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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. \nPanelists:\nEric Johnson – IBT 190 Montana UPS Line Driver\nChris Shafer – IBT 100 Cincinnati\nMike Moxley – IBT 20\nWayne Adkins – IBT 100
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260719T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260719T130000
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SUMMARY:Minneapolis 1934 General Strike Commemoration
DESCRIPTION:Live stream from Minneapolis Commemoration Committee at the site of Bloody Friday: 7th Ave. & 3rd St. No. Minneapolis. MN 55401\nJuly 19th\, 2026\, from 2-3pm CST\, 12 noon PST \nLive stream facebook link is here. Please click on here at the starting time. \nThe 1934 Minneapolis teamster general strike was an important development not only for the workers of Minneapolis but also for Teamster and union organizing throughout the mid-west.\nThe strike despite attacks by police\, bosses and the use of the National Guard was successful in defending the union. The Minneapolis Teamster strike and it’s connection today with the Minneapolis mobilizations and mass labor community action against the ICE attacks and murders is very relevant today.\nThe connection between the struggles in the 1930’s with general strikes and the fight today against the ICE fascist attacks\, union busting\, Project 2025  and wars abroad including the genocide in Gaza\, US war on Lebanon and Iran put the struggle here in a global context and learning from our history is critical.\nThis annual commemoration in Minneapolis is important for all workers in the United States and we need to learn the lessons in Minneapolis for today. \n 
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:20260717T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260717T190000
DTSTAMP:20260717T184908Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260717T184908Z
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SUMMARY:Universities\, The Rise of Fascism\, Witch Hunts & Political Purges
DESCRIPTION:Zoom event \nThe political witch hunts at Universities throughout the country are part of the growing move to sanitize the education system. An important part of these purges is to shutdown any opposition to the genocide in Gaza and the growing role of the US in supporting wars in the Middle East. This panel will focus on three such cases where faculty and unionized graduate students were targeted and terminated or face suspension. \nProfessor Tom Alter was a faculty member at Texas State University and a union member of Texas State Employees Union CWA Local 6186. He was fired for speaking at a socialist conference and was accused of inciting violence. The attacks on democratic rights are under frontal Attack. \nProfessor Sang Hae Kil is a faculty member at San Jose State University and a member of the California Faculty Association CFA  who was an advisor of Students for Justice in Palestine. She was charged with organizing a protest against a Zionist professor and being anti-semitic. She recently won her job back in an arbitration. The CFA is affiliated with the SEIU. \nDylan Kupish is a UCLA graduate student who is a member of UAW 4811. He was active in supporting the Palestine encampment at UCLA and was targeted by the administration who had police and other agents trailing him and harassing him on and off the campus He faces suspension for supposedly blocking the sidewalk of a supposed Zionist. \nPanelist will talk about their struggles\, who is behind it and how there can be a successful fight back including in mobilizing the unions and labor movement. \nWith:\nTom Alter – CWA Texas Employees Union Professor Texas State University Lecturer\nProfessor Sang Hae Kil – CSUSJ CFA Faculty Member\nDylan Kupish – UCLA UAW 4811 Graduate Student
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:20260716T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260716T180000
DTSTAMP:20260715T045123Z
CREATED:20260608T200819Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260715T045123Z
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SUMMARY:The AFL-CIO "Solidarity Center" & Why Is Trump Funding It?
