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Tom Mooney and Preparedness Day Bombing Walk

One Market Street One Market Street, San Francisco

With Gifford Hartman, David Duckworth
During this walking tour, we visit several sites, which were integral to the unfolding of events following a bomb explosion on Steuart Street at Market Street on July 22, 1916. The tour lasts approximately two hours.

FREE

Loretta Starvus Stack, Communist Organizer, Community Gardener, and Her Fight for Rights of Free Speech

Bird & Beckett Books & Records 653 Chenery Street, San Francisco

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.

FREE

SF Forum-The Future Of Work: Automated & Uberized & AB 5

San Francisco Main Public Library Latino-Hispanic Heritage Room 100 Larkin St., San Francisco

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

Free

Giving Voice: LaborFest Writers’ Anthology 2005 – 2019

Visitation Valley Library 201 Leland at Rutland, San Francisco

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.

FREE

The Revolution That Wasn’t: How Digital Activism Favors Conservatism – Book reading

Green Arcade Bookstore 1680 Market Street, San Francisco

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.

Free