This forum will have members of the KPFA LSB and activists at KPFA who want more coverage of the South Bay on KPFA, and discuss why independent media is critical in this dire and critical time of war, peace, and justice.
In 2010, a commemoration was held of the merger between the Black and White local of the Musicians union in San Francisco.
Revolutionary Poets reading.
Seven Jewish Children: A Play for Gaza is a 10-minute play by British playwright Caryl Churchill, written in response to the 2008-2009 Israel military strike on Gaza.
At: SEIU Local 1021 hall - 350 Rhode Island, San Francisco (entrance on Kansas Street, between 16th and 17th Streets) Street parking available, wheel-chair accessible Honorees: Labor Woman of the […]
This month, Sensible Cinema along with SF LaborFest remembers the letter carriers strike of March 1970 beginning in New York City and spreading across the nation.
Walk with Harvey Smith - The McGee-Spaulding District could be considered a hotbed of Berkeley 1960s radicalism and counterculture given the number of noted activists and alternative living communities located in the neighborhood.
This community labor forum will look at the role of EPA, OSHA, DPH in San Francisco and the State Of California, East Palestine and other toxic sites.
Al Stein will lead a discussion about film as art, propaganda and documentary expression in 1930s America, focusing on Pare Lorentz, FDR’s cameraman and his colleagues Ralph Steiner, Paul Strand, Leo Hurwitz, and Willard Van Dyke.
A Night of solidarity song honoring Pat Wynne and the Rockin’ Solidarity Chorus
At: Medicine For Nightmares Bookstore - 3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110 With Guillermo Kane Guillermo Kane, member of the Partido Obrero (Workers Party) in Argentina and an elected […]
Labor Notes Conference/Area Organizing Campaigns Report Back and Discussion.
Alcatraz Tour workers have been fighting for a union contract for decades and faced one union busting attack after another.
The latest book by SFSU labor historian and author Robert Cherny is a major contribution on the role of the Communist Party and their members in the Bay Area and California history.
Apple in silicon valley had an office built on a toxic dump site and workers were getting sick from the fumes. When Apple's senior engineering program manager reported it to Apple, they refused to take action to defend the workers.
In the face of the election of the fascist Javier Milei in Argentina, there is a major attack on the working class, unions and oppressed. Guillermo Kane will report on the formation of the Workers’ Left Front. How it was organized and the struggle to defend against Milei and his supporters.
panel - Many workers say that workers comp has been captured by the employers, insurance companies and a State and Federal administration that is representing this interests rather than workers.
Walk with Gifford Hartman
This year is the 78th 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 department stores.
The massive investment and speculation around AI and robotics is already having a major effect for workers in California, the US and the world. This event will look at AI in logistics and what it means for workers in this industry.
At: ILWU local 6 - 99 Hegenberger Rd, Oakland, CA There has been a growing movement of trade unions and unionists defending the Palestinian workers and unions. Trade unionists are […]
San Francisco has a rich political and labor history that is also connected to its buildings. In this history-by-the-buildings walk, Brad Wiedmaier will outline artifacts and events, and their connections to San Francisco’s past and present.
Join the best labor maritime boat trip in the world as we go to historical sites on the bay and the Oakland container port. This is the 90th anniversary of the San Francisco General Strike.
The history of ILWU, the longshore union, has been one of the most militant unions when it comes to solidarity actions.
The rise of fascism not only in the US but in Argentina, France, Turkey, India and around the world is a life and death question for working people and the entire population.
