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CREATED:20170519T224840Z
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SUMMARY:Film: Care (60 min.) 2016 / Panel of Homecare and Disabled Care Workers
DESCRIPTION:Directed by: Deirdre Fishel\n& The Defense of Our Elderly and Panel of Homecare and Disabled Care Workers\nCare by director Deirdre Fishel tells the story of home elder care and the homecare workers who do the work to protect our elderly. The humanity of both the elderly and disabled and their caregivers gives the film strength and shows the living reality for a growing part of our population. Millions of seniors need this care and the workers who do this job. These workers are doing critical public work\, yet\, are underpaid\, many struggling to survive themselves. \nA panel discussion follows after the film: \nBrett Miller\, SEIU 1021; Brad Wiedmaier\, SEIU Local 2015 California long term care; moderated by David Duckworth SEIU 1021.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/care/
LOCATION:518 Valencia\, 518 Valencia\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2017-film,28,Film
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170729T050000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170729T050000
DTSTAMP:20260605T013656
CREATED:20170519T224941Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T211130Z
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SUMMARY:Oakland 1946 General Strike Walk
DESCRIPTION:Oakland 1946 General Strike Walk – “We Called It a Work Holiday”\nWith Gifford Hartman of the Flying Picket Historical Society.\nThis year is the 70th anniversary of the Oakland General Strike. This walk will revisit the sites of Oakland’s “Work Holiday” that began spontaneously with rank-and-file solidarity with the striking – mostly women – retail clerks at Kahn’s and Hastings department stores whose picket line was being broken by scabs escorted by police.\nWithin 24 hours\, it involved over 100\,000 workers and shut down nearly all commerce in the East Bay for 54 hours. In 1946 there were six general strikes across the U.S.; that year set the all-time record year for strikes and work stoppages. The Oakland “Work Holiday” was the last general strike to ever occur in the U.S. This walk and history talk will attempt to keep alive the memory of this tradition of community-wide working class solidarity.\n\nMeet at the fountain in Latham Square\, in the intersection where Telegraph and Broadway converge across from the Rotunda Building (Oakland City Center/12th St. BART). \n \n 
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/oakland-1946-general-strike-walk/
LOCATION:Latham Square\, 1611 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:2017-tour-walk,29,Tour, Walk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170729T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170729T120000
DTSTAMP:20260605T013656
CREATED:20170519T225133Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T211138Z
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SUMMARY:Paul Robeson: A Portrait in Story & Song
DESCRIPTION:By The Rockin’ Solidarity Labor Chorus\nThe Rockin’ Solidarity Labor Chorus presents a musical biography of Paul Robeson\, the great African American artist\, athlete\, and activist.\nThe script is based on material gathered from primary sources by Alex Bagwell\, a Chorus member and ILWU retiree\, who interviewed many of Robeson’s associates while they were still alive.\nRobeson crossed paths with notable figures of his era\, including W.E.B. DuBois\, Lena Horne\, and Harry Belafonte\, but he also touched the lives of countless working men and women. He said\, “I have always put my faith and confidence in the working people in all countries and of all colors. I truly believe that they constitute the greatest force in the world for the advancement of all people.”\nThe concert will trace Robeson’s journey from his youth in New Jersey to Rutgers University and then to Broadway\, concert stages\, and picket lines around the world. It also addresses Robeson’s encounter with the House Un-American Activities Committee and the notorious Peekskill concert in 1949\, at which racist thugs attacked the audience and the performers.\nWith solos by Bagwell and others\, the Chorus will sing many of the spirituals and folk songs from Robeson’s repertoire\, in new arrangements by Chorus director Pat Wynne.\nContact: Pat Wynne (415) 648-34577
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/paul-robeson-a-portrait-in-story-song/
LOCATION:ILWU Local 34 Hall\, 801 2nd St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2017-music-theater-art,29,Music, Theater, Art
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170730T030000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170730T030000
DTSTAMP:20260605T013656
CREATED:20170519T225228Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T211150Z
UID:352-1501383600-1501383600@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Walk: Labor Politics and Architecture of San Francisco
DESCRIPTION:Walk with Brad Wiedmaier\, SEIU 2015 member & architectural historian.\nSan Francisco has a rich political and labor history that is also connected to its buildings. In this history-by-the-buildings walk\, Brad Wiedmaier will outline artifacts and events\, and their connections to San Francisco’s past and present. For more information call (415) 694-3605.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/labor-politics-and-architecture-of-sf/
