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PAST TEACH-INS

SUNDAY, December 4

12:00pm – 2:00pm

Teach-In on Secure Communities Presented by Centro Presente and the Immigration Working Group at Occupy Boston,

to educate all those involved in Occupy Boston, and others, about the effect Secure Communities has on all of our communities,

immigrants as well as all workers.

3:00pm - 4:00pm (CANCELLED)
Discussion: Publicly-Funded Elections & Repairing Representative Government

SATURDAY, December 3

12:00pm - 2:00pm
Corporate Negligence and Bhopal, India: An Ongoing Disaster with The International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal

Economics Forum

6:00pm - 8:00pm (33 Harrison Ave, 5th floor - Encuentro 5)
Book Launch: America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty, & Our Democracy by Gar Alperovitz (co-sponsered by the Occupy Boston Economics Forum, Dollars & Sense magazine, the Democracy Collaborative, the Occupy Boston Socialist Caucus, and the Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series.

THURSDAY, December 1

2:00pm - 3:00pm (Rescheduled from Tuesday)
Reading Group Planning Meeting (meet in front of the Library)

WEDNESDAY, November 30

5:00pm - 6:00pm (VIDEO)
The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series: Norman Finkelstein

TUESDAY, November 29

5:00pm - 6:00pm (VIDEO)
The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series: Bruno Bosteels

MONDAY, November 28

2:00pm - 3:00pm
How to Redistribute Wealth: Lessons from the 20th Century, a discussion with Molly Geidel and Patricia Stuelke

SUNDAY, November 27

1:00pm - 2:00pm
Rigged Elections: Corporations--the 1 Percent--Own and Rig the Elections of the 99 Percent with Sheila Parks

2:00pm - 2:30pm (VIDEO)
Speech: A Matter of Honor (on Veterans & the First Amendment) by Jim Scarborough

SATURDAY, November 26

4:00pm - 5:00pm (POSTPONED)
Right on the Marx: New Insights From Some Old Ideas with Gordon Fellman

FRIDAY, November 25

10:00am - 12:00pm
Preparedness in Actions, Strengthening Our Spirit & Building Community: Training by the Nonviolence & Civil Disobedience Working Group (presented by John Bach)

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

5:00pm - 6:00pm (VIDEO)
The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series: The Culture of Debt, Mike Denning

6:00pm - 6:30pm (VIDEO)
Speech: A Matter of Honor (Veterans & the First Amendment) by Jim Scarborough

MONDAY, November 21

6:00pm - 8:00pm
Preparedness in Actions, Strengthening Our Spirit & Building Community: Training by the Nonviolence & Civil Disobedience Working Group (presented by Catherine Hoffman)

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

4:00pm - 5:00pm
Reproductive Justice and Economic Justice with Marlene Fried

5:00pm - 6:00pm
Unemployment: Why Jobs Are Hard to Find and How We Can Create Many More with Juliet Schor

SATURDAY, November 19

10:00am - 12:00pm
Preparedness in Actions, Strengthening Our Spirit & Building Community: Training by the Nonviolence & Civil Disobedience Working Group

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

2:00pm - 4:00pm
Preparedness in Actions, Strengthening Our Spirit & Building Community: Training by the Nonviolence & Civil Disobedience Working Group (presented by Minga Clagget-Borne)

The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series

5:00pm - 6:00pm (VIDEO)
Lecture: Paul Le Blanc, Associate Professor of History at La Roche College

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

The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series

6:00pm - 7:00pm (VIDEO)
Lecture: Richard Wolf, "Economic Crisis and System Change"

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 (33 Harrison Ave, 5th Floor - Encuentro 5)
The Effects of Class Background on Our Lives and Efforts for Change (United For Change Workshop Series)

2:00pm - 3:00pm
Discussion: Public Financing of Elections - A Way Station: Fair, Just and Good Government - The Destination, with Professor Julius Levine

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

3:00pm - 4:30pm
Roundtable Discussion: What is Violence? What is Nonviolence? (meet by the Gandhi statue)

Cost of War Forum

Military Family and Veteran Series

11:00am
Opening Remarks: Sarah Fuhro, mother of soldier who deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan
11:15am
Teach-In: How the Wars Started, their Impact, and Lessons to Learn to Avoid Future Wars - Wayne Jaquith (Military Families Speak Out)
11:30am
Robert Funke, Vietnam Veteran (Smedley D. Butler Brigade of Veterans for Peace)
11:50am
Native American Drumming and Songs for Healing and New Beginnings

LISTENING SESSIONS

1:00pm
Jason Mizula and Rachel McNeill, Iraq Veterans (Smedley D. Butler Brigade of Veterans for Peace)
3:00pm
Alice Copeland Brown, mother of Army officers from Canton, Massachusetts (Military Families Speak Out)
3:20pm
Vietnam Veteran (Corporal Jeffrey M. Lucey Chapter of Veterans for Peace)
3:35pm
Korean Veteran
3:45pm
Joyce and Kevin Lucey (Military Families Speak Out), parents of Corporal Jeff Lucey, who committed suicide in 2004
4:15pm
Carlos and Melida Arredondo, parents of Lance Corporal Alexander Arredondo, who was killed in 2004 on his 2nd tour of duty in Iraq
4:45pm
Ryan Cahill, Iraq Veteran

