Speakers and topics included the Haiti Action Committee; a spokesperson for military prisoner Bradley Manning; several groups of students for education not war; stop impending war with Libya; the BART killing of Oscar Grant; the National Committee to Free the Cuban 5; labor activist Mike Casey; and Boots Riley, vocalist/songwriter of popular East Bay bands The Coup and Street Sweeper Social Club.

A rally was held later in the day at the St. Regis Hotel to protest former Bush Administration National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley, who was giving a keynote address at the World Affairs Council conference at that hotel.