FSU: Past Teach-Ins
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PAST TEACH-INS
The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series
Wednesday, December 7 @ 5pmAvi Chomsky, professor of history at Salem State University
Wednesday, November 30 @ 5pm
Norman Finkelstein (VIDEO)
Tuesday, November 29 @ 5pm
Bruno Bosteels (VIDEO)
Tuesday, November 22 @ 5pm
Mike Denning (VIDEO): The Culture of Debt
Friday, November 18 @ 5pmPaul Le Blanc (VIDEO)Thursday, November 17 @ 6pmRichard Wolf (VIDEO)
Saturday, November 12 @ 5pm
Noel Ignatiev (VIDEO): Race and Occupy
Wednesday, November 9 @ 6pmElaine Bernard (VIDEO): From Heroes to Zeros, The War on Public Employees & Their UnionsFriday, November 4 @ 1:30pm
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (VIDEO): The City on a Hill, Where it all BeganThursday, November 3 @ 4pm
Luis Jimenez (VIDEO): The Perils of American Democracy, The Institutional Basis Behind Our 'Broken Politics'Sunday, October 30 @ 5pm
Anthony Arnove (VIDEO): co-authored "Voices of a People's History of the United States" with Howard Zinn
Saturday, October 29 @ 5pmFred Magdoff (VIDEO)Friday, October 28 @ 6pmChad Montrie (VIDEO), author of "A People's History of Environmentalism in the United States"Monday, October 24 @ 5:30pmTom Ferguson: Money and PoliticsSunday, October 23 @ 3:30pmVijay Prashad (VIDEO), author of "The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World"Saturday, October 22 @ 6pmNoam Chomsky (VIDEO), followed by Q&AThursday, October 20 @ 6pmGary Leupp (VIDEO): Elite Control Over US Foreign Policy, Lessons from Vietnam, to Iraq, to TodaySaturday, October 15 @ 3:30pmNicole Aschoff: Neoliberal Dispossession and the Demand for DemandsThursday, October 13 @ 4:30pm
Occupy Boston Economics Forum
Saturday, December 3 @ 6pm
Gar Alperovitz (VIDEO), America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty, & Our Democracy, book launch
Thursday, October 20 @ 4pm
Arthur MacEwan: The Economic Crisis: How Can We Fix Things?
Wednesday, October 19 @ 5pmCatherine Finnoff: 10 Phoney Facts About the US Economy - Keeping It Real for the 99Sunday, October 16 @ 2pmJulie Nelson: What Economists Got Wrong and What We've Got to Do to Fix ItFriday, October 14Alejandro Reuss: It's Not Just the Banks - Class and the Shift in the Distribution of Income Against Workers and in favor of Capitalists (2:30pm)Juliet Schor: Why Unemployment Is So High and How We Can Reduce It (3:30pm)Tuesday, October 11Bryan Snyder: A Primer on Financialization (3pm)John Miller: Up Against the Wall Street Journal (4pm)
Monday, October 10 @ 4pmArjun Jayadev (VIDEO): The False Doctrine of Austerity
Non-Violence & Civil Disobedience (NVCD)
Preparedness in Actions, Strengthening Our Spirit & Building Community - Training
- Friday, November 25 @ 10am, presented by John Bach
- Monday, November 21 @ 6pm, presented by Catherine Hoffman
- Saturday, November 19 @ 10am
- Friday, November 18 @ 2pm, presented by Minga Clagget-Borne
What is Violence? What is Nonviolence? - Roundtable Discussion
- Saturday, November 12 @ 3pm
- Monday, November 7 @ 6pm
The Practice of Nonviolence and Civil Disobediance - Workshop
- Wednesday, November 9 @ 6pm
Saturday, October 29 @ 10am
- Saturday, October 22 @ 2pm
- Monday, October 10 @ 1pm
Other Teach-Ins
SUNDAY, December 4
3:00pm - 4:00pm (CANCELLED)
Discussion: Publicly-Funded Elections & Repairing Representative Government
SATURDAY, December 3
12:00pm - 2:00pm
Corporate Negligence and Bhopal, India: An Ongoing Disaster with The International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal
THURSDAY, December 1
2:00pm - 3:00pm (Rescheduled from Tuesday)
Reading Group Planning Meeting (meet in front of the Library)
MONDAY, November 28
2:00pm - 3:00pm
How to Redistribute Wealth: Lessons from the 20th Century, a discussion with Molly Geidel and Patricia Stuelke
SUNDAY, November 27
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Rigged Elections: Corporations--the 1 Percent--Own and Rig the Elections of the 99 Percent with Sheila Parks
2:00pm - 2:30pm (VIDEO)
Speech: A Matter of Honor (on Veterans & the First Amendment) by Jim Scarborough
SATURDAY, November 26
4:00pm - 5:00pm (POSTPONED)
Right on the Marx: New Insights From Some Old Ideas with Gordon Fellman
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
6:00pm - 6:30pm (VIDEO)
Speech: A Matter of Honor (Veterans & the First Amendment) by Jim Scarborough
SUNDAY, November 20
11:00am - 12:00pm
Transgender Awareness Workshop with Occupy Boston Queer and Trans Caucus
12:00pm - 1:30pm
Harvey Wassermann: The History of Social Movements
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
SATURDAY, November 19
