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SUMMARY:Palestine & The Defense of Free Speech & Worker Rights In Higher Education
DESCRIPTION:Zoom event \nThe Palestine Anti-Repression Network (PARN) presents three educators experiences with targeted repression. \nThe Palestinian Anti-Repression Network (PARN) was founded in the fall of 2024\, in partnership with the Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom at the AAUP\, to address widespread repression of free speech in primary and higher education institutions. We are a coalition of high school teachers\, graduate students\, faculty\, and staff in higher education.\nThis panel will feature the stories of three of our members: Michel DeGraaf (MIT)\, Anna Feder (Fired at Emerson College)\, and Ismail “Ish” Aderonmu (former law student at Toronto Metropolitan University.  Sang Hea Kil (fired and reinstated at SJSU) will moderate. \nSponsored by PARN & WorkWeek \nAdditional Media:\nSan José State Professor Fired Over Campus Gaza Protests to Win Back Job \nSJSU Admin Zionist Attack On Professor Sang Hea Kil\, CFA/SEIU & The Defense Of Public Education \nThe Attacks On UCSF Dr. Marya Rupa & SJSU CFA Member Sang Hea Kil & The Unions & Working Class \nProfessor Sang Hea Kil Website
URL:https://laborfest.net/2026/event/palestine-the-defense-of-free-speech-worker-rights-in-higher-education/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Forum, Reading,Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260702T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260702T210000
DTSTAMP:20260626T174915Z
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SUMMARY:Race to the bottom: Vietnamese female migrant workers’ vulnerability\, double burden and health risks in market socialism
DESCRIPTION:Zoom event \nSince the 1990s\, Vietnam’s export-led growth has relied heavily on young women migrating from rural areas to work in the world’s major manufacturing hubs for garment and footwear factories\, and increasingly\, electronics. Almost four decades later\, many of these workers face growing insecurity as they age\, still having to navigate unstable employment that fails to keep up with rising costs\, while having to care for their children in poor-quality temporary migrant workers’ housing. Behind the country’s impressive economic growth figures\, workers toil under exploitative conditions and low pay\, creating vicious cycles of insecurity\, forcing them to constantly search for jobs that could make ends meet. At the same time\, the socialist state’s narratives of inclusive development and moral rhetoric of care for working people fail to deliver adequate social insurance with weakening social insurance policies to protect migrant workers at the bottom of the global supply chains from uncertainties in late-stage capitalism.  \nAfter screening one documentary and 3 migrant worker-initiated social media clips with their own voices\, this session will discuss the impacts of Vietnam’s global integration on the everyday lives of the female migrant workers and how they seize possible work opportunities in a system fraught with risks\, while trying to lead a dignified life for themselves and their families and to empower each other.   \n4 clips total (around 15 minutes) \nFirst clip: Union of Catholic Asian News (7 min): Vietnam’s workers leave cities for rural hometowns as economic woes increase https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpHAA0jcZx8 \n3 Instagram clips: https://www.instagram.com/thaochonsonglanh?igsh=aWZvNTI5dzRxMzZ3 \n– Dinner of 13\,000 VND (showing a meager dinner of a migrant mother and her two children\, and their need for cultural entertainment)\n– Dinner of 65\,000 VND for a Migrant Mother and Two Children at a rental place in Bình Dương province (showing a lot of expenses that a migrant mother has to pay for her family) \n– The process to create an Instagram channel (an initiative of a female migrant worker to use social media to document their lives and her willingness to share with others) \nAngie’s bio: \nDr. Angie Ngọc Trần was born and raised in Saigon\, Vietnam. She obtained a doctorate in political economy at the University of Southern California and has been teaching at CSU Monterey Bay since 1996. She has researched and published on transnational labor migration and resistance in Vietnam and Malaysia\, as well as the farm guestworkers program between the US and Mexico. Her 2013 book\, Ties that Bind: Cultural Identity\, Class\, and Law in Vietnam’s Labor Resistance\, chronicles over 100 years of labor movements\, domestic labor migration\, and resistance in Vietnam since French colonial rule to Vietnam’s market socialism in the 21st century. Her 2022 book\, Ethnic Dissent and Empowerment: Economic Migration between Vietnam and Malaysia\, integrates ethnicity\, class\, gender\, religion and cultural resources\, and third space of dissent and empowerment of five different ethnic groups in Vietnam while working as guestworkers in Malaysia and after they return to Vietnam. During and after Covid-19\, she published articles to expose female worker vulnerabilities\, exploitative and abusive working conditions and sexual violence\, under the Vietnam-Saudi labor agreement that sends Vietnamese female workers to work as maids in Saudi Arabia. Her 2026 book chapter\, “Weakening of Social Protection in Vietnam: Labor Legislation\, Cicada Capital\, Civil Society\,” analyzes creeping marketization\, privatization\, and financialization of social protection in Vietnam\, leaving workers scrambling to fend for themselves and their families. Her current project on “H-2A Mexican Agricultural Guestworkers: Navigating opportunities and risks in California and improving quality of life in Mexico” exposes not only employers’ control\, exploitation and sexual harassment/violence\, but also how farmworkers navigate the system to empower themselves\, their families and communities.  \nDr. Angie Ngọc Trần\, Ph.D.\nProfessor\, Political Economy\n[She/her/ella/cô (in Vietnamese)]\nBio and Publications: https://researchprofiles.csumb.edu/en/persons/angie-ngoc-tran\nAuthor of Ethnic Dissent and Empowerment: Economic Migration between Vietnam and Malaysia\, University of Illinois Press\, 2022\nEar to Asia Podcast (May 2024)\nSocial Sciences and Global Studies Department\nCalifornia State University\, Monterey Bay
URL:https://laborfest.net/2026/event/vietnam-working-class-voices-history/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Forum, Reading,Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260703T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260703T200000
DTSTAMP:20260614T202212Z
CREATED:20260605T221744Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260614T202212Z
UID:7145-1783098000-1783108800@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Whistleblowers\, Injured Workers\, OSHA\, Workers Comp & Human Rights
DESCRIPTION:Zoom event \nThe threat to workers who get injured or sick on the job is growing. The elimination of any oversight of health and safety on the job and the lack of OSHA inspectors and oversight of dangerous working conditions is epidemic. The introduction of AI is adding to this deadly mix and the series of explosions and deaths is escalating. At the same time the workers comp system has meant that workers have to become lawyers to get their injuries taken care of and many are permanently disabled because of the failure to get prompt treatment at all. This panel will look at the issues\, struggles for justice and what workers and unions can do about this. \nSpeakers:\nAshley Gjovik – Apple Whistleblower\nJennifer Cruz – UCD Injured Worker\nBecky McClain – Pfizer Whistleblower\nBranton Philipps – Former Fremont Tesla Worker
URL:https://laborfest.net/2026/event/whistleblowers-injured-workers-osha-workers-comp-human-rights/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Forum, Reading,Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260706T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260706T190000
DTSTAMP:20260614T203947Z
CREATED:20260608T130300Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260614T203947Z
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SUMMARY:ICE\, Fascism & Labor\, How to Protect Our Democratic Rights
DESCRIPTION:Zoom event \nWith Dr. John Caravello\, Lecturer CSU Channel Island Member CF\nThe use of ICE to terrorize and incarcerate immigrant workers and workers and community people who challenge them is a major threat to the entire working class.\nJohn Caravello\, a CFA member and lecturer at CSU Channel Island went to the ICE prison to observe the treatment of the workers and was attacked and arrested by the ICE who pressed felony charges against him. He and his union the CFA organized a defense campaign with other workers and community members who had been targeted and attacked and this was successful and led to an acquittal. This has lessons for all workers and the labor movement
URL:https://laborfest.net/2026/event/ice-fascism-labor-how-to-protect-our-democratic-rights/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Forum, Reading,Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260707T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260707T190000
DTSTAMP:20260614T204303Z
CREATED:20260608T131809Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260614T204303Z
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SUMMARY:Workers Fighting The Bosses Using AI From UC to UPS
DESCRIPTION:Zoom event \nWorkers and unionists are starting to use AI to fight court cases and also to help with grievances and getting information on issues facing them on the job.\nAshley Gjovik was an engineering manager at Apple and her office was on a toxic dump site. When she tried to get it remediated she was targeted and fired. She is now fighting the Apple octopus in part by using AI\nEric Johnson is with IBT Local 160 in Montana. He has been writing lyrics and translating them with music and videos with help in the fight against inward facing inferred cameras that are causing cataracts and tumors.\nJennifer Cruz is a member of IBT 2010 and has been using AI and tech to support a working class caucus and to fight for rights as an injured worker. \nInitial Speakers:\nAshley Gjovik\nEric Johnson\nJennifer Cruz
URL:https://laborfest.net/2026/event/workers-fighting-the-bosses-using-ai-from-uc-to-ups/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Forum, Reading,Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260708T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260708T190000
DTSTAMP:20260614T204616Z
CREATED:20260608T132628Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260614T204616Z
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SUMMARY:Lessons of Minneapolis Teamster General Strike For Today
DESCRIPTION:Zoom event \nWith Professor Bryan Palmer\nThe 1934 Minneapolis Teamster general strike was a pivotal point in national organizing particularly for Teamsters. The lessons of how that strike took place and how it was successful despite the role of the employers\, thugs\, the government and National Guard which was brought into break the strike.\nBryan Palmer has written one of the most important histories of this strike titled Revolutionary Teamsters\, The Minneapolis Truckers’ Strikes of 1934 and will talk about the lessons for today.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2026/event/lessons-of-minneapolis-teamster-general-strike-for-today/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Forum, Reading,Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260710T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260710T190000
