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SUMMARY:Art Show - The Future Challenges Us Now
DESCRIPTION:Curated by Duckworth\nArtists were asked to address the nature and agency of work in a world rapidly transformed by pandemic and changing through political\, societal and technological prerogatives. Several artists focus here on the interconnections between labor and technology\, or the seemingly dissociated realms of labor\, environment\, political structures\, and personal agency\, the fabric of the whole calling for unity of vision and collective energy to harness these changes into holistic breakthroughs.\n  \nLaborFest 2020 Artist Submissions\n\n  \nJessalyn Aaland\nMy vision is for arts and nonprofit workers to organize their workplaces. We can do this by providing workers with free information about how to go about this\, as well as contemporary aesthetics that appeal to an arts audience. Labor organizing deserves to be art! I’m a former museum worker and shop steward for OPEIU Local 29\, who created the project Organizing Power\, along with my former colleague Ana Fox-Hodess and SFMoMA’s OPEIU Local 29 rep. Nat Naylor. Organizing Power is a 20-page\, Risograph-printed booklet designed to provide arts/nonprofit workers with tools to organize a union at their workplace. It is available for the cost of shipping and online in .pdf form. It was also an event that took place at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on June 1\, 2019. The event featured the booklet\, two panel discussions (which are archived on the project’s webpage)\, and artwork from the 2019 Oakland teachers’ strike. In fall 2019\, the project was awarded a grant from Southern Exposure and the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts to create two follow up publications on negotiating contracts and creative organizing strategies used by arts workers.\n\nOrganizing Power (2019). \n\nOrganizing Power (2019). \n \n  \n\n  \nPhilippe Barnoud\nPhilippe Barnoud is a Paris-based photographer and designer. The artist published the anthology Un chant pour Paris\, with 20 black-and-white photographs of Paris inspired by poems. Jose Muchnik and Philippe Tancelin\, Un chant pour Paris\, Unicite. Photographer website: https://www.philippebarnoudphotographe.com \n\nDispute \n\nNew Modalities \n\nFederate \n\n  \nMichael Chomick\nThe work addresses the horrific and greedy actions taking by the 1% leaving much of the 99% behind to fend for themselves. The work addresses how the 1% continually line their pockets\, i.e.\, the 500 billion dollars that they got through the recent Coronavirus stimulus package as the average taxpayer received a mere $1\,200.00\, if they were lucky to get it. “It is an extremely powerful work addressing this inequity between the rich and powerful that rule this country and the rest of the people just doing their best to survive. So in a sense it does refer to the labor struggle in America.” \n\nCA$H COW and The Capitalist Pig \n \nCA$H COW and The Capitalist Pig \n \nCA$H COW and The Capitalist Pig \n\nCA$H COW and The Capitalist Pig \n\nCA$H COW and The Capitalist Pig \n  \n\n  \nLee Corey\nLee Corey is a New York illustrator and animator. He was born in a small town in the Midwest\, where his larger-than-life dreams landed him in the hustle of advertising with the Mad Men. After several years of working in the world of NYC advertising\, Lee began his career at Nickelodeon curating and developing everything from bumper titles and short animations to mini pre-school series. Thereafter\, he was hired by Jumbo Pictures where he worked as a story-board artist on “Doug.” Lee’s passion to connect with society through playful art did not end at Jumbo. He continued his career by teaching flash animation at Pratt Institute\, while also working at Siemens Transportation Systems to develop the first CBTC training program for NYC Transit. Lee Corey’s journey as a cartoon developer and instructor speaks to his passion to show that art is inclusive\, and wide-reaching. The current events affecting the United States and the world at large have inspired Lee to become more politically involved and dedicate his talents to depict the social injustice\, political unrest\, and world pandemic that is now our current state of affairs\, as his journey continues.\nwww.coreytoons.com \n\nMidtown Blues \n\nIt’s simple\, wear a mask \n\nNine 2 Five \n\n  \nClare Charles Cornell\nClare Charles Cornell lives in Seattle\, WA with his husband and two cats. His artwork is a result of personal investigations into his relationship to masculinity. He has worked in video\, sculpture\, and primarily photo-based media and has been exhibited internationally. Cornell’s resume also includes teaching and curation of several shows nationally. He received his MFA in Photography from California Institute of the Arts. Free Credit While perusing the web for my own prurient interests\, I came across a cam site where men work for tips. My work\, Free Credit\, highlights and captures the less obvious aspects of “camboy” work. During this investigation\, elements of the men’s labor became apparent. Whether it is simply talking\, performing a sex act\, or feeding the cat\, work is the purpose of their performance. Today’s work has been interrupted and our paradigm is shifting. It is an in-between space that brings with it a balancing act as personal and professional space collapse. Consequently\, we have developed systems for teaching and working from home making many feel more isolated and seeking respite in virtual spaces. “Camboys” provide the perfect tonic for many who are seeking a conversation\, fantasy\, or more. Hopefully the world of commerce will use the good stuff we have learned through our current experiences and make our world a better place. But there are no guarantees. Part of our anxiety is the fact that we are in a state of not knowing and we cannot see what it will look like at the other end of the tunnel. My vision of the present and future in labor sees uncertainty and tectonic shifts in the way we work and relate to people. We will see what the future holds for “camboys\,” but it is my guess they will flourish. \n\nFree Credit \n\nFree Credit \n\nFree Credit \n  \n\n  \nCarol Denney\nCarol Denney is a Bay Area musician\, cartoonist\, writer and activist dedicated to cranking some kind of comedic sausage out of America’s current disaster. There is no finer moment for our collective wit\, creativity\, and compassion to transform our experience into the dance we all know we can do. \n\nCoronavirus Class Conflict \n\nCoronavirus War \n\nPandemic Online Conference Backdrops \n\n  \nFranck Duval\nFranck Duval aka FKDL\, born in 1963\, lives and works in Paris. He began painting in the 1980s and debuted his work to the public in 1992. Barely a decade later\, this fan of collage discovered and developed Art Scotch (created by Joseph Gil Wolman). With this technique\, he became FKDL and joined the street art scene in 2006. The recycling of old magazines is one of his specialities and his approach is both artistic and humanistic: he makes his imagination accessible to all on the city walls. He shares his techniques at workshops and participates in great causes that he finds an extension of his commitment to art and the world. \n\nSilver Shadow \n  \n\n  \nRobbin Légère Henderson\nRobbin Légère Henderson is a Bay Area writer and graphic artist whose work has been exhibited locally and internationally. She is a longtime activist in the political and artistic communities. Beginning in the 1970s\, she participated in creating community art spaces at Intersection for the Arts and was a co-founder of Southern Exposure at Project Artaud in San Francisco. Her work explores the natural world\, the environment\, and social justice issues such as immigration\, racial and gender equality\, and economic justice. She worked for over three decades as the facilitator of other artists’ careers in her capacity as