Screening of "The Last Class" and Panel Discussion
Schedule
Tue, 02 Dec, 2025 at 06:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
525 Kumquat Ct, Sarasota, FL, United States, Florida 34236 | Sarasota, FL
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"The Last Class" is a nuanced and deeply personal portrait of master educator Robert Reich teaching his final course and reflecting on a period of immense transformation, personally and globally. It is a love letter to education.
The former Secretary of Labor might be famous for his public service, best-selling books, and viral social media posts, but he always considered teaching his true calling. Now, after over 40 years and an extraordinary 40,000 students, Reich is preparing for his last class.
Over the course of the film, Reich confronts the impending finality, and his own aging, with increasing candor, introspection, and, ultimately, emotion. He displays a rawness of feeling he has never shared publicly before.
Drawing on his lifetime in politics, he uses his class, “Wealth and Poverty,” to offer us all a deeper look at why inequalities of income and wealth have widened significantly since the late 1970s, and why this poses dangerous risks to our society.
One thousand students fill the biggest lecture hall on the UC Berkeley campus, the last class to receive Reich’s wisdom and exhortations not to accept that the world has to stay the way it is. His belief in the next generation’s ability to take on the fight is inspiring.
A panel discussion moderated by WSLR News Director Johannes Werner will follow the screening.
SPONSORED BY Marie & Brian Carlock and Support Our Schools.
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