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Festival Latinoamerica de la Clase ObreraSF General Strike related sites
SF Museum
ShapingSF Project
Historymatters
George Seldes On SF General Strike
SFSU
July 5 (Tuesday) $ 8.50
International Working Class Film & Video Festival
Opening Day
6:00 PM Reception
7:00 PM Mardi Gras: Made In China
8:15 PM The Concrete Revolution
9:15 PM Q & A with the producer Xiaolu Guo
San Francisco Premier Screening
The Concrete Revolution
Chinese with English subtitles 61 min. (2004)
By Xiaolu Guo
The historic construction boom now going on in China and the effect on Chinese workers is the focus of this new film by Xiaolu Guo. Xiaolu captures the transformation of Beijing and how it is changing and effecting the workers who are doing the work. Ziaolu also allows the workers to speak for themselves about their work, their lives and their hopes. It is a powerful statement that has not yet been heard in the United States. Who is building the new China and what are their hopes and dreams in the country with the largest population in the world. Novelist and filmmaker Ziaolu’s works touch universal themes and through her film we see the humanity and warmth of the Chinese working people.
www.guoxiaolu.com
guoxiaolu@yahoo.com
Mardi Gras: Made In China
By David Redmon, 2005, 71 min
Millions of Americans have attended the New Orleans Mardi Gras celebration. Hidden behind the celebration are the sweatshop workers, mostly women and teenagers who produce the millions of beads that are thrown out to the crowds during the celebration. This film counterpoints the party with the lives of the workers who make the beads. In illuminating interviews we learn about the method of production that is now employing large numbers of Chinese workers as well as the ideology of the owners.
www.calleymedia.org
Four Star Theater
2200 Clement, SF (at 23rd Ave.)July 6 (Wednesday) 7:00 PM $5.00
Latin American Working Class Film & Video Festival
Opening Day
San Francisco Premier Screening
RAYMUNDO -The Revolutionary Filmmakers’ Struggle
By Ernesto Ardito & Virna Molina
127 minutes (2002) Argentina (Spanish with English subtitles)
The documentary film is about the life and work of Raymundo Gleyzer, one of the most important Latin American filmmakers, kidnapped and murdered by that country’s military dictatorship in 1976.
Through Raymundo’s life, we follow the story of Latin American revolutionary cinema and the liberation struggles of the 60’s and 70’s. Raymundo was one of the major architects of the militant cinema, yet after his "disappearance", he fell into oblivion. It is essential that the new generation rediscover his life and works, which are a source of inspiration today more than ever. This documentary shows that the CIA and the Latin American dictatorships couldn’t destroy the memory, the ideals and the courage to tell the truth.
www.filmraymundo.com.ar
Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
2868 Mission St., at 25th, San FranciscoJuly 6 (Wednesday) 7:00 PM $5.00
The Iguazu effect (Il effecto Iguazu)
By Pere Joan Ventura (Spanish with English subtitles) 89 min, (2002), Spain
In 2001 Telefonica, the national telephone company of Spain, sold the major subsidiary named Sintel as a part of globalization process of the country. As a result of this, about 1800 workers were laid off. The people driven out from the most stable jobs to the streets built a 'Camp of Hope' in the middle of flourishing down town of Madrid and started the struggle which went on for 187 days. Workers from all over the country felt a little strange about the situation, but as they ate and slept together, they formed a solidarity community. The title "Iguazu Effect" means that a fisher man doesn't realize the danger or is fooled by the calmness of a river, until he gets to the verge of a waterfall. This is a metaphor of workers' situation in the wild globalization age.
The director Ventura has worked for various TV networks mostly producing news and teleplays. This is his first feature film. Filming "Iguazu Effect", he shot total amount of 90 hours for 187days. Beside this, he participated in a project called "Hay Motivo" which were short films of 32 directors criticizing government policy.
Bloodletting : Life death healthcare
By Lorna Green, 67 min, 2004 USA
What happens when a filmmaker borrows a camera to explore healthcare? It becomes personal. BLOODLETTING is about a filmmaker who travels to Cuba to investigate its healthcare system, only to return home where two family members, uninsured by their employers, develop illnesses. The film reveals the cruel underbelly of America's healthcare system.
http://www.lornagreen.org
Humanist Hall
370 27th Street, Oakland, near BroadwayOngoing Exhibition until September 9th
Art & Courage, The Life and Work of Louise Gilbert
The show of Louise Gilbert’s art reflects 70 years of dedication to labor, human rights and world peace. She has contributed to the working people of SF.
www.geocities.com/louise_gilbert_artist/index.html
City College of SF, Atrium Gallery
in Rosenberg Library, 2nd Floor
Call for the Library hour’s (415) 452-5541July 7 (Thursday) 6-9:30 PM
View From The Bridge
Opening reception for the photo exhibition
By Joseph A. Blum
Photographs documenting the construction of the Bay Bridge and the workers who are building it.
