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Thursday, July 2nd
7:00pm - 9:00pm
| Women in Sports: Fighting for Equality On and Off the Field | Dave Zirin, Elizabeth Terzakis, and Dana Blanchard | |
 | The Decline and Fall of California: How the Golden State Lost Its Shine | Mike Davis and David Bacon |
7:30pm - 9:00pm
| Marx in Soho | Play by Howard Zinn, performed by Brian Jones, introduced by comedian and author Mark Steel |
Friday, July 3rd
9:30am - 11:00am
| 40 Acres and a Mule? What Went Wrong? The Rise and Fall of Radical Reconstruction. | James Illingworth | |
| Death to the State: Can Anarchism Smash Capitalism? | David Russitano | |
| How Capitalism Works—And How It Doesn't: The ABC's of Marxist Economics | Deborah Goldsmith | |
| Have Women Always Been Oppressed? | Gillian Russom | |
| Art, Hip Hop, Sports and Culture in the Obama Age | Dave Zirin, Jeff Chang, Davey D (host of KPFA's Hard Knock Radio) and Favianna Rodriguez (graphic artist and founder of Taller Tupac Amaru) |
11:30am - 1:00pm
 | Students, Young Workers and Capitalism: How Can We Get the Future We Want? | James Bichler, Seattle Central Community College; Wael Elasady, Portland State University; Laura Martinez, Mt. San Antonio College; Adam Hudson, Stanford University; Tayler Mehit, San Francisco State University |
| Emiliano Zapata and the Mexican Revolution | Victor Fressie |
| How Eugene Debs Became a Socialist | Jessica Hansen-Weaver | |
| Iran: From the 1979 Revolution to Rebellion in the Streets Today | Barry Sheppard, Shahram Agharmir, and Lee Sustar |
1:00pm - 2:00pm Lunch
2:00pm - 3:30pm
| The Roots of Racial Oppression: Why Didn't Racism Vanish After Slavery was Abolished? | Sid Patel | |
| The General Strikes of 1934: San Francisco, Minneapolis and Toledo: What Can We Learn Today? | Sharon Smith and Clarence Thomas | |
| What Would a Sustainable Society Look Like? | Avery Wear and Michael Yates | |
| 10 Days that Shook the World: How the Russian Revolution Was Won | Christine DaRosa | |
| Lenin's State and Revolution | Todd Chretien |
4:00pm - 5:30pm
| Three Strikes, the Death Penalty, "Tough on Crime:" Is It Time to Abolish Prisons? | Barbara Becnel and Cameron Sturdevant |
| Trading in Pollution: Environmental Destruction & the Fallacy of Market Solutions | Anuradha Mittal |
| Charlie Chaplin: Never Afraid to Stand Up | Scott Johnson |
| How are Revolutionary Parties Built? | Ahmed Shawki | |
| Venezuela: the Bolivarian Revolution and Socialism in the 21st Century | Martin Sanchez |
5:30pm - 7:00pm Dinner
| Stand Up Dinner Comedy and Politics with Mark Steel on the Life of Che Guevara |
7:00pm - 9:00pm
| Prop 8 is Going Down! Winning Equal Marriage in California | Sherry Wolf with Gay Marriage activists from up and down the West Coast, including: Kip Williams, San Francisco; Chanan Suarez Diaz, Seattle; Zakiya Khabir, San Diego; and more to come! |
Saturday, July 4th
9:30am - 11:00am
| The Revolutionary Ideas of Charles Darwin: Is Capitalism Natural? | Andy Libson |
| Luxemburg's Reform or Revolution | Doniella Maher |
| The Communist Party in the 1930s: How the Left Organized in the Great Depression | Adam Sanchez | |
| James Connolly and the Irish Revolution | Alessandro Tinonga |
| Sexuality and Socialism | Sherry Wolf |
11:30am - 1:00pm
| Class Traitor or Capitalism's Savior? Roosevelt and the New Deal | Lance Selfa | |
| Empire and Obama: Power, Illusion, and America's Last Taboo | John Pilger |
| How the South African Working Class Defeated Apartheid | Patrick Bond | |
| Coup d'Etat: U.S. Intervention from Haiti to Honduras | John Green |
| Immigration Reform: Ideas from the Frontlines | Enrique Morones, Edgar Ayala and Justin Akers-Chacon |
1:00pm - 2:00pm Lunch
| Intro to the ISO: Everything You Need to Know to Join the ISO | Leela Yellesetty and Adrienne Johnstone |
2:00pm - 3:30pm
| The Economic Crisis: How Bad Will It Get? | Joel Geier |
| The Seattle General Strike | Darrin Hoop | |
| The Struggle for Palestine | Jess Ghannam, Nora Barrows-Friedman and Ahmed Shawki | |
| What Should Public Education Look Like: Radical Pedagogy or Charter Schools & Teaching to the Test | David Rapkin and Sarah Knopp |
| Socialism: Do you mean Sweden? What is Social Democracy? | Randy Childs |
4:00pm - 5:30pm
| Social Unionism: Putting the Movement back in the Labor Movement | Brian Cruz, Adrienne Johnstone, Sal Rosselli (National Union of Healthcare Workers) and Michael Yates |
| 30 Years Since the Nicaraguan Revolution | Steve Leigh |
| The Border Crossed Us: Immigration and the Nation State in the 21st Century | Nativo Lopez and Elizabeth Terzakis |
| Do We Need an Anti-War Movement Under Obama? | Cindy Sheehan, Dahr Jamail and Anthony Arnove | |
| Principles of Communism and the Communist Manifesto | Kurt Krueger |
5:30pm - 7:00pm Dinner
| Mark Steel's July 4th Dinner Stand Up Tribute to Tom Paine |
7:00pm - 9:00pm
| Oscar Grant, San Francisco 8 and the History of Political Repression in America | Richard Brown, Dana Blanchard, and Jack Bryson |
| Afghanistan: Obama's Vietnam? | Christian Parenti | |
| Media as a Weapon: Speaking Truth to Power | Alan Maass, Rose Aguilar, David Barsamian and John Pilger |
| The Real Lenin | Paul D'Amato |
Sunday, July 5th
9:30am - 11:00am
| The Economic Crisis and the New Imperialism | Lee Sustar | |
| How the German Revolution Was Lost and Paved the Way for Hitler | Amanda Maystead | |
| The Radical Roots of the Civil Rights Movement | Brian Jones | |
| Socialism: Utopian and Scientific | Rachel Wilsey |
| Trotsky on the United Front | Andrea Hektor |
11:30am - 1:00pm
| Fighting Racism Under Obama | Jesse Hagopian | |
| Will Socialism Eliminate Sexism? | Jessie Muldoon |
| From Degenerated Workers' State to a New Class Society: Theories of Stalin's Russia | Elizabeth Terzakis |
| One state, two states: How can Palestinian liberation be achieved? | Sam Bernstein and Nick Kardahji | |
| What Would Socialism Look Like? | Ragina Johnson |
1:30pm - 3:00pm
| The Return of Socialism: Final Rally | Sharon Smith, Todd Chretien and others. |