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                                                                                                                     

• Free School University (under construction)
• The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series website
• Visit our pages on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and tumblr (under construction)
• Occupy Boston Globe
• A-Z Library
• Internet Archive (under construction)

 RESOURCES                                                                                                                      

• Information for Volunteers
• Information for Teachers (under construction)
• Information for Greeters (under construction)
• FSU Meeting Notes (under construction)

 CURRENT TEACH-INS                                                                                               

SUNDAY, November 27

1:00pm - 2:00pm
Rigged Elections: Corporations--the 1 Percent--Own and Rig the Elections of the 99 Percent with Sheila Parks

2:00pm - 2:30pm
Speech: A Matter of Honor (on Veterans & the First Amendment) by Jim Scarborough

MONDAY, November 28

2:00pm - 3:00pm
How to Redistribute Wealth: Lessons from the 20th Century, a discussion with Molly Geidel and Patricia Stuelke

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

THURSDAY, December 1

2:00pm - 3:00pm (Rescheduled from Tuesday)
Reading Group Planning Meeting (meet in front of the Library)

SATURDAY, December 3

12:00pm - 2:00pm
Corporate Negligence and Bhopal, India: An Ongoing Disaster with The International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal

6:00pm - 8:00pm at Encuentro 5, 33 Harrison Ave., 5th floor.

Book launch for the new edition of America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty, & Our Democracy, which is about how we can democratize wealth and empower communities with worker-ownership, co-ops, community land trusts, and social enterprises--and how this is already beginning to happen.

"A marvelous book...I recommend it all the time." --Noam Chomsky

"A set of eminently practical ideas that promise a truly democratic society." --Howard Zinn

"Visionary, hopeful, even inspirational. I highly recommend it." --Juliet Schor

Co-sponsored by the #OccupyBoston Economics Forum, Dollars & Sense, the Democracy Collaborative, the #OccupyBoston Socialist Caucus, and the Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series.

For more information on the book visit: http://dollarsandsense.org/bookstore/abc.html.

For more information about the event visit: http://www.encuentro5.org/home/node/230

SUNDAY, December 4

12:00pm – 2:00pm

Teach-In on Secure Communities Presented by Centro Presente and the Immigration Working Group at Occupy Boston,

to educate all those involved in Occupy Boston, and others, about the effect Secure Communities has on all of our communities,

immigrants as well as all workers.

3:00pm - 4:00pm (meet at the Gandhi statue)
Discussion: Publicly-Funded Elections & Repairing Representative Government

SUNDAY, December 18

2:00pm - 3:00pm

Discussion: Unrig the Elections - Let us Count! Discussion with Jonathan Simon, founding member of Election Defense Alliance

 PAST TEACH-INS                                                                                                        

For a list of past teach-ins, click here.

 VIDEO ARCHIVE                                                                                                         

For archived video of past teach-ins, click here.