LOCATION:ILWU Sculpture\, Mission St & Steuart St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94105\, United States
CATEGORIES:2017-tour-walk,30,Tour, Walk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170730T030000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170730T030000
DTSTAMP:20260605T013656
CREATED:20170609T102943Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T211217Z
UID:595-1501383600-1501383600@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:The Internet\, Technology\, The Gig Economy and the Future of Labor
DESCRIPTION:The development of technology\, including artificial intelligence\, automation and platforms like UBER\, Lyft\, and Airbnb\, are making trillions for the tech and media companies that now dominate the world. Growing marginalization of labor and complete deregulation now means that hundreds of thousands of workers are being forced to travel hundreds of miles to work on temp jobs as independent contractors. This threatens our environment here in the Bay Area and around the world.\nThis conference will look at how our economy is being transformed in the Bay Area\, nationally and globally\, and how it is affecting working people\, including drivers\, tech workers\, and workers in other industries.\nThe new tech world is also allowing companies like Google and Apple\, and the U.S. government to know every place you go\, every purchase you make\, and every word or text you use in communication. We will look at how workers and unions\, with the public\, can challenge this new reality. \nSCHEDULE\n10:00 AM Introduction: \n10:15 AM\nKeynote: Steve Hill: Journalist on Technology – by Skype \n10:30 AM\nTechnology\, Workers and Silicon Valley\nRuth Silver Taube: Workers’ Rights Clinic at the Katharine and George Alexander Community Law Center at the Santa Clara University School of Law\, SEIU-USWW Worker For Tech Company\nKarthik Ramanathan: Tech Workers\nRebeca Armendariz: Senior Community Political Organizer with SEIU USWW\nBob Emmett: SEIU-USWW  member and worker in high tech company in Silicon Valley\nDr.Larry Rose: Former Medical Director Cal-OSHA \n12:00 Lunch \n12:45 PM\nThe Futurists Are Worried\nTodd Davies: Stanford University – Symbolic Systems Program; Center for the Study of Language and Information\nMehmet Bayran: LaborNet\, Software\, Exploitation and Automation of Tech Workers\nLisa Milos: CWA UPTE UCSF Medical Interpreter* (*for information only) \n1:45 PM\nUBER\, Lyft\, Taxi Workers\, Deregulation and Independent Contractor\nRichard Meghoo: President SF Taxi Workers Alliance\nPeter Miller: Exec. SF Taxi Workers Alliance & SFLC delegate\nEdward Escobar: The Alliance For Independent Workers \nYou can watch this presentation here. \n2:45 PM\nTechnology\, Social Platforms and Workers\nProfessor Anthony Hall: Lethridge University Use of Facebook In Political Frame-up \n3:15 PM\nTechnology For Workers\, Internationalism and Labor Solidarity From The Liverpool Dockers To The Global Labor Channel\nJohn Parulis: LaborTech.net\nSteve Zeltzer: LaborTech.net \n4:00 PM Conference Closes\nSponsored by LaborTech.net\, LaborNet.org \nYou can watch Professor Anthony Hall’s presentation here. \n 
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/the-internet-technology-the-gig-economy-and-the-future-of-labor/
LOCATION:ILWU Local 34 Hall\, 801 2nd St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2017-forum-reading,30,Forum, Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170730T060000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170730T090000
DTSTAMP:20260605T013656
CREATED:20170620T015132Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T211226Z
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SUMMARY:Film: Now Is The Time: Healthcare for Everybody (71 min.) 2016
DESCRIPTION:Directed by Terry sterenberg & Laurie Simons \nThis is a documentary film about our current healthcare system\, why it doesn’t work\, and what you can do about it. The filmmakers interview doctors and nurses\, patients\, economists and politicians to see what they think about our current healthcare system. You’ll see what happens when advocates committed to changing the healthcare system take action. Big money for insurance companies. Fear of government taking over the nation’s healthcare system. But there’s something more\, like a fog that keeps people from moving forward together. This film intends to remove that fog\, and will leave viewers examining what it means to be American and what it takes to step into action. This documentary film is a follow-up to the filmmakers first film\, The Healthcare Movie (2011).\nA Q&A and panel discussion follows the screening. Speakers include Jeff Gee\, MD\, from Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP)\, Barb Ryan\, RN\, from California Nurses Association and a representative from the Healthy California Act (SB 562).\nFor information\, call Janet Tom\, at 415.557.4460 \nhttps://vimeo.com/205116537
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/now-is-the-time-healthcare-for-everybody-71-min-2016/
LOCATION:SF Main Library – Koret Auditorium\, 100 Larkin St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2017-film,30
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170730T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170730T110000
DTSTAMP:20260605T013656
CREATED:20170519T225407Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T211237Z
