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 through the FSU, please submit the following information to rachel@freeschooluniversity.org. If you know the exact date and time and have all of the below information ready, please include POST: (date / time) in the Subject of your email:

• Date / Time:
• Title:
• Brief Description:
• Short Biography:
• Do you want to request the mic, if available?  

For all other inquiries, or to be added to our volunteers email list, please email: fsu@occupyboston.org.

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The Boston Occupier Coverage

• Criticizing the Critique of Representation: Bruno Bosteels at Occupy Boston, by J.E. Hamilton (12.6.2011)
• Zinn Series Brings Academia to Occupy Boston, by Doug Enaa Greene (12.6.2011)
• Their Crisis and Our Response, by Victor Wallis (12.6.2011)

 RESOURCES                                                                                                         

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

 VIDEO ARCHIVE                                                                                                

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

 CURRENT TEACH-INS                                                                                     

SATURDAY, December 10

1:00pm - 4:00pm (Community Church, 565 Boylston St, Boston, MA)

Facilitation and Group Process Training: agendas, running meetings, decision-making models, dealing with challenging people, and more

3:00pm - 4:00pm

Donna Palermino: History of Citizens United and its Implications, organized by the Citizens United to End Political Bribery Working Group

6:00pm - 8:00pm (Community Church, 565 Boylston St, Boston, MA)

We Interrupt This Empire, a film documenting the mass coordinated direct action in San Francisco after the start of the Iraq War

SUNDAY, December 11

3:30pm - 4:30pm

Public Financing of Election Campaigns --  A Way Station;  Fair, Just and Good Government--Our Destination, with Jules Levine

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The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series

2:00pm - 3:00pm

Rich Levy, professor of history at Salem State University - "The Legacy of the Sixties and Occupy"

<font class="Apple-style-span" face="georgia, serif" size="5"</font>TUESDAY, December 13

8:00pm - 10:00pm(66 West St, Room 407, Boston, MA)

Jobs for All: OWS Demand Proposal

SATURDAY, December 17

10:00am - 5:00pm (Community Church, 565 Boylston St, Boston, MA)

Non-Violent Direct Action Training

5:30pm - 7:30pm (Community Church, 565 Boylston St, Boston, MA)

This Is What Democracy Looks Like, a film documenting the mass demonstrations and coordinated direct actions in Seattle, WA in 1999 thatshut down the WTO ministerial meeting and spring boarded the US anti-globalization movement

SUNDAY, December 18

2:00pm - 3:00pm

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

12:00pm - 5:00pm (Location TBA)

Direct Action Strategy and Action: Planning - digging a little deeper

MONDAY, December 19

11:00am - 12:00pm

Antonio Gramsci and the Occupy Movement, Lecture / Discussion with anthropologist Elizabeth Ferry

6:30pm - 8:30pm (Community Church, 565 Boylston St, Boston, MA)

The Take, a film by Avi Lewis and Naomi Klien about thirty unemployed auto-parts workers who walk into their idle factory, roll out sleeping mats and refuse to leave.

FRIDAY, January 20

'6:00pm - 8:00pm '(Encuentro 5, 33 Harrison Ave, 5th Floor, Boston, MA)

Panel: From Occupy to Workers Control, with Immanuel Ness and Elaine Bernard (sponsored by The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series)

 PAST TEACH-INS                                                                                                

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