Free School University (FSU)

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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 has provided support and created the space for skill sharing, self-organization, teaching, and more than 150 learning opportunities so far. Our next FSU Working Group Meeting is TBD. Contact fsu@lists.occupyboston.org if you want to attend the next meeting or for general inquiries.


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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. 



  • Date & Time
  • Location
  • Title & Brief Description
  • Short Biography
  • Working Group Association
  • Sponsors (if any)



After everything is confirmed, you can use the Occupy Boston Event Submission Form to expedite posting to the occupyboston.org event calendar.



 CURRENT TEACH-INS 

== Occupy Boston Radio ==

=== FSU-RADIO
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FSU-RADIO is an educational series by the Free School University at Occupy Boston that streams live on OB Radio every Wednesday night at 7pm. Our goal is to maintain an autonomous zone 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 during the show, or join the IRC chat at occupyboston.org/radio. Also view the FSU Radio blog.

Wednesday 7pm-8pm'check the calendar for specific shows

=== VFP-RADIO === VFP-RADIOis a weekly radio broadcast organized by members of the Smedley D. Butler Brigade of Veterans For Peace (VFP) streams live on OB Radio every Monday night at 6:00pm. Call 617-506-9726 with questions or comments during the show, or join the IRC chat at occupyboston.org/radio. Hosted by Bob Funke, member of the Action For Peace Working Group at Occupy Boston and Vietnam Veteran For Peace. Veterans For Peace is a non-profit educational and humanitarian organization dedicated to the abolishment of war employing the motto "De Oppresso Liber" (Liberate the Oppressed). The next shows will be aired on:

*Monday, May 7, 2012*'Monday, May 14, 2012 *Monday, May 21, 2012

== The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series == From the Organizers of The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series: We, as citizens, academics, and members of the 99%, would like to contribute to the conversation taking place at Occupy Boston about how to make a better, more equitable world for all of us. In the radical and participatory spirit of Occupy Boston and similar radical movements of the past, we see our role, as Giovanni Arrighi once argued, as helping the movement to develop its "own autonomy through an understanding of the broader processes, both national and global, in which their struggles [are] taking place" (The Winding Paths of Capital, New Left Review, Mar-Apr 2009). We wish to participate in the movement not from a position of authority, but one of mutual dialogue. While people know their situation much better than we ever will, as academics we are better positioned "to understand the wider context in which it develops" (Ibid). For this reason we have created a series of lectures in which academics lead a dialogue with Occupy Boston participants on issues of economic, political, and social justice. We call these lectures The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series at Occupy Boston in honor of the late, great Boston Historian. For an archive of past lectures, click here.

=== Truth and Revolution: A History of the Sojourner Truth Organization ===

Tuesday, May 22, 2012 (6:00pm @ Encuentro 5 - 33 Harrison Ave, Boston): Book launch for Truth & Revolution by Michael Staudenmaier. Founded in Chicago in 1969 from the rubble of the recently crumbled Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the Sojourner Truth Organization (STO) brought working-class consciousness to the forefront of New Left discourse, sending radicals back into the factories and thinking through the integration of radical politics into everyday realities. Through the influence of founding members like Noel Ignatiev and Don Hamerquist, STO took a Marxist approach to the question of race and revolution, exploring the notion of "white skin privilage" and helping to lay the groundwork for the discipline of critical race studies. Michael Staudenmaier is a 20-year veteran anarchist and student of revolutionary movements and a doctoral candidate in history at the University of Illinois.



 RESOURCES  = == 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 *Occupy University, FSU Page on OWS Education for the Revolution

Working Group Information

*Working Group, register and login to participate. You do not have to login to view the FSU files on our working groups page. **Information for Volunteers **Information for Teachers **Information for Site-Assistants *List Serve, sign up for our working group's email list *Living Agenda for upcoming FSU Working Group meetings *Wiki Talk Page, space to share ideas for building this wiki page and FSU generally === Meeting Notes ===

{| style="width: 500px" border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" |- | October 2011 | January 20, 2012       | March 23, 2012 |- | November 2011 | January 27, 2012 | March 30, 2012 |- | December 2, 2011 | February 3, 2012 | April 13, 2012 |- | December 7, 2011 | February 10, 2012 |
|- | December 16, 2011 | February 23, 2012 |
|- | December 23, 2011 | February 30, 2012 |
|- | December 26, 2011 | March 8, 2012 |
|- | January 6, 2012 | March 15, 2012 |
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The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series

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Website, WordPress

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Updates, keep up with the lecture series at OccupyBoston.org

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Facebook, group page

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Video Archive, playlist of past lectures on YouTube

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Archives

=== Past Teach-Ins ===

Since our first teach-in on October 7, 2011, the Occupy Boston Free School University has created the space for more than 150 teach-ins! For a complete list of past teach-ins, click here. 

=== Videos ===

To access our video archive, including nearly 40 videos of our past teach-ins, click here. If you have video you would like us to add to the archive or links to coverage of FSU events in the news, please email them to us at fsu@occupyboston.org.

=== Media Coverage ===

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