***VOLUNTEER ORIENTATION MEETING***

We are currently in the process of developing and expanding at FSU. We are asking for help, at this crucial moment, to define the tasks at hand in order to keep the teach-ins, the workshops, and the classes that we all appreciate going strong.

We will be holding a facilitation meeting at 4pm, this Friday 10/28 (we will have a sign to let people know who we are). We will then have an open meeting from 4:30-5:30. At this meeting, we will discuss the larger plan for FSU and allocate various tasks.

Free School University (FSU) 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: eden@freeschooluniversity.org.

FSU On The Web

The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series
Facebook Group
Occupy Boston Globe
Twitter
tumblr (under construction)
Internet Archive (under construction)
Free School University (under construction)

Video Archive

The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series

Noam Chomsky (VIDEO 1 / VIDEO 2 / VIDEO 3)
Elite Control Over US Foreign Policy: Lessons from Vietnam, to Iraq, to Today with Gary Leupp (VIDEO 1 / VIDEO 2 / VIDEO 3)
Roots of the Current Crisis with Victor Wallis, professor of Liberal Arts, UC Berkeley (VIDEO 1 / VIDEO 2 / VIDEO 3 / BLOG)
Vijay Prashad, author of "The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World" (VIDEO 1 / VIDEO 2 / VIDEO 3 / VIDEO 4 / VIDEO 5)

Economics Forum

The False Doctrine of Austerity with Arjun Jayadev (VIDEO)

Other Teach-Ins

Upcoming Teach-Ins

THURSDAY, October 27

11:00am - 12:00pm
Van Jones, author of "The Green Collar Economy," Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and American Progress Action Fund

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 (RESCHEDULED from October 26)
The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series: Chand Montrie (UMass Lowell), author of "A People’s History of Environmentalism in the United States"

SATURDAY, October 29

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

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

SUNDAY, October 30

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
The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series: Anthony Arnove, co-authored "Voices of a People's History of the United States" with Howard Zinn

MONDAY, October 31

1:00pm - 3:00pm
Consensus Workshop with C.T. Butler

TUESDAY, November 1

1:00pm - 3:00pm
Consensus Workshop with C.T. Butler

WEDNESDAY, November 2

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

THURSDAY, November 3

4:00pm - 5:00pm (RESCHEDULED from October 27)
The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series: The Perils of American Democracy, The Institutional Basis Behind Our 'Broken Politics' with Professor Luis Jimenez

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

FRIDAY, November 4

5:00pm - 6:00pm
Responsible Investing

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WEDNESDAY, November 9

6:00pm - 7:00pm
The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series: "From Heroes to Zeros – the war on public employees and their unions," Professor Elaine Bernard (Harvard University)

WEDNESDAY, November 30

5:00pm - 6:00pm
The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series: Norman Finkelstein

Past Teach-Ins

== 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.

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

3:30pm - 4:30pm
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 1)
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

6:00pm - 8:00pm (VIDEO 1 / VIDEO 2 / VIDEO 3)
The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series: Noam Chomsky

FRIDAY, October 21

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

THURSDAY, October 20

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

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

6:00pm (VIDEO 1 / VIDEO 2)
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

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

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

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

5:30pm
Discussion: Whiteness and Ally-Ship

FRIDAY, October 14

2:30pm - 3:30pm
Occupy Boston Economics Forum: 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 - 4:30pm
Occupy Boston Economics Forum: Why Unemployment Is So High and How We Can Reduce It (Juliet Schor)

4:00pm
The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series: Class and the Shift in the Distribution of Income Against Workers and in Favor of Capitalists (part of Occupy Boston Economics Forum), with Alejandro Reuss (Smith).

THURSDAY, October 13

4:30pm (VIDEO 1 / VIDEO 2 / VIDEO 3 / BLOG)
The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series: Roots of the Current Crisis with Victor Wallis, professor of Liberal Arts, UC Berkeley