25th Annual LaborFest 2018

Surviving The Billionaire Robot Assault in 21st Century



2018 Event Schedule

07/01, Sun

  • Labor History Bike Tour

    July 1, 2018 @ 12:00 pm at 518 Valencia

    Sliding scale $15 – $50 : benefiting shaping San Francisco By Chris Carlsson From the pre-urban history of Indian Slavery to the earliest 8-hour day movement in the U.S., the

  • Film: We The Workers, 2017 (174 min.), China

    July 1, 2018 @ 3:00 pm at ILWU Local 34 Hall

    FilmWorks United International Working Class Film & Video Festival Directed by Wen Hai (China) China has become the factory workshop of the world. The film “We The Worker” is a

  • Film : A Taxi Driver, 2017 (138 min.), Korea

    July 1, 2018 @ 7:00 pm at ILWU Local 34 Hall

    FilmWorks United International Working Class Film & Video Festival Directed by Jan Hoon (Korea) Gwangju, Korea is a historic center of struggle for the Korean people and this powerful dramatic

07/02, Mon

  • Film : UNION TIME: Fighting For Workers Rights, 2016 (86 min.) U.S.A.

    July 2, 2018 @ 7:00 pm at ILWU Local 34 Hall

    FilmWorks United International Working Class Film & Video Festival Directed by Matthew Barr Narrated by Danny Glover In 1993, a group of employees at the Smithfield Pork Processing Plant in

  • Film : Bisbee ’17 (119 min.)

    July 2, 2018 @ 8:30 pm at ILWU Local 34 Hall

    Directed by Robert Greene (2018) The hidden history of the American working class is exposed in this new film Bisbee ’17 by Robert Green. This film is centered around the

07/03, Tue

07/04, Wed

07/05, Thu

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07/06, Fri

  • Film : Last Train Home, 2010 (87 min.) China

    July 6, 2018 @ 7:00 pm at 518 Valencia

    FilmWorks United International Working Class Film & Video Festival Directed by Lixin Fan (China) When this documentary was made 8 years ago, the number of the migrant workers from rural

07/07, Sat

  • Walk – San Francisco General Strike

    July 7, 2018 @ 10:00 am at Harry Bridges Plaza Tower in front of Ferry Building

    Join the walk with Gifford Hartman. Eighty-four years ago at this location, a great battle took place by workers and residents of San Francisco against the police and National Guard.

  • WPA Bus Tour

    July 7, 2018 @ 10:00 am at Bill Graham Auditorium

    Tour with Gray Brechin and Harvey Smith Join Gray Brechin and Harvey Smith as they travel through history on a bus tour of sites built by the New Deal’s “alphabet

  • Film : The Young Karl Marx, 2017 (118 min.) Germany

    July 7, 2018 @ 7:00 pm at 518 Valencia

    FilmWorks United International Working Class Film & Video Festival Directed by Raoul Peck (Germany) On the 200th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx, many of his ideas are as

07/08, Sun

  • Workers Rights, Workers Lives, Organizing in Silicon Valley

    July 8, 2018 @ 10:00 am - 4:00 pm at SEIU United Service Workers West

    Millions of workers have come to the Bay Area and Silicon Valley to work and live. The conference will hear from workers who are fighting for union and worker rights

  • Giving Voice: LaborFest Writers’ Anthology 2005-2018

    July 8, 2018 @ 6:00 pm at Green Arcade Bookstore

    The collection includes a selection of works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by writers Phyllis Holliday, Margaret Cooley, Keith Cooley, Adele Kearney, Nellie Wong, Jerry Path, and Alice Rogoff. Hear

  • Panel – Workplace Racism, Hanging Nooses and Fightback

    July 8, 2018 @ 7:00 pm at 518 Valencia

    The escalation of open racist attacks is happening not only in our communities but on our jobs. There is a national epidemic of “hanging nooses” and workplace bullying to terrorize

07/09, Mon

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07/10, Tue

  • The History of SF Labor Temple

    July 10, 2018 @ 6:30 pm at Red Stone Building

    Two independently produced videos will explore San Francisco labor movement history and current efforts to protect the Redstone Labor Temple (yet again!) from redevelopers and keep it as a community

  • Immigrant Girl, Radical Woman, a Memoir from the Early Twen- tieth Century – Book reading

    July 10, 2018 @ 7:00 pm at Green Arcade Bookstore

    Presented by Robbin Henderson Matilda Rabinowitz’s memoir challenges assumptions about the lives of early twentieth-century women. In Immigrant Girl, Radical Woman, Rabinowitz describes the ways in which she and her

07/11, Wed

07/12, Thu

  • The Performance of Public Speaking

    July 12, 2018 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm at San Francisco Labor Council Office

