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Charters, Privatization & the Defense of Public Education

Richmond High School Auditorium 1250 23rd St., Richmond, CA, United States

$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.

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The history of the Alibi Clock in Vallejo and the K-R-C case of 1937

John F. Kennedy Library Joseph Room 505 Santa Clara Street, Vallejo, CA, United States

Free | by Joel Schor | Legal 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.

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Film: Watsonville On Strike (65 min.) 1989

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

Free | Director: Jon Silver, with Jon Silver & Frank Barnacke | In 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.

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From Killer Drones to Gentrification: The Struggle In Germany and Internationalism

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

Free | by Elsa Rassbach and Harald Gindra | Longtime 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.

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The River Ran Red : (58 min.) 2012 / And Report on Labor in the Schools

Plumbers Hall 1621 Market St. 2nd floor, San Francisco, CA, United States

Free | Director: Steffi Domike and Nicole Fauteux, and Labor in the Schools | The 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.

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Film: Where Are You Buddy? (25 min.) 2017, Turkey

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

Free | Director: Kazim Kizil | With discussion - The Fight to Defend Academics and Journalists in Turkey: The 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.

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Film: Bridging Urban America (87 min.) 2016

SF Main Library - Koret Auditorium 100 Larkin St., San Francisco, CA, United States

Free | Director: Basia Myszynski and Leonard Myszynski | This biography celebrates Ralph Modjeski, the chief engineer 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.

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What California Labor History Tells Us About Building the Resistance to Trump

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

Free | by Fred B. Glass | At 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.

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LaborFest Comedy Night

San Jose Improv 62 S. 2nd St., San Jose, CA, United States

Hosted by Danny Cruzz | LaborFest 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.

All Of Us Or None

Niebyl Proctor Marxist Library 6501 Telegraph Ave., Oakland, CA, United States

Free | 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 States

Free | 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 States

Free | 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 States

Free | 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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Film: Care (60 min.) 2016 / Panel of Homecare and Disabled Care Workers

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

Free | Director: Deirdre Fishel
& The Defense of Our Elderly and Panel of Homecare and Disabled Care Workers
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A panel discussion follows after the film: Brett Miller, SEIU 1021; Brad Wiedmaier, SEIU Local 2015 California long term care; moderated by David Duckworth SEIU 1021.

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Oakland 1946 General Strike Walk

Latham Square 1611 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA, United States

Free | with Gifford Hartman of the Flying Picket Historical Society | This 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.

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Paul Robeson: A Portrait in Story & Song

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

Donation | by The Rockin’ Solidarity Labor Chorus | The Rockin’ Solidarity Labor Chorus presents a musical biography of Paul Robeson, the great African American artist, athlete, and activist.

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Walk: Labor Politics and Architecture of San Francisco

ILWU Sculpture Mission St & Steuart St, San Francisco, CA, United States

Free | 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 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.

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The Internet, Technology, The Gig Economy and the Future of Labor

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

Free | 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.

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Film: Now Is The Time: Healthcare for Everybody (71 min.) 2016

SF Main Library - Koret Auditorium 100 Larkin St., San Francisco, CA, United States

Free | Director: Terry sterenberg & Laurie Simons | This 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.

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Film: Iron Moon (84 min.) 2015, China / Play On (83 min.) 2017, S.Korea

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

Free | Director: Xiaoyu Qin and Feiyue Wu (Iron Moon), Director: Gyuri Byun (Play On) | The 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.

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LaborFest Writers

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

Free | 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.

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Stop the War on Workers Concert

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

Donation $5-20 sliding scale, free to strikers and locked-out workers, No one will be turned away due to cost | by Ann Feeney and Roy Zimmerman | LaborFest closes its annual festival with terrific artists Ann Feeney and Roy Zimmerman.

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Labor History Bike Tour

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

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 […]

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Film: We The Workers, 2017 (174 min.), China

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

FilmWorks United International Working Class Film & Video Festival Directed by Wen Hai (China) China 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 […]

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Film : A Taxi Driver, 2017 (138 min.), Korea

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

FilmWorks United International Working Class Film & Video Festival Directed by Jan Hoon (Korea) Gwangju, 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 […]

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Film : UNION TIME: Fighting For Workers Rights, 2016 (86 min.) U.S.A.

