San Francisco 30th Annual LaborFest

Schedule

July 1, 2023

3:00 pm - 5:00 pm: Non-profits, Public Workers & Labor

More and more public jobs are being siphoned off to non-profits with business districts, HealthRight 360 and more City jobs. These workers are paid 30% to 50% less than public workers and in some cases work with City workers doing the same work. This panel will look at the effect on workers and the public.

Speakers:
Brenda Barros, SEIU 1021 SF General Hospital Chair
Cheryl Thornton, SEIU 1021 Community Healthcare VP
Christina Guiterrez, Community Activist
Brad Weidmaier, CCSF Homecare Worker

Location: 474 Valencia Street SF

July 2, 2023

10:00 am - 12:00 pm: 1934 San Francisco General Strike Walk & Presentation

Meet at Harry Bridges Plaza south side Tower – Embarcadero at Market St., SF

Eighty-nine years ago, 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. We will look at the causes of the 1934 General Strike, why it was successful, and how the issues from that strike are still relevant to working class people today. The current movement against police murder of black and brown people can draw lessons from the way strikers invited black workers into their ranks to prevent racist exclusion from breaking their strike. We explain how an 83-day West Coast Waterfront Strike exploded into the 4-day General Strike that paralyzed all commerce in San Francisco. This tour will visit the sites of those events.

Location: Ferry Building & The Embarcadero, Harry Bridges Plaza

12:00 pm - 4:00 pm: Labor History Bike Tour

Labor History Bike Tour by Chris Carlsson
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. SF’s radical working-class organizations are shaped in part by racist complicity in genocide and slavery, but from the 1870s to the 1940s there are dozens of epic battles between owners and workers, culminating in the 1934 General Strike and its aftermath. This is an entirely different look, during a four hour bike tour, at San Francisco labor history.

Tour starts at 518 Valencia St. near 16th St.

Tour ends at Spear and Market.

Location: 518 Valencia, San Francisco, CA 94140

July 3, 2023

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm: Julian's Birthday To Free Julian Assange

Join the rally for free Julian Assange.
Meet at Harry Bridges Plaza, North side tower
The Embarcadero & Market Street, San Francisco.

Rally  On Julian’s Birthday To Free Julian Assange & CWA NABET IFJ Journalist Mumia Abu-jamal

Journalist and publisher Julian Assange has been imprisoned in the UK for charges of espionage in the US for publishing WikiLeaks and faces extradition to the US,  and this is a threat to all journalists. The San Francisco Labor Council has supported him as well as journalists around the world. Even the New York Times, The Guardian and Washington Post are calling for his freedom since they could also be prosecuted.

The International Federation of Journalists is supporting Assange and also calling for the freedom of journalist Mumia Abu-jamal who was a reporter at Philadelphia public radio and NPR where he provided commentaries. He has also won a Peabody award for his work.
Journalists and defenders of the rights of all journalists here and around the world will be speaking out.

Location: Ferry Building & The Embarcadero, Harry Bridges Plaza

July 4, 2023

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm: SF Mime Troupe “Breakdown” Opening Day

For most of the citizens of increasingly intolerant San Francisco a young woman like Yume living on the streets seems “crazy,” but maybe Yume is just ahead of the curve. Unbalanced? Unhinged? Nuts? In a country that has clearly lost its mind, what do any of those words mean anymore? As her social worker tries to navigate the Kafkaesque labyrinth of city bureaucracy Yume is on her own quest to regain what has been taken from her.

But up-and-coming FOX News commentator Marcia Stone has no problem with being at the vanguard of driving the nation around the bend. It’s her key to getting a nightly slot on the network, and if she can give her viewers a focus for their fear, a hellhole of depravity and failed policies so much the better! And where better than the filthy, dangerous streets of San Francisco to illustrate for her bosses and audience the depths to which the progressives have dragged us? If only she could find a person on those streets… someone to personify America’s…Breakdown.

BREAKDOWN - A New Musical is
Written by: Michael Gene Sullivan with Marie Cartier
Director: Michael Gene Sullivan
Music & Lyrics: Daniel Savio
Music Director: Daniel Savio

The show runs 80 min. – no intermission.

