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 ebb and flow of class war is traced. SF’s radical working class organizations are shaped in part by racist complicity in genocide and slavery. From […]
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. We will look at the causes of the 1934 General Strike and why it was successful. How was the strike organized and why are the […]
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 soup” agencies. You will learn about the major contribution government-paid workers made during the depression-era New Deal programs. Gray and Harvey will discuss the art, […]
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 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, […]
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 plans for privatization of the site. This led to the critical renovation of the murals on their 80th anniversary. They were being painted during the […]
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, however, if you are on a special diet, please bring your own food. (Sorry, we do not take any special orders for food.) Join the […]
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 Press Building (now being repurposed as the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive), and the old Farm Credit Building. The tour will also include […]
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 Street on July 22, 1916. With fervor building to engage the United States in the war in Europe, businessmen in San Francisco embraced the cause, […]
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 leader of the famous 1934 Pacific Coast Maritime and San Francisco General Strikes, Bridges was the target of powerful conservative forces in and out of […]
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 Flying Picket Historical Society. This year is the 72nd anniversary of the Oakland General Strike. This walk will revisit the sites of Oakland’s “Work Holiday” […]
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 Mountain. The activism of David and many other community members was crucial in protecting much of the mountain, allowing for the creation of a public […]
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 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.
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 education with charters and destruction of public teacher jobs. The conference will look at how the charter industry and the California Charter School Association is […]
