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    Community Gathering Monday March 26th

    March 21st, 2012 · · Events, Multimedia/Art, News and Announcements Comments Off on Community Gathering Monday March 26th - Tags: , , ,

    Come join your OB tech team (OBIT) for a community gathering on Monday, March 26th from 6pm – 9pm at E5, 33 Harrison Ave. We realize tech sounds boring, and some of us sound geeky. Let us change your mind as we build an evening of play and politics; song and dance; and perhaps a bit of techno-magic. Our goal is to get to know as many of you as possible and also to give you a sense of our political mission. The gathering will feature some Theater of the Oppressed, music, conversation, and a consensus building tool developed by one of our own OBIT members. By the end, we hope we all know each other better and understand something more about the politics of technology and the Internet.

    Please come hang out with us and explore the various ways we understand and actualize the politics of freedom. Food and drink will be provided.

    OBIT Community Gathering March 26th, 6-9pm 33 Harrison Ave.

    Occupy Boston Women’s March

    March 20th, 2012 · · News and Announcements One comment

    Occupy Boston Women’s March
    March 20, 9 PM – 10:30 PM
    Meet at the Parkman Bandstand in the Boston Commons

    Join Occupy Boston women and our allies at a march in solidarity with the women of OWS who were brutally beaten and arrested Saturday night for the crime of peacefully protesting in Zuccotti Park. Meet at 9 PM at the Boston Common bandstand. Bring candles and signs.

    Currencies, a dis/Conference with David Graeber at Harvard University

    March 19th, 2012 · · Events, News and Announcements 5 comments

    David Graeber

    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.

    Reactions to 3 Strikes Bill From March 15th Rally

    March 19th, 2012 · · News and Announcements One comment

    Massachusetts residents stand up to oppose the Mandatory sentencing or “3 Strikes” bill in MA. Many speakers from Thursday’s rally call it wasteful and harmful warehousing of people.

    Radical History Tour of the Freedom Trail and People’s Assembly Saturday, March 17th

    March 16th, 2012 · · News and Announcements Comments Off on Radical History Tour of the Freedom Trail and People’s Assembly Saturday, March 17th

    Noon to 4PM: Radical History Tour, at the Granary Burial Ground in Downtown Boston and all along the Freedom Trail

    5 PM: People’s Assembly, at Boston Common Bandstand. All are invited!


    Join Occupy Boston on the Radical History Tour all along the Freedom Trail!

    Starting at 12 noon, Occupy Boston’s Health Justice Working Group will be talking with visitors at the Granary Burial Ground about some of the radical and revolutionary ideas of colonial times. These ideas both connect to and at times diverge from the radical ideas of the Occupy movement today. We’re calling it “Zombie Smallpox Children and the Original Occupation of Boston 1775-1776.”

    Did you know that for 9 months in 1775 and 1776 George Washington was unable to “occupy” Boston because of a smallpox epidemic? The epidemic was caused by the British, who literally unleashed smallpox “zombies” to infect the American rebel forces and foster desertion. And did you know that it was Onesemus, a slave of Cotton Mather, who taught a skeptical Boston medical community about how to inoculate against small pox (‘the distemper’)? Colonial medical history is filled with intrigue…. Come find out what it’s all about on the Radical History Tour.

    At 5 pm there will be a People’s Assembly (in lieu of a General Assembly) at the Boston Common Bandstand. The People’s Assembly will include a speak-out and a teach-in on topics that link Revolutionary times to the Occupy movement today.

    We hope to see you there!

    Contact us

    Occupy Boston Media <Media@occupyboston.org> • <Info@occupyboston.org> • @Occupy_Boston