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
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 (copies of reading are available at the Library)
Power & Visibility: “The Means of Correct Training,” from Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish
THURSDAY, November 17
3:00pm - 4:00pm
From the Civil Rights Movement to the Occupy Movement: Martin Luther King Jr, Stokely Carmichael, American Democracy & the Search for Economic Justice
WEDNESDAY, November 16
3:30pm - 4-30pm
Fight for Our Basic Property Rights: The Big Bank's Fraud at Registries of Deeds, presented by John O'Brien
SUNDAY, November 13
1:00pm - 2:00pm
From Occupation to Revolution with John Spritzler
1:00pm - 3:30pm (Encuentro 5)
The Effects of Class Background on Our Lives and Efforts for Change (United For Change Workshop Series)
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Discussion: Public Financing of Elections - A Way Station: Fair, Just and Good Government - The Destination, with Professor Julius Levine
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Gender, Economy, and Citizenship with Carole Biewener and Jyoti Puri
5:00pm - 6:45pm
Workshop: Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed, a selection of games and exercises for social justice
SATURDAY, November 12
Cost of War Forum
Military Family and Veteran Speaker Series
11:00amOpening Remarks: Sarah Fuhro, mother of soldier who deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan11:15amTeach-In: How the Wars Started, their Impact, and Lessons to Learn to Avoid Future Wars - Wayne Jaquith (Military Families Speak Out)11:30amRobert Funke, Vietnam Veteran (Smedley D. Butler Brigade of Veterans for Peace)11:50amNative American Drumming and Songs for Healing and New BeginningsLISTENING SESSIONS1:00pmJason Mizula and Rachel McNeill, Iraq Veterans (Smedley D. Butler Brigade of Veterans for Peace)3:00pmAlice Copeland Brown, mother of Army officers from Canton, Massachusetts (Military Families Speak Out)3:45pmJoyce and Kevin Lucey (Military Families Speak Out), parents of Corporal Jeff Lucey, who committed suicide in 20044:15pmCarlos and Melida Arredondo, parents of Lance Corporal Alexander Arredondo, who was killed in 2004 on his 2nd tour of duty in Iraq4:45pmRyan Cahill, Iraq Veteran
FRIDAY, November 11
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Capitalism at a Dead End, synopsis of lecture/document given by Fred Goldstein for 6th National Meeting on Social Policy in September, with Gerry Scoppettuolo
THURSDAY, November 10
1:00pm - 2:00pm
The Neuroscience of Greed with Rick Heller
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Black Soldiers in the War of the Slaveowners Rebellion, stories from the Massachusetts 54th and 55th in the Civil War
5:00pm - 6:30pm
Public Class Meeting: Prisoner's Rights Legal Clinic, Northeastern University School of Law
WEDNESDAY, November 9
3:00pm - 4:00pm
Workshop: Your Rights at Work with Anneta Argyres and Tess Ewing
7:00pm - 9:30pm
Documentary Film Screening: How To Start A Revolution, followed with commentary by Ruaridh Arrow (director) and Jamila Raqib (Albert Einstein Institute)
MONDAY, November 7
11:00am - 1:00pm
Workshop: Increasing Awareness and Protecting Your Sacred Fire
2:00pm - 4:00pm
Workshop: Increasing Awareness and Protecting Your Sacred Fire
2:30pm - 3:30pm
Gaza & Palestine: The Israeli Siege and the Passion of Human Rights Activists throughout the World with Ridgely Fuller
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Your Public School Under Attack, Organizing to Fight Back! A workshop with Citizens for Public Schools
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Lecture: Historical Conversations for Democracy with Monica Poole
SUNDAY, November 6
4:00pm - 6:00pm
Workshop: Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed, a selection of games and exercises for social justice
SATURDAY, November 5
1:00pm - 2:00pm
The Wall Street Complex
2:00pm - 3:30pm
Discussion: Where Do We Go From Here? with Todd Gitlin
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Youth, Justice, and Democracy in El Salvador with Margarito Nolasco
Health Justice Forum
11:00am
Reoccupy the Health System through Single Payer Health Reform
12:00pm
Economic Crisis, Austerity, and the Health of the 99%
3:00pm
How a Financial Transaction Tax Can End AIDS
FRIDAY, November 4
12:00pm - 1:00pm (CANCELLED)
Lessons from the Wisconsin Uprising
2:30pm - 3:30pm
Responsible Investing, with Shelley Alpern and Catherine Pargeter (Trillium Asset Management), and Libby Edgerly (MSCI)
THURSDAY, November 3
9:30am - 10:30am
Career Workshop: My Red Carpet Moment, How Do I Best Express What I Do?
