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SUNDAY, November 20 

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

12:00pm - 1:30pm
Harvey Wassermann: The History of Social Movements

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

SATURDAY, November 19

10:00am - 12:00pm
Preparedness in Actions, Strengthening Our Spirit & Building Community: Training by the Nonviolence & Civil Disobedience Working Group

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

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 (Copies of the reading are available at the Library)
Power & Visibility: “The Means of Correct Training,” from Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish

2:00pm - 4:00pm
Preparedness in Actions, Strengthening Our Spirit & Building Community: Training by the Nonviolence & Civil Disobedience Working Group (presented by Minga Clagget-Borne)

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The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series

5:00pm - 6:00pm
Lecture: Paul Le Blanc (Associate Professor of History at La Roche College)

THURSDAY, November 17

3:00pm - 4:00pm
From the Civil Rights Movement to the Occupy Movement: Martin Luther King Jr, Stokely Carmichael, American Democracy & the Search for Economic Justice 

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The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series

6:00pm - 7:00pm
Lecture: Richard Wolf, "Economic Crisis and System Change"

WEDNESDAY, November 16

3:30pm - 4-30pm
Fight for Our Basic Property Rights: The Big Bank's Fraud at Registries of Deeds, presented by John O'Brien

SUNDAY, November 13

1:00pm - 2:00pm
From Occupation to Revolution with John Spritzler

1:00pm - 3:30pm(OFF SITE: 33 Harrison Avenue - 5th Floor)
The Effects of Class Background on Our Lives and Efforts for Change (United For Change Workshop Series)

2:00pm - 3:00pm
Discussion: Public Financing of Elections - A Way Station: Fair, Just and Good Government - The Destination, with Professor Julius Levine

4:00pm - 5:00pm
Gender, Economy, and Citizenship with Carole Biewener and Jyoti Puri 

5:00pm - 6:45pm
Workshop: Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed, (a selection of games and exercises for social justice)

SATURDAY, November 12

Cost of War Forum

Day of Listening to Military Families and Veterans

11:00am

Opening Remarks: Sarah Fuhro, mother of soldier who deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan

11:15am

Teach-In: How the Wars Started, their Impact, and Lessons to Learn to Avoid Future Wars - Wayne Jaquith (Military Families Speak Out)

11:30am

Listening Session: Robert Funke, Vietnam Veteran (Smedley D. Butler Brigade of Veterans for Peace)

11:50am

Native American Drumming and Songs for Healing and New Beginnings

1:00pm

Listening Session: Jason Mizula and Rachel McNeill, Iraq Veterans (Smedley D. Butler Brigade of Veterans for Peace)

3:00pm

Listening Session: Alice Copeland Brown, mother of Army officers from Canton, Massachusetts (Military Families Speak Out)

3:20pm

Listening Session: Vietnam Veteran (Corporal Jeffrey M. Lucey Chapter of Veterans for Peace)

3:35pm

Listening Session: Korean Veteran

3:45pm

Listening Session: Joyce and Kevin Lucey (Military Families Speak Out), parents of Corporal Jeff Lucey, who committed suicide in 2004

4:15pm

Listening Session: Carlos and Melida Arredondo, parents of Lance Corporal Alexander Arredondo, who was killed in 2004 on his 2nd tour of duty in Iraq

4:45pm

Listening Session: Ryan Cahill, Iraq Veteran

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3:00pm - 4:30pm
Roundtable Discussion: What is Violence? What is Nonviolence? (meet by the Gandhi statue)

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The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series

5:00pm - 6:00pm (VIDEO)
Lecture: Noel Ignatiev, "Race and Occupy"

FRIDAY, November 11

5:00pm - 6:00pm
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

1:00pm - 2:00pm
The Neuroscience of Greed with Rick Heller

2:00pm - 3:00pm
Black Soldiers in the War of the Slaveowners Rebellion, stories from the Massachusetts 54th and 55th in the Civil War

5:00pm - 6:30pm
Public Class Meeting: Prisoner's Rights Legal Clinic, Northeastern University School of Law

WEDNESDAY, November 9

3:00pm - 4:00pm
Workshop: Your Rights at Work with Anneta Argyres and Tess Ewing

6:00pm - 8:30pm
Workshop: The Practice of Nonviolence and Civil Disobediance (meet by the Gandhi statue)

7:00pm - 9:30pm
Documentary Film Screening: How To Start A Revolution, followed with commentary by Ruaridh Arrow (director) and Jamila Raqib (Albert Einstein Institute)

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The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series

6:00pm - 7:00pm (VIDEO)
Lecture: Elaine Bernard, "From Heroes to Zeros: The War on Public Employees & Their Unions"

