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Free University of New York City

TUESDAY May 1, 2012 — MAY DAY

A public experiment in education — 10am to 3pm

Convergence of students, teachers, and the public
demanding free education for all — 3pm

Madison Square Park, 23rd St./5th Ave./Broadway

Subway: N/R to 23rd St. / 6 to 23rd, and 1 block west / F/M to 23rd St.,
and 1 block east

web: maydaynyc.org/freeuniversity twitter: @FreeUnivNYC #FreeU

(CUNY-wide manifestation on May 2 at Brooklyn College 12pm, see below)



Free University

Program for May 1st

*(Alphabetical order by Last Name)*

Special Events

David Harvey

*“Reclaiming the City for Anti-Capitalist Struggle”*

*Time: 10:00-11:am*

*Location: Statue*

New York Asian Women's Center

*Info Table: immigration relief for survivors of domestic violence and
human trafficking*

*Time/Location: All Day tabling @ South End of the park.*

*Description: *Led by its staff attorney and legal team, the New York Asian
Women’s Center will host a

one-hour workshop covering immigration relief for survivors of domestic
violence and human trafficking.

This workshop will cover the very basics of VAWA, U and T visas, and SIJS,
while engaging

participants in a broader discussion on how U.S. immigration laws both
protect and create barriers for

these populations.

Robert Robinson/Take Back the Land

*“Taking Action for Housing Rights: A Teach-In by Take Back the Land and
Organizing for Occupation”*

*Time: 11:30am-1pm*

*Location: Flagpole*

*Description: *Join representatives from Take Back the Land and Organizing
for Occupation for a teachin

and conversation about the current housing crisis and the growing movement
of communities taking

positive action (direct action) to collectively secure the human right to
housing.

Laura Whitehorn*/*Prisoner Solidarity Group

*“Mass incarceration in the U.S.”*

*Time: 1:30-3:00*

*Location: Statue*

David Graeber

Topic: TBA

*Time: 12:00pm*

*Location: Statue*

Drucilla Cornell

*“Constituting Revolutionary Government”*

*Time:12:30-1pm*

*Location: Statue*

Frances Fox Piven

Topic: TBA

*Time: 1:00pm*

*Location: Statue*

Neil Smith

*“The Future is Radically Open”*

*Time: 1:30-2:30*

*Location: South Fountain*

*Description: *The future is radically open in a way that we could only
imagine less than 5 years.

Uprisings from the MIddle East, Europe's indignatos and anti-austerity
revolts, and Ocupy, plus many

more are the final nail in a whole episode of capitalism. To take advantage
of this, to make a new

world, a quite new left will need to be organized across borders, social
and geographical, both to build a

critical mass and to defend itself from already evident repression.

Committee on Globalization and Social Change(CUNY Graduate Center)

*“The Meaning of Solidarity: Facilitated questions and discussions “*

*with *Marina Sitrin, Anthony Alessandrini, Gary Wilder, Jeremy Raynor,
Sujatha Fernandes, Peter

Ranis, Mike Menser and others

*Time 12:45 - 2pm*

*Location: South Pool*

*Description: *This will be a facilitated discussion on the various
meanings of solidarity. We will share our

ideas of the possible meanings of solidarity, and then raise a question for
discussion for the group.

Together, we will think about these meanings and come up with even more
questions.

OccupyDrama

*Time:12:30-1:30pm*

*Location: South Fountain*

*Description: *Occupy Drama will discuss the political aspects of theater
and perform several scenes

from various plays.

Occuprint

*“Visual Resistance and Social movement Culture”*

*Time: 1pm-2pm*

*Location: Radical Recess Area/South Benches*

*Description: *This is a class reflecting on visual resistance and social
movement culture.

OCCUPY Alternative Banking *(with Sue Waters)*

*“CRIME #1 - How Private Banks Create our Money from Debt”*

*Time: 1:00-2:00pm*

*Location: Q*

*Description: *CRIME #1 - How private banks create our money from debt -
and control us. What is

money? Where does it come from? This class explains that money is created
whenever the US

government borrows from the NY Federal Reserve Bank, or whenever someone
borrows from a

commercial bank. This debt-money system is the root cause of suffering in
this world, and can be

changed!

Horizontal Pedagogy

*with *David Backer

*Time: 10am - 2pm*

*Location: K*

*Description: *Horizontal Pedagogy workshops reimagine the experience of
education and experiment

with alternative power dynamics, sources of motivation, and the movements
of knowledge.