5:00pm - 6:00pm
The Housing Crisis: Where Did It Come From, Where Are We Going?
WEDNESDAY, November 2
6:30pm - 7:30pm
Big Pharma: Another Big Player on Wall Street
TUESDAY, November 1
1:00pm - 2:30pm
Consensus: So That All Voices May Be Heard, a workshop with C.T. Butler
3:00pm - 4:00pm
Money, Banking, and Democracy, with Gerald Friedman
MONDAY, October 31
1:00pm - 2:30pm
Consensus: So That All Voices May Be Heard, a workshop with C.T. Butler
SUNDAY, October 30
11:00am - 12:00pm (CANCELLED)
Fair Trade Coffee Hour and Discussion
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
SATURDAY, October 29
4:00pm - 5:00pm (POSTPONED)
Glenn Greenwald: With Liberty and Justice for Some
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
THURSDAY, October 27
11:00am - 12:00pm (VIDEO)
Van Jones, author of "The Green Collar Economy," Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and American Progress Action Fund
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
SUNDAY, October 23
1:30pm - 3:00pm
Occupy Boston Writing Workshop: The Other 99%
4:00pm - 6:00pm (VIDEO)
Teach-In: Movement Building and Organizing Strategies with Marshall Ganz
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.
SATURDAY, October 22
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Cut Military Spending, Fund Our Communities
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Workshop: Prisoners Realities, with the Asheville Tranzmission Prison Project
3:00pm - 4:30pm
Anonymity & Security on the Web (VIDEO)
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
WEDNESDAY, October 19
3:00pm - 4:00pm
Afghanistan: Why Obama Must Change Course
SUNDAY, October 16
10:00am - 11:00am
Big Pharma: Another Big Player on Wall Street
2:30pm - 3:30pm
Occupy Boston: Talking to People Passing By
6:00pm - 7:00pm (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
5:30pm - 6:30pm
Discussion: Whiteness and Ally-Ship
WEDNESDAY, October 12
1:30pm - 2:30pm
Active Listening 101: How to Have a Friendly Disagreement
3:00pm - 4:00pm
On Labor Day: Importance and Tactics of Building a Worker's Party
TUESDAY, October 11
3:30pm - 5:00pm
Anarchist Occupation Issues
MONDAY, October 10
1:30pm - 2:30pm
Indigenous People's Day Teach-in on Palestine
3:00pm - 3:30pm
Student Power: Building a New University in the Shell of the Old
3:30pm - 4:30pm (VIDEO)
Active Listening 101: How to Have a Friendly Disagreement
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Capitalism is Failing: The Socialist Alternative
SUNDAY, October 9
12:00pm - 1:30pm (VIDEO)
Capitalism, Energy, and Climate Change
2:30pm - 3:30pm
The Case for Socialism: Human Need, Not Corporate Greed!
3:30pm - 4:30pm (VIDEO)
An Intro to Modern Anarchism: Isn't Libertarian Socialism a Contradiction?
3:30pm - 4:30pm
Open Discussion: Tools Against Sexism within the Occupy Boston Movement
5:00 - 6:00pm (BLOG)
The Meaning of "We Are The 99 Percent"
SATURDAY, October 8
1:00pm - 2:00pm (VIDEO 1 / VIDEO 2 / VIDEO 3)
Anarchism, Psychology, and Law
4:00pm - 5:00pm (VIDEO)
US Wars in the Middle East: Much Ado About Oil
FRIDAY, October 7
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Kate Bonner-Jackson: "Translation Is Not A Crime: The Case for Tarek Mehanna"
1:30 - 2:30pm (VIDEO / BLOG)
Austerity Games and the Global Impacts of Wall Street
1:00pm - 4:00pm
Effective Deep Green Resistance: A Strategy Conversation
3:00pm - 6:00pm (VIDEO)
From the Battlefield to the Home Front: Technologies of Control in America