Exhibit dedicated to the memory of Tom Goff.
Exhibit held from July 5 – July 30 2005
www.peopleandwork.org
The Photo Center Harvey Milk Center
50 Scott Street, San Francisco, CA 94117
415-554-9522July 7 (Thursday) 7:00 PM $5.00
Latin American Working Class Film & Video Festival
Bolivia, The War of the Gas
By Carlos Pronzato 50 min (2003) Brazil
On October 2003 a national rebellion took place against the government of Sanchez de Lozada. His plan to privatize the gas was met with mass resistance. He used the US supplied army against the people and over 80 died and hundreds were wounded. Filmmaker Pronzato interviews Evo, Felipe Quispe, Jaime Solar and others.
The Gas Is Not For Sale (El Gas, No Se Vende)
By Tercer Mundo 26 min (2003) Bolivia
This video shows the rebellion from the ground floor. They use both their own footage, television footage and fine editing to show the power of workers, peasants, students and women in protesting the policies of the IMF and World Bank.
Labor Music Videos (5 minutes) from Bolivia
This is a fine example of the mixture of art, song and video in the struggle for justice.
Tercer Mundo is also organizing a Latin American Working Class Film and Video Festival in El Alto, Bolivia this coming October.
tercermundo@hotmail.com
Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
2868 Mission St., at 25th, San FranciscoJuly 8 (Friday) 6:30 PM $5.00
International Working Class Film & Video Festival
With Sea Shanty Songs by Jim Nelson
San Francisco Premier
Betrayed: The Story of Canadian Merchant Seamen
By Elaine Briere 56 min. (2004) Canada
Videographer Elaine Briere will be present after the screening.
This Canadian video tells the story of the privatization of the shipping industry and the use of the McCarthy witchhunt in the US to attack the Canadian Seaman’s Union (CSU) which strongly opposed the sale. The privatization policy led to the total destruction of the Canadian shipping industry and the victimization of thousands of Canadian sailors.
briere@pacificcoast.net
Fighting Wal-Martization
By Labor Video Project 26 min. (2004)
Wal-Mart plays a critical role in holding down wages in the US. This video looks at how the labor movement is seeking to stop the Wal-Martization of America and why this threatens the living conditions of all the people.
lvpsf@labornet.org
New College
777 Valencia St. at 19th St., San FranciscoJuly 9 (Saturday) 10:00 AM Free
WALKING TOUR by Dave Giesen
Land, Labor and Buildings
Visiting historic downtown San Francisco
Come along on a brisk, provocative walking tour exploring the accomplishments of Labor in literally building San Francisco. Along the way, we learn about Kate Kennedy who set the legal precedent for equal pay for women in the U.S., discover an SF newspaperman's attempt to liberate Labor from income taxes (afterall, he argued, doesn't labor fully give of itself in the course of laboring), and burnish the memory of Sun Yat-sen who proposed, while in SF, the most extensive labor reform ever proposed for 20th Century China!
The narration rings with tales of engineering marvels, saucy living, astonishing proposals, and gentle humanity.
Meet at Dewey Monument in the center of Union Square, concluding at the corner of Market and Montgomery Streets (2 hrs.)
For info: Call 415-452-8860July 9 (Saturday) 2:00 PM Free
Presentation on Maritime Women
Presentation with filmmaker and writer Maria Brooks. Maria Brooks has focused her extensive work on maritime workers and their history. Her latest endeavor is a video history of women workers in maritime that will also include a book.
www.waterfrontsoundingsproductions.com
Modern Times Bookstore
888 Valencia St./20th St., San FranciscoJuly 9 (Saturday) 8:00 PM Free
Song and Poetry Swap with Freedom Song Network
For over 20 years, the Freedom Song Network has been helping keep alive the spirit of labor and political song in the Bay Area, on picket lines, at rallies, on concert stages and at songswaps. Bring songs or poems to share. Everyone welcome, regardless of musical ability or training.
885 Clayton St., at Carl St., SF
For more info: (415) 648-3457July 10 (Sunday) 2:00 PM Free
Legacy of The New Deal in California
(presentation-audio streaming)
Panel on the Public Legacy of the New Deal in California with writer Gray Brechin, photographer Bob Dawson, and LaborFest New Deal Tour Guide Harvey Smith.
