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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>Wed 8/15/12<span style='color:#92D050'> </span>7:00 pm on OB RADIO (<a href="http://obr.fm/">http://obr.fm</a>) <br></span><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>w/ rebroadcasts the following Monday 10:00 am and Wednesday 7:00 am</span></i><span style='font-size:16.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt'>Who is Jimmy Higgins?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:20.0pt'>with actor and writer </span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt'>Harlan Baker<br></span></b><b><i><span style='font-size:20.0pt'>Author of “Jimmy Higgins: A Life in the Labor Movement”</span></i></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:16.0pt;color:#FF9900'>Set your Internet Browser to OBR.FM.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>The name "Jimmy Higgins" has for generations stood for the name of the rank-and-file union and socialist activist. Portland ME writer and actor Harlan Baker's one-man play personifies Jimmy Higgins, and takes us on an engaging and inspiring tour through the history of the American labor movement, from recounts his days as a newspaper boy in Sandusky Ohio during the first World War, his meeting with Socialist Leader and Presidential candidate Eugene V. Debs and other radicals opposed to American participation in the First World War, his experiences in the Lafollette campaign for president in 1924 and his experience covering the union organizing drives of tenant farmers and auto workers in the 1930s. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>In our interview with Harlan Baker, we will explore his inspiration for a play about Jimmy Higgins, and learn a little bit about the play, and the labor history that is behind it. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>We will end up the hour with a recording, by Harlan, of an excerpt from a speech that Eugene Debs gave to the court, during his 1918 trial under the infamous 1917 Espionage Act – the same act under which anti-Viet Nam War activist Daniel Ellsberg was tried, at a much later date.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>Who is Jimmy Higgins? The story of a life in the labor movement<br></span></b><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>Wednesday, 8/15/12 7:00 pm USA Eastern Time<br>Occupy Boston Radio – OBR.FM<br><i>with rebroadcasts the following Monday 10:00 am<br>and Wednesday 7:00 am</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='color:#FF9900'>Information about The FSU Program and Occupy Boston Radio...<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Occupy Boston Radio is currently available by internet only. You can reach us at <a href="http://www.occupyboston.org/radio/">http://www.occupyboston.org/radio/</a> or <a href="http://obr.fm/">http://obr.fm</a>, or by going to <a href="http://occupyboston.org/">http://occupyboston.org</a> and choosing “Radio” from the red menu bar at the top of the page. Once on the page, if the sound doesn’t start immediately, click the “play” arrow on the radio player control app to begin listening. If you lose connection during the show, try clicking the “play” button again, or using your browsers “refresh” button.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='color:#FF9900'>Check out our Blog at <a href="http://fsuradio.wordpress.com"><span style='color:#FF9900;text-decoration:none'>http://fsuradio.wordpress.com</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>FSU-RADIO is an educational series by Occupy Boston's Free School University. Our goal is to form an autonomous zone and share skills needed to maintain that, to entertain educate and enliven Occupiers and the general public. Our purpose is to provide support and space for skill sharing and sharing basic info regarding Occupy Boston and to encourage self-organization, teaching, and learning opportunities.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Our Wednesday program consists of TALK radio featuring educational content such as lectures, panel discussions and interviews.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Host: David Knuttunen (guest hosts from time to time)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Time: WED 7-8pm<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>To propose a guest for the program, email <a href="mailto:fsu@lists.occupyboston.org">fsu@lists.occupyboston.org</a>, or call David Knuttunen 617-558-5853.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>