MONDAY, November 7

11:00am - 1:00pm
Workshop: Increasing Awareness and Protecting Your Sacred Fire

2:00pm - 4:00pm
Workshop: Increasing Awareness and Protecting Your Sacred Fire

2:30pm - 3:30pm
Teach-In: Palestine / Gaza - The Context and Recent Flotilla Attempts to Break the Israeli Siege with Ridgely Fuller

4:00pm - 5:00pm
Your Public School Under Attack, Organizing to Fight Back! A workshop with Citizens for Public Schools

6:00pm - 8:30pm
Roundtable Discussion: What is Violence? What is Nonviolence? (meet by the Gandhi statue)

6:00pm - 7:00pm
Lecture: Historical Conversations for Democracy, with Monica Poole

SUNDAY, November 6

4:00pm - 6:00pm
Workshop: Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed, a selection of games and exercises for social justice

SATURDAY, November 5

Health Justice Forum

11:00am
Reoccupy the Health System through Single Payer Health Reform

12:00pm
Economic Crisis, Austerity, and the Health of the 99%

3:00pm
How a Financial Transaction Tax Can End AIDS

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

2:00pm - 3:30pm
Discussion: Where Do We Go From Here? with Todd Gitlin

4:00pm - 5:00pm
Youth, Justice, and Democracy in El Salvador with Margarito Nolasco

FRIDAY, November 4 

12:00pm - 1:00pm (CANCELLED)
Lessons from the Wisconsin Uprising

1:30pm - 2:30pm (VIDEO)
The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series: "The City on a Hill, Where it all Began" with Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

2:30pm - 3:30pm
Responsible Investing

THURSDAY, November 3 

9:30am - 10:30am
Career Workshop: My Red Carpet Moment, How Do I Best Express What I Do?

4:00pm - 5:00pm
The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series: The Perils of American Democracy, The Institutional Basis Behind Our 'Broken Politics', Professor Luis Jimenez

5:00pm - 6:00pm
The Housing Crisis: Where Did It Come From, Where Are We Going?

WEDNESDAY, November 2 

6:30pm - 7:30pm
Big Pharma: Another Big Player on Wall Street

TUESDAY, November 1 

1:00pm - 2:30pm
Consensus: So That All Voices May Be Heard, a workshop with C.T. Butler

3:00pm - 4:00pm
Money, Banking, and Democracy, with Gerald Friedman

MONDAY, October 31 

1:00pm - 2:30pm
Consensus: So That All Voices May Be Heard, a workshop with C.T. Butler

SUNDAY, October 30

11:00am - 12:00pm (POSTPONED)
Fair Trade Coffee Hour and Discussion

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

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

4:00pm - 5:00pm
The Decline of Middle Class Incomes and Political Inequality with Dr. Ben Tafoya

5:00pm - 6:00pm (VIDEO)
The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series: Anthony Arnove, co-authored "Voices of a People's History of the United States" with Howard Zinn

SATURDAY, October 29

10:00am - 12:30pm
The Practice of Non-Violence and Civil Disobedience

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

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

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

6:00pm - 7:00pm (VIDEO)
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 (VIDEO)
Van Jones, author of "The Green Collar Economy," Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and American Progress Action Fund

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

TUESDAY, October 25 

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

MONDAY, October 24

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

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.

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

3:30pm - 4:30pm (VIDEO)
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)
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 (VIDEO)

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

THURSDAY, October 20

Economics Forum

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

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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

6:00pm (VIDEO)
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

Economics Forum

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

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

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 - 4:30pm
The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series: Neoliberal Dispossession and the Demand for Demands with Nicole Aschoff, Sociology Department at Boston University.

5:30pm - 6:30pm
Discussion: Whiteness and Ally-Ship

FRIDAY, October 14

Economics Forum

2:30pm
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
Why Unemployment Is So High and How We Can Reduce It (Juliet Schor)

THURSDAY, October 13

4:30pm - 5:30pm (VIDEO / 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 - 2:30pm
Active Listening 101: How to Have a Friendly Disagreement

3:00pm - 4:00pm
On Labor Day: Importance and Tactics of Building a Worker's Party

TUESDAY, October 11

Economics Forum

3:00pm
A Primer on Financialization with Bryan Snyder

4:00pm
Up Against the Wall Street Journal with John Miller

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

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 - 5:00pm (VIDEO)
Occupy Boston Economics Forum: The False Doctrine of Austerity with Arjun Jayadev

5:00pm - 6:00pm
Capitalism is Failing: The Socialist Alternative

SUNDAY, October 9

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

2:30pm - 3:30pm
The Case for Socialism: Human Need, Not Corporate Greed!

3:30pm - 4:30pm (VIDEO)
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

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