A major research project sponsored by the California Historical Society is underway documenting the enduring but invisible landscape left us by FDR's alphabet soup agencies. Usefully employing millions of unemployed workers during the Depression, the WPA, CCC, PWA and other public works agencies immensely expanded the concept of the public realm and offered an alternative vision of what can be done at a time when the very idea of "public" is under relentless assault.
www.newdealproject.org
Modern Times Bookstore
888 Valencia St./20th St., San FranciscoJuly 10 (Sunday) 5:00 PM Free
Five Women Poets: On Labor, Local to International
From San Francisco Lockouts to Union Struggles in Latin America. Readers are Leslie Simon from Poetry for the People, and Women’s Studies Department of City College, San Francisco and author of Collisions and Transformations by Coffee House Press, Nellie Wong from Radical Women, and delegate to the San Francisco Labor Council, member of the union local UPTE CWA 9119, author of Stolen Moments, and in Older Women Writing by Chicory Blue Press, Phyllis Holliday, a member of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union Local 2, published in Peace and Pieces Anthology, and Poets West Anthology, Alice E. Rogoff, a National Writers Union San Francisco Chapter Steering Committee member, and Award Winner in the Blue Light Book Award Contest for her book, Mural, and Lynn Werner, author and performer with direct experience documenting human rights abuses in Columbia, prize winning labor videographer for Cortenas de Cana based on the struggles of sugarcane workers in Columbia, and writer on human rights violations against women.
City Lights Book Store
261 Columbus at Broadway, San FranciscoJuly 11 (Monday) 12:00 Noon
Rally For SF Chronicle Newspaper Workers
San Francisco newspaper workers at the Hearst owned SF Chronicle rally for a contract. New publisher Frank Vega known as Darth Vega has been brought in from Detroit with his Vance goons to help attack the unions. Sponsored by IBT-GCIU Local 4
SF Chornicle Building
5th & Mission St. in San FranciscoJuly 11 (Monday) 7:00 PM Free
Poetry / Words: The Wars At Home And Abroad
With Poets Bob Carson, Adam David Miller, Carol Denney, Roland Carrillo and others.
Survival is the focus of this night of words. Hundreds of billions of dollars are being spent on wars around the world but working people in the Bay Area cannot afford healthcare and housing. These artists and musicians will speak out and sing out about the struggle to survive in 2005.
New College
766 Valencia St./19th St., San FranciscoJuly 12 (Tuesday) 7:00 PM Free
Labor and The Earthquake
Labor historian Michael Kazin on the San Francisco trade union movement during the period of The 1906 Earthquake and musicians. Kazin is author of Barons of Labor, The San Francisco Building Trades and Union Power in the Progressive Era. He charts the growth and history of early San Francisco construction labor and the rise of carpenter P.H McCarthy who became a leader of the San Francisco Building Trades and in 1909 under the banner of the Union Labor Party became mayor of San Francisco. Professor Kazin will be introduced by ILWU historian Harvey Schwartz with the SFSU Labor Archives.
Musicians Jim Nelson & Jack Chernos will perform.
Sponsored by the Rebuilding San Francisco Project.
www.rebuildingsf.org (under construction)
ILWU Local 34 Hall
5 Berry St. To the left side (north) of SBC ParkJuly 13 (Wednesday) 4:45 PM
SF WAITRESSES UNITE!
Rethinking Our Work and Identity
Steps Of City Hall
Polk and McAllister St.
Join San Francisco Waitress working, retired and injured on the job.
Participate Celebrating the Craft, Honoring the Work, stories, Now and Then.
Trials and Tribulations of the Women in Labor: Hospitality - The F&B Industry of San Francisco and Bay Area
Waitresses/ The Hands and Hearts that serve: the Clubs and Cafes, Bistros and Restaurants, Hotels and Civic venues in our Baghdad-by-the-Bay.
Speak Out For Justice and Fairness, Share our stories!
Waitresses are a critical group in San Francisco. They feed the hungry and maintain the tourism industry with their work. They will be gathering together to speak out collective history and changes, also on the need to have decent health conditions, wages, working contract and retirement. There will be an opportunity to share stories, oral history, and participate in photographic memorialization and/or video archive. The honorable work performed by waitresses will be celebrated in the Making Connections: CAREER WAITRESSES of San Francisco Exhibit
For information contact: Michelle Reddington, Local#2, Rank and File ,SF Hotel Restaurant Culinary Workers Union,UNITE HERE
415 929-1001 / sacredmountain@hotmail.comJuly 13 (Wednesday) 5:30 PM Free
A Walking Tour of SF City Hall Exhibition
with curator Candacy Taylor
Making Connections: Career Waitresses of San Francisco
This important exhibition reveals how waitresses are not only serving our food but also bringing a community spirit to their job and the places they work at. Their customers grow to love them not only for the work they do but the humor and character they bring to the table.
www.careerwaitresses.com
slingingpower@yahoo.com
Continuing exhibition through 7/22
San Francisco City HallJuly 13 (Wednesday) 7:00 PM Free
Lessons of The Bread & Roses Strike for Today & Screening of "Cry of The Children"
Also screening will be The Lawrence Strike of 1912 with speakers Jim Bresnahan and Manny Sears.
Bresnahan and Sears are both from Lawrence, Massachusetts where this historic strike took place. After the films, they will discuss the causes of the strike and why we face some of the same problems today.
