Welcome to LaborFest 2022
Workers Rise Again!

LaborFest this year continues the commemoration of the 1934 San Francisco General Strike and West Coast maritime strike. These strikes and the victory of the general strike laid the basis for a strong Bay Area labor movement. This year’s LaborFest comes at a time that millions of workers and their families are facing the continued threats from Covid, attacks on their jobs, wages and conditions.

The climate crisis threatens us and the future of our children as the long drought continues unabated and threatens the environment. The growth of racist attacks as well as attacks on women, immigrants, LBGTQ people and growing Islamophobia are a threat to all working people. It comes as well as our democratic rights are under threat by the Supreme Court that stands with the billionaires. We will also look at the growing fascist movement which is a deadly threat with the danger of insurrections and coups and what workers and unions should be doing about these dangers.

It also comes as workers in the Bay Area and throughout the country are getting organized like no other time since the end of the 2nd world war. When 17-year-old workers start organizing at Starbucks and many other workplaces, change is on the way. They are using social media and communication technology to break the information blockade by corporate media.

LaborFest will be having forums on new organizing. We will have poetry, music, labor history walks and how technology and robotics is affecting working people. We will  look at how workers around the world are fighting for their rights from Latin America to Africa and Asia, and the dangers of war and militarism. We will also have our annual LaborFest boat tour at the end of the month. Only working people have the power to stand up and move the world for all. Now Is The Time.

Solidarity For Ever from the LaborFest Organizing Committee

LaborFest
P. O. Box 40983
San Francisco 94140
(415) 642-8066
laborfest@laborfest.net
www.laborfest.net