Soul of Justice - Honorable Justice Thelton Henderson answers questions with History teacher Pamela Maffei following the screening of an award-winning documentary about his life and work. Few judges provoke the ire of conservatives more than Thelton Henderson, senior judge of the Federal District Court of Northern California. The son of a domestic worker, Thelton Henderson has spent much of his life as the “first or only” African American in his field. He became the first Black attorney in the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department in 1962, the first Black member of a prestigious California law firm and, in 1980, only the second African-American ever appointed to the Federal Bench in Northern California.

Media and the American Experiment in Democracy - Professor Orville Schell presents a lecture and conversation. Orville Schell is dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley. He is the author of 14 books, nine of them about China, and is a contributor to such magazines as The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, The Nation, Newsweek, The New York Review of Books, and others. He has served as a correspondent and consultant for PBS "Frontline" and an Emmy award-winning program for “60 Minutes.”

Dimensions of Iranian Democracy
Presenters:
Reese Erlich - Journalist, media critic, author, correspondent for National Public Radio, Marketplace Radio; radio documentary producer.
David Harris - Political analyst, journalist and world environmental correspondent for Rolling Stone magazine; author of The Crisis: The President, the Prophet, and the Shah – 1979 and the Coming of Militant Islam.
Omid Memarian - Iranian journalist; Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
Dr. Dariush Zahedi - Assistant Professor of International and Area Studies, UC Berkeley; author of “The Iranian Revolution Then and Now: Indicators of Regime Instability”

Perspectives on Immigration Policy - Panelists: JuanCarlos Arauz,Youth Programs Director, Canal Community Alliance; Dr. Irene Bloemraad, Assistant Professor of Sociology, UC Berkeley and author of the forthcoming book “Becoming a Citizen,” whichcompares immigrants’ acquisition of citizenship and political participation in the US and Canada; Mariana Bustamante, Public Education Coordinator of the national ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project; Ray Haynes, California Assemblyman, District 66.

Conference on Democracy Keynote Address
by Professor Angela Davis
‘Civil Rights and Human Rights: Future Trajectories”
Friday, October 13, All-School Assembly

Angela Davis is a UC Santa Cruz Professor, author, internationally acclaimed speaker, scholar and activist.