Bricklayers and Allied Crafts Local 3
186 Potrero St San Francisco, near 16th St.July 13 (Wednesday) 7:30 PM $5.00
Latin American Working Class Film & Video Festival
RAYMUNDO -The Revolutionary Film-Makers’ Struggle
(Spanish with English Subtitles)
By Ernesto Ardito & Virna Molina
127 minutes (2002) Argentina
The documentary film about the life and work of Raymundo Gleyzer, one of the most important Latin American filmmaker, kidnapped and murdered by that country’s military dictatorship in 1976.
(Please check the detail of this film at July 6 schedule.)
Humanist Hall
370 27th Street, Oakland, near BroadwayJuly 14 (Thursday) 7:30 PM $10-12 (Sliding scale)
From Bastille to Bush
A Concert to Celebrate Bastille Day
Anne Feeny Concert
Join a concert to celebrate Bastille Day with international labor troubadour Anne Feeny and other labor musicians as well as labor videos. The Bastille tradition continues to live in France and is celebrated around the world. It is no accident that following the massive
rejection of the EU constitution in France, tens of thousands made their way to the Bastille to celebrate. Anne Feeny will be returning from a tour of Europe. Let’s make Bastille Day come alive in the US.
http://annefeeney.com
La Pena Cultural Center
3105 Shattuck at Prince, BerkeleyJuly 15 (Friday) 7:00 PM $5.00
Filipine Labor Cultural Solidarity Night
There's Blood In Your Coffee ( 26 minutes)
With Cultural performances and Filipino Labor speaker by Southern Tagalog Exposure (people's center for progressive media) & PAMANTIK-KMU.
Amidst the Supreme Court rule favoring the Union, the Swiss company that owns Nestle would not give into the just & legal demands of the workers. For over 2 years, workers of Nestle factory in Laguna, Philippines has been on strike. The struggle for their rights have been met with repression not only from the multi-national company, but also from the Philippine government. sometimes subtle, often time violent.
Filipino Community Center (FCC)
35 San Juan Ave. near Mission St. SF
(415) 333-6267July 15 (Friday),16 (Saturday) 7:00 PM
$10 (No one turned away for lack of funds)
Los Vientos de Marzo (The Winds of March)
Lynn Werner performs an original solo theater piece with poetry and prose based on her eight years documenting labor and human rights abuses in Colombia, torture, assassination and disappearances.
Poet and award-winning videographer Lynn Werner spent nearly eight years in Colombia where she participated in that country's agonizing struggle for basic human rights. Working closely with labor collectives, she documented the systematic torture, disappearance and assassination of trade unionists, grassroots organizers, and displaced rural peasants by Colombia's military and their partners in crime, the paramilitary. Through her original poetry and prose, she leads the audience through sugarcane fields to hear the voices of corteros, the flight of displaced rural peasants as they flee to urban misery only to have their shacks bulldozed by the military, the voices of Afro-Colombia women in villages of the Pacific Coast of Colombia herded onto cattle cars to work in the fields of Cauca, the testimony of torture of the Coordinator of the Committee for the Rights of Political Prisoners who is raped as a form of military intimidation.
www.theexit.org
EXIT Theatre (Reservations: 415-673-3847)
156 Eddy St., San Francisco
No late seatingJuly 16 (Saturday) 1:00 PM Free
Art, Witchhunts, Past and Present
With Artists Louise Gilbert, Doug Minkler, Susan Green, Jan Cook.
This panel will look at the effect of past and present witchhunts on artists. The effort to silent and censor political art from the McCarthy period and today will be examined and exposed. It will also look at how artists use their art to further and advance the cause of working people here and around the world.
Modern Times Bookstore
888 Valencia St./20th St., San FranciscoJuly 16 (Saturday) 7:00 PM $5.00
The Iguazu effect (Il effecto Iguazu)
(Spanish with English subtitles) 89 min, (2002), Spain
By Pere Joan Ventura
In 2001 Telefonica, the national telephone company of Spain, sold the major subsidiary named Sintel as a part of globalization process of the country. As a result of this, about 1800 workers were laid off. The people driven out from the most stable jobs to the streets built a 'Camp of Hope' in the middle of flourishing down town of Madrid and started the struggle which went on for 187 days. Workers from all over the country felt a little strange about the situation, but as they ate and slept together, they formed a solidarity community. The title "Iguazu Effect" means that a fisher man doesn't realize the danger or is fooled by the calmness of a river, until he gets to the verge of a waterfall. This is a metaphor of workers' situation in the wild globalization age.
The director Ventura has worked for various TV networks mostly producing news and teleplays. This is his first feature film. Filming "Iguazu Effect", he shot total amount of 90 hours for 187days. Beside this, he participated in a project called "Hay Motivo" which were short films of 32 directors criticizing government policy.
