Free School University Schedule (Nov. 17th – Nov. 22nd)

Featured: The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series: “Economic Crisis and System Change” with Richard Wolf, Thursday 17 at 3pm. And on Tuesday 22 at 5pm, Professor Michael Denning will discuss the “Culture of Debt.”

And Harvey Wassermann, an activist and journalist, Sunday 20 at Noon .

Classes meet at the main stage, by the bright, orange FSU schedule board, north end of Dewey Square.

Friday FSU public meetings, 3pm Ground-Support Volunteers and 4pm Working Group, both meetings will be held indoors, either email for directions or check in with the Info Tent 10minutes prior to the meeting. Contact: ‘Vol’ for the 3pm and ‘WG’ or ‘Teacher’ in the subject line to FSU@OccupyBoston.org

Thursday, November 17

3:00pm – 4:00pm
Martin Luther King Jr, Stokely Carmichael, American Democracy, and the Search for Economic Justice: From the Civil Rights Movement to the Occupy Movement

6:00pm – 7:00pm
The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series: “Economic Crisis and System Change” with Richard Wolf

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
Power & Visibility: “The Means of Correct Training,” from Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish*
• copies of the book are available at the Library, in the FSU box

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

Sunday, November 20

12:00pm – 1:30pm
Speaker: Harvey Wassermann: an investigative reporter, author, democracy activist, and advocate for renewable energy. He has been a strategist and organizer in the anti-nuclear movement in the United States for over 30 years.  Wasserman is senior adviser to Greenpeace USA, and senior editor of  The Columbus Free Press

4:00pm – 5:00pm
Reproductive Justice and Economic Justice with Marlene Fried

5:00pm – 6:00pm
Unemployment: Why Jobs Are Hard to Find and How We Can Create Many More, with Juliet Schor

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

5:00pm – 6:00pm
The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series: The Culture of Debt, Michael Denning, the William R Kenan Jr Professor of American Studies at Yale University, and the Director of the Initiative on Labor & Culture.

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Please FSU needs your support see: http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Solidarity/FSU under ‘RESOURCES’ click on ‘Volunteers’ for our Needs List, a short Questionnaire, meeting times and contact info: fsu@OccupyBoston.org