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SUMMARY:The Attack On Higher Education & Project 2025
DESCRIPTION:(Zoom Event) \nUnder Project 2025\,  higher education would be remodeled with the destruction of public universities with privatization and the elimination of all unions at universities.\nThis panel will discuss how this is taking place and how working people and unions can challenge these attacks including the organizing drives.\nIt  will also look at the political purges that are being implemented and the attacks on critics of Israel eliminating tenure rights. It also is aimed at using AI to eliminate faculty and staff. \nSpeakers:\nTodd Davies\, Academic Research and Program officer\, and lecturer\, Symbolic Systems\, Stanford University AAUP/AFT Member\nRobert Ovetz\, Senior lecturer\, Political Science\, SJSU\, CFA\nMichael Powelson\, Professor Valley College CFA member\nJean Pfaelzer\, Professor\, Fulbright scholar & author
URL:https://laborfest.net/2026/event/the-attack-on-higher-education-project-2025/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Forum, Reading,Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250726T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250726T210000
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SUMMARY:The Fight To Defend The VA\, Veterans\, Workers And Families
DESCRIPTION:(Zoom Event) \nThe Trump government is pushing to lay off 83\,000 workers at the VA and over 30% of them are veterans. At the same time\, there has been a long time push to privatize the only public health system that could be an example for a national healthcare system. \nSpeakers:\nRicardo Ortiz\, Vet\nJosh Zeier\, VA AFGE Member & Federal Unionists Network FUN \n(Rallies are being held at the VA hospital in San Francisco on every Wednesday at 12 noon and at VA hospitals around the country.) \n 
URL:https://laborfest.net/2026/event/the-fight-to-defend-the-va-veterans-workers-and-families/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Forum, Reading,Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250726T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250726T120000
DTSTAMP:20260605T150812
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SUMMARY:Turkey\, The Rise Of Fascism\, Erdogan\, & The Working Class
DESCRIPTION:(Zoom event) \nBy Mehmet Bayram \nThe role of fundamentalism in Turkey and the Middle East has led to major attacks on the trade unions and 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. \nMehmet Bayram\, Journalist and Unionist \n 
URL:https://laborfest.net/2026/event/turkey-the-rise-of-fascism-erdogn-the-working-class/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Forum, Reading,Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250725T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250725T190000
DTSTAMP:20260605T150812
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SUMMARY:A Cautionary Tale: The Dark Side of Housing in the Wild\,  Wild West of California
DESCRIPTION:(Zoom event) \nA Talk By Harvey Smith \nThe first part of this Zoom event will include the slideshow presented at the International Social Housing Festival in early June in Dublin\, Ireland. It will summarize New Deal efforts to provide decent and affordable public housing and dispel the false binary of YIMBY vs. NIMBY.\nThe 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. Local communities have little say in California housing decisions while observing the growing power of real estate investors to sway politicians. Mostly market rate housing is being built with minimal concern for affordability and the rising homelessness rate. Finally\, the rational solutions and examples of social\, public and cooperative housing as revealed at the Dublin conference will be described. \nHere is a link to my book – http://www.arcadiapublishing.com/9781467132398/Berkeley-and-the-New-Deal. Follow the National New Deal Preservation Association and the Living New Deal by signing up to receive occasional updates. Join LND’s Email List. The latest or previous newsletters are at each website – www.newdeallegacy.org and www.livingnewdeal.org. Join us in pushing for a New New Deal! 