DTSTAMP:20260614T193153Z
CREATED:20260608T135303Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260614T193153Z
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SUMMARY:Jim Crow 2\, Redistricting\, Labor the Fight Against Racism & The New Confederacy
DESCRIPTION:Zoom event \nThe open move to disenfranchise the Black people and remove Black representatives is part of the effort to sanitize Black history and return to the Confederacy.\nThis panel will look at what this means to Black people and the Black working class and the role of unions and the working class as a whole. \nInitial speakers:\nSteve White – Teacher\nBarry Anderson – IBT 856 Steward\, Musican\nGeorge Wright – Professor CSUC & Skyline College\nAkua Holt Houston – Texas KPFT\nC.C. Cambell – Independent Jounalist New Orleans\, Louisiana
URL:https://laborfest.net/2026/event/jim-crow-2-redistricting-labor-the-fight-against-racism-the-new-confederacy/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Forum, Reading,Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260711T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260711T120000
DTSTAMP:20260614T193111Z
CREATED:20260608T170656Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260614T193111Z
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SUMMARY:Socialism in the American West - By  Author Mark Kruger
DESCRIPTION:Zoom event \nWith Mark Kruger \nLabor historian Mark Kruger in his upcoming new book Socialism in the America West 1830-1954 provides a Kaleidoscopic narrative history of the socialist experience in the American west during the 19th and 20th century including utopia colonies\, the socialist and communist parties\, anarchists and the fight to transform the world.\nDuring the early industrial revolution in the United States\, the American West was invaded by financial and corporate capitalist\, and the development of technologies that intensified the exploitation of workers for great wealth. From the capitalist development of the West to the mass labor struggles in the 1930’s the rise of class consciousness and organization continued despite repression and witchhunts. Today with the rise of techno fascism this history is vital.\nHe is also the author of St. Louis Commune of 1877: Communism in the Heartland
URL:https://laborfest.net/2026/event/socialism-in-the-american-west-by-author-mark-kruger/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Forum, Reading,Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260711T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260711T160000
DTSTAMP:20260614T193028Z
CREATED:20260608T141115Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260614T193028Z
UID:7216-1783778400-1783785600@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:The Black Panther Party & SF State Strike
DESCRIPTION:Zoom event \nWith Clarence Thomas and Judy Junita\, Professor emeritus Laney College \nThe history of the Black Panther party and the San Francisco State Third World Strike were connected. This panel includes two strikers and members of the Black Panther party. They will discuss this history and how this was an important part of the struggle of the strike. \nClarence Thomas was formerly Secretary Treasurer of ILWU Local 10 & Publisher of Workers On the ILWU history including the Million Workers March\nJudy Junita was in the Black Panthers at SF State\, a poet and retired professor at Laney State College. She edited the BPP newspaper and worked in the Breakfast for Children program while finishing her BA at SF State. Five days after graduating\, she became the youngest professor of the nation’s first black studies program.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2026/event/the-black-panther-party-sf-state-strike/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Forum, Reading,Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260712T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260712T120000
DTSTAMP:20260615T035021Z
CREATED:20260608T173145Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260615T035021Z
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SUMMARY:The Fight Against Contracting Out\, Privatization\, Imperialism  and The Crisis of Unions In South Africa and Namibia
DESCRIPTION:Zoom event \nWith Trade unionists from South Africa and Namibia \n(More info coming soon)
URL:https://laborfest.net/2026/event/the-fight-against-contracting-out-privatization-imperialism-and-the-crisis-of-unions-in-south-africa-and-namibia/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Forum, Reading,Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260712T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260712T143000
DTSTAMP:20260616T184824Z
CREATED:20260608T174847Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260616T184824Z
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SUMMARY:The Struggle & Lessons Of California Farmworkers History & The Relevance Today