Student Debt Campaign

Performance

*Location: flagpole*

*Time: 2-2:20*

*Description: *Reading from Dario Fo's play "Can't Pay! Won't Pay!" a 1970s
anarchist/activist play about

debt

CUNY Chancellor Goldstein and the KROLL Security Group mockwedding

*Wedding theatrics*

*Time: 2:30*

*Location: North Fountain/South Fountain*

Radical Recess

*All Day “(Meta-)Physical Education” activities on the South Side of the
Park*

*Description: *Radical Recess will be going all day. Join in for pick-up
games of Four Square, Capture

the Flag, Yoga classes, Freeze Tag, pick-up soccer and more...

*Free University General Class List*

Naomi Adiv

*“Fundamental Ideals of Public Space”*

*Time: 10:30-11:30am*

*Location: N*

*Description: *This is a lecture on some of the fundamental defining ideals
of public space, and what we

mean when we talk about "privatization."

Bilal Ahmed

*“The Shifting Image of Martyrdom in the Arab Spring”*

*Time: 1:15-2:00pm*

*Location: South Pool*

*Description: *This will be a workshop on the idea of martyrdom and how it
has evolved in the Arab

Spring. Emphasis would be paid as to how violent martyrdom was mobilized
during the Second Intifada

from 2000 - 2005, and how that struggle's failure led to an explosion of
non-violent activity in the Arab

world which culminated in the 2011 Arab Revolts. The most telling effect
has been that the violent

image of martyrdom has shifted towards a non-violent image, where
protesters have replaced suicide

bombers as the community ideal. This is a complex discussion of psychology,
repression, and political

mobilization.

Ammiel Alcalay and David Henderson

*“Poetry Reading”*

*Time: 12:00-1:00pm*

*Location: North Fountain*

David Arnow

*“Software Application Development II”*

*Time: 11:30-1:00pm*

*Location: J*

*Description: *The jQuery library is one of a number of important tools
that greatly facilitate webapp client

development. Prof Arnow will discuss the notion of unobtrusive Javascript,
and introduce jQuery, along

with key related elements from Javascript, including function literals,
functions as first class objects, and

closures.

Mariana Assis

*“Intersectionality and Oppression”*

*Time: 11:30-1:00pm*

*Location: T*

*Description: *This will be a short course on intersectionality, stressing
its usefulness for uncovering

multiple and overlapping forms of oppression. It will be a seminar-type of
class, with great participation

of everyone involved and some practical activities/exercises capable of
illustrating the concepts the

group will explore.

Jim Biles

*“Critical Perspectives on Development”*

*Time: 1:30-3pm*

*Location: I*

*Description: *This May Day class will be devoted to debt and finance. This
semester long course has

explored alternative theories of the development process and critical
analysis of the discourse of

development. During the Free University the class will discuss, "Chronicle
of a debt foretold: Mexico’s

FOBAPROA debacle and lessons for the US financial crisis" among other
readings.

Jay Blair

*“Anthropological Perspectives on Sexual Behavior”*

*Time: 11:00-1:00pm*

*Location: C*

Aron Blue

*“ESL: Basic English”*

*Time: 10:00am-11:00am Location: South Fountain*

*Description: *English Language Learners: Practice your conversational and
pronunciation skills in a fun,

comfortable environment. There will be plenty of time for your questions,
and you'll get practical advice

for what you can do to learn English faster on your own.

Christian Bracho

*“Immigration, Education and the American Dream”*

*Time: 11:30am -12:30pm*

*Location: F*

*Description: *Since the founding of the United States, schools have played
a central role in socializing

diverse children into American identities. Education has been used
strategically with the goal of

achieving the national motto, "e pluribus unum"—out of many, one. Yet this
American Dream is rife with

contradictions, and the disconnect that many immigrants find between these
promised opportunities

and their daily realities has led to significant disillusionment and
disenfranchisement. This course will

explore the ways in which the American school system decides who "belongs"
in the United States,

who is "American," and what opportunities they deserve. The group will also
investigate cultural

conflicts that continue to rage in schools, such as conflicts over
religious expression, multicultural

curriculum, and bilingual education.

