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 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:

• 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

• Sunday, December 18, 2011: Unrig the Elections - Let us Count! A discussion with Jonathan Simon, founding member of Election Defense Alliance
• 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 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

Training facilitated by members of the New England Nonviolence Trainers Network, Alliance of Community Trainers and the Health Justice Working Group

• Sunday, December 18, 2011: Direct Action Strategy and Action: Planning - Digging a Little Deeper
• Saturday, December 17, 2011: Non-Violent Direct Action Training
• Saturday, December 10, 2011: Facilitation and Group Process Training: agendas, running meetings, decision-making models, dealing with challenging people

Preparedness in Actions, Strengthening Our Spirit & Building Community - Training facilitated by members of the NVCD Working Group

• 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: 

• Joseph Gerson, The Case Against America's Militarized "Pacific Century": Real Economic Security and Preventing Another War
• Jim Scarborough, A Matter of Honor: Veterans & the First Amendment (VIDEO)

Saturday, November 12, 2011: Cost of War Series, organized by the Peace Action Working Group

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, organized by the Women's Caucus

Saturday, November 12, 2011, Health Justice Speak Out, organized by the Health Justice Working Group

• 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

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)

Film Screenings

Monday, December 19, 2011: 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.

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

Saturday, December 10, 2011: We Interrupt This Empire, a film documenting the mass coordinated direct action in San Francisco after the start of the Iraq War

Wednesday, November 9, 2011: How To Start A Revolution, followed with commentary by Ruaridh Arrow (director) and Jamila Raqib (Albert Einstein Institute)

Other Teach-Ins

 DECEMBER 

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

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)

Wednesday, December 14, 2011: OWS Forum on Jobs for All: Proposed Demand

Sunday, December 11, 2011: Adopt an Occupier, hosted by Occupy Newton

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 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

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, organized by the Women's Caucus 
• 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 given by Fred Goldstein, 6th National Meeting on Social Policy, 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

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: 

• Career Workshop: My Red Carpet Moment, How Do I Best Express What I Do?
• The Housing Crisis: Where Did It Come From, Where Are We Going?

Wednesday, November 2, 2011: Big Pharma: Another Big Player on Wall Street

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:

• Fair Trade Coffee Hour and Discussion (CANCELLED) 
• How To Run For Office 
• Occupy Boston Writing Workshop: The Other 99%
• Dr. Ben Tafoya, The Decline of Middle Class Incomes and Political Inequality

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:

• Occupy Boston Writing Workshop: The Other 99%
• Marshall Ganz, "Movement Building and Organizing Strategies" (VIDEO)

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:

• Big Pharma: Another Big Player on Wall Street
• Occupy Boston: Talking to People Passing By

Saturday, October 15, 2011:

• On Conflict and Consensus: Consensus for Cities
• Discussion: Whiteness and Ally-Ship

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)