In on Secure Communities, presented by Centro Presente and the Immigration Working Group at Occupy Boston
- Neighbors United for a Better East Boston (NUBE): Opening Address and Welcome
- Tania Bruguera, Immigrant International Movement
- Peter Lowber: Opposing Secure Communities and Other Anti Immigrant Attacks; Vigils; Support for Human Rights and Immigrant Workers Rights
- Heloisa Maria Galvao, co-founder and the Executive Director of the Brazilian Women’s Group
- Carlos Rosales, Immigrant Worker Center Collaborative
- Break Out Discussion Group
General Teach-Ins
DECEMBER 2011
SATURDAY, December 3
- Corporate Negligence and Bhopal, India: An Ongoing Disaster with The International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal
THURSDAY, December 1
- Reading Group Planning Meeting (meet in front of the Library)
NOVEMBER 2011
MONDAY, November 28
- How to Redistribute Wealth: Lessons from the 20th Century, a discussion with Molly Geidel and Patricia Stuelke
SATURDAY, November 26
- Right on the Marx: New Insights From Some Old Ideas with Gordon Fellman (POSTPONED)
SUNDAY, November 20
- Transgender Awareness Workshop with Occupy Boston Queer and Trans Caucus
- Harvey Wassermann: The History of Social Movements
- Unemployment: Why Jobs Are Hard to Find and How We Can Create Many More with Juliet Schor
SATURDAY, November 19
- Teach-In: Globalization and How it Affects Us, an interactive presentation with Madeleine Cousineau
- Occupy The Economy with Kerry Power (followed by Q&A)
- How “Free” Trade Kills Jobs, Reduces Wages, Wrecks the Environment & Destroys Democracy with Steve D’Amico
FRIDAY, November 18
- Political Policing in the United States: Historical Perspectives on the Challenges Confronting the Occupy Movement, with Brendan McQuade
- Power & Visibility: “The Means of Correct Training,” from Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish
THURSDAY, November 17
- From the Civil Rights Movement to the Occupy Movement: Martin Luther King Jr, Stokely Carmichael, American Democracy & the Search for Economic Justice
WEDNESDAY, November 16
- Fight for Our Basic Property Rights: The Big Bank's Fraud at Registries of Deeds, presented by John O'Brien
SUNDAY, November 13
- From Occupation to Revolution with John Spritzler
- The Effects of Class Background on Our Lives and Efforts for Change, United For Change Workshop Series (Encuentro 5)
- Gender, Economy, and Citizenship with Carole Biewener and Jyoti Puri
- Workshop: Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed, a selection of games and exercises for social justice
FRIDAY, November 11
- Capitalism at a Dead End, synopsis of lecture/document given by Fred Goldstein for 6th National Meeting on Social Policy in September, with Gerry Scoppettuolo
THURSDAY, November 10
- The Neuroscience of Greed with Rick Heller
- Public Class Meeting: Prisoner's Rights Legal Clinic, Northeastern University School of Law
WEDNESDAY, November 9
- Workshop: Your Rights at Work with Anneta Argyres and Tess Ewing
- Documentary Film Screening: How To Start A Revolution, followed with commentary by Ruaridh Arrow (director) and Jamila Raqib (Albert Einstein Institute)
MONDAY, November 7
- Workshop: Increasing Awareness and Protecting Your Sacred Fire
- Gaza & Palestine: The Israeli Siege and the Passion of Human Rights Activists throughout the World with Ridgely Fuller
- Your Public School Under Attack, Organizing to Fight Back! A workshop with Citizens for Public Schools
- Lecture: Historical Conversations for Democracy with Monica Poole
SUNDAY, November 6
- Workshop: Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed, a selection of games and exercises for social justice
SATURDAY, November 5
- Discussion: Where Do We Go From Here? with Todd Gitlin
- Youth, Justice, and Democracy in El Salvador with Margarito Nolasco
FRIDAY, November 4
- Lessons from the Wisconsin Uprising (CANCELLED)
- Responsible Investing, with Shelley Alpern and Catherine Pargeter (Trillium Asset Management), and Libby Edgerly (MSCI)
THURSDAY, November 3
WEDNESDAY, November 2
TUESDAY, November 1
- Consensus: So That All Voices May Be Heard, a workshop with C.T. Butler
- Money, Banking, and Democracy, with Gerald Friedman
OCTOBER 2011
MONDAY, October 31
- Consensus: So That All Voices May Be Heard, a workshop with C.T. Butler
SUNDAY, October 30
SATURDAY, October 29
FRIDAY, October 28
- Challenging Basic Assumptions: Personal & Political with Dennis Fox
- Crafting Your Story: A Fiction Workshop with Askold Melnyczuk
THURSDAY, October 27
WEDNESDAY, October 26
- The USA PATRIOT ACT and You: Nancy Murray, Director of Education at the ACLU of Massachusetts
- Discussion with Author Roar Sheppard
TUESDAY, October 25
- Anarchism & Psychology with Dennis Fox
SUNDAY, October 23
SATURDAY, October 22
- Workshop: Prisoners Realities, with the Asheville Tranzmission Prison Project
- Anonymity & Security on the Web (VIDEO)
THURSDAY, October 20
- Occupy Boston: Challenging Basic Assumptions
- Food, Corporations, and Justice: The Human Face of Free Trade in Nicaragua (CANCELLED)
SUNDAY, October 16
SATURDAY, October 15
- Taking Back Our Economy: An Intro to the Solidarity Economy
- On Conflict and Consensus: Consensus for Cities
- Discussion: Whiteness and Ally-Ship
WEDNESDAY, October 12
- Active Listening 101: How to Have a Friendly Disagreement
- On Labor Day: Importance and Tactics of Building a Worker's Party
TUESDAY, October 11
MONDAY, October 10
- Indigenous People's Day Teach-in on Palestine
- Student Power: Building a New University in the Shell of the Old
- Active Listening 101: How to Have a Friendly Disagreement (VIDEO)
- Capitalism is Failing: The Socialist Alternative
SUNDAY, October 9
- Capitalism, Energy, and Climate Change (VIDEO)
- The Case for Socialism: Human Need, Not Corporate Greed!
- An Intro to Modern Anarchism: Isn't Libertarian Socialism a Contradiction? (VIDEO)
- Open Discussion: Tools Against Sexism within the Occupy Boston Movement
- The Meaning of "We Are The 99 Percent" (BLOG)
SATURDAY, October 8
- Anarchism, Psychology, and Law (VIDEO 1 / 2 / 3)
FRIDAY, October 7
- Kate Bonner-Jackson: "Translation Is Not A Crime: The Case for Tarek Mehanna"
- Austerity Games and the Global Impacts of Wall Street (VIDEO / BLOG)
- Effective Deep Green Resistance: A Strategy Conversation
- From the Battlefield to the Home Front: Technologies of Control in America (VIDEO)