Bloodletting : Life, death, healthcare
67 min, 2004 USA
By Lorna Green
What happens when a filmmaker borrows a camera to explore healthcare? It becomes personal. BLOODLETTING is about a filmmaker who travels to Cuba to investigate its healthcare system, only to return home where two family members, uninsured by their employers, develop illnesses. The film reveals the cruel underbelly of America's healthcare system.
http://www.lornagreen.org
Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
2868 Mission St., at 25th, San FranciscoJuly 16 (Saturday) 7:00 PM $5-10
(No one turned away from lack of funds)
Day Laborer’s Benefit
Concert of the Choruses
Join in supporting the struggle for human rights by the San Francisco Day Laborers program. Immigrant workers are under attack and this benefit with songs performed by Francisco Herrera and The Coro Obrero will help their cause. The concert includes the Labor Heritage Rockin’ Solidarity Chorus featuring "Who Said That", a piece reflecting spoken and musical voices of working people with songs that were performed on the Hotel Workers Picket Lines, the Bush Medley, Stand Up, Rise Again and Listen to the Voices.
New College
777 Valencia St./19th St., San FranciscoJuly 15 through July 30- Every Friday, Saturday 8:30 PM $10
Boxcar Bertha
One Woman Play by Kerry Reid in collaboration with Christina Augello & John Warren
Boxcar Bertha is an one-woman play with musical backdrop based on the legendary depression era hobo, feminist, and anarchist Bertha Thompson. Featuring Christina Augello, this depression era saga follows Bertha, a rugged hard living woman who rode the rails in the 1930s, on a journey from hobo to grifter, from prostitute to activist.
Christina Augello is the founder and artistic director of EXIT Theatre. She has been an actress, producer and director in the Bay Area for over 30 years.
Jack “Applejack” Walroth is a veteran freelance San Francisco singer, musician, songwriter, and music publisher, whose career has remained somewhat below the radar, even though it has included longstanding associations with many better known musicians in the San Francisco Bay Area.
(Funding has been made possible by the Puffin Foundation) www.theexit.org
EXIT Theatre
156 Eddy St., San Francisco
(Reservations: 415-673-3847)July 17 (Sunday) 10:15 AM Boarding $25.00
10:30 AM Departure
Labor Maritime History
Boat Tour
This year, the tour will focus on women working on the waterfront.
On the boat, we will hear about the labor, social, environmental and political history of the Bay Area from the people who know it. Historians Sue Englander, Charles Wollenberg, Gray Brechin and Herb Mills among others, will offer comments. From the boat, we will view the old Kaiser shipyard and Ford assembly plant where many women worked duringWorld War II. We hope to hear from three women who worked in Richmond during the 1940’s: Betty Ried Soskin, from a segregated Jim Crow shipyard union, Phyllis Gould, as a welder; and her sister, Marian Sousa, as a draftswomen in the shipyard. Also, on board will be Donna Graves who was instrumental in having a "Rosie the Riveter Memorial" created in the adjacent water front park.
The tour will include viewing the construction sites for the new east Span of the Bay Bridge, the Oakland Port and the San Francisco waterfront.
http://www.ilwu10hmills.com/
To make your reservation, call (415) 642-8066, and leave your 1) name (spell it out), 2) number of your reservation, and 3) your phone number. You should also send a check to LaborFest, P. O. Box 40983, San Francisco, CA 94140.
You can also contact us by e-mail: laborfest@laborfest.net
Terminal E (South side of the Ferry building), SF
Boat leaves promptly at 10:30 AM
Tour lasts 3 hours
Some food and refreshments will be available on board.July 17 (Sunday) 2:00 PM Free
Labor Maritime History Walk
With Louis Prisco
A four-hour walk along San Francisco's Waterfront, revisiting the terrain of the maritime strikes and general strike, which established organized labor on the West Coast. We will stop at the sites of major events: including the burning of the "Blue Books," Battle of Rincon Hill and scene of the fatalities on "Bloody Thursday," July 5, 1934. The walk will be free, but a $3.00 pamphlet with a map is also available. Each walk will be limited to 20 persons.
Harry Bridges Plaza
In front of Ferry Building, San Francisco
Reservation required (limited to 20) This event is all filled.
However, Louis will conduct another walk on 7/23 (Saturday) 11:00 AM.
Call (415) 841-1254 to make reservationJuly 17 (Sunday) 2:00 PM Free
War at Home:The Corporate Offensive From Reagan To Bush
By Jack Rasmus
A book reading with author and union chairperson of the NWU-UAW 1981 Bay Area Chapter, Jack Rasmus. His book is an account of the current corporate offensive against workers and unions in America, which began a quarter century ago under Ronald Reagan and is now accelerating under George W. Bush.
http://www.kyklosproductions.com
Modern Times Bookstore
888 Valencia St./20th St., San FranciscoJuly 17 (Sunday) 6:30 PM $5 - 20
Sex Workers Organizing Film Night
By Benefit for Sex Workers Organized for Labor, Human and Civil Rights and the Erotic Service Providers Union
Tales of the Night Fairies
By Shohini Ghosh, Bengali, 74 min (2002)
Indian sex workers organized for labor, human and civil rights.
