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'''Saturday, December 10:''' Rich Levy, professor of history at Salem State University, "The Legacy of the Sixties and Occupy" | '''Saturday, December 10:''' Rich Levy, professor of history at Salem State University, "The Legacy of the Sixties and Occupy" | ||
'''<font class="Apple-style-span"><span class="event-when"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Wednesday, December 7</font>: </span></font>'''<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">Avi Chomsky, professor of history at Salem State University</span> | '''<font class="Apple-style-span"><span class="event-when"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Wednesday, December 7</font>: </span></font>'''<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Avi Chomsky, professor of history at Salem State University</span> | ||
'''Wednesday, November 30: '''Norman Finkelstein ([http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL03BA9259111C29EA VIDEO]) | '''Wednesday, November 30: '''Norman Finkelstein ([http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL03BA9259111C29EA VIDEO]) | ||
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'''Thursday, October 13: '''<span class="Apple-style-span">Victor Wallis ([http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD312E4B89A8FE38D VIDEO]): Roots of the Current Crisis ([https://zinnlectures.wordpress.com/2011/10/14/first-lecture-today/ BLOG])</span> | '''Thursday, October 13: '''<span class="Apple-style-span">Victor Wallis ([http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD312E4B89A8FE38D VIDEO]): Roots of the Current Crisis ([https://zinnlectures.wordpress.com/2011/10/14/first-lecture-today/ BLOG])</span> | ||
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== '''<span style="color:#ff8c00;"><span style="font-size:large;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">Occupy Boston Economics Forum</span></span></span>''' == | == '''<span style="color:#ff8c00;"><span style="font-size:large;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">Occupy Boston Economics Forum</span></span></span>''' == | ||
<blockquote>'''<font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Saturday, December 3, 2011: </font>'''Gar Alperovitz ([http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL60041879F5D9A039 VIDEO]), [http://bit.ly/vZ4LUj America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty, & Our Democracy], book launch</blockquote><blockquote> | <blockquote>'''<font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Saturday, December 3, 2011: </font>'''Gar Alperovitz ([http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL60041879F5D9A039 VIDEO]), [http://bit.ly/vZ4LUj America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty, & Our Democracy], book launch</blockquote><blockquote> | ||
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== <span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="color:#ff8c00;">Citizens United Forum</span></span> == | == <span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="color:#ff8c00;">Citizens United Forum</span></span> == | ||
<blockquote>'''Saturday, December 10, 2011:''' [http://bit.ly/stYeEr Donna Palermino: History of Citizens United and its Implications], organized by the Citizens United to End Political Bribery WG<br/></blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">'''Sunday, December 4, 2011: '''</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;">''' <span style="color: rgb(255, 140, 0);">(CANCELLED)</span>'''</span><br/></blockquote><blockquote>'''Sunday, November 27, 2011: '''[http://bit.ly/toqO1i Rigged Elections: Corporations--the 1 Percent--Own and Rig the Elections of the 99 Percent], <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Sheila Parks</span><br/></blockquote><blockquote>'''<font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Sunday, November 13, 2011: </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> | <blockquote>'''Sunday, December 11, 2011: '''[http://bit.ly/tp8qZy Public Financing of Election Campaigns -- A Way Station; Fair, Just and Good Government--Our Destination], with Jules Levine</blockquote><blockquote>'''Saturday, December 10, 2011:''' [http://bit.ly/stYeEr Donna Palermino: History of Citizens United and its Implications], organized by the Citizens United to End Political Bribery WG<br/></blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">'''Sunday, December 4, 2011: '''</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;">''' <span style="color: rgb(255, 140, 0);">(CANCELLED)</span>'''</span><br/></blockquote><blockquote>'''Sunday, November 27, 2011: '''[http://bit.ly/toqO1i Rigged Elections: Corporations--the 1 Percent--Own and Rig the Elections of the 99 Percent], <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Sheila Parks</span><br/></blockquote><blockquote>'''<font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Sunday, November 13, 2011: </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> == | ||
<blockquote>[https://www.facebook.com/events/274194149282340/ Preparedness in Actions, Strengthening Our Spirit & Building Community] - Training</blockquote><blockquote> | <blockquote>[http://bit.ly/upms3Q Non-Violent Direct Action Training] - facilitated by the Health Justice Working Group</blockquote><blockquote> | ||
*'''Saturday, December 17''' | |||
</blockquote><blockquote>[https://www.facebook.com/events/274194149282340/ Preparedness in Actions, Strengthening Our Spirit & Building Community] - Training</blockquote><blockquote> | |||
*'''Friday, November 25:''' presented by John Bach | *'''Friday, November 25:''' presented by John Bach | ||
*'''Monday, November 21: '''presented by Catherine Hoffman | *'''Monday, November 21: '''presented by Catherine Hoffman | ||
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">'''Saturday, October 8, 2011: '''<span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span style="text-decoration: none;">[https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=259070527468224 US Wars in the Middle East: Much Ado About Oil] </span></span></span>([http://youtu.be/z7X9-8jR9BE VIDEO]) | <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">'''Saturday, October 8, 2011: '''<span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span style="text-decoration: none;">[https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=259070527468224 US Wars in the Middle East: Much Ado About Oil] </span></span></span>([http://youtu.be/z7X9-8jR9BE VIDEO]) | ||
