With Harvey Schwartz Harry Bridges, the Australian-born founding president of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, was hounded by government investigations, hearings, and trials from 1934 to 1955. As the […]
Book reading by Jonathan Karmel Writer and labor lawyer Jonathan Karmel has written a book about the cost to workers and their families of the lack of health and safety […]
Slavery, observed Frederick Douglass, is a “hydra-headed monster.” In California this monster appeared and reappeared as if shape-shifting. The history of slavery in California unsettles the North/South view of American […]
Sharat Lin is an international labor researcher looking at the lessons of the Spanish Mondagron Cooperative system. He reports on how it works and how workers who are using their […]
American-Swedish trade unionist Jordin Williams will discuss how workers are organized across the Nordic spectrum: Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Denmark. He will give a Powerpoint presentation to discuss labor […]
FilmWorks United International Working Class Film & Video Festival Directed by Jeffrey Gould This film by Jeffrey Gould, a history professor at the University of Indiana, looks at an important […]
Part of the so-called American Dream is the notion that if you work hard and get a good education you will make a decent living. However, many of our most […]
The dystopian world we live in will be challenged by words and music that will bring solidarity and unity of all working people. Poets: Mahnaz Badihian, Lisbit Bailey, Kristina Brown, […]
FilmWorks United International Working Class Film & Video Festival Reserve Slaves (Schiavi di Riserva) 2018 (30 min.) Italy Directed by Michelangelo Severgnini The result of the U.S./European attack on Libya […]
Directed by Imre Azem, 2018 (53 min.) Turkey. Four following years the Gezi Resistance, great political and social changes were instituted in Turkey. Director İmre Azem follows four people striving for […]
Thousands of drivers now come into San Francisco and other cities on the coast to drive for Uber and Lyft. These workers are forced to leave their homes because they […]
Meet at the fountain in Latham Square, at the intersection where Telegraph and Broadway converge, across from the Rotunda Building (Oakland City Center/12th St. BART). With Gifford Hartman of the […]
Walk with David Schooley Labor unionists and environmentalists both confront the same commercial interests. In 1968, David Schooley chained himself to a bulldozer at the foot of the San Bruno […]
Walk with Brad Wiedmaier, SEIU 2015 member & architectural historian San Francisco has a rich political and labor history that is also connected to its buildings. In this historyby- the-buildings […]
Registration: 9:30 AM The survival of public education is now at stake in California and throughout the country. Trump’s Secretary of Education Betsy Devos is continuing the complete privatization of […]
Labor musician and political satirist Charlie King will sing about the struggle of working people in the age of Trump. Pete Seeger nominated Charlie for the Sacco- Vanzetti Social Justice […]
Workers Rights has no borders and the struggle and lives of Palestinian workers are the focus of this forum. Palestinian journalists have been targeted by Israeli snipers in increasing numbers. […]
San Francisco actor and writer Howard Petrick takes a look at the 1934 Minneapolis general strike through the eyes of one of its leaders, V.R. Dunne. The Minneapolis Teamster General […]
