Join The Public Square at the Illinois Humanities Council, the Experimental Station, and other co-sponsors and partners for the Festival of Democracy: Unleashing Radical Imagination. This full-day series of talks and conversations will take place on Saturday, October 20, 2007 from 1pm-9pm at the Experimental Station. This program is free and open to the public, but reservations are required. Dinner will be provided. You can make reservations by e-mailing events@thepublicsquare.org or calling 312.422.5580. Join us for this gathering of activists, scholars, artists, and all those who are interested in collectively imagining and grappling with issues of human rights, political power, and struggles for social justice. Speakers scheduled to appear include Rashid Khalidi (Columbia University), Laura Flanders (Air America), Bill Fletcher (Center for Labor Renewal), Bernadine Dohrn (Northwestern University), and Salim Muwakkil (In These Times).SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:1:00PM-1:30PM Welcome and Opening Performances1:30PM-3:15PM Presidential Politics Panel Discussion with Laura Flanders, Bill Fletcher, Barbara Ramsay, Quentin Young.3:30PM-5:00PM Rashid Khalidi in conversation with Salim Muwakkil5:00pm-6:00pm Dinner6:30PM-8:00PM Resistance and Liberation, Then and Now: An Intergenerational Conversation with Bernadine Dohrn, Lisa Yun Lee, Leena Odeh, Yunuen Rodriguez, Stan Willis What can we learn from past movements for social justice? What's different today and what's the same? What are the visions and dreams that are inspiring new generations to create social change? 8:00PM-9:00PM A People's Party This celebration will feature performances that inspire and nourish the mind. We will celebrate the power of the creative process to transform lives, community and society. This celebration will feature performances from Idris Goodwin and Ugochi, and will be emceed by Kevin Coval, Artistic Director of Young Chicago Authors and Co-founder of the Chicago Teen Poetry Festival: Louder than a Bomb.