director of the Berkeley Art Center\, and as curator in community spaces. A painter for many years\, she has recently concentrated on drawing\, printmaking\, and graphic arts. Her book Immigrant Girl\, Radical Woman\, published by Cornell University Press in 2017\, uses Henderson’s scratchboard drawings to illustrate her grandmother Matilda Rabinowitz’s memoir. An immigrant from the Russian empire\, Rabinowitz became an organizer for the IWW\, one of only two women Wobbly organizers during the IWW’s heyday. A single mother by choice and principle\, she became a writer of polemics\, poetry and short stories for Socialist and IWW publications. Henderson is now working on a graphic novel based on her father’s FBI file. Her website is http://www.robbinhenderson.com \n\nResist (reflecting on the day after the election). Scratchboard\, 18 x 24 in. \n\nBreathe. Scratchboard\, 16 x 20 in. \n\nContest Scratchboard\, 16 x 20 in. \n  \n\n  \nRoswitha Kandler\nRoswitha Kandler lives and works in Vienna\, Austria. We are experiencing a multi-dimensional global crisis: ecological\, economic\, and social. Nature’s reaction to climate change\, which has been the result of centuries of exploitation\, is also leading to a revolution in society. There is an increased incidence of direct\, structural and cultural violence\, which in turn promotes violent extremism. We see these pictures every day in the media. This does not create a supportive atmosphere and does not contribute to change\, conversion\, or renewal. The fossil world order is coming to an end. Wage slavery must finish\, we need a new value system. I see the future in an eco-social society with an eco-social market economy as Josef Rieger\, Austrian Federal Minister of Agriculture and Forestry\, formulated for the first time in 1987: the “strategic triangle” of the eco-social market economy\, “economically efficient\, socially oriented\, ecologically responsible”. This concept seems to me more correct and more important than ever today. And important too is an unconditional basic income for all citizens. This strengthens the willingness to take responsibility and gives people the freedom to do so. Companies would primarily have to create value. \nIn the first and second industrial revolutions\, with steam engines\, the Spinning Jenny\, Henry Ford and mass production\, came the assembly lines that destroyed entire branches of craft. Then came the industrial robots\, which in turn replaced the factory workers. Then came the desktop computers that made thousands of office jobs unnecessary. New devices kept coming that destroyed old jobs – but created other jobs. It is surprising that we have not accepted this to this day: that something that replaces work ultimately creates work again. There is great concern that the next technological leap will mean the end of work\, forever and ever. There is always enough work. The future of work needs to be rethought. As you know\, the last major renovation was the change from an industrial to a service economy and gave us more freedom. Today it is robots that can take over certain tasks from doctors\, bank advisors or truck drivers. But the devices of artificial intelligence that scare us\, they take our jobs away. Again we are in a phase of renovation where the old disappears\, but many working people have not yet found their place in the new. Industrialized people today often live subconsciously in an illusory world of artificiality. The global climate and economic crisis breaks open this glass facade and thus also opens up the opportunity for positive change\, a collective rethink\, the rediscovery of basic ecological values. With the GLOBAL FOREST series I want to openly counter artificial alienation and industrial exploitation of natural\, life-giving resources. If we can return to the natural energy of our environment\, we may be able to step over the threshold of the fourth industrial revolution? Through renewable energy\, with a new ecological and economic value system\, a new social system and global cohesion to a gentle revolution. People can learn a lot from nature when responding to economic crises and changes in living conditions. \n\nWork 4.0\, 2020 Mixed media on paper\, 50 x 70 cm \n\nKnowing\, 2007\, from the Global Forest series Acrylic on\ncanvas\, 220 x 120 cm \n\nKnowing (reverse)\, 2007\, from the series Global Forest\nAcrylic on canvas\, 220 x 122 cm \n  \n\n  \nDoug Minkler\nCorporations want artists to glorify their wars\, their products\, and their philosophies. I make posters for my own preservation\, that is\, planetary preservation. My prints are inspired by the collective humor\, defiance and lust for life exhibited by those on the margins. \n\nSheltering in Place \n\nFace Masks \n\nDead Planet \n  \n\n  \nHerb Mintz\n  \nThree Struggles by Herb Mintz \nI acted as the Public Relations Officer (PRO) for the California School Employees Association (CSEA) Chapter 33\, a classified staff union at the San Mateo County Community College District in San Mateo\, CA and as the PRO for CSEA Region 5 between 2008 and 2013. The two positions were unpaid volunteer service roles informed by particular tasks and responsibilities and belonged to two separate Executive Boards. My central task was to document and distribute records of organized union activities. The organized union activity records used in Three Struggles were originally produced as non-fiction color photographs and were exhibited in a union sanctioned domestic and internal context either in print media and/or online as digital files and/or as data within two websites. Each photograph was accompanied with a basic caption or an explanatory paragraph that anchored it to a single and/or particular interpretation for a particular audience\, that is\, CSEA union members. In Three Struggles\, I transformed non-fiction based color photographs of organized union activities into a fictional narrative within an imaginary landscape to be exhibited during LaborFest 2020. Additional expressive graphic and photographic elements create tension between non-fiction and fiction representations and suggests multiple interpretations. Its reception is for a largely unknown local or international external audience. Recording device: Sony Cyber-shot DSC-H3 8.1 MP Digital Camera with 10x Optical Zoom with Super SteadyShot Image Stabilization (2008). Software: Photoshop and Preview for IOS (2020). Hardware: iMac 2017 \n\nStruggle I \n\nStruggle II \n\nStruggle III \n  \n\n  \nMarcia Poole & Louis Cuneo\n  \nFracking – Aerial Views and Fire in the Woods are about man’s relentless extraction of the earth’s resources for the purpose of creating fuel\, without environmental stewardship. The extractive processes transforms the world and earth’s integrity\, leading to climate disasters which affect life everywhere. \nLouis Cuneo and Marcia Poole’s work uses the Japanese tradition of Haiga\, the visual form of Haiku. Cuneo’s photography captures a moment – the intersection of time and space – and uses the “absence of influence” to maintain the essential nature of what he photographs. Poole incorporates his photos into many of her prints to push further in capturing the “essence of the moment.” \nLouis Cuneo is a photographer and poet who began his literary career as a poet and writer in Greenwich Village in the late 1950s and moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1970. He is the author of fourteen books\, a Haiku expert\, editor & publisher\, professional photographer\, director & founder of Mother’s Hen\, and founder & coordinator of the Berkeley Poetry Festival. \nMarcia Poole spent her early years traveling and studying various philosophies and religions. She received her BA in Art from San Francisco State University. She has continued her spiritual practices\, with an emphasis on community action and artistic expression. \n  \n\nFracking – Aerial Views of Square Glow \n\nFracking – Aerial Views of Fracking Gone Mad \n\nFire In The