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.

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RESOURCES

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VIDEO ARCHIVE

Economics Forum

Arjun Jayadev, "The False Doctrine of Austerity" (VIDEO)

The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series

Noam Chomsky (VIDEO 1 / VIDEO 2 / VIDEO 3)
Gary Leupp, "Elite Control Over US Foreign Policy: Lessons from Vietnam, to Iraq, to Today" (VIDEO 1 / VIDEO 2 / VIDEO 3)
Victor Wallis, "Roots of the Current Crisis"' (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)
Chand Montrie, author of "A People’s History of Environmentalism in the United States" (VIDEO)
Anthony Arnove, co-author of "Voices of a People's History of the United States" with Howard Zinn (VIDEO 1 / VIDEO 2 / VIDEO 3)
Fred Magdoff (VIDEO 1 / VIDEO 2)
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, "The City on a Hill, Where it all Began" (VIDEO 1 / VIDEO 2 / VIDEO 3)
Elaine Bernard, "From Heroes to Zeros: The War on Public Employees & Their Unions" (VIDEO)

UPCOMING TEACH-INS

FRIDAY, November 11

5:00pm - 6:00pm
Lecture and Discussion: "Capitalism at a Dead End" - synopsis of a lecture/document given by Fred Goldstein for the 6th National Meeting on Social Policy Federal University of Espirito Santo in September with Gerry Scoppettuolo.

6:00pm - 9:00pm (TENTATIVE)
Film Screenings: "How To Start A Revolution" and "Peace and the Quiet"

SATURDAY, November 12

COST OF WAR: Day of Listening to Military Families & Veterans

11:00am - 12:00pm (main stage)
Listening Session: Military Family or Veteran Speaker TBA (main stage)

12:00pm - 1:00pm (main stage)
Speakout: Health Justice, highlighting injustices faced by returning veterans in military / VA healthcare system (main stage)

1:00pm - 2:00pm (main stage)
Listening Session: Military Family or Veteran Speaker TBA

2:00pm - 3:00pm (near Camp Alex)
Listening Sessions: Military Family or Veteran Speaker TBA

4:30pm - 6:00pm (near Camp Alex)
Listening Sessions: Military Family or Veteran Speaker TBA

3:00pm - 4:30pm
Roundtable Discussion: What is Violence? What is Nonviolence? (meet by the Gandhi statue)

5:00 - 6:00pm
The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series: "Race and Occupy" with Noel Ignatiev

SUNDAY, November 13

1:00pm - 2:00pm
Teach-In: "From Occupation to Revolution" with John Spritzler

1:00pm - 3:30pm*
United For Change Workshop Series: The Effects of Class Background on Our Lives and Efforts for Change

*OFF SITE, 33 Harrison Avenue - 5th Floor (Encuentro 5)

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
Teach-In: "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)

TUESDAY, November 15

2:00pm - 3:00pm
Fight for Our Basic Property Rights: The Big Bank's Fraud at Registries of Deeds, presented by John O'Brien

THURSDAY, November 17

3:00pm - 4:00pm
Martin Luther King Jr, Stokely Carmichael, American Democracy, and the Search for Economic Justice: From the Civil Rights Movement to the Occupy Movement

6:00pm - 7:00pm
The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series: "Economic Crisis and System Change" with Richard Wolf

SATURDAY, November 19

1:00pm - 2:00pm
Teach-In: Globalization and How it Affects Us, an interactive presentation with Madeleine Cousineau

SUNDAY, November 20

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

TUESDAY, November 22

5:00pm - 6:00pm
The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series: The Culture of Debt, Mike Denning

SUNDAY, November 27

1:00pm - 2:00pm
Speaker: "Our Elections Are Rigged. Why Voting Still Matters. What Occupiers Can Do." with (Sheila Parks)

TUESDAY, November 29

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

PAST TEACH-INS

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

3:00pm - 4:00pm
Power & Visibility: “The Means of Correct Training,” from Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish

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

6:00pm - 7:00pm (VIDEO)
The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series: "From Heroes to Zeros: The War on Public Employees & Their Unions," Elaine Bernard (Harvard University)

6:00pm - 8:30pm
Workshop: The Practice of Nonviolence and Civil Disobediance (meet by the Gandhi statue)

7:00pm - 9:30pm
Documentary Film Screening: How To Start A Revolution, followed by comments from director, Ruaridh Arrow, and Jamila Raqib, of the 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
Teach-In: Palestine / Gaza - The Context and Recent Flotilla Attempts to Break the Israeli Siege 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 - 8:30pm
Roundtable Discussion: What is Violence? What is Nonviolence? (meet by the Gandhi statue)

6:00pm - 7:00pm
Lecture: Historical Conversations for Democracy, with Monica Poole

SUNDAY, November 6

2:00pm - 3:00pm
How the Cost of War Impacts a Military Family, group discussion with Carlos and Melida Arredondo

4:00pm - 6:00pm
Workshop: Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed, a selection of games and exercises for social justice

SATURDAY, November 5

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

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

FRIDAY, November 4

12:00pm - 1:00pm
Lessons from the Wisconsin Uprising

1:30pm - 2:30pm (VIDEO 1 / VIDEO 2 / VIDEO 3)
The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series: "The City on a Hill, Where it all Began" with Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

2:30pm - 3:30pm
Responsible Investing

THURSDAY, November 3

9:30am - 10:30am
Career Workshop: My Red Carpet Moment, How Do I Best Express What I Do?

4:00pm - 5:00pm
The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series: The Perils of American Democracy, The Institutional Basis Behind Our 'Broken Politics', Professor Luis Jimenez

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 (POSTPONED)
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

5:00pm - 6:00pm (VIDEO 1 / VIDEO 2 / VIDEO 3)
The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series: Anthony Arnove, co-authored "Voices of a People's History of the United States" with Howard Zinn

SATURDAY, October 29

10:00am - 12:30pm
The Practice of Non-Violence and Civil Disobedience

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

5:00pm - 6:00pm (VIDEO 1 / VIDEO 2)
The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series: Fred Magdoff

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

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

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 (VIDEO 1 / VIDEO 2)

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

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 - 4:30pm
The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series: Neoliberal Dispossession and the Demand for Demands with Nicole Aschoff, Sociology Department at Boston University.

5:30pm - 6:30pm
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

WEDNESDAY, October 12

1:30pm
Active Listening 101: How to Have a Friendly Disagreement

3:00pm
On Labor Day: Importance and Tactics of Building a Worker's Party

TUESDAY, October 11

3:00pm
Occupy Boston Economics Forum: A Primer on Financialization with Bryan Snyder

3:30pm - 5:00pm
Anarchist Occupation Issues

4:00pm
Occupy Boston Economics Forum: Up Against the Wall Street Journal with John Miller

MONDAY, October 10

1:00pm - 3:30pm
The Practice of Non-Violence and Civil Disobedience

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 1 / VIDEO 2 / VIDEO 3 / VIDEO 4)
Active Listening 101: How to Have a Friendly Disagreement