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Free School University on Occupy Boston Radio

Call 617-506-9726 with questions or comments. Visit occupyboston.org/radio for more information about OB Radio and to join IRC chat during broadcasts.

Wednesday, January 18, 2011: Jerry Friedman (University of Massachusetts-Amherst) will be on OB Radio with David from FSU to talk about the economy as part of our new weekly broadcast.

Friday, December 16, 2011: Kevin Gallagher and Tim Wise discussed "Wall Street's Global Reach: How Wall Street Lobby Groups are affecting the Eurozone and Food Crises." Kevin Gallagher is an associate professor of international relations at Boston University and research associate at the Global Development and Environment Institute (Tufts University). Tim Wise is Director of the Research and Policy Program at the Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University, and leads its Globalization and Sustainable Development Program.

The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series

• Friday, January 20: Panel: From Occupy to Workers Control, with Immanuel Ness and Elaine Bernard
• Saturday, December 10: Rich Levy, professor of history at Salem State University, "The Legacy of the Sixties and Occupy"
• 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, November 12: Noel Ignatiev (VIDEO): Race and Occupy
• 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
• Thursday, October 13: Victor Wallis (VIDEO): Roots of the Current Crisis (BLOG)

Occupy Boston Economics Forum

Saturday, December 3, 2011: Gar Alperovitz (VIDEO), America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty, & Our Democracy, book launch

Monday, November 28, 2011: How to Redistribute Wealth: Lessons from the 20th Century, a discussion with Molly Geidel and Patricia Stuelke

Sunday, November 20, 2011: Unemployment: Why Jobs Are Hard to Find and How We Can Create Many More with Juliet Schor

Saturday, November 19, 2011: 

• 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
• Teach-In: Globalization and How it Affects Us, an interactive presentation with Madeleine Cousineau

Sunday, November 13, 2011: 

• 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, organized by the Women's Caucus

Friday, November 11, 2011: Capitalism at a Dead End, synopsis of lecture given by Fred Goldstein, 6th National Meeting on Social Policy, with Gerry Scoppettuolo

Friday, November 4, 2011: Responsible Investing, with Shelley Alpern and Catherine Pargeter (Trillium Asset Management), and Libby Edgerly (MSCI)

Thursday, November 3, 2011: The Housing Crisis: Where Did It Come From, Where Are We Going?

Wednesday, November 2, 2011: Big Pharma: Another Big Player on Wall Street

Tuesday, November 1, 2011: Gerald Friedman, Money, Banking, and Democracy

Sunday, October 30, 2011: Dr. Ben Tafoya, The Decline of Middle Class Incomes and Political Inequality

Thursday, October 20, 2011: 

• Arthur MacEwan: The Economic Crisis: How Can We Fix Things?
• Food, Corporations, and Justice: The Human Face of Free Trade in Nicaragua (CANCELLED) 

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
• Big Pharma: Another Big Player on Wall Street

Saturday, October 15, 2011: Julie Matthaei (VIDEO): Occupy the Economy: An Introduction to the Solidarity Economy

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

Sunday, October 9, 2011: Capitalism, Energy, and Climate Change (VIDEO)

Friday, October 7, 2011: Austerity Games and the Global Impacts of Wall Street (VIDEO / BLOG)

Citizens United & Elections Forum

• Sunday, December 18, 2011: Unrig the Elections - Let us Count! A discussion with Jonathan Simon, founding member of Election Defense Alliance
• Sunday, December 11, 2011: Public Financing of Election Campaigns --  A Way Station;  Fair, Just and Good Government--Our Destination, with Jules Levine
• Saturday, December 10, 2011: Donna Palermino: History of Citizens United and its Implications, organized by Citizens United to End Political Bribery WG
• 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) Forum

Training with Linda Stout, organized by the Anti-Oppression and Nonviolence and Civil Disobedience Working Groups. For more information about Linda and the visioning idea, visit powerupnetworks.org. 

• Saturday January 14, 2012: Collective Visioning Workshop, opportunity for the OB community to breathe, reflect, and envision together where we want to be and how to get there
• Saturday January 14, 2012: Train the Trainers Session, share ideas about strategy, movement-building, and etcetera. 

