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SUMMARY:Walk: Labor Politics and Architecture of San Francisco
DESCRIPTION:Walk with Brad Wiedmaier\, SEIU 2015 member & architectural historian.\nSan Francisco has a rich political and labor history that is also connected to its buildings. In this history-by-the-buildings walk\, Brad Wiedmaier will outline artifacts and events\, and their connections to San Francisco’s past and present. For more information call (415) 694-3605.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/labor-politics-and-architecture-of-sf/
LOCATION:ILWU Sculpture\, Mission St & Steuart St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94105\, United States
CATEGORIES:2017-tour-walk,30,Tour, Walk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170730T030000
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SUMMARY:The Internet\, Technology\, The Gig Economy and the Future of Labor
DESCRIPTION:The development of technology\, including artificial intelligence\, automation and platforms like UBER\, Lyft\, and Airbnb\, are making trillions for the tech and media companies that now dominate the world. Growing marginalization of labor and complete deregulation now means that hundreds of thousands of workers are being forced to travel hundreds of miles to work on temp jobs as independent contractors. This threatens our environment here in the Bay Area and around the world.\nThis conference will look at how our economy is being transformed in the Bay Area\, nationally and globally\, and how it is affecting working people\, including drivers\, tech workers\, and workers in other industries.\nThe new tech world is also allowing companies like Google and Apple\, and the U.S. government to know every place you go\, every purchase you make\, and every word or text you use in communication. We will look at how workers and unions\, with the public\, can challenge this new reality. \nSCHEDULE\n10:00 AM Introduction: \n10:15 AM\nKeynote: Steve Hill: Journalist on Technology – by Skype \n10:30 AM\nTechnology\, Workers and Silicon Valley\nRuth Silver Taube: Workers’ Rights Clinic at the Katharine and George Alexander Community Law Center at the Santa Clara University School of Law\, SEIU-USWW Worker For Tech Company\nKarthik Ramanathan: Tech Workers\nRebeca Armendariz: Senior Community Political Organizer with SEIU USWW\nBob Emmett: SEIU-USWW  member and worker in high tech company in Silicon Valley\nDr.Larry Rose: Former Medical Director Cal-OSHA \n12:00 Lunch \n12:45 PM\nThe Futurists Are Worried\nTodd Davies: Stanford University – Symbolic Systems Program; Center for the Study of Language and Information\nMehmet Bayran: LaborNet\, Software\, Exploitation and Automation of Tech Workers\nLisa Milos: CWA UPTE UCSF Medical Interpreter* (*for information only) \n1:45 PM\nUBER\, Lyft\, Taxi Workers\, Deregulation and Independent Contractor\nRichard Meghoo: President SF Taxi Workers Alliance\nPeter Miller: Exec. SF Taxi Workers Alliance & SFLC delegate\nEdward Escobar: The Alliance For Independent Workers \nYou can watch this presentation here. \n2:45 PM\nTechnology\, Social Platforms and Workers\nProfessor Anthony Hall: Lethridge University Use of Facebook In Political Frame-up \n3:15 PM\nTechnology For Workers\, Internationalism and Labor Solidarity From The Liverpool Dockers To The Global Labor Channel\nJohn Parulis: LaborTech.net\nSteve Zeltzer: LaborTech.net \n4:00 PM Conference Closes\nSponsored by LaborTech.net\, LaborNet.org \nYou can watch Professor Anthony Hall’s presentation here. \n 
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/the-internet-technology-the-gig-economy-and-the-future-of-labor/
LOCATION:ILWU Local 34 Hall\, 801 2nd St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2017-forum-reading,30,Forum, Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170730T060000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170730T090000
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SUMMARY:Film: Now Is The Time: Healthcare for Everybody (71 min.) 2016