There will be an art opening and another film shown after this film
Artists Television Access
992 Valencia St. at 20th St., SFJuly 19 (Tuesday) 7:00 PM Free
Latin American Labor Poetry, Music and Film Night
Join Alfonso Toxidor, Maria Medina Seratin and others as they present poetry and music along with videos from Latin America.
Parmalat (20 min.) 2004 by Ojo Obrero
(With English Subtitled)
December, 2004, workers of Parmalat, a food company, went to strike and the company tried to fire 80 of them.
The Gas Is Not For Sale (El Gas, No Se Vende)
By Tercer Mundo 26 min (2003) Bolivia
(With English Subtitled)
Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
2868 Mission St., at 25th, San FranciscoJuly 19 (Tuesday) 7:00 PM Free
Book Reading
THROUGH THE WALL: A Year In Havana
By Margot Pepper (UAW-NWU 1981 member)
Come find out what workers’ rights mean when you work in Cuba. "From her unique vantage point as a journalist working for a year in Special Period Cuba, Margot Pepper has written a smart and politically sophisticated memoir..."--Piri Thomas.
http://www.freedomvoices.org
City Lights Book Store
261 Columbus at Broadway, San FranciscoJuly 20 (Wednesday) 7:30 PM $5.00
Latin American Working Class Film & Video Festival
Street Love (Amor de La Calle)
(English Subtitled)
By Asa Faringer, (71 min) Mexico
This film shows the organizing efforts of sex workers in Mexico and how their efforts to fight exploitation run into battle with the police and the authorities.
No Olvidamos
By Grupo de cine de la Veron, (20 min) Argentina
This video shows the June 26 2002 massacre carried out by the police forces under the Duhalde government in De Avellanedea and the role of the present Kirchner government.
Piqueteros Carajo
By Ojo Obrero, (17 min.) Argentina
(no English subtitles)
The piqueteros movement has been a vital and critical force in fighting oppression and defending the people. This video show the massive repression faced by the piqueteros movement including the murder of its activists.
Humanist Hall
370 27th Street, Oakland, near BroadwayJuly 20 (Wednesday) 7:00 PM Free
Labor Movement And Class Struggle in Europe
With Austrian journalist and Labournet founder Karl Fischbacher and Vienna Women’s Studies Professor Irmi Voglmayr.
The policies of privatization and deregulation that have driven US politics are now being pushed in Europe and have resulted in a backlash by France and Holland in rejection of the new EU constitution. This presentation will provide a front seat view of how these policies are effecting the working class of Europe and how workers are seeking to defend their conditions. Fischbacker is the founder of Labournet Austria (http://www.labournetaustria.at/) and Dr. Irmi Voglmayr has done research on the labor conditions of women in Austria and the role of the Internet.
Modern Times Bookstore
888 Valencia St./20th St., San FranciscoJuly 21 (Thursday) 7:00 PM $5.00
Latin American Working Class Film & Video Festival
The Traitors (with English subtitles)
(This film is back on the schedule)
By Raymundo Gleyzer
Fiction/Color/105 min./1973, Argentina
A militant trade unionist joins the Peronist bureaucracy and is transformed into an opportunist in the union elections. The power he gains is used by him to betray the workers as he collaborates with the military dictatorship. This film had to be made surreptitiously in order to protect the filmmakers.
Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
2868 Mission St., at 25th, San FranciscoJuly 22 (Friday) 7:00 PM $5.00
International Working Class Film & Video Festival
Breaking Walls
By Nir Nader in Video 48, Israel, 47 minutes
Video 48 is a group of alternative filmmakers focusing on the situation of Arabs inside Israel. When Israel began walling itself off from the Palestinians of the West Bank, Mike Alewitz, who paints colorful murals, from L.A. to Baghdad, asked the Workers Advice Center (WAC) to help him find a site in an Arab village. WAC chose Kufr Qara, where workers picked a promising wall at the football stadium. They told Alewitz that they wanted "a mural that would help them explain to other workers why joining a union is important." nirnader@yahoo.com
www.hanitzotz.com/video48/breaking-walls.htm
Everywhere We Go
By Valerie Lapin Ganley (40 min.)
This video tells the story of mostly immigrants who fight for justice in the US and organize to rally in Washington D.C.
Filmmaker Valerie Lapin Ganley will be on hand and will also report on the struggle of the hotel workers in San Francisco for a contract.
vlapin@aol.com
Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
2868 Mission St., at 25th, San FranciscoJuly 22 (Friday), 30 (Saturday) 7:00 PM $10.00
(No one turned away for lack of funds)
I, Candidate Upton Sinclair
Performed by Jay Martin
"In September everybody was saying we had the election ‘in the bag.’ Even our enemies conceded it; newspaper correspondents expressed their surprise at how leading businessmen gave up, saying there was no way to ‘stop Sinclair.’ All our friends took to calling me ‘Governor.’ But I said, ‘Wait, the fight hasn't begun yet.’"