Full schedule at: https://sfmt.org

Location: Dolores Park, San Francisco, CA

July 5, 2023

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm: Photo Exhibit to Honor The Workers Who Built San Francisco

Photo exhibit
“Who Built The Bay” with Iconic labor photographer Joseph Blum.

Join labor process photographer Joseph Blum as he talks about the work he has done or decades to show the labor of construction workers who built the Bay Area.

Location:
Charlie's Cafe, 3202 Folsom street, Precita, San Francisco, 94110

July 6, 2023

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm: Recent Victories in the Fight to Save People’s Park

The ongoing battle to prevent the development by UC of People’s Park in Berkeley continues unabated. Although we have won an important court of appeal victory and achieved the listing of the park on the National Register of Historic Places, People’s Park is still not protected from the construction of a huge student housing project and the paving over with hardscape, despite the need for open space in the densest part of Berkeley. This Zoom panel will talk about how the privatization is pushing the monetization of the public assets of the University and how this process has become a national trend. Community action and legal strategies to prevent the imminent destruction of People’s Park by the UC Berkeley will be discussed.

Speakers:
Harvey Smith, People’s Park Historic District Advocacy Group
Charles Wollenberg, former Chair of Social Sciences and Professor of History, Berkeley City College
Joe Liesner, Food Not Bombs
Hali Hammer, Musician Activist

Location:
Online

July 8, 2023

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm: Mumia Abu-Jamal and His Case

Hybrid meeting

The Labor Action Committee to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal (LAC) cordially invites you to a panel discussion to launch a new book on the Mumia Abu-Jamal case written by his former attorney, Eliot Lee Grossman. Mr. Grossman represented Mumia, with his colleagues Marlene Kamish, British barrister Nick Brown, and J. Michael Farrell, from  2001-2003, and saved his life by convincing a federal judge to overturn his death sentence, a decision later upheld on appeal.

The panel includes attorney Rachel Wolkenstein who, as head of the Partisan Defense Committee, brought Mumia’s case to national and international prominence, represented Mumia from 1995-1999 with co-counsel Jonathan Piper, and investigated, discovered and developed new evidence of Mumia’s innocence. Ex-Black Panther Gerald Smith will also speak on behalf of the LAC.

Mumia who was on Philadelphia public radio and member of CWA NABET narrowly escaped execution for a crime he did not commit, but has been imprisoned for over 40 years despite his innocence. Mr. Grossman’s new book traces the history of Mumia’s case from December 9, 1981, when a white Philadelphia police officer was murdered and Mumia was shot, beaten by the Philadelphia police and framed for the killing, through trial, appeal, six state post-conviction petitions, and numerous appeals to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and U.S. Supreme Court, to the present and continuing struggle to Free Mumia!

Copies of the book will be available for sale and signing by the author. Join our panelists to discuss how the labor movement and its allies can revitalize the international campaign to Free Mumia Now!

This event will also be broadcast on Zoom. Zoom link will be sent out later.

Speakers:
Eliot Lee Grossman, attorney for Mumia Abu-Jamal, 2001-2003
Rachel Wolkenstein, attorney for Mumia Abu-Jamal, 1995-1999
Gerald Smith, Labor Action Committee to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal

Location: Maritime Museum

July 9, 2023

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm: Labor History Talks – “Harry Bridges: Labor Radical, Labor Legend”

Join us in the Maritime Museum on Sunday, July 9 at 2:00 PM for the inaugural talk in a new Labor History Talks series with Professor Robert W. Cherny, author of the new biography “Harry Bridges: Labor Radical, Labor Legend.” Professor Cherny will be in conversation with labor historian and curator, Harvey Schwartz, PhD.

Robert W. Cherny is professor emeritus of history at San Francisco State University. He has written extensively on U.S. history and politics, and is part of the Living New Deal project.

Harvey Schwartz is a renowned U.S. labor historian and has written many acclaimed books. His focus has been especially on 20th century West Coast labor history.

Harry Bridges was a legendary figure in the labor movement, helping to lead the International Longshoreman’s Association (ILA) and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU).

