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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:20260605T091225
CREATED:20180524T021427Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T200001Z
UID:1616-1530457200-1530457200@laborfest.net
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:20260605T091225
CREATED:20180524T022247Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T195951Z
UID:1624-1530471600-1530471600@laborfest.net
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:20260605T091225
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:20260605T091225
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:20260605T091225
CREATED:20180524T021951Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T195919Z
UID:1622-1530612000-1530612000@laborfest.net
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:20260605T091225
CREATED:20180610T045801Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T195905Z
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SUMMARY:SF Mime Troupe - 2018: Seeing Red: A Time-Traveling Musical
DESCRIPTION:Written by Rotimi Agbabiaka with Joan Holden\nMusic & Lyrics by Ira Marlowe\nDirected by Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe \nIt’s Election Night 2018 and Bob swears she’ll never vote again. A lifetime of fading fortunes made this former Obama voter take a chance on the new guy promising change-Donald J. Trump. But it’s two years into his presidency and Bob’s still waiting to start winning. Tonight she’s telling everyone in her small-town bar that all politicians are liars\, the system is rigged\, and nothing’s ever gonna change.\nAlong comes a mysterious stranger with an intriguing offer. He’ll show her an America where working people come together to demand a brighter future\, where socialism isn’t a dirty word. He’ll take her all the way … to 1912.\nBob soon finds herself traveling back to a time when the Socialist Party was winning millions of American votes; uncovering a hidden history and realizing that she may have more in common with those pesky progressives on the coasts. She begins to ask: what will it take to get people to stop voting against their interests? How do we overcome the divide-and-conquer tactics that keep us all down? When did our electoral choices get so limited? And isn’t it time to get off the swinging pendulum that’s left us at our current impasse?\nFor more info on the schedule: www.sfmt.org \nReview by Lily Janiak on SF Chronicle
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/sf-mime-troupe-2018-seeing-red-a-time-traveling-musical/
LOCATION:Dolores Park\, Dolores Park\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:07-04-2018,2018,2018-music-theater-art,Music, Theater, Art
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180706T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180706T190000
DTSTAMP:20260605T091225
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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180707T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180707T100000
DTSTAMP:20260605T091225
CREATED:20180524T022633Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T195844Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180707T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180707T100000
DTSTAMP:20260605T091225
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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180707T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180707T190000
DTSTAMP:20260605T091225
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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180708T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180708T160000
DTSTAMP:20260605T091225
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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180708T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180708T180000
DTSTAMP:20260605T091225
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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180708T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180708T190000
DTSTAMP:20260605T091225
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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180710T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180710T183000
DTSTAMP:20260605T091225
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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180710T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180710T190000
DTSTAMP:20260605T091225
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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180711T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180711T190000
DTSTAMP:20260605T091225
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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180711T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180711T190000
DTSTAMP:20260605T091225
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180712T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180712T200000
DTSTAMP:20260605T091225
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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180712T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180712T190000
DTSTAMP:20260605T091225
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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180713T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180713T200000
DTSTAMP:20260605T091225
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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180713T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180713T190000
DTSTAMP:20260605T091225
CREATED:20180524T024101Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T195530Z
UID:1649-1531508400-1531508400@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:The Strike and Uprising\, 2017 (66 min.) U.S.A.
