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== <span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="color:#ff8c00">'''Free School University'''</span></span> ==
== <span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="color:#ff8c00">'''Free School University'''</span></span> ==


*<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">For Students and Teachers: Build a Free Website at [http://freeschooluniversity.org/ freeschooluniversity.org]</span>
*[http://groups.occupyboston.org/wg/free-school-university To join the FSU Working Group, login & request membership here.]
*[http://freeschooluniversity.org <span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">For Students and Teachers: Build a Free Website at</span>]<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">[http://freeschooluniversity.org/ freeschooluniversity.org]</span>
*[http://facebook.com/groups/occupybostonFSU Facebook]&nbsp;(group page)
*[http://facebook.com/groups/occupybostonFSU Facebook]&nbsp;(group page)
*[https://twitter.com/#%21/OccupyBostonFSU Twitter]
*[https://twitter.com/#%21/OccupyBostonFSU Twitter]
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*<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif"><span style="display: block;  text-align: center"><span style="display: block;  text-align: left"></span></span><span style="display: block;  text-align: center"><span style="display: block;  text-align: left"></span></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="display: block;  text-align: center"><span style="display: block;  text-align: left"></span></span><span style="display: block;  text-align: center"><span style="display: block;  text-align: left"></span></span><span style="display: block;  text-align: center"><span style="display: block;  text-align: left">[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Tent_City/Library Audre Lorde to Howard Zinn (A-Z) Library]</span></span></span></span>
*<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif"><span style="display: block;  text-align: center"><span style="display: block;  text-align: left"></span></span><span style="display: block;  text-align: center"><span style="display: block;  text-align: left"></span></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="display: block;  text-align: center"><span style="display: block;  text-align: left"></span></span><span style="display: block;  text-align: center"><span style="display: block;  text-align: left"></span></span><span style="display: block;  text-align: center"><span style="display: block;  text-align: left">[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Tent_City/Library Audre Lorde to Howard Zinn (A-Z) Library]</span></span></span></span>


== <span style="font-family: georgia, serif"><span style="color: rgb(255, 140, 0)">'''The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series'''</span></span> ==
== <span style="font-family: georgia, serif"><span style="color: rgb(255, 140, 0)">'''The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series'''</span></span><br/> ==


*[http://zinnlectures.wordpress.com/ <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="display: block;  text-align: center"><span style="display: block;  text-align: left"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif">WordPress</span></span></span></span>]
*[http://zinnlectures.wordpress.com/ <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="display: block;  text-align: center"><span style="display: block;  text-align: left"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif">WordPress</span></span></span></span>]
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<span style="font-size:large"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif">SUNDAY, December 11</span></span>
<span style="font-size:large"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif">SUNDAY, December 11</span></span>
<div><div class="detail-content"><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold">3:30pm - 4:30pm</span></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal">[http://bit.ly/tp8qZy Public Financing of Election Campaigns --&nbsp; A Way Station;&nbsp; Fair, Just and Good Government--Our Destination], with&nbsp;</span>Jules Levine</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34)"><br/><br/></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34)"><span style="color:#ff8c00">'''<span style="font-family:georgia,serif">The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series</span>'''</span></div><blockquote style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34)"><div class="detail-item">'''<font class="Apple-style-span"><span class="event-when">2:00pm - 3:00pm</span></font>'''<br/></div><div class="detail-item"><font class="Apple-style-span">'''Rich Levy''', professor of history at Salem State University, "The Legacy of the Sixties and Occupy"</font></div></blockquote><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);  font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;  font-size: 12px"><div><br/><br/></div></div></div></div>
<div><div class="detail-content"><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold">2:00-3:00</span>&nbsp;&nbsp; (off-site at the Boston Common, Bandstand)<br/>Adopt an Occupier, hosted by Occupy Newton<br/></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34)">Contribute to the Occupation by one-on-one support to an individual occupier.<br/></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34)"><br/></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold">3:30pm - 4:30pm</span><br/></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal">[http://bit.ly/tp8qZy Public Financing of Election Campaigns --&nbsp; A Way Station;&nbsp; Fair, Just and Good Government--Our Destination], with&nbsp;</span>Jules Levine</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34)"><br/><br/></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34)"><span style="color:#ff8c00">'''<span style="font-family:georgia,serif">The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series</span>'''</span></div><blockquote style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34)"><div class="detail-item">'''<font class="Apple-style-span"><span class="event-when">2:00pm - 3:00pm</span></font>'''<br/></div><div class="detail-item"><font class="Apple-style-span">'''Rich Levy''', professor of history at Salem State University, "The Legacy of the Sixties and Occupy"</font></div></blockquote><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);  font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;  font-size: 12px"><div><br/><br/></div></div></div></div>
== <span style="font-size:large"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif">'''WEDNESDAY, December 14'''&nbsp;</span></span> ==
== <span style="font-size:large"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif">'''WEDNESDAY, December 14'''&nbsp;</span></span> ==
<div class="detail-content" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34)"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold">7:00pm - 9:30pm&nbsp;<span style="color:#ff8c00">(Encuentro 5, 33 Harrison Ave, Boston, MA)</span></span></div><div>[http://bit.ly/s5BcP3 OWS Forum on Jobs for All: Proposed Demand]</div><div><br/></div></div>
<div class="detail-content" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34)"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold">7:00pm - 9:30pm&nbsp;<span style="color:#ff8c00">(Encuentro 5, 33 Harrison Ave, Boston, MA)</span></span></div><div>[http://bit.ly/s5BcP3 OWS Forum on Jobs for All: Proposed Demand]</div><div><br/></div></div>

Revision as of 03:11, 11 December 2011

 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.


 ON THE WEB                                                                                                        

Free School University

The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series

The Boston Occupier Coverage


 RESOURCES                                                                                                         


 VIDEO ARCHIVE                                                                                                

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


 CURRENT TEACH-INS                                                                                     

SUNDAY, December 11

2:00-3:00   (off-site at the Boston Common, Bandstand)
Adopt an Occupier, hosted by Occupy Newton
Contribute to the Occupation by one-on-one support to an individual occupier.

3:30pm - 4:30pm


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"


WEDNESDAY, December 14 

7:00pm - 9:30pm (Encuentro 5, 33 Harrison Ave, Boston, MA)

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.
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