Woods \n\n  \nJos Sances\nJos Sances was born John Joseph Sances in Boston and attended Montserrat School of Visual Art in Beverly\, MA. For more than 40 years he has made his living as a Printmaker and Muralist in the San Francisco Bay Area. Jos is founder of Alliance Graphics\, begun in 1989\, a successful\, union screenprint shop. Previously he co-founded Mission Grafica at the Mission Cultural Center in 1980 and worked there until 1988\, all the while maintaining a steady output of art addressing issues and ideas which concerned him. In 2010 and 2016\, the Library of Congress acquired 495 prints from Sances which represented a broad overview of his printmaking. He has shown art work in screenprint\, sculpture and ceramic tile in such venues as the Avenue 50 Gallery in Los Angeles\, the Richmond Art Center\, the American Museum of Ceramic Art\, The Berkeley Art Center\, and as part of the show Committed to Print at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. During the past 25 years mural and public art have been Jos’s passions. He has painted murals at the Oakland Coliseum. He has completed tile mural commissions at: the new Juvenile Justice Center in San Leandro\, CA; Amtrak/BART Station\, Richmond\, CA; and\, the Sixteenth Street BART station in San Francisco. Two tile murals were completed in 2009\, at the Castro Valley Library and Arnett Watson Apartments in San Francisco\, with Art Hazelwood. In 2010\, with Daniel Galvez\, Jos completed a huge mural for a recreation center at Ira Jenkins Park in Oakland. In 2011\, Sances and Galvez completed a tile and etched metal artwork for Skyline College in San Bruno\, CA. In 2015 and 2016\, three screenprinted tile murals and workshops were completed in Todos Santos\, Baja\, Mexico\, Shoruq Cultural Center in Dheisheh Refugee Camp\, Palestine\, and with students at Berkeley High School in California. Last year a 1500-square foot tile mural for Shadelands Sports Complex was installed in Walnut Creek\, CA. In 2019\, Sances’s 51-ft. x 14-ft. life-size scratchboard drawing of a sperm whale was featured in the Richmond Art Center exhibition Here is the Sea. Sances is represented by Vessel Gallery. Jos is a proud founding and lifelong member of the Great Tortilla Conspiracy.\nwww.josart.net \n\nAbe Trump. Scratchboard \n\nLife’s a Beach. Scratchboard \n\nWorkers. Scratchboard \n  \n\n  \nelin o’Hara slavick\nelin o’Hara slavick is a Professor of Studio Art at UNC\, Chapel Hill. She has exhibited her work internationally\, and her work is held in many collections\, including the Queens Museum\, The National Library of France\, The Library of Congress\, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Slavick is the author of two monographs ─ Bomb After Bomb: A Violent Cartography\, with a foreword by Howard Zinn\, and After Hiroshima\, with an essay by James Elkins ─ and a chapbook of surrealist poetry\, Cameramouth. She has held artist residencies in Canada\, France and Japan. Her work has been featured in The New York Times\, Los Angeles Times\, Images magazine\, San Francisco Chronicle\, Asia-Pacific Journal\, and Photo-Eye\, among other publications. Her work explores issues of labor\, war\, history\, feminism\, the body\, and the Anthropocene. A curator\, critic\, poet\, educator\, artist\, activist\, and organizer\, slavick hopes to see the radical and peaceful transformation of the world before she dies. \nWorkers Dreaming is a series of color photographs of workers with their eyes closed. I photograph workers in our global economy. Workers are everywhere I go and the project includes immigrant and indigenous workers in France\, Cuba\, Italy\, Japan\, and the United States. Workers Dreaming performs in the spaces between labor and leisure\, agency and servitude. What do workers dream about and meditate on while they work? Are they thinking of where they would rather be? What do workers look like\, especially in the United States where many jobs have been exported to non-union and low-wage countries? What workers are visibly left? They are majestic\, mortal\, heroic\, tired\, beautiful\, and really human. I want my photographs to transform the way we see\, acknowledge\, and interact with workers today. Although our eyes are open\, we are often blind to beauty\, to injustice\, to cultural difference\, and to class structure. While the workers’ eyes are closed in my photographs\, they see and know their situation intimately. Denying us their gaze but offering us a meditative space\, they are empowered\, lost in their own imaginings\, desires\, hopes and self-consciousness. My workers are not “historical” in the conventional sense\, but it does not take tragedy to make history\, it takes work. \n\nConstruction Worker\, Charlottesville\, Virginia\,\nUSA \n\nHousekeeper\, Hiroshima\, Japan\, 2008 \n\nLaundress\, Havana\, Cuba\, 2003 \n  \n\n  \nGary Turchin\nI know labor from the inside: I grew up in a New Jersey diner owned by my father. I washed a lot of dishes\, waited on tons of tables\, and basically worked there during my formative years. After graduating college\, I didn’t go to work in an office\, I became a house painter and drywaller. For 20 years I did this very hard work\, all the while developing my art and writing. In 1988\, after two decades of labor\, I made the break into being a full time artist and writer. My visual art has gone from drawing to found objects to photographic and digital print making. I look for images that both seem very real\, but also bend the light so there is always a deeper way to see an image\, that they be transformed from “real” to “hyper-real.” Thus\, many of my images appear quite simple\, but they’re actually quite deep. \n  \n\nTwo Soles \n\nCondominium Tree \n\nSunflower Apocalypse \n  \n 
URL:https://laborfest.net/2021/event/art-show-the-future-challenges-us-now/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:07-01-2020,2020,Music, Theater, Art,Zoom
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SUMMARY:S. Africa & COVID and Class struggle - Video and Report by Martin Jansen (Zoom event)
DESCRIPTION:Workers World Media production director in South Africa\, Martin Jansen\, screens a video documentary on the effect of Covid-19 in South Africa and the systemic problems that worker face. Despite the promises of the Freedom Charter public health care for all is still not a reality for the working class of South Africa.\nDiscussion after the screening with Martin Jansen \n\nThe video of this event will be uploaded soon.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2021/event/s-africa-covid-and-class-struggle-video-and-report-by-martin-jansen/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:07-02-2020,2020,Forum, Reading,Zoom
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SUMMARY:Film: “Sir\, No Sir” - The GI Movement to End the Vietnam War (2005) 50 minutes - followed by discussion (Zoom event)
DESCRIPTION:ZOOM Recording \n \nThis feature-length documentary focuses on the efforts by troops in the U.S. military during the Vietnam War to oppose the war effort by peaceful demonstration and fragging their officers. The racism in the military and the use of the military by Trump to crush mass protests have important lessons to working people and veterans.\nFollowing the film there will be a panel of working class veterans during Vietnam and later.\nDavid Ewing\nMichael Wong\nRicardo Ortiz \n\nThe video of this event will be uploaded soon.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2021/event/film-sir-no-sir-the-gi-movement-to-end-the-vietnam-war-2005-50-minutes-followed-by-discussion/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:07-03-2020,2020,Film,Zoom
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SUMMARY:SF Mime Troupe - Tales of The Resistance - Original Radio Serial
