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 PAST TEACH-INS                                                                                                            

The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series

Wednesday, November 30 @ 5pm 
Norman Finkelstein (VIDEO)

Tuesday, November 29 @ 5pm  
Bruno Bosteels (VIDEO)

Tuesday, November 22 @ 5pm 
Mike Denning (VIDEO): The Culture of Debt

Friday, November 18 @ 5pm 

Paul Le Blanc (VIDEO)

Thursday, November 17 @ 6pm 

Richard Wolf (VIDEO)

Saturday, November 12 @ 5pm
Noel Ignatiev (VIDEO): Race and Occupy

Wednesday, November 9 @ 6pm 

Elaine Bernard (VIDEO): From Heroes to Zeros, The War on Public Employees & Their Unions

Friday, November 4 @ 1:30pm
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (VIDEO): The City on a Hill, Where it all Began

Thursday, November 3 @ 4pm
Luis Jimenez (VIDEO): The Perils of American Democracy, The Institutional Basis Behind Our 'Broken Politics'

Sunday, October 30 @ 5pm 
Anthony Arnove (VIDEO): co-authored "Voices of a People's History of the United States"  with Howard Zinn

Saturday, October 29 @ 5pm

Fred Magdoff (VIDEO)

Friday, October 28 @ 6pm

Chad Montrie (VIDEO), author of "A People's History of Environmentalism in the United States"

Monday, October 24 @ 5:30pm

Tom Ferguson: Money and Politics

Sunday, October 23 @ 3:30pm

Vijay Prashad (VIDEO), author of "The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World"

Saturday, October 22 @ 6pm

Noam Chomsky (VIDEO), followed by Q&A

Thursday, October 20 @ 6pm

Gary Leupp (VIDEO): Elite Control Over US Foreign Policy, Lessons from Vietnam, to Iraq, to Today

Saturday, October 15 @ 3:30pm

Nicole Aschoff: Neoliberal Dispossession and the Demand for Demands

Thursday, October 13 @ 4:30pm

Victor Wallis (VIDEO): Roots of the Current Crisis (BLOG)

Occupy Boston Economics Forum

Saturday, December 3 @ 6pm
Gar Alperovitz (VIDEO), America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty, & Our Democracy, book launch

Thursday, October 20 @ 4pm
Arthur MacEwan: The Economic Crisis: How Can We Fix Things?

Wednesday, October 19 @ 5pm

Catherine Finnoff: 10 Phoney Facts About the US Economy - Keeping It Real for the 99

Sunday, October 16 @ 2pm

Julie Nelson: What Economists Got Wrong and What We've Got to Do to Fix It

Friday, October 14

Alejandro Reuss: It's Not Just the Banks - Class and the Shift in the Distribution of Income Against Workers and in favor of Capitalists (2:30pm)

Juliet Schor: Why Unemployment Is So High and How We Can Reduce It (3:30pm)

Tuesday, October 11

Bryan Snyder: A Primer on Financialization (3pm)

John Miller: Up Against the Wall Street Journal (4pm)

Monday, October 10 @ 4pm

Arjun Jayadev (VIDEO): The False Doctrine of Austerity

Non-Violence & Civil Disobedience (NVCD)

Preparedness in Actions, Strengthening Our Spirit & Building Community - Training

• Friday, November 25 @ 10am, presented by John Bach
• Monday, November 21 @ 6pm, presented by Catherine Hoffman
• Saturday, November 19 @ 10am
• Friday, November 18 @ 2pm, presented by Minga Clagget-Borne

What is Violence? What is Nonviolence? - Roundtable Discussion

• Saturday, November 12 @ 3pm
• Monday, November 7 @ 6pm

The Practice of Nonviolence and Civil Disobediance - Workshop

• Wednesday, November 9 @ 6pm

Saturday, October 29 @ 10am

• Saturday, October 22 @ 2pm
• Monday, October 10 @ 1pm

Other Teach-Ins

SUNDAY, December 4

12:00pm – 2:00pm

Teach-In on Secure Communities, presented by Centro Presente and the Immigration Working Group at Occupy Boston

3:00pm - 4:00pm (CANCELLED)
Discussion: Publicly-Funded Elections & Repairing Representative Government

SATURDAY, December 3

12:00pm - 2:00pm
Corporate Negligence and Bhopal, India: An Ongoing Disaster with The International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal

THURSDAY, December 1

2:00pm - 3:00pm (Rescheduled from Tuesday)
Reading Group Planning Meeting (meet in front of the Library)

MONDAY, November 28

2:00pm - 3:00pm
How to Redistribute Wealth: Lessons from the 20th Century, a discussion with Molly Geidel and Patricia Stuelke

SUNDAY, November 27

1:00pm - 2:00pm
Rigged Elections: Corporations--the 1 Percent--Own and Rig the Elections of the 99 Percent with Sheila Parks

2:00pm - 2:30pm (VIDEO)
Speech: A Matter of Honor (on Veterans & the First Amendment) by Jim Scarborough

SATURDAY, November 26

4:00pm - 5:00pm (POSTPONED)
Right on the Marx: New Insights From Some Old Ideas with Gordon Fellman

TUESDAY, November 22

4:00pm - 5:00pm
The Case Against America's Militarized "Pacific Century": Real Economic Security and Preventing Another War, with Joseph Gerson

6:00pm - 6:30pm (VIDEO)
Speech: A Matter of Honor (Veterans & the First Amendment) by Jim Scarborough

SUNDAY, November 20 

11:00am - 12:00pm
Transgender Awareness Workshop with Occupy Boston Queer and Trans Caucus

12:00pm - 1:30pm
Harvey Wassermann: The History of Social Movements

4:00pm - 5:00pm
Reproductive Justice and Economic Justice with Marlene Fried

5:00pm - 6:00pm
Unemployment: Why Jobs Are Hard to Find and How We Can Create Many More with Juliet Schor

SATURDAY, November 19

1:00pm - 2:00pm
Teach-In: Globalization and How it Affects Us, an interactive presentation with Madeleine Cousineau

2:00pm - 3:00pm
Occupy The Economy with Kerry Power (followed by Q&A)

4:00pm - 5:00pm
How “Free” Trade Kills Jobs, Reduces Wages, Wrecks the Environment & Destroys Democracy with Steve D’Amico

FRIDAY, November 18

1:00pm - 2:00pm
Political Policing in the United States: Historical Perspectives on the Challenges Confronting the Occupy Movement, with Brendan McQuade

2:00pm - 3:00pm (copies of reading are available at the Library)
Power & Visibility: “The Means of Correct Training,” from Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish

THURSDAY, November 17

3:00pm - 4:00pm
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

3:30pm - 4-30pm
Fight for Our Basic Property Rights: The Big Bank's Fraud at Registries of Deeds, presented by John O'Brien

SUNDAY, November 13

1:00pm - 2:00pm
From Occupation to Revolution with John Spritzler

1:00pm - 3:30pm (Encuentro 5)
The Effects of Class Background on Our Lives and Efforts for Change (United For Change Workshop Series)

2:00pm - 3:00pm
Discussion: Public Financing of Elections - A Way Station: Fair, Just and Good Government - The Destination, with Professor Julius Levine

4:00pm - 5:00pm
Gender, Economy, and Citizenship with Carole Biewener and Jyoti Puri 

5:00pm - 6:45pm
Workshop: Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed, a selection of games and exercises for social justice

SATURDAY, November 12

Cost of War Forum

Military Family and Veteran Speaker Series

11:00am

Opening Remarks: Sarah Fuhro, mother of soldier who deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan

11:15am

Teach-In: How the Wars Started, their Impact, and Lessons to Learn to Avoid Future Wars - Wayne Jaquith (Military Families Speak Out)

11:30am

Robert Funke, Vietnam Veteran (Smedley D. Butler Brigade of Veterans for Peace)

11:50am

Native American Drumming and Songs for Healing and New Beginnings

LISTENING SESSIONS

1:00pm

Jason Mizula and Rachel McNeill, Iraq Veterans (Smedley D. Butler Brigade of Veterans for Peace)

3:00pm

Alice Copeland Brown, mother of Army officers from Canton, Massachusetts (Military Families Speak Out)

3:20pm

Vietnam Veteran (Corporal Jeffrey M. Lucey Chapter of Veterans for Peace)

3:35pm

Korean Veteran

3:45pm

Joyce and Kevin Lucey (Military Families Speak Out), parents of Corporal Jeff Lucey, who committed suicide in 2004

