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SUMMARY:SF Mime Troupe - 2018: Seeing Red: A Time-Traveling Musical
DESCRIPTION:Written by Rotimi Agbabiaka with Joan Holden\nMusic & Lyrics by Ira Marlowe\nDirected by Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe \nIt’s Election Night 2018 and Bob swears she’ll never vote again. A lifetime of fading fortunes made this former Obama voter take a chance on the new guy promising change-Donald J. Trump. But it’s two years into his presidency and Bob’s still waiting to start winning. Tonight she’s telling everyone in her small-town bar that all politicians are liars\, the system is rigged\, and nothing’s ever gonna change.\nAlong comes a mysterious stranger with an intriguing offer. He’ll show her an America where working people come together to demand a brighter future\, where socialism isn’t a dirty word. He’ll take her all the way … to 1912.\nBob soon finds herself traveling back to a time when the Socialist Party was winning millions of American votes; uncovering a hidden history and realizing that she may have more in common with those pesky progressives on the coasts. She begins to ask: what will it take to get people to stop voting against their interests? How do we overcome the divide-and-conquer tactics that keep us all down? When did our electoral choices get so limited? And isn’t it time to get off the swinging pendulum that’s left us at our current impasse?\nFor more info on the schedule: www.sfmt.org \nReview by Lily Janiak on SF Chronicle
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/sf-mime-troupe-2018-seeing-red-a-time-traveling-musical/
LOCATION:Dolores Park\, Dolores Park\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:07-04-2018,2018,2018-music-theater-art,Music, Theater, Art
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180703T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180703T100000
DTSTAMP:20260605T040123
CREATED:20180524T021951Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T195919Z
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SUMMARY:Bread & Roses Labor History Story Telling with Retired Union Members
DESCRIPTION:Come to share an inspiring labor event or leader in your life. It could be in San Francisco or elsewhere in the U.S.A. or the world. Photos\, news clippings\, prose\, and poems are welcome. This will be an open regular meeting of FORUM (Federation of Retired Union Members)\, an organization of retirees affiliated with the San Francisco Labor Council. Retirees come from a broad range of unions with members and workers in San Francisco. FORUM supports alliances between working people and retired people to preserve July 3 (Tuesday) 10:00 AM (Free) San Francisco Labor Council Office – 1188 Franklin Street\, Suite 203\, SF and improve health care\, social security\, and pension benefits. Refreshments will be served.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/bread-roses-labor-history-story-telling-with-retired-union-members-2/
LOCATION:San Francisco Labor Council Office\, 1188 Franklin Street\, Suite 203\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:07-03-2018,2018,2018-forum-reading,Forum, Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180702T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180702T203000
DTSTAMP:20260605T040123
CREATED:20180622T183015Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T195930Z
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SUMMARY:Film : Bisbee ’17 (119 min.)
DESCRIPTION:Directed by Robert Greene (2018) \nThe hidden history of the American working class is exposed in this new film Bisbee ’17 by Robert Green. This film is centered around the attack on immigrant copper miners\, who in July 12\, 1917\, were rounded up and illegally deported out of the town by placing them in cattle cars. The train eventually ended up in New Mexico where the miners were later incarcerated by the US military. The Mexican and European workers had been organized by the IWW in the midst of the 1st world war when the price of copper was skyrocketing. The mine companies also used a group called the ‘loyalty leaguers’ to charge that the miners had actually been infiltrated by the Germans who the US was at war with. The film interviews members of families in the town and even residents whose families later returned to the town. \nToday as immigrant bashing is the new “normal” and the organized terrorism against Mexican workers and their families and children is now government policy\, this film resonates that racism\, ethnic cleansing and immigrant bashing goes back over a hundred years ago.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/bisbee-17-119-min/
LOCATION:ILWU Local 34 Hall\, 801 2nd St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:07-02-2018,2018,2018-film,Film
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180702T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180702T190000
DTSTAMP:20260605T040123
CREATED:20180524T021618Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T195940Z
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SUMMARY:Film : UNION TIME: Fighting For Workers Rights\, 2016 (86 min.) U.S.A.