DESCRIPTION:Can the revolution be social distanced? Find out this Summer with the San Francisco Mime Troupe as they present 4 series of original political comedy audio plays\, broadcast bi-weekly\, each written and performed by Mime Troupe veterans and newcomers\, and each in a different style. Each episode will be about 25 minutes long\,\, and presented as podcasts and as radio shows on stations across the country.\nFor more information on this event\, please go to the web site bellow.\nhttps://www.sfmt.org/talesoftheresistance
URL:https://laborfest.net/2021/event/sf-mime-troupe-tales-of-the-resistance-original-radio-serial/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:07-04-2020,2020,Music, Theater, Art
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SUMMARY:Poetry Word Performance - Fascism & American Capitalism - by David Lee Morgan (Zoom event)
DESCRIPTION:Poetry Word Performance by David Lee Morgan \nDavid Lee Morgan\, a Play-writer and performer focuses the rise of racism and US capitalism. He has performed internationally and is a longstanding member of the Writers Guild of Great Britain. \n\nThe video of this event will be uploaded soon.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2021/event/performance-fascism-american-capitalism/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:07-04-2020,2020,Music, Theater, Art,Zoom
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SUMMARY:Police\, Labor & Union in America - Boston Police Strike (Zoom event)
DESCRIPTION:The mass protest movement against the murder and lynching of George Floyd and many many others has led to a struggle in the labor movement about the role of the police whether they should be in the unions. The AFL-CIO as well as other unoins have thousands of police members. \nLast month\, the Martin Luther King Jr. Labor Council in Seattle after a sharp debate\, voted to throw the police out of the council. At the same time\, ATU and TWU bus drivers in New York and Chicago have refused to transport arrested protesters. \nOne ATU 241 member Erek Slater in Chicago was removed by the police and terminated after he had a discussion with members at his bus barn on the position of the ATU International. \nThis forum will look at these issues and what labor should do.\nPanelists:\nGabriel Prawl\, Former Seattle ILWU Local 52 president and A. Philipp Randolph Institute Seattle Chapter President\nJack Heyman\,  Retired ILWU Local 10 Member and Former ITF Bay Area Agent\nErek Slater\, ATU 242 Bus Driver & Executive Board Member\nLeith Kahl\, ILWU Local 19 Seattle\nBrenda Barros\, SEIU 1021 SF General Hospital Chapter Chair \n\nThe video of this event will be uploaded soon.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2021/event/police-labor-union-in-america-boston-police-strik/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:07-04-2020,2020,Forum, Reading,Zoom
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SUMMARY:1934 San Francisco General Strike - Presentation by Gifford Hartman (Zoom event)
DESCRIPTION:By Gifford Hartman\nEighty-six years ago a great battle took place between striking workers and the police and National Guard along the waterfront besides the piers of San Francisco’s Embarcadero. 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? And how did the union invite black workers into its ranks to prevent racist exclusion from breaking their strike? This Zoom presentation will show photos and video clips from the strike\, with a chronology of how a two month long waterfront strike along the entire West Coast exploded into a 4-day general strike that shut down all commerce in San Francisco. \n\nThe video of this event will be uploaded soon.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2021/event/walk-san-francisco-general-strike-zoom-presentation-by-gifford-hartman/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:07-05-2020,2020,Tour, Walk,Zoom
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SUMMARY:Labor History Bike Tour
DESCRIPTION:Meet at 518 valencia\, near 16th St.\, SF \nBy Chris Carlsson\n(Sliding scale $15 – 50\, benefiting Shaping San Francisco)\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.\nFrom 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.\nFor more information: (415) 608-9035
URL:https://laborfest.net/2021/event/labor-history-bike-tour-2/
LOCATION:518 Valencia\, 518 Valencia\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:07-05-2020,2020,Tour, Walk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200705T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200705T190000
DTSTAMP:20260605T025212
CREATED:20200619T033134Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200717T221447Z
UID:979-1593975600-1593975600@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Internecine Warfare\, Class and The George Floyd Uprising (Zoom event)
DESCRIPTION:ZOOM Recording \n \nWith George Wright\, Steve Zeltzer\nIn the midst of the warfare between both the Democrats & Republicans the racist murder of George Floyd has led to the biggest mass protest in the post war period.\nAt the same time\, more than 44 million workers have lost their jobs with no plan in place to put people back to work. George Wright will look at the reasons for the internecine warfare and the inability of both parties to have a solution to the racist system and growing social and economic conditions. \n\nThe video of this event will be uploaded soon.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2021/event/internecine-warfare-class-and-the-george-floyd-uprising-with-george-wright/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:07-05-2020,2020,Forum, Reading,Zoom
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2021/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/7-5-Black-Lives-Matter.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200706T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200706T190000
DTSTAMP:20260605T025212
CREATED:20200619T034436Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200717T215117Z
UID:982-1594062000-1594062000@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:AB5\, Tech Robber Barons And Slavery - With Journalist Steve Hill and Edward Escobar (Zoom event)
DESCRIPTION:ZOOM Recording \n \nUBER\, Lyft and other gig transportation platforms are spending over $120 million to overturn AB5 which required these companies to provide workers comp\, social security and other protections. Will this law destroy the gig companies and what is the reality for gig workers and the future of work. \nProfessor Jack Linchuan Qiu – Author of “Goodbye iSlave” “Lifting the silicon heel from workers’ lives”\nSteve Hill – Author of “Raw Deal: How the ‘Uber Economy’ and Runaway Capitalism Are Screwing American Workers”\, “Amazon Workers Fight Back”\nEdward Escobar – Alliance for Independent Workers (AIW) \n\nThe video of this event will be uploaded soon.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2021/event/ab5-tech-robber-barons-and-slavery-with-journalist-steve-hill-and-edward-escobar-zoom/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:07-06-2020,2020,Forum, Reading,Zoom
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2021/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/7-6-AB5-UberLyft.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200707T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200707T100000
DTSTAMP:20260605T025212
CREATED:20200619T034637Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200706T041650Z
UID:984-1594116000-1594116000@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Bread & Roses Labor History Story Telling with Retired Union Members  (This event was postponed)