Cathy from AltBanking

*“Weapons of Math Destruction”*

*Time: 2:00-3:00pm*

*Location: U/V*

Benoit Challand

*“The Arab Revolts”*

*Time: 10:00-11:30am*

*Location: A*

Matt Congdon

*“Critical Political Philosophy”*

*Time: 1-3pm*

*Location: M*

Drucilla Cornell

*Time: 12:00pm-1:00pm*

*Location: Statue*

*Description: TBA*

Broni Czarnocha

*“Occupied Algebra”*

*Time: 12:30pm-2:30pm*

*Location: I*

Eric Darton

*“The Next New York”*

*Time: 2:00-3:00pm*

*Location: T*

*Description: *The workshop will begin with a short verbal presentation on
the path that has led the city to

its present moment of crisis. Following this, participants will discuss
strategies toward transforming New

York into a more equitable, self-sustaining and economically diversified
place.

Daphne

*“Music Working Group”*

*Time: 10:00-12:00pm*

*Location: U/V*

*Description: *Daphne is a feminist educator who will teach a short class
on the songs of women's

liberation and gay liberation, the rise of fascism in Europe and the
history of the anti-fascist action

network, the importance of public social space for dancing and joy, and the
history of police, policy, and

economic suppression of these rights because of anti-woman and homophobic
sentiment.

Thomas DeGloma

*“Trauma and the Sociological Imagination”*

*Time: 11:00-12:00pm*

*Location: E*

*Description: *The class will focus on how various social movements define
and address traumatic

experiences.

Alexandra Délano

*“Challenging Global Order”*

*Time: 2:00 - 4:40pm*

*Location: E*

Salvatore Engel-DiMauro *(saed)*

*“Soil in Cities”*

*Time: 1:30-2:30pm*

*Location: South Pool*

*Description: *This will be a discussion about and an introduction to soils
generally and in cities,

especially with respect to urban gardening/farming. Some topics to cover,
depending on interest: what

soils are, why we should care about them, how one can study them, and how
soils are linked to politics.

Allen Feldman

*“Self-altering Democratizing Space”*

*Time: 1:00-2:00pm*

*Location: T*

*Description: *In Tahrir and Syntagma Square, mass protesters gathering in
and assembling political

spaces gave themselves something they did not have--self-founding
democracy. This class will discuss

the spatial-performative making of democratic publics as recursive
communities--collectives that define

themselves through space-related media--material symbolic and virtual.

Michelle Fine & Cindi Katz

*“Environmental and Social Psychology Critical Research Methods”*

*Time: 9:30-11:30am*

*Location: South Pool*

*Description: *Short presentations and small group discussions about
marginalized critical research

methods in social and environmental psychology and geography. Specific
methods and issues the

class will discuss include: participatory surveys, pedagogical reciprocity
and political solidarity in visual

research scenarios, and the positivist blind-spots by scientists and
environmentalists in the climate

change discourse.

Jeanne Flavin

*“Gender, Crime and Justice”*

*Time: 2:00pm-3:00pm*

*Location: E*

*Description: *Prof Flavin teaches a class on Gender, Crime and Justice at
Fordham University, and is

also chair the board of directors of National Advocates for Pregnant Women.

Elizabeth Friedrich of AltBanking

*“Responsible Financial Alternatives and Financial Regulation”*

*Time: 12:00pm-1:00pm*

*Location: R*

*Description: *The teach-in is about the alternative financial institutions
such as credit unions and

community development banks. AltBanking wants to share different
alternatives for consumers to

access responsible financial institutions. The other half of the teach-in
is on current financial regulation

environment dodd-frank in particular the Volcker rule. This is 101 on our
financial system and how the

financial crisis unfolded through deregulation and political corruption.

Michael Friedman

*“Science & Capitalism”*

*Time: 12:30-1:30pm*

*Location: I*

*Description: *Science, is a social activity, embedded within the social
relations and world view of our

society. As a field, it arose within capitalist society. What are some of
the ways in which it is shaped by

capitalism? How we might conceive of a non-capitalist science?

Charley Ganley

*“Workers' Rights and Civil Rights”*

*Time: 10:00-11:00am*

*Location: H*

*Description: *A discussion of Workers' Rights and Civil Rights.

Eliane Geren

*“Non-Violent Communication skills”*

*Time: 12:00-2:00pm*

*Location: U/V*

*Description: *The class will teach tools for diffusing conflict. The
process is based on Nonviolent

Communication, which is used effectively worldwide.