URL:https://laborfest.net/2026/event/a-cautionary-tale-the-dark-side-of-housing-in-the-wild-wild-west-of-california/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Forum, Reading,Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250724T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250724T190000
DTSTAMP:20260605T150812
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SUMMARY:The AFL-CIO Solidarity Center\, Labor\, Internationalism & Trump
DESCRIPTION:(Zoom event) \nThe Trump government and Elon Musk shutdown funding to the National Endowment For Democracy (NED) which partially funds the AFL-CIO Solidarity Center. Additional funds comes from USAID and it has a yearly budget of over $70 million.\nThe Solidarity Center has received over $1 billion from the US government for its international operations and the AFL-CIO leadership has kept it’s operations secret from the rank and file members of the union. In a successful effort to keep the funding going\, the rest of the funding cycle this year\, the Solidarity Center executive director Shawn Bader-Blau filed a legal brief to the Trump government about why this funding was essential to the United States.\nThis 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 harming independent unions to overthrow governments and training pro-capitalist union officials. \nSpeakers:\nJeff Schurke\, Professor &  and author of Blue-Collar Empire: The Untold Story of US Labor’s Global Anticommunist Crusade and the upcoming book No Neutrals There: US Labor\, Zionism\, and the Struggle for Palestine\nCarol Lang\, Professor At CUNY & AFT PSC Delegate\nKim Scipes\, Professor Retired and Author of KMU: Building Genuine Trade Unionism in the Philippines\, 1980–1994 and AFL-CIO’s Secret War Against Developing Country Workers: Solidarity or Sabotage?\nJeremy Kuzmarov\, Professor and managing editor of Covert Action\nFrank Hammer\, retired UAW 909 past president \nby LEPAIO (Labor Education Project on AFL-CIO International Operation
URL:https://laborfest.net/2026/event/the-afl-cio-solidarity-center-labor-internationalism-trump/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Forum, Reading,Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250723T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250723T210000
DTSTAMP:20260605T150812
CREATED:20250624T000834Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250718T143557Z
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SUMMARY:Systemic Racism In Workplace and The Struggle In  Our Unions
DESCRIPTION:(Zoom event) \nFor decades in the United States\, there has been an epidemic of hanging noose incidents to terrorize and harass Black workers and other workers. These  systemic racist attacks have not been responded to by any organized political education and action campaign in the trade unions and labor movement.\nToday 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. \nJoining the panel is:\nSteve White\, Public School Teacher\nBrenda Barros\, SEIU 1021 SF General Hospital Chair\nGabriel Prawl\, ILWU Local 52 Past president & Seattle APRI president\nKirby Washington\, IATSE 600\nBarry Anderson\, IBT 856 Steward\nCheryl Thornton\, SEIU 1021 SF Community Healthcare Chair \nSponsored by WorkWeek \n 
URL:https://laborfest.net/2026/event/systemic-racism-in-workplace-and-the-struggle-in-our-unions/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Forum, Reading,Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250721T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250721T190000
DTSTAMP:20260605T150812
CREATED:20250620T185708Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250731T182526Z
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SUMMARY:National Healthcare\, Labor\, Single Payer and How To Get It
DESCRIPTION:Link to this event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcvbXpbZ4l8\n(Zoom event) \nThe destruction of medicaid and the privatization of medicare with medicare advantage will throw millions of working people and the poor off of healthcare or destroy the healthcare that they have.\nThis 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. \nDr. Ana Malinow\, former president of Physicians for National Healthcare\nEd Grystar\, past president of Butler County (PA) CLC\nKay Tillow\, nurse and president of All Unions Committee for Single Payer Health Care\nJoe Maniscalo\, senior editor at Work-Bites.com in New York\nChris Albright\, member of LIUNA 1058\, East Palestine resident and member of Justice For East Palestine Residents and Workers \n https://nationalsinglepayer.com
URL:https://laborfest.net/2026/event/national-healthcare-labor-single-payer-and-how-to-get-it/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Forum, Reading,Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250719T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250719T200000
DTSTAMP:20260605T150812
CREATED:20250620T184414Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250622T011106Z
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SUMMARY:FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA--film and discussion
DESCRIPTION:(Zoom event)\nWith John de Graaf and Alan Stein \nJohn de Graaf\, director of Labor’s Turning Point\, Subversive? and other worker-oriented films\, will show his new film FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA: KATHARINE LEE BATES AND THE STORY OF AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL (recently adapted for orchestra by the Boston Pops)\, a timely and surprising look at the pro-labor\, anti-Imperialist and social reform messages in America’s most popular song.    \nThe 40 minute film will be followed by a discussion and Q and A with director de Graaf and archivist Alan Stein of Labor Fest.  \nFrom Sea to Shining Sea | Bullfrog Films: 1-800-543-3764: Environmental DVDs and Educational DVDs or\nwww.seatoshiningsea.org  \nFROM SEA TO SHINING SEA – Bullfrog Communities https://share.google/LK86kvLUrQI2h79OB
URL:https://laborfest.net/2026/event/from-sea-to-shining-sea-film-and-discussion/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film,Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250718T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250718T190000
DTSTAMP:20260605T150812
CREATED:20250622T013919Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250714T060313Z
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SUMMARY:Argentina\, Milei and The Working Class
DESCRIPTION:(Z00m event) \nThe Milei government in Argentina is seeking to destroy the trade unions and privatize the entire economy. 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. \nSpeaker:\nMaría Pelle – Sociologist\, professor at the University of Buenos Aires. Member of the Asociación Gremial Docente (AGD) and militant of the Partido Obrero (Argentina).