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== <span style="color: rgb(255, 140, 0);"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">'''<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Health Justice Forum</span>'''</span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">'''<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"></span>'''</span></span> == | == <span style="color: rgb(255, 140, 0);"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">'''<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Health Justice Forum</span>'''</span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">'''<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"></span>'''</span></span> == | ||
<blockquote>'''Sunday, November 20, 2011'''</blockquote><blockquote> | <blockquote>'''Sunday, November 20, 2011'''</blockquote><blockquote> | ||
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== '''<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 140, 0);"><span style="font-size: large;">Anarchism Forum</span></span></span>''' == | == '''<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 140, 0);"><span style="font-size: large;">Anarchism Forum</span></span></span>''' == | ||
<blockquote>'''Tuesday'''<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">''', October 25'''</span></span>''', 2011:'''<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span>Dennis Fox, retired professor of Legal Studies and Psychology University of Illnois-Springfield, "[https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=191251130951508 Anarchism & Psychology]" <br/></blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">'''Tuesday, October 11'''</span></span>''', 2011: '''Dennis Fox, retired professor of Legal Studies and Psychology University of Illnois-Springfield, "[https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=260204880690666 Anarchist Occupation Issues]" <br/></blockquote><blockquote>'''Sunday, October 9, 2011: '''[https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=183594978384306 An Intro to Modern Anarchism: Isn't Libertarian Socialism a Contradiction?]<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> (</span>[http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF42FB68977CA6C34 VIDEO]<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">)</span> <br/></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"></span>'''Saturday'''<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">, October 8</span></span></span>''', 2011: '''[https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=254875744550119 Anarchism, Psychology, and Law]<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> ([http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL190A52F8A3AD6011 VIDEO]</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">)</span></blockquote> | <blockquote>'''Tuesday'''<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">''', October 25'''</span></span>''', 2011:'''<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span>Dennis Fox, retired professor of Legal Studies and Psychology University of Illnois-Springfield, "[https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=191251130951508 Anarchism & Psychology]"<br/></blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">'''Tuesday, October 11'''</span></span>''', 2011: '''Dennis Fox, retired professor of Legal Studies and Psychology University of Illnois-Springfield, "[https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=260204880690666 Anarchist Occupation Issues]"<br/></blockquote><blockquote>'''Sunday, October 9, 2011: '''[https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=183594978384306 An Intro to Modern Anarchism: Isn't Libertarian Socialism a Contradiction?]<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> (</span>[http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF42FB68977CA6C34 VIDEO]<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">)</span><br/></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"></span>'''Saturday'''<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">, October 8</span></span></span>''', 2011: '''[https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=254875744550119 Anarchism, Psychology, and Law]<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> ([http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL190A52F8A3AD6011 VIDEO]</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">)</span></blockquote> | ||
== '''<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#ff8c00" face="georgia, serif" size="4">Other Teach-Ins</font>''' == | == '''<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#ff8c00" face="georgia, serif" size="4">Other Teach-Ins</font>''' == | ||
=== <span style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><span style="background-color:#ff8c00;"> DECEMBER </span></span></span><br/> === | === <span style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><span style="background-color:#ff8c00;"> DECEMBER </span></span></span><br/> === | ||
'''Saturday, December 17, 2011:''' [http://www.thisisdemocracy.org/ 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, springboarding the US anti-globalization movement | |||
'''Wednesday, December 14, 2011: '''[http://bit.ly/s5BcP3 OWS Forum on Jobs for All: Proposed Demand] | '''Wednesday, December 14, 2011: '''[http://bit.ly/s5BcP3 OWS Forum on Jobs for All: Proposed Demand] | ||
'''<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif | '''<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Sunday, December 11, 2011: </span>'''<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Adopt an Occupier, hosted by Occupy Newton</span> | ||
<div><div class="detail-item"><div>'''Saturday, December 10, 2011: '''</div><div><blockquote> | |||
*<font class="Apple-style-span">[http://bit.ly/uSf7gl Facilitation and Group Process Training]: agendas, running meetings, decision-making models, dealing with challenging people</font> | *<font class="Apple-style-span">[http://bit.ly/uSf7gl Facilitation and Group Process Training]: agendas, running meetings, decision-making models, dealing with challenging people</font> | ||
*[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7797166645955665775 We Interrupt This Empire], a film documenting the mass coordinated direct action in San Francisco after the start of the Iraq War | *[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7797166645955665775 We Interrupt This Empire], a film documenting the mass coordinated direct action in San Francisco after the start of the Iraq War | ||
