NOTE: These are the guest lectures scheduled as of 9/26/97. No additional guest presentations are being pursued. A series of in-house lectures and films will be presented at the other lecture meetings, those meetings not devoted to guests.

Lecture meetings are every Tues and Thur in the large science auditorium, Room S-1-009, from 10:00 to 11:15. Discussion meetings follow, from 11:30 to 12:20, in Rm S-2-065. *Indicates a guest speaker who plans to remain for the discussion meeting.

All class meetings are open to everybody--not just to students enrolled in the course.

Thur 9/4 Nurturing our Neighborhoods, by *Mykol Larvie and *Tom Szekely of EarthWorks, a Boston-area grassroots group that promotes urban orchards, fruits and berries, bicycles, preservation of forests, and education of youths and adults through participation. CANCELLED. May be rescheduled.

Thur 9/11 Video Production for Social Change, by *Bruce Petschek of Seven Generations, a Cambridge firm devoted to progressive educational video production and distribution.

Thur 9/18 Getting Free: A Sketch of an Association of Democratic, Autonomous Neighborhoods and How to Create It, by *Jared James, typesetter, writer, and non-sectarian social critic.

Tues 9/30 Fighting for Democracy and Social Justice: Guerrilla Wars in East Africa, by Dan Connell, Gloucester-based freelance journalist,development consultant, author of Against All Odds: A Chronicle of the Eritrean Revolution.

Thur 10/2 Technology for Social Change (TecsChange), by Charlie Welch, founding member of TecsChange, electrical engineer in medical research, community activist.

Tues 10/7 Promoting Bicycles and Public Fruit, Fighting U.S. Domination and Female Genital Mutilation: Social Activism as a Way of Life, by *Susan McLucas, Cambridge-based activist.

Thur 10/9 The CIA and Suppression of Third World Nationalist Struggles for Democracy, by *Jerry Meldon, Professor and Chair, Chemical Engineering Dept, Tufts University.

Tues 10/14 Forests and their Crucial Ecological Role, by *Joel Gerwein, Biology Graduate Student at UMass/ Boston and member of the local area group EarthWorks.

Tues 10/21 The Deadly Impact of Uranium Mining on the Navajos, by *Doug Brugge, Tufts Medical School staff member, director of documentation project on uranium and the Navajos, Ph.D. in cellular and developmental biology, and now grassroots `community scientist'.

Thur 10/23 The Greenhouse Effect and Global Warming, by *John Shane of the Univ of Massachusetts/ Boston Physics Faculty.

Tues 10/28 Genocide in Paradise: U.S. Complicity in the War Against East Timor, by *Simon Doolittle and *Mulaika Hijjas of the Boston chapter of the East Timor Action Network, ETAN.

Thur 10/30 In the Spirit of Crazy Horse: The FBI Frame-up of Leonard Peltier, by *Moonanum James, UMass/ Boston student, co-founder and leader of United American Indians of New England (UAINE), a Boston-area anti-racism group.

Tues 11/4 Roots of Destruction: Rainforests in Guatemala, Central Square in Cambridge, by Marina Vyrros, Guatemalan resettlement accompanist, member Save Central Square, Graduate Student in ESL studies at UMB.

Thur 11/13 Class in the United States, by Gary Zabel of the Univ of Massachusetts/Boston Philosophy Faculty.

Thur 11/20 The Internet, a tool for radical research, by Gary Zabel of the Univ of Massachusetts/Boston Philosophy Faculty.