DESCRIPTION:Zoom event \nLEPAIO Panel \nThe need for international workers solidarity is critical for workers in the US and around the world. The AFL-CIO international operations is through the Solidarity Center which is nearly totally funded by the National Endowment For Democracy NED. The recent Trump Republican budget provided with for over $300 million to the NED and the AFL-CIO Solidarity Center will receive $71 million for it’s operations around the world. The Labor Education Project For AFL-CIO International Operations LEPAIO has opposed the AFL-CIO funding of it’s international operations and at the recent Labor Notes convention passed out a statement about the US government funding of the Solidarity Center. \nAt this panel there will be a report on what happened at the Labor Notes meeting and why the issue of international solidarity and the  AFL-CIO was left out. While there were panels on international labor solidarity\, the issue and role of the AFL-CIO was not addressed. \nThe  AFL-CIO’s Solidarity Center’s operations was also not addressed. There will also be a report on building international solidarity with the Colombian GM workers who have had an encampment at the Bogota embassy for over 15 years. This struggle has been ignored by the Solidarity Center which has an office in Bogota. \nSpeakers:\nKim Scipes – Author on “Developing Country Workers: Solidarity or Sabotage?”  –Professor Emeritus Westville Campus of Purdue University Northwest\nFrank Hammer – Retired UAW 909 President GM\nSteve Zeltzer – WorkWeek\, Member of NG & CWA Local 39521 \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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260714T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260714T210000
DTSTAMP:20260711T152221Z
CREATED:20260608T190748Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260711T152221Z
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SUMMARY:Hip Hop\, Class Struggle\, Tech & Revolution
DESCRIPTION:Zoom event \nWith Barry Anderson and other Hip Hop Artists \nHip Hop has played an important role in challenging the oppression and expressing the struggle of youth and working people.\nThis panel with Hip Hop artists Abad Rebel תועמלן and Kofa 811 will talk about the history of this musical expression and how it has become a powerful social force and how it has become connected with youth and working class lives.
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:20260713T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260713T193000
DTSTAMP:20260713T175449Z
CREATED:20260608T182942Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260713T175449Z
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SUMMARY:AI\, Labor And Commodification of Education For The Tech Billionaires
DESCRIPTION:Zoom event (Note: Location change to Zoom) \nFor decades\, google and other tech companies have been given free reign to introduce their technology into public education. Education programs\, testing\, tracking and the collection of massive data from students\, teachers and staff in education has been institutionalized by politicians both Democrats and Republicans.\nThere is now an ongoing drive to use AI in all levels of education to eliminate teachers and staff from K-12\, Community Colleges\, CSU and the UC system. The education unions have also partnered with these tech companies to train faculty on how to use AI tools. Will this partnership benefit the students\, faculty and public is one of the questions that will be addressed by this panel. \nInitial Speakers:\nJohn Klyczek – Joliet Junior College Lecturer and author of School World Order: The Technocratic Globalization Of Corporatized Education\nMichael Hoffman – Cañada College\,  AFT Local 1493 Lecturer\nAndy Libson – Teacher\, STOP AI\nGeorge Wright – Retired Professor Chico State & Skyline College\nKathy Carroll – Fired Lawyer Whistleblower and Lawyer from Commission On Teacher Credentials \n \n  \nSponsored by AFT 1493 AI Committee\, STOP AI\,  WorkWeek
URL:https://laborfest.net/2026/event/education-ai-commodification-labor/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Forum, Reading,Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260712T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260712T210000
DTSTAMP:20260707T002221Z
CREATED:20260608T181304Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260707T002221Z
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SUMMARY:The Rise of Fascism\, Racism & General Strikes
DESCRIPTION:Zoom event \nThe fascist racist agenda to re-segregate the South\, remove all Black representation and target Black and Brown workers has a historical precedent. This forum will look at the history of the Civil War\, Reconstruction and the rise of fascism in the Post War period and what workers and unions can do to fight the rise fascism and a racists country and world. \nspeakers:\nCarol Lang – AFT PSC CUNY Professor\nBarry Anderson – IBT 856 Steward\nRuss Bellant – Researcher & Author  On Fascism & Right
URL:https://laborfest.net/2026/event/the-rise-of-fascism-racism-general-strikes/
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:20260708T231129Z
CREATED:20260608T174847Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260708T231129Z
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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\nThis meeting is Hybrid: Zoom link is here. \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. \nPanelists: \nDisiree Rojas – Former President of Labor Council Of Latin America Sacramento Chapter\, Farmworker & Daugter of Al Rojas\, Co-founder of UFW\, Al Rojas Foundation\nJohnny Itolong – Son of Larry Itilong\, fournder of UFWOC and UFW\,\nPaul Ortiz – Cornell Labor History Professor\, Former Washington State Farmworker by Zoom\nBruce Newberger – Retired AFT 2121 Lecturer and Former Farmworker and Auther of  “Lettuce Wars”\nAl stein – Latino Leadership Oral History Project\, UC Berkeley\nEdwin Minna – Filipino American National Historical Society Museum president \nSponsored by:\nLaborFest.net\nAl Rojas Foundation https://albertmrojasfoundation.org/\nFirst Unitarian Universalist Church & Center\nUUSF Immigrant Rights Group