DESCRIPTION:At: First Unitarian Universalist Church & Center – 1187 Franklin St.\, San Francisco \nWith:\nRobyn Magalit Rodriguez\, Paul Ortiz\, Desiree Rojas\, Bruce Neuberger\, Johnny Itolong\, Fatima – Day Laborers & ICE \nThe history of the farmworkers and the role of the UFW in light of the revelations of Cesar Chavez are important today to look at the censored history of the union.\nThis panel will look at the history of the formation and how the Filipino workers played a key role in the organization of the union yet were driven out of the leadership of the union. \nSponsored by LaborFest.net\nAl Rojas Foundation https://albertmrojasfoundation.org/\nFirst Unitarian Universalist Church & Center
URL:https://laborfest.net/2026/event/the-struggle-lessons-of-california-farmworkers-history-the-relevance-today/
LOCATION:First Unitarian Universalist Church & Center\, 1187 Franklin St.\, San Francisvo\, CA\, 94109
CATEGORIES:Forum, Reading,Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260714T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260714T210000
DTSTAMP:20260615T035423Z
CREATED:20260608T190748Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260615T035423Z
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SUMMARY:Hip Hop\, Class Struggle\, Tech & Revolution
DESCRIPTION:Zoom event \nWith Barry Anderson and other Hip Hop Artists \n(More info coming soon)
URL:https://laborfest.net/2026/event/hip-hop-class-struggle-tech-revolution/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Forum, Reading,Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260715T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260715T120000
DTSTAMP:20260614T192612Z
CREATED:20260608T192244Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260614T192612Z
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SUMMARY:The Defense and Struggle of Palestinian Journalist
DESCRIPTION:Zoom event \nWith:\nCedric O’Bannon – NWU\nPalestinian Journalist\nLisa Milos – UPTE CWA \nPalestinian journalists and their families have faced the largest number of deaths in the world as they have been targeted by the Israeli IDF in both Gaza and the West Bank.\nThis panel will look at what they have faced and how US journalists and all trade unionists and working people can do to defend these journalists who have given their lives to break the information blockade.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2026/event/the-defense-and-struggle-of-palestinian-journalist/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Forum, Reading,Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260716T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260716T180000
DTSTAMP:20260614T192534Z
CREATED:20260608T200819Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260614T192534Z
UID:7262-1784217600-1784224800@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:The AFL-CIO "Solidarity Center" & Why Is Trump Funding It?
DESCRIPTION:Zoom event \nLEPAIO Panel \nThis year\, Trump and the Republicans agreed to re-fund the National Endowment For Democracy (NED) which funds the AFL-CIO Solidarity Center with $71 million. The “Solidarity Center” has received over $1 billion from the US government yet it has never made a report to the AFL-CIO members whose name it uses about what the money is for and where is it going.\nThis 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. \nInitial speakers:\nFrank Hammer – UAW 909 Retired President\nCarol Lang – AFT PSC Delegate & CUNY Professor\nKim Scipes – Former printer\, University Professor & AFL-CIO Researcher\nSponsored by Labor Education Project On The AFL-CIO International Operation\nhttps://aflcio-int.education
URL:https://laborfest.net/2026/event/the-afl-cio-solidarity-center-why-is-trump-funding-it/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Forum, Reading,Zoom
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ORGANIZER;CN="LEPAIO (Labor Education Project on AFL-CIO International Operations)":MAILTO:info@aflcio-int.education
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260717T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260717T190000
DTSTAMP:20260614T192501Z
CREATED:20260609T002423Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260614T192501Z
UID:7272-1784307600-1784314800@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Universities\, The Rise of Fascism\, Witch Hunts & Political Purges
DESCRIPTION:Zoom event \nWith:\nTom Alter – Lecturer\nProfessor Sang Kae Kil – CSUSJ\nDylan Kupish – UCLA UAW 4811 \n(More info coming soon)
URL:https://laborfest.net/2026/event/universities-the-rise-of-fascism-witch-hunts-political-purges/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Forum, Reading,Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260719T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260719T130000
DTSTAMP:20260628T030813Z
CREATED:20260609T132117Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260628T030813Z
UID:7294-1784462400-1784466000@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Minneapolis 1934 General Strike Commemoration
DESCRIPTION:Zoom From Minneapolis Commemoration Committee Live Stream at the site of Bloody Friday: 7th Ave. & 3rd St. No. Minneapolis. MN 55401\nJuly 19th\, 2026\, from 2-3pm CST\, 12 noon PST \n(More info coming soon)
URL:https://laborfest.net/2026/event/minneapolis-1934-general-strike-commemoration/
LOCATION:Zoom from Minneapolis
CATEGORIES:Forum, Reading,Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260719T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260719T150000
DTSTAMP:20260615T040404Z
CREATED:20260609T134234Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260615T040404Z
UID:7306-1784466000-1784473200@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Students Teachers & Parents Speak Out About AI by STOP AI
DESCRIPTION:Zoom event \nThis event will be repeated on 5:00 PM\n(Info coming soon)
