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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.
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
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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