Super Glitch

Swarm Organizing

*Time:*

*Location:*

Johanna Goossens

*“Revolution and Social Change in the Middle East”*

*Time: 10am - 11am*

*Location: B*

*Description: *Goossens will host her class on Revolution and Social Change
in the Middle East.

Michael Gottsegen

*“Marx on the Jewish Question”*

*Time: 11:00-12:30pm*

*Location: West Pool*

*Description: *Marx's early essay "On the Jewish Question" has little to
say about Judaism but a lot to

say about the relation between political emancipation and human
emancipation, and about the path

from the former to the latter. A perfect text to reflect upon on May Day:
the group will study it and

discuss its continuing relevance.

Jonathan Gray

*“The "African American Experience" in Literature”*

*Time: 12:00-2:30pm*

*Location: H*

Chris Hedges

*“Death of the Liberal Class”*

*Time: 1:00pm - 2pm*

*Location: Flagpole*

*Description: *Hedges will talk about his new book.

Geoff Holtzman

*“Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence”*

*Time: 11:00am-12:15pm*

*Location: D*

*Description: *Philosophers and neuroscientists have recently begun to
recognize that emotion plays an

important role in reasoning. The group will discuss the somatic marker
hypothesis, the view that

emotion assigns value to concepts in order to facilitate intelligent
functioning, in order to understand the

role emotion-like processes might serve in developing artificial
intelligence.

Edward Kalin

*“Theatre of the Great Depression: Common Struggles, Common Expression: A
Read-through of*

*Waiting for Lefty by Clifford Odets”*

*Time: 1pm - 3pm*

*Location: V*

*Description: *We are to be doing a read-through play from the Great
Depression, from a time that

mimics our own. This play, Waiting for Lefty, will help us to gain a better
understanding of the

movement we are in and those who have struggled through times before ours.

Ben Katchor

*“Comics and picture-story symposium”*

*Time: 2:00pm-3:00pm*

*Location: L*

*Description: *An introductory meeting for artist/writers working in
various text-image forms: comics,

picture-stories, animation, etc. at which to present and critique work and
examine new ideas for the

distribution of print and electronic picture-stories.

Wayne Koestenbaum

*“The Practice of Everyday Life”*

*Time: 2:00 - 3:00pm*

*Location: A*

*Description: *The class will perform a group reading of Nyung Mi Kim's
poetry collection Dura.

Glenn Leisching

*“Indigenous Wisdom: Alternative, Ancient insights, and Practices”*

*Time: 12:00-1:00pm*

*Location: H*

Kim Libman

*“Wall Street Makes America Sick”*

*Time: 10:00-12:00pm*

*Location: North Fountain*

*Description: *Kim Libman will host a teach-in on how Wall Street makes
America sick - i.e. the public

health impacts of corporate greed.

Melissa Maldonado-Salcedo

*"What Latina and all Women Need Now!"*

*Time: 11:10-12:25*

*Location: South Fountain*

*Description: *The Latina Women course at Hunter College, taught by Melissa
Maldonado-Salcedo

(CUNY Graduate Center) will be hosting a TEACH IN in order to discuss and
strategize around the

question: "What Latina and all Women Need Now!"

Manissa McCleave Maharawal and Amanda Matles

*“Outdoor Radical Figure Drawing”*

*Time: 1:00-1:30pm*

*Location: North Fountain*

Renee McGarry

*“POPS Art Project”*

*Time: 10:00-3:00pm*

*Location: Info Desk*

Rachel McKinney

“*Critical Thinking for Critical Theorists”*

*Time: 11:00-11:45am*

*Location: F*

*Description: *We'll explore some basics of philosophy: What is an
argument? What are some tools for

distinguishing bad arguments from good ones? How can we apply these tools
to questions in ethics

and politics?

Kristy McMorris

*“Carnival and the Caribbean”*

*Time: 11:30am-12:30pm*

*Location: South Pool*

*Description: *The class will continue a conversation questioning the idea
of the freedom given by law.

The conversation will be based in readings of Earl Lovelace's novel, The
Dragon Can't Dance.

Kristy McMorris

*“Caribbean Travel Narratives”*

*Time: 1:30pm-3:00pm*

*Location: G*

*Description: *The class will explore Zora Neale Hurston's anthropological
accounts of practices of

vodoun in Haiti in her book, Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and
Jamaica.