DESCRIPTION:FilmWorks United International Working Class Film & Video Festival\nDirected by Matthew Barr\nNarrated by Danny Glover\nIn 1993\, a group of employees at the Smithfield Pork Processing Plant in Tar Heel\, North Carolina\, began to work with the United Food and Commercial Workers Union to organize the 5\,000 workers at the plant. In 2008\, after a 16-year-long struggle\, they won the right to form a union. Jobs in meatpacking are among the most dangerous in the country. Once dominated by skilled butchers working in unionized jobs\, the industry gradually moved packing plants to rural areas in right-to-work states. What used to be respected as skilled labor is now broken down into assembly-line tasks\, with workers—many of them African American or immigrant often treated as expendable. Dangerous conditions\, wage theft\, intimidation\, and abuse are rampant. Union Time weaves together labor rights and civil rights to show how unions can be a potent force for economic and social justice. Above all\, it celebrates the courage of meatpacking workers who refused to give up through a 16-year-long struggle.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/union-time-fighting-for-workers-rights-2016-86-min-by-matthew-barr/
LOCATION:ILWU Local 34 Hall\, 801 2nd St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:07-02-2018,2018,2018-film,Film
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180701T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180701T190000
DTSTAMP:20260605T040123
CREATED:20180524T022247Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T195951Z
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SUMMARY:Film : A Taxi Driver\, 2017 (138 min.)\, Korea
DESCRIPTION:FilmWorks United International Working Class Film & Video Festival\nDirected by Jan Hoon (Korea)\nGwangju\, Korea is a historic center of struggle for the Korean people and this powerful dramatic film shows the story of the May 1980 Gwangju people’s rebellion against the repressive dictator Chun Doo-hwan. His military government is portrayed through the eyes of the students and taxi drivers in the city under assault\, the story based on actual events of that struggle. A German journalist\, Jürgen “Peter” Hinzpeter\, wants to get the story out and ends up with a Seoul taxi driver named Kim Man-seob (Song Kang-ho) who really isn’t aware of what is going on there. They start off from Seoul and have to get into the city where the military have locked it down and are massacring protesting civilians. The role of the taxi workers in supporting the people of Gwangju is a powerful story and the role of Korean troops was in fact allowed by the US\, which still controls troop movements in the country of Korea. \nK.J. Noh\, Flaspoint’s Asia-Pacific Correspondent will introduce the film and moderate discussion after the film.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/a-taxi-driver-2017-138-min-by-jan-hoon-korea/
LOCATION:ILWU Local 34 Hall\, 801 2nd St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:07-01-2018,2018,2018-film,Film
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180701T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180701T150000
DTSTAMP:20260605T040123
CREATED:20180524T021427Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T200001Z
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SUMMARY:Film: We The Workers\, 2017 (174 min.)\, China
DESCRIPTION:FilmWorks United International Working Class Film & Video Festival\nDirected by Wen Hai (China)\nChina has become the factory workshop of the world. The film “We The Worker” is a documentary shot over a six-year period. We see the real conditions and issues of the Chinese industrial workers as they fight for labor and worker rights. Similar to capitalist countries\, they are threatened\, attacked\, and jailed by the new bosses of corporate China. They also face not only the company owners but police who collude with the owners to silence and intimidate the efforts of these workers to defend their labor rights on the job.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/we-the-workers-2017-174-min-directed-by-wen-hai-china/
LOCATION:ILWU Local 34 Hall\, 801 2nd St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:07-01-2018,2018,2018-film,Film
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180701T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180701T120000
DTSTAMP:20260605T040123
CREATED:20180523T172505Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T200016Z
UID:1612-1530446400-1530446400@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Labor History Bike Tour
DESCRIPTION:Sliding scale $15 – $50 : benefiting shaping San Francisco\nBy Chris Carlsson\nFrom 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 the 1870s to the 1940s there are dozens of epic battles between owners and workers\, culminating in the 1934 General Strike and its aftermath. This is an entirely different look\, during a four-hour bike tour\, at San Francisco labor history. For more information: (415) 608-9035
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/labor-history-bike-tour-2018/
