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About Zinn.Lectures

This is the blog for the Howard Zinn Memorial Lectures at Occupy Boston. We are a group of radical academics who want to bring academics and activist together to mutually educate ourselves.

Exposing AIPAC

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What is Expose AIPAC?

Expose AIPAC is a three-day summit being held to coincide with the AIPAC National Summit occurring October 13-15 in Boston.

We are convening the summit in order to expose the corrupt practices of the political lobby American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and the broader Israel lobby of which it is a part. Over the course of these three days we will hold a people’s forum with noted activists, public intellectuals, and policymakers to discuss AIPAC’s corrupting influence over American foreign policy and domestic politics along with a day of defiance and speaking out within earshot of the AIPAC National Summit.

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Occupy Consciousness III Video

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The presenters offered their reflections on Istvan Meszaros’ work and relate that to the current situation. The presenters contend that the American mind is stocked with the categories, symbols and rules of the 1 percent and that it is absolutely necessary to start discarding and restocking with the relevant structures of the 99 percent.

Speakers:
Irv Kurki, coordinator for essential discussions, on “The Roots of Capital”

Doug Enaa Greene, member of the Kasama Project and an activist at Occupy Boston, on “Overcoming Alienation”

Sponsoring Journal: Monthly Review

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Richard Levins on Dialectics

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Richard Levins is an activist for Puerto Rican independence, Harvard Professor and ecologist: here professor Levins covers a wide range of topics from climate change to evolution to sugar metabolism and workers’ struggles to illustrate the scope of dialectical inquiry.

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Richard Seymour Book Tour – American Insurgents: A Brief History of American Anti-Imperialism

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Co-sponsored by Haymarket Books and the Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series.
Sunday, June 3, 2012 – 3:00pm
encuentro cinco
33 Harrison Ave – 5th floor
Boston MA,
See map: Google MapsALL EMPIRES SPIN self-serving myths, and in the United States the most potent of these is that America is a force for democracy around the world. Yet there is a tradition of American anti-imperialism that gives the lie to this mythology. Seymour examines this complex relationship from the American Revolution to the present-day.“In these times of international rebellion, [Richard Seymour] has given us a tool with which to build a movement for a more just world, both within and beyond our borders.” —Camilo Mejía, author, Road to ar-Ramadi“In the tradition of Howard Zinn’s A People’s History ofthe United States Richard Seymour shows that US imperialism has generated significant domestic opposition rooted in grassroots movements for racial, economic, and social justice.” —Michael Letwin, founding member, New York City Labor Against the War and Labor for PalestineRICHARD SEYMOUR is a socialist writer and columnist and runs the blog Lenin’s Tomb. He is the author of The Liberal Defense of Murder and The Meaning of David Cameron. He has appeared on Democracy Now!, The Guardian, The New Statesman, Radical Philosophy and Historical Materialism. Originally from Northern Ireland, he now resides in London, where he is studying for a PhD at the London School of Economics.FOR MORE INFORMATION
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To view an excerpt of American Insurgents, visit: http://www.scribd.com/doc/93260547/American-Insurgents