All Of Us Or None
Niebyl Proctor Marxist Library 6501 Telegraph Ave., Oakland, CA, United StatesFree | An Evening of Poetry in Resistance to The Trumpoline Regime and The Corporate Horse It Rode In On!!
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California in the Progressive Era
ILWU Local 34 Hall 801 2nd St., San Francisco, CA, United StatesFree | with history lecturer John Holmes, SFSU Professor Bill Issel and moderated by SFSU Professor Bob Cherney | One of the most tumultuous periods in San Francisco labor and working class history was the formation of the Union Labor Party (ULP) and the role of the Socialist Party in the early 20th century.
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Song of The Stubborn One Thousand: The Watsonville Canning Strike, 1985 – 87
Green Arcade Bookstore 1680 Market St., San Francisco, CA, United StatesFree | Book reading by Peter Shapiro | On September 9, 1985, one thousand mainly Mexican women workers in Watsonville, California, the “frozen food capital of the world,” were forced out on strike in an attempt by Watsonville Canning’s owner, Mort Console, to break their union. They returned to work eighteen months later. Not one had crossed the picket line. A moribund local union had been revitalized, and Watsonville’s Latino majority emerged as a major force in local politics.
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The Performance of Public Speaking by The SAG-AFTRA San Francisco
518 Valencia 518 Valencia, San Francisco, CA, United StatesFree | Join us for a presentation on how to engage audience and the media. SAG-AFTRA members will offer insight into the art of public speaking from the perspective of a performer and a broadcaster.
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