URL:https://laborfest.net/2026/event/argentina-milei-and-the-working-class/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Forum, Reading,Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250715T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250715T200000
DTSTAMP:20260605T150812
CREATED:20250620T043202Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250715T224310Z
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SUMMARY:Panama\, Repression\, The Environment  Labor & US Intervention
DESCRIPTION:(Zoom event) \nTrump 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. Many of these workers were from Jamaica\, Barbados and the West Indies. \nThe US broke off part of the land from Colombia to build the Canal and has invaded to keep it under US control. Unions including Suntracs have opposed the threatened take-over by the US\, and the Panamanian government has jailed Suntrac union members and other workers opposed to the take-over and an toxic project for copper that would destroy their land and environment. \nSpeakers;\nGabriel Prawl\, ILWU 52 past president & chair of Seattle Chapter A.Philip Institute\nValielza Huynh-O’keefe\, San Francisco Green Party\nJulian de Gortari\, UAW 4811 UCLA member \nSponsored By WorkWeek
URL:https://laborfest.net/2026/event/panama-repression-the-environment-labor-us-intervention/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Forum, Reading,Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250712T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250712T160000
DTSTAMP:20260605T150812
CREATED:20250620T220055Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250626T035307Z
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SUMMARY:The History of The War on Immigrants and US Imperialism
DESCRIPTION:(Zoom event) \nHistorical panel looking back at the Bracero Program to today\, largely based on the video oral history interview of Al Rojas\, conducted in 2002 and 2003 for The Latino Leadership Oral History Program\, Ctr. for Oral History U.C. Berkeley by AL Stein & Richard Candida Smith. \nJose Angel will discuss his book & research on the FBI surveillance of Rojas during the Pittsburgh Grape Boycott of the 1960s. Desiree Rojas will shed light on her family/organizing experiences\, and discuss the living  legacy and important work of the Al Rojas Foundation\, incorporated in 2024. Dr. Paul Ortiz Will offer his perspectives as a labor oral historian. He was historical consultant for\n“American Historia: The Untold History of Latinos” exploring Latino history and the consequences of omitting the past. The three-part PBS series began airing Sept. 27\, 2024.\nJohn Leguizamo’s PBS series ‘American Historia’ unravels Latino history and triumph\n \nAlbert Rojas was a staunch defender of farmworkers and prominent member of UFW\, who struggled during his entire life against the exploitation and abuses of the transnational agricultural enterprises.\nDuring his final years of activism\, he joined thousands of farmworkers in the boycott of Driscoll’s\, the world’s largest berry distributor.\nAl Rojas\, staunch defender of farmworkers and prominent member of UFW\, dies \nThe Life & Struggle Of UFWA Founder Al Rojas: Presentations At 2022 Oral History Ass LA Meeting \nSponsored by the Al Rojas Foundation\nCommentary: Desiree Rojas\, Paul Ortiz \n 
URL:https://laborfest.net/2026/event/the-history-of-the-war-on-immigrants-and-us-imperialism/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Forum, Reading,Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250712T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250712T120000
DTSTAMP:20260605T150812
CREATED:20250620T033521Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250622T005350Z
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SUMMARY:Labor Report From Namibia\, Contracting Out\, Union Busting & Corporate Capture
DESCRIPTION:(Zoon event) \nReport & discussion\nFrom Union Busting\, Contract Labor & Corporate Capture  of The State\, 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.\nWorkers from Namibia will report on their struggle for economic and human rights on the jobs and in their communities.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2026/event/labor-report-from-namibia-contracting-out-union-busting-corporate-capture/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Forum, Reading,Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250710T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250710T190000
DTSTAMP:20260605T150812
CREATED:20250620T220801Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250622T015048Z
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SUMMARY:Play  “Hired” - Factory where robots take over
DESCRIPTION:(Zoom event) \nIn HIRED the corporation has a new policy which forbids hiring humans who are being replaced by Robots. Are AI programmed robots the answer for efficiency and error free production? The Boss asserts that humans make mistakes and robots do not.\nWatch the production line operating in a look at the future where robots take over the company. \nCast: Aron Bederson\, Jascha Bilan\, Beth Griffith\, Clinton Powell\, Mark Solari \n 