LOCATION:518 Valencia\, 518 Valencia\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:07-01-2018,2018,2018-tour-walk,Tour, Walk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170731T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170731T140000
DTSTAMP:20260605T040123
CREATED:20170609T104239Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T211254Z
UID:606-1501502400-1501509600@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Stop the War on Workers Concert
DESCRIPTION:LaborFest closes its annual festival with terrific artists Ann Feeney and Roy Zimmerman. Ann speaks truth to power in her music about the struggles of working people here and around the world. As Tom Morello has said “Few have raised as much hell with an acoustic guitar as Ann has.”\nRoy Zimmerman\, who is based in the Bay Area\, joins Ann on the Rezist Tour. Using satire and comedy\, which we need more of\, Zimmerman hits home about ignorance\, war and greed. Join LaborFest to celebrate our past and get ready for our future.\nDonation $5-20 sliding scale\, free to strikers and locked-out workers\, No one will be turned away due to cost.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/stop-the-war-on-workers-concert/
LOCATION:ILWU Local 34 Hall\, 801 2nd St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2017-music-theater-art,31,Music, Theater, Art
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170730T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170730T110000
DTSTAMP:20260605T040123
CREATED:20170519T225452Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T211246Z
UID:358-1501412400-1501412400@laborfest.net
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170730T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170730T110000
DTSTAMP:20260605T040123
CREATED:20170519T225407Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T211237Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170730T060000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170730T090000
DTSTAMP:20260605T040123
CREATED:20170620T015132Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T211226Z
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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:20170730T030000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170730T030000
DTSTAMP:20260605T040123
CREATED:20170609T102943Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T211217Z
UID:595-1501383600-1501383600@laborfest.net
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:20170730T030000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170730T030000
DTSTAMP:20260605T040123
CREATED:20170519T225228Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T211150Z
UID:352-1501383600-1501383600@laborfest.net
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:20170729T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170729T120000
DTSTAMP:20260605T040123
CREATED:20170519T225133Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T211138Z
UID:350-1501329600-1501329600@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Paul Robeson: A Portrait in Story & Song
DESCRIPTION:By The Rockin’ Solidarity Labor Chorus\nThe Rockin’ Solidarity Labor Chorus presents a musical biography of Paul Robeson\, the great African American artist\, athlete\, and activist.\nThe script is based on material gathered from primary sources by Alex Bagwell\, a Chorus member and ILWU retiree\, who interviewed many of Robeson’s associates while they were still alive.\nRobeson crossed paths with notable figures of his era\, including W.E.B. DuBois\, Lena Horne\, and Harry Belafonte\, but he also touched the lives of countless working men and women. He said\, “I have always put my faith and confidence in the working people in all countries and of all colors. I truly believe that they constitute the greatest force in the world for the advancement of all people.”\nThe concert will trace Robeson’s journey from his youth in New Jersey to Rutgers University and then to Broadway\, concert stages\, and picket lines around the world. It also addresses Robeson’s encounter with the House Un-American Activities Committee and the notorious Peekskill concert in 1949\, at which racist thugs attacked the audience and the performers.\nWith solos by Bagwell and others\, the Chorus will sing many of the spirituals and folk songs from Robeson’s repertoire\, in new arrangements by Chorus director Pat Wynne.\nContact: Pat Wynne (415) 648-34577
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/paul-robeson-a-portrait-in-story-song/
LOCATION:ILWU Local 34 Hall\, 801 2nd St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2017-music-theater-art,29,Music, Theater, Art
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170729T050000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170729T050000
DTSTAMP:20260605T040123
CREATED:20170519T224941Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T211130Z
UID:346-1501304400-1501304400@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Oakland 1946 General Strike Walk