Upton Sinclair ran for governor in 1934 with a plan to End Poverty In California. Supported by thousands of EPIC volunteers, he won the primary but lost the election.
Jay Martin performs excerpts from Upton Sinclair's memoir I, Candidate for Governor, and How I Got Licked.
EXIT Theatre (Reservations: 415-673-3847)
156 Eddy St., San Francisco
www.theexit.orgJuly 22 (Friday) 7:30 PM
Wobblies A graphic history of the Industrial Workers of the World
Edited by Paul Bohle and Nicole Schulman
Labor historian Paul Buhle will talk about the vibrant history of the "Wobblies" through the use of art and stories in his new book.
"Wobblies" which was published this year for the centenary of the founding of the IWW includes the stories of Elisabeth Gurley Flynn, Emma Goldman, John Reed alongside the witchhunts, mob lynching of labor organizers and revolts will be brought to life at this book reading.
http://www.codysbooks.com/
Cody's Bookstore
2454 Telegraph Ave. BerkeleyJuly 23 (Saturday) 11:00 AM Free
Labor Maritime History Walk (Repeat of 7/17)
With Louis Prisco
A four-hour walk along San Francisco's Waterfront, revisiting the terrain of the maritime strikes and general strike, which established organized labor on the West Coast. We will stop at the sites of major events: including the burning of the "Blue Books," Battle of Rincon Hill and scene of the fatalities on "Bloody Thursday," July 5, 1934. The walk will be free, but a $3.00 pamphlet with a map is also available. Each walk will be limited to 20 persons.
Harry Bridges Plaza
In front of Ferry Building, San Francisco
Reservation required (limited to 20)
Call (415) 841-1254 to make reservationJuly 23 (Saturday) 1:00 PM Free
Writing Workshop for Working People
By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Lauren Coodley
The stories and lives of working people have been hidden by the corporate controlled media to prevent a growing consciousness among labor. Labor writers and historians Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Lauren Coodley will conduct a workshop to show how working people can write about their lives for themselves and others. Telling your story is part of the need to liberate the truth.
EXIT Theatre
156 Eddy St., San FranciscoJuly 23 (Saturday) 8:00 PM $10-20 (Sliding Scale)
Zapatista Strippers, Revolutionary Who...
By Sex Workers Organized For Labor, Human And Civil Rights and the Erotic Service Providers Union
Live Performance-Theater-Dance-Spoken Word
A performance with Isis Rodriguez and Daisy Anarchy
Two long-time San Francisco sex worker labor activists and performers challenge the stereotypes people hold of sex workers with an educational, entertaining and thought-provoking show.
Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
2868 Mission St., at 25th, San FranciscoJuly 23 (Saturday), 29 (Friday) 7:00 PM $10.00
(No one turned away for lack of funds)
Will Draw For Food
& Chile Con Amy
Monologue Performed by Dan McHale & Kristian Ruggieri
What does an animator do when he's laid off in San Francisco? He goes to South India of course! Will Draw for Food is about animating cartoons, writing songs and dodging falling coconuts. In Chile Con Amy, a Habitat For Humanity volunteer takes us with her to Chile, where she strives to cope with one extremely difficult fellow American.
EXIT Theatre (Reservations: 415-673-3847)
156 Eddy St., San Francisco
www.theexit.orgJuly 24 (Sunday) 7:30 PM $8 - $12 (Sliding scale)
100 Years of Struggle - A Celebration of the IWW and the American Labor Movement
Features a reading by noted writer Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (Red Dirt and Outlaw Woman) with music by Folk This! and members of Berkeley's Allegro Non Troppo opera company, plus special guests Dave Rovics and others.
La Pena Cultural Center
3105 Shattuck at Prince, BerkeleyJuly 26 (Tuesday) 7:30 PM $5 - 15 donation (Sliding scale)
52nd Anniversary of the start of the Cuban Revolution
Work and Revolution
Intersection Independent Press Spotlight on two worker-run collectives: Freedom Voices Press and AK Press- Book Reading and Dramatization.
The evening is a dynamic dialogue between two grass roots presses via a featured reading and Intersection stage enactment from each press on the theme of work and revolution. Both presses are celebrating their 15-year anniversaries! Margot Pepper will shed light on working in Cuba with excerpts from her new memoir, Through the Wall: A Year in Havana (FV May 1, 2005).
http://www.freedomvoices.org
http://www.theintersection.org
Intersection for the Arts
446 Valencia (between 15th /16th St.) SFJuly 27 (Wednesday) 7:30 PM $5.00
Latin American Working Class Film & Video Festival
National Stadium (No English subtitles)
By Carmen Light Parot, (90 min.) Chile
Between September and November of 1973 in Chile, the national stadium was turned into a concentration camp for more than twelve thousand people. Survivors, the military and journalists reconstruct those dark days.
