#Occupy Art: Immigration, Nation and the Art of Occupation is a sprawling ten-week course at Stanford University, featuring performances and lectures open to the public. Lavin speaker Jeff Chang—the executive director of Stanford’s Institute for Diversity in the Arts, one of the event’s co-sponsors—will deliver the opening talk, along with H. Sami Alim, on April 4. It’s called “Introduction to the Art of Occupation.” More details here.  

Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi says the big banks, circa 2006 to 2008, were involved in a giant mortgage fraud scheme: “It’s no different than here on the streets of New York where you see people selling fake Prada bags.”

Text from occupywriters.com. Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, and Rachel Rosenfelt (editor of The New Inquiry and one of Lavin’s college speaking agents) are among the literary figures who have signed.