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:20260712T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260712T120000
DTSTAMP:20260711T150544Z
CREATED:20260608T173145Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260711T150544Z
UID:7229-1783850400-1783857600@laborfest.net
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 \nThis panel will hear about the struggle of workers and the people of South Africa and Namibia\, and the fight against privatization\, union busting and xenophobia. \nOver 1500 migrants in South Africa as a wave or murderous assaults are taking place blaming these migrants for the economic crisis caused by a courupt capitalist government that is handing the country over to the billionaires.\nThe massive privatization of rail\, shipping\, ports and transit has helped weaking the entire trade union movement.\nIn Namibian\, there is a massive union busting drive at the Husab and the Rossing mines owned by Chinese public companies and there is massive contracting out at other companies throughout Namibia bringing back apartheid conditions.\n\nSpeakers:\nMarcia Kauatjitotje – Fired  Namibian Union Leader At Husab Worker At Eagle Security\, Member of MASWU\nLourens Ricarto Soroseb – Fired Namibian Husab Steward Worker At Husab Mine\nAndile Nyembezi – Simunye Workers Forum\, CWAO\nPatrick Bond – University of Johannesburg Political Economist and Activist On Climate and Against Privatization\n\nSA strike of workers at CHEP SA owned by Australian Multi-national Brambles\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqGmtDsDxXE
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:20260711T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260711T160000
DTSTAMP:20260614T193028Z
CREATED:20260608T141115Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260614T193028Z
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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: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:20260710T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260710T190000
DTSTAMP:20260630T173852Z
CREATED:20260608T135303Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260630T173852Z
UID:7209-1783702800-1783710000@laborfest.net
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 In CTA\nBarry Anderson – IBT 856 Steward\, Musician\nGeorge Wright – Professor CSUC & Skyline College\nAkua Holt Houston – Houston Texas KPFT\nC.C. Cambell – Independent Jounalist New Orleans\, Louisiana\nCheryl Thornton – SEIU 1021 SF Community Healthcare Chapter\nBrena Barros – SEIU 1021 SF General Hospital Chapter\nOrlando Tolbin – SEIU 1021 SF Mental Health  Mission Mental Health Clicic
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:20260708T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260708T190000
DTSTAMP:20260614T204616Z
CREATED:20260608T132628Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260614T204616Z
UID:7201-1783530000-1783537200@laborfest.net
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:20260707T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260707T190000
DTSTAMP:20260703T052543Z
CREATED:20260608T131809Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260703T052543Z
UID:7197-1783443600-1783450800@laborfest.net
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:20260706T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260706T190000
DTSTAMP:20260706T191952Z
CREATED:20260608T130300Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260706T191952Z
UID:7193-1783357200-1783364400@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:ICE\, Fascism & Labor\, How to Protect Our Democratic Rights
DESCRIPTION:Zoom event \nWith Dr. John Caravello\, Lecturer CSU Channel Island Member CFA\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:20260703T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260703T190000
DTSTAMP:20260703T052020Z
CREATED:20260605T221744Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260703T052020Z
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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 & Environmentalist\nJennifer Cruz – UCD IBT 2010  Injured Worker & Member of Workers Linked Together\nBecky McClain – Pfizer Whistleblower\, Author of Exposed\, APfizer Scientist Battles Corruption\, Lies and Betrayal\, and Becomes A Biohazard Whistleblower\nBranton Philipps – Former Fremont Tesla Worker Who Supported UAW Union Organizing and Fought For Health & Safety During Covid\nVina Colley – Former OCAW Electrician at Pikeston Nuclear Plant In Ohio and with 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 Environmental Safety and Security (PRESS) Co-Founder of National Nuclear Workers for Justice (NNWJ) 
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:20260702T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260702T210000
DTSTAMP:20260702T213644Z
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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 \nWith Dr. Angie Ngọc Trần (and contribution from Vietnam)\nVietnam Working Class Voices & History With CSU\nThe massive industrialization of Vietnam and the conditions of women migrant workers is a serious issue and the focus of this report. \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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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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