Paso a las Luchadoras (Open The Road to The Women Fighters)
(with English subtitles)
By Ojo Obrero, (30 min.) 2004, Argentina
Thousands of Women in Argentina have taken up the struggle for liberation by their own hand. This film focuses on seven women whose day-to-day struggles against sexism takes in all aspects of life.
www.ojoobrero.org
Humanist Hall
370 27th Street, Oakland, near BroadwayJuly 28 (Thursday) 7:00 PM $5.00
Latin American Working Class Film & Video Festival
Cronicas De Libertad (No English subtitles)
By Grupo Alavio, 50 min. Argentina
This video shows the movement of the Piqueteros who have shaken the roots of Argentina in the struggle to defend their lives.
http://www.revolutionvideo.org/alavio/ (Spanish)
http://www.revolutionvideo.org/alavio/englishhome.html (English)
Street Love (Amor de La Calle)
(English Subtitled)
By Asa Faringer, (71 min) Mexico)
This film shows the organizing efforts of sex workers in Mexico and how their efforts to fight exploitation run into battle with the police and the authorities.
Desterro (No English subtitles)
By Eduardo Walls, 18 min. Brazil
This video is about the 1894 federalist revolution in the south, President Floriano Peixoto organizes mass repression to stop the revolution. In Desterro, the state capital the population lives terrified as summary executions occur against the people.
Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
2868 Mission St., at 25th, San FranciscoJuly 29 (Friday) 7:00 PM $5.00
Latin American Working Class Film & Video Festival
La Rebelion de los Colgados (Rebellion of the Hanged)
Based on B. Traven’s novel
By Alfredo B. Crevenna, Emilio Fernandez
Fiction, (84 min.) 1954 (no English subtitles) Mexico
This important film chronicles peonage and debt slavery under the Porfirio Diaz rule in Mexico. Chiapas peasants were driven into the forests to cut down the mahogany trees. Failure to reach the quotas meant that the men were hung from the trees. This leads to a militant rebellion in the labor camps and haciendas and this little known film shows the real causes of the Mexican revolution.
Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
2868 Mission St., at 25th, San FranciscoJuly 30 (Saturday) 12:00 noon $15.00 - $50.00
(No one turned away for lack of funds.)
Labor History Bicycle Tour
Local historian and activist Chris Carlsson will conduct a bicycling Labor History tour. Covering the early 8-hour day movement, through the ebb and flow of class struggle that shaped San Francisco in the 19th century, it focuses on the important intersection of human labor and the urban landscape, broadening labor history into an inquiry into ecology and transit and how we collectively shape our physical environment. The tour provides a detailed look at the famous 1934 strike, what led to it, and what it led to, the rise of the ILWU, its storied history and crucial role in the political and economic life of San Francisco, and its surprising role at the fulcrum of globalization. Finally, Carlsson's own history of co-publishing the infamous underground financial district magazine Processed World will add an awareness of contemporary labor realities seldom heard among the club of labor historians...
Meet at 12 noon at CounterPULSE, 1310 Mission Street at 9th.
A sliding scale donation of $15-50 is requested to benefit CounterPULSE, a nonprofit arts organization that hosts Shaping San Francisco.
Reservations required: call 626.2060.
carlsson.chris@gmail.comJuly 30 (Saturday) 5:30 PM Free
Book Reading
The Land of Orange Groves and Jails - Upton Sinclair’s California
Professor Lauren Coodley reads from her newly acclaimed book "The Land of Orange Groves and Jails/Upton Sinclair’s California". Coodley is an active member of the AFT and activist for labor rights including the fight against Wal-Mart.
EXIT Theatre
156 Eddy St., San FranciscoJuly 31 (Sunday) 10:00 AM $15.00
"New Deal" Structures Bus Tour
With Harvey Smith & Gray Brechin
You will learn about the major contribution construction workers made during the depression era New Deal program in the building of San Francisco. Their monuments stand as important landmarks for all working people
SCHEDULE
9:30 AM - Assemble at Aquatic Park
10:00 AM - Depart for Rincon Annex - View lobby and Murals; View Treasure Island (across the bay)
10:30 AM - Depart for Sunshine School (Bryant & 25th) via the old Federal Building - View interior of Sunshine School
11:15 AM - Depart for the Former SF State Normal School/UC Extension Campus
12:30 PM - Depart for Beach Chalet - View mural, mosaics and wood carvings, and have a beer or soda
2:30 PM - Return to Aquatic Park
(Times are approximate, depending on traffic and how long we talk to the horses.)
Meet at the bottom corner of Aquatic Park Hyde & Jefferson
(Reservation required: call (415) 642-8066)
Make reservation and send check to LaborFest, P.O. Box 40983, SF, CA 94140
(Sandwiches and drink will be available on the bus)July 31 (Sunday) 7:00 PM Free
Closing Musical Theater Poetry Party
Join with the many poets, artists and singers as we celebrate the final day of LaborFest 2005.
Women’s Building (The location has been changed from New College to Women's Building)
3543 18th St. at Valencia, San Francisco