DESCRIPTION:FilmWorks United International Working Class Film & Video Festival\nDirected by Anne Lewis\nThis new film by Anne Lewis and associate producer Laura Vare\, A Strike and an Uprising\, illuminates two major moments in Texas labor history: the Pecan Shellers Strike of 1937 led by young communist Emma Tenayuca\, and the Jobs With Justice campaign that coalesced around anti-Black racism at Stephen F. Austin University of 1985. Through the lens of participant interviews and the changes to their lives\, this film ties together past history with today’s struggles. Anne Lewis will present her film. \nAustin Beloved Community \n \ntrailer — a strike and an uprising (in texas) from Anne Lewis on Vimeo.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/the-strike-and-uprising-2017-66-min-by-ann-lewis/
LOCATION:518 Valencia\, 518 Valencia\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:07-13-2018,2018,2018-film,Film
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180714T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180714T100000
DTSTAMP:20260605T091225
CREATED:20180524T024235Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T195520Z
UID:1651-1531562400-1531562400@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:SF Waterfront Labor History Walk 1835-1934
DESCRIPTION:With Peter O’Driscoll (IBEW)\, Lawrence Shoup (UAW-NWU) \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 twomonth long struggle\, the workers emerged victorious\, and the Union Labor Party won the election of 1901\, taking control of the city. San Francisco was the first large city in the United States to have a union labor party in office.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/sf-waterfront-labor-history-walk-1835-1934-2/
LOCATION:75 Folsom St.\, 75 Folsom St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:07-14-2018,2018,2018-tour-walk,Tour, Walk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180714T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180714T130000
DTSTAMP:20260605T091225
CREATED:20180524T024439Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T195507Z
UID:1653-1531562400-1531573200@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Privatization\, Union Busting and International Solidarity
DESCRIPTION:Videos and Presentation The privatization of public services\, transportation\, and education is a threat not only to unions but to the public in the U.S. and globally. This forum will look at privatization elsewhere in the world on a global scale\, and how workers are organizing and educating to stop these policies.\nPartial list of panelists:\nAl Rojas\, founder of UFWA and organizer for Driscolls farmworkers in San Quintin Cheryl Thornton\, SEIU 1021member\, fighting on Privatization of CCSF DPH Lisa Milos\, member of UPTE-CWA 9119 on Privatization & Outsourcing at UC Reports from Turkey\, Puerto Rico\, Brazil and France.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/privatization-union-busting-and-international-solidarity/
LOCATION:ILWU Local 34 Hall\, 801 2nd St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:07-14-2018,2018,2018-forum-reading,Forum, Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180714T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180714T120000
DTSTAMP:20260605T091225
CREATED:20180704T165908Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T195448Z
UID:2171-1531569600-1531569600@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Living History re-creates the 1901 Waterfront Strike
DESCRIPTION:Living History re-creates the 1901 Waterfront Strike that paralyzed San Francisco for five months. \nFrom July 13 to October 2\, 1901\, San Francisco’s waterfront was shut down by sailors\,Teamsters\, and longshoremen striking for better pay and working conditions. Experience the sights and sounds of San Francisco history through a Living History reenactment. Hear impassioned speeches and voice your own opinion! Take part in a march as strikers implore ships’ crews to join their ranks. Watch as a ship owner and ship’s officer defy the strikers. \nThe strike reenactment will take place on Hyde Street Pier at 12pm\, and be repeated at 2pm. Events on the pier are free of charge\, but admission to historic ships is $15 for adults\, Free with National Park passes\, for active military with current I.D.\, and for youth age 15 and younger.\nContact: carmonave@gmail.com\nhttps://hydestreetlivinghistory.org/upcoming-events/ \nhttps://www.nps.gov/safr/index.htm
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/living-history-re-creates-the-1901-waterfront-strike/
LOCATION:San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park\, Hyde Street Pier\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94123
CATEGORIES:07-14-2018,2018,2018-music-theater-art,Music, Theater, Art
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180715T094500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180715T170000
DTSTAMP:20260605T091225
CREATED:20180524T024727Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T195433Z
UID:1657-1531647900-1531674000@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Coit Tower Mural Walk
DESCRIPTION:With Peter O’Driscoll and Harvey\nSmith In the past few years\, there has been a growing community effort to defend the Coit Tower murals from leaking water and to stop plans for privatization of the site. This led to the critical renovation of the murals on their 80th anniversary. They were being painted during the 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.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/coit-tower-mural-walk-2/
LOCATION:Coit Tower\, 1 Telegraph Hill Blvd.\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:07-15-2018,2018,2018-tour-walk,Tour, Walk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180715T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180715T160000
DTSTAMP:20260605T091225
CREATED:20180524T024554Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T195412Z
UID:1655-1531652400-1531670400@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Book Reading - Trotskyists on Trial
