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.

Workers at Anchor Brewing Company in San Francisco have joined ILWU Local 6 and are fighting for a union contract. We will be having a gathering at the Tasting Room of Anchor Public Taps in Potrero Hill in San Francisco.

Presentation - Join Comfort Women Justice Coalition leader Judith “Mirk” Murkson who is also with the Lawyers Guild who will provide a history of the monument and what it means today.

Book reading by David Walters
Eugene Debs is one of the most important working class leaders in the history of the United States, yet most working people have never heard of him. He was in the 1877 national railway strike. He organized the Pullman strike, and he was convicted and served 6 months in prison.

The growing downsizing of San Francisco Community College by the Rocha administration is not unique. Through privatization plans of online education, which is getting hundreds of millions to replace professors, and the Student Success Taskforce, California’s community colleges face a frontal attack.

The controversy over the Victor Arnautoff murals at George Washington High School brings to San Francisco the public discourse over public art that is interpreted to portray, or actually glorifies, a narrow Eurocentric view of history.

San Francisco is now a world center of tech, yet the workers are under extreme stress and face nightmare conditions with no worker or union rights. Has capitalism gone wild and is this the permanent dystopian world or can working people and our unions transform this city and society? These are some of the questions that will be addressed in this event.

More and more workers in San Francisco and throughout the country have had enough on the job and are joining unions to collectively stand up for their rights. Workers from Anchor Steam Brewery and VCA will talk about how and why they decided to join a union and what this means to all working people.

With Film Screening of “The Olympics In Fukushima, Are You Criminally Insane?”
This forum will hear in the film from workers in Fukushima ..... We will also hear about those who are fighting to expose the massive propaganda campaign by the government and the Olympic Committee to whitewash the continuing dangers.

This conference will discuss how workers from all public service unions can come together for education and a national political education campaign to stop privatization and outsourcing.
This conference will have reports on privatization and outsourcing in San Francisco, the US, and around the world.

Join poets, musicians, and artists, who will speak and sing out against fascism. The rise of fascism is also a threat to unions and working people as it divides the working people and pits them against each other.

San Francisco used to be the largest port in Northern California. Over the last forty years, it has become a tourist trap instead of a working port. Is the same thing in store for the Port of Oakland?

American Federation of Musicians AFM Local 6 invites members to a free workshop on musician’s workplace health. Dr. Jeremy Stanek who specializes in workplace injury/health and wellness specifically for gigging musicians will make a presentation followed by discussion.

Can it get any worse? That is the question working people are asking about the transit crisis and grinding gridlock.
The forum will look at the reason for the transit gridlock, how it effecting public transit workers, the public and the environment.

The San Francisco Living Wage Coalition's 9th annual awards dinner. Honorees: Labor Woman of the year award to Denise D'Anne, Labor Man of the year award - Dave Welsh.

This forum will look at the issue of who is a journalist and the right of journalists to do their work. Although Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, has been a member of the Australian MEEA’s Media section since 2007, and this is the trade union that represents Australia media workers, the media, however, continue to argue that he is not a journalist and does not deserve to be protected.

With Evelyn Rose, Glen Park Neighborhoods History Project
Loretta Starvus Stack, Communist organizer and founder of Crags Court Community Gardens played a key role in the clarification of the intent of the Alien Registration Act that originally denied First Amendment rights to those choosing to discuss the overthrow of the Federal government.

This panel will discuss the advance of California Assembly Bill 5 impacting the rights of worker and corporate abuses being exaserbated by tech platforms.

We will read from our recently released works of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. Come hear stories about the lives and struggles of laborers, farmers, cooks, coal miners, and others from around the world.

Book reading by Jen Schradie on "The Revolution That Wasn't: How Digital Activism Favors Conservatism"
This surprising study of online political mobilization shows that money and organizational sophistication influence politics online as much as off, and casts doubt on the democratizing power of digital activism.

A recent wave of strikes, rallies, and wildcat actions led by teachers across the country have drawn attention to the most urgent issues faced by students and educators. This panel seeks to tell the stories of local teachers and parent activists, many of whom have been underreported or ignored by the mainstream media.

There is a crisis in our state and national OSHA system. Workers who speak up about their health and safety and the dangers to the public are being bullied and terminated. We will hear from whistleblowers and the connection between the protection of OSHA whistleblowers and public health and safety.

Join us for presentations that focus on important labor strikes that occurred during the building of the Transcontinental Railroad and those that followed. California was the second most important center of this nationwide strike, which saw armed workers take over sections of the Southern Pacific line in the state.

Since November of 2018, there have been weekly protests in France.
Come and hear a presentation by Camille Chauchat, a French school teacher and an activist and participant in the Yellow Vest Movement in Lyons, France.
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A discussion focused on the present and historical connection between the labor and environmental movements.

This educational conference will look at the history of charters, how they are destroying public education and what teachers are doing to fight back to defend our public school system.

By Harvey Smith
From the first scoops of Bay mud to the final coat of paint applied to the buildings of the Golden Gate International Exposition, organized labor was there.

Book reading by Mitchel Cohen
Cohen looks at the politics behind the pesticide chemical industry, and why it is not being held accountable.

Slides presentation by Joseph Blum
Joseph Blum is one of the leading national photographers of building trades workers and their talent and skills. His latest work is the construction of the Salesforce skyscraper.

This is the 26th year of LaborFest! Please join us to celebrate the last day of LaborFest 2019. Bring a contribution of food and/or beverage for potluck, or instrument for the open mic.