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</blockquote><blockquote style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><div>'''Monday, October 10, 2011:&nbsp;'''Arjun Jayadev'''&nbsp;'''([http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL46400EF9F9FBFCCD VIDEO]): The False Doctrine of Austerity<br/></div><div>'''Sunday'''<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">''', October 9'''</span></span></span>''', 2011:&nbsp;'''<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=184907411583907 Capitalism, Energy, and Climate Change]&nbsp;([http://youtu.be/UGuEnhX8zVQ VIDEO])</span><br/></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">'''Friday, October 7'''</span></span>''', 2011:&nbsp;'''[https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=248436531868577 Austerity Games and the Global Impacts of Wall Street]&nbsp;([http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0049C57FF2376A71 VIDEO]&nbsp;/&nbsp;[http://www.triplecrisis.com/ BLOG])</div></blockquote>
</blockquote><blockquote style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><div>'''Monday, October 10, 2011:&nbsp;'''Arjun Jayadev'''&nbsp;'''([http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL46400EF9F9FBFCCD VIDEO]): The False Doctrine of Austerity<br/></div><div>'''Sunday'''<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">''', October 9'''</span></span></span>''', 2011:&nbsp;'''<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=184907411583907 Capitalism, Energy, and Climate Change]&nbsp;([http://youtu.be/UGuEnhX8zVQ VIDEO])</span><br/></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">'''Friday, October 7'''</span></span>''', 2011:&nbsp;'''[https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=248436531868577 Austerity Games and the Global Impacts of Wall Street]&nbsp;([http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0049C57FF2376A71 VIDEO]&nbsp;/&nbsp;[http://www.triplecrisis.com/ BLOG])</div></blockquote>
== <span style="font-size:large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 140, 0);">Citizens United & Elections Forum</span></span></span> ==
== <span style="font-size:large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 140, 0);">Citizens United & Elections Forum</span></span></span> ==
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<blockquote style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">'''Saturday, January 21, 2012: '''[http://bostonoccupier.com/2012/01/20/free-school-university-saturday-21-2012/ Citizens United Summit to Unite Citizens for Democracy] on the anniversary of the Citizens United decision, the wide coalition of groups standing together to get money out of politics include Boston Amendment Group, Coffee Party in Boston, Common Cause, Corporate Accountability International, Dollars and Sense, Free Speech for People, Greater Boston Move to Amend, Massachusetts Nurses Association, MassVote, Progressive Massachusetts, Public Citizen, and Root Strikers.
<li>'''Saturday, January 21, 2012:''' [http://bostonoccupier.com/2012/01/20/free-school-university-saturday-21-2012/ Citizens United Summit to Unite Citizens for Democracy] on the anniversary of the Citizens United decision, the wide coalition of groups standing together to get money out of politics include Boston Amendment Group, Coffee Party in Boston, Common Cause, Corporate Accountability International, Dollars and Sense, Free Speech for People, Greater Boston Move to Amend, Massachusetts Nurses Association, MassVote, Progressive Massachusetts, Public Citizen, and Root Strikers.</li>
*'''9:30am '''Community Gathering
<li>'''Sunday, December 18, 2011:&nbsp;'''[https://www.google.com/calendar/b/0/render?eid=djA5M3EyZ2p2a2ZiM3VodTdzamE2cHBrMXMgOW85MG90NnBsOGJqbWdqcGUzN2J2NWh0NDRAZw&ctz=America/New_York&sf=true&output=xml Unrig the Elections - Let us Count!]&nbsp;A discussion&nbsp;with Jonathan Simon, founding member of Election Defense Alliance</li>
*'''10:00am '''Lawrence Lessig&nbsp;
<li>'''Sunday, December 11, 2011:&nbsp;'''[http://bit.ly/tp8qZy Public Financing of Election Campaigns --&nbsp; A Way Station;&nbsp; Fair, Just and Good Government--Our Destination], with&nbsp;Jules Levine</li>
*'''11:20am '''Break-out Session: Where do We Go Next?
<li>'''Saturday, December 10, 2011:'''&nbsp;[http://bit.ly/stYeEr Donna Palermino: History of Citizens United and its Implications], organized by&nbsp;[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Citizens_United_to_End_Political_Bribery_(Working_Group) Citizens United to End Political Bribery]&nbsp;WG</li>
*'''12:30pm '''The Supreme Court & Citizens United: How Did We Get Here? (Donna Palermo)
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">'''Sunday, December 4, 2011:&nbsp;'''</span>[https://www.google.com/calendar/render?eid=cW1zcXJvdmEwcG51bjc4YjRsc3RiM25wdjQgOW85MG90NnBsOGJqbWdqcGUzN2J2NWh0NDRAZw&ctz=America/New_York&pli=1&sf=true&output=xml Publicly-Funded Elections & Repairing Representative Government]<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">'''&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(255, 140, 0);">(CANCELLED)</span>'''</span></li>
