Events

$12 advance ($6 students with ID advance)/ $15 at door First Congregational Church of Berkeley (in sanctuary) 2345 Channing Way at Dana  Robert Scheer and Peter Richardson discuss the influential history of Ramparts Magazine at First Congregational Church of Berkeley.  The short lived (1962-1975) but utterly remarkable Ramparts magazine, which, originally founded as a Catholic literary quarterly, quickly became the premier leftist publication of its era. Deeply committed to the civil rights and antiwar movements, Ramparts’ list of contributors – Noam Chomsky, Cesar Chavez, Seymour Hersh, Angela Davis, and Tariq Ali, among others – forms a veritable who’s who of politics and journalism. It was in its pages that Che Guevara’s diaries and the prison diaries of Eldridge Cleaver first appeared, and it is where neo-con David Horowitz cut his teeth in journalism, before renouncing his left-wing political radicalism.