Location: Maritime Museum, 900 beach St., SF 94109

July 11, 2023

5:30 pm - 7:00 pm: Book reading: “California, a Slave State” by Jean Pfealzer

California owes its origins and sunny prosperity to slavery. Spanish invaders captured Indigenous people to build the chain of Catholic missions. Russian otter hunters shipped Alaska Natives and launched a Pacific slave triangle to China. Plantation slaves were marched across the plains for the Gold Rush. Kidnapped Chinese girls were sold in caged brothels in early San Francisco. Indian boarding schools supplied new farms and hotels with unfree child workers.

Jean Pfaelzer’s new book California, a Slave State (Yale University Press, June 2023) upends our understanding of slavery as a North-South struggle and reveals how the enslaved in California fought, fled, and resisted human bondage. The book exposes how California’s appetite for slavery persists today in a global trade in human beings lured by promises of jobs in sweatshops and marijuana grows, or sold as nannies and sex workers. Pfaelzer shares her unyielding research and vivid interviews in this talk.

Jean Pfaelzer is a life-long Californian, public historian, author, and professor. She currently teaches American studies at the University of Delaware. Her books include Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans, listed on the NYT 100 Notable Books of the Year, 2007; Rebecca Harding Davis: Origins of Social Realism; and The Utopian Novel in America. Pfaelzer divides her time between Washington, DC and her family cabin in Humboldt County.

Location:
(Zoom event)

To register:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_lfjhVxEIQhuuYq2UpuP_Jw#/registration

July 13, 2023

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm: The Writers Strike, AI and The future of The Industry

Location: Tenderloin Museum

July 14, 2023

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm: Peru, Labor & US Invasion

Location: Zoom

July 15, 2023

9:45 am - 12:00 pm: WPA Berkeley Walk with Harvey Smith

This walk will explore the "New Deal nexus" in Berkeley that includes Berkeley High School, the Community Theater, Civic Center Park, Post Office art, the old UC Press Building (now repurposed as the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive), and the old Farm Credit Building. The tour will also include the incredible mosaic mural on the UC Berkeley campus, photographs of the California Folk Music Project, Western Museum Laboratory, WPA prints at the Berkeley Public Library, and WPA projects on the UC Berkeley campus.

For more info: 510-684-0414

Location:
Meet at the Main Berkeley Post Office – corner of Milvia & Alston.

10:00 am - 12:00 pm: Palestine Journalists, Educators & The US Labor Movement

The escalating attack on the Palestinian people and children also includes targeting of journalists and educators in the US. This panel will look at the case for justice for Palestinian American Al Jazeera journalist Sheena Abu Akleh, the fight for the SFSU AMED program and the fight within the labor movement.

Panelists include:
Tony AbuAkleh, Brother of Palestinian American Journalist Sheenna AbuAkle
Rabab Reehadi, Chair SFSU AMED Program
Lisa Milos, Member CWA UPTE UCSF
Dr. Cornel West, Author and Professor

Location: Online

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm: 50th Anniversary of Chile Coup, Labor Solidarity & AFL-CIO

Fifty year ago on September 11, 1973, a coup overthrew the Allende government and set up a rightwing military regime led by Pinochet. It was supported by Nixon and Kissinger and the leadership of the AFL-CIO, which funded and supported the coup. This history is still hidden.

ILWU longshoremen in the Bay Area took solidarity action by refusing to ship arms to Chile.

We will look at the history with people who have direct experience and the fight in the labor movement today to open the books of the AFL-CIO, compensate the families of trade unionists killed, and end the $75 million the AFL-CIO Solidarity Center receives from the US funded National Endowment For Democracy.

Guests:
Bob Carson, ILWU Local 34 who supported military boycott by longshore workers
Lisa Milos, member CWA UPTE UCSF
Ernesto Rojas Ubina, Director of Committee for Human and Union Rights CODESH Chile
Professor Ruth Needleman, Labor Education Project On AFL-CIO International Operations

Location: 518 Valencia St., SF

July 16, 2023

4:30 pm - 6:30 pm: What is Happening in Schools Serving the Working Class

Forum by HEAT (Higher Education Action Team) on privatization of education community colleges.

