Monday January 7	10-11 AM Brice Smith (Class overview: topics, research resources) 11 AM -12 PM James Seale-Collazo U.S. policy in Puerto Rico Talk notes(Latinos y Latinas por el Cambio Social)
Tuesday January 8	10 AM - 12 PM Professor Chomsky speaking on Latin America and Cuba 7 PM in 3-133 Video Columbia Getting Away With Murder
Wednesday January 9	10 AM - 12 PM Scott Cooper US government repression of labor unions
Thursday January 10	10 AM - 12 PM Project Discussion / Form Groups
Friday January 11	10 AM - 12 PM Professor Chomsky speaking on the history of the Middle East
Monday January 14	10 AM - 12 PM Professor Postol Scientific fraud in the missile defense program Talk summary, Professor Postol's biography
Tuesday January 15	10 AM - 12 PM Professor Chomsky 7 PM in 2-105 Videos Deadly Embrace (IMF and Nicaragua) and Strong Roots (Brazil movement for land reform)
Wednesday January 16	10 AM - 12 PM Brice Smith The American War in Vietman
Thursday January 17	10 AM - 12 PM Amer Jubran Palestine, Oil, and the US
Friday January 18	10 - 11 AM First Student Reports / Discussion
Monday January 21	Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (Holiday)
Tuesday January 22	10 AM - 12 PM Dr. Joseph Gerson Contexts and Cases of Political Repression - The Vietnam War Era Dr. Joseph Gerson's Biography 7 PM in 3-133 Videos Abducted (Abduction and murder in Peru) and Convicted by an Image (Peruvian political prisoner Lori Berenson, former MIT student)
Wednesday January 23	10 AM - 12 PM Dave Grosser Central American Solidarity movements and the FBI response (Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, CISPES)
Thursday January 24	10 AM - 12 PM Scott Cooper FBI COINTELPRO operations against the Black Panthers and the Socialist Worker's Party
Friday January 25	10 - 11 AM Second Student Reports / Discussion 8:30 PM Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey Documentary about Ralph Bunche, African American, Nobel Peace prize winner, Middle East mediator, diplomat, scholar ...
Sunday January 27	7:30 PM Life and Debt showing at Coolidge Corner Cinema (Coolidge Corner stop on the Green line) followed by discussion with filmmaker Stephanie Black
Monday January 28	10 AM - 12 PM TBA (War on drugs: Plan Columbia)
Tuesday January 29	10 AM - 12 PM TBA (War on drugs: USA, land of the prisoners) 7 PM in 3-133 Video All Power to the People (USA civil rights vs. COINTELPRO)
Wednesday January 30	10 AM - 12 PM Kim Foster of Boston Earth Action Network and Sheila Forman of Massachusetts Peace Action Columbia, the indigenous, oil, and the "war on drugs"
Thursday January 31	10 AM - 12 PM Aimee Smith Human Rights and the United Nations
Friday February 1	10 - 11 AM Third and last Student Reports / Discussion