4:15pm

Carlos and Melida Arredondo, parents of Lance Corporal Alexander Arredondo, who was killed in 2004 on his 2nd tour of duty in Iraq

4:45pm

Ryan Cahill, Iraq Veteran

FRIDAY, November 11

5:00pm - 6:00pm
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

1:00pm - 2:00pm
The Neuroscience of Greed with Rick Heller

2:00pm - 3:00pm
Black Soldiers in the War of the Slaveowners Rebellion, stories from the Massachusetts 54th and 55th in the Civil War

5:00pm - 6:30pm
Public Class Meeting: Prisoner's Rights Legal Clinic, Northeastern University School of Law

WEDNESDAY, November 9

3:00pm - 4:00pm
Workshop: Your Rights at Work with Anneta Argyres and Tess Ewing

7:00pm - 9:30pm
Documentary Film Screening: How To Start A Revolution, followed with commentary by Ruaridh Arrow (director) and Jamila Raqib (Albert Einstein Institute)

MONDAY, November 7

11:00am - 1:00pm
Workshop: Increasing Awareness and Protecting Your Sacred Fire

2:00pm - 4:00pm
Workshop: Increasing Awareness and Protecting Your Sacred Fire

2:30pm - 3:30pm
Gaza & Palestine: The Israeli Siege and the Passion of Human Rights Activists throughout the World with Ridgely Fuller

4:00pm - 5:00pm
Your Public School Under Attack, Organizing to Fight Back! A workshop with Citizens for Public Schools

6:00pm - 7:00pm
Lecture: Historical Conversations for Democracy with Monica Poole

SUNDAY, November 6

4:00pm - 6:00pm
Workshop: Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed, a selection of games and exercises for social justice

SATURDAY, November 5

1:00pm - 2:00pm
The Wall Street Complex

2:00pm - 3:30pm
Discussion: Where Do We Go From Here? with Todd Gitlin

4:00pm - 5:00pm
Youth, Justice, and Democracy in El Salvador with Margarito Nolasco

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Health Justice Forum

11:00am
Reoccupy the Health System through Single Payer Health Reform

12:00pm
Economic Crisis, Austerity, and the Health of the 99%

3:00pm
How a Financial Transaction Tax Can End AIDS

FRIDAY, November 4 

12:00pm - 1:00pm (CANCELLED)
Lessons from the Wisconsin Uprising

2:30pm - 3:30pm
Responsible Investing, with Shelley Alpern and Catherine Pargeter (Trillium Asset Management), and Libby Edgerly (MSCI)

THURSDAY, November 3 

9:30am - 10:30am
Career Workshop: My Red Carpet Moment, How Do I Best Express What I Do?

5:00pm - 6:00pm
The Housing Crisis: Where Did It Come From, Where Are We Going?

WEDNESDAY, November 2 

6:30pm - 7:30pm
Big Pharma: Another Big Player on Wall Street

TUESDAY, November 1 

1:00pm - 2:30pm
Consensus: So That All Voices May Be Heard, a workshop with C.T. Butler

3:00pm - 4:00pm
Money, Banking, and Democracy, with Gerald Friedman

MONDAY, October 31 

1:00pm - 2:30pm
Consensus: So That All Voices May Be Heard, a workshop with C.T. Butler

SUNDAY, October 30

11:00am - 12:00pm (CANCELLED)
Fair Trade Coffee Hour and Discussion

1:00pm - 3:00pm
How To Run For Office 

1:30pm - 3:00pm
Occupy Boston Writing Workshop: The Other 99%

4:00pm - 5:00pm
The Decline of Middle Class Incomes and Political Inequality with Dr. Ben Tafoya

SATURDAY, October 29

4:00pm - 5:00pm (POSTPONED)
Glenn Greenwald: With Liberty and Justice for Some

FRIDAY, October 28

3:00pm - 4:30pm
Challenging Basic Assumptions: Personal & Political with Dennis Fox

4:00pm - 5:00pm
Crafting Your Story: A Fiction Workshop with Askold Melnyczuk

THURSDAY, October 27

11:00am - 12:00pm (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 

3:00pm - 4:00pm
The USA PATRIOT ACT and You: Nancy Murray, Director of Education at the ACLU of Massachusetts 