Big changes have been underway in community colleges that are restricting opportunities for working class students to get a well-rounded education in which they can take time to explore areas in which they have interests. Instead, to foster what is deemed to be “success,” students are under increasing pressure to declare a major, finish a program within two years, or take classes to be eligible to transfer to a four-year college. Programs taken for personal enrichment that do not lead to a certificate or degree such as older adult classes are being severely cut or eliminated.

The panel discussion will cover issues of concern that go beyond community colleges affecting public education. Among the topics to be covered are the new California state community college chancellor, various agencies that have a large impact on public education including the Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team (FCMAT) and the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC), privatization, online classes, large amounts of money for public education being placed into reserve accounts, and the role of teacher unions.

Panel Speakers:
Madeline Mueller, chair of the music department at City College of San Francisco (CCSF)
Jack Gerson, retired Oakland teacher
Kathleen Carroll,
Rick Baum, part-time Political Science Teacher at CCSF

Location: Online

July 17, 2023

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm: The Fight to End Two-Tier Contracts in Higher Education

HEAT (Higher Education Action Team) panel:

Two-tier contracts are detrimental to workers. In our higher education institutions, they harm both teachers and their students.

This Labor Fest panel will discuss efforts to end two-tier contracts in which equally qualified and experienced part-time instructors teaching the same classes as full-time teachers with tenure are often paid poverty-level wages, and many have no access to healthcare benefits through their college employers.

Also covered will be statewide efforts to bring about the desired changes, the role of teacher unions, and a description of the  Vancouver Community College where equal pay per class, equal benefits and equal job security have actually been achieved.

Shelbi Hataway – FT math professor at Palomar College and director of The Parity Project which supports the negotiation team to gain pay parity for adjunct faculty, improved part-time health care, office hours, and institutional responsibility with the support of the Palomar Faculty Federation (PFF).
Arnie Schoenberg  – PTer in anthropology in the San Diego Community College District and active member of the San Diego Adjunct Faculty Association (SDAFA) and the Campaign for Faculty Equality (CFE)

David Milroy – 30-year PT French teacher (retired) in San Diego County community colleges. Chair of the San Diego Adjunct Faculty Association (SDAF) and member of the steering committee for the Campaign for Faculty Equality (CFE).

Dr. Margaret Hanzimanolis – 30-year PTF member in English: taught in South Africa,  CA and VT; former AFT 3180 lead negotiator (VT  State Colleges, PTF); Co-founder (AFT PTF caucus and MLA committee on PTF); former officer (CPFA and Radical Caucus of MLA); member,  Campaign for Faculty Equality (CFE).

John Govsky – Associate faculty in Digital Media at Cabrillo College. Co-chair of the CFT’s One Faculty Task Force, chair of the CFT Part-time Faculty Committee, and a VP of the CFT.

Location: Online

July 18, 2023

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm: An Eye Towards Justice: The Photographs of Hansel Mieth and Otto Hagel

Curator Tour – by Labor Archives and Research Center Exhibition at: Special Collections Gallery, J. Paul Leonard Library, San Francisco State University – 1630 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94132

Hansel Mieth and Otto Hagel created a compelling body of work documenting the critical social transformations of the 20th century in the United States.  After emigrating to the United States around 1930 just as the Great Depression began, they became itinerant farm laborers, and this experience led them to believe the purpose of their photographic work was “to contribute to an understanding of the inequities of the world.”  The exhibition highlights their images of the economic hardships of the depression, the transformations to the Bay Area brought by World War II, communities and individuals standing up for justice, and longshore workers facing the impact of mechanization.

Exhibition generously funded by the Friends of the J. Paul Leonard Library.

