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
- The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series
- Facebook Group
- Occupy Boston Globe
- YouTube
- A-Z Library
- tumblr (under construction)
- Internet Archive (under construction)
- Free School University (under construction)
RESOURCES
- Future Teach Ins
- Past Teach Ins
- Video Archive
- Information for Volunteers
- Information for Teachers (under construction)
- Information for Greeters (under construction)
- FSU Meeting Notes (under construction)
CURRENT TEACH-INS
FRIDAY, November 18
1:00pm - 2:00pm
"Political Policing in the United States: Historical Perspectives on the Challenges Confronting the Occupy Movement" with Brendan McQuade
2:00pm - 3:00pm*
Power & Visibility: “The Means of Correct Training,” from Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish
*copies of the book are available at the Library, in the FSU box
2:00pm - 4:00pm (meet by Federal Reserve)
Preparedness in Actions, Strengthening Our Spirit & Building Community: Training by the Nonviolence & Civil Disobedience Working Group (presented by Minga Clagget-Borne)
5:00pm - 6:00pm
The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series: Paul Le Blanc, Associate Professor of History at La Roche College
SATURDAY, November 19
10:00am - 12:00pm (meet by Federal Reserve)
Preparedness in Actions, Strengthening Our Spirit & Building Community: Training by the Nonviolence & Civil Disobedience Working Group
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Teach-In: Globalization and How it Affects Us, an interactive presentation with Madeleine Cousineau
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Occupy The Economy, with Kerry Power (followed by Q&A)
4:00pm - 5:00pm
"How “Free” Trade Kills Jobs, Reduces Wages, Wrecks the Environment & Destroys Democracy" with Steve D’Amico
SUNDAY, November 20
11:00am - 12:00pm
Transgender Awareness Workshop with Occupy Boston Queer and Trans Caucus
12:00pm - 1:30pm
Speaker: Harvey Wassermann
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Reproductive Justice and Economic Justice with Marlene Fried
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Unemployment: Why Jobs Are Hard to Find and How We Can Create Many More, with Juliet Schor
MONDAY, November 21
6:00pm - 8:00pm (meet by Federal Reserve)
Preparedness in Actions, Strengthening Our Spirit & Building Community: Training by the Nonviolence & Civil Disobedience Working Group (presented by Catherine Hoffman)
TUESDAY, November 22
4:00pm - 5:00pm
The Case Against America's Militarized "Pacific Century" - Real Economic Security and Preventing Another War, with Joseph Gerson
5:00pm - 6:00pm
The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series: The Culture of Debt, Mike Denning
FRIDAY, November 25
10:00am - 12:00pm (meet by Federal Reserve)
Preparedness in Actions, Strengthening Our Spirit & Building Community: Training by the Nonviolence & Civil Disobedience Working Group (presented by John Bach)
SUNDAY, November 27
1:00pm - 2:00pm
"Corporations--the 1 Percent--Own and Rig the Elections of the 99 Percent" with Sheila Parks
TUESDAY, November 29
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Reading Group Planning Meeting (meet in front of the Library)
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
SATURDAY, December 3
12:00pm - 2:00pm
"Corporate Negligence and Bhopal, India: An Ongoing Disaster" with The International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal