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<blockquote><div class="detail-item"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">'''<font class="Apple-style-span"><span class="event-when">5:00pm - 6:00pm</span></font>'''</span><br/></div><div class="detail-item"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font class="Apple-style-span">'''Avi Chomsky''', professor of history at Salem State University</font></span></div></blockquote></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><br/></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">
<blockquote><div class="detail-item"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">'''<font class="Apple-style-span"><span class="event-when">5:00pm - 6:00pm</span></font>'''</span><br/></div><div class="detail-item"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font class="Apple-style-span">'''Avi Chomsky''', professor of history at Salem State University</font></span></div></blockquote></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><br/></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">
== <font class="Apple-style-span" face="Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="georgia, serif" size="5"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;">'''SATURDAY, December 10'''</span></span></font></font> ==
== <font class="Apple-style-span" face="Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="georgia, serif" size="5"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;">'''SATURDAY, December 10'''</span></span></font></font> ==
<div class="detail-item" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">'''<font class="Apple-style-span"><span class="event-when">1:00pm - 4:00pm&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(255, 140, 0);">(Community Church, 565 Boylston St, Boston, MA)</span></span></font>'''<br/></div><div class="detail-item" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span">[http://bit.ly/uSf7gl Facilitation and Group Process Training]:&nbsp;agendas,&nbsp;running meetings,&nbsp;decision-making models,&nbsp;dealing with challenging people, and more</font></div><div class="detail-item" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><br/></div><div class="detail-item" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">'''<font class="Apple-style-span"><span class="event-when"></span></font>'''<font class="Apple-style-span">'''<span class="event-when">3:00pm&nbsp;</span>'''<span class="event-when">''''''- '''4:00pm'''</span></font></div><div class="detail-item" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">[http://bit.ly/stYeEr Donna Palermino: History of Citizens United and its Implications], organized by the Citizens United to End Political Bribery Working Group</div><div class="detail-item" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><br/></div><div class="detail-item" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><div class="detail-item">'''<font class="Apple-style-span"><span class="event-when">6:00pm - 8:00pm</span><span class="event-when">&nbsp;</span><span class="event-when"><span style="color: rgb(255, 140, 0);">(Community Church, 565 Boylston St, Boston, MA)</span></span></font>'''</div><div class="detail-item"><font class="Apple-style-span">[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7797166645955665775 We Interrupt This Empire], a film documenting the mass coordinated direct action in San Francisco after the start of the Iraq War</font></div><div class="detail-item"><br/></div><div class="detail-item"><br/></div></div><div class="detail-item" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"></div>
<div class="detail-item" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">'''<font class="Apple-style-span"><span class="event-when">1:00pm - 4:00pm&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(255, 140, 0);">(Community Church, 565 Boylston St, Boston, MA)</span></span></font><br/>'''</div><div class="detail-item" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span">[http://bit.ly/uSf7gl Facilitation and Group Process Training]:&nbsp;agendas,&nbsp;running meetings,&nbsp;decision-making models,&nbsp;dealing with challenging people, and more</font></div><div class="detail-item" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><br/></div><div class="detail-item" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">'''<font class="Apple-style-span"><span class="event-when"></span><span class="event-when">3:00pm -</span></font><span class="event-when"><font class="Apple-style-span">&nbsp;4:00pm</font></span>'''</div><div class="detail-item" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">[http://bit.ly/stYeEr Donna Palermino: History of Citizens United and its Implications], organized by the Citizens United to End Political Bribery Working Group</div><div class="detail-item" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><br/></div><div class="detail-item" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><div class="detail-item">'''<font class="Apple-style-span"><span class="event-when">6:00pm - 8:00pm</span><span class="event-when">&nbsp;</span><span class="event-when"><span style="color: rgb(255, 140, 0);">(Community Church, 565 Boylston St, Boston, MA)</span></span></font>'''</div><div class="detail-item"><font class="Apple-style-span">[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7797166645955665775 We Interrupt This Empire], a film documenting the mass coordinated direct action in San Francisco after the start of the Iraq War</font></div><div class="detail-item"><br/></div><div class="detail-item"><br/></div></div><div class="detail-item" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"></div>


== <font class="Apple-style-span" face="georgia, serif" size="5"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;">'''SUNDAY, December 11'''</span></span></font> ==
== <font class="Apple-style-span" face="georgia, serif" size="5"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;">'''SUNDAY, December 11'''</span></span></font> ==

Revision as of 04:23, 7 December 2011

 FREE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY at Occupy Boston  


The FSU is an on-site learning community. Topics vary from fun-and-games to politics and revolution. Our goal is to form an autonomous zone and share skills needed to maintain that, to entertain educate and enliven visitors and Occupiers. Our purpose is to provide support and space for skill sharing and sharing basic info regarding Occupy Boston and to encourage self-organization, teaching, and learning opportunities. To schedule a teach-in through the FSU, please submit the following information to rachel@freeschooluniversity.org:

  • Date / Time:
  • Title:
  • Brief Description:
  • Short Biography:
  • Do you want to request the mic, if available?  

If you know the exact date and time and have all of the above information ready, please include POST: (date / time) in the Subject of your email. For all other inquiries, or to be added to our volunteers email list, please email: fsu@occupyboston.org.


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Free School University

The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series


 RESOURCES                                                                                                         


 VIDEO ARCHIVE                                                                                                

For archived video of past teach-ins, click here.


 CURRENT TEACH-INS                                                                                     

WEDNESDAY, December 7

10:00am - 4:00pm (470 Atlantic Ave, 2 blocks from Dewey Square)
Free School University Work Party, please come help free education remain a healthy part of our democracy, a vibrant Working Group for Occupy Boston


The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series

5:00pm - 6:00pm
Avi Chomsky, professor of history at Salem State University

SATURDAY, December 10

1:00pm - 4:00pm (Community Church, 565 Boylston St, Boston, MA)
Facilitation and Group Process Training: agendas, running meetings, decision-making models, dealing with challenging people, and more

3:00pm - 4:00pm
Donna Palermino: History of Citizens United and its Implications, organized by the Citizens United to End Political Bribery Working Group

6:00pm - 8:00pm (Community Church, 565 Boylston St, Boston, MA)
We Interrupt This Empire, a film documenting the mass coordinated direct action in San Francisco after the start of the Iraq War


SUNDAY, December 11

3:30pm - 4:30pm
Jules Levine:  Public Financing of Election Campaigns --  A Way Station;  Fair, Just and Good Government--Our Destination 


The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series

2:00pm - 3:00pm
Rich Levy, professor of history at Salem State University - "The Legacy of the Sixties and Occupy"

SATURDAY, December 17

10:00am - 5:00pm (Community Church, 565 Boylston St, Boston, MA)

5:30pm - 7:30pm (Community Church, 565 Boylston St, Boston, MA)
This Is What Democracy Looks Like, a film documenting the mass demonstrations and coordinated direct actions in Seattle, WA in 1999 thatshut down the WTO ministerial meeting and spring boarded the US anti-globalization movement

SUNDAY, December 18

2:00pm - 3:00pm
Unrig the Elections - Let us Count! A discussion with Jonathan Simon, founding member of Election Defense Alliance

12:00pm - 5:00pm (Location TBA)
Direct Action Strategy and Action: Planning - digging a little deeper

MONDAY, December 19

11:00am - 12:00pm
Antonio Gramsci and the Occupy Movement, Lecture / Discussion with anthropologist Elizabeth Ferry

6:30pm - 8:30pm (Community Church, 565 Boylston St, Boston, MA)
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.

 PAST TEACH-INS                                                                                                

For a list of past teach-ins, click here.