DESCRIPTION:Oakland 1946 General Strike Walk – “We Called It a Work Holiday”\nWith Gifford Hartman of the Flying Picket Historical Society.\nThis year is the 70th anniversary of the Oakland General Strike. This walk will revisit the sites of Oakland’s “Work Holiday” that began spontaneously with rank-and-file solidarity with the striking – mostly women – retail clerks at Kahn’s and Hastings department stores whose picket line was being broken by scabs escorted by police.\nWithin 24 hours\, it involved over 100\,000 workers and shut down nearly all commerce in the East Bay for 54 hours. In 1946 there were six general strikes across the U.S.; that year set the all-time record year for strikes and work stoppages. The Oakland “Work Holiday” was the last general strike to ever occur in the U.S. This walk and history talk will attempt to keep alive the memory of this tradition of community-wide working class solidarity.\n\nMeet at the fountain in Latham Square\, in the intersection where Telegraph and Broadway converge across from the Rotunda Building (Oakland City Center/12th St. BART). \n \n 
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/oakland-1946-general-strike-walk/
LOCATION:Latham Square\, 1611 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:2017-tour-walk,29,Tour, Walk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170728T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170728T120000
DTSTAMP:20260605T040123
CREATED:20170519T224840Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T211114Z
UID:344-1501243200-1501243200@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Film: Care (60 min.) 2016 / Panel of Homecare and Disabled Care Workers
DESCRIPTION:Directed by: Deirdre Fishel\n& The Defense of Our Elderly and Panel of Homecare and Disabled Care Workers\nCare by director Deirdre Fishel tells the story of home elder care and the homecare workers who do the work to protect our elderly. The humanity of both the elderly and disabled and their caregivers gives the film strength and shows the living reality for a growing part of our population. Millions of seniors need this care and the workers who do this job. These workers are doing critical public work\, yet\, are underpaid\, many struggling to survive themselves. \nA panel discussion follows after the film: \nBrett Miller\, SEIU 1021; Brad Wiedmaier\, SEIU Local 2015 California long term care; moderated by David Duckworth SEIU 1021.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/care/
LOCATION:518 Valencia\, 518 Valencia\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2017-film,28,Film
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170727T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170727T210000
DTSTAMP:20260605T040123
CREATED:20170719T173820Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T211102Z
UID:1352-1501182000-1501189200@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:The Performance of Public Speaking by The SAG-AFTRA San Francisco
DESCRIPTION: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. \nNo RSVP is required for this event. \n 
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/performance-public-speaking-sag-afra-san-francisco/
LOCATION:518 Valencia\, 518 Valencia\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2017-forum-reading,27
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170727T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170727T120000
DTSTAMP:20260605T040123
CREATED:20170609T101106Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T211051Z
UID:579-1501156800-1501156800@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Song of The Stubborn One Thousand: The Watsonville Canning Strike\, 1985 – 87
DESCRIPTION:Book reading by Peter Shapiro \nOn 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.\nAt a time when organized labor was in headlong retreat\, the Watsonville Canning strike was a dramatic show of the power of women workers\, whose struggle became a rallying point for the Chicano movement.\nApart from its sheer drama\, the strikers’ story illuminates the challenges facing a group of ordinary working people who waged a protracted and ultimately successful struggle against seemingly insurmountable odds.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/song-of-the-stubborn-one-thousand/
LOCATION:Green Arcade Bookstore\, 1680 Market St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2017-forum-reading,27,Forum, Reading
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2018/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/7-27-Shapiro-Song_of_the_stubborn_one_thousand_Cover.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170727T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170727T120000
DTSTAMP:20260605T040123
CREATED:20170609T100800Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T211038Z
UID:576-1501156800-1501156800@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:California in the Progressive Era
DESCRIPTION:With history lecturer John Holmes\, SFSU Professor Bill Issel and moderated by SFSU Professor Bob Cherney\nOne 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.\nSan Francisco was the first major city in the United States to have a labor mayor but later the mayor and the board of supervisors were removed in a financial scandal pushed and funded by major San Francisco capitalists who were angry that organized labor had political control of the city.\nThis panel will look at this history including the 1907 Carmen’s strike that cost the lives of 33 people. The long strike was broken when the company brought in armed company thugs who shot strikers and their supporters and injured many because of their inability to run the cars. On the 110th anniversary of this strike this panel will examine the lessons for today.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/california-in-the-progressive-era/