Sebastian Michail

“*Debate Skills to Defeat Conservatism and Defend the Occupy Movement”*

*Time: 1100am-1:00pm*

*Location: I*

*Description: *There is no better way to defend your beliefs than learning
the skills used in forensics

debate. Join high school debater Sebastian Michail to learn about the
basics of debate to arm yourself

with words.

Sean Murphy

*“European Son: American Cultural Theory in the 1960s”*

*Time: 12:30pm-3pm*

*Location: O*

*Description: *This talk will re-contextualize the wide body of
cybernetics-infused social thought that fell

out of vogue in academia with the ascent of poststructuralism in the
1970s--namely McLuhan's

*Understanding Media*, Cage's *Silence*, Bateson's *Steps to an Ecology of
Mind*, Brown's *Love's Body*,

Burroughs & Gysin's *The Third Mind*, and Susan Sontag's *Against
Interpretation*--for the Occupy era.

Murphy will also discuss the provocative resonances of the "ontological
turn" in cultural thought

presaged by Deleuze and Guattari and how this, coupled with the successful
re-integration of our native

intellectual heritage, may very well bring an end to the intellectual
stalemate perpetuated the specters

of Foucault and de Man.

Eli Nadeau

*“M'aidez? Mayday! Write your life!”*

*Time: 10:00am-3:00pm*

*Location: L*

*Description: *Nadeau will host a series of "rapid-fire" writing workshops
intended to engage passers-by

and the public. The idea, in light of the ephemeral nature of the day's
activities and the tenacious nature

of the problems we want to address, is to structure the workshops for
maximum

participation/spontaneity. Nadeau will hold several 30-minute workshops.
Participants will have

opportunities to engage with each others work, and if desired, that work
will later be assembled and

published online for the public. This will be a safe space for
writing/thinking/creating together.

Nick Nesbitt

*“The Politics of Equality: Jacobinism and Black Jacobinism”*

*Time: 1-2:30*

*Location: F*

*Description: *The class will examine historical and theoretical dimensions
of French Jacobinism and the

Black Jacobinism of the Haitian Revolution. The driving hypothesis will be
that these twin events have

been wrongly stigmatized over the last two centuries as moments of barbaric
violence; instead, the

group will investigate the proposition that these two movements are more
properly understood as key

moments in the transnational struggle for an egalitarian social order that
would replace the aristocratic

oligarchies of privilege and injustice.

Nitin Sawhney

*“Civic Media and Tactical Design in Contested Spaces”*

*Time: 12:30-3pm*

*Location: O*

*Description: *Pop-up class session and participatory discussion for Civic
Media and Tactical Design in

Contested Spaces course (http://civicmediatacticaldesign.wordpress.com).
All are invited to join as

participants and reviewers.

Native Resistance Network

*“Decolonizing the Current Environmental Movement”*

*Time: 1:00pm-2:00pm*

*Location: West Pool*

*Description: *Native Resistance Network will host a teach-in about
environmental issues, which will

discuss Dineh water rights, the tar sands pipeline, and decolonizing the
current environmental

movement. The group will also discuss the history of Mannahatta and the
Indigenous peoples of New

York City.

New York Asian Women's Center

*Info Table: immigration relief for survivors of domestic violence and
human trafficking*

*Time/Location: All Day @ South End of the park :: tabling near the Shake
Shack.*

*Description: *Led by its staff attorney and legal team, the New York Asian
Women’s Center will host a

one-hour workshop covering immigration relief for survivors of domestic
violence and human trafficking.

This workshop will cover the very basics of VAWA, U and T visas, and SIJS,
while engaging

participants in a broader discussion on how U.S. immigration laws both
protect and create barriers for

these populations.

Dominique Nisperos

*“People Power and Politics”*

*Time: 10:00am-11:00am*

*Location: C*

*Description: *Class discussion on Protest in the movement for the "Gay
Rights Movement" and sexual

civil rights.

Gregory Nissen

*“Protest Songwriting Workshop”*

*Time: 11:30-12:30pm*

*Location: W*

Anthony O'Brien

*“Solidarity with Haiti”*

*Time: 11:30-1:00pm*

*Location: R*

*Description: *This lecture/discussion will be on O'Brien's three years of
solidarity work in Haiti with leftwing

students, teachers' unions, and other trade unionists.

