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
Sunday, November 20, 2011
- Reproductive Justice and Economic Justice, with Marlene Fried
Saturday, November 5, 2011, organized by the Health Justice Working Group
- 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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