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The Fight Against Red-Baiting, Race-Baiting, Queen-Baiting In Labor And The Lessons of the Marine, Cooks & Stewards Union

July 8, 2021 @ 5:30 pm PDT

Free

Film starts 5:30 PM, panel starts 7:00 PM.
You can watch the film by clicking below on youtube anytime prior to the panel discussion.

Film:
“No Red-Baiting! No-Race-Baiting! No Queen-Baiting! The Marine Cooks and Stewards Union from the Depression to the Cold War” (90 min) narration by Allan Bérubé

During the 30’s, the militant labor movement took up a struggle against racism, red-baiting and Queen-baiting.
We will watch a documentary film by Gay Rights and labor researcher Allan Bérubé and have a panel on it’s relevance today.
Panel Hosted by ILWU Historiian Harvey Schwartz
Panelists:
Gray BrechinAmerican geologist, architectural historian, and English-language author. He is the founder, and as of 2017 the project scholar, of the Living New Deal Project and author of Imperial San Francisco
Jonathon Kissam, United Electrical Workers Communication Director

 

Related films & books:
Allan Berubi’s collected essays and  MCSU Documents
https://uncpress.org/book/9780807871959/my-desire-for-history/

The Story of the Marine Cooks and Stewards Union
‘We Took Care of Each Other’: A Maritime Union’s Hidden History of Gay-Straight and Interracial Solidarity
Long Live Allan Baird! – former president of IBT 921, Coors, Equal Rights and the Fight for Justice

 

Details

Date:
July 8, 2021
Time:
5:30 pm PDT
Cost:
Free
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LaborFest