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

FilmWorks United International Working Class Film & Video Festival Directed by Matthew Barr Narrated by Danny Glover In 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, […]

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Film : Bisbee ’17 (119 min.)

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

Directed by Robert Greene (2018) The 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 […]

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Bread & Roses Labor History Story Telling with Retired Union Members

San Francisco Labor Council Office 1188 Franklin Street, Suite 203, San Francisco, CA, United States

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 […]

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SF Mime Troupe – 2018: Seeing Red: A Time-Traveling Musical

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

Written by Rotimi Agbabiaka with Joan Holden Music & Lyrics by Ira Marlowe Directed by Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe It'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 […]

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Film : Last Train Home, 2010 (87 min.) China

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

FilmWorks United International Working Class Film & Video Festival Directed by Lixin Fan (China) When this documentary was made 8 years ago, the number of the migrant workers from rural area of China to big cities were 130 million, however, it is now 260 million in China. These are the workers who have built the […]

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Walk – San Francisco General Strike

Harry Bridges Plaza Tower in front of Ferry Building Plaza Tower in front of Ferry Building, San Francisco, CA, United States

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 […]

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WPA Bus Tour

Bill Graham Auditorium 99 Grove, San Francisco, CA, United States

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, […]

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Film : The Young Karl Marx, 2017 (118 min.) Germany

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

FilmWorks United International Working Class Film & Video Festival Directed by Raoul Peck (Germany) On the 200th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx, many of his ideas are as relevant today as they were when he and his collaborator Frederick Engels were writing and organizing. The growing crisis of technology creating great wealth then […]

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Workers Rights, Workers Lives, Organizing in Silicon Valley

SEIU United Service Workers West 1010 Ruff Dr, San Jose, CA, United States

Millions of workers have come to the Bay Area and Silicon Valley to work and live. The conference will hear from workers who are fighting for union and worker rights in Silicon valley from service workers to tech workers. While billionaires are being made every year in Silicon valley the workers who make their money […]

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Giving Voice: LaborFest Writers’ Anthology 2005-2018

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

The collection includes a selection of works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by writers Phyllis Holliday, Margaret Cooley, Keith Cooley, Adele Kearney, Nellie Wong, Jerry Path, and Alice Rogoff. Hear stories about the lives and struggles of laborers, farmers, cooks, cowboys, and coalminers from China, Ireland, Britain, rural Wisconsin, and the Old West. The anthology […]

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Panel – Workplace Racism, Hanging Nooses and Fightback

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

The escalation of open racist attacks is happening not only in our communities but on our jobs. There is a national epidemic of “hanging nooses” and workplace bullying to terrorize African American workers and other workers on the job. At the same time there is systemic racial discrimination in many industries and in the City […]

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The History of SF Labor Temple

Red Stone Building 2940 16th St., San Francisco, United States

Two independently produced videos will explore San Francisco labor movement history and current efforts to protect the Redstone Labor Temple (yet again!) from redevelopers and keep it as a community resource. We will trace major events that led to construction of the San Francisco Labor Temple in 1915, some of the history it has created […]

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Immigrant Girl, Radical Woman, a Memoir from the Early Twen- tieth Century – Book reading

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

Presented by Robbin Henderson Matilda Rabinowitz’s memoir challenges assumptions about the lives of early twentieth-century women. In Immigrant Girl, Radical Woman, Rabinowitz describes the ways in which she and her contemporaries rejected the intellectual and social restrictions imposed on women as they sought political and economic equality in the first half of the twentieth century. […]

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Concert : Labor Troubadour and Rocker Mike Stout and Whats Left With Jimmy Kelley

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

Mike Stout has spent his life rocking the world with his music. Based in Pittsburgh, he is known as the “World’s Grievance Man” and his music has a powerful punch. In 1977 Stout became a steelworker at Homestead Works, where he was elected the union’s head grievance man. He used his music to rally his […]

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Taxi Workers and The Streets of San Francisco

Red Stone Building 2940 16th St., San Francisco, United States

The deregulation of taxi workers began in San Francisco during the 1970’s. It has escalated with the introduction of tech platforms for Uber and Lyft, which have allowed the massive introduction of drivers, pitting workers against workers for the profits of the billionaires who own these platforms. It has also led to massive gridlock and […]

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The Performance of Public Speaking

San Francisco Labor Council Office 1188 Franklin Street, Suite 203, San Francisco, CA, United States

