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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, 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

• Gar Alperovitz (VIDEO), America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty, & Our Democracy, book launch

Thursday, October 20

• Arthur MacEwan: The Economic Crisis: How Can We Fix Things?

Wednesday, October 19

• Catherine Finnoff: 10 Phoney Facts About the US Economy, Keeping it Real for the 99 (CANCELLED)

Sunday, October 16

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

Friday, October 14

• 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

• Bryan Snyder: A Primer on Financialization
• John Miller: Up Against the Wall Street Journal

Monday, October 10

• 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, discussion with Sheila Parks

Sunday, November 13, 2011

• Public Financing of Elections - A Way Station: Fair, Just and Good Government - The Destination, discussion with Professor 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

• Sunday, November 27, 2011 (VIDEO)
  
• Tuesday, November 22, 2011

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, 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

Sunday, October 23, 2011

• 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

Other Teach-Ins

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

SATURDAY, October 22

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

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 </div>