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*Joseph Gerson, [http://bit.ly/uFeqv1 The Case Against America's Militarized "Pacific Century": Real Economic Security and Preventing Another War]
*Joseph Gerson, [http://bit.ly/uFeqv1 The Case Against America's Militarized "Pacific Century": Real Economic Security and Preventing Another War]
*<div>Jim Scarborough, [http://bit.ly/rT4sxg A Matter of Honor: Veterans & the First Amendment]&nbsp;([http://youtu.be/HzjUhbmslv0 VIDEO])</div>
*<div>Jim Scarborough, [http://bit.ly/rT4sxg A Matter of Honor: Veterans & the First Amendment]&nbsp;([http://youtu.be/HzjUhbmslv0 VIDEO])</div>
</blockquote><blockquote><div>'''Saturday, November 12, 2011:&nbsp;'''[https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=235201626542103 Cost of War Series]</div><div><br/></div><div><span style="color:#ff8c00;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">'''Introduction'''</span></span></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><ul style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-right: 40px;">
</blockquote><blockquote><div>'''Saturday, November 12, 2011:&nbsp;'''[https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=235201626542103 Cost of War Series]</div><div><br/></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; "><span style="color:#ff8c00;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">'''Introduction'''</span></span></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><ul style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-right: 40px; margin-left: 40px; ">
<li><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">[http://www.militaryfamiliesspeakout.com/2011/01/26/member-blog-sarah-fuhro/ Sarah Fuhro]&nbsp;([http://youtu.be/q1todTbvYYE VIDEO]), mother of soldier who deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan:&nbsp;Opening Remarks</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">[http://www.militaryfamiliesspeakout.com/2011/01/26/member-blog-sarah-fuhro/ Sarah Fuhro]&nbsp;([http://youtu.be/q1todTbvYYE VIDEO]), mother of soldier who deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan:&nbsp;Opening Remarks</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">[http://www.fundingpeace.org/ Wayne Jaquith]&nbsp;([http://youtu.be/ZAWGt6WTQOg VIDEO]):&nbsp;How the Wars Started, their Impact, and Lessons to Learn to Avoid Future Wars</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">[http://www.fundingpeace.org/ Wayne Jaquith]&nbsp;([http://youtu.be/ZAWGt6WTQOg VIDEO]):&nbsp;How the Wars Started, their Impact, and Lessons to Learn to Avoid Future Wars</span></li>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="color:#ff8c00;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">'''Veteran Listening Sessions'''</span></span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="color:#ff8c00;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">'''Veteran Listening Sessions'''</span></span></span></span></span>
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<li>Vietnam Veteran,&nbsp;[https://sites.google.com/site/vfpcapecod/ Corporal Jeffrey M. Lucey Chapter]<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">&nbsp;of Veterans for Peace ([http://youtu.be/_daT39W0J0A VIDEO])</span></li>
<li>Vietnam Veteran,&nbsp;[https://sites.google.com/site/vfpcapecod/ Corporal Jeffrey M. Lucey Chapter]<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">&nbsp;of Veterans for Peace ([http://youtu.be/_daT39W0J0A VIDEO])</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"></span>Rachel McNeill, Jason Mizula, and Ryan Cahill ([http://youtu.be/eB9P8Rzxz4Q VIDEO]), Iraq Veterans</li>
<li><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"></span>Rachel McNeill, Jason Mizula, and Ryan Cahill ([http://youtu.be/eB9P8Rzxz4Q VIDEO]), Iraq Veterans</li>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="color:#ff8c00;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">'''Military Family Listening Sessions'''</span></span></span>
<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="color:#ff8c00;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">'''Military Family Listening Sessions'''</span></span></span>
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<li><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Alice Copeland Brown ([http://youtu.be/dw8udto0I6Q VIDEO]), mother of Army officers from Canton, Massachusetts</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Alice Copeland Brown ([http://youtu.be/dw8udto0I6Q VIDEO]), mother of Army officers from Canton, Massachusetts</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Joyce and Kevin Lucey ([http://youtu.be/Oco53JjHopE VIDEO]), parents of&nbsp;[http://www.gsfso.org/LcplJeffreyLucey.html Corporal Jeff Lucey], who committed suicide in 2004</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Joyce and Kevin Lucey ([http://youtu.be/Oco53JjHopE VIDEO]), parents of&nbsp;[http://www.gsfso.org/LcplJeffreyLucey.html Corporal Jeff Lucey], who committed suicide in 2004</span></li>

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 PAST TEACH-INS                                                                                                            

The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series

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

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)

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

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 Forum

Saturday, December 10, 2011: Donna Palermino: History of Citizens United and its Implications, organized by the Citizens United to End Political Bribery Working Group

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

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

Military Forum

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

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

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

Saturday, November 12, 2011, Health Justice Speak Out

  • 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

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)

Other Teach-Ins

 DECEMBER 

Saturday, December 10, 2011: 

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

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

 NOVEMBER 

Monday, November 28, 2011:

Saturday, November 26, 2011:

Sunday, November 20, 2011:

Saturday, November 19, 2011:

Friday, November 18, 2011:

Thursday, November 17, 2011:

Wednesday, November 16, 2011:

Sunday, November 13, 2011:

Friday, November 11, 2011:

  • 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, 2011:

Wednesday, November 9, 2011:

Monday, November 7, 2011:

Sunday, November 6, 2011:

Saturday, November 5, 2011:

Friday, November 4, 2011: 

Thursday, November 3, 2011: 

Wednesday, November 2, 2011: 

Tuesday, November 1, 2011:

 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:

Sunday, October 16, 2011:

Saturday, October 15, 2011:

Wednesday, October 12, 2011:

Monday, October 10, 2011:

Sunday, October 9, 2011:

Friday, October 7, 2011: