FSU: Past Teach-Ins
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PAST TEACH-INS
The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series
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
- Gar Alperovitz (VIDEO), America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty, & Our Democracy, book launch
Thursday, October 20
- Arthur MacEwan: The Economic Crisis: How Can We Fix Things?
Wednesday, October 19
- Catherine Finnoff: 10 Phoney Facts About the US Economy, Keeping it Real for the 99 (CANCELLED)
Sunday, October 16
- Julie Nelson: What Economists Got Wrong and What We've Got to Do to Fix It
Friday, October 14
Tuesday, October 11
Monday, October 10
- Arjun Jayadev (VIDEO): The False Doctrine of Austerity
Elections & Campaign Financing
Sunday, December 4, 2011
Sunday, November 27, 2011
- Rigged Elections: Corporations--the 1 Percent--Own and Rig the Elections of the 99 Percent, discussion with Sheila Parks
Sunday, November 13, 2011
- Public Financing of Elections - A Way Station: Fair, Just and Good Government - The Destination, discussion with Professor Julius Levine (VIDEO)
Non-Violence & Civil Disobedience (NVCD)
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 Family and Veterans Forum
A Matter of Honor: Veterans & the First Amendment, speech by Jim Scarborough
Saturday, November 12, 2011
- 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
- Native American Drumming and Songs for Healing and New Beginnings (VIDEO)
VETERAN LISTENING SESSIONS
- Jason Mizula (VIDEO), Rachel McNeill, and Ryan Cahill (VIDEO), Iraq Veterans
- Robert Funke (VIDEO) and members of the Corporal Jeffrey M. Lucey Chapter of Veterans for Peace (VIDEO), Vietnam Veterans
- Korean Veteran (VIDEO)
MILITARY FAMILY LISTENING SESSIONS, Military Families Speak Out
- 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
Health Justice Forum
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- Reproductive Justice and Economic Justice, with Marlene Fried
- Jim Recht and Mardge Cohen: 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
- 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
Other Teach-Ins
SATURDAY, December 3
12:00pm - 2:00pm
Corporate Negligence and Bhopal, India: An Ongoing Disaster with The International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal
THURSDAY, December 1
2:00pm - 3:00pm (Rescheduled from Tuesday)
Reading Group Planning Meeting (meet in front of the Library)
MONDAY, November 28
2:00pm - 3:00pm
How to Redistribute Wealth: Lessons from the 20th Century, a discussion with Molly Geidel and Patricia Stuelke
SATURDAY, November 26
4:00pm - 5:00pm (POSTPONED)
Right on the Marx: New Insights From Some Old Ideas with Gordon Fellman
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
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
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Unemployment: Why Jobs Are Hard to Find and How We Can Create Many More with Juliet Schor
SATURDAY, November 19
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
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
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 (Encuentro 5)
The Effects of Class Background on Our Lives and Efforts for Change (United For Change Workshop Series)
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
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
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)
MONDAY, November 7
11:00am - 1:00pm
Workshop: Increasing Awareness and Protecting Your Sacred Fire
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 - 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
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)
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?
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
SATURDAY, October 29
4:00pm - 5:00pm (POSTPONED)
Glenn Greenwald: With Liberty and Justice for Some
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
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
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
SATURDAY, October 22
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Cut Military Spending, Fund Our Communities
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Workshop: Prisoners Realities, with the Asheville Tranzmission Prison Project
3:00pm - 4:30pm
Anonymity & Security on the Web (VIDEO)
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
WEDNESDAY, October 19
3:00pm - 4:00pm
Afghanistan: Why Obama Must Change Course
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
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
WEDNESDAY, October 12
1:30pm - 2:30pm
Active Listening 101: How to Have a Friendly Disagreement
3:00pm - 4:00pm
On Labor Day: Importance and Tactics of Building a Worker's Party
TUESDAY, October 11
3:30pm - 5:00pm
Anarchist Occupation Issues
MONDAY, October 10
1:30pm - 2:30pm
Indigenous People's Day Teach-in on Palestine
3:00pm - 3:30pm
Student Power: Building a New University in the Shell of the Old
3:30pm - 4:30pm (VIDEO)
Active Listening 101: How to Have a Friendly Disagreement
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Capitalism is Failing: The Socialist Alternative
SUNDAY, October 9
12:00pm - 1:30pm (VIDEO)
Capitalism, Energy, and Climate Change
2:30pm - 3:30pm
The Case for Socialism: Human Need, Not Corporate Greed!
3:30pm - 4:30pm (VIDEO)
An Intro to Modern Anarchism: Isn't Libertarian Socialism a Contradiction?
3:30pm - 4:30pm
Open Discussion: Tools Against Sexism within the Occupy Boston Movement
5:00 - 6:00pm (BLOG)
The Meaning of "We Are The 99 Percent"
SATURDAY, October 8
1:00pm - 2:00pm (VIDEO 1 / VIDEO 2 / VIDEO 3)
Anarchism, Psychology, and Law
4:00pm - 5:00pm (VIDEO)
US Wars in the Middle East: Much Ado About Oil
FRIDAY, October 7
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Kate Bonner-Jackson: "Translation Is Not A Crime: The Case for Tarek Mehanna"
1:30 - 2:30pm (VIDEO / BLOG)
Austerity Games and the Global Impacts of Wall Street
1:00pm - 4:00pm
Effective Deep Green Resistance: A Strategy Conversation
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