For more info:  (415) 405-5571

Location:
SF State University

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm: Report on Argentina

Report on Argentina by Luciana Alterleib

Luciana Alterleib is a teacher and a member of the Partido Obrero in the Left Workers Front in Argentina. She teaches History in high schools in the city of Buenos Aires. She is a member of the ADEMYS trade union and a member of the workers organization Tribuna Docente. She produces the podcast “Desde el aula”.(From the classroom)

Location: Online

July 19, 2023

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm: Book Reading – "Labor Under Siege"

Big Bob—six-feet-four Robert McEllrath’s waterfront handle—was heralded for his powerful speaking style, charisma, unifying vision, and negotiating prowess. President of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) for twelve eventful years, McEllrath retired in 2018 after nearly forty years as a union officer. More than just a telling of a storied career, Labor under Siege explores how the influential union persisted in an era when the US labor movement was under attack and seemingly in retreat.

In the face of grave dangers since the 1980s, including threats from corporations, government authorities, law enforcement agents, and even other labor unions, the ILWU has persevered and retained its vibrancy. Offering insight into Big Bob’s leadership and a close-up view of how decision-making and policy were carried out to ensure the union’s survival, Labor under Siege shows how union officers and rank-and-file members shaped ILWU strategy and furthered the union’s legacy of advocating for workers’ rights, democracy, and justice.

Location: ILWU 34 hall – 801 2nd St., next to Oracle Park

July 20, 2023

5:00 pm - 6:30 pm: Cleophas Williams: My Life Story in the ILWU Local 10

“Cleophas Williams My Life Story in the Longshore & Warehouse Union Local 10” is a compilation of Williams’ writings selected by Clarence Thomas and edited by Delores Lemon-Thomas. Every effort was made to stay true to his original manuscripts:

“I write these memories speaking in my own name because I think the story should be told. I write them because there is universal silence about the contributions of Black Longshoreman on the West Coast, as though we never existed. People from many sources have come to me for interviews and I have given some. I have spoken into tape recorders for someone else to transcribe, but the story of my 38 years working as a longshoreman cannot be told orally in two hours with a professional writer. I am writing the story myself. I take responsibility for all errors and omissions. I have no axes to grind. I am comfortably retired with a good longshore pension and social security which I have a right to because I earned them.
I also write as a witness to one of the greatest stories ever told, ‘The ILWU Story.’ It is the history of a leader named Harry Bridges and a rank and file who supported his ideas and dreams and built the best union in the country. It is also about men who differed with Bridges and were unafraid to take him on.” -Cleophas Williams

Location: Tenderloin Museum, 398 Eddy St., SF

July 21, 2023

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm: Big Pharma, Biotech Leaks, Biotech Workers and OSHA

The biotech leaks continue to occur not only in China but also in the US. Despite the dangers to biotech workers in the United States, there are no enforced regulations for the hundreds of thousands of biotech workers in the United States, and OSHA does not even have a trained unit to deal with biotech releases according to former OSHA director David Michaels. There are less than 1900 OSHA inspectors for the entire United States which leaves protection of workers up to big pharma and other institutions running biotech labs.

Speakers:

Becky McClain, former Pfizer molecular biologist who was retaliated and fired for reporting biological leaks and was infected and sickened by biological material

Adam Finkel, Former OSHA official and Clinical Professor of Environmental Health Sciences at the University of Michigan School of Public Health
Sam Husseni, DC investigative journalist who has covered biotech accidents and the dangers to the public

Location: Online

6:00 pm - 9:00 pm: 14th annual SF Living Wage Coalition Awards Dinner

Ticket $35

Thirteenth Annual San Francisco Living Wage Coalition Awards Dinner on cultural and musical performances, as an online Zoom event. Take-out dinners can be picked up at San Jalisco restaurant at 901 South Van Ness Avenue at 20th Street (ph 415-648-8383) to help support a family-owned restaurant that has supported labor and the community.

Honorees: Labor Woman of the Year award – Sarah Souza, member of the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers (IFPTE) Local 21 and vice president of the San Francisco chapter of the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement AFL-CIO. Labor Man of the Year award – Alan Benjamin, member of Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU) Local 29 and former executive board member of the SF Labor Council.

The San Francisco Living Wage Coalition was born out of Labor’s efforts to work with the community in organizing non-union workers. These efforts included using legislative strategies to improve their wages and working conditions, building a workers movement and creating the conditions for unionizing. Our efforts initiated a movement that led to trail-blazing local wage and benefit laws and, in conjunction with unions, organizing drives and collective bargaining agreements.

