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Woody Guthrie’s Birthday & Homestead Strike : The River Ran Red (58 min.) 2012

Santa Cruz Public Library 224 Church St, Santa Cruz

Free | by Steffi domike & Nicole fauteux (The River Ran Red) and Jimmy Kelly (music) | Join labor musician Jimmy Kelly in commemorating the life and songs of Woody Guthrie and his birthday. Guthrie, a people and worker’s musician, traveled coast-to-coast singing about striking workers and people in struggle.

Free

SF Waterfront Labor History Walk 1835-1934

75 Folsom St. 75 Folsom St., San Francisco

Free | with Lawrence Shoup and Peter O’Driscoll | There are many stories about labor struggles in San Francisco. The walk will focus on the maritime industry from 1835 until the burning of the blue book in 1934. Also, labor historian Larry Shoup will discuss the history of the 1901 transportation workers strike led by the Teamsters, which the San Francisco police attempted, but failed, to smash.

Longshore Work, Automation, Technology and the Future of Our Work and Lives

ILWU Local 10 Henry Schmidt Room 400 North Point St., San Francisco

Free | The drive to automate the docks and the maritime industry is moving forward rapidly and, in some European ports, the transfer of cargo has been automated forcing thousands of longshore workers out of the industry.

Free

Not Our Brothers And Sisters !! Against Deportations And Racism

Beat Museum 540 Broadway St., San Francisco

Free | with The Revolutionary Poets Brigade & The Juana Briones Cultural Committee | Capitalism uses racist attacks on African-Americans and threats of deportation on Latinos and Muslims to divide the working-class revolution in this country. The Revolutionary Poets Brigade and the Juana Briones Cultural Committee in this neo-fascist Trump period will soundly refuse those betrayals.

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