This forum will look at the history and role of the “Solidarity Center” and recent developments in this center and why this must be an issue for unions and the workers of the United States.
The political witch hunts at Universities throughout the country are part of the growing move to sanitize the education system. This panel will focus on three such cases where faculty and unionized graduate students were targeted and terminated or face suspension.
The book “No Neutrals There, US Labor, Zionism and the Struggle For Palestine” by Professor Jeff Schuhrke examines the history of the role of US unions in supporting the formation of the Israeli state and the Histadrut and how debate and discussion about this role has been suppressed within the labor movement.
Zoom From Minneapolis Commemoration Committee Live Stream at the site of Bloody Friday
The use by the capitalists and billionaires of AI is an existential threat to not only all workers in the United States but the world. Jodi Dean has made an important contribution on how the use of AI and tech is actually turning workers into neo feudal serfs in order to gain more profit and plunder by the capitalists from the workers and all public resources.
Teamsters are in a battle to remove inward facing AI inferred cameras from their truck cabs after they have received tumors and cataracts.
This panel will report on their fight to protect their health and safety.
AI is now being used to eliminate workers on the job and this is a major threat to public workers in San Francisco and throughout the country.
Labor Historian John Holmes along with ILWU historian Harvey Schwartz and professor Bob Cherny and Donna Carter look at the role of leftists and communists in the Bay area.
Book Presentation of “Hubert Harrison: Forbidden Genius of Black Radicalism” By Professor Brian Kwoba
New York poets’ poetry reading in the age of Fascism
by Howard Pflanzer, Robert Roth, Chris Brandt, Joannie Zosike, Nancy Hoch, Elizabeth Morse
The attack on the constitution by the Trump government and his capture of the Supreme Court raises the question for working people about the class nature of the US constitution and how working people can defend themselves in the face of the capture of the Supreme Court, the Executive and the Congress by the Trump government.
The Revolutionary Poets have a long history of fighting capitalism and oppression through their voices and this event will give voice to to these struggles.
Japanese workers and unionists have faced union busting and the privatization of Japan Rail which was instituted to smash the militant unionism which organized a national strike in 1975 against the Vietnam war.
The Bolivian working class and their unions have a long history of fighting against exploitation and imperialism. From water privatization to the theft of their natural resources they have had general strikes with the natonal unions and people’s community organizations.
This statewide meeting will look at the struggle for single payer and the need for a united front of all unions and working people to build a workers movement for single payer.
The drive by the tech billionaires to use AI to capture and scrape data from the internet and use this to profit from the data threatens all workers including writers and artists. This pane will look at the effect of AI in these industries and what workers and people can do about it.
Non-profit and NGO unionization is the fastest growing militant wing of the labor movement. Despite being ignored by the left media, these new mostly self-organized independent unions are taking on the “due gooder” myth of long hours, low wages and bad bosses—and they’re winning.
LaborFest Writers Group has been a long time part of LaborFest and working class writers tell their stories and lives.
The Teamsters is one of the most powerful unions in the United States, but it is under assault by AI, union busting at Amazon and massive closures at UPS. How workers organize a fight to defend their jobs and fight for a democratic union will be the focus of this panel.