DESCRIPTION:By Donna T. Haverty-Stacke\nThe 1934 Minneapolis Teamster general strike coincided with the San Francisco General Strike. After the Minneapolis strike\, the government\, the companies and more conservative union officials sought to go after the leadership of the Teamster Local 544 for organizing the strike and fighting against corporate unionism. Donna T. Haverty-Stacke who is professor at Hunter College in New York has written an important work of this trial and period. Haverty-Stacke will discuss the lessons of this trial and how the leadership was removed and replaced by a more compliant union that was interested in working with the companies and government to blacklist the leaders of the general strike. \nClick here to watch her presentation on July 15\, 2018
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/book-reading-trotskyists-on-trial/
LOCATION:518 Valencia\, 518 Valencia\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:07-15-2018,2018,2018-forum-reading,Forum, Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180715T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180715T173000
DTSTAMP:20260605T091225
CREATED:20180524T024933Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T195358Z
UID:1659-1531675800-1531675800@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Labor Maritime History Boat Tour
DESCRIPTION:5:45 PM Boarding\, 6:00 PM Departure Boat leaves promptly at 6:00 PM Please arrive 30 minutes before the boarding time. Tour lasts 3 hours A complimentary meal will be provided\, however\, if you are on a special diet\, please bring your own food. (Sorry\, we do not take any special orders for food.)\n\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 helped shape the character of San Francisco\, to the effort to save the EPA to ensure the Bay stay clean. We will hear from labor historians Gray Brechin\, Harvey Schwartz\, Harvey Smith\, Lawrence Shoup as well as labor photographer Joseph Blum. We will also hear about ongoing struggles of workers in the Bay Area. Enjoy labor songs with troubadours and musicians. Come one\, come all\, and experience the beauty of sailing the San Francisco Bay. The tour ends with the spetacular view of the sunset over the Golden Bridge from the middle of the Bay. You can’t afford to miss this great maritime tour.\n\nTo make your reservation: By E-mail: laborfest@stevezeltzer.com Or call: (415) 642-8066 and leave (1) your name\, (2) phone number\, and\, (3) number of people in your party. (We prefer e-mail.) We will contact you to confirm your reservation. Then\, you should mail a check ($45/person\, $25/6 to 12\, free for children under 6 ) to LaborFest\, P.O. Box 40983\, San Francisco\, CA 94140. We don’t send out tickets\, but we will either e-mail or call you back to let you know that we received your check\, as soon as we receive your check\, your reservation will be confirmed. You will get your ticket at the pier before you get on the boat. We will be gathering to the left of Pier 39\, toward Pier 41 (Blue & Gold Fleet). Please be there at least 30 minutes before departure time in order to go through paper work. We expect the tickets to be sold out quickly\, so please make your reservation early.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/labor-maritime-history-boat-tour/
LOCATION:Pier 41 next to Pier 39 near RocktBoat\, PIER 41\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:07-15-2018,2018,2018-tour-walk,Tour, Walk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180716T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180716T210000
DTSTAMP:20260605T091225
CREATED:20180524T025138Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T195337Z
UID:1662-1531767600-1531774800@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Air B&B and Effects on The Workers\, Tenants\, Neighborhoods
DESCRIPTION:Airbnb has had a profound effect not just in San Francisco but around the world. For cities\, it has turned neighborhoods into hotel districts. One example of the role of Airbnb is in North Beach where the elderly have been evicted to move tourists in. It has also threatened local businesses that make San Francisco the special place it is. This forum will look at how working people\, communities\, and the city have been transformed by this new technology platform. Speakers will include unionists\, tenants and environmentalists. Sponsored by United HERE Local 2.   \nInitial speakers: Jennifer Fieber\, San Francisco Tenants Union Ian Lewis\, Unite HERE Local 2 Research Director
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/air-bb-and-effects-on-the-workers-tenants-neighborhoods/
LOCATION:Unite HERE Local 2 Hall\, 209 Golden Gate Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:07-16-2018,2018,2018-forum-reading,Forum, Reading
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180717T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180717T210000
DTSTAMP:20260605T091225
CREATED:20180524T025235Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T195322Z
UID:1664-1531854000-1531861200@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:The Gig Economy\, Privacy\, Automation and AI
DESCRIPTION:San Francisco Bay Area is ground zero for the world tech transformation from platforms at Uber and Lyft to social media networks like Facebook and search engines like Google. The collection of big data without privacy rights\, or the introduction of automation by Tesla and AI without any real controls and regulations\, is not only injuring workers but also threatens public rights as our emotions and every private move are captured for profit. The “gig” worker in our automated economy is becoming the majority of workers in the United States and every other developed country. The impact of algorithmic and data-driven management of human workers is happening today at an mind numbing speed\, and this panel will look at these technologies and their impact on workers and our society. \nInitial speakers:\nTodd Davies\, Symbolic System Program\, Stanford; Center for the Study of Language and Information\nBrian Dolber\, California State University of San Marcos\, Communications and The Gig Economy\nMehmet Bayron\, LaborNet\, Software\, Exploitation and Automation of Tech Workers\nEdward Escobar\, The Alliance For Independent Workers \nLocation: Stanford University – Margaret Jacks Hall is in the Main Quad building. Go to the front section of the Main Quad\, at Palm Drive (the Oval) and enter Building 460 on the right. \nSponsored by LaborNet.org
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/the-gig-economy-privacy-automation-and-ai/
LOCATION:Stanford University\, Room 126\, Building 460\, Margaret Jacks Hall\, 450 Serra Mall\, Stanford\, CA\, 94305\, United States
CATEGORIES:07-17-2018,2018,2018-forum-reading,Forum, Reading
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