Viany Orozco

*“The Great Cost Shift”*

*Time: 11:30-1:00pm*

*Location: N*

*Description: *Viany Orozco recently completed a report that reviews state
funding for higher education

trends from the 1990s onwards. this discussion will present on the findings
of the report, which

essentially shows that the deep state cuts in funding for higher education
are narrowing the pathway to

the middle class for most Americans or saddling them with debt.

http://www.demos.org/publication/great-cost-shift-how-higher-education-cuts-undermine-future-middleclass

Timothy Pachirat

*“Political Ethnography”*

*Time: 12:00-1:30pm*

*Location: F*

*Description: *Political Ethnography is the study of power through
immersive, participant-observation

methods. In this particular session, students will be sharing and receiving
feedback on semester-long

fieldwork projects.

Frances Fox Piven

*Location: Statue*

*Time: 1pm*

Neil Smith

*“The Future is Radically Open”*

*Time: 1:30-2:30*

*Location: South Fountain*

*Description: *The future is radically open in a way that we could only
imagine less than 5 years.

Uprisings from the MIddle East, Europe's indignatos and anti-austerity
revolts, and Ocupy, plus many

more are the final nail in a whole episode of capitalism. To take advantage
of this, to make a new

world, a quite new left will need to be organized across borders, social
and geographical, both to build a

critical mass and to defend itself from already evident repression.

Kareem Rabie & Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins

*“Palestine: infrastructure and the state, settler colonialism and the law,
and privatization and the statist*

*project”*

*Time: 2:00-3:00pm*

*Location: South Pool*

*Description: *A discussion and conversation about the contemporary
situation in Palestine, led by two

researchers working in the West Bank on issues of infrastructure and the
state, settler colonialism and

the law, and privatization and the statist project.

Coco Rico

*“Multispecies Praxis”*

*Time: 12:30-2:00*

*Location: S*

*Description:*

Robert Robinson

*“Take Back the Land”*

*Time: 11:30-1:00pm*

*Location: Flagpole*

Michelle Ronda

*“The Future of Social Change”*

*Time: 1:00pm-2:20pm*

*Location: M*

*Description: *Prof Ronda teaches "Social and Cultural Change" this
semester and on May Day the class

will discuss the future of social change in the US and globally.

Andrew Ross

*“Student Debt Teach In”*

*Time: 11:00-12:30pm*

*Location: Statue*

Susan Rubin

*“What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Food”*

*Time: 10:00-12:00pm*

*Location: G*

*Description: *Susan Rubin is a Clinical Assistant Professor at New York
Medical College. She teaches

the food portion of a Complementary/Alternative medicine class that is an
elective for 4th year med

students. The discussion will be on "What your Dr. doesn't know about food."

David Savran

*“Advanced Theatre Research”*

*Time: 12:00-2:00pm*

*Location: North Fountain*

*Description: *Class conversation about Jacques Ranciere's “Ignorant
Schoolmaster”

Nitin Sawhney

*“Civic Media and Tactical Design in Contested Spaces”*

*Time: 12:30-2:30pm*

*Location: O*

*Description: *Pop-up class session and participatory discussion for Civic
Media and Tactical Design in

Contested Spaces course (http://civicmediatacticaldesign.wordpress.com).
All are invited to join as

participants and reviewers.

Ahmed Sharif & Mark Drury

“*Nkrumah's Consciencism and Senghor's Negritude: social thought and
utopian concepts around*

*decolonization”*

*Time: 12:30-2:00pm*

*Location: E*

*Description: *Africa's decolonization was a transformative moment that
produced new horizons of

political possibility. Looking at the work of two thinkers from that time,
Leopold Senghor and Kwame

Nkrumah, the class will consider the relevance of utopian thinking, then
and now.

Sara Simmons

*“Socially Conscious Theatre”*

*Time: 1:00-2:00pm*

*Location: J*

*Description: *Interested in creating socially conscious theatre? Come
learn some fun prompts you can

use to start creating material--no experience needed!

Maura Smale

*“Open Access Academic Publishing: What It Is, Why It’s Important, and How
to Use It”*

*Time: 10:00-12:00pm*

*Location: South Fountain*

*Description: Join CUNY library faculty and open access advocates to
discuss questions about defining,*

*finding, evaluating, and producing academic research in open access ways
that benefit everyone.*

Ann Snitow

*“Fiction of Men and Women”*

*Time: 12:00pm-1:30pm*

*Location: C*

*Description: *Prof Snitow is bringing her class (13 students) to Free
University. Snitow is also one of the

convenors of a group called Take Back the Future, which is planning a
course for Occupy University in

the fall.

