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== '''<span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="color:#ff8c00;"><span style="font-size:large;">The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series</span></span></span>''' == | == '''<span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="color:#ff8c00;"><span style="font-size:large;">The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series</span></span></span>''' == | ||
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'''<font class="Apple-style-span"><span class="event-when"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Wednesday, December 7</font>: </span></font>'''<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Avi Chomsky, professor of history at Salem State University</span> | *<div>'''<font class="Apple-style-span"><span class="event-when"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Wednesday, December 7</font>: </span></font>'''<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Avi Chomsky, professor of history at Salem State University</span></div> | ||
*<div>'''Wednesday, November 30: '''Norman Finkelstein ([http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL03BA9259111C29EA VIDEO])<br/></div> | |||
'''Wednesday, November 30: '''Norman Finkelstein ([http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL03BA9259111C29EA VIDEO]) | *<div>'''Tuesday, November 29: '''Bruno Bosteels ([http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1A91BB010232A30A VIDEO])</div> | ||
*<div>'''Tuesday, November 22: '''<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; ">Mike Denning ([http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL560AA46B2AC77F09 VIDEO]): </span>The Culture of Debt</div> | |||
'''Tuesday, November 29: '''Bruno Bosteels ([http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1A91BB010232A30A VIDEO]) | *<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">'''Wednesday, November 9:'''</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "> </span>Elaine Bernard <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">(</span>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t95l5GuSt5E VIDEO]): From Heroes to Zeros, The War on Public Employees & Their Unions</div> | ||
*<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">'''Friday, November 4: '''</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz ([http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9DCB923ACBE99A57 VIDEO]): The City on a Hill, Where it all Began</span></div> | |||
'''Tuesday, November 22: '''<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">Mike Denning ([http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL560AA46B2AC77F09 VIDEO]): </span>The Culture of Debt | *<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">'''Thursday, November 3: '''</span>Luis Jimenez ([http://youtu.be/L5HQfIii8f4 VIDEO]): The Perils of American Democracy, The Institutional Basis Behind Our 'Broken Politics'</div> | ||
*<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">'''Sunday, October 30: '''</span>Anthony Arnove ([http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9CBFF814FBAEBC9C VIDEO]): co-authored "Voices of a People's History of the United States" with Howard Zinn</div> | |||
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">'''Wednesday, November 9:'''</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span"> | *<div>'''Friday, November 18: '''<span class="Apple-style-span">Paul Le Blanc ([http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCA54AF4E3C5462D1 VIDEO])</span></div> | ||
*<div>'''Thursday, November 17: '''<span class="Apple-style-span">Richard Wolf ([http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCC61A389FC7C81CE VIDEO])</span></div> | |||
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">'''Friday, November | *<div>'''<font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Saturday, November 12</font>: '''<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Noel Ignatiev </span>([http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9E2541C88567581D VIDEO])<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">: Race and Occupy</span></div> | ||
*<div>'''Saturday, October 29: '''<span class="Apple-style-span">Fred Magdoff ([http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL10A29BE0FB328772 VIDEO])</span></div> | |||
*<div>'''Friday, October 28: '''<span class="Apple-style-span">Chad Montrie ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0xD-nTVLWA VIDEO]), author of "A People's History of Environmentalism in the United States"</span></div> | |||
*<div>'''Monday, October 24: '''<span class="Apple-style-span">Tom Ferguson: Money and Politics</span></div> | |||