LOCATION:ILWU Local 34 Hall\, 801 2nd St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2017-forum-reading,27,Forum, Reading
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2018/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/7-27-Transit-schmitz-and-carmen-1906BWx4.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170727T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170727T120000
DTSTAMP:20260605T040123
CREATED:20170519T224750Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T211029Z
UID:342-1501156800-1501156800@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:All Of Us Or None
DESCRIPTION:An Evening of Poetry in Resistance to The Trumpoline Regime and The Corporate Horse It Rode In On!! – Open Mike\nWorking people are under attack on the job\, in their homes and on the streets. The struggle to survive in the Bay Area with gentrification\, gig jobs and the daily fears and stresses of our lives will be heard at this open mike. It is time for working people to speak up with their words and songs and rally a collective response to our battle to build a new world.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/all-of-us-or-none/
LOCATION:Niebyl Proctor Marxist Library\, 6501 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2017-forum-reading,27,Forum, Reading
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2018/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/7-27-fighting-homelessness.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170726T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170726T130000
DTSTAMP:20260605T040123
CREATED:20170519T224604Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T211017Z
UID:338-1501074000-1501074000@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:LaborFest Comedy Night
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Danny Cruzz\nLaborFest 2017 brings a night of comedy to all working class people to laugh and enjoy a night of relaxation. As labor is forefront for us all\, we need to unwind and enjoy the fruits of our labor.\nAll comics are labor friendly-performers. \n\n\nMust be 18 or older. 2 items minimum order required – 21 or older for drink order.\nDoor open at 7:15 at SJ Improv.\nCall for reservation.\nTicket info: call Danny Cruzz (408) 504-9370\nEmail- dannycruzzlaughs@yahoo.com\nSan Jose Improv: (408) 280-7475\nDonation welcome to LaborFest \n 
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/laborfest-comedy-night/
LOCATION:San Jose Improv\, 62 S. 2nd St.\, San Jose\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2017-music-theater-art,26,Music, Theater, Art
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ORGANIZER;CN="Danny Cruzz":MAILTO:dannycruzzlaughs@yahoo.com
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170726T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170726T120000
DTSTAMP:20260605T040123
CREATED:20170620T013231Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T211004Z
UID:1006-1501070400-1501070400@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:What California Labor History Tells Us About Building the Resistance to Trump
DESCRIPTION:By Fred B. Glass\nAt a moment when American democracy is threatened as never before\, progressives need models for building an effective resistance. In California\, many examples of strategy and tactics live in the hidden history of working people and their struggles for social justice.\nThis talk will present and interpret several iconic events that shaped the way working people live in California today\, and helped create the difference between the progressive outcome of the latest election (taxing the rich to fund schools\, repealing anti-immigrant laws on the books\, a resounding vote against Trump) compared with the rest of the country.\nFred Glass wrote and directed Golden Lands\, Working Hands\, a video series (1999) on history of the California labor movement. Glass wrote From Mission to Microchip: A History of the California Labor Movement (2016) and wrote and directed a short animated cartoon\, Tax the Rich: An Animated Fairy Tale (2012)nds\, a video series (1999) on history of the California labor movement. Glass wrote From Mission to Microchip: A History of the California Labor Movement (2016) and wrote and directed a short animated cartoon\, Tax the Rich: An Animated Fairy Tale (2012)
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/what-california-labor-history-tells-us-about-building-the-resistance-to-trump-2/
LOCATION:Green Arcade Bookstore\, 1680 Market St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2017-forum-reading,26,Forum, Reading
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2018/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/7-26-Glass.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170726T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170726T110000