Rory Solomon

*“Open Source Hardware and Software”*

*Time: 12:30-2:30pm*

*Location: Q*

*Description: *Prof Solomon teaches an introductory programming/technology
class at Parsons. The

topic of the class is currently a system called Arduino, part of a movement
known as open source

hardware. Students are learning how to build their own hardware devices.

Frank Southworth

*"Protest Songwriting Workshop"*

*Time: 12-3 pm*

*Location: W*

*Description: *Songwriters/performers are invited to a workshop/discussion
about translating/

transcreating protest songs from one genre to another, in order to reach
wider audiences. Bring

instruments if possible; contact [log in to unmask] for further
info and to tell me about

yourself.

Lauren Suchman

“*Gender, Race, and Reproduction”*

*Time: 1400-1500*

*Location: West Pool*

*Description: *During this lecture and discussion, we will think about the
media's use of language around

gender and race following the birth of octuplets to Nadya Suleman (the
"Octomom") in January, 2009.

In what ways are certain people empowered to reproduce and make
reproductive decisions while

others are disempowered?

Rob Territo

*“Occupy and the Inner City”*

*Time: 11am-12pm*

*Location: I*

*Description: *How does the Occupy movement relate to inner city kids and
how can they get their

communities more involved?

Miriam Ticktin

*“Human rights and Humanitarianism: Beyond the Human”*

*Time: 2:00pm-3:00pm*

*Location: C*

*Description: *This group will discuss theories that challenge humanism's
exclusions, and expand the

concept of humanity to include animals and human-machine hybrids.
Participants will inquire about

what this means for discourses and practices of human rights and
humanitarianism, which work to

protect a particular kind of human.

Deborah Tillinger

*“Natural History of Our Planet”*

*Time: 1300-1400*

*Location: R*

*Description” *Natural History of Our Planet: A tour through time with Dr.
Mermaid (aka Dr. Debra

Tillinger). Learn the history of earth and the life that inhabits it in
this interactive workshop.

Sue Waters (OCCUPY Alternative Banking)

*“CRIME #1 - How Private Banks Create our Money from Debt”*

*Time: 1:00-2:00pm*

*Location: Q*

*Description: *CRIME #1 - How private banks create our money from debt -
and control us. What is

money? Where does it come from? This class explains that money is created
whenever the US

government borrows from the NY Federal Reserve Bank, or whenever someone
borrows from a

commercial bank. This debt-money system is the root cause of suffering in
this world, and can be

changed!

Jocelyn Wills

*“CUNY's Radical Past and Present”*

*Time: 2:00-3:00pm*

*Location: West Pool*

*Description: *A discussion on the radical past and present of the City
University of New York.

Winnie

*“Permaculture and Sustainable Solutions”*

*Time: 10:00-12:00pm*

*Location: North Fountain*

*Description: Informal teach-in discussion on Permaculture and Sustainable
solutions for Urban living.*

*Winnie will facilitate a short discussion on Climate Change and how we can
collectively implement*

*sustainable design solutions to mitigate the effects of it.*

Anthony Zenkus

*“How Poverty is Hurting America”*

*Time: 11:00-12:00pm*

*Location: M*

*Description: *"Watch the Gap: How poverty and income inequality is hurting
America's kids". I will

present interesting research that shows how the cycle of poverty is keeping
kids poor, making

academic failure and social problems more likely, and that the 1% have been
doing extremely well

while children are suffering the most because of income inequality. I would
like to engage participants

in a discussion of how we can address this problem and make kids the focus
of why we need to reverse

income inequality.

“Occupy University”

Special Courses

Occupy University *(with Joe North)*

*“Poetry and Political Feeling”*

*Time: 2pm-3pm*

*Location: J*

*Descrpition: *Can experiencing poetry teach us to have more sophisticated
feelings about politics? This

is the first class in an ongoing course of the same name, hosted by the
Occupy University

(university.nycga.net)*.*

Occupy Algebra

*(with *Broni Czarnocha*)*

*Time: 12:30-2:30*

*Location: I*

*Description: *A weekly course that aims that to transform fear of
mathematics into mathematical

creativity. Mathematics for the 99%

Horizontal Pedagogy

*(with *David Backer*)*

*Time: 10am - 2pm*

*Location: K*

*Description: *Horizontal Pedagogy workshops reimagine the experience of
education and experiment

with alternative power dynamics, sources of motivation, and the movements
of knowledge.

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