Training facilitated by members of the New England Nonviolence Trainers Network, Alliance of Community Trainers and the Health Justice Working Group

• Sunday, December 18, 2011: Direct Action Strategy and Action: Planning - Digging a Little Deeper
• Saturday, December 17, 2011: Non-Violent Direct Action Training
• Saturday, December 10, 2011: Facilitation and Group Process Training: agendas, running meetings, decision-making models, dealing with challenging people

Preparedness in Actions, Strengthening Our Spirit & Building Community - Training facilitated by members of the NVCD Working Group

• 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 Disobedience - Workshop presented by Rick Colbath-Hess

• Wednesday, November 9
• Saturday, October 29
• Saturday, October 22
• Monday, October 10

Military Forum

Sunday, January 15, 2012: Getting Things Straight on Iraq: A Peace Movement Briefing with Raed Jarrar, an Iraqi-Palestinian architect, blogger and political analyst

Sunday, November 27, 2011: Jim Scarborough, A Matter of Honor: Veterans & the First Amendment (VIDEO)

Tuesday, November 22, 2011: 

• Joseph Gerson, The Case Against America's Militarized "Pacific Century": Real Economic Security and Preventing Another War
• Jim Scarborough, A Matter of Honor: Veterans & the First Amendment (VIDEO)

Saturday, November 12, 2011: 

Cost of War Series, organized by the Peace Action Working Group

Introduction

• 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
• Robert Funke (VIDEO), Vietnam Veteran
• Native American Drumming: Songs for Healing and New Beginnings (VIDEO)
• 22-year-old Iraqi Refugee (VIDEO)

Veteran Listening Sessions

• Vietnam Veteran, Corporal Jeffrey M. Lucey Chapter of Veterans for Peace (VIDEO)
• Rachel McNeill, Jason Mizula, and Ryan Cahill (VIDEO), Iraq Veterans

Military Family Listening Sessions

• 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

Monday, November 7, 2011: Gaza & Palestine: The Israeli Siege and the Passion of Human Rights Activists throughout the World with Ridgely Fuller

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, organized by the Women's Caucus

Saturday, November 12, 2011, Health Justice Speak Out, organized by the Health Justice Working Group

• Joyce & Kevin Lucey (VIDEO), parents of Jeff Lucey, who committed suicide after returning from Iraq talk about the VA Hospital

Saturday, November 5, 2011: Health Justice Forum, 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

Sunday, October 23, 2011: Immigration Forum

• 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

Anarchism Forum

• Tuesday, October 25, 2011: Dennis Fox, retired professor of Legal Studies and Psychology University of Illnois-Springfield, "Anarchism & Psychology"
• Tuesday, October 11, 2011: Dennis Fox, retired professor of Legal Studies and Psychology University of Illnois-Springfield, "Anarchist Occupation Issues"
• Sunday, October 9, 2011: An Intro to Modern Anarchism: Isn't Libertarian Socialism a Contradiction? (VIDEO)
• Saturday, October 8, 2011: Anarchism, Psychology, and Law (VIDEO)

Film Screenings

• Monday, December 19, 2011: 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.
• Saturday, December 17, 2011: This Is What Democracy Looks Like, film documenting mass demonstrations and coordinated direct actions in Seattle, WA in 1999 that shut down the WTO ministerial meeting
• Saturday, December 10, 2011: We Interrupt This Empire, a film documenting the mass coordinated direct action in San Francisco after the start of the Iraq War
• Wednesday, November 9, 2011: How To Start A Revolution, followed with commentary by Ruaridh Arrow (director) and Jamila Raqib (Albert Einstein Institute)

Other Teach-Ins

 JANUARY 2012 

Friday, January 13 (Saint Paul's Cathedral, 138 Tremont St, Boston, MA): Starting a Non-Profit: The Nuts and Bolts, this teach-in considered the various types of non-profits, including public lobbies, foundations, and charities, as well as nuts-and-bolts non-profits that provide direct services to the public (such as affordable housing, alternative medicine, and ground-up job training). It also focused on how the formation of non-profits helps the public lobby and protest movements. The program included a discussion of what it's like to be developing and working for a non-profit that provides open-structured learning environments for adults. Lachlan Youngs is a volunteer peer worker who teaches ceramics, beaded jewelry, and modern music in an open-structured learning environment for adults.  He directs a federal non-profit charity, "The Cape Workshop Collaborative."