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SUMMARY:Film: Iron Moon (84 min.) 2015\, China / Play On (83 min.) 2017\, S.Korea
DESCRIPTION:Iron Moon: The Poetry of Chinese Migrant Workers (84 min.) 2015 \nDirected by: Xiaoyu Qin and Feiyue Wu\nThe new film from China Iron Moon is a powerful artistic view of the massive industrialization of China through the eyes and words of the workers who have made the new China. At Foxconn\, which has over 200\,000 workers and produces most of our Apple phones\, workers face a life of despair. One of them who committed suicide at the age of 24\, left 200 poems of despair\, “I swallowed an iron moon…” Using poetry as a tool to chip away at the ice of silence\, they and other workers in this film express the hidden stories and life experiences of millions of the workers who are the foundation of the new China.\nIt weaves from worker to worker\, from a female clothing factory worker who lives in poverty but writes poetry rich in dignity and love; a coal miner who works deep in the earth\, trying to make peace with the spirits of his dead coworkers through his poetry; rock miner Chen Nianxi\, who traveled to San Francisco this year\, speaking of his life; working in the mines to support his family\, gold-mine demolitions worker blasting rock several kilometers into mountainsides\, while writing poetry to carry the weight of his fury\, “My body carries three tons of dynamite..” These could be any of the 350 million workers in China\, and yet they are also poets. These stories of the life and struggles of Chinese workers are a mournful song and tale of global capitalism. \nReviewed by Maghiel van Crevel \n \n  \n \nPlay On (83 min.) (2017)  \nDirected by: Gyuri Byun\nWhat happens when subcontracted workers turn into podcast DJs? Subcontracted workers at SK Broadband\, Inc. began a podcast broadcast titled Workers Have Changed\, to deliver the news about their strike for job security. The podcast studio has become a theater of their life as they share their stories—daily hardships of subcontracted labor\, coping with rude customers\, and their future and dreams. They finally achieved a victory to convert their employment status from non-regular to regular\, yet with their monthly income cut in half. Given this “half” success complicating the picture\, Bong-Keun\, a union member\, decided to quit the job.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/iron-moon-death-by-design/
LOCATION:ILWU Local 34 Hall\, 801 2nd St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2017-film,30,Film
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170730T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170730T110000
DTSTAMP:20260605T013656
CREATED:20170519T225452Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T211246Z
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SUMMARY:LaborFest Writers
DESCRIPTION:LaborFest Writers explore the issues that we face today within our families\, communities and government\, whether it’s housing\, jobs\, ageism\, race and sex discrimination\, immigration or homelessness. Their work gives voice to what has gone before and why we must continue to fight for our rights. Come hear Margaret Cooley\, Keith Cooley\, Richard Chen\, Susan Ford\, Phyllis Holliday\, Jerry Path\, Alice Rogoff and Nellie Wong as they share their memoir\, storytelling\, oral history\, poetry\, and song.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/laborfest-writers/
LOCATION:Green Arcade Bookstore\, 1680 Market St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2017-forum-reading,30,Forum, Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170731T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170731T140000
DTSTAMP:20260605T013656
CREATED:20170609T104239Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T211254Z
UID:606-1501502400-1501509600@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Stop the War on Workers Concert
DESCRIPTION:LaborFest closes its annual festival with terrific artists Ann Feeney and Roy Zimmerman. Ann speaks truth to power in her music about the struggles of working people here and around the world. As Tom Morello has said “Few have raised as much hell with an acoustic guitar as Ann has.”\nRoy Zimmerman\, who is based in the Bay Area\, joins Ann on the Rezist Tour. Using satire and comedy\, which we need more of\, Zimmerman hits home about ignorance\, war and greed. Join LaborFest to celebrate our past and get ready for our future.\nDonation $5-20 sliding scale\, free to strikers and locked-out workers\, No one will be turned away due to cost.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/stop-the-war-on-workers-concert/
LOCATION:ILWU Local 34 Hall\, 801 2nd St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2017-music-theater-art,31,Music, Theater, Art
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180701T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180701T120000
DTSTAMP:20260605T013656
CREATED:20180523T172505Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T200016Z
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SUMMARY:Labor History Bike Tour
DESCRIPTION:Sliding scale $15 – $50 : benefiting shaping San Francisco\nBy Chris Carlsson\nFrom the pre-urban history of Indian Slavery to the earliest 8-hour day movement in the U.S.\, the ebb and flow of class war is traced. SF’s radical working class organizations are shaped in part by racist complicity in genocide and slavery. From the 1870s to the 1940s there are dozens of epic battles between owners and workers\, culminating in the 1934 General Strike and its aftermath. This is an entirely different look\, during a four-hour bike tour\, at San Francisco labor history. For more information: (415) 608-9035