*'''1:00pm '''Powermapping (with Patrick Frank and Grace Morris)
<li>'''Sunday, November 27, 2011:&nbsp;'''[http://bit.ly/toqO1i Rigged Elections: Corporations--the 1 Percent--Own and Rig the Elections of the 99 Percent],&nbsp;<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Sheila Parks</span></li>
*'''2:30pm '''Break-out Group Proposals<span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span>
<li>'''<font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Sunday, November 13, 2011:&nbsp;</font>'''[https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=156153054484043 Public Financing of Elections--A Way Station: Fair, Just & Good Government--The Destination], Julius Levine ([http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD2A0D8A0CA2BC8B2 VIDEO])</li>
*<span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3:15pm '''Citizens Lobbying Training Workshop (Grace Ross, Avi Green, Pam Wilmot)'''</span>
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*<span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">4:00pm Next Steps (Jules Levine)</span>
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*'''4:20pm '''Working Groups Open House
'''Friday, January 20, 2012: '''[http://bostonoccupier.com/2012/01/20/free-school-university-saturday-21-2012/ Rally to Unite Citizens for Democracy]<span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: medium;"></span>
*<span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We the People (Representative </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cory Atkins)</span>
*<span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cross-Partisan Organizing: Finding Areas of Agreement (Szelena Gray)</span>
*<span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Break-out Groups: Corporate Influence: Financial Industry, Environment, Military Spending, Immigration, Agri-Business, and more...</span><span style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></span>
*<span style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">5:45pm </span>Occupy Legislation Handbook From Progressive Massachusetts (Senator Jamie Eldridge)</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span>
*<span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">6:15-6:45 - Corporate Personhood 101: A Panel Discussion (John Bonifaz and Malia Lazu)</span>
*<span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">6:30-7:00pm Q & A</span>
*<span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">7-7:30pm Break-out Groups: Citizens United in Context, Money in Politics: Communication Strategies, Campaign Money, Lobbying Industry, Corporate Personhood-Supreme Court, Corporate Accountability, Corporate Personhood pros and Cons.</span>
*<span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">7:30pm Reception & entertainment</span>
'''Sunday, December 18, 2011:&nbsp;'''[https://www.google.com/calendar/b/0/render?eid=djA5M3EyZ2p2a2ZiM3VodTdzamE2cHBrMXMgOW85MG90NnBsOGJqbWdqcGUzN2J2NWh0NDRAZw&ctz=America/New_York&sf=true&output=xml Unrig the Elections - Let us Count!]&nbsp;A discussion&nbsp;with Jonathan Simon, founding member of Election Defense Alliance<br/></blockquote><blockquote style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">'''Sunday, December 11, 2011:&nbsp;'''[http://bit.ly/tp8qZy Public Financing of Election Campaigns --&nbsp; A Way Station;&nbsp; Fair, Just and Good Government--Our Destination], with&nbsp;Jules Levine<br/></blockquote><blockquote style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">'''Saturday, December 10, 2011:'''&nbsp;[http://bit.ly/stYeEr Donna Palermino: History of Citizens United and its Implications], organized by&nbsp;[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Citizens_United_to_End_Political_Bribery_(Working_Group) Citizens United to End Political Bribery]&nbsp;WG<br/></blockquote><blockquote style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">'''Sunday, December 4, 2011:&nbsp;'''</span>[https://www.google.com/calendar/render?eid=cW1zcXJvdmEwcG51bjc4YjRsc3RiM25wdjQgOW85MG90NnBsOGJqbWdqcGUzN2J2NWh0NDRAZw&ctz=America/New_York&pli=1&sf=true&output=xml Publicly-Funded Elections & Repairing Representative Government]<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">'''&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(255, 140, 0);">(CANCELLED)</span>'''</span><br/></blockquote><blockquote style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">'''Sunday, November 27, 2011:&nbsp;'''[http://bit.ly/toqO1i Rigged Elections: Corporations--the 1 Percent--Own and Rig the Elections of the 99 Percent],&nbsp;<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Sheila Parks</span><br/></blockquote><blockquote style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">'''<font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Sunday, November 13, 2011:&nbsp;</font>'''[https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=156153054484043 Public Financing of Elections--A Way Station: Fair, Just & Good Government--The Destination], Julius Levine ([http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD2A0D8A0CA2BC8B2 VIDEO])</blockquote>