*<div>'''Sunday, October 23: '''<span class="Apple-style-span">Vijay Prashad ([http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0CFD946BBF86330E VIDEO]), author of "The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World"</span></div> | |||
*<div>'''Saturday, October 22: '''<span class="Apple-style-span">Noam Chomsky ([http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL30B5C13F34E83306 VIDEO])</span></div> | |||
*<div>'''Thursday, October 20: '''<span class="Apple-style-span">Gary Leupp ([http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC9058AE210E7A389 VIDEO]): Elite Control Over US Foreign Policy, Lessons from Vietnam, to Iraq, to Today</span></div> | |||
*<div>'''Saturday, October 15: '''<span class="Apple-style-span">Nicole Aschoff: Neoliberal Dispossession and the Demand for Demands</span></div> | |||
*<div>'''Thursday, October 13: '''<span class="Apple-style-span">Victor Wallis ([http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD312E4B89A8FE38D VIDEO]): Roots of the Current Crisis ([https://zinnlectures.wordpress.com/2011/10/14/first-lecture-today/ BLOG])</span></div> | |||
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== '''<span style="color:#ff8c00;"><span style="font-size:large;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">Occupy Boston Economics Forum</span></span></span>''' == | == '''<span style="color:#ff8c00;"><span style="font-size:large;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">Occupy Boston Economics Forum</span></span></span>''' == | ||
<blockquote>'''<font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Saturday, December 3, 2011: </font>'''Gar Alperovitz ([http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL60041879F5D9A039 VIDEO]), [http://bit.ly/vZ4LUj America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty, & Our Democracy], book launch</blockquote><blockquote> | <blockquote>'''<font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Saturday, December 3, 2011: </font>'''Gar Alperovitz ([http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL60041879F5D9A039 VIDEO]), [http://bit.ly/vZ4LUj America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty, & Our Democracy], book launch</blockquote><blockquote> |
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PAST TEACH-INS
The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series
Wednesday, December 7: Avi Chomsky, professor of history at Salem State University Wednesday, November 30: Norman Finkelstein (VIDEO) Tuesday, November 29: Bruno Bosteels (VIDEO) Tuesday, November 22: Mike Denning (VIDEO): The Culture of Debt Wednesday, November 9: Elaine Bernard (VIDEO): From Heroes to Zeros, The War on Public Employees & Their Unions Friday, November 4: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (VIDEO): The City on a Hill, Where it all Began Thursday, November 3: Luis Jimenez (VIDEO): The Perils of American Democracy, The Institutional Basis Behind Our 'Broken Politics' Sunday, October 30: Anthony Arnove (VIDEO): co-authored "Voices of a People's History of the United States" with Howard Zinn Friday, November 18: Paul Le Blanc (VIDEO) Thursday, November 17: Richard Wolf (VIDEO) Saturday, October 29: Fred Magdoff (VIDEO) Friday, October 28: Chad Montrie (VIDEO), author of "A People's History of Environmentalism in the United States" Monday, October 24: Tom Ferguson: Money and Politics Sunday, October 23: Vijay Prashad (VIDEO), author of "The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World" Saturday, October 22: Noam Chomsky (VIDEO) Thursday, October 20: Gary Leupp (VIDEO): Elite Control Over US Foreign Policy, Lessons from Vietnam, to Iraq, to Today Saturday, October 15: Nicole Aschoff: Neoliberal Dispossession and the Demand for Demands
Occupy Boston Economics Forum
Saturday, December 3, 2011: Gar Alperovitz (VIDEO), America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty, & Our Democracy, book launch
Thursday, October 20, 2011: Arthur MacEwan: The Economic Crisis: How Can We Fix Things?
Wednesday, October 19, 2011: Catherine Finnoff: 10 Phoney Facts About the US Economy, Keeping it Real for the 99 (CANCELLED)
Sunday, October 16, 2011: Julie Nelson: What Economists Got Wrong and What We've Got to Do to Fix It
Friday, October 14, 2011:
Alejandro Reuss: Class and the Shift in the Distribution of Income Against Workers and in favor of Capitalists Juliet Schor: Why Unemployment Is So High and How We Can Reduce It
Tuesday, October 11, 2011:
Bryan Snyder: A Primer on Financialization John Miller: Up Against the Wall Street Journal
Monday, October 10, 2011: Arjun Jayadev (VIDEO): The False Doctrine of Austerity
Elections & Campaign Financing
Sunday, December 4, 2011: Publicly-Funded Elections & Repairing Representative Government (CANCELLED) Sunday, November 27, 2011: Rigged Elections: Corporations--the 1 Percent--Own and Rig the Elections of the 99 Percent, Sheila Parks Sunday, November 13, 2011: Public Financing of Elections--A Way Station: Fair, Just & Good Government--The Destination, Julius Levine (VIDEO)