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/labor-history-bike-tour-2018/
LOCATION:518 Valencia\, 518 Valencia\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:07-01-2018,2018,2018-tour-walk,Tour, Walk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180701T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180701T150000
DTSTAMP:20260605T013656
CREATED:20180524T021427Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T200001Z
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SUMMARY:Film: We The Workers\, 2017 (174 min.)\, China
DESCRIPTION:FilmWorks United International Working Class Film & Video Festival\nDirected by Wen Hai (China)\nChina has become the factory workshop of the world. The film “We The Worker” is a documentary shot over a six-year period. We see the real conditions and issues of the Chinese industrial workers as they fight for labor and worker rights. Similar to capitalist countries\, they are threatened\, attacked\, and jailed by the new bosses of corporate China. They also face not only the company owners but police who collude with the owners to silence and intimidate the efforts of these workers to defend their labor rights on the job.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/we-the-workers-2017-174-min-directed-by-wen-hai-china/
LOCATION:ILWU Local 34 Hall\, 801 2nd St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:07-01-2018,2018,2018-film,Film
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180701T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180701T190000
DTSTAMP:20260605T013656
CREATED:20180524T022247Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T195951Z
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SUMMARY:Film : A Taxi Driver\, 2017 (138 min.)\, Korea
DESCRIPTION:FilmWorks United International Working Class Film & Video Festival\nDirected by Jan Hoon (Korea)\nGwangju\, Korea is a historic center of struggle for the Korean people and this powerful dramatic film shows the story of the May 1980 Gwangju people’s rebellion against the repressive dictator Chun Doo-hwan. His military government is portrayed through the eyes of the students and taxi drivers in the city under assault\, the story based on actual events of that struggle. A German journalist\, Jürgen “Peter” Hinzpeter\, wants to get the story out and ends up with a Seoul taxi driver named Kim Man-seob (Song Kang-ho) who really isn’t aware of what is going on there. They start off from Seoul and have to get into the city where the military have locked it down and are massacring protesting civilians. The role of the taxi workers in supporting the people of Gwangju is a powerful story and the role of Korean troops was in fact allowed by the US\, which still controls troop movements in the country of Korea. \nK.J. Noh\, Flaspoint’s Asia-Pacific Correspondent will introduce the film and moderate discussion after the film.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/a-taxi-driver-2017-138-min-by-jan-hoon-korea/
LOCATION:ILWU Local 34 Hall\, 801 2nd St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:07-01-2018,2018,2018-film,Film
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180702T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180702T190000
DTSTAMP:20260605T013656
CREATED:20180524T021618Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T195940Z
UID:1618-1530558000-1530558000@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Film : UNION TIME: Fighting For Workers Rights\, 2016 (86 min.) U.S.A.
DESCRIPTION:FilmWorks United International Working Class Film & Video Festival\nDirected by Matthew Barr\nNarrated by Danny Glover\nIn 1993\, a group of employees at the Smithfield Pork Processing Plant in Tar Heel\, North Carolina\, began to work with the United Food and Commercial Workers Union to organize the 5\,000 workers at the plant. In 2008\, after a 16-year-long struggle\, they won the right to form a union. Jobs in meatpacking are among the most dangerous in the country. Once dominated by skilled butchers working in unionized jobs\, the industry gradually moved packing plants to rural areas in right-to-work states. What used to be respected as skilled labor is now broken down into assembly-line tasks\, with workers—many of them African American or immigrant often treated as expendable. Dangerous conditions\, wage theft\, intimidation\, and abuse are rampant. Union Time weaves together labor rights and civil rights to show how unions can be a potent force for economic and social justice. Above all\, it celebrates the courage of meatpacking workers who refused to give up through a 16-year-long struggle.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/union-time-fighting-for-workers-rights-2016-86-min-by-matthew-barr/
LOCATION:ILWU Local 34 Hall\, 801 2nd St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:07-02-2018,2018,2018-film,Film
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180702T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180702T203000
DTSTAMP:20260605T013656
CREATED:20180622T183015Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T195930Z
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SUMMARY:Film : Bisbee ’17 (119 min.)