DESCRIPTION:This event was postponed until the later in the month. \nFederation of Retired Union Members (FORUM) is affiliated with the San Francisco Labor Council with the purpose of promoting and preserving the spirit of unionism and participating in the campaigns and activities of labor. Participants represent some of the constituent unions in the Labor Council and warmly welcome additional union retirees to attend month in-person meetings\, when such meetings can safely resume. These meetings are held on the first Tuesday each month\, 10 a.m. at the San Francisco Labor Council Office – 1188 Franklin St\, Suite 203. Each year FORUM has held a sharing of stories and personal recollections of the 1934 General Strike and other more recent labor actions. But this year\, because of COVID-19\, we have collected and pre-recorded some inspiring memories. \nThis event was postponed until the later in the month.\nIt will be posted as soon as the schedule is confirmed.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2021/event/bread-roses-labor-history-story-telling-with-retired-union-members-zoom/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:07-07-2019,2020,Forum, Reading,Zoom
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2021/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/7-7-BR-labor-History.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200707T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200707T190000
DTSTAMP:20260605T025212
CREATED:20200619T034748Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200717T222306Z
UID:986-1594148400-1594148400@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:History of Labor Parties In The US and Prospects Today (Live-Zoom)
DESCRIPTION:ZOOM Recording \n \nThe US has a long history in the fight for labor parties. This forum will look at this history and the prospects for such a party today in the United States.\nFirst it will briefly look at the long history of the fight for a labor party and the most recent effort to form one which was led by OCAW leader Tony Mazzocchi. It will also look at the growing anger by working people not only against the Republicans but Democrats.\nParticipants include:\nAl Rojas\, co-founder of the UFWA\nJack Heyman\, retired militant with ILWU Local 10\nTrent Willis\, president of ILWU Local 10\nAhmed Kanna\, Educator in anthropology and ethnic studies based in Oakland \n\nThe video of this event will be uploaded soon.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2021/event/history-of-labor-parties-in-the-us-and-prospects-today-live-zoom/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:07-07-2020,2020,Forum, Reading,Zoom
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/gif:https://laborfest.net/2021/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/7-7-US_Labor_Party.gif
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200708T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200708T170000
DTSTAMP:20260605T025212
CREATED:20200619T035016Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200717T222214Z
UID:988-1594227600-1594227600@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Labor & The Murals - Howard Pflanzer - (Live-Zoom)
DESCRIPTION:A Discussion between playwright Howard Pflanzer and Steve Zeltzer about the controversy over artistic expression swirling around the 1936 George Washington murals by Victor Arnautoff at the San Francisco high school named after Washington. The San Francisco school district voted 850\,000 dollars to paint over the Washington murals because their opponents say they depict black people and native Americans in a negative light by showing disturbing images for current students to see when they enter the school. Pflanzer is writing a play\,THE MURALS\, about this conflict to be presented at LaborFest in 2021. \n\nThe video of this event will be uploaded soon.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2021/event/labor-the-murals-howard-pflanzer-live-zoom/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:07-08-2020,2020,Music, Theater, Art,Zoom
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2021/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/7-8-Mural.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200710T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200710T170000
DTSTAMP:20260605T025212
CREATED:20200619T035221Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200713T143232Z
UID:991-1594400400-1594400400@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Film - Gone Postal - (1 hr 33 min\, Director: Jay Galione) (Zoom event)
DESCRIPTION:We’ll share a web link in the call where you can watch the film.\nThen stick around for our Zoom Q&A panel featuring filmmakers Jay Galione and special guests\, Audrey Davis\, Christopher Shaw and more.\nJay Galione\, son of a postal worker\, investigates the dark corners of the U.S. Postal Service. Across the country\, brave employees stand up to injustice on the job and fight to Save the People’s Post Office. A moving indictment of the toxic culture and push to downsize\, this eye-opening documentary allows viewers to hear from experts and advocates including Ralph Nader and Richard Wolff\, and directly from the selfless and courageous people hidden behind the scenes\, long suffering and ignored. \nTrailer\nhttps://vimeo.com/414559912\n\n \n\nThe video of this event will be uploaded soon.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2021/event/film-gone-postal-1-hr-33-min-director-jay-galione/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:07-10-2020,2020,Music, Theater, Art,Zoom
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2021/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/7-10-Gone-Postal.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200711T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200711T110000
DTSTAMP:20260605T025212
CREATED:20200619T035448Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200717T214833Z
UID:994-1594465200-1594465200@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Privatization charters & The Defense Of Public Education (Zoom event)
DESCRIPTION:ZOOM Recording \n \nThe continued growth of charters\, co-locations and privatization threaten the right to an equal education. The privatizers are using the pandemic to massively expand online education and also further eliminate public schools. The forum will examine the history of charters and privatization and what what teachers\, staff\, parents and students can do to protect their public schools and public education.\nIt will also look at how the pandemic is being used by these privatizers to accelerate the destruction of public education and what needs to be done about it.\nSoni Lloyd – UTLA\nCarlos Taboada – UTR Retired\nJack Gerson\, Former OEA CTA Representative\nKathleen Carroll\, Former CTC Education Lawyer & Whistlelblower On Segregation & Discrimination \n\nThe video of this event will be uploaded soon.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2021/event/privatization-charters-the-defense-of-public-education-zoom/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:07-11-2020,2020,Forum, Reading,Zoom
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2021/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/7-11-charter-Al-Seib-Los-Angeles-Times.jpeg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200712T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200712T130000
DTSTAMP:20260605T025212
CREATED:20200619T035813Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200717T221635Z
UID:999-1594558800-1594558800@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Defending Our Jobs and Our Futures (Zoom event)
