{"id":6504,"date":"2025-06-23T17:08:34","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T00:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=6504"},"modified":"2025-07-18T07:35:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T14:35:57","slug":"systemic-racism-in-workplace-and-the-struggle-in-our-unions","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/event\/systemic-racism-in-workplace-and-the-struggle-in-our-unions\/","title":{"rendered":"Systemic Racism In Workplace and The Struggle In  Our Unions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\">(Zoom event)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For decades in the United States, there has been an epidemic of hanging noose incidents to terrorize and harass Black workers and other workers. These\u00a0 systemic racist attacks have not been responded to by any organized political education and action campaign in the trade unions and labor movement.<br \/>\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&#8217;s happening and what unions should do about this is critical.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Joining the panel is:<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em><strong>Steve White<\/strong><\/em>, Public School Teacher<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em><strong>Brenda Barros<\/strong><\/em>, SEIU 1021 SF General Hospital Chair<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em><strong>Gabriel Prawl<\/strong><\/em>, ILWU Local 52 Past president &amp; Seattle APRI president<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em><strong>Kirby Washington<\/strong><\/em>, IATSE 600<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em><strong>Barry Anderson<\/strong><\/em>, IBT 856 Steward<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em><strong>Cheryl Thornton<\/strong><\/em>, SEIU 1021 SF Community Healthcare Chair<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sponsored by WorkWeek<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today 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&#8217;s happening and what unions should do about this is critical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6505,"template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[4,70],"class_list":["post-6504","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-forum-reading","tribe_events_cat-zoom","cat_forum-reading","cat_zoom"],"ticketed":["rsvp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/6504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/6504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6528,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/6504\/revisions\/6528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6504"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=6504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}