DESCRIPTION:Directed by Robert Greene (2018) \nThe hidden history of the American working class is exposed in this new film Bisbee ’17 by Robert Green. This film is centered around the attack on immigrant copper miners\, who in July 12\, 1917\, were rounded up and illegally deported out of the town by placing them in cattle cars. The train eventually ended up in New Mexico where the miners were later incarcerated by the US military. The Mexican and European workers had been organized by the IWW in the midst of the 1st world war when the price of copper was skyrocketing. The mine companies also used a group called the ‘loyalty leaguers’ to charge that the miners had actually been infiltrated by the Germans who the US was at war with. The film interviews members of families in the town and even residents whose families later returned to the town. \nToday as immigrant bashing is the new “normal” and the organized terrorism against Mexican workers and their families and children is now government policy\, this film resonates that racism\, ethnic cleansing and immigrant bashing goes back over a hundred years ago.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/bisbee-17-119-min/
LOCATION:ILWU Local 34 Hall\, 801 2nd St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:07-02-2018,2018,2018-film,Film
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180703T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180703T100000
DTSTAMP:20260605T013656
CREATED:20180524T021951Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T195919Z
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SUMMARY:Bread & Roses Labor History Story Telling with Retired Union Members
DESCRIPTION:Come to share an inspiring labor event or leader in your life. It could be in San Francisco or elsewhere in the U.S.A. or the world. Photos\, news clippings\, prose\, and poems are welcome. This will be an open regular meeting of FORUM (Federation of Retired Union Members)\, an organization of retirees affiliated with the San Francisco Labor Council. Retirees come from a broad range of unions with members and workers in San Francisco. FORUM supports alliances between working people and retired people to preserve July 3 (Tuesday) 10:00 AM (Free) San Francisco Labor Council Office – 1188 Franklin Street\, Suite 203\, SF and improve health care\, social security\, and pension benefits. Refreshments will be served.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/bread-roses-labor-history-story-telling-with-retired-union-members-2/
LOCATION:San Francisco Labor Council Office\, 1188 Franklin Street\, Suite 203\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:07-03-2018,2018,2018-forum-reading,Forum, Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180704T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180704T140000
DTSTAMP:20260605T013656
CREATED:20180610T045801Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T195905Z
UID:2032-1530712800-1530712800@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:SF Mime Troupe - 2018: Seeing Red: A Time-Traveling Musical
DESCRIPTION:Written by Rotimi Agbabiaka with Joan Holden\nMusic & Lyrics by Ira Marlowe\nDirected by Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe \nIt’s Election Night 2018 and Bob swears she’ll never vote again. A lifetime of fading fortunes made this former Obama voter take a chance on the new guy promising change-Donald J. Trump. But it’s two years into his presidency and Bob’s still waiting to start winning. Tonight she’s telling everyone in her small-town bar that all politicians are liars\, the system is rigged\, and nothing’s ever gonna change.\nAlong comes a mysterious stranger with an intriguing offer. He’ll show her an America where working people come together to demand a brighter future\, where socialism isn’t a dirty word. He’ll take her all the way … to 1912.\nBob soon finds herself traveling back to a time when the Socialist Party was winning millions of American votes; uncovering a hidden history and realizing that she may have more in common with those pesky progressives on the coasts. She begins to ask: what will it take to get people to stop voting against their interests? How do we overcome the divide-and-conquer tactics that keep us all down? When did our electoral choices get so limited? And isn’t it time to get off the swinging pendulum that’s left us at our current impasse?\nFor more info on the schedule: www.sfmt.org \nReview by Lily Janiak on SF Chronicle
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/sf-mime-troupe-2018-seeing-red-a-time-traveling-musical/
LOCATION:Dolores Park\, Dolores Park\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:07-04-2018,2018,2018-music-theater-art,Music, Theater, Art
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2018/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/7-4-Mime.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180706T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180706T190000
DTSTAMP:20260605T013656
CREATED:20180524T022430Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T195853Z
UID:1626-1530903600-1530903600@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Film : Last Train Home\, 2010 (87 min.) China
DESCRIPTION:FilmWorks United International Working Class Film & Video Festival\nDirected by Lixin Fan (China)\nWhen 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 shows the lives of these migrant workers and the mass migration back to their homes and families during the holidays. This mass exodus is the world’s largest human migration – an epic spectacle that reveals a country tragically caught between its rural past and industrial future. They have been separated from their families during the year and many live in dire conditions with no political and education rights in the cities. While China is developing industry in the interior and workers are moving back to their provinces\, the vast majority still work and live on the coastal cities as second-class workers. If they bring their children with them\, these children are not allowed to registered for school or receive benefits of official residencys including the healthcare\, education and housing. Their long estrangement from their children leaves deep scars. The film is powerful in showing the lives of these workers as they fight for the last train home.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/ast-train-home-2010-87-min-by-lixin-fan-china/
LOCATION:518 Valencia\, 518 Valencia\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:07-06-2018,2018,2018-film,Film
