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Poster is printed on white paper with text and images in red green and blue. Top of the poster has text in blue, green, and red that reads from top to bottom: "The Nation Associates Pacifica Radio / The Express and Bay Area independent bookstores / Black Oak Cody's City Lights Kepler's Modem Times Printers Inc Walden Pond / in cooperation with the University of California Graduate School of Journalism / present / a unique summer evening of daunting wit and dauntless spirit / The 125th Birthday Bash For The Nation /our most enduring journal of dissent / starring / Gore Vidal / 'our greatest living man of letters' -Boston Globe / author of some 30 books (Burr; Lincoln, 1876, Empire, Hollywood, Washington DC), Nation Contributing Editor". The center of the poster has text in blue at left: "Saturday / June 30 / 8:00 / sliding scale / $8- $25/ Zellerbach Auditorium UC Berkeley / Bancroft & Telegraph, Berkeley". At right the center of the poster has a stylized image of the American flag flying upside down, the stripes are created by text in ted: "The State / Of The / Union". The bottom of the poster has the text: "Barbara Ehrenreich author, Fear of Falling, The Worst Years of Our Lives; columnist, Mother Jones, Ms, the Atlantic / Molly Ivinis Nation Contributing Editor; columnist, the Progressive, Dallas Times Herald, ACLU, New York Times / Eva Jefferson Paterson Chair/Bay Area Coalition for Civil Rights; Chair/Board of Equal Rights; / Assistant Director/SF Lawyers' Committee for Urban Affairs / Larry Bensky National Affairs Correspondent, Pacifica Radio; writer, The Nation, the Express, SF Bay Guardian / & Altazor Redwoods Records recording artists / Bob Baldock, Servant of Ceremonies / tickets available at Black Oak, City Lights, Cody's, Kepler's, KPFA, Modern Times, Printers Inc, Walden Pond / Information: 848-6767 (KPFA) / A Benefit for The Nation and KPFA".