2025 LaborFest Event Schedule

Stop AI Exploitation of Drivers

Everyone – including people who work on apps like Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, and Instacart – should have a living wage, transparency on the job, safe conditions and a voice in your work.

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01 July 10:30 am – 12:00 pm

Public Workers Privatization, Outsourcing & Union Busting

The implementation of Trump’s Project 2025 is a frontal attack particularly on public service and public unions

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02 July 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

“A Real Emergency: Stories from the Ambulance” – Book Presentation

Introspective, richly layered, and surprisingly hopeful, A Real Emergency is a love letter from a paramedic to the best and worst parts of her career.

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02 July 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Fascism, Project 2025 & The Working Class

The growth of fascism in the US is not an accident and the capture of state power by supporters of fascism is an existential challenge for the working class and the Unions.

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03 July 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

SF Mime Troupe – “DISRUPTION”

The 66th summer season of San Francisco Mime Troupe’s musical

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04 July 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Bloody Thursday Walk – By Gifford Hartman

Ninety-one years ago (1934), a great battle took place between striking workers and the police and National Guard along the waterfront alongside the piers of San Francisco’s Embarcadero.

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05 July 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Labor History Bike Tour – by Chris Carlsson of Shaping San Francisco

Bike tour: From 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.

$25 – $50
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05 July 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm

CENSORED – Dr. Rupa Marya & Professor Sang Hea Kil With a Performance by Equipto

A panel about how these 2 educators, Dr. Rupa Marya and Professor San Hea Kil were punished for speaking about the genocide happening in Gaza.

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05 July 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

The Attack On Iran, The Iranian Unions, Working Class & The US, Israel and the Khomeini Regime

The US has been involved in Iran for many decades including the overthrow of the Mohammad Mosaddegh government in 1953 and the installation of the Shah.

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06 July 11:00 am – 1:00 pm

Lessons of the Historic Charleston Longshore Union Struggle

On the 25th anniversary of the historic Charleston 5 longshore struggle, the Transport Workers Solidarity Committee and WorkWeek will hold a forum at ILWU Local 10 in the Henry Schmidt room.

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06 July 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Socialism In The American West

Mark Kruber, a professor in St. Louis on Socialism In The American West.

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07 July 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Workers Health & Safety, OSHA and Workers Compensation

The destruction of OSHA and CA OSHA means more workers will die, and the retaliation of workers for being whistleblowers is escalating. This panel will look at these attacks, how workers and unions should do to defend their members.

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08 July 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Ending the Exploitation of Part-Time/Adjunct Professors in Higher Education

For decades, colleges and universities have been arranging for an increasing number of classes to be taught by job-insecure, poorly compensated teachers; and not full-time well-compensated job secure tenured professors.

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09 July 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Play “Hired” – Factory where robots take over

In HIRED, the robots take over running the company from the Boss who resists in every way their collective action.

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10 July 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Swedish Consulate Solidarity Action

This action will be part of an international day of action to support Helgeson and to support labor action around the world to stop the genocide in Gaza and the wars abroad.

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11 July 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Anti-Fascist Film Series

Five inspiring films of people power and democracy overthrowing fascism. At ATA

Donation
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11 July 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm

Labor Report From Namibia, Contracting Out, Union Busting & Corporate Capture

Namibia which is one of the wealthiest countries in the world with marble, uranium, lithium yet the workers and people are being driven from their jobs and face massive union busting and the imposition of contract labor.

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12 July 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

WPA-Berkeley History Walk

This walk will explore Berkeley’s “New Deal nexus” that includes Post Office art, Berkeley High School, the Community Theater, Civic Center Park, and the old Farm Credit Building.

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12 July 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

The History of The War on Immigrants and US Imperialism

Historical panel looking back at the Bracero Program to today, largely based on the video oral history interview of Al Rojas.

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12 July 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Workers Voices Workers Power!

An Evening of Labor Storytelling – Participate, Observe, Enjoy!

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14 July 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Panama, Repression, The Environment Labor & US Intervention

Trump and his government appointees have threatened to invade Greenland and the Panama Canal. The Panama Canal was built by workers and thousands died under dangerous conditions and lack of health and safety.

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15 July 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

LaborFest Writers Group Reading

Your chance to hear rabble-rousers, activists, leftist radicals, union members, immigrants, native-born and plain old trouble-makers share their poetry, memoir, fiction and nonfiction on issues that we face in these difficult times.