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2018/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/2832.original.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180707T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180707T100000
DTSTAMP:20260605T013656
CREATED:20180524T022633Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T195844Z
UID:1628-1530957600-1530957600@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Walk - San Francisco General Strike
DESCRIPTION:Join the walk with Gifford Hartman. \nEighty-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 issues from that strike still relevant to working people today? We will also view some of the key historical sites in this important U.S. labor struggle.\n\nMeet at Harry Bridges Plaza Tower – Embarcadero at Market St.\, SF Meet at Harry Bridges Plaza – in front of the Ferry Building\, at the south side tower WPA
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/walk-san-francisco-general-strike/
LOCATION:Harry Bridges Plaza Tower in front of Ferry Building\, Plaza Tower in front of Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:07-07-2018,2018,2018-tour-walk,Tour, Walk
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2018/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/7-7-SF-General-Strike-shot.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180707T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180707T100000
DTSTAMP:20260605T013656
CREATED:20180524T022825Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T195833Z
UID:1630-1530957600-1530957600@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:WPA Bus Tour
DESCRIPTION:Tour with Gray Brechin and Harvey Smith\nJoin 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\, architecture\, and social programs that effectively dealt with the period’s economic meltdown in contrast with today’s response. Some of the locations they will take you to are: Rincon Annex Post Office Murals\, Sunshine School\, The New Mint and the Old UC Extension\, Golden Gate Park Stables and Fly Casting Pools\, and Beach Chalet Murals. Please be aware that the tour will take about 5 hours depending on the traffic and the discussions. Meet in front of Bill Graham Auditorium\, between City Hall and the Main Library. (Please bring your own lunch. There will be some sandwiches available for a small cost.) \nReservation required: \nSend e-mail to: laborfest@stevezeltzer.com\, or call: (415) 642-8066\, and leave your name\, number of reservations\, and phone number (this is to let you know that we have space for your reservation and can contact you in case of any changes.) Make reservation\, then send check ($25/person) to: LaborFest\, P.O. Box 40983\, SF\, CA 94140.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/wpa-bus-tour/
LOCATION:Bill Graham Auditorium\, 99 Grove\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:07-07-2018,2018,2018-tour-walk,Tour, Walk
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2018/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/main-lobby-rincon-center.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180707T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180707T190000
DTSTAMP:20260605T013656
CREATED:20180524T023012Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T195809Z
UID:1632-1530990000-1530990000@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Film : The Young Karl Marx\, 2017 (118 min.) Germany
DESCRIPTION:FilmWorks United International Working Class Film & Video Festival\nDirected by Raoul Peck (Germany)\nOn 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 as technology does now\, while livesof the mass of workers become increasingly difficult\, is wealth disparity The film Young Karl Marx looks at the early lives of Marx and his collaborator Engels\, whose father owned a factory in Manchester. The industrial revolution began in Manchester where we see the conditions of working people in this period. The struggle that took place to understand this economic revolution and its effect on working people. More than two hundred years since his birth\, his theoretical understanding continues for many to be critically relevant to our lives today and we see in this film where his ideas come from and how he organized to put them into practice.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/the-young-karl-marx-2017-118-min-by-raoul-peck-germany/
LOCATION:518 Valencia\, 518 Valencia\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:07-07-2018,2018,2018-film,Film
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2018/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/7-7-young-marx.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180708T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180708T160000
DTSTAMP:20260605T013656
CREATED:20180524T023234Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T195758Z
UID:1636-1531044000-1531065600@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Workers Rights\, Workers Lives\, Organizing in Silicon Valley
DESCRIPTION: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 are facing extreme economic hardship\, struggling to survive. The unionization of thousands of contract workers at companies such as Google\, Apple\, and Facebook has raised their living conditions but the massive housing crisis and inability for workers to live in Silicon Valley forces workers into their cars\, spending hours commuting on the road. At the same time the racist attack on immigrant workers\, including in Silicon Valley\, is harming not just service workers but immigrants from throughout the world who now work in the Valley. Discrimination against their wives and families is escalating as xenophobia grows. We will hear as well about how tech workers are working with service workers to defend union and immigrant rights\, and joining in solidarity.\nInitial Speakers:\nRebeca Armendariz\, SEIU-USWW Senior Community Political Organizer\nMehmet Bayron\, Software exploitation and automation of tech workers\nBob Emmett\, SEIU-USWW security guard\nEdward Escobar\, The Alliance for Independent Workers\nMaria Noel Fernandez\, Deputy Executive Director\, Working Partnerships USA\nMaria Gonzalez\, Tech worker who was sexually assaulted at work\nAmanda Hawes\, Founder of SCCOSH and legal advocate for electronics workers and their children harmed by workplace toxics\nKarthik Ramanathan\, Immigrant Tech Worker\nRuth Silver Taube\, Labor and Human Rights Lawyer\, Santa Clara County Wage Theft Coalition \nTentative Program\n9:30 AM Registration\n10:00 AM Conference Opens\nThe Struggles For Service Workers In Silicon Valley\n12:00 Lunch\n1:00 PM\nHuman Rights And Silicon Valley-The Attack on Immigrant Workers\n2:00 PM\nTech Workers\, Tech Billionaires And The Future of Work\n3:30 PM\nProposals For Action\, Solidarity and Unity\n4:00 PM Conference Closes \nSponsored by:\nSanta Clara County Wage Theft Coalition\, LaborNet.org\, LaborTech.net\, LaborFest.\nContact for conference: (408) 621-5678\, (415) 533-5942 \nDownload PDF Flyer \nKorean Oracle Workers Strike & Struggle for Justice/Fighting Cyber-serfdom \n 
