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 through the FSU, please submit the following information to 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:
• Title:
• Brief Description:
• Short Biography:
• Do you want to request the mic, if available?  

For all other inquiries, or to be added to our volunteers email list, please email: fsu@occupyboston.org.

FSU Working Group Meetings are currently Friday 3:00-5:00pm at 470 Atlantic Ave, Boston, 02210, 2 blocks from Dewey Square; enter from the rear Southeast corner of the red-brick building: Independence Wharf in the Public Accommodations Room.

Special FSU-WG meeting, Wednesday December 14th, noon-2:00pm will be on the web through OB-RADIO.  Go to OccupyBoston.org and click on 'RADIO' where you may join in via the IRC chat or call in: 617-50-MY-RADIO (617-506-7234)

 ON THE WEB                                                                                                 

Free School University

• To join the FSU Working Group, login & request membership here.
• For Students and Teachers: Build a Free Website atfreeschooluniversity.org
• Facebook (group page)
• Twitter
• YouTube
• Audre Lorde to Howard Zinn (A-Z) Library

The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series

• WordPress
• OccupyBoston.org
• Facebook
• YouTube (playlist)

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)

 RESOURCES                                                                                                  

• Information for Volunteers
• Information for Teachers
• Information for Greeters
• FSU Meeting Notes
• To join the FSU Working Group

 VIDEO ARCHIVE                                                                                          

For archived video of past teach-ins, click here.

 CURRENT TEACH-INS                                                                               

SUNDAY, December 11

2:00-3:00   (off-site at the Boston Common, Bandstand)
Adopt an Occupier, hosted by Occupy Newton

Contribute to the Occupation by one-on-one support to an individual occupier.

3:30pm - 4:30pm

Public Financing of Election Campaigns --  A Way Station;  Fair, Just and Good Government--Our Destination, with Jules Levine

The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series

2:00pm - 3:00pm

Rich Levy, professor of history at Salem State University, "The Legacy of the Sixties and Occupy"

WEDNESDAY, December 14 

7:00pm - 9:30pm (Encuentro 5, 33 Harrison Ave, Boston, MA)

OWS Forum on Jobs for All: Proposed Demand

SATURDAY, December 17

10:00am - 5:00pm (Community Church, 565 Boylston St, Boston, MA)

Non-Violent Direct Action Training

5:30pm - 7:30pm (Community Church, 565 Boylston St, Boston, MA)

This Is What Democracy Looks Like, a film documenting the mass demonstrations and coordinated direct actions in Seattle, WA in 1999 thatshut down the WTO ministerial meeting and spring boarded the US anti-globalization movement

SUNDAY, December 18

2:00pm - 3:00pm

Unrig the Elections - Let us Count! A discussion with Jonathan Simon, founding member of Election Defense Alliance

12:00pm - 5:00pm (Location TBA)

Direct Action Strategy and Action: Planning - digging a little deeper

MONDAY, December 19

11:00am - 12:00pm

Antonio Gramsci and the Occupy Movement, Lecture / Discussion with anthropologist Elizabeth Ferry

6:30pm - 8:30pm (Community Church, 565 Boylston St, Boston, MA)

The Take, a film by Avi Lewis and Naomi Klien about thirty unemployed auto-parts workers who walk into their idle factory, roll out sleeping mats and refuse to leave.

FRIDAY, January 20

The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series

(Encuentro 5, 33 Harrison Ave, 5th Floor, Boston, MA)

Panel: From Occupy to Workers Control, with Immanuel Ness and Elaine Bernard

 PAST TEACH-INS                                                                                         

For a list of past teach-ins, click here.