DTSTAMP:20260605T040123
CREATED:20170519T224404Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T210952Z
UID:334-1501066800-1501066800@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Film: Bridging Urban America (87 min.) 2016
DESCRIPTION:Directed by Basia Myszynski and Leonard Myszynski\nThis biography celebrates Ralph Modjeski\, the Chairman of the Board of Consulting Engineers for the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Modjeski designed bridges that had significant impact on urban development and commerce. The film is a tribute to innovative engineering and to bridge workers during two eras of transit\, taking a deeper look at the scientific mind and artistic soul of a Polish-born\, Paris-trained immigrant who contributed to the building of a modern America. This is a relevant film that brings awareness about the deteriorating state of our bridges and how communities search for sustainable solutions to maintain\, rehabilitate and preserve these critical parts of North America’s infrastructure.\nScreened in conjunction with the exhibits “Building Bridges\, Not Walls” during July and August at the San Francisco History Center\, 6th Floor of the Main Library\, and at the Canessa Gallery in North Beach.h. \n \n 
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/bridging-urban-america/
LOCATION:SF Main Library – Koret Auditorium\, 100 Larkin St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2017-film,26,Film
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170725T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170725T120000
DTSTAMP:20260605T040123
CREATED:20170519T224301Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T210941Z
UID:332-1500984000-1500984000@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Film: Where Are You Buddy? (25 min.) 2017\, Turkey
DESCRIPTION:Directed by Kazim Kizil\nWith discussion – The Fight to Defend Academics and Journalists in Turkey\nThe growth of child labor in Turkey and around the world is exploding. The U.S. invasion of Iraq and Libya\, the war in Syria\, and now the U.S. supported bombing of Yemen\, are creating millions of refugees\, including many children forced to work. This film looks at the lives of these children from their own words as child workers. This new film from Turkey by director Kazim Kizil lets the children tell their own stories.\nThis will be followed by a discussion about the fight to defend the professors\, teachers\, and journalists who are under attack in Turkey by the Erodgan AKP government. Tens of thousands of teachers and public workers have been fired without a hearing or due process; many have been jailed\, some have committed suicide\, and others are on hunger strikes.\nThe director of this film Kazim Kizil  was jailed by the government and an international campaign is taking place to free him.\nSupport the campaign and come to the screening. \nSF Labor Council Resolution In Support Of Journalists In Turkey\nJournalism Is Not A Crime: Free Kasim\nhttps://kazimkizilaozgurluk.wordpress.com/iletisim/\nhttps://www.change.org/p/kazım-kızıl-a-özgürlük-free-kazim-kizil-kazımkızılvicdanımızdır \nSponsored by Solidarity Committee With The People Of Turkey\nhttp://www.freeacademicians.org \n  \n \n 
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/the-fight-to-defend-academics-and-journalists-in-turkey/
LOCATION:518 Valencia\, 518 Valencia\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2017-film,25,Film
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2018/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/7-25-Turkey-where-are-you.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170724T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170724T110000
DTSTAMP:20260605T040123
CREATED:20170519T224200Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T210924Z
UID:330-1500894000-1500894000@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:The River Ran Red : (58 min.) 2012 / And Report on Labor in the Schools
DESCRIPTION:Directed by Steffi Domike and Nicole Fauteux\nThe violence that erupted at Carnegie Steel’s giant Homestead mill near Pittsburgh on July 6\, 1892\, caused a congressional investigation and trials for treason\, motivated a nearly successful assassination attempt on Frick\, contributed to the defeat of President Benjamin Harrison for a second term\, and changed the course of the American labor movement.\nThis film is aripping account of the summer of 1892\, in which a bitter conflict erupted at the Carnegie Works in Homestead\, Pennsylvania. The nation’s largest steel maker took on its most militant labor union\, with devastating consequences for American workers. Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick head a fascinating cast of characters\, which includes 300 armed Pinkerton guards and the would-be anarchist assassin\, Alexander Berkman. This American tragedy still resonates 125 years later\, especially in communities hard hit by the decline of heavy industry and labor’s diminishing clout. \nReport on Labor in the Schools \nThe struggle to defend working people and our unions requires a real knowledge of history. We need to know where we come from and the lessons of the past to understand our present issues.\nLabor In The Schools has been a project of the California Federation of Teachers CFT to bring labor education into the schools and to support the idea that working class history is critical for all people.\nBill Morgan who is a member of the statewide CFT committee will talk about the efforts of the union to build support for labor education in the schools and what all unionists and working people can do to help support labor education.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/the-river-ran-red/
