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SUMMARY:The Fight Against Privatization\, Union Busting & War - Japan Railway workers Union Doro-Chiba's Struggle
DESCRIPTION:Zoom event \nJapanese 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.\nJR was broken up and now they have contracted out large parts of the railroad. This will report on the growing threat of dictatorship and a war drive against China by the government. It is sponsored by the Doro-Chiba International Solidarity Committee
URL:https://laborfest.net/2026/event/the-fight-against-privatization-union-busting-war-japan-railway-workers-union-doro-chibas-struggle/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Forum, Reading,Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260725T100000
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SUMMARY:Bolivian General Strike Video & Report
DESCRIPTION:Zoom event \nThe 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. They have blocked the roads to La Paz and continue to opposed the corrupt president and are demanding his resignation. \nReport From The Struggle.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2026/event/bolivian-general-strike-video-report/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Forum, Reading,Zoom
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SUMMARY:Labor & Single Payer - The Fight for Single Payer Now! - State Wide Conference
DESCRIPTION:At: 518 Valencia St.\, SF\, CA\nThis event will be Hybrid (in person & Zoom – For Zoom\, please sign-up) \nThe chair of California legislature Robert Rivas in April tabled even a hearing and discussion on the Single Payer bill introduced with the support of NNU CNA. This attack by the Democrats in even having a discussion about single payer is part of a long history of how the insurance\, hospital and pharmacy industry have controlled both the State government and national government. Milions of people in California and throughout the country are losing their healthcare with cuts in Medicaid and the ending of subsidies of ACA. The closure of rural hospitals\, the growing collapse of public healthcare with massive budget cuts is combined with union busting at Kaiser and other HMOs. Kaiser just spent over $1 billion to break the strike of 30\,000 heatlhcare workers in Northern California. The introduction of AI to eliminate nurses and psychiatric social workers and their replacement with chat boxes is a threat to all the pationets and people of California.\nThis organizing conference will include presentatons on the campaign for single payer in unions throughout the state and the struggle of healthcare workers and the people of the state to build a movement to overcome the control of California politicians and the billionaire control of our healthcare system. \n\nInitial Speakers:\nCheryl Thornton – SEIU 1021 SF Chapter Chair Community Healthcare\nAna Malinow – Former President PNHP\, Single Payer National Campaign\nAgusto Guerra – SEIU 1021 SF Mental Healthcare Chapter Chair\nLisa Milos – UPTE CWA Retired UCSF Interpeter\nBrenda Barros – SEIU 1021 SF General Hospital Chair \nElisabeth Robledo – California United For Single Payer\nVickie Mueller Olvera – California United For Single Payer\n\n\nEndorsed by: WorkWeek\, California United For Single Payer
URL:https://laborfest.net/2026/event/labor-single-payer-state-wide-conference/
LOCATION:518 Valencia\, 518 Valencia\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Forum, Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260727T190000
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SUMMARY:Writers\, Artists\, Media Monopolies  & The Role of AI
DESCRIPTION:Zoom event \nWith:\nEdward Hasbrouck – NWU\nSteve Martini – Writers Guild \nThe 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.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2026/event/writers-artists-media-monopolies-the-role-of-ai/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Forum, Reading,Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260728T163000
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SUMMARY:Non-profits\, Union Organizing & Independent Unions
DESCRIPTION:At: 835 Larkin St. @Myrtle\, bet. O’Farrell & Geary\, SF (Note: The location changed) \nNon-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. Panelists include current and former non-profit & NGO workers and union staff union organizers. \nPanelists:\nRobert Ovetz\, moderator\, Senior Lecturer\, Political Science\, SJSU\nAuthor of the Rebels For the System: Non-Profits\, NGOs\, Capitalism and the Labor Movement (Haymarket Press 2027)\nKatie Duberg\, Bargaining Committee Member\, CAWFC Workers United\, CWA Local 9415\, IG: @cawfcworkersunited\nFátima Murrieta\, Pacific Northwest Staff Union (PNWSU)\, Writers Guild Staff Union NPEU\, Shop Steward\nJeff Armstrong\, PNWSU Organizing Officer
URL:https://laborfest.net/2026/event/non-profits-union-organizing-independent-unions/
LOCATION:835 Larkin\, 835 Larkin St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94109
CATEGORIES:Forum, Reading,Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260729T100000
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SUMMARY:“Hubert Harrison: Forbidden Genius of Black Radicalism” Book Presentation By Professor Brian Kwoba
