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Labor History Bike Tour

Meet at 518 Valencia Street 518 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

Sliding scale $15 - $50 | by Chris Carlsson | Benefiting shaping San Francisco. This is an entirely different look, during a four-hour bike tour, at San Francisco labor history.

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Internment, Japanese Americans, Labor And The Lessons For Today

National Japanese American Historical Society 1684 Post St., San Francisco, CA, United States

Free | This year is the 75th anniversary of the internment of over 120,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese Peruvians in concentration camps during World War II under the executive order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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SF Mime Troupe – Walls

Cedar Rose Park 1300 Rose St, Berkeley, CA, United States

Free | WALLS asks the question: How can a nation of immigrants declare war on immigration? The answer: FEAR!

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SF Mime Troupe – Walls

Cedar Rose Park 1300 Rose St, Berkeley, CA, United States

Free | WALLS asks the question: How can a nation of immigrants declare war on immigration? The answer: FEAR!

SF Mime Troupe – Walls

Dolores Park Dolores Park, San Francisco, CA, United States

Free | WALLS asks the question: How can a nation of immigrants declare war on immigration? The answer: FEAR!

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Film: American Socialist: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs

ILWU Local 34 Hall 801 2nd St., San Francisco, CA, United States

Free | by Yale Strom | Eugene Victor Debs is unknown to most people in the United States, yet, he is one of the most important working-class figures in our history. Debs was a railroad worker during the 1877 national railway strike in July. This strike took place when the railroad bosses cut the wages of railroad workers 20%.

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Book reading – Refinery Town by Steve Early

Green Arcade Bookstore 1680 Market St., San Francisco, CA, United States

Free | by Steve Early | Steve Early has been an active labor journalist and organizer for over forty years. His work appears in the New York Times, Boston Globe, and The Nation, among other publications. He is the author of four books, including Save Our Unions: Dispatches of a Movement in Distress. He lives in Richmond, CA.

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Film: Ludlow, Greek Americans In Colorado Coal War (71 min.) 2016

518 Valencia 518 Valencia, San Francisco, CA, United States

Free | Producer: Frosso Tsouka, Director: Leonidas Vardaros | The racist war on immigrants in the US has a long history and this film tells the story of Greek Americans and other immigrants who came to work in the mines of Colorado. This film shows the conditions that these miners and their children worked under and how immigrant workers were terrorized and exploited.

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