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Putting Revolution on your Plate
The disjunction between good food, workers’ rights, and consumer decision-making in the U.S. “food chain” perpetuates a bad legacy. The food chain continues the long record of class division, xenophobia, and destruction of land
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Occupy Boston and the Return of the Christian Left
By Dan Schneider There was a time when the backdrop for Occupy Boston’s General Assemblies was a mosaic of movement-related imagery, spread across the wall of a Big Dig ventilation building. In the months
Read More »Avi Chomsky: Immigration, Environment and Occupy
The following is based on remarks that Professor Avi Chomsky prepared to give to Occupy Boston on December 7, as part of the Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series. Her talk was cancelled when, that
Read More »OBTV Hits the Airwaves
The studio goes dark as the countdown hits zero and the opening theme of Roman Riot plays to a mosaic of image of Occupy protests. Once the screen flashes “Fight Back,” the camera
Read More »From Occupy to Workers Control: Professors Elaine Bernard and Immanuel Ness
The rest of the lecture and Q + A session can be found at http://zinnlectures.wordpress.com/. On Friday, January 20, Professors Elaine Bernard and Immanuel Ness spoke at Encuentro Cinco, a community organizing space in
Read More »Paul LeBlanc: The Ancestors of Occupy
In mid-November, Paul LeBlanc – a professor of history at La Roche College – spoke at Occupy Boston as part of The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series. Above are videos of that speech taken
Read More »Free School University Saturday 21, 2012: Citizens United Summit
A Rally and Summit to Unite Citizens for Democracy On the January 21 anniversary of the Citizens United decision, a wide coalition of groups will stand together for GETTING MONEY OUT OF POLITICS
Read More »“The Fetishism of Debt” by Michael Denning
The following is a shortened version of a lecture presented at Dewey Square on November 22 as part of Occupy Boston’s Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series. Michael Denning is professor of American Studies
Read More »Free School University Schedule (Jan. 13-20)
The FSU Working Group meeting is Friday, 3pm-5pm, 470 Atlantic Ave, Boston (2-blocks from Dewey Square). All are welcome. Friday, January 13 3:00 – 4:00 pm (Saint Paul’s Cathedral, 138 Tremont
Read More »Sketches of Dewey
The sketches you see below were sent into [email protected] by Ryan Maguire, an Illustration faculty at the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University. Ryan writes: “The drawings were an exercise in using illustration
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