DESCRIPTION:Directed by Terry sterenberg & Laurie Simons \nThis is a documentary film about our current healthcare system\, why it doesn’t work\, and what you can do about it. The filmmakers interview doctors and nurses\, patients\, economists and politicians to see what they think about our current healthcare system. You’ll see what happens when advocates committed to changing the healthcare system take action. Big money for insurance companies. Fear of government taking over the nation’s healthcare system. But there’s something more\, like a fog that keeps people from moving forward together. This film intends to remove that fog\, and will leave viewers examining what it means to be American and what it takes to step into action. This documentary film is a follow-up to the filmmakers first film\, The Healthcare Movie (2011).\nA Q&A and panel discussion follows the screening. Speakers include Jeff Gee\, MD\, from Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP)\, Barb Ryan\, RN\, from California Nurses Association and a representative from the Healthy California Act (SB 562).\nFor information\, call Janet Tom\, at 415.557.4460 \nhttps://vimeo.com/205116537
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/now-is-the-time-healthcare-for-everybody-71-min-2016/
LOCATION:SF Main Library – Koret Auditorium\, 100 Larkin St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2017-film,30
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170730T110000
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CREATED:20170519T225407Z
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SUMMARY:Film: Iron Moon (84 min.) 2015\, China / Play On (83 min.) 2017\, S.Korea
DESCRIPTION:Iron Moon: The Poetry of Chinese Migrant Workers (84 min.) 2015 \nDirected by: Xiaoyu Qin and Feiyue Wu\nThe new film from China Iron Moon is a powerful artistic view of the massive industrialization of China through the eyes and words of the workers who have made the new China. At Foxconn\, which has over 200\,000 workers and produces most of our Apple phones\, workers face a life of despair. One of them who committed suicide at the age of 24\, left 200 poems of despair\, “I swallowed an iron moon…” Using poetry as a tool to chip away at the ice of silence\, they and other workers in this film express the hidden stories and life experiences of millions of the workers who are the foundation of the new China.\nIt weaves from worker to worker\, from a female clothing factory worker who lives in poverty but writes poetry rich in dignity and love; a coal miner who works deep in the earth\, trying to make peace with the spirits of his dead coworkers through his poetry; rock miner Chen Nianxi\, who traveled to San Francisco this year\, speaking of his life; working in the mines to support his family\, gold-mine demolitions worker blasting rock several kilometers into mountainsides\, while writing poetry to carry the weight of his fury\, “My body carries three tons of dynamite..” These could be any of the 350 million workers in China\, and yet they are also poets. These stories of the life and struggles of Chinese workers are a mournful song and tale of global capitalism. \nReviewed by Maghiel van Crevel \n \n  \n \nPlay On (83 min.) (2017)  \nDirected by: Gyuri Byun\nWhat happens when subcontracted workers turn into podcast DJs? Subcontracted workers at SK Broadband\, Inc. began a podcast broadcast titled Workers Have Changed\, to deliver the news about their strike for job security. The podcast studio has become a theater of their life as they share their stories—daily hardships of subcontracted labor\, coping with rude customers\, and their future and dreams. They finally achieved a victory to convert their employment status from non-regular to regular\, yet with their monthly income cut in half. Given this “half” success complicating the picture\, Bong-Keun\, a union member\, decided to quit the job.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/iron-moon-death-by-design/
LOCATION:ILWU Local 34 Hall\, 801 2nd St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2017-film,30,Film
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SUMMARY:LaborFest Writers
DESCRIPTION:LaborFest Writers explore the issues that we face today within our families\, communities and government\, whether it’s housing\, jobs\, ageism\, race and sex discrimination\, immigration or homelessness. Their work gives voice to what has gone before and why we must continue to fight for our rights. Come hear Margaret Cooley\, Keith Cooley\, Richard Chen\, Susan Ford\, Phyllis Holliday\, Jerry Path\, Alice Rogoff and Nellie Wong as they share their memoir\, storytelling\, oral history\, poetry\, and song.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/laborfest-writers/
LOCATION:Green Arcade Bookstore\, 1680 Market St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2017-forum-reading,30,Forum, Reading
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