Free School University (FSU)

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 FREE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY at Occupy Boston


The Free School University (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 fsu@occupyboston.org, CC: rachel@freeschooluniversity.orgIf 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, 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

Working Group Information

The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series

The Boston Occupier Coverage


 VIDEO ARCHIVE                                                                                          

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


 CURRENT TEACH-INS                                                                               

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(POSTPONED)
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.