On Monday, April 2, Occupy Boston will hold the first in a series of community-wide Open Houses at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul (138 Tremont St, opposite Park Street Station) from 6:00pm to 8:30pm. Guests are invited to learn more about Occupy Boston and its many working groups, caucuses, and affinity groups.

Occupy Boston is part of a movement inspired by Occupy Wall Street, which started in New York City on September 17, and is connected to similar demonstrations and occupations taking place around the world.

We are raising awareness about widespread discontent with the American economic and political systems. We are inspiring discussion and debate around economic reform, focusing on topics like economic equality, campaign finance reform, abolishing corporate personhood, transparency in government, and stopping political corruption.

Occupy Boston is not a single group with a single demand, but we feel our democratic system has been undermined by corporate and special interests. We will persist in advocating the need for change, defining the change we need, and reaching out to policy-makers, business leaders, and citizens to join us.

Come join the conversation that’s already started to shift the national dialogue!

The following announcement comes from our sisters and brothers at Occupy Harvard:

Currencies, a dis/Conference 
with David Graeber
Harvard University, Northwest Labs basement (under the whales)
March 23, 2012, 12 pm -5 pm

Currencies are telling of our current time. Debt, labor, commodification, ownership, and consumerism structure and characterize contemporary life and knowledge production. From the monetization and protection of intellectual property to the debts that students accrue, from the exploitation of adjunct labor to the re-productions of class lines, this dis/Conference seeks critical engagement with what has currency and what serves as currency in education and life today.

In contrast to traditional conference formats, this dis/Conference seeks to facilitate open, horizontal education through substantive knowledge sharing, inquiry, critique, and discussion. Together with David Graeber—anarchist, occupier, and anthropologist—we will engage the economies of academia by subverting its dominant forms of knowledge production. In the process, we will participate in the purposeful creation of an alternative model for scholarly engagement, beyond mere discussion. Under this model, our primary resources will be ourselves. Everyone—inside or outside of academia—is welcome.

For more information, please visit www.currenciesdisconference.info.