URL:https://laborfest.net/2026/event/play-hired-factory-where-robots-take-over-2/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music, Theater, Art,Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250709T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250709T200000
DTSTAMP:20260605T150812
CREATED:20250620T024320Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250622T004928Z
UID:6254-1752084000-1752091200@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Ending the Exploitation of Part-Time/Adjunct Professors in Higher Education
DESCRIPTION:(Zoom event)\nFor 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.  Why has this been happening? Who benefits/who is harmed? What has been the response of faculty unions? Are they acting to end two-tier contracts? What is the impact on students? The differences in the conditions of part-time/adjunct professors and tenured professors\, the fight against our two-tier system\, and an actual alternative will be discussed.  Following the panel will be time for audience questions and comments. \nPanelists\nAnn Robertson was a part-time contingent faculty member at San Francisco State University for four decades and is now emeritus. She continues to serve on the Executive Board of the faculty union\, the California Faculty Association\, and has spent years organizing contingent faculty.\nCarol Lang has been teaching history part-time for 15 years mostly at the City University of New York. She is a delegate in her union and has been actively fighting to improve the conditions of part-time faculty and facing resistance from her union leadership. She has fought for other issues that reflect her concern for the liberation of the working-class including divestment from weapons going to Palestine. \nFrank Cosco is a member of Vancouver Community College faculty union’s executive\, bargaining and steward groups in both leadership and member roles for over three decades.  He is currently President of the VCCFA. He has taught English as a Foreign and as an Additional Language in Vancouver\, Montreal\, Italy and Japan. \n Note: The Vancouver Community College faculty contract is a positive one-tier alternative to the two-tier conditions that will be discussed.\nRick Baum is a member of AFT 2121 and has been teaching Political Science part-time in numerous Bay Area colleges for over forty years. He has been active in struggles at City College of San Francisco.  \n 
URL:https://laborfest.net/2026/event/ending-the-exploitation-of-part-time-adjunct-professors-in-higher-education/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Forum, Reading,Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250708T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250708T190000
DTSTAMP:20260605T150812
CREATED:20250620T023116Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250622T004734Z
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SUMMARY:Workers Health & Safety\, OSHA and Workers Compensation
DESCRIPTION:Labor Under Attack (Zoom event) \nThe destruction of OSHA and CA OSHA means more workers will die\, and the retaliation of workers for being whistleblowers is escalating. Cal OSHA is understaffed by 40% and is incapable of enforcing the health and safety laws on the books. This is also the case nationally where there are less than 2000 OSHA inspectors for 130 million workers.\nAt the same time\, millions of workers have been injured on the job and have suffered from a corrupt Workers Compensation system that benefits the insurance companies and bosses.\nThis panel will look at these attacks\, how workers and unions should do to defend their members. \nPanelists:\nAshley M. Gjøvik\, Apple Whistleblower\nBecky McClain\, Pfizer molecular biologist & whistleblower\nVina Colley\, OCAW Atomic Workers National Nuclear Workers for Justice/OSHA EPA\, Pres P.R.E.S.S./EEOICP Claimant Worker-National Advocate/Downwinder\, President of Portsmouth/Piketon Residents for\nEnvironmental Safety and Security (PRESS) Co-Founder of National Nuclear Workers for Justice (NNWJ) OCAW member
URL:https://laborfest.net/2026/event/workers-health-safety-osha-and-workers-compensation/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Forum, Reading,Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250703T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250703T210000
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SUMMARY:Fascism\, Project 2025 & The Working Class
DESCRIPTION:(Zoom event)\nThe 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. It also takes place in many other countries\, and the US fascist support for other regimes around the world is a critical question for the whole world. \nSpeaker:\nRuss Bellant\, a trade unionist and longtime researcher in the fascist movement in the United States.\nAuthor of The Challenge From The Religious Right\, Mania In The Media: The Original Promise and The Goals of the Promise Keepers Old Nazis\, The New Right & Republican Party\nGeorge Wright\, Professor AFT 1493 Professor Emeritus from the Department of Political Science at California State University\, Chico
URL:https://laborfest.net/2026/event/fascism-project-2025-the-working-class/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Forum, Reading,Zoom
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