LOCATION:Plumbers Hall\, 1621 Market St. 2nd floor\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2017-film,24,Film
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2018/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/7-24homestead-strike-1892.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170723T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170723T170000
DTSTAMP:20260605T040123
CREATED:20170722T072947Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T210852Z
UID:1375-1500829200-1500829200@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:From Killer Drones to Gentrification: The Struggle In Germany and Internationalism
DESCRIPTION:Report by Elsa Rassbach and Harald Gindra \nLongtime Berlin activists Elsa Rassbach and Harald Gindra will discuss from personal experience some of the key peace and justice campaigns in Germany today and will explore together with participants what can be learned for current struggles in the US. \nHarald Gindra; A former German print industry worker\, engineer\, and an experienced grassroots local politician\, was elected in 2016 to represent the Left Party in the Berlin state legislature.  The Left Party\, the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the Green Party now make up the ruling coalition in the Berlin government and have undertaken an extensive program of progressive reform in the arenas of city development\, housing\, and integration of refugees and minorities\, with a focus on stopping rent increases and gentrification.     \nElsa Rassbach; A German-American filmmaker and journalist\, was a member of the team that launched the PBS NOVA series and is producer-writer of “The Killing Floor” shown at this years LaborFest. A peace activist since the Vietnam War\, she has led campaigns on behalf of GIs stationed in Germany who resisted the Iraq war and solidarity efforts on behalf of Palestine. In 2013 she co-founded the German Drone campaign that has inspired large protests at Ramstein Air Base and AFRICOM and played a key role in winning majority support in the German Bundestag for a historic rejection\, in June 2017\, of the planned acquisition of armed drones for the German military. 
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/killer-drones-gentrification-struggle-germany-internationalism/
LOCATION:ILWU Local 34 Hall\, 801 2nd St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2017-forum-reading,23
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170723T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170723T120000
DTSTAMP:20260605T040123
CREATED:20170519T224107Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T210911Z
UID:328-1500811200-1500811200@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Film: Watsonville On Strike (65 min.) 1989
DESCRIPTION:Directed by Jon Silver\nWith Jon Silver & Frank Barnacke\nIn September 1985\, 1\,500 Teamster-organized\, mostly immigrant women cannery workers walked out on the two largest frozen food companies in the United States — Watsonville Canning and Richard A. Shaw Frozen Foods in Watsonville\, California. This was known as the “frozen food capital of the world”. The workers faced not only companies who wanted major concessions but also a white union leadership who did not speak Spanish and who accused them of not being union members.\nThis historic and powerful video “Watsonville on Strike” hears the voices of these workers and their struggle for justice and control of their own union. The strike lasted 17 months revealing the contradictions in management and the unions.\nIt also shows the internal struggle in the union against the push for a concession contract and the role of solidarity.\nJoining film maker Jon Silver after the screening will be Frank Barnacke\, who was a farmworker\, and is author of Trampling Out the Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers. \n\nhttps://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/onlinessays/JC35folder/WatsonvilleStrike.html \n  \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcSPSanxM8M
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/watsonville-on-strike/
LOCATION:ILWU Local 34 Hall\, 801 2nd St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2017-film,23,Film
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2018/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Watsonville-Strike-Scab.jpeg.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170723T063000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170723T063000
DTSTAMP:20260605T040123
CREATED:20170519T223954Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T210831Z