    The SAG-AFTRA san Francisco-Northern California Local in conjunction with LaborFest presents: The Performance of Public Speaking Join us for a presentation on how to engage audiences and the media. SAG-AFTRA

  • 50th Anniversary of SF State Strike – The Lessons for Today

    July 12, 2018 @ 7:00 pm at ILWU Local 34 Hall

    This commemorative event honors the 50th anniversary of the San Francisco State Strike. What are the lessons of that strike for today when students have to go into debt to

07/13, Fri

  • Film : Last Train Home, 2010 (87 min) China

    July 13, 2018 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm at San Jose Peace & Justice Center

      Directed by Lixin Fan (China) When this documentary was made 8 years ago, the number of the migrant workers from rural area of China to big cities were 130

  • The Strike and Uprising, 2017 (66 min.) U.S.A.

    July 13, 2018 @ 7:00 pm at 518 Valencia

    FilmWorks United International Working Class Film & Video Festival Directed by Anne Lewis This new film by Anne Lewis and associate producer Laura Vare, A Strike and an Uprising, illuminates

07/14, Sat

  • SF Waterfront Labor History Walk 1835-1934

    July 14, 2018 @ 10:00 am at 75 Folsom St.

    With Peter O’Driscoll (IBEW), Lawrence Shoup (UAW-NWU) There are many stories about labor struggles in San Francisco. The walk will focus on the maritime industry from 1835 until the burning

  • Privatization, Union Busting and International Solidarity

    July 14, 2018 @ 10:00 am - 1:00 pm at ILWU Local 34 Hall

    Videos and Presentation The privatization of public services, transportation, and education is a threat not only to unions but to the public in the U.S. and globally. This forum will

  • Living History re-creates the 1901 Waterfront Strike

    July 14, 2018 @ 12:00 pm at San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park

    Living History re-creates the 1901 Waterfront Strike that paralyzed San Francisco for five months. From July 13 to October 2, 1901, San Francisco’s waterfront was shut down by sailors,Teamsters, and

07/15, Sun

  • Coit Tower Mural Walk

    July 15, 2018 @ 9:45 am - 5:00 pm at Coit Tower

    With Peter O’Driscoll and Harvey Smith In the past few years, there has been a growing community effort to defend the Coit Tower murals from leaking water and to stop

  • Book Reading – Trotskyists on Trial

    July 15, 2018 @ 11:00 am - 4:00 pm at 518 Valencia

    By Donna T. Haverty-Stacke The 1934 Minneapolis Teamster general strike coincided with the San Francisco General Strike. After the Minneapolis strike, the government, the companies and more conservative union officials

  • Labor Maritime History Boat Tour

    July 15, 2018 @ 5:30 pm at Pier 41 next to Pier 39 near RocktBoat

    5:45 PM Boarding, 6:00 PM Departure Boat leaves promptly at 6:00 PM Please arrive 30 minutes before the boarding time. Tour lasts 3 hours A complimentary meal will be provided,

07/16, Mon

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07/17, Tue

  • The Gig Economy, Privacy, Automation and AI

    July 17, 2018 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm at Stanford University

    San Francisco Bay Area is ground zero for the world tech transformation from platforms at Uber and Lyft to social media networks like Facebook and search engines like Google. The

07/18, Wed

07/19, Thu

  • Film : Pride 2014 (120 min.) UK

    July 19, 2018 @ 7:00 pm at 518 Valencia

    FilmWorks United International Working Class Film & Video Festival Directed by Matthew Warchus (UK) The unity of workers and oppressed minorities is the story of Pride. In a successful effort

07/20, Fri

  • 8th Annual San Francisco Living Wage Coalition Awards Dinner

    July 20, 2018 @ 6:00 pm at SEIU 1021 Hall

    Labor Woman of the Year Award – Juana Flores, Executive Director, Mujeres Unidas y Activas, Labor Man of the Year Award – Arnulfo De La Cruz, Executive Vice President, SEIU

  • The Rockin’ Solidarity Labor Chorus : No Human Is Illegal

    July 20, 2018 @ 7:00 pm at First Unitarian Universalist Church

    The Rockin’ Solidarity Labor Chorus presents a history of immigration, told through the lens of family and policy and illustrated by songs old and new. Chorus members will share their

  • Film : Dare To Struggle Dare To Win, 1968 (96 min.) France

    July 20, 2018 @ 7:00 pm at 518 Valencia

    FilmWorks United International Working Class Film & Video Festival Directed by Jea-Pierre Thorn (France) 50th Anniversary of May-June General Strike France In the middle of the May-June French General Strike

07/21, Sat

  • WPA Berkeley Walk

    July 21, 2018 @ 10:00 am at Main Berkeley Post Office

    With Harvey Smith This walk will explore the “New Deal nexus” in Berkeley that includes Berkeley High School, the Community Theater, Civic Center Park, Post Office art, the old UC

  • Tom Mooney and Preparedness Day Bombing Walk

    July 21, 2018 @ 10:00 am at One Market St.