The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series

5:00pm - 6:00pm (VIDEO)
Lecture: Noel Ignatiev, "Race and Occupy"

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

2:00pm - 3:00pm
Black Soldiers in the War of the Slaveowners Rebellion, stories from the Massachusetts 54th and 55th in the Civil War

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

6:00pm - 8:30pm
Workshop: The Practice of Nonviolence and Civil Disobediance (meet by the Gandhi statue)

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)

The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series

6:00pm - 7:00pm (VIDEO)
Lecture: Elaine Bernard, "From Heroes to Zeros: The War on Public Employees & Their Unions"

MONDAY, November 7

11:00am - 1:00pm & 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 - 8:30pm
Roundtable Discussion: What is Violence? What is Nonviolence? (meet by the Gandhi statue)

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

Health Justice Forum

11:00am
Reoccupy the Health System through Single Payer Health Reform

12:00pm
Economic Crisis, Austerity, and the Health of the 99%

3:00pm
How a Financial Transaction Tax Can End AIDS

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)

The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series

1:30pm - 2:30pm (VIDEO)
Lecture: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, "The City on a Hill, Where it all Began"

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?

The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series

4:00pm - 5:00pm
Lecture: Luis Jimenez, "The Perils of American Democracy, The Institutional Basis Behind Our 'Broken Politics'"

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

The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series

5:00pm - 6:00pm (VIDEO)
Lecture: Anthony Arnove, co-author of "Voices of a People's History of the United States" (Howard Zinn)

SATURDAY, October 29

10:00am - 12:30pm
The Practice of Non-Violence and Civil Disobedience

4:00pm - 5:00pm (POSTPONED)
Glenn Greenwald: With Liberty and Justice for Some

The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series

5:00pm - 6:00pm (VIDEO)
Lecture: Fred Magdoff

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

The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series

6:00pm - 7:00pm (VIDEO)
Lecture: Chand Montrie, author of "A People’s History of Environmentalism in the United States"

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

MONDAY, October 24

The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series

5:30pm - 6:30pm
Lecture: Tom Ferguson, "Money and Politics"

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

Immigration Forum

12:00pm
Opening Address and Welcome, Neighbors United for a Better East Boston (NUBE)

12:30pm
Tania Bruguera, Immigrant International Movement

1:00pm
Opposing Secure Communities and Other Anti Immigrant Attacks; Vigils; Support for Human Rights and Immigrant Workers Rights with Peter Lowber (Steering Committee of Boston New Sanctuary Movement and member of Arlington Street Church Social Action Committee

1:30pm
Heloisa Maria Galvao, co-founder and the Executive Director of the Brazilian Women’s Group

2:30pm
Carlos Rosales, Immigrant Worker Center Collaborative

3:00pm
Break Out Discussion Group open to all interested to form a fluid conversation, topic of discussion will be generated by the interest of the group.

The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series

3:30pm - 4:30pm (VIDEO)
Lecture: Vijay Prashad, author of "The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World"

SATURDAY, October 22

1:00pm - 2:00pm
Cut Military Spending, Fund Our Communities

2:00pm - 4:30pm
The Practice of Non-Violence and Civil Disobedience
(meet at the Gandhi statue on the plaza)

2:00pm - 3:00pm
Workshop: Prisoners Realities, with the Asheville Tranzmission Prison Project

3:00pm - 4:30pm
Anonymity & Security on the Web (VIDEO)

The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series

6:00pm - 8:00pm (VIDEO)
Lecture: Noam Chomsky (followed by Q&A)

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

4:00pm - 5:00pm
Author Brian Wilson at Occupy Boston

Economics Forum

4:00pm - 5:00pm
Arthur MacEwan, "The Economic Crisis: How Can We Fix Things?"

The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series

6:00pm - 7:00pm (VIDEO)
Lecture: Gary Leupp, "Elite Control Over US Foreign Policy: Lessons from Vietnam, to Iraq, to Today"

WEDNESDAY, October 19

3:00pm - 4:00pm
Afghanistan: Why Obama Must Change Course

Economics Forum

5:00pm - 6:00pm (POSTPONED)
10 Phoney Facts about the US Economy, Keeping It Real for the 99 (Catherine Finnoff)

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

Economics Forum

2:00pm - 3:00pm
Julie Nelson: "What Economists Got Wrong and What We've Got to Do to Fix It"

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

The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series

3:30pm - 4:30pm
Lecture: Nicole Aschoff, "Neoliberal Dispossession and the Demand for Demands"

FRIDAY, October 14

Economics Forum

2:30pm - 3:30pm
Alejandro Reuss: "It's Not Just the Banks, Class and the Shift in the Distribution of Income Against Workers and in favor of Capitalists"