DECEMBER 2011 

Saturday, December 31, 2011: Roving Soap Box Street Corner Teach-Ins at First Night New Year's Eve Celebration in Boston

Monday, December 19, 2011: Antonio Gramsci and the Occupy Movement, Lecture / Discussion with anthropologist Elizabeth Ferry (POSTPONED)

Wednesday, December 14, 2011: OWS Forum on Jobs for All: Proposed Demand

Sunday, December 11, 2011: Adopt an Occupier, hosted by Occupy Newton

Saturday, December 3, 2011: Corporate Negligence & Bhopal, India: An Ongoing Disaster with The International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal (VIDEO)

Thursday, December 1, 2011: Reading Group Planning Meeting (meet in front of the Library)

 NOVEMBER 2011 

Saturday, November 26, 2011: Right on the Marx: New Insights From Some Old Ideas with Gordon Fellman (POSTPONED)

Sunday, November 20, 2011: 

• Transgender Awareness Workshop with Queer and Trans Caucus
• Harvey Wassermann: The History of Social Movements

Friday, November 18, 2011:

• 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, 2011: From the Civil Rights Movement to the Occupy Movement

Wednesday, November 16, 2011: Fight for Our Basic Property Rights: The Big Bank's Fraud at Registries of Deeds, presented by John O'Brien

Sunday, November 13, 2011:

• From Occupation to Revolution with John Spritzler 
• Workshop: Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed, a selection of games and exercises for social justice

Thursday, November 10, 2011:

• The Neuroscience of Greed with Rick Heller
• Public Class Meeting: Prisoner's Rights Legal Clinic, Northeastern University School of Law

Wednesday, November 9, 2011: Workshop: Your Rights at Work with Anneta Argyres and Tess Ewing

Monday, November 7, 2011:

• Workshop: Increasing Awareness and Protecting Your Sacred Fire
• 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, 2011: Workshop: Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed, a selection of games and exercises for social justice

Saturday, November 5, 2011:

• Discussion: Where Do We Go From Here? with Todd Gitlin
• Youth, Justice, and Democracy in El Salvador with Margarito Nolasco

Friday, November 4, 2011: Lessons from the Wisconsin Uprising (CANCELLED) 

Thursday, November 3, 2011: Career Workshop: My Red Carpet Moment, How Do I Best Express What I Do?

Tuesday, November 1, 2011: C.T. Butler, Consensus: So That All Voices May Be Heard

 OCTOBER 

Monday, October 31, 2011:  C.T. Butler, Consensus: So That All Voices May Be Heard

Sunday, October 30, 2011:

• Fair Trade Coffee Hour and Discussion (CANCELLED) 
• How To Run For Office 
• Occupy Boston Writing Workshop: The Other 99%

Saturday, October 29, 2011: Glenn Greenwald: With Liberty and Justice for Some (CANCELLED) 

Friday, October 28, 2011:

• Dennis Fox, retired professor of Legal Studies and Psychology, "Challenging Basic Assumptions: Personal & Political"
• Askold Melnyczuk, Crafting Your Story: A Fiction Workshop

Thursday, October 27, 2011: Van Jones, author of "The Green Collar Economy" (VIDEO)

Wednesday, October 26, 2011: 

• Nancy Murray, Director of Education, ACLU-Massachusetts, "The USA PATRIOT ACT and You"
• Roar Sheppard, author, Group Discussion

Sunday, October 23, 2011:

• Occupy Boston Writing Workshop: The Other 99%
• Marshall Ganz, "Movement Building and Organizing Strategies" (VIDEO)

Saturday, October 22, 2011:

• Prisoners Realities, workshop with the Asheville Tranzmission Prison Project
• Anonymity & Security on the Web (VIDEO)

'Thursday, October 20, 2011: Dennis Fox, retired professor of Legal Studies and Psychology, "Challenging Basic Assumptions"

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• On Conflict and Consensus: Consensus for Cities
• Discussion: Whiteness and Ally-Ship

Wednesday, October 12, 2011:

• Matthew Lowe, Active Listening 101: How to Have a Friendly Disagreement
• On Labor Day: Importance and Tactics of Building a Worker's Party

Monday, October 10, 2011:

• Indigenous People's Day Teach-in on Palestine
• Student Power: Building a New University in the Shell of the Old
• Active Listening 101: How to Have a Friendly Disagreement (VIDEO)
• Capitalism is Failing: The Socialist Alternative

Sunday, October 9, 2011:

• The Case for Socialism: Human Need, Not Corporate Greed!
• Open Discussion: Tools Against Sexism within the Occupy Boston Movement
• Alex Gourevitch, professor, post-doctoral student at Brown University, The Meaning of "We Are The 99 Percent" (BLOG)

Friday, October 7, 2011:

• Kate Bonner-Jackson: "Translation Is Not A Crime: The Case for Tarek Mehanna"
• Effective Deep Green Resistance: A Strategy Conversation
• From the Battlefield to the Home Front: Technologies of Control in America (VIDEO)