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16 July 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm

Public Spaces, Park Privatization, Corruption Scandals & Working People

This panel will look at the process of corruption from Golden Gate Park and the “non-profit” Park Alliance  to the “Sunset Dunes Park” that the  developers are pushing.

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17 July 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Argentina, Milei and The Working Class

Maria Pelle, professor at University of Buenos Aires will give a report on the current struggles of the trade unions, the economic crisis and the role of the Peronists and other political forces in Argentina.

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18 July 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

15th Annual San Francisco Living Wage Coalition Awards Dinner

The San Francisco Living Wage Coalition’s award dinner.

$75 – $85
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18 July 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm

LaborTech Conference

This conference will look at how AI is affecting drivers, tech workers and whether AI should be developed at all.

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19 July 11:30 am – 5:00 pm

FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA–film and discussion

John de Graaf, director of Labor’s Turning Point will show his new film FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA: KATHARINE LEE BATES AND THE STORY OF AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL, a timely and surprising look at the pro-labor, anti-Imperialist and social reform messages in America’s most popular song.

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19 July 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Berkeley Radical 60s Walk by Harvey Smith

This walk will explore the many locations where activists lived and the houses that were home to experimental communes.

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20 July 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Watsonville On Strike & Daughters On The Strike – 40th Anniversary with Jon Silver Screening

This is the 40th anniversary of the Teamster’s  Watsonville frozen food workers strike.
The film maker Jon Silver and the film will be screened with a discussion of the lessons of the strike for today.

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20 July 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

National Healthcare, Labor, Single Payer and How To Get It

This panel will look at the collapse of our healthcare system and what working people and the unions have to do to build a healthcare system for the people and not for the profits.

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21 July 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

The SF State Strike & The Relevance For Today

On the 57th anniversary of the San Francisco State Third World Liberation Strike that set up the first ethnic program in the United States, the fascist Trump government has launched a campaign to eliminate these programs and faculty using federal funding.

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22 July 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Free Speech, Witch Hunts, Palestine and Labor

A co-ordinated political purge and witch hunt is taking place against university professors and staff.

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22 July 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

ICE Out of Federal Workplaces / All Workplaces

Federal unionists in the Bay Area invite the public to join us to demand public oversight of ICE, an end to ICE raids in all workplaces and dignity for all in federal buildings!

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23 July 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Systemic Racism In Workplace and The Struggle In Our Unions

Today with the rise of a fascist government that openly wants to bring back the confederacy and end any legal actions against racism and discrimination, the issue of what’s happening and what unions should do about this is critical.

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23 July 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

The AFL-CIO Solidarity Center, Labor, Internationalism & Trump

This panel will look at the role of the Solidarity Center internationally and how it has been an appendage of US imperialist operations around the world.

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24 July 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

A Cautionary Tale: The Dark Side of Housing in the Wild, Wild West of California

The story of the destruction by University of California at Berkeley of People’s Park will be presented as an example of the collusion of interests between UC, legislators, and real estate developers/investors

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25 July 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Turkey, The Rise Of Fascism, Erdogan, & The Working Class

This presentation will look at the rise of Erdogan and his role in privatizing public resources and using privatization to enrich himself and his family while attacking union and worker rights including jailing and killing journalists.

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26 July 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

6th Annual Social and Economic Justice Film Festival

This year’s film festival will showcase works made by independent filmmakers who are affirming labor and other human rights and advocating for social and economic justice.

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26 July 11:00 am – 7:00 pm

Oakland General Strike Walk

This walk 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.

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26 July 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm

The Fight To Defend The VA, Veterans, Workers And Families

The Trump government is pushing to lay off 83,000 workers at the VA and over 30% of them are veterans.

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26 July 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Labor Politics & Architecture of San Francisco -Walk with Bradley Wiedmaier

In this history-by-the-buildings walk, Brad Wiedmaier will outline artifacts and events, and their connections to San Francisco’s past and present.

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27 July 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

San Bruno Mountain Wilderness Walk

Walk with David Schooley.
You are invited to walk with David on the mountain and learn about the history of this remarkable refuge for endangered butterflies and rare native plants. 

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27 July 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

The Attack On Higher Education & Project 2025

Under Project 2025,  higher education would be remodeled with the destruction of public universities with privatization and the elimination of all unions at universities.

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27 July 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Healthcare Not Prisons

Join the teach-ins for fight for our healthcare.

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30 July 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm
31 July 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

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