Please join us as we view The Last Class with Robert Reich (Official Trailer), followed by a discussion about the effects of wealth inequality and its possible solutions.
Event Details:
Date: Saturday, January 10, 2026
Time: 4:00pm – 7:00 pm
Location: Yakima Capitol’s 4th Street Theatre, 14 S. 4th Street, Yakima
What to Expect: Doors open at 4:00pm where refreshments will be available until 4:30 pm when the program begins with brief introductions, then the showing of the film (see film description below). At 6:00 pm, a panel will facilitate a discussion with Q&A about wealth inequality and how we may work together to mitigate its effects.
Tickets: Purchase tickets online, The Last Class – The Capitol Theatre
Please help us reach our goal of bringing 100 local youth to this event, free of charge, by purchasing gift tickets at check out. Yakima Indivisible is collaborating with the Washington Youth Alliance of Yakima to distribute gifted tickets to Yakima area high school students, college students, and youth in selected organizations.
Become a Sponsor: If you are interested in helping defray the cost of bringing this film event to Yakima (or have questions), please email us: contact@yakima-indivisible.org
The Film (The Last Class with Robert Reich | Official Trailer)
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.
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