DESCRIPTION:ZOOM Recording \n \nHow Workers Can Confront Automation & Legal Attacks On Our Unions \nAutomation\,  artificial intelligence AI\, along with robotics in our economy threaten millions of workers and their ability to keep or get a job.\nThis panel will look at how these technologies are confronting longhshore workers around the world. Some docks are already fully automated\, and on the West Coast\, automated docks in the Port of Los Angeles are displacing ILWU longshore workers. \nAt the same time\, the ILWU faces lawsuits that could mean possible bankruptcy.  Philippine-owned ICTSI Oregon won a $93.6 million dollar lawsuit against the ILWU which was reduced by a judge to $19 million by a judge.  The company however is pursuing an appeal for the full amount. In Australia\, the same company is also suing the MUA for damages. The fiancial future of the ILWU is threatened. \nThis panel will look at both of these issues facing the ILWU and all longshore workers. \nPanelists:\nJack Heyman – Retired ILWU Local 10 activist\nProfessor Raquel Varela – from Portugal\nAUTOMATION IN PORTS AND LABOUR RELATIONS IN XXI CENTURY-Raquel Varela International Dock Workers Council Miami Meeting SEP 2016\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGTcJXCDjq0\nhttps://youtu.be/J2YmVVs9hPM\nThe video of this event will be uploaded soon.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2021/event/technology-lawsuits-how-to-fight-union-busting-jack-heyman-bob-carnegiezoom/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:07-12-2020,2020,Forum, Reading,Zoom
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2021/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/7-12-ILWUprotestinglockout_2002-1.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200713T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200713T170000
DTSTAMP:20260605T025212
CREATED:20200701T180913Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200717T222549Z
UID:1503-1594659600-1594659600@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:New Deal Art: Anita Brenner and Cultural Bridge-Builders (Zoom event)
DESCRIPTION:ZOOM Recording \n \nBy Harvey Smith\n \nDespite the recent court decisions\, the political battle over immigration has been reduced by some to a political dog whistle. Historically\, the story of New Deal art\, its initial advocates and its artists informs us with a deeper understanding of immigration\, labor struggles and progressive values. Journalist Anita Brenner’s life\, in particular\, flies in the face of the current media hype about Mexico. Born in Mexico\, and schooled in the U.S. and Mexico\, her working adult life was split between north and south of the border. She was intrinsically both Mexican and “American” and strove to bridge the political and cultural gap between those on each side of the Rio Grande. She influenced George Biddle\, who in turn influenced Franklin D. Roosevelt to develop a New Deal program for artists. Brenner’s interests included organized labor and the anti-fascist struggle in Spain. In her art criticism Brenner championed Mexican artists and New Deal art programs. \n\nThe video of this event will be uploaded soon.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2021/event/1503/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:07-13-2020,2020,Tour, Walk,Zoom
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2021/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/7-13-New-Deal-art.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200714T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200714T190000
DTSTAMP:20260605T025212
CREATED:20200619T035953Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200717T213817Z
UID:1002-1594753200-1594753200@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Tesla Workers\, Labor\, Human Rights And Elon Musk (Zoom event)
DESCRIPTION:Despite the coronavirus pandemic with Covid-19\, Tesla owner Elon Musk has brazenly ignored shelter in place orders and continued to run the factory. Workers were then coerced to go to work despite serious health and safety fears from themselves and their families.\nTesla workers will discuss what they face with forced 72 hour work weeks and oppressive conditions that destroy workers lives.\nSponsored by Workers Solidarity Action Network WSAN \n \n\n \nKPIX July 15 report by Andrea Nakano \n  \n\nThe video of this event will be uploaded soon.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2021/event/tesla-workers-labor-human-rights-and-elon-musk-zoom-event/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:07-14-2020,2020,Forum, Reading,Zoom
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2021/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/7-14-Gabriel-Carlos-Tesla-Protest-6-15-20.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200715T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200715T170000
DTSTAMP:20260605T025212
CREATED:20200619T040102Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200715T223328Z
UID:1004-1594832400-1594832400@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Concert by Grup Yorum - Turkey
DESCRIPTION:Group Yorum is a folk music group that has been banned by the government of Turkey.  They sing songs about freedom\, of brotherhood and sisterhood of people\, of workers dying on the job\, nations\, races and genders.  For this reason\, the Turkish government has declared the music group as a “front for terrorism.”\nIn this one hour presentation\, we will discover their music\, lyrics\, their fight\, their resistance\, their contribution to the world revolutionary movement. \nThe group’s concerts have become a social event as tens of thousands flock to see them.  Unable to prevent mostly the youth to follow and attend their huge concerts\, the Turkish government banned all the concerts of Group Yorum citing “security concerns.”  When the Islamic AKP government was unable to destroy the spirit of these revolutionary musicians\, the prosecutors were called into action.  The government fabricated charges against the group members.  They summoned “witnesses” who hid their names and testified behind curtains and through electronic shields in the court to indict the musicians on terrorism.  The courts were a travesty of justice.  The judges had already decided that what the government wanted from them in the way of propaganda had to be delivered\, no matter what the truth may be. \nThe group members did not relent\, they made their music\, they protested\, they resisted with their music and lastly with their bodies and lives. \nProtesting the kangaroo courts and openly biased justice system with secret witnesses\, the musicians put their lives on the line.  Starting hunger strikes to protest the procedures\, two musicians gave their lives on hunger strike.  Another musician was beaten to a pulp by the cops during the last days of his hunger strike\, tortured and sexually abused with a police baton.  He too died few days later.  After the loss of musicians lives\, even the secret witness who testified against them recanted and admitted the police forced him to lie in court.  The funeral of the musicians were attacked by the neo-nazi\, racist\, nationalist fascists who swore that they would raid the graves\, take the bodies out and burn them. \nGroup Yorum owns Idil Cultural Center where film screenings\, music classes\, theater training\, book readings\, choir and group practices are held.  The center has been the target of numerous police raids where the cops destroyed doors\, windows\, book shelves and made it a point to destroy every single musical instrument\, including breaking and spreading the keys of the piano. \nEven with deaths of its musicians\, arrests\, threats\, beatings\, banning of concerts\, Group Yorum is one of the top most sought after music groups in Turkey.  People understand and know the meaning of their music.  It is a music against oppression\, against war\, against divisions and is a music for the workers\, for the laborers whose voice never gets to be pronounced.  That is why the music of Group Yorum is the voice of the voiceless in Turkey. \nCommentary\, interviews\, music and video on the Group Yorum music group who are banned to perform in Turkey and whose 3 musicians lost their lives in hunger strike fighting for justice and the right to perform. \nPre-recorded videos will be put up by 5:00 PM.\nLanguage:    English
URL:https://laborfest.net/2021/event/concert-by-grup-yorum-turkey-zoom/
LOCATION:On this web page
CATEGORIES:07-15-2020,2020,Music, Theater, Art,Zoom
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2021/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/7-15-Turkey-grupyorum4.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200715T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200715T190000