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/labortech-san-jose-silicon-valley/
LOCATION:SEIU United Service Workers West\, 1010 Ruff Dr\, San Jose\, CA\, 95110\, United States
CATEGORIES:07-08-2018,2018,2018-forum-reading,Forum, Reading
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2018/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/7-8-Silicon_Valley_Rising-copy.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180708T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180708T180000
DTSTAMP:20260605T013656
CREATED:20180524T023132Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T195738Z
UID:1634-1531072800-1531072800@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Giving Voice: LaborFest Writers’ Anthology 2005-2018
DESCRIPTION: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 will be hot off the press and this event is the first opportunity to buy a book. Join us for an evening of readings from our new anthology as we honor our deceased members Phyllis Holliday and Adele Kearney. Contact: info@laborfestwriters.org
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/laborfest-writers-2/
LOCATION:Green Arcade Bookstore\, 1680 Market St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:07-08-2018,2018,2018-forum-reading,Forum, Reading
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2018/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/7-8-coit12-LaborFest-writers.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180708T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180708T190000
DTSTAMP:20260605T013656
CREATED:20180524T023332Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T195724Z
UID:1638-1531076400-1531076400@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Panel - Workplace Racism\, Hanging Nooses and Fightback
DESCRIPTION: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 and County of San Francisco. This forum will look at these incidents and also why these are not isolated. Panelists will also look at how workers can educate their fellow workers about stopping these attacks and how to organize a national fight-back.\nSpeakers:\nBrenda Barros\, SEIU 1021 SF General Hospital Chapter Chair and Co-Chair COPE\nStacie Rodgers\, ILWU Local 10 rank-and-file member\nDaryle Washington\, former SF Recology worker & driver\nCheryl Thornton\, SEIU 1021 Potrero Hill Health Center\nSponsored by United Public Workers For Action\nwww.upwa.info
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/the-workplace-racism-hanging-nooses-and-fightback/
LOCATION:518 Valencia\, 518 Valencia\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:07-08-2018,2018,2018-forum-reading,Forum, Reading
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2018/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/7-8-Racism.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180710T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180710T183000
DTSTAMP:20260605T013656
CREATED:20180524T023719Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T195710Z
UID:1642-1531247400-1531247400@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:The History of SF Labor Temple
DESCRIPTION: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 since then\, and hopes for its future role as a catalyst for change. Speakers\, music\, poetry and discussion.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/the-history-of-sf-labor-temple/
LOCATION:Red Stone Building\, 2940 16th St.\, San Francisco\, United States
CATEGORIES:07-10-2018,2018,2018-forum-reading,Forum, Reading
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2018/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/7-10-LaborTemple-mural-copy.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180710T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180710T190000
DTSTAMP:20260605T013656
CREATED:20180524T023436Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T195659Z
UID:1640-1531249200-1531249200@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Immigrant Girl\, Radical Woman\, a Memoir from the Early Twen- tieth Century - Book reading
DESCRIPTION: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. Rabinowitz devoted herself to the notion that women should be entitled to independence\, equal rights\, equal pay\, and sexual and personal autonomy. Rabinowitz (1887-1963) immigrated to the United States from Ukraine at the age of thirteen. Radicalized by her experience in sweatshops\, she became an organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World from 1912 to 1917 before choosing single motherhood in 1918. “Big Bill” Haywood once wrote\, “a book could be written about Matilda\,” but her memoir was intended as a private story for her grandchildren\, Robbin Legere Henderson among them. Henderson’s black-and-white scratchboard drawings illustrate Robinowitz’s life in the Pale of Settlement\, the journey to America\, political awakening and work as an organizer for the IWW\, a turbulent romance\, and her struggle to support herself and her child.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/immigrant-girl-radical-woman-a-memoir-from-the-early-twen-tieth-century-book-reading/
LOCATION:Green Arcade Bookstore\, 1680 Market St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:07-10-2018,2018,2018-forum-reading,Forum, Reading
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2018/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/7-10-Immigrant-Girl.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180711T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180711T190000
DTSTAMP:20260605T013656
CREATED:20180524T021808Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T195647Z
UID:1620-1531335600-1531335600@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Concert : Labor Troubadour and Rocker Mike Stout and Whats Left With Jimmy Kelley
DESCRIPTION: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 co-workers at union meetings and against the closures and de-industrialization by the steel companies who moved plants to non-union areas in the U.S. and around the world. His music unites all workers and the oppressed. Acapella will open the mike\, and Jimmy Kelly\, long time labor educator and musican\, will also kick up the beat with Stout and other Bay Area musicians. \nVideos \n\nYou can watch Mike Stout and Acapella’s performance on July 11 – click here
