Don’t forget Noam Chomsky is speaking tomorrow. We have also added two new exciting lectures for Saturday October 29. Glen Greenwald of Salon.com will be speaking at 4:00 as part of the Free School University and Fred Magdoff, author of “What Environmentalists Need to Know about Capitalism” will be speaking at 5:00 as part of the Zinn lectures. Also, here are updated fliers Full Page and Half Page. Please help us get the word out!
Due to weather, the Noam Chomsky talk has been rescheduled for 6:00 on Saturday at #Occupy Boston. We are looking forward to hearing Professor Chomsky speak at the Howard Zinn Lectures Series, part of the Free School University. If you are interested in the mission of the lecture series please see our earlier post. Please help us publicize the lectures series (pdf).
Also, please check out the rest of our seminar series. We have many exciting speakers planned.
Thursday October 19 6:00pm Gary Leupp (Tufts University) Radical Historian and frequent contributor to Counterpunch.
Saturday October 22 5:30pm Noam Chomsky (MIT)
Sundary October 23 3:30pm Vijay Prashad (Trinity College) author of Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World
Wednesday October 26 6:00pm Chand Montrie (UMass Lowell) author of ”A People’s History of Enivormentalism in the United States”
Many more after that.
Here is a link to new fliers Lecturesflier-10-16. We have an exciting week: Gary Leupp on Thursday, Noam Chomsky on Saturday, and Vijay Prashad on Sunday.
Here are a set of links to Vijay sent to his articles on Occupy Wall Street, and/or Obamaville. Most recent is on Occupy New Haven. Before that Occupy Hartford and Occupy Wall Street. More coming.”
No. 6: October 19, http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/10/19/the-word-on-the-street-co-optation/
Older ones:
No. 1: September 26, http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/09/26/the-philosophy-behind-occupy-wall-street/.
No. 2: October 3, http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/10/03/de-colonize-wall-street/.
No. 3: October 6, http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/10/06/zombie-capitalism-and-the-post-obama-left/.
No. 4: October 14, http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/10/14/live-from-obamaville/.
No. 5: October 22, http://www.frontlineonnet.com/stories/20111104282204400.htm.
Due to weather conditions, Noam Chomsky’s talk has been postponed until Saturday. Gary Leupp will still be talking Thursday at 6:00 PM. Please come out and support popular education.
Here are some updated fliers. Please help us publicize radical popular education.
Lecturesflier-halfpage-10-16 Lecturesflier-10-16
The great Noam Chomsky is coming on Wednesday 6:15 to give a Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture at #OccupyBoston. More information soon.
Here is the video of Victor Wallis giving the first Zinn Lecture at #OccupyBoston. Thanks to Doug for recording this. Professor Victor Wallis teaches at Berklee and is an editor of Socialism and Democracy.
Nicole Aschoff, from BU Sociology, will be talking today at 3:30 on “Neoliberal Dispossession and the Demand for Demands.” See you there.
Victor Wallis gave our first lecture today. It went very well. There was a lot of good discussion and Victor gave a very nice summary of how we got in our present situation. We should have video of the lecture soon. We also have an updated schedule with more speakers confirmed. We are trying to figure out the best times for starting the lectures. Any feedback in the comments section would be welcome. We were thinking of moving the weekday lectures to 6pm. But we have many more teach-in this week.
Tomorrow, October 14 2:30 #Occupy Boston Economics Forum
Saturday, October 16, 3:30 Nicole Aschoff “Neoliberal Dispossesion and the Demand for Demands”
October 20 Gary Leupp- Tufts Historian and frequent contributor to Counterpunch.
October 23 Vijay Prashad- Author of The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World
October 27 Chad Montrie- Author of People’s History of Environmentalism in the United States
October 29 or 30 Fred Magdoff- Editor of the Monthly Review.
Here are some updated fliers. Lecturesflier-FullPage and Lecturesflier-halfpage. Please help us publicize People’s Education.