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<li><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Alex Gourevitch, professor, post-doctoral student at Brown University, [https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=276285735726707 The Meaning of "We Are The 99 Percent"] ([http://thecurrentmoment.wordpress.com/2011/10/13/thoughts-on-corporations/ BLOG])</span></span></span></span></li> | <li><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Alex Gourevitch, professor, post-doctoral student at Brown University, [https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=276285735726707 The Meaning of "We Are The 99 Percent"] ([http://thecurrentmoment.wordpress.com/2011/10/13/thoughts-on-corporations/ BLOG])</span></span></span></span></li> | ||
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<blockquote><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">'''Friday, October 7'''</span></span></span>''', 2011:'''</blockquote><ul style="margin-left: 40px;"> | <blockquote><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">'''Friday, October 7'''</span></span></span>''', 2011:'''</blockquote><ul style="margin-left: 40px;"> | ||
<li><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Kate Bonner-Jackson: "Translation Is Not A Crime: The Case for Tarek Mehanna"</span></span></li> | <li><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Kate Bonner-Jackson: "Translation Is Not A Crime: The Case for Tarek Mehanna"</span></span></li> | ||
<li><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span style="text-decoration: none;">[https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=248436531868577 Austerity Games and the Global Impacts of Wall Street] ([http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0049C57FF2376A71 VIDEO] / [http://www.triplecrisis.com/ BLOG])</span></span></span></span></li> | <li><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span style="text-decoration: none;">[https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=248436531868577 Austerity Games and the Global Impacts of Wall Street] ([http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0049C57FF2376A71 VIDEO] / [http://www.triplecrisis.com/ BLOG])</span></span></span></span></li> | ||
Revision as of 13:31, 18 December 2011
PAST TEACH-INS
The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series
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
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:
Tuesday, October 11, 2011:
Monday, October 10, 2011: Arjun Jayadev (VIDEO): The False Doctrine of Austerity
Citizens United Forum
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 the 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
Non-Violent Direct Action Training - facilitated by the Health Justice Working Group
- Saturday, December 17
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
- 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
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
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
- Teach-In on Secure Communities, presented by Centro Presente and the Immigration Working Group at Occupy Boston
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 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, springboarding the US anti-globalization movement
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 10, 2011:
- Facilitation and Group Process Training: agendas, running meetings, decision-making models, dealing with challenging people
- We Interrupt This Empire, a film documenting the mass coordinated direct action in San Francisco after the start of the Iraq War
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
Monday, November 28, 2011:
- How to Redistribute Wealth: Lessons from the 20th Century, a discussion with Molly Geidel and Patricia Stuelke
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 Occupy Boston Queer and Trans Caucus
- Harvey Wassermann: The History of Social Movements
- Unemployment: Why Jobs Are Hard to Find and How We Can Create Many More with Juliet Schor
Saturday, November 19, 2011:
- Teach-In: Globalization and How it Affects Us, an interactive presentation with Madeleine Cousineau
- 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
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: Martin Luther King Jr, Stokely Carmichael, American Democracy & the Search for Economic Justice
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
- The Effects of Class Background on Our Lives and Efforts for Change, United For Change Workshop Series (Encuentro 5)
- Gender, Economy, and Citizenship with Carole Biewener and Jyoti Puri
- Workshop: Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed, a selection of games and exercises for social justice
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:
- 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
- Documentary Film Screening: How To Start A Revolution, followed with commentary by Ruaridh Arrow (director) and Jamila Raqib (Albert Einstein Institute)
Monday, November 7, 2011:
- Workshop: Increasing Awareness and Protecting Your Sacred Fire
- Gaza & Palestine: The Israeli Siege and the Passion of Human Rights Activists throughout the World with Ridgely Fuller
- 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)
- Responsible Investing, with Shelley Alpern and Catherine Pargeter (Trillium Asset Management), and Libby Edgerly (MSCI)
Thursday, November 3, 2011:
Wednesday, November 2, 2011:
Tuesday, November 1, 2011:
- C.T. Butler, Consensus: So That All Voices May Be Heard
- Gerald Friedman, Money, Banking, and Democracy
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:
- 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:
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"
- Food, Corporations, and Justice: The Human Face of Free Trade in Nicaragua (CANCELLED)
Sunday, October 16, 2011:
Saturday, October 15, 2011:
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:
- Capitalism, Energy, and Climate Change (VIDEO)
- 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"
- Austerity Games and the Global Impacts of Wall Street (VIDEO / BLOG)
- Effective Deep Green Resistance: A Strategy Conversation
- From the Battlefield to the Home Front: Technologies of Control in America (VIDEO)