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    Harvard University Students Stage Walkout in Protest of Economics Class

    Harvard University students rallying in support of the Occupy movement

    Yesterday, seventy Harvard University undergraduates staged a walkout of Economics 10—the largest course at Harvard, with over 700 students—to protest the course’s conservative bias and in solidarity with the Occupy movement. Economics 10 is taught by Professor N. Gregory Mankiw, who also served on the White House Council of Economic Advisers during the second Bush administration and is currently an adviser to former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign.

    You can read more in the Harvard Crimson’s article on the walkout.

    Occupy Chicago Interrupt Scott Walker Speech

    Members of Occupy Chicago and Stand Up! Chicago gave Wisconsin governor Scott Walker a truly beautiful welcome to their city as he approached the microphone to deliver a speech during a breakfast at the Union League Club of Chicago yesterday. Here’s the video:

    Upcoming Lectures in the Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series at Occupy Boston

    Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Today at 1:30 pm

    Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

    World-famous radical feminist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz will be speaking at Occupy Boston today—Friday, November 4—at 1:30 pm. You can find out more about her at her website.

     

    Bruno Bosteels on November 29 at 5 pm

    Bruno Bosteels

    Bruno Bosteel, professor of Romance Studies at Cornell University, will be speaking at Occupy Boston on Tuesday, November 29 at 5 pm. He is the author of The Actuality of Communism and Badiou and Politics.

     

    Paul LeBlanc on November 18 at 5 pm

    Paul LeBlanc, Professor of History at La Roche College in Pittsburgh, will speaking at Occupy Boston on November 18 at 5 pm. Professor LeBlanc served as Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at La Roche College from 2003 to 2009.  He has also worked as a unionized healthcare worker, a service employee, a shipyard worker, and an auto worker. Professor LeBlanc is the author of a number of books on labor and social movements—including Marx, Lenin, and the Revolutionary Experience: Studies of Communism and Radicalism in the Age of Globalization—and was most recently an editor of the International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 to the Present.

     

    Noel Ignatiev on November 12 at 5 pm

    Noel Ignatiev

    Noel Ignatiev—a longtime political activist, professor of history at the Massachusetts College of Art, and the author of How the Irish Became White—will be speaking at Occupy Boston on Saturday, November 12 at 5 pm. The title of his walk will be  “Race and Occupy”

    Good News at Occupy Worcester

    Occupy Worcester just released the following statement on Facebook:

    After a meeting with a Worcester City Resident, Mayor Joseph O’Brien of Worcester has expressed support for the Occupy Wall Street movement and Occupy Worcester. He will be personally attending Saturday’s General Assembly and has offered the use of the Levi Lincoln Room and the City Counsel Chamber for indoor General Assemblies, workshops, “speak-outs,” and community discussions.

    Occupy Boston is excited to hear that authorities in Worcester are standing behind the 99%, and we call on cities everywhere to follow Worcester’s good example in supporting and defending its citizens’ First Amendment rights.

    Van Jones Video

    On Thursday, October 27, Van Jones spoke to Occupy Boston about the need to save the American dream. Here’s a video of what he had to say:

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