    With Gifford Hartman, David Duckworth During this walking tour, we visit several sites, which were integral to the unfolding of events following a bomb explosion on Steuart Street at Market

  • The Working Class Struggles In France

    July 21, 2018 @ 11:00 am at Niebyl Proctor Marxist Library

    French Social Movements: There have been ongoing rail strikes, major demonstrations, and university occupations protesting Macron’s government’s attacks. Come to a skype presentation by trade unionists from the Fraction l’Etincelle

  • Film : Pride, 2014 (120 min.) UK

    July 21, 2018 @ 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm at Billy DeFrank LGBTQ Community Center, Ballroom

    FilmWorks United International Working Class Film & Video Festival Directed by Matthew Warchus (UK) The unity of workers and oppressed minorities is the story of Pride. In a successful effort

07/22, Sun

  • Angel Island and Trial of Harry Bridges

    July 22, 2018 @ 12:00 pm at Angel Island Immigration Post

    With Harvey Schwartz Harry Bridges, the Australian-born founding president of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, was hounded by government investigations, hearings, and trials from 1934 to 1955. As the

  • Dying to Work: Death and Injury in the American Workplace

    July 22, 2018 @ 6:00 pm at Green Arcade Bookstore

    Book reading by Jonathan Karmel Writer and labor lawyer Jonathan Karmel has written a book about the cost to workers and their families of the lack of health and safety

07/23, Mon

  • The History of California Slavery by Jean Pfaelzer

    July 23, 2018 @ 7:00 pm at ILWU Local 34 Hall

    Slavery, observed Frederick Douglass, is a “hydra-headed monster.” In California this monster appeared and reappeared as if shape-shifting. The history of slavery in California unsettles the North/South view of American

07/24, Tue

07/25, Wed

07/26, Thu

  • Film : Reserve Slaves (Schiavi di Riserva) 2018 (30 min.) Italy

    July 26, 2018 @ 7:00 pm at 518 Valencia

    FilmWorks United International Working Class Film & Video Festival Reserve Slaves (Schiavi di Riserva) 2018 (30 min.) Italy Directed by Michelangelo Severgnini The result of the U.S./European attack on Libya

  • Film: Turkey on the Edge 2018 (53 min.) Turkey

    July 26, 2018 @ 7:30 pm at 518 Valencia

    Directed by Imre Azem, 2018 (53 min.) Turkey. Four following years the Gezi Resistance, great political and social changes were instituted in Turkey. Director İmre Azem follows four people striving for

07/27, Fri

  • Uber, Lyft, Public Transit & The App Nightmare

    July 27, 2018 @ 7:00 pm at 518 Valencia

    Thousands of drivers now come into San Francisco and other cities on the coast to drive for Uber and Lyft. These workers are forced to leave their homes because they

07/28, Sat

  • Oakland 1946 General Strike Walk

    July 28, 2018 @ 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm at Latham Square

    Meet at the fountain in Latham Square, at the intersection where Telegraph and Broadway converge, across from the Rotunda Building (Oakland City Center/12th St. BART). With Gifford Hartman of the

07/29, Sun

  • Charters, Privatization, Co-Locations & Fight Back – Conference

    July 29, 2018 @ 10:00 am - 4:00 pm at Finnish Hall

    Registration: 9:30 AM The survival of public education is now at stake in California and throughout the country. Trump’s Secretary of Education Betsy Devos is continuing the complete privatization of

  • San Bruno Mountain Wilderness Walk

    July 29, 2018 @ 10:00 am at San Bruno Mountain Watch Office

    Walk with David Schooley Labor unionists and environmentalists both confront the same commercial interests. In 1968, David Schooley chained himself to a bulldozer at the foot of the San Bruno

  • Labor Politics and Architecture of San Francisco – walk

    July 29, 2018 @ 10:00 am at ILWU Sculpture

    Walk with Brad Wiedmaier, SEIU 2015 member & architectural historian San Francisco has a rich political and labor history that is also connected to its buildings. In this historyby- the-buildings

  • Concert : Charlie King and Rebel Voices

    July 29, 2018 @ 7:00 pm at ILWU Local 34 Hall

    Labor musician and political satirist Charlie King will sing about the struggle of working people in the age of Trump. Pete Seeger nominated Charlie for the Sacco- Vanzetti Social Justice

07/30, Mon

  • Palestinian Workers and Solidarity Work

    July 30, 2018 @ 7:00 pm at ILWU Local 34 Hall

    Workers Rights has no borders and the struggle and lives of Palestinian workers are the focus of this forum. Palestinian journalists have been targeted by Israeli snipers in increasing numbers.

07/31, Tue