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 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. To schedule a teach-in through the FSU, please submit the following information to fsu@occupyboston.org, CC: 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:
- Location:
- Title:
- Brief Description:
- Short Biography:
For all other inquiries, to volunteer as site-assistants, or to jion the FSU-Woring Group, please email: fsu@occupyboston.org.
FSU Working Group Meetings take place every Friday from 3:00pm - 5:00pm at 470 Atlantic Ave in Boston (red brick building, two blocks from Dewey Square; enter Independence Wharf Public Accommodations Room in the back of the building, by the waterfront).
RESOURCES ON THE WEB
Free School University
- Website, students and teachers can build a free page here
- List Serve, sign up for our email list
- Facebook, group page
- YouTube
- Audre Lorde to Howard Zinn (A-Z) Library
Working Group Information
When you click on these links you will go to our Working Group website, to get back to the wiki use the back button on your browser. You do not have to login to view the FSU files.
- Working Group, register and login to participate (http://groups.occupyboston.org/wg/free-school-university)
- Information for Volunteers
- Information for Teachers
- Information for Site-Assistants
- FSU Meeting Notes are found in the above link for 'Working Group'
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
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)
VIDEO ARCHIVE
For archived video of past teach-ins, click here.
CURRENT TEACH-INS
FRIDAY, January 20
The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series
6:00pm - 8:00pm (Encuentro 5, 33 Harrison Ave, 5th Floor, Boston, MA) PAST TEACH-INS
For a list of past teach-ins, click here.