2017 Forum / Reading

• Internment, Japanese Americans, Labor And The Lessons For Today

  

  Free | This year is the 75th anniversary of the internment of over 120,000 Japanese Americans and Ja...

  July 1, 2017 @ 6:00 am at National Japanese American Historical Society

• Book reading – Refinery Town by Steve Early

  

  Free | by Steve Early | Steve Early has been an active labor journalist and organizer for over forty...

  July 6, 2017 @ 12:00 pm at Green Arcade Bookstore

• Labor, War in Asia and the Lessons of the Comfort Women

  Free | The growing dangers of a war in Asia are accelerating, particularly with the U.S. strategy of...

  July 9, 2017 @ 12:00 pm at ILWU Local 34 Hall

• Bread & Roses Labor History Story Telling

  Free | Come to share an interesting labor story you’ve led or experienced. It could be a memory of...

  July 11, 2017 @ 3:00 am at San Francisco Labor Council Office

• Victor Arnautoff: San Francisco’s Master Muralist of The 1930s

  

  Free to current SF Museum & Historical Society members. Admission for non-members is $10 per person ...

  July 11, 2017 @ 12:30 pm at Roosevelt Middle School Auditorium

• The Golden Spike: Chinese and Irish Labor versus The Big Four

  

  Free | May 10, 2019 will be the 150th anniversary of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad...

  July 12, 2017 @ 10:00 am at Chinese Historical Society of America

• Not Our Brothers And Sisters !! Against Deportations And Racism

  Free | with The Revolutionary Poets Brigade & The Juana Briones Cultural Committee | Capitalism uses...

  July 15, 2017 @ 12:00 pm at Beat Museum

• The Origins of the US Military in the Indian Wars

  

  Free | by Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz | Professor Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz in this talk will look at the histor...

  July 16, 2017 @ 8:00 am at 518 Valencia

• The Destruction of City College of San Francisco

  

  Free | Public education has been under attack for many years. The forms of attack include inadequate...

  July 17, 2017 @ 11:30 am at Bernal Public Library

• SF Living Wage Coalition 7th Annual Awards Dinner

  $40 (at door: $50) | Seventh Annual San Francisco Living Wage Coalition’s Awards Dinner with cultu...

  July 21, 2017 @ 11:00 am at SEIU 1021 Hall

• Charters, Privatization & the Defense of Public Education

  $10 - No one turned away due to lack of funds | The growth of charter schools and privatization of p...

  July 22, 2017 @ 3:00 am - 10:00 am at Richmond High School Auditorium

• The history of the Alibi Clock in Vallejo and the K-R-C case of 1937

  

  Free | by Joel Schor | Legal cases against labor have been fueled by hysteria over war abroad and ra...

  July 23, 2017 @ 6:30 am at John F. Kennedy Library Joseph Room

• From Killer Drones to Gentrification: The Struggle In Germany and Internationalism

  Free | by Elsa Rassbach and Harald Gindra | Longtime Berlin activists Elsa Rassbach and Harald Gindr...

  July 23, 2017 @ 5:00 pm at ILWU Local 34 Hall

• What California Labor History Tells Us About Building the Resistance to Trump

  

  Free | by Fred B. Glass | At a moment when American democracy is threatened as never before, progres...

  July 26, 2017 @ 12:00 pm at Green Arcade Bookstore

• All Of Us Or None

  

  Free | An Evening of Poetry in Resistance to The Trumpoline Regime and The Corporate Horse It Rode I...

  July 27, 2017 @ 12:00 pm at Niebyl Proctor Marxist Library

• California in the Progressive Era

  

  Free | with history lecturer John Holmes, SFSU Professor Bill Issel and moderated by SFSU Professor ...

  July 27, 2017 @ 12:00 pm at ILWU Local 34 Hall

• Song of The Stubborn One Thousand: The Watsonville Canning Strike, 1985 – 87

  

  Free | Book reading by Peter Shapiro | On September 9, 1985, one thousand mainly Mexican women worke...

  July 27, 2017 @ 12:00 pm at Green Arcade Bookstore

• The Performance of Public Speaking by The SAG-AFTRA San Francisco

  

  Free | Join us for a presentation on how to engage audience and the media. SAG-AFTRA members will of...

  July 27, 2017 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm at 518 Valencia

• The Internet, Technology, The Gig Economy and the Future of Labor

  

  Free | The development of technology, including artificial intelligence, automation and platforms li...

  July 30, 2017 @ 3:00 am at ILWU Local 34 Hall

• LaborFest Writers

  

  Free | LaborFest Writers explore the issues that we face today within our families, communities and ...

  July 30, 2017 @ 11:00 am at Green Arcade Bookstore