Palestine & The Defense of Free Speech & Worker Rights In Higher Education
The Palestine Anti-Repression Network (PARN) presents three educators experiences with targeted repression.
The Palestine Anti-Repression Network (PARN) presents three educators experiences with targeted repression.
The massive industrialization of Vietnam and the conditions of women migrant workers is a serious issue and the focus of this report.
Walk with Gifford Hartman (about 2 hours)
Ninety-two years ago (1934), a great battle took place between striking workers and the police and National Guard along the waterfront alongside the piers of San Francisco’s Embarcadero.
Opening day - July 3, 4, 2:00 PM at Dolores Park, San Francisco Is it just us, or does it feel like everything is falling apart? Mary, a flower seller barely managing to hold on in an increasingly unaffordable city, must defend her street corner from invading evangelical Felicity, who is herself torn between joyfully […]
The 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 of epidemic conditions.
Come and participate in a working-class perspective on how we must organize and unite to fight for a better world
The empire is falling apart.
Labor History Bike Tour by Chris Carlsson (Shaping San Francisco)
From the pre-urban history of Indian Slavery to the earliest 8-hour day movement in the U.S., the ebb and flow of class war is traced.
The film showing of "Harry Bridges, A Man and His Union." The San Francisco 1934 general strike was a major advance for the working class in San Francisco and Northern California. The ILWU was formed out of that strike, and today, it is one of the most powerful and democratic unions in the United States.
With Dr. John Caravello, Lecturer CSU Channel Island Member CFA
The 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.
Workers 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.
A new play by Yvonne Martinez July 7, 14, 21 2026
Based on a labor organizer's true story.
"At Harvard we fought a Trumpian bully and won"
With Professor Bryan Palmer
The 1934 Minneapolis Teamster general strike was a pivotal point in national organizing particularly for Teamsters.
ILWU Local 10 has played a historic and critical role in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa including boycotting cargo in 1984 which was recognized by Mandella when he came to the Bay Area after the end of apartheid.
The 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.
Labor 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.
You are invited to walk with David on the mountain and learn about the history of this remarkable refuge for endangered butterflies and rare native plants.
The history of the Black Panther party and the San Francisco State Third World Strike were connected. This panel will discuss this history and how this was an important part of the struggle of the strike.
When Pfizer molecular biologist Becky McClain discovered a leaking biological cabinet in her laboratory, she tried to get Pfizer to protect her workplace. She was retaliated against, terrorized and fired as well as getting a genetic disease from the biological release.
This walk will explore Berkeley’s “New Deal nexus” that includes Post Office art, Berkeley High School, the Community Theater, Civic Center Park, and the old Farm Credit Building.
This 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.
The 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.
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.
The introduction of technology and AI is creating a major crisis for education workers, students and staff. This meeting will look at how AI is being introduced and how it is affecting the faculty and students.
Panel - Hip Hop has played an important role in challenging the oppression and expressing the struggle of youth and working people.
Since the McCarthy era theatre texts have consistently expunged any mention of important contributions from the Left to the American Theatre. Professor Joel Eis has unearthed and compiled the story of this sixty-year movement.
This forum will look at the history and role of the "Solidarity Center" and recent developments in this center and why this must be an issue for unions and the workers of the United States.
A powerful seven-movement opera about Chinese immigration to California by Artistic Director, Eric Tuan with Chinese Historical Association, San Francisco At: Central Chinese High School Victory Hall: 829 Stockton Street, San Francisco, CA, 94108 A NEW OPERA BRIDGING HISTORY AND HOPE Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir proudly presents Echoes of Eureka, a powerful seven-movement opera […]
The political witch hunts at Universities throughout the country are part of the growing move to sanitize the education system. This panel will focus on three such cases where faculty and unionized graduate students were targeted and terminated or face suspension.
The book “No Neutrals There, US Labor, Zionism and the Struggle For Palestine” by Professor Jeff Schuhrke examines the history of the role of US unions in supporting the formation of the Israeli state and the Histadrut and how debate and discussion about this role has been suppressed within the labor movement.
This walk will explore the many locations where activists lived and the houses that were home to experimental communes.
Live stream by facebook from Minneapolis Commemoration Committee at the site of Bloody Friday
Teamsters are in a battle to remove inward facing AI inferred cameras from their truck cabs after they have received tumors and cataracts.
This panel will report on their fight to protect their health and safety.
Join teachers, parents, students and other concerned citizens in a conversation about the impact of AI on our schools and our lives.
Labor Historian John Holmes along with ILWU historian Harvey Schwartz and professor Bob Cherny and Donna Carter look at the role of leftists and communists in the Bay area.
Book Presentation of “Hubert Harrison: Forbidden Genius of Black Radicalism” By Professor Brian Kwoba
This event was rescheduled on July 29th 10:00 AM
New York poets' poetry reading in the age of Fascism
by Howard Pflanzer, Robert Roth, Chris Brandt, Joannie Zosike, Nancy Hoch, Elizabeth Morse
The attack on the constitution by the Trump government and his capture of the Supreme Court raises the question for working people about the class nature of the US constitution and how working people can defend themselves in the face of the capture of the Supreme Court, the Executive and the Congress by the Trump government.
The Revolutionary Poets have a long history of fighting capitalism and oppression through their voices and this event will give voice to to these struggles.
Japanese workers and unionists have faced union busting and the privatization of Japan Rail which was instituted to smash the militant unionism which organized a national strike in 1975 against the Vietnam war.
This year’s film festival will showcase works made by independent filmmakers who are affirming labor and other human rights and advocating for social and economic justice.
This year is the 80th anniversary of the Oakland General Strike.
This walk will revisit the sites of Oakland’s “Work Holiday” that spontaneously began with rank-and-file solidarity with the striking, mostly women retail clerks at Kahn’s and Hastings.
This statewide meeting will look at the struggle for single payer and the need for a united front of all unions and working people to build a workers movement for single payer.
Newsies is a high-energy musical based on the true story of the 1899 New York City newsboys’ strike, where a group of young paper sellers fight back against powerful newspaper publishers who raise distribution prices at their expense.
In this history-by-the-buildings walk, Brad Wiedmaier will outline artifacts and events, and their connections to San Francisco’s past and present.
Gig work in which workers are underpaid with little to no job security is becoming more prevalent.
"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. Two showings over Zoom: 4:00 – 6:00 pm and 7:00 – 9:00 pm
The drive by the tech billionaires to use AI to capture and scrape data from the internet and use this to profit from the data threatens all workers including writers and artists. This pane will look at the effect of AI in these industries and what workers and people can do about it.
Non-profit and NGO unionization is the fastest growing militant wing of the labor movement. Despite being ignored by the left media, these new mostly self-organized independent unions are taking on the “due gooder” myth of long hours, low wages and bad bosses—and they’re winning.
Workers Voices Storytelling Night
The 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.
LaborFest Writers Group has been a long time part of LaborFest and working class writers tell their stories and lives.
The Teamsters is one of the most powerful unions in the United States, but it is under assault by AI, union busting at Amazon and massive closures at UPS. How workers organize a fight to defend their jobs and fight for a democratic union will be the focus of this panel.
In this film by videographer Kipp Hedges, they talk about why Minneapolis was targeted, how people organized to defend the immigrant community and why the unions and trade unionists became involved in fighting back against the ICE terror tactics.