5:00pm - 6:00pm
Discussion with Author Roar Sheppard

TUESDAY, October 25 

1:00pm - 3:00pm
Anarchism & Psychology with Dennis Fox

SUNDAY, October 23

1:30pm - 3:00pm
Occupy Boston Writing Workshop: The Other 99%

4:00pm - 6:00pm (VIDEO)
Teach-In: Movement Building and Organizing Strategies with Marshall Ganz

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Immigration Forum

12:00pm
Opening Address and Welcome, Neighbors United for a Better East Boston (NUBE)

12:30pm
Tania Bruguera, Immigrant International Movement

1:00pm
Opposing Secure Communities and Other Anti Immigrant Attacks; Vigils; Support for Human Rights and Immigrant Workers Rights with Peter Lowber (Steering Committee of Boston New Sanctuary Movement and member of Arlington Street Church Social Action Committee

1:30pm
Heloisa Maria Galvao, co-founder and the Executive Director of the Brazilian Women’s Group

2:30pm
Carlos Rosales, Immigrant Worker Center Collaborative

3:00pm
Break Out Discussion Group open to all interested to form a fluid conversation, topic of discussion will be generated by the interest of the group.

SATURDAY, October 22

1:00pm - 2:00pm
Cut Military Spending, Fund Our Communities

2:00pm - 3:00pm
Workshop: Prisoners Realities, with the Asheville Tranzmission Prison Project

3:00pm - 4:30pm
Anonymity & Security on the Web (VIDEO)

THURSDAY, October 20

1:00pm - 2:30pm
Occupy Boston: Challenging Basic Assumptions

3:00pm - 4:00pm (CANCELLED)
Food, Corporations, and Justice: The Human Face of Free Trade in Nicaragua

4:00pm - 5:00pm
Author Brian Wilson at Occupy Boston

WEDNESDAY, October 19

3:00pm - 4:00pm
Afghanistan: Why Obama Must Change Course

SUNDAY, October 16

10:00am - 11:00am
Big Pharma: Another Big Player on Wall Street

2:30pm - 3:30pm
Occupy Boston: Talking to People Passing By

6:00pm - 7:00pm (CANCELLED)
Cindy Sheehan at Occupy Boston

SATURDAY, October 15

2:30pm - 3:30pm
Taking Back Our Economy: An Intro to the Solidarity Economy

3:00pm - 4:00pm
On Conflict and Consensus: Consensus for Cities

5:30pm - 6:30pm
Discussion: Whiteness and Ally-Ship

WEDNESDAY, October 12

1:30pm - 2:30pm
Active Listening 101: How to Have a Friendly Disagreement

3:00pm - 4:00pm
On Labor Day: Importance and Tactics of Building a Worker's Party

TUESDAY, October 11

3:30pm - 5:00pm
Anarchist Occupation Issues

MONDAY, October 10

1:30pm - 2:30pm
Indigenous People's Day Teach-in on Palestine

3:00pm - 3:30pm
Student Power: Building a New University in the Shell of the Old

3:30pm - 4:30pm (VIDEO)
Active Listening 101: How to Have a Friendly Disagreement

5:00pm - 6:00pm
Capitalism is Failing: The Socialist Alternative

SUNDAY, October 9

12:00pm - 1:30pm (VIDEO)
Capitalism, Energy, and Climate Change

2:30pm - 3:30pm
The Case for Socialism: Human Need, Not Corporate Greed!

3:30pm - 4:30pm (VIDEO)
An Intro to Modern Anarchism: Isn't Libertarian Socialism a Contradiction?

3:30pm - 4:30pm
Open Discussion: Tools Against Sexism within the Occupy Boston Movement

5:00 - 6:00pm (BLOG)
The Meaning of "We Are The 99 Percent"

SATURDAY, October 8

1:00pm - 2:00pm (VIDEO 1 / VIDEO 2 / VIDEO 3)
Anarchism, Psychology, and Law

4:00pm - 5:00pm (VIDEO)
US Wars in the Middle East: Much Ado About Oil

FRIDAY, October 7

12:00pm - 1:00pm
Kate Bonner-Jackson: "Translation Is Not A Crime: The Case for Tarek Mehanna"

1:30 - 2:30pm (VIDEO / BLOG)
Austerity Games and the Global Impacts of Wall Street

1:00pm - 4:00pm
Effective Deep Green Resistance: A Strategy Conversation

3:00pm - 6:00pm (VIDEO)
From the Battlefield to the Home Front: Technologies of Control in America