URL:https://laborfest.net/2026/event/students-teachers-parents-speak-out-about-ai-by-stop-ai/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Forum, Reading,Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260719T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260719T190000
DTSTAMP:20260630T022720Z
CREATED:20260630T022655Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260630T022720Z
UID:7655-1784480400-1784487600@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Capitalism\, AI And Slavery
DESCRIPTION:Zoom event \nPresentation By Professor Jodi Dean\, Author of Captailsm’s Grave\, Neofeudalism and the New Class Struggle \nThe 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.\nShe look at how service workers have become a very powerful force in the potential transformation of our society and why their role in the economy can be critical.\nDean talks about how the total deregulation of the market which is one of the aims of Project 2025. It aimed at transforming the working class into feudal with total control of the corporation and the state under feudal lords.\nShe also looks at how workers can use the internet through blogging and one of the lessons for breaking the information blockade and how the capitalist control and use of the media is another tool for the complete subjugation of the working class.\nHer work raises the question of how the working class can fight back and win in this struggle for survival.\nJodi Dean is a professor of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in NY.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2026/event/capitalism-ai-and-slavery/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Forum, Reading,Zoom
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260720T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260720T190000
DTSTAMP:20260614T192252Z
CREATED:20260609T200727Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260614T192252Z
UID:7320-1784566800-1784574000@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:AI\, Camera Torture\, Truckers & The Struggle Of Drivers For Justice
DESCRIPTION:Zoom event \nTeamsters are in a battle to remove inward facing AI infrared cameras from their truck cabs after they have received tumors and cataracts.\nThis panel will report on their fight to protect their health and safety. \n(More info coming soon)
URL:https://laborfest.net/2026/event/ai-camera-torture-truckers-the-struggle-of-drivers-for-justice/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Forum, Reading,Zoom
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260721T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260721T210000
DTSTAMP:20260614T192217Z
CREATED:20260609T221257Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260614T192217Z
UID:7325-1784660400-1784667600@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:AI\,  Public Workers & Contracting Out
DESCRIPTION:Zoom event \nAI 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.\nElon Musk with DOGE also implemented this in the Federal government destroying large numbers of worker jobs and also destroying public services. This panel will look at how this is taking place. \nPanel discussion: \n(More info coming soon)
URL:https://laborfest.net/2026/event/ai-public-workers-contracting-out/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Forum, Reading,Zoom
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://laborfest.net/2026/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/721-AI-Public-worksx600.png
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260723T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260723T110000
DTSTAMP:20260614T192144Z
CREATED:20260609T223559Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260614T192144Z
UID:7337-1784800800-1784804400@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Book Presentation - “Hubert Harrison: Forbidden Genius of Black Radicalism” By Professor Brian Kwoba
DESCRIPTION:Zoom event \nBook Presentation of “Hubert Harrison: Forbidden Genius of Black Radicalism” By Professor Brian Kwoba – Associate Professor | Director of African and African American Studies (AAAS) \n(More info coming soon)
URL:https://laborfest.net/2026/event/book-presentation-hubert-harrison-forbidden-genius-of-black-radicalism-by-professor-brian-kwoba/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Forum, Reading,Zoom
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2026/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/723-Hubert-Harrisonx600.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260723T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260723T153000
DTSTAMP:20260614T192112Z
CREATED:20260609T223957Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260614T192112Z
UID:7342-1784815200-1784820600@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Resistance In the Age of Fascism: Working Class Poets Speak Out
DESCRIPTION:Zoom event \nNew York Poets’ Poetry reading:\nHoward Pflanzer\nRobert Roth\nChris Brandt\nJoannie Zosike\nNancy Hoch\nElizabeth Morse \n(More info coming soon)
URL:https://laborfest.net/2026/event/resistance-in-the-age-of-fascism-working-class-poets-speak-out/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Forum, Reading,Zoom
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2026/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/723-Resistance-in-the-age-ofx600.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260723T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260723T210000
DTSTAMP:20260614T192036Z
CREATED:20260609T225611Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260614T192036Z
UID:7347-1784833200-1784840400@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:On The 250th anniversary of the United States\, The Constitution\, Class Struggle & Working Class with Dr. Robert Ovetz