DTSTAMP:20260605T025212
CREATED:20200619T041947Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200718T035403Z
UID:1007-1594839600-1594839600@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:US Public Health System\,  COVID\, Racism and Capitalism (Zoom event)
DESCRIPTION:ZOOM Recording \n \nThe explosion of Covid-19 cases in the United States and the inability of one of the richest countries in the world to handle the pandemic has exposed the serious systemic problems with the US.\nSpeakers will discuss the reasons for the medical healthcare failure and what structural changes have to take place.\nWith:\nBrenda Barros\, SEIU 1021 SF General Hospitall Chapter Chair\nCheryl Thornton\,  SEIU 1021 SF Community Health Centers Chapter V.P. \n\nThe video of this event will be uploaded soon.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2021/event/us-public-health-system-covid-racism-and-capitalism/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:07-15-2020,2020,Forum, Reading,Zoom
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2021/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/7-15-US-COVID-protect-nurses.jpeg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200716T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200716T190000
DTSTAMP:20260605T025212
CREATED:20200619T042122Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200718T035258Z
UID:1010-1594926000-1594926000@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Cal-OSHA\, Federal OSHA &  The The Destruction of Our Health & Safety (Zoom event)
DESCRIPTION:In the midst of a dangerous and deadly pandemic\, why is OSHA and Cal-OSHA missing in action? Panelists in including former Cal-OSHA Medical director Larry Rose will look at the dismemberment of the programs and what it mean today for working people. \n\nThe video of this event will be uploaded soon.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2021/event/cal-osha-federal-osha-the-the-destruction-of-our-health-safety/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:07-16-2020,2020,Forum, Reading,Zoom
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2021/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/7-16-OSHA-1.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200717T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200717T190000
DTSTAMP:20260605T025212
CREATED:20200619T042518Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200719T043722Z
UID:1012-1595012400-1595012400@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Xenophobia\, Denialism\, The Asian Pivot China\, & Anti Asia Racism (Live-Zoom)
DESCRIPTION:The rapid rise of anti-Asian racism and xenophobia has a long history in California and the US. The effort to rewrite history to censor and sanitize the discriminatory treatment of Asians in the US is also mirrored by the Japanese government which seeks to deny the history of the Comfort Women. This is taking place at the same time the US with the Asian pivot is seeking to surround China and pitting the American people against Chinese. The possibility of war with China and the threat of war is a critical issue as well for all working people and labor.\nThis panel will examine these issues historically and the lessons for today.\nPanelist\nJudith “Mirk” Mirkinson – President\, SF/Bay Area NLG\nLillian Sing – Comfort Women Justice Coalition\, Retired Judge\nTomomi Kinukawa – SFSU Ethnic Studies Department\nDavid Ewing – Lawyer and US China Friendship Committee\nRodger Scott – Former President AFT 2121\, Delegate To SF Labor Council\nMichael Wong – Veterans For Peace\nSteve Zeltzer – WorkWeek
URL:https://laborfest.net/2021/event/xenophobia-denialism-the-asian-pivot-china-anti-asia-racism-live-zoom/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:07-17-2020,2020,Forum, Reading,Zoom
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2021/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/7-17-Xenophobia.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200718T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200718T100000
DTSTAMP:20260605T025212
CREATED:20200619T042700Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200719T043850Z
UID:1014-1595066400-1595066400@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:WPA Works in Berkeley  With Harvey Smith (Zoom-Power point)
DESCRIPTION:This PowerPoint presentation will explore the background for Berkeley’s New Deal legacy. Our tours\, when in person\, begin at the corner of the “New Deal nexus” that includes Berkeley High School and the Community Theater\, art in the Post Office\, the old Farm Credit Building (repurposed as the Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center)\, and the YMCA.  Other sites include Civic Center Park\, the old UC Press Building (repurposed as the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive)\, the mosaic mural on the UC Berkeley campus\, the California Folk Music Project\, Western Museum Laboratory\, Berkeley Rose Garden\, and North Branch Library. We will examine the roots of the New Deal\, the projects of some Berkeley New Dealers\, and how New Deal values and policies apply today. For more info: 510-684-0414 \nNNDPA \n \n\nThe video of this event will be uploaded soon.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2021/event/wpa-berkeley-tour-zoom-power-point-with-harvey-smith/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:07-18-2020,2020,Tour, Walk,Zoom
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2021/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/7-18-Berkeley-WPA.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200719T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200719T180000
DTSTAMP:20260605T025212
CREATED:20200713T200242Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200721T231851Z
UID:1709-1595181600-1595181600@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Death and Dismissal of Mexican and US Workers (Zoom event)
DESCRIPTION:The attack on US and Mexican woerkers will be the focus of this LaborFest event.\nWorkers on both sides of the border face the Covid pandemic and attacks on their labor and human rights. These workers face multi-nationals who ignore and violate health and safety laws and labor laws with impunity.\nThere is no enforcement of labor rights and health and safety for workers on both sides of the border for these billion dollar corporations who have captured the very agencies that are supposed to enforce the laws to protect working people.\nThis forum will hear from the workers themselves who are fighting back for their rights and their lives in the face of the deadly pandemic. \nSponsored by the LCLAA Sacramento Chapter as part of 2020 San Francisco LaborFest: \nInitial Speakers:\nAmadeo Sumano – Current Farmworker of Oxnard\, California\nBonofacio Martinez and Lorenzo Rodriguez of Sindicato Independiente Nacional Democratic de Jornaleros Agricolas (SINDJA) – Driscoll Boycott Organizers\nIsrael Cervantes – GM Workers Union\, Silau\, Guanajuato\, Mexico\nGuest Speaker from California soon to announce. \nYou can watch this event at:\nCheck LIVE STREAMING at Facebook
URL:https://laborfest.net/2021/event/death-and-dismissal-of-mexican-and-us-workers-zoom-event/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:07-20-2020,2020,Forum, Reading
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2021/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/7-19-Death-Dismissal-Of-Mexican-Workers.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200720T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200720T180000
DTSTAMP:20260605T025212
CREATED:20200619T043300Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200723T044136Z
UID:1023-1595268000-1595268000@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Poetry & Performance - by David Mills & Howard Pflanzer (Zoom event)