== '''<span style="color: rgb(255, 140, 0);"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Non-Violence & Civil Disobedience (NVCD) Forum</span></span></span>''' ==
== '''<span style="color: rgb(255, 140, 0);"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Non-Violence & Civil Disobedience (NVCD) Forum</span></span></span>''' ==

Revision as of 17:38, 22 January 2012


 PAST TEACH-INS                                                                                                            

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 7Avi 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 12Noel 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
Saturday, November 19, 2011: 
Sunday, November 13, 2011: 
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)
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: 


Wednesday, October 19, 2011: Catherine Finnoff: 10 Phoney Facts About the US Economy, Keeping it Real for the 99 (CANCELLED)

Sunday, October 16, 2011: 

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)

Citizens United & Elections Forum

Saturday, January 21, 2012: Citizens United Summit to Unite Citizens for Democracy on the anniversary of the Citizens United decision, the wide coalition of groups standing together to get money out of politics include Boston Amendment Group, Coffee Party in Boston, Common Cause, Corporate Accountability International, Dollars and Sense, Free Speech for People, Greater Boston Move to Amend, Massachusetts Nurses Association, MassVote, Progressive Massachusetts, Public Citizen, and Root Strikers.

  • 9:30am Community Gathering
  • 10:00am Lawrence Lessig 
  • 11:20am Break-out Session: Where do We Go Next?
  • 12:30pm The Supreme Court & Citizens United: How Did We Get Here? (Donna Palermo)
  • 1:00pm Powermapping (with Patrick Frank and Grace Morris)
  • 2:30pm Break-out Group Proposals
  • 3:15pm Citizens Lobbying Training Workshop (Grace Ross, Avi Green, Pam Wilmot)
  • 4:00pm Next Steps (Jules Levine)
  • 4:20pm Working Groups Open House

Friday, January 20, 2012: Rally to Unite Citizens for Democracy

  • We the People (Representative Cory Atkins)
  • Cross-Partisan Organizing: Finding Areas of Agreement (Szelena Gray)
  • Break-out Groups: Corporate Influence: Financial Industry, Environment, Military Spending, Immigration, Agri-Business, and more...
  • 5:45pm Occupy Legislation Handbook From Progressive Massachusetts (Senator Jamie Eldridge)
  • 6:15-6:45 - Corporate Personhood 101: A Panel Discussion (John Bonifaz and Malia Lazu)
  • 6:30-7:00pm Q & A
  • 7-7:30pm Break-out Groups: Citizens United in Context, Money in Politics: Communication Strategies, Campaign Money, Lobbying Industry, Corporate Personhood-Supreme Court, Corporate Accountability, Corporate Personhood pros and Cons.
  • 7:30pm Reception & entertainment

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 PercentSheila 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 NetworkAlliance of Community Trainers and the Health Justice Working Group

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: 
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

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)

Health Justice Forum

Sunday, November 20, 2011

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

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

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: 

Friday, November 18, 2011:

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:
Thursday, November 10, 2011:
Wednesday, November 9, 2011: Workshop: Your Rights at Work with Anneta Argyres and Tess Ewing
Monday, November 7, 2011:
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:
Friday, November 4, 2011: Lessons from the Wisconsin Uprising (CANCELLED) 
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:
Saturday, October 29, 2011: Glenn Greenwald: With Liberty and Justice for Some (CANCELLED) 
Friday, October 28, 2011:
Thursday, October 27, 2011: Van Jones, author of "The Green Collar Economy" (VIDEO)
Wednesday, October 26, 2011: 

Sunday, October 23, 2011:

Saturday, October 22, 2011:

'Thursday, October 20, 2011: Dennis Fox, retired professor of Legal Studies and Psychology, "Challenging Basic Assumptions"
Sunday', October 16', '2011: Occupy Boston: Talking to People Passing By</span</div>
SaturdayOctober 15, 2011:
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011:

MondayOctober 10, 2011:

Sunday, October 9, 2011:

Friday, October 7, 2011: