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=== <span style="color:#ff8c00;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="georgia, serif" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">'''<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series</span></span>'''</span></font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="georgia, serif" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">'''<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"></span></span>'''</span></font> ===
=== <span style="color:#ff8c00;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="georgia, serif" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">'''<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series</span></span>'''</span></font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="georgia, serif" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">'''<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"></span></span>'''</span></font> ===
<blockquote><div class="detail-item"><span style="font-size:small;"><font class="Apple-style-span">'''<span class="event-when">2:00pm - 3:00pm</span>'''</font></span><br/></div><div class="detail-item"><span style="font-size:small;"><font class="Apple-style-span">'''Rich Levy''', professor of history at Salem State University - "'''The Legacy of the Sixties and Occupy"'''</font></span></div></blockquote><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><div><br/></div><div></div></div></div>
<blockquote><div class="detail-item"><span style="font-size:small;"><font class="Apple-style-span">'''<span class="event-when">2:00pm - 3:00pm</span>'''</font></span><br/></div><div class="detail-item"><span style="font-size:small;"><font class="Apple-style-span">'''Rich Levy''', professor of history at Salem State University - "'''The Legacy of the Sixties and Occupy"'''</font></span></div></blockquote><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><div><br/></div><div></div></div></div>
== &lt;font class="Apple-style-span" face="georgia, serif" size="5"</font&gt;'''TUESDAY, December 13''' ==
== '''TUESDAY, December 13''' ==
<div class="detail-content"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">8:00pm - 10:00pm<span style="color:#ff8c00;">(66 West St, Room 407, Boston, MA)</span></span></div><div>[http://bit.ly/s5BcP3 Jobs for All: OWS Demand Proposal]</div><div><br/></div></div>
<div class="detail-content"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">8:00pm - 10:00pm<span style="color:#ff8c00;">(66 West St, Room 407, Boston, MA)</span></span></div><div>[http://bit.ly/s5BcP3 Jobs for All: OWS Demand Proposal]</div><div><br/></div></div>
== <font class="Apple-style-span" face="georgia, serif" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif; font-size: large;">'''SATURDAY, December 17'''</span></font> ==
== <font class="Apple-style-span" face="georgia, serif" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif; font-size: large;">'''SATURDAY, December 17'''</span></font> ==
<div class="detail-content"><div class="detail-item">'''<font class="Apple-style-span"><span class="event-when">10:00am - 5:00pm&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(255, 140, 0);">(Community Church, 565 Boylston St, Boston, MA)</span></span></font>'''<br/></div><div class="detail-item"><font class="Apple-style-span">[http://bit.ly/upms3Q Non-Violent Direct Action Training]</font></div><div class="detail-item"><br/></div><div class="detail-item"><div class="detail-item">'''<font class="Apple-style-span"><span class="event-when">5:30pm - 7:30pm&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://www.thisisdemocracy.org/ This Is What Democracy Looks Like], a film documenting&nbsp;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</font></div><div class="detail-item"><br/></div></div></div>
<div class="detail-content"><div class="detail-item">'''<font class="Apple-style-span"><span class="event-when">10:00am - 5:00pm&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(255, 140, 0);">(Community Church, 565 Boylston St, Boston, MA)</span></span></font>'''<br/></div><div class="detail-item"><font class="Apple-style-span">[http://bit.ly/upms3Q Non-Violent Direct Action Training]</font></div><div class="detail-item"><br/></div><div class="detail-item"><div class="detail-item">'''<font class="Apple-style-span"><span class="event-when">5:30pm - 7:30pm&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://www.thisisdemocracy.org/ This Is What Democracy Looks Like], a film documenting&nbsp;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</font></div><div class="detail-item"><br/></div></div></div>

Revision as of 20:10, 9 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. If you know the exact date and time and have all of the below information ready, please include POST: (date / time) in the Subject of your email:

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

For all other inquiries, or to be added to our volunteers email list, please email: fsu@occupyboston.org.


 ON THE WEB                                                                                                        

Free School University

The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series

The Boston Occupier Coverage


 RESOURCES                                                                                                         


 VIDEO ARCHIVE                                                                                                

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


 CURRENT TEACH-INS                                                                                     

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


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"

TUESDAY, December 13

8:00pm - 10:00pm(66 West St, Room 407, Boston, MA)

SATURDAY, December 17

10:00am - 5:00pm (Community Church, 565 Boylston St, Boston, MA)
Non-Violent Direct Action Training

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.

FRIDAY, January 20

'6:00pm - 8:00pm '(Encuentro 5, 33 Harrison Ave, 5th Floor, Boston, MA)
Panel: From Occupy to Workers Control, with Immanuel Ness and Elaine Bernard (sponsored by The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series)

 PAST TEACH-INS                                                                                                

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