DESCRIPTION:Zoom event\nThis event was rescheduled on this day originally from July 23 \nBook Presentation of “Hubert Harrison: Forbidden Genius of Black Radicalism” By Professor Brian Kwoba – Associate Professor | Director of African and African American Studies (AAAS). \nThe fight against racism in the US has been historically tied to the fight of the working class for power. Hubert Harrison is one of the most important theoreticians and political activists in the Black working class movement and in solidarity with socialists like Eugene Debs who led the Socialist Party. \nIn an important book “Herbert Harrison Forbidden Genius of Black Radicalism\,” Brian Kwoba looks at his life and the political development of Hubert Harrison and his political and theoretical contributions. He was a supporter of the Socialist Party and was influenced by the Russian revolution in 1917 which shook the world. The radical changes brought by the revolution encouraged workers and the oppressed in the US to look at what a radical transformation would mean particularly for women and the Black people of the United States.\nHarrison understood that imperialism leads to world war and he educated workers in the United States that these wars were a direct result of the capitalist system and it’s crisis. Kwoba’s work is an important contribution to his life and understanding the issues we face today as another world war is in front of us. \nHubert Harrison: Forbidden Genius of Black Radicalism is an intellectual biography of the Caribbean-born working-class journalist\, activist\, and educator Hubert Henry Harrison (1883-1927)\, who generated an array of visionary solutions to the systemic injustices of his day. After blazing a trail for Black workers and organizers in the Socialist Party of America and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)\, Harrison emerged as the most prominent Black freethinker and free lover of his generation. He supported the Seattle General Strike\, practiced armed self-defense\, and called for an anti-capitalist\, anti-imperialist “Colored International” alliance in the face of European colonialism in Africa\, Asia\, Latin America\, and Ireland. His Liberty League of Negro Americans catalyzed the rise of Marcus Garvey and the largest international organization of African people in modern history. And most spectacularly\, Harrison’s critique of the scientific establishment opens the door to a visionary solution to the problem of climate catastrophe… \nBecause of his fearless radicalism\, however\, the full scope of Harrison’s revolutionary legacy has been erased from popular memory until now. \n“Brian Kwoba has written a beautiful\, intellectual biography as radical and original as its subject.” –Robin D.G. Kelley\, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination \nThe book has won the 2026 Frantz Fanon Outstanding Book Award from the Caribbean Philosophical Association and is also a 2025 INDIES finalist for biography. \nMore about the book:\nhttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1yPRYhs7dzE4MidUFDsvp6pYJh2QM74YL/view
URL:https://laborfest.net/2026/event/hubert-harrison-forbidden-genius-of-black-radicalism-book-presentation-by-professor-brian-kwoba/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Forum, Reading,Zoom
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SUMMARY:LaborFest Writers — Anthology Launch Reading
DESCRIPTION:At: Adobe Books & Arts Cooperative – 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco \nLaborFest Writers are proud to announce the publication of Giving Voice 2026: LaborFest Writers Anthology – our latest collection of writing: fiction\, polemic\, memoir and poetry tracing the lives and struggles of working people across generations and geographies. Giving Voice 2026 is available now and features: Nellie Wong ** Barbara Ruth Saunders ** Susan Ford ** Robert Eugene Rubino ** Alice Elizabeth Rogoff ** Jerry Path ** Margaret Cooley ** Keith David Cooley. A volume that insists on being heard. \nThe corporate-controlled media amplifies the voices of the powerful and diminishes the voices of working people. LaborFest Writers was founded to change that. \nLaborFest Writers grew out of a single afternoon in July 2005 — a writing workshop during LaborFest at the Exit Theatre in San Francisco’s Tenderloin\, led by radical writer Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. Eight or nine people sat around a few tables in a dark little café and wrote about their first jobs. By the end of the day they had agreed to exchange email addresses. \nTwenty years later\, the group still meets — now weekly on Zoom\, since the pandemic. We are rabble-rousers\, activists\, leftist radicals\, union members\, immigrants\, native-born and plain old trouble-makers — outside the literary mainstream and committed to staying there. \nJoin us on Wednesday\, July 29th\, from 7 to 8:30 pm at Adobe Books & Arts Cooperative\, 3130 24th Street\, San Francisco\, as featured writers from the anthology read from their work. All are welcome. \n \nhttps://www.laborfestwriters.org
URL:https://laborfest.net/2026/event/laborfest-writers-group-reading-2/
LOCATION:Adobe Books & Arts Cooperative\, 3130 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110
CATEGORIES:Forum, Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260730T170000
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SUMMARY:Teamsters & Their Struggles Today
DESCRIPTION:Zoom event \nThe 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.\nAt the same time\, workers are fighting for democracy with a leadership that is aligning with the fascist Trump administration which is destroying the NLRB\, OSHA and has terminated contracts for 700\,000 Federal workers. How workers organize a fight to defend their jobs and fight for a democratic union will be the focus of this panel. \nWith:\nJohn Palmer – International VP Teamsters\nEric Johnson – IBT Local 190 UPS Line Driver\nMarianna Battiste – IBT Local 2010 Former Steward\nBarry Anderson – IBT Local 856 Steward \n\nSponsored by WorkWeek
URL:https://laborfest.net/2026/event/teamsters-their-struggles-today/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Forum, Reading,Zoom
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