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/labor-troubadour-and-rocker-mike-stout-and-whats-left-with-jimmy-kelley/
LOCATION:ILWU Local 34 Hall\, 801 2nd St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:07-11-2018,2018,2018-music-theater-art,Music, Theater, Art
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2018/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/7-11-Mike_Stout-copy.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180711T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180711T190000
DTSTAMP:20260605T013656
CREATED:20180524T023833Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T195634Z
UID:1645-1531335600-1531335600@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Taxi Workers and The Streets of San Francisco
DESCRIPTION: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 environmental problems while seriously impacting public transit\, which now must be subsidized by the public. This forum\, sponsored by the San Francisco Taxi Workers Alliance will\, examine these issues and what transit workers and the public can do about it. \nInitial Panel:\nMark Gruberg\, SFTWA\nRichard McGoo\, Pres SFTWA\nEvelyn Engel\, Board Secretary SFTWA \nFor more information https://www.sftwa.org
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/taxi-workers-and-the-street-of-san-francisco/
LOCATION:Red Stone Building\, 2940 16th St.\, San Francisco\, United States
CATEGORIES:07-11-2018,2018,2018-forum-reading,Forum, Reading
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2018/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/7-11-SF-Taxi.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180712T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180712T200000
DTSTAMP:20260605T013656
CREATED:20180628T214808Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T195614Z
UID:2140-1531418400-1531425600@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:The Performance of Public Speaking
DESCRIPTION:The SAG-AFTRA san Francisco-Northern California Local in conjunction with LaborFest presents: The Performance of Public Speaking \nJoin us for a presentation on how to engage audiences and the media.\nSAG-AFTRA members will offer insight into the art of public speaking from the perspective of a performer and a broadcaster.\nNo RSVP is requited for this event.\nClick here to see the flyer
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/the-performance-of-public-speaking/
LOCATION:San Francisco Labor Council Office\, 1188 Franklin Street\, Suite 203\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:07-12-2018,2018,2018-forum-reading,Forum, Reading
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2018/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/sign.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180712T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180712T190000
DTSTAMP:20260605T013656
CREATED:20180524T023956Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T195603Z
UID:1647-1531422000-1531422000@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:50th Anniversary of SF State Strike - The Lessons for Today
DESCRIPTION: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 history of the United States. The demands for ethnic studies and open admissions are relevant today as there is an organized attack on ethnic studies and the privatization of public education. Working class and poor students in California and throughout the country must go into massive debt to obtain an education. Ethnic cleansing is also taking place in San Francisco and Oakland\, where African American communities are being driven out of their homes. ILWU Local 10 also played a critical role in supporting the strike. They supported the strikers\, including professors and staff at the college\, by supplying work on the docks during the strike and this was important to sustain their struggle. There will be a photo display and videos screened during the event. It is time to continue and build the fight that was made 50 years ago. \nLabor and The 1968 San Francisco State Strike (20min.)
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/50th-anniversary-of-sf-state-strike-the-lessons-for-today/
LOCATION:ILWU Local 34 Hall\, 801 2nd St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:07-12-2018,2018,2018-forum-reading,Forum, Reading
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2018/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/photo-2_sfsu-history-e1490853798256-1000x524.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180713T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180713T200000
DTSTAMP:20260605T013656
CREATED:20180618T185448Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T195544Z
UID:2061-1531504800-1531512000@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Film : Last Train Home\, 2010 (87 min) China
DESCRIPTION:  \nDirected by Lixin Fan (China)\nWhen 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 shows the lives of these migrant workers and the mass migration back to their homes and families during the holidays. This mass exodus is the world’s largest human migration – an epic spectacle that reveals a country tragically caught between its rural past and industrial future. They have been separated from their families during the year and many live in dire conditions with no political and education rights in the cities. While China is developing industry in the interior and workers are moving back to their provinces\, the vast majority still work and live on the coastal cities as second-class workers. If they bring their children with them\, these children are not allowed to registered for school or receive benefits of official residencys including the healthcare\, education and housing. Their long estrangement from their children leaves deep scars. The film is powerful in showing the lives of these workers as they fight for the last train home.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/last-train-home-2010-87-min-china/
LOCATION:San Jose Peace & Justice Center\, 48 S. 7th St.\, San Jose\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:07-13-2018,2018,2018-film,Film
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2018/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/2832.original.jpg
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