Non-Violence & Civil Disobedience (NVCD)
Preparedness in Actions, Strengthening Our Spirit & Building Community - Training
- Friday, November 25: presented by John Bach
- Monday, November 21: presented by Catherine Hoffman
- Saturday, November 19
- Friday, November 18: presented by Minga Clagget-Borne
What is Violence? What is Nonviolence? - Roundtable Discussion, co-facilitated by members of the NVCD Working Group
- Saturday, November 12
- Monday, November 7
The Practice of Nonviolence and Civil Disobediance - Workshop, presented by Rick Colbath-Hess
- Wednesday, November 9
- Saturday, October 29
- Saturday, October 22
- Monday, October 10
Veterans and Military Forum
A Matter of Honor: Veterans & the First Amendment, speech by Jim Scarborough
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Tuesday, November 22, 2011: The Case Against America's Militarized "Pacific Century": Real Economic Security and Preventing Another War, with Joseph Gerson
Saturday, November 12, 2011: Cost of War Series
- Sarah Fuhro (VIDEO): mother of soldier who deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan: Opening Remarks
- Wayne Jaquith (VIDEO): How the Wars Started, their Impact, and Lessons to Learn to Avoid Future Wars
- Native American Drumming and Songs for Healing and New Beginnings (VIDEO)
VETERAN LISTENING SESSIONS
- Jason Mizula (VIDEO), Rachel McNeill, and Ryan Cahill (VIDEO), Iraq Veterans
- Robert Funke (VIDEO) and members of the Corporal Jeffrey M. Lucey Chapter of Veterans for Peace (VIDEO), Vietnam Veterans
- Korean Veteran (VIDEO)
MILITARY FAMILY LISTENING SESSIONS, Military Families Speak Out
- Alice Copeland Brown (VIDEO), mother of Army officers from Canton, Massachusetts
- Joyce and Kevin Lucey (VIDEO), parents of Corporal Jeff Lucey, who committed suicide in 2004
- Carlos and Melida Arredondo (VIDEO), parents of Lance Corporal Alexander Arredondo, who was killed in 2004 on his 2nd tour of duty in Iraq
Thursday, November 10, 2011: Black Soldiers in the War of the Slaveowners Rebellion, stories from the Massachusetts 54th and 55th in the Civil War
Saturday, November 6, 2011: The Wall Street Complex
Saturday, October 22, 2011: Cut Military Spending, Fund Our Communities
Thursday, October 20, 2011: Brian Wilson, author of "Blood on the Tracks," founding member of Smedley D. Butler Brigade of Veterans For Peace
Wednesday, October 19, 2011: Afghanistan: Why Obama Must Change Course
Sunday, October 16, 2011: Cindy Sheehan, activist, mother of soldier killed in Iraq (CANCELLED)
Saturday, October 8, 2011: US Wars in the Middle East: Much Ado About Oil (VIDEO)
Health Justice Forum
Sunday, November 20, 2011
- Reproductive Justice and Economic Justice, with Marlene Fried
Saturday, November 5, 2011, organized by the Health Justice Working Group
- Jim Recht and Mardge Cohen (VIDEO): Reoccupy the Health System through Single Payer Health Reform
- Jeremy Barofsky, Jacob Bor, and Ashley Winning: Economic Crisis, Austerity, and the Health of the 99%
- Katrina Ciraldo: How a Financial Transaction Tax Can End AIDS
Immigration Forum
Sunday, December 4, 2011
- Teach-In on Secure Communities, presented by Centro Presente and the Immigration Working Group at Occupy Boston
- Neighbors United for a Better East Boston (NUBE): Opening Address and Welcome
- Tania Bruguera, Immigrant International Movement
- Peter Lowber: Opposing Secure Communities and Other Anti Immigrant Attacks; Vigils; Support for Human Rights and Immigrant Workers Rights
- Heloisa Maria Galvao, co-founder and the Executive Director of the Brazilian Women’s Group
- Carlos Rosales, Immigrant Worker Center Collaborative
- Break Out Discussion Group
December Teach-Ins
SATURDAY, December 3
- Corporate Negligence and Bhopal, India: An Ongoing Disaster with The International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal
THURSDAY, December 1
- Reading Group Planning Meeting (meet in front of the Library)
November Teach-Ins
MONDAY, November 28
- How to Redistribute Wealth: Lessons from the 20th Century, a discussion with Molly Geidel and Patricia Stuelke
SATURDAY, November 26
- (POSTPONED) Right on the Marx: New Insights From Some Old Ideas with Gordon Fellman
SUNDAY, November 20
- Transgender Awareness Workshop with Occupy Boston Queer and Trans Caucus
- Harvey Wassermann: The History of Social Movements
- Unemployment: Why Jobs Are Hard to Find and How We Can Create Many More with Juliet Schor
SATURDAY, November 19
- Teach-In: Globalization and How it Affects Us, an interactive presentation with Madeleine Cousineau
- Occupy The Economy with Kerry Power (followed by Q&A)
- How “Free” Trade Kills Jobs, Reduces Wages, Wrecks the Environment & Destroys Democracy with Steve D’Amico
FRIDAY, November 18
- Political Policing in the United States: Historical Perspectives on the Challenges Confronting the Occupy Movement, with Brendan McQuade