UID:325-1500791400-1500791400@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:The history of the Alibi Clock in Vallejo and the K-R-C case of 1937
DESCRIPTION:By Joel Schor\nLegal cases against labor have been fueled by hysteria over war abroad and radicalism at home\, from Tom Mooney\, charged with setting off a bomb during the Preparedness Day Parade (1916)\, to charges against Marine Fireman’s Union members Earl King\, Charles Ramsay and Frank Conner\, accused of murder aboard a ship docked in Alameda in 1937.\nCalifornia politicians Culbert Olson and Earl Warren presided as governor of the state during these times. Their vacillating positions in relation to fate of the accused reflect both their own ambitions and the political climate of hysteria. The Tenney Hearings in California and the House Un-American Activities Committee under Senator McCarthy were to follow the outcome of these cases into the Second World War and its aftermath.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/the-history-of-the-alibi-clock-in-vallejo-and-the-k-r-c-case-of-1937/
LOCATION:John F. Kennedy Library Joseph Room\, 505 Santa Clara Street\, Vallejo\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2017-forum-reading,23,Forum, Reading
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170722T030000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170722T100000
DTSTAMP:20260605T040123
CREATED:20170519T223805Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T210816Z
UID:321-1500692400-1500717600@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Charters\, Privatization & the Defense of Public Education
DESCRIPTION:($10 – No one turned away due to lack of funds)The growth of charter schools and privatization of public education in California and throughout the US is a cancer threatening students\, teachers and staff at all public schools. This education/action conference will look at what charters are and how they are siphoning off billions dollars from public taxes for profiteers. It will also examine how religious tax-funded charter schools like the Gulen Magnolia chain and storefront “online schools” like Escondido Charter High are growing in California and throughout the country. We will hear from parents groups and teachers who are fighting against retaliation and discrimination. This is a life-and-death struggle to protect public education and we will learn about it and how to defend our schools. \n\nSPEAKERS: Sharon Higgins\, expert on Gulen Magnolia Charter Schools; Dr. Frank Adamson\, Stanford Graduate School of Education; Carlos Taboada\, Retired UTR teacher; Kristyn Jones\, UTR Teacher; Debra McCaffrey\, parent activist; Michael Dominguez\, UTLA retired teacher; Eileen Brown\, Stand With Ross Valley Schools; Steve Johnson\, teacher Labor Rising; Robert Ovetz\, adjunct professor\, Todd Groves\, former WCCSB member. \n\nSponsored by Defend Public Education Now\nFor more information\, call:(510) 506-4493\, (510) 439-8073\nhttps://www.defendpubliceducationnow.org
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/charters-privatization-public-education-and-labor-dpen/
LOCATION:Richmond High School Auditorium\, 1250 23rd St.\, Richmond\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2017-forum-reading,22,Forum, Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170722T030000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170722T030000
DTSTAMP:20260605T040123
CREATED:20170519T223906Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T210803Z
UID:323-1500692400-1500692400@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Tom Mooney and Preparedness Day Bombing Walk
DESCRIPTION:With Gifford Hartman\, David Duckworth \nDuring 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\, while labor leaders and the left denounced it. With the bomb killing ten people and wounding forty\, no clear culprit was identified. But\, two figures from the left\, labor organizers and anarchists Tom Mooney and Warren K. Billings\, were framed for the murder of the victims and spent many years in prison before being released. On this tour\, we learn not only about the war between business and labor and open and closed union shops\, but also the divisive issues of American aggression in the Pacific region and against Mexico\, crusading and yellow journalism in the city of San Francisco\, and the mood of the country regarding World War I.\nThe tour lasts approximately two hours.\nDavid Duckworth is an art and cultural historian\, having lectured widely\, including California Institute of Integral Studies\, Free University\, LaborFest\, New York University\, Popular Culture/American Culture Association\, and Treasure Island Museum.\nGifford Hartman is an adult educator\, labor trainer\, working class historian\, and has been a rank-and-file militant in various industries (some organized by the SEIU and ILWU\, and others non-union shops) and presently works in the unorganized precarious education sector.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/tom-mooney-and-preparedness-day-bombing-walk/
LOCATION:One Market St.\, One Market St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2017-tour-walk,22,Tour, Walk
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