The SAG-AFTRA san Francisco-Northern California Local in conjunction with LaborFest presents: The Performance of Public Speaking Join us for a presentation on how to engage audiences and the media. SAG-AFTRA members will offer insight into the art of public speaking from the perspective of a performer and a broadcaster. No RSVP is requited for this […]

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50th Anniversary of SF State Strike – The Lessons for Today

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

This commemorative event honors the 50th anniversary of the San Francisco State Strike. What are the lessons of that strike for today when students have to go into debt to attend college? The mass SF State Strike, which was supported by campus unions including the AFT Teachers Union, was the longest student strike in the […]

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Film : Last Train Home, 2010 (87 min) China

San Jose Peace & Justice Center 48 S. 7th St., San Jose, CA, United States

  Directed by Lixin Fan (China) When this documentary was made 8 years ago, the number of the migrant workers from rural area of China to big cities were 130 million, however, it is now 260 million in China. These are the workers who have built the largest industrial power in the world. This film […]

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The Strike and Uprising, 2017 (66 min.) U.S.A.

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

FilmWorks United International Working Class Film & Video Festival Directed by Anne Lewis This new film by Anne Lewis and associate producer Laura Vare, A Strike and an Uprising, illuminates two major moments in Texas labor history: the Pecan Shellers Strike of 1937 led by young communist Emma Tenayuca, and the Jobs With Justice campaign […]

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SF Waterfront Labor History Walk 1835-1934

75 Folsom St. 75 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, United States

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, […]

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Privatization, Union Busting and International Solidarity

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

Videos and Presentation The privatization of public services, transportation, and education is a threat not only to unions but to the public in the U.S. and globally. This forum will look at privatization elsewhere in the world on a global scale, and how workers are organizing and educating to stop these policies. Partial list of […]

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Living History re-creates the 1901 Waterfront Strike

San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park Hyde Street Pier, San Francisco, CA

Living History re-creates the 1901 Waterfront Strike that paralyzed San Francisco for five months. From July 13 to October 2, 1901, San Francisco’s waterfront was shut down by sailors,Teamsters, and longshoremen striking for better pay and working conditions. Experience the sights and sounds of San Francisco history through a Living History reenactment. Hear impassioned speeches […]

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Coit Tower Mural Walk

Coit Tower 1 Telegraph Hill Blvd., San Francisco, CA, United States

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 […]

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Book Reading – Trotskyists on Trial

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

By Donna T. Haverty-Stacke The 1934 Minneapolis Teamster general strike coincided with the San Francisco General Strike. After the Minneapolis strike, the government, the companies and more conservative union officials sought to go after the leadership of the Teamster Local 544 for organizing the strike and fighting against corporate unionism. Donna T. Haverty-Stacke who is […]

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Labor Maritime History Boat Tour

Pier 41 next to Pier 39 near RocktBoat PIER 41, San Francisco, CA, United States

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 […]

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Air B&B and Effects on The Workers, Tenants, Neighborhoods

Unite HERE Local 2 Hall 209 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco, CA, United States

Airbnb has had a profound effect not just in San Francisco but around the world. For cities, it has turned neighborhoods into hotel districts. One example of the role of Airbnb is in North Beach where the elderly have been evicted to move tourists in. It has also threatened local businesses that make San Francisco […]

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The Gig Economy, Privacy, Automation and AI

Stanford University Room 126, Building 460, Margaret Jacks Hall, 450 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, United States

San Francisco Bay Area is ground zero for the world tech transformation from platforms at Uber and Lyft to social media networks like Facebook and search engines like Google. The collection of big data without privacy rights, or the introduction of automation by Tesla and AI without any real controls and regulations, is not only […]

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Early Farm Labor Organizing, 1935’s Sebastopol Apple Pickers Strike, and the ACLU’s Role-

Clifornia Historical Society 678 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA

Presentation and Discussion of Sol Nitzberg:Sponsored by California Historical Society Join Barry Nitzberg, grandson of tar-and-feathering victim Sol Nitzberg, and historian Ken Kann, for a retrospective on early farm labor organizing and vigilante terror in Sonoma County, California. Learn about the 1935 Sebastopol apple pickers strike, the assault on Barry’s grandfather and other labor organizers, […]

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Whistle Blowers and Workers Rights

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

Whistleblowers on the job are under attack. This forum will hear from whistleblowers about their struggle to defend health and safety and the public. Their actions are taking place in a period of growing financial corruption in our society. One of the whistleblowers, Darrell Whitman, who is a member of AFGE and worked as an […]

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Film : Pride 2014 (120 min.) UK

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

FilmWorks United International Working Class Film & Video Festival Directed by Matthew Warchus (UK) The unity of workers and oppressed minorities is the story of Pride. In a successful effort to break the miners’ union, former Prime Minister Thatcher decided to force the National Union of Miners out on strike during 1984-1985. This movie encapsulates […]

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8th Annual San Francisco Living Wage Coalition Awards Dinner

SEIU 1021 Hall 350 Rhode Island St, San Francisco, CA, United States

Labor Woman of the Year Award - Juana Flores, Executive Director, Mujeres Unidas y Activas, Labor Man of the Year Award - Arnulfo De La Cruz, Executive Vice President, SEIU Local 2015 The Living Wage Coalition’s current efforts are workshops and campaigns to organize workers and educate the community on a Five Point Program to […]

The Rockin’ Solidarity Labor Chorus : No Human Is Illegal

First Unitarian Universalist Church 1187 Franklin St., San Francisco, CA, United States

The Rockin’ Solidarity Labor Chorus presents a history of immigration, told through the lens of family and policy and illustrated by songs old and new. Chorus members will share their own families’ migration experiences; Howard Zinn and Cornel West will weigh in; and there are rumors of a surprise visit from Washington, DC. www.laborchorus.org

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Film : Dare To Struggle Dare To Win, 1968 (96 min.) France

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

FilmWorks United International Working Class Film & Video Festival Directed by Jea-Pierre Thorn (France) 50th Anniversary of May-June General Strike France In the middle of the May-June French General Strike in 1968 Jean Pierre-Thorn, a film student at University of Paris, takes his camera to the Flins Renault auto plant and ends up in the […]

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WPA Berkeley Walk

Main Berkeley Post Office 2000 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, United States

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 […]

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Tom Mooney and Preparedness Day Bombing Walk

One Market St. One Market St., San Francisco, CA, United States

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, […]

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The Working Class Struggles In France

Niebyl Proctor Marxist Library 6501 Telegraph Ave., Oakland, CA, United States

French Social Movements: There have been ongoing rail strikes, major demonstrations, and university occupations protesting Macron’s government’s attacks. Come to a skype presentation by trade unionists from the Fraction l’Etincelle of the NPA (New Anti-Capitalist Party)

Film : Pride, 2014 (120 min.) UK

Billy DeFrank LGBTQ Community Center, Ballroom 938 The Alameda, San Jose, CA, United States

FilmWorks United International Working Class Film & Video Festival Directed by Matthew Warchus (UK) The unity of workers and oppressed minorities is the story of Pride. In a successful effort to break the miners’ union, former Prime Minister Thatcher decided to force the National Union of Miners out on strike during 1984-1985. This movie encapsulates […]

Angel Island and Trial of Harry Bridges

Angel Island Immigration Post

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 […]

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Dying to Work: Death and Injury in the American Workplace

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

Book reading by Jonathan Karmel Writer and labor lawyer Jonathan Karmel has written a book about the cost to workers and their families of the lack of health and safety protection on the job. He visits workers and gets their stories on the deaths and permanent injuries that have destroyed their lives. He also looks […]

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The History of California Slavery by Jean Pfaelzer

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

Slavery, observed Frederick Douglass, is a “hydra-headed monster.” In California this monster appeared and reappeared as if shape-shifting. The history of slavery in California unsettles the North/South view of American slave labor. This is a history of captivity, flight and resistance, of Indians held captive at the missions, Alaska natives brought to Fort Ross in […]

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Spain – The Mondagron Co-Operative: How Workers Cooperate, Innovate, and Prosper – by Sharat Lin

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

Sharat Lin is an international labor researcher looking at the lessons of the Spanish Mondagron Cooperative system. He reports on how it works and how workers who are using their collective control can innovate and develop their enterprises. The Mondagron cooperative forum. Additional information http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/9/8/eu-law-puts-a-dent-in-scandinavian- labor-organizing.html is the tenth-largest Spanish company in terms of assets […]

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Nordic Workers, Union and Labor Rights – by Jordin Williams

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

American-Swedish trade unionist Jordin Williams will discuss how workers are organized across the Nordic spectrum: Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Denmark. He will give a Powerpoint presentation to discuss labor rights and labor laws and the issues that they face. The rights of Swedish workers on the job allow greater unionization and solidarity than is […]

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Film : Port Triumph (Puerto el Triunfo) 2017 (62 min.)

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

FilmWorks United International Working Class Film & Video Festival Directed by Jeffrey Gould This film by Jeffrey Gould, a history professor at the University of Indiana, looks at an important labor struggle of shrimp workers at Port Triumph in El Salvador. El Salvador had a large shrimp industry, which mostly exported to the United States. […]

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The Exploitation of Part-Time College Faculty – Panel Discussion

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

Part of the so-called American Dream is the notion that if you work hard and get a good education you will make a decent living. However, many of our most educated workera are teachers in higher education institutions and suffer from the worldwide trend, endured by an increasing number of workers, of being grossly underpaid […]

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Voices and Musicians Will Speak Out – Revolutionary Poets Brigade

Beat Museum 540 Broadway St., San Francisco, CA, United States

The dystopian world we live in will be challenged by words and music that will bring solidarity and unity of all working people. Poets: Mahnaz Badihian, Lisbit Bailey, Kristina Brown, Pauline Craig, John Curl, Diego De Leo, Agneta Falk, Maria Cristina Herrera, Martin Hickel, Jack Hirschman, Karen M. Magoon Rosemary Manno, Sarah Menefee, Barbara Paschke, […]

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Film : Reserve Slaves (Schiavi di Riserva) 2018 (30 min.) Italy

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

FilmWorks United International Working Class Film & Video Festival Reserve Slaves (Schiavi di Riserva) 2018 (30 min.) Italy Directed by Michelangelo Severgnini The result of the U.S./European attack on Libya has been the restoration of slavery. Europe and the U.S. caused it, allows it, and benefits from it, according to Severgini’s film Reserve Slaves. In […]

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Film: Turkey on the Edge 2018 (53 min.) Turkey

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

Directed by Imre Azem, 2018 (53 min.) Turkey. Four following years the Gezi Resistance, great political and social changes were instituted in Turkey. Director İmre Azem follows four people striving for democracy, from Gezi to a July 15th attempted coup, a subsequent state of emergency, and finally an april 16th, 2017 referendum. The rise of Turkey’s […]

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Uber, Lyft, Public Transit & The App Nightmare

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

Thousands of drivers now come into San Francisco and other cities on the coast to drive for Uber and Lyft. These workers are forced to leave their homes because they cannot make enough where they live. The technology is now being used to further the exploitation of the drivers. This has led to gridlock, environmental […]

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Oakland 1946 General Strike Walk

Latham Square 1611 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA, United States

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” […]

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San Bruno Mountain Wilderness Walk

San Bruno Mountain Watch Office 44 Visitation Ave., Rm 206, Brisbane, CA, United States

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 […]

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Labor Politics and Architecture of San Francisco – walk

ILWU Sculpture Mission St & Steuart St, San Francisco, CA, United States

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.

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Charters, Privatization, Co-Locations & Fight Back – Conference

Finnish Hall 1970 Chestnut Street, Berkley, CA, United States

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 […]

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Concert : Charlie King and Rebel Voices

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

Labor musician and political satirist Charlie King will sing about the struggle of working people in the age of Trump. Pete Seeger nominated Charlie for the Sacco- Vanzetti Social Justice Award, which he received in November 1999. He recieved the Phil Ochs award in 2017. He will be joined by Rebel Voices musicians Susan Lewis […]

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Palestinian Workers and Solidarity Work

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

Workers Rights has no borders and the struggle and lives of Palestinian workers are the focus of this forum. Palestinian journalists have been targeted by Israeli snipers in increasing numbers. At the same time, Palestinian workers face brutal slave-like discriminatory conditions, not only in the occupied lands, but also inside the state of Israel. Unions […]

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Play : Fight for 52¢ – Written and Performed by Howard Petrick – 70 min.

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

San Francisco actor and writer Howard Petrick takes a look at the 1934 Minneapolis general strike through the eyes of one of its leaders, V.R. Dunne. The Minneapolis Teamster General Strike was one of three successful strikes that year that built the rise of industrial unionism and labor rights. We learn Dunne’s story through his […]

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