- Power & Visibility: “The Means of Correct Training,” from Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish
THURSDAY, November 17
- 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
- Fight for Our Basic Property Rights: The Big Bank's Fraud at Registries of Deeds, presented by John O'Brien
SUNDAY, November 13
- From Occupation to Revolution with John Spritzler
- (Encuentro 5) The Effects of Class Background on Our Lives and Efforts for Change (United For Change Workshop Series)
- Gender, Economy, and Citizenship with Carole Biewener and Jyoti Puri
- Workshop: Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed, a selection of games and exercises for social justice
FRIDAY, November 11
- 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
- The Neuroscience of Greed with Rick Heller
- Public Class Meeting: Prisoner's Rights Legal Clinic, Northeastern University School of Law
WEDNESDAY, November 9
- Workshop: Your Rights at Work with Anneta Argyres and Tess Ewing
- Documentary Film Screening: How To Start A Revolution, followed with commentary by Ruaridh Arrow (director) and Jamila Raqib (Albert Einstein Institute)
MONDAY, November 7
- Workshop: Increasing Awareness and Protecting Your Sacred Fire
- Gaza & Palestine: The Israeli Siege and the Passion of Human Rights Activists throughout the World with Ridgely Fuller
- Your Public School Under Attack, Organizing to Fight Back! A workshop with Citizens for Public Schools
- Lecture: Historical Conversations for Democracy with Monica Poole
SUNDAY, November 6
- Workshop: Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed, a selection of games and exercises for social justice
SATURDAY, November 5
- Discussion: Where Do We Go From Here? with Todd Gitlin
- Youth, Justice, and Democracy in El Salvador with Margarito Nolasco
FRIDAY, November 4
- (CANCELLED) Lessons from the Wisconsin Uprising
- Responsible Investing, with Shelley Alpern and Catherine Pargeter (Trillium Asset Management), and Libby Edgerly (MSCI)
THURSDAY, November 3
- Career Workshop: My Red Carpet Moment, How Do I Best Express What I Do?
- The Housing Crisis: Where Did It Come From, Where Are We Going?
WEDNESDAY, November 2
TUESDAY, November 1
- Consensus: So That All Voices May Be Heard, a workshop with C.T. Butler
- Money, Banking, and Democracy, with Gerald Friedman
MONDAY, October 31
- Consensus: So That All Voices May Be Heard, a workshop with C.T. Butler
SUNDAY, October 30
- (CANCELLED) Fair Trade Coffee Hour and Discussion
- How To Run For Office
- Occupy Boston Writing Workshop: The Other 99%
- The Decline of Middle Class Incomes and Political Inequality with Dr. Ben Tafoya
SATURDAY, October 29
FRIDAY, October 28
- Challenging Basic Assumptions: Personal & Political with Dennis Fox
- Crafting Your Story: A Fiction Workshop with Askold Melnyczuk
THURSDAY, October 27
- (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
- The USA PATRIOT ACT and You: Nancy Murray, Director of Education at the ACLU of Massachusetts
- Discussion with Author Roar Sheppard
TUESDAY, October 25
- Anarchism & Psychology with Dennis Fox
SUNDAY, October 23
- Occupy Boston Writing Workshop: The Other 99%
- (VIDEO) Teach-In: Movement Building and Organizing Strategies with Marshall Ganz
SATURDAY, October 22
- Workshop: Prisoners Realities, with the Asheville Tranzmission Prison Project
- Anonymity & Security on the Web (VIDEO)
THURSDAY, October 20
- Occupy Boston: Challenging Basic Assumptions
- (CANCELLED) Food, Corporations, and Justice: The Human Face of Free Trade in Nicaragua
SUNDAY, October 16
SATURDAY, October 15
- Taking Back Our Economy: An Intro to the Solidarity Economy
- On Conflict and Consensus: Consensus for Cities
- Discussion: Whiteness and Ally-Ship
WEDNESDAY, October 12
- Active Listening 101: How to Have a Friendly Disagreement
- On Labor Day: Importance and Tactics of Building a Worker's Party
TUESDAY, October 11
MONDAY, October 10
- Indigenous People's Day Teach-in on Palestine
- Student Power: Building a New University in the Shell of the Old
- (VIDEO) Active Listening 101: How to Have a Friendly Disagreement
- Capitalism is Failing: The Socialist Alternative
SUNDAY, October 9
- (VIDEO) Capitalism, Energy, and Climate Change
- The Case for Socialism: Human Need, Not Corporate Greed!
- (VIDEO) An Intro to Modern Anarchism: Isn't Libertarian Socialism a Contradiction?
- Open Discussion: Tools Against Sexism within the Occupy Boston Movement
- (BLOG) The Meaning of "We Are The 99 Percent"
SATURDAY, October 8
FRIDAY, October 7
- Kate Bonner-Jackson: "Translation Is Not A Crime: The Case for Tarek Mehanna"
- (VIDEO / BLOG) Austerity Games and the Global Impacts of Wall Street
- Effective Deep Green Resistance: A Strategy Conversation
- (VIDEO) From the Battlefield to the Home Front: Technologies of Control in America