Category: Presentations

We will have a group discussion on the lessons of the 1945 victory over Nazi Germany and the significance of the worldwide celebrations of Victory Day 2025.

Anthony D’Agostino is a diplomatic historian, emeritus of SF State University, and has written 5 books, along with many articles and reviews over the years, on the history of international politics, with attention to the Russian revolution, Soviet politics, the Gorbachev period, and the fall of the Soviet Bloc.

Bahman Azad is currently the president of the U.S. Peace Council, a member of the secretariat of the World Peace Council, and representative of the World Peace Council at the United Nations. He is also a member of the administrative committee of the United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC).

S. Brian Willson once commanded an Air Force combat security unit in Vietnam. He has since helped create a host of veterans’ organizations and has been a critic of the US criminal justice system and its foreign policies.

Allan Miller is a political activist and member of the ICSS Program Committee.

Bay Area activist Elicha Gastelumendi is originally from Peru. Rick Sterling, originally from Canada, is president of the Mount Diablo Peace and Justice Center and with the Syria Support Movement and Task Force on the Americas.

Eleonora de Lucena and Rodolfo Lucena are journalists for almost 50 years. They both worked in the underground press and popular press against the dictatorship in Brasil as well as in the mainstream media.

Our speaker, Seth Morrison, is a leader in Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) and a campaigner against the criminalization of pro-Palestinian speech.

Ann Garrison is a Black Agenda Report Contributing Editor based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Alexander McKay hosts a podcast on Communist education and political analysis with the Marx Engels Lenin Institute.

Sarah Junkin Woodard comes to us from Nicaragua, representing the work of the Jubilee House Community, a U.S. 501(c)(3) nonprofit she helped form in 1979.

Dr. Jack Rasmus, Ph.D Political Economy, teaches economics at St. Mary’s College in California.