DESCRIPTION:Zoom event \nWith Dr. Robert Ovetz\nThe 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.\nDr. Robert Ovetz is Senior Lecturer of Political Science at SJSU and he is author of “ We the Elites: Why the US Constitution Serves the Few”\nSponsored by WorkWeek
URL:https://laborfest.net/2026/event/on-the-250th-anniversary-of-the-united-states-the-constitution-class-struggle-working-class-with-dr-robert-ovetz/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Forum, Reading,Zoom
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2026/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/723-US-constitutionx600.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260724T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260724T200000
DTSTAMP:20260614T192005Z
CREATED:20260609T230753Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260614T192005Z
UID:7354-1784916000-1784923200@laborfest.net
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
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2026/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/724-Japan-Kokuroux600.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260725T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260725T120000
DTSTAMP:20260614T191923Z
CREATED:20260609T231514Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260614T191923Z
UID:7359-1784973600-1784980800@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Bolivian General Strike Video & Report
DESCRIPTION:Zoom event \n(Info coming soon)
URL:https://laborfest.net/2026/event/bolivian-general-strike-video-report/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Forum, Reading,Zoom
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2026/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/725-Bolivian-Miners-Marchingx600.jpeg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260726T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260726T180000
DTSTAMP:20260614T191839Z
CREATED:20260609T235600Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260614T191839Z
UID:7375-1785081600-1785088800@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Film - ADJUNCT-  about Gig Work
DESCRIPTION:Zoom event \nAfter the film\, followed by a discussion \nADJUNCT (82 min) (2024)\nDirector: Ron Najor \nTwo showings over Zoom: Sunday\, July 26 at 4:00 pm and 7:00 pm\nGig work in which workers are underpaid with little to no job security is becoming more prevalent.\n“Adjunct” is a feature length movie depicting the all-too-common indignities and exploitation faced by a gig worker in higher education who also drives for Uber.\nToday\, most faculty in higher education are essentially gig workers. These conditions are favored by management\, and\, too often\, in contract negotiations\, are accepted by faculty union leaders.\nMany of these well-educated underpaid gig workers are enrolled in public assistance programs or even homeless as is the main character in the film.\nAfter the showing of the film\, there will be a few short presentations followed by an audience discussion to share reactions to the film and its subject matter.\nThe Movie “Adjunct” Effectively Depicts Gig Faculty Work.\nhttps://www.counterpunch.org/2025/09/05/the-movie-adjunct-effectively-depicts-gig-faculty-work
URL:https://laborfest.net/2026/event/film-adjunct-about-gig-work/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film,Zoom
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260727T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260727T210000
DTSTAMP:20260614T191810Z
CREATED:20260610T002003Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260614T191810Z
UID:7383-1785178800-1785186000@laborfest.net
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
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://laborfest.net/2026/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/727-WritersAIx600.png
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260728T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260728T183000
DTSTAMP:20260610T004001Z
CREATED:20260610T003758Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260610T004001Z
UID:7387-1785256200-1785263400@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Non-profits\, Union Organizing & Independent Unions
DESCRIPTION:At: Tenderloin Museum – 398 Eddy St.\, SF \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\nTenderloin Museum
URL:https://laborfest.net/2026/event/non-profits-union-organizing-independent-unions/
LOCATION:Tenderloin Museum\, 398 Eddy Street\, San Francisco\, United States
CATEGORIES:Forum, Reading,Zoom
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ORGANIZER;CN="Tenderloin Museum":MAILTO:info@tenderloinmuseum.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260730T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260730T190000
DTSTAMP:20260614T195331Z
CREATED:20260610T005200Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260614T195331Z
UID:7396-1785430800-1785438000@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Teamsters & Their Struggles Today
DESCRIPTION:Zoom event \nWith: John Palmer\, Eric Johnson\, Marianna Battiste\, Barry Anderson \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.\nSponsored by WorkWeek
URL:https://laborfest.net/2026/event/teamsters-their-struggles-today/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Forum, Reading,Zoom
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2026/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/730-Teamsters-fearless1x600.jpg
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