Free School University (FSU)

 FREE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY at Occupy Boston 

The Free School University (FSU) is a learning community of Occupy Boston. Topics vary from fun-and-games to politics and revolution. Our goal is to form an autonomous zone  to entertain educate and enliven Occupiers and the general public, and to share skills needed to maintain it. The FSU provides support and creates the space for skill sharing, self-organization, teaching, and learning opportunities. For general inquiries, to volunteer as site-assistants, or to join the FSU-Working Group, please email: fsu@occupyboston.org. To schedule a teach-in, please submit the following information to fsu@occupyboston.org. If you know the exact date and time and have all of the information below ready, please include POST: (date / time) in the Subject of your email. After everything is confirmed, you can use the Occupy Boston Event Submission Form to expedite posting to the occupyboston.org event calendar.

• Date / Time:
• Location:
• Title:
• Brief Description:
• Short Biography:  

FSU Working Group Meetings take place every Friday. The next meeting is on January 27, from 5:30 - 7:30pm at the Harvest Food Coop Community Room, 581 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge (Central Sq. T stop). Note: We do not meet in the cafe. Go all the way to the rear of the store, behind the display case and up the stairs. The conference room will be on your left.

 RESOURCES ON THE WEB                                                                      

Free School University

• Website, students and teachers can build a free page here
• Announcements, sign up to receive announcements for FSU events and learning opportunities
• Facebook, group page
• Twitter
• YouTube
• Audre Lorde to Howard Zinn (A-Z) Library, Occupy Boston's Free Library
• Occupy Boston Radio, FSU broadcasts live every Wednesday from 7-8pm
• Occupy Boston TV, FSU will host its first segment on February 18, programming TBA
• Occupy University, OWS Education for the Revolution's FSU Page

Working Group Information

Use the back button on your browser return to this wiki page from the working group website.

• Working Group, register and login to participate. You do not have to login to view the FSU files on our working groups page.
• List Serve, sign up for our working group's email list
• Information for Volunteers
• Information for Teachers
• Information for Site-Assistants
• Living Agenda for upcoming FSU Working Group meetings

Meeting Notes

• January 20, 2012
• January 13, 2012
• January 6, 2012
• December 26, 2011
• December 23, 2011
• December 16, 2011
• December 7, 2011
• December 2, 2011
• October - November 2011

The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series

• Website, WordPress
• Updates, keep up with the lecture series at OccupyBoston.org
• Facebook, group page
• Video Archive, playlist of past lectures on YouTube
• Past Lectures

FSU in the News

• The Fetishism of Debt by Michael Denning (Boston Occupier, 1.13.2012)
• Gar Alperovitz: Democratizing the Economy by Dan (Boston Occupier, 12.21.2012)
• Criticizing the Critique of Representation: Bruno Bosteels at Occupy Boston, by J.E. Hamilton (Boston Occupier, 12.6.2011)
• Zinn Lecture Series Brings Academia to Occupy Boston by Doug Enaa Greene (Boston Occupier, 12.6.2011)
• Their Crisis and Our Response by Victor Wallis (Boston Occupier, 12.6.2011)
• The Right to Protest for Right: Peniel E. Joseph on Economic Justice & Martin Luther King Jr. by Julie Orlemanski (Boston Occupier, 11.19.2011)
• Papercut Zine Library & Lucy Parsons Center Re-Open by Liz Pelly (The Boston Phoenex, 11.9.2011)
• So That All Voices May Be Heard: Concensus and C.T. Lawrence Butler by Dan (Boston Occupier, 11.3.2011)
• Vijay Prashad Speaks at Occupy Boston by Dan (Boston Occupier, 10.25.2011)
• Blyth Asks: Should the Poor Insure the Rich? (Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University, 10.14.2011)
• Occupy Wall Street: Getting the Target Right by Kevin Gallagher and Mark Blythe (Real-World Economics Review, 10.14.2011)
• Occupy Wall Street: All the Power to Them, But Get the Targets Right by Mark Blythe and Kevin Gallagher (Triple Crisis, 10.13.2011)
• Ivy League Professors Speak to Anti-Wall Street Protestors by Lauren Keiper (Reuters, 10.7.2011)

 VIDEO ARCHIVE                                                                                          

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

 PAST TEACH-INS                                                                                         

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

 CURRENT TEACH-INS                                                                               

FSU-RADIO

FSU-RADIO is an educational series by Occupy Boston’s Free School University. Our goal is to form an autonomous zone and share skills needed to maintain that, to entertain educate and enliven Occupiers and the general public. 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.Call 617-506-9726 with questions or comments, or join the IRC chat at occupyboston.org/radio.

Wednesday, February 1 (streaming live on OB Radio from 7-8pm)

Dennis Fox

Wednesday, February 8

Grace Ross

FSU-TV

February 18 (on Occupy Boston TV) FSU has been invited by OBTV to do a show on somewhere between 3 and 5 pm for 30 minutes with three guest panelists and a moderator. Programming is to be determined. If you are interested in planning something or participating, contact the Free School University at fsu@occupyboston.org, or come to our Working Group meeting on Friday at 5:30pm. The studio is in Brookline.