FSU Classes: Chomsky Saturday &Immigration Forum Sunday, plus more!


By October 22, 2011 Comment 0

Saturday the long awaited Q&A with Noam Chomsky 6pm presented by FSU’s Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series schedule found on wordpress.

Sunday the 1st Occupy Boston Immigration Forum noon-4, coordinated by Danielle of Simmons College. Thank you for stepping up this time, fantastic line-up. The Immigration Forum is looking for our next organizer info at: [email protected].

FSU classes meet at the Wall (north end of Dewey Square: at the bright, orange Soap Box, unless otherwise noted).

The class description at: http://www.occupyboston.org/calendar/  click on the class or Forum of  interest. An FSU classes only list is at:
Wiki: http://occupyboston.wikispaces.com/FSU and FSU can be found on         Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/OccupyBostonFSU
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/OccupyBostonFSU/                    To schedule a presentation, class or discussion email: [email protected]

SATURDAY, October 22
1:00pm – 2:00pm
Cut Military Spending, Fund Our Communities

2pm -4:30pm
The Practice of non-Violence and Civil Disobedience
Meet at Gandhi, class held in the plaza.
This workshop is both philosophical and practical and attempts to equip us with the skills necessary to engage in courageous acts of non-violent civil disobedience.

2:00pm – 3:00pm
Workshop: Prisoner’s Realities, with the Asheville Tranzmission Prison Project

3:00pm – 4:30pm
Anonymity & Security on the Web: A brief introduction into how to use free software to maintain one’s anonymity on the Internet

6:00pm – 8:00pm
The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series:
Noam Chomsky Famous MIT intellectual available for Q&A discussion.


SUNDAY, October 23

12-3 pm
Occupy Boston Immigration Forum (see below)

12:00p
Occupy Boston Immigration Forum: Opening Address and Welcome, Neighbors United for a Better East Boston (NUBE).

12:30pm
Occupy Boston Immigration Forum: Tania Bruguera, Immigrant International Movement organized by Experience Economies and Artists in Context

1:00pm
Occupy Boston Immigration Forum: Opposing Secure Communities and Other Anti Immigrant Attacks; Vigils: Support for Human Rights and Immigrant Workers Rights with Peter Lowber, Steering Committee of Boston New Sanctuary Movement and member of Arlington Street Church Social Action Committee

1:30pm
Occupy Boston Immigration Forum: Heloisa Maria Galvao, co-founder and the Executive Director of the Brazilian Women’s Group

2:30pm
Occupy Boston Immigration Forum: Carlos Rosales, Immigrant Worker Center Collaborative

1:30pm – 3:00pm
Occupy Boston Writing Workshop: The Other 99%

3:30pm
The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series: Vijay Prashad, author of The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World

4:00pm – 6:00pm
Teach-In: Movement Building and Organizing Strategies with Marshall Ganz


FSU is looking for a:
Drupal Developer – Open Scholar version, needed for a few things:
Context, Internationalization, Media, VOIP, Advanced Calendar, SMS.

Also: a canopy, bull horn, sheet protectors and clip board as well as bright orange fabric, paper … to designate the FSU space.
To schedule presentations email [email protected]

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