DESCRIPTION:David Mills – The past is prologue: Black bodies: the bodies of evidence\nMills will read poems\, largely about the physical and psychological assault mostly by white males on the black body from this country’s antebellum period to the murders of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd. \nHoward Pflanzer – SPACE – 14min. \, on Crossways Theatre’s You Tube channel\,\nFeaturing Zoe Anastassiou and JR Carter\, with Kathleen Potts as “Voice”. Worldwide flooding\, a restrictive underground space\, a couple decide to flee to the unknown. Climate change has made the surface of the earth totally uninhabitable\, some of the survivors are living underground\, a couple live in a two by four space\, wanting a child and a “normal” life. \nDiscussion with both writers after the poetry reading and the play. \n\nThe video of this event will be uploaded soon.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2021/event/poetry-performance-by-david-mills-howard-pflanzer/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:07-20-2020,2020,Music, Theater, Art,Zoom
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2021/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/7-20-Space.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200722T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200722T190000
DTSTAMP:20260605T025212
CREATED:20200619T044658Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200723T044012Z
UID:1026-1595444400-1595444400@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:The Murals and The Life of  Victor Arnautoff - (Zoom event)
DESCRIPTION:The San Francisco Unified School Board has voted to spend more than $800\,000 to cover-up the Victor Arnautoff George Washington High murals. The panel will look at labor particularly the ILWU and the history of the Victor Arnautoff murals.\nThis panel will look at the history of the murals\, the response mural and the lessons for today.\nWith Jack Heyman\, Dewey Crumpler\, Gray Brechin\, Carol Denney \n\nThe video of this event will be uploaded soon.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2021/event/the-murals-and-the-life-of-victor-arnautoff-zoom/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:07-22-2020,2020,Forum, Reading,Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200723T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200723T170000
DTSTAMP:20260605T025212
CREATED:20200625T061822Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200724T171957Z
UID:1333-1595523600-1595523600@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Community Colleges Under Attack\,  Working People And The Right to Higher  Public Education\, Racism and Capitalism (Zoom event)
DESCRIPTION:The underfunding and destruction of community colleges is escalating as the depression deepens. What is happening and what should our unions be doing about it. \nSpeakers:\nRick Baum\, CCSF AFT 2121\nCarol Lang\, CUNY AFT PSC\nJohn Holmes\, AFT PFT\nGeorge Wright\, Skyline College AFT 1493 Retired \n\nThe video of this event will be uploaded soon.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2021/event/community-colleges-under-attack-working-people-and-the-right-to-higher-public-education-racism-and-capitalism/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:07-23-2020,2020
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200724T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200724T200000
DTSTAMP:20260605T025212
CREATED:20200627T000354Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200724T010905Z
UID:1381-1595613600-1595620800@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Labor History Comes Alive: “The Moment Was Now” Premieres as a Film
DESCRIPTION:The Moment Was Now takes place in post-civil war Baltimore in 1869\, a\nturning point in U.S. history when “America almost did the right thing.”\nThe contemporary themes of the search for racial and economic justice\nand women’s rights reverberate throughout the musical. The story reveals\nthe impassioned search for unity among the dynamic leaders of powerful\nsocial movements during Reconstruction. The conflicts and possibilities\nunfold in music and spoken word at a meeting convened by Frederick\nDouglass. Hope hangs in the balance.\nConceived and Created by Gene Bruskin In collaboration with\nDarryl! LC Moch\, Director; Glenn Pearson\, Musical Director;\nand Chester Burke\, Jr.\, Assistant Musical Director \nSponsored by the Alliance for Social and Economic Justice.\nThe online showing will include a discussion with the playwright. \nTo register for the event\, https://the_moment_was_now.eventbrite.com\nFor more information\, contact the Alliance for Social and Economic\nJustice at 415-863-1927 or asej@riseup.net \nFor a 2 minute preview go to:\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lzxAp02kOA&feature=youtu.be \n\n 
URL:https://laborfest.net/2021/event/labor-history-comes-alive-the-moment-was-now-premieres-as-a-film/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:07-24-2020,2020,Music, Theater, Art
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200725T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200725T103000
DTSTAMP:20260605T025212
CREATED:20200619T045038Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200727T174351Z
UID:1031-1595673000-1595673000@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Chile and US Healthcare Workers Under The Gun (Zoom event)
DESCRIPTION:Chile and US Healthcare Workers Under Covid & Capitalist Control\nWorkers’ Rights are Human Rights: nowhere in the world has the global pandemic unmasked the crisis of capitalism more clearly than in Chile and the US. Both countries have the highest rates of infection of COVID 19; in both\, the poorest workers\, immigrants and people of color are the most vulnerable. Healthcare workers in both countries have been denouncing the poor government response and are protesting the inequality. \nPanelists:\nFelipe Tamayo is a professor of public administration in Chile\, President of the National Association of Professional and Technical University workers-FONASA and Secretary General of the Committee in defense of Human and Union Rights-Clotario Blest.\nElizabeth Milos\, member of the Peace and Justice committee of UPTE-CWA 9119\, (University Professional and Technical Employees-CWA) and member of the International Organization of Human Rights 18.10. (Org.Intl de DDHH 18.10) \n\nThe video of this event will be uploaded soon.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2021/event/healthcare-workers-covid-in-chile-us/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:07-25-2020,2020,Forum, Reading,Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200725T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200725T120000
DTSTAMP:20260605T025212
CREATED:20200619T044940Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200727T174248Z
UID:1029-1595678400-1595678400@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:1946 Oakland General Strike - Presentation by Gifford Hartman (Zoom event)
DESCRIPTION:By Gifford Hartman \nThis year is the 74th anniversary of the Oakland General Strike. This presentation will revisit the sites of Oakland’s “Work Holiday” that spontaneously began with rank-and-file solidarity with the striking\, mostly women retail clerks at Kahn’s and Hastings department stores\, where picket lines were broken by police-escorted scabs. Within 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 citywide general strike to ever occur in the U.S. This history talk will attempt to keep alive the memory of this tradition of community-wide working class solidarity. \n \n\nThe video of this event will be uploaded soon.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2021/event/oakland-general-strike-walk-1200-noon-free-meet-at-the-fountain-in-latham-square-telegraph-broadway/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:07-25-2020,2020,Tour, Walk
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