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'''<font class="Apple-style-span"></font>Saturday, December 31, 2011:''' Roving Soap Box Street Corner Teach-Ins at First Night New Year's Eve Celebration in Boston


'''<font class="Apple-style-span"><span class="event-when">Monday, December 19, 2011:</span></font>'''
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<li><div>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcostesK0Ik The Take], a film&nbsp;by Avi Lewis and Naomi Klien about thirty&nbsp;unemployed auto-parts workers who walk into their idle factory, roll out&nbsp;sleeping mats and refuse to leave.&nbsp;'''<font class="Apple-style-span"><span class="event-when"><span style="color: rgb(255, 140, 0);">(Film Screening at Community Church, 565 Boylston St, Boston, MA)</span></span></font>'''</div></li>
<li><div>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcostesK0Ik The Take], a film&nbsp;by Avi Lewis and Naomi Klien about thirty&nbsp;unemployed auto-parts workers who walk into their idle factory, roll out&nbsp;sleeping mats and refuse to leave.&nbsp;'''<font class="Apple-style-span"><span class="event-when"><span style="color: rgb(255, 140, 0);">(Film Screening at Community Church, 565 Boylston St, Boston, MA)</span></span></font>'''</div></li>
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<div>'''<font class="Apple-style-span"></font>'''<br/></div><div>'''<font class="Apple-style-span"><span class="event-when">Sunday, December 18, 2011:&nbsp;</span></font>'''[http://bit.ly/rLvhcZ Direct Action Strategy and Action]: Planning - Digging a Little Deeper</div><br/></div><div>'''Saturday, December 17, 2011:'''&nbsp;[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</div></div></div>
<div><br/></div><div>'''<font class="Apple-style-span"><span class="event-when">Sunday, December 18, 2011:&nbsp;</span></font>'''[http://bit.ly/rLvhcZ Direct Action Strategy and Action]: Planning - Digging a Little Deeper</div><br/></div><div>'''Saturday, December 17, 2011:'''&nbsp;[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</div></div></div>
'''Wednesday, December 14, 2011:&nbsp;'''[http://bit.ly/s5BcP3 OWS Forum on Jobs for All: Proposed Demand]
'''Wednesday, December 14, 2011:&nbsp;'''[http://bit.ly/s5BcP3 OWS Forum on Jobs for All: Proposed Demand]



Revision as of 19:12, 11 January 2012


 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 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

Citizens United & Elections Forum

<blockquoteSunday, December 18, 2011: Unrig the Elections - Let us Count! A discussion with Jonathan Simon, founding member of Election Defense Alliance</blockquote>

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

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 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)
  • 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. (Film Screening at Community Church, 565 Boylston St, Boston, MA)

Sunday, December 18, 2011: Direct Action Strategy and Action: Planning - Digging a Little Deeper

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: 

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:

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: