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SUMMARY:The Golden Spike: Chinese and Irish Labor versus The Big Four
DESCRIPTION:May 10\, 2019 will be the 150th anniversary of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad\, a momentous accomplishment which has excluded recognition of the contribution of Chinese railroad workers to the wealth of The Big Four and the building of the American Empire\, which connected East Coast to West across the Pacific to the China Trade.\nThis labor story will be told by descendant Paulette Liang and Stanford professor Hilton Obenzinger with analysis by CCSF labor studies professor Bill Shields and global supply chain researcher Gifford Hartman. Music will be performed by folklorist Charlie Chin and Loni Ding’s 25-min. video The Canton Army in the High Sierras will be screened.\nFor more information: lyfong@pacbell.net \n  \n 
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/the-golden-spike-chinese-and-irish-labor-versus-the-big-four/
LOCATION:Chinese Historical Society of America\, 965 Clay St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:12,2017-forum-reading,Forum, Reading
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2018/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/7-12-CantonArmy-railroad.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170712T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170712T120000
DTSTAMP:20260605T015419
CREATED:20170519T043405Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T205526Z
UID:288-1499860800-1499860800@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Film: Killing Floor (114 min) 1984
DESCRIPTION:Producer-Writer: Elsa Rassbach\, Director: Bill Duke (1985 Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Award)\nOne hundred years ago\, a critical struggle was taking place in the slaughterhouses in Chicago to organize a union. This powerful dramatic film focuses on the Polish and African American workers and their conditions as they fight to overcome racism and class hate and greed\, in order to build a union of black and white workers.\nAfrican American workers traveled to Chicago for jobs and the continuing struggles that led to race riots in Chicago in 1919.\nElsa Rassbach fought for PBS to do a series of films on working class history but this was the only one that was able to get funded.  \nhttp://www.thekillingfloor-thefilm.com/index.html
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/film-killing-floor/
LOCATION:ILWU Local 34 Hall\, 801 2nd St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:12,2017-film,Film
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2018/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/7-12-killingfloor.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170713T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170713T110000
DTSTAMP:20260605T015419
CREATED:20170519T043519Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T205539Z
UID:290-1499943600-1499943600@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Comme des Lions “Like lions” Lets Fight Like Lions (115 min.) 2016
DESCRIPTION:Directed by: Françoise Davisse\nThis documentary film traces the struggle of workers of the PSA plant in Aulnay-sous-Bois\, a poor suburb of Paris\, against management’s threat to close the plant. The title comes from the slogan of the strikers\, “Let’s fight like lions!” The conflict is experienced “from the inside\,” showing the workers’ debates and reactions on a day-to-day basis\, from 2013-2015.\nSponsored by the BCC Students for Socialism Club\n(Contact jberezin@peralta.edu)
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/comme-des-lions-like-lions-lets-fight-like-lions/
LOCATION:Berkeley City College Auditorium\, 2050 Center St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:13,2017-film,Film
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2018/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/comme-des-lions.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="BCC Students for Socialism Club":MAILTO:jberezin@peralta.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170713T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170713T120000
DTSTAMP:20260605T015419
CREATED:20170609T080752Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T205603Z
UID:489-1499947200-1499947200@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Woody Guthrie’s Birthday & Homestead Strike : The River Ran Red (58 min.) 2012
DESCRIPTION:Join labor musician Jimmy Kelly in commemorating the life and songs of Woody Guthrie and his birthday. Guthrie\, a people and worker’s musician\, traveled coast-to-coast singing about striking workers and people in struggle.  \nThe River Ran Red (58 min.) 2012\nBy Steffi domike & Nicole fauteux\nAlso\, this year is the 125th anniversary of the Homestead Strike\, and there will be a screening of The River Ran Red about the 1872 Homestead Steel Works strike in Pennsylvania. Andrew Carnegie and the other owners of the steel mill brought in Pinkerton gun thugs to break the strike and the union. This struggle was a lesson on how the robber barons treated their workers and kept their power.\n(Please check the detail of the film The River Ran Red on July 24 calender).
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/woody-guthries-birthday-homestead-strike/
LOCATION:Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Hall\, 1924 Cedar St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:13,2017-music-theater-art,Film,Music, Theater, Art
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2018/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/7-13-WoodyGuthrie.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170714T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170714T110000
DTSTAMP:20260605T015419
CREATED:20170519T043810Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T205614Z
UID:295-1500030000-1500030000@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Building Bridges\, Not Walls
DESCRIPTION:Building Bridges\, Not Walls – Art and Poetry Exhibit \n“Building Bridges\, Not Walls” acknowledges the contributions of the multicultural population of the Bay Area and its role in creating world-renown infrastructure. This exhibit features Bay Area artists and poets whose work celebrates these contributions. Three themes will be highlighted to celebrate the bridges\, the people who built them and the impact on our lives today: Immigrants\, Diversity\, and Internationalism.\nDuring July and August\, a companion exhibit at the San Francisco Main Library will display and interpret historic photos and objects from the construction of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and other historic San Francisco bridges – the Golden Gate\, Lefty O’Doul\, and Alvord Lake. These exhibits celebrate the immigrant engineers who designed the bridges\, the children of immigrants who built the older bridges\, the diverse workforce\, including women\, who built the new Bay Bridge span\, and the internationalism of the Golden Gate International Exposition and of the founding conference of the United Nations. \nArticle in World Journal \n 
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/building-bridges-not-walls/
LOCATION:Canessa Gallery\, 708 Montgomery St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:14,2017-music-theater-art,Music, Theater, Art
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2018/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/7-14-bridge.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170714T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170714T120000
DTSTAMP:20260605T015419
CREATED:20170609T081154Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T205625Z
UID:492-1500033600-1500033600@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Woody Guthrie’s Birthday & Homestead Strike : The River Ran Red (58 min.) 2012
DESCRIPTION:Join labor musician Jimmy Kelly in commemorating the life and songs of Woody Guthrie and his birthday. Guthrie\, a people and worker’s musician\, traveled coast-to-coast singing about striking workers and people in struggle.  \nThe River Ran Red (58 min.) 2012\nBy Steffi domike & Nicole fauteux\nAlso\, this year is the 125th anniversary of the Homestead Strike\, and there will be a screening of The River Ran Red about the 1872 Homestead Steel Works strike in Pennsylvania. Andrew Carnegie and the other owners of the steel mill brought in Pinkerton gun thugs to break the strike and the union. This struggle was a lesson on how the robber barons treated their workers and kept their power.\n(Please check the detail of the film The River Ran Red on July 24 calender).
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/woody-guthries-birthday-homestead-strike-2/
LOCATION:San Jose Peace & Justice Center\, 48 S. 7th St.\, San Jose\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:14,2017-music-theater-art,Film,Music, Theater, Art
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2018/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/7-13-WoodyGuthrie-1.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170715T030000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170715T030000
DTSTAMP:20260605T015419
CREATED:20170609T081742Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T205634Z
UID:496-1500087600-1500087600@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Woody Guthrie’s Birthday & Homestead Strike : The River Ran Red (58 min.) 2012
DESCRIPTION:Join labor musician Jimmy Kelly in commemorating the life and songs of Woody Guthrie and his birthday. Guthrie\, a people and worker’s musician\, traveled coast-to-coast singing about striking workers and people in struggle.  \nThe River Ran Red (58 min.) 2012\nBy Steffi domike & Nicole fauteux\nAlso\, this year is the 125th anniversary of the Homestead Strike\, and there will be a screening of The River Ran Red about the 1872 Homestead Steel Works strike in Pennsylvania. Andrew Carnegie and the other owners of the steel mill brought in Pinkerton gun thugs to break the strike and the union. This struggle was a lesson on how the robber barons treated their workers and kept their power.\n(Please check the detail of the film The River Ran Red on July 24 calender).
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/woody-guthries-birthday-homestead-strike-3/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Public Library\, 224 Church St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:15,2017-music-theater-art,Film,Music, Theater, Art
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2018/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/7-13-WoodyGuthrie.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170715T030000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170715T030000
DTSTAMP:20260605T015419
CREATED:20170609T082051Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T205648Z
UID:499-1500087600-1500087600@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:SF Waterfront Labor History Walk 1835-1934
DESCRIPTION:With Lawrence Shoup and Peter O’Driscoll\nThere 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\, which the San Francisco police attempted\, but failed\, to smash. After an over two-month long struggle\, the workers emerged victorious\, and the Union Labor Party won the election of 1901\, taking control of the city. This was the first large city in the United States to have a union labor party in office.. \n \n \n 
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/sf-waterfront-labor-history-walk-1835-1934/
LOCATION:75 Folsom St.\, 75 Folsom St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:15,2017-tour-walk,Tour, Walk
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2018/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/7-15-SF-1907-Railcar-Strike-.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170715T030000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170715T090000
DTSTAMP:20260605T015419
CREATED:20170519T051635Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T205656Z
UID:297-1500087600-1500109200@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Longshore Work\, Automation\, Technology and the Future of Our Work and Lives
DESCRIPTION:Longshore Work\, Automation\, Technology and the Future of Our Work and Lives – Conference \nThe drive to automate the docks and the maritime industry is moving forward rapidly and\, in some European ports\, the transfer of cargo has been automated forcing thousands of longshore workers out of the industry. The capitalists are also already working on designing automated ships with almost no crews to cut their labor costs and increase their profits. This educational conference will look at the history of containerization in the past and what longshore workers face today and in the future to defend labor union and worker rights. \n\nInitial Speakers:\nBob Carnegie: Maritime Union of Australia Queensland Branch Secretary\nRaquel Varela: Instituto de História Contemporânea\nHonorary Fellow IISH (Amsterdam)\, Universidade Nova de Lisboa\, Study Group on Labor and Social Conflicts\nKen Riley\, President of Charleston ILA 1422 and IDC North American Representative\nSponsored by LaborTech.net\, ILWU Local 10 \n \n7/15/2017 Video report from the conference: Longshore Work\, Automation\, Technology and the Future of Our Work and Lives – Conference \n \nRaquel Varela’s presentation at the conference: \n \nReport by Jack Heyman:
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/longshore-work-automation-technology-and-the-future-of-our-work-and-lives/
LOCATION:ILWU Local 10 Henry Schmidt Room\, 400 North Point St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:15,2017-tour-walk,Tour, Walk
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2018/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/portlockout300902nyt.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170715T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170715T120000
DTSTAMP:20260605T015419
CREATED:20170519T051743Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T205726Z
UID:299-1500120000-1500120000@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Not Our Brothers And Sisters !! Against Deportations And Racism
DESCRIPTION:Against Deportations and Racism – Poetry reading\nWith The Revolutionary Poets Brigade & The Juana Briones Cultural Committee\nCapitalism uses racist attacks on African-Americans and threats of deportation on Latinos and Muslims to divide the working-class revolution in this country. The Revolutionary Poets Brigade and the Juana Briones Cultural Committee in this neo-fascist Trump period will soundly refuse those betrayals. \n\nParticipating poets:\nJorge Argueta\, Mahnaz Badihian\, Lisbit Bailey\, Judith Ayn Bernhard\, Charles Curtis Blackwell\, Boadiba\, Kristina Brown\, James Cagney\, Neeli Cherkovski\, Pauline Craig\, John Curl\, Diego De Leo\, Sharon Doubiago\, Aja Couchois Duncan\, Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Agneta Falk\, Mauro Fortissimo\, Q.R. Hand\, Christina Herrera\, Francisco Herrera\, Martin Hickel\, Jack Hirschman\, Genny Lim\, Rosemary Manno\, Sarah Menefee\, Jorge Molina\, William Moreland\, Barbara Paschke\, Dorothy (Dottie) Payne\, Gregory Pond\, Tony Robles\, Maria Medina Serafin\, David Volpendesta
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/not-our-brothers-and-sisters-against-deportations-and-racism/
LOCATION:Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:15,2017-forum-reading,Forum, Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170716T024500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170716T024500
DTSTAMP:20260605T015419
CREATED:20170519T052105Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T205737Z
UID:304-1500173100-1500173100@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Coit Tower Mural Walk
DESCRIPTION:With Peter O’Driscoll and Harvey Smith\nIn 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 time of the 1934 General Strike in San Francisco. LaborFest will hold its annual guided tour of the murals with Peter O’Driscoll and Harvey Smith. At the time of their installation\, an organized effort was made to destroy them because of the leftist themes. The artists and their supporters had to physically defend the site. The murals were successfully defended and we have them today as our heritage. The artists were working under the Civil Works Administration and Public Works of Art program\, which was later extended to many buildings and sites throughout the U.S.\nArticle:How Coit Tower’s murals became a target for anticommunist forces (By Gary Kamiya – 7/7/2017-SF Chronicle)
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/coit-tower-mural-walk/
LOCATION:Coit Tower\, 1 Telegraph Hill Blvd.\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:16,2017-tour-walk,Tour, Walk
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2018/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/7-16-Coit-grocery.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170716T030000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170716T030000
DTSTAMP:20260605T015419
CREATED:20170519T051909Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T210600Z
UID:301-1500174000-1500174000@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:San Bruno Mountain Wilderness Walk
DESCRIPTION:Walk with David Schooley\nMeet at 10:00 AM at the San Bruno Mountain Watch office\nTo get there by car\, follow Bayshore Boulevard to Brisbane; or take the #292 SamTrans bus. \nLabor 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 were crucial in protecting much of the mountain\, allowing for the creation of a public park where working people can find tremendous beauty and peace nearby the cities where they live and work. \n\nYou’re invited to walk with David on the mountain and learn about the history of this remarkable refuge for endangered butterflies and rare native plants. \n\nTo sign up call: 415-467-6631\nOr email: info@mountainwatch.org
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/san-bruno-mountain-wilderness-walk/
LOCATION:San Bruno Mountain Watch Office\, 44 Visitation Ave.\, Rm 206\, Brisbane\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:16,2017-tour-walk,Tour, Walk
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2018/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/7-16-SanBrunoMountain.jpeg.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="David Schooley":MAILTO:info@mountainwatch.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170716T070000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170716T070000
DTSTAMP:20260605T015419
CREATED:20170519T052228Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T210618Z
UID:306-1500188400-1500188400@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Play reading: Painting Coit Tower
DESCRIPTION:Reading of scenes from new play about the Coit Tower murals and the artists who painted them\n \nWith Jon Golinger\, founder of Protect Coit Tower\n“What do powerful men fear most? Honest questions from free minds. Brush fresh paint on a blank slate – who knows what you may find?” So says artist Bernard Zakheim in a scene from “Painting Coit Tower\,” a new play that tells the amazing story of the Coit Tower murals – how they came to be and why they remain just as meaningful today as when they were painted 83 years ago. Scenes from the play will be read in an informal setting at the Canessa Gallery\, located on the very block of Montgomery Street where the Coit Tower mural story begins.\nSponsored by Protect Coit Tower.  \nFor more information email: ProtectCoitTower@gmail.com
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/play-reading-painting-coit-tower-reading-of-scenes-from-new-play-about-the-coit-tower-murals-and-the-artists-who-painted-them/
LOCATION:Canessa Gallery\, 708 Montgomery St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:16,2017-tour-walk,Forum, Reading
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2018/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/7-16-BernardZakheimandJuliaRogersatCoitTower.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Jon Golinger":MAILTO:ProtectCoitTower@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170716T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170716T080000
DTSTAMP:20260605T015419
CREATED:20170609T085205Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T210635Z
UID:519-1500192000-1500192000@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:The Origins of the US Military in the Indian Wars
DESCRIPTION:By Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz\nProfessor Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz in this talk will look at the history of the U.S. military in expanding U.S. imperial interests and establishing a state based on genocide and slavery.\nThe military built by the colonies that coalesced into the independent U.S. military developed out of continual genocidal wars against Native nations in taking the continent during the first 100 years. President Garfield in the Compromise of 1877 moved troops from the South\, to stop the St. Louis Commune\, which was established to support the national strike of railroad workers against wage cuts.\nThe military\, with 3\,000 federal troops and 5\,000 deputized special police\, killed at least eighteen people in St. Louis. The commune included not only railroad workers and other unionists but also African Americans and Native Americans. The Missouri senators who called for the military were themselves shareholders in the railroads that were being struck.\nSponsored by the Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/the-origins-of-the-us-military-in-the-indian-wars/
LOCATION:518 Valencia\, 518 Valencia\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:16,2017-forum-reading,Forum, Reading
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2018/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/7-16-1877-Great-railroad-strike.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170716T104500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170716T140000
DTSTAMP:20260605T015419
CREATED:20170519T052552Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T210646Z
UID:308-1500201900-1500213600@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Building Bridges and Labor Maritime History Boat Tour
DESCRIPTION:5:45 PM Boarding\, 6:00 PM Departure\nBoat leaves promptly at 6:00 PM \nPlease arrive 30 minutes before the boarding time.\nTour lasts 3 hours \nA 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.) \nJoin the best labor maritime trip in the world. Learn about the great labor history of the Bay Area\, from the 1934 Maritime Strike\, which help shape the charactor of San Francisco to the effort to save the EPA to ensure the Bay stay clean.\nWe will hear from labor historians Gray Brechin\, Harvey Schwartz\, Harvey Smith\, Lawrence Shoup and labor photographers like Joseph Blum. We will also hear about ongoing struggles of workers in the Bay Area.\nEnjoy labor songs with troubadours and musicians. Come one\, come all\, and experience the beauty of sailing the San Francisco Bay.\nThe tour end with the spetacular view of the sunset over the Golden Bridge from the middle of the Bay.\nYou can’t afford to miss this great maritime tour. \nTo make your reservation:\nBy E-mail: laborfest@stevezeltzer.com\nOr call: (415) 642-8066\nand leave (1) your name\, (2) phone number and (3)number of people in your party. (We prefer e-mail.) \nWe will contact you to confirm your reservation. Then\, you should mail a check ($45/person\, children under 6 – free\, 6 to 12 $25) to\nLaborFest\, P.O.Box 40983\, San Francisco\, CA 94140. \nWe don’t send out tickets\, but we will either e-mail or call you back to let you know that we received your check\, and as soon as we receive your check\, your reservation will be confirmed.\nYou will get your ticket at the pier before you get on the boat.\nWe will be gathering to the left of Pier 39\, toward Pier 41 (Blue & Gold Fleet).\nPlease be there at least 30 minutes before departure time in order to go through paper work.\nWe expect the tickets to be sold out quickly\, so please make your reservation early.\nWho Built the Golden Gate? New Book Tells Bridge Workers’ Stories – by Peter Cole\nBuilding Bridges and Maritime History Boat Tour – LaborFest 2014 slides – by Mike Melnyk \n \n \nWhale Joins LaborFest Maritime Boat Tour
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/308/
LOCATION:Pier 41 next to Pier 39 near RocktBoat\, PIER 41\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:16,2017-tour-walk,Tour, Walk
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2018/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/7-16Golden-Gate-Bridge-at-Sunset-from_Alcatraz-SmugMug-L.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170717T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170717T113000
DTSTAMP:20260605T015419
CREATED:20170519T052946Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T210658Z
UID:311-1500291000-1500291000@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:The Destruction of City College of San Francisco
DESCRIPTION:Public education has been under attack for many years. The forms of attack include inadequate funding\, privatization\, corporatization\, and hostility towards teacher and staff unions. Many students and public school employees have been harmed.\nOne college that has been relentlessly assaulted is City College of San Francisco (CCSF). It is a very popular public institution as reflected in the fact that over 80% of voters approved a parcel tax to help fund CCSF in the November 2016 election.\nIn 2008\, more than 100\,000 students were enrolled in classes at CCSF. Today\, its enrollment is less than 60\,000 and the number of its scheduled classes has been significantly reduced.\nWhy has there been an assault on this working class public institution? Who is behind it? What can be done to restore CCSF?\nThis panel will discuss and provide answers to these questions with help from the audience.\nRick Baum\, AFT 2121 Lecturer\nMedeline Mueller\, CCSF Music Department Chair\nSponsored by United Public Workers For Action\nwww.upwa.info
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/the-destruction-of-city-college-of-san-francisco/
LOCATION:Bernal Public Library\, 500 Cortland Ave.\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:17,2017-forum-reading,Forum, Reading
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2018/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/7-17-CCSF.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170719T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170719T120000
DTSTAMP:20260605T015419
CREATED:20170518T052658Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T210714Z
UID:259-1500465600-1500465600@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Film: I\, Daniel Blake (96 min.) 2017\, UK
DESCRIPTION:Directed by Ken Loach\, written by Paul Laverty\nScreenwriter Paul Laverty will introduce the film by Skype.\nI\, Daniel Blake by Director Ken Loach and writer Paul Leverty is an important film on the destruction of the lives of workers and their families in the “welfare system”. Blake is a carpenter who has a heart attack and is then forced to go back to work despite his health conditions. While he is fighting for compensation\, he befriends a woman and her children who are also being ground up in the Employment and Support Allowance welfare system in the UK.\nThis film\, which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes\, touches the hearts of all people about what working people are going through in their struggle for survival.\n\nFollowing this film\, there will be a discussion about LaborFests in the US and around the world and the fight to protect disabled workers and their families in the US.\nPanel: Chris Jury UK Tolpuddle Radical Film Festival and Liberating Arts; Mehmet Bayran\, LaborFest Turkey; Jimmy Kelly\, ReelWorks Santa Cruz \n \n 
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/i-daniel-blake/
LOCATION:ILWU Local 34 Hall\, 801 2nd St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:19,2017-film,Film
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170721T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170721T110000
DTSTAMP:20260605T015419
CREATED:20170519T223626Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T210729Z
UID:317-1500634800-1500634800@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:SF Living Wage Coalition 7th Annual Awards Dinner
DESCRIPTION:$40 (at door: $50) \nSeventh Annual San Francisco Living Wage Coalition’s Awards Dinner with cultural and musical performances.\nLabor Woman of the Year Award – Lita Blanc\, President of United Educators of San Francisco. Labor Man of the Year Award – Michael Theriault\, Secretary-Treasurer of the San Francisco Building and Construction Trades Council.\nThe Living Wage Coalition’s current work are workshops and campaigns to educate people on a Five Point Program to reverse income inequality\, including protecting and expanding union and public sector jobs; ending mass incarceration by the criminal injustice system; stopping the repressive immigration system; fixing a broken welfare-to-work system; and replacing free trade with fair trade.\nFor information or to purchase tickets: San Francisco Living Wage Coalition\, (415) 863-1225\,\nsflivingwage@riseup.net\nwww. livingwage-sf.org
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/sf-living-wage-coalition-7th-annual-awards-dinner/
LOCATION:SEIU 1021 Hall\, 350 Rhode Island St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:2017-forum-reading,21,Forum, Reading
ORGANIZER;CN="San Francisco Living Wage Coalition":MAILTO:sflivingwage@riseup.net
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170721T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170721T120000
DTSTAMP:20260605T015419
CREATED:20170519T223532Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T210742Z
UID:315-1500638400-1500638400@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Film: Island of Shadows : (98 min.) 2016\, S. Korea
DESCRIPTION:Directed by Jeong-keun Kim\n“Island of Shadows” shows the history of Korean Hanjin shipyard workers to defend their health and safety building a union. They built one of the most industrialized countries in the world yet now face the destruction of their lives because of company unions and government corruption.\nConditions are so horrific that it is acceptable that workers are regularly getting killed on the job. Slowly workers began to set up a union to fight for their human and labor rights; we hear from the voice of workers about this experience\, their victories and defeats.\nIt also shows the despair that led union leaders to commit suicide in protest over their conditions. To understand the horrific conditions and sacrifices that these workers make to change their lives is to understand the power of the working class and how they can succeed despite repression and workplace bullying.\nOne of the worker leaders is Jinsook Kim\, a welder at the shipyard who challenged the workers to support their rights by occupying the top of a crane for 309 days.\nHer voice for justice and humanity resonates to all working people and human beings.\nFollowing the film there will be an update on the Korean elections and a discussion about how U.S. workers can support the struggle of Korean workers. \n \n  \n \n 
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/island-of-shadows/
LOCATION:First Unitarian Universalist Church\, 1187 Franklin St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2017-film,21,Film
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2018/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/7-21-Island-of-shadows-2.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170722T030000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170722T030000
DTSTAMP:20260605T015419
CREATED:20170519T223707Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T210751Z
UID:319-1500692400-1500692400@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:WPA Berkeley Walk
DESCRIPTION:With Harvey Smith\nThis 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 the incredible mosaic mural on the UC Berkeley campus and photographs of the California Folk Music Project\, Western Museum Laboratory\, WPA prints at the Berkeley Public Library\, and WPA projects on the UC Berkeley campus.\nFor more info: 510-684-0414\nhttp://www.newdeallegacy.org
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/wpa-berkeley-walk/
LOCATION:Main Berkeley Post Office\, 2000 Allston Way\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:2017-tour-walk,22,Tour, Walk
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2018/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/7-22-WPA-berkeley.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170722T030000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170722T030000
DTSTAMP:20260605T015419
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
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2018/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/7-22-preparedness-Day-Bombing.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170722T030000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170722T100000
DTSTAMP:20260605T015419
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:20170723T063000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170723T063000
DTSTAMP:20260605T015419
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
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2018/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/8abc7a72-8164-4fcf-b20a-1d770469391e.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170723T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170723T120000
DTSTAMP:20260605T015419
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170723T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170723T170000
DTSTAMP:20260605T015419
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:20170724T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170724T110000
DTSTAMP:20260605T015419
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170725T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170725T120000
DTSTAMP:20260605T015419
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170726T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170726T110000
DTSTAMP:20260605T015419
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
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2018/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/7-26-bridging-urban-america.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170726T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170726T120000
DTSTAMP:20260605T015419
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170726T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170726T130000
DTSTAMP:20260605T015419
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
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2018/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/comedy-1.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Danny Cruzz":MAILTO:dannycruzzlaughs@yahoo.com
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