The Living Wage Coalition’s current work are workshops and campaigns to organize workers and educate the community on a Five Point Program to reverse income inequality, including protecting and expanding union and public sector jobs; ending mass incarceration by the penal system; stopping the repressive immigration system; fixing a broken welfare-to-work system; and replacing free trade with fair trade.

Tickets – $35 per ticket in advance or a group rate of $250 for eight
tickets in advance bought before July 17.

Tickets are for a Zoom link and take-out dinner. We have special sponsorship levels and congratulations in the printed program if received by July 14.

6:30 pm - 9:00 pm: Sensible Cinema: "Brothers on the Line"

Brothers on The Line is an award-winning documentary exploring the extraordinary journey of the Reuter brothers (Walter, Roy and Victor) three prolific union organizers who helped build the United Auto Workers (UAW). Directed by Sasha Reuter (Victor’s Grandson) and narrated by Martin Sheen this film includes graphic archival footage, a pulsating soundtrack as well as first-hand accounts from labor, management and political personalities including one of the last interviews with Senator Ted Kennedy.

The film shows the behind the headlines of picket line conflict, assassination attempts and inter -union power struggle during this forty-year crusade that led to unionization of GM, Ford and Chrysler auto workers known as the United Auto Workers (UAW). Also, the film shows how the UAW played a major role in underwriting the Civil Rights Movement, the farmworkers fight led by Cesar Chavez and helped raise living standards not just for the millions of autoworkers but also for a large number of American workers.

The odyssey of the Reuter Brothers resonates far beyond their era as it remains an influential crusade that contributed to building a robust middle class while forcing American democracy to live up to its promise of equality.

Location:
At Unitarian Universalists of San Francisco – 1187 Franklin St., SF
(this showing is a Hybrid event – both virtual and at-the-church viewing)

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July 22, 2023

10:00 am - 12:00 pm: Labor, Ukraine, US Interventions & Asian Pivot

The US is spending trillions on the war machine with over $100 billion in the Ukraine and for military expansion around the world including in Asia where the US is building a new nuclear submarine base in Austrlia’s Port Kembla.

This panel will look at growing opposition wars and why labor and working people have no interest in funding and expanding war preparations and the 800 US military bases around the world.

Panelists:
Guillermo Kane, Workers Party, Buenos Aires Parliament Senator
Other panelists to be announced

Location: Online

3:00 pm - 5:00 pm: Presentation – Union Wages and Housing Development: San Francisco Waitresses and Saleswomen Living Downtown, 1910-1941

Longtime SF City Guide and professor of city & regional planning Linda Day shares her ongoing research on the San Francisco waitresses and saleswomen who lived downtown in the early 20th century, an overlooked segment of the Tenderloin population who deftly navigated organized labor and the neighborhood’s unique built environment to benefit greatly from union wages and affordable housing development.

San Francisco women entering the wage labor force as waitresses or saleswomen in the early decades of the twentieth century did not earn enough to live independently of family households, even though more than one-third were single, divorced, or widowed. Building on Paul Groth’s seminal book on life in residential hotels, Living Downtown, Day’s qualitative study links the achievement of union wages, enforcement of increasingly specific building codes, and privately developed single room occupancy hotels (SROs) and small affordable apartments to waitresses and saleswomen’s ability to live in safe, comfortable downtown housing. After being leveled by the earthquake and fires of 1906, San Francisco’s downtown was densely rebuilt with fire-resistant masonry buildings serving transients and workers. The Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union and the Department Store Employees Union Local 1100 archives, held by the San Francisco State University Labor Archives and Research Center, are a source of information about wages and work life. Information about downtown buildings was gleaned from archival and contemporary photographs, building and unit plans, Google Earth satellite views, and inspecting the apartment/hotel district buildings, most of which are still standing.

This event will be preceded by a special walking tour that focuses on sites significant to the labor movement in the Tenderloin. Attend one or both events, but capacity for the walking tour is limited, so register ahead of time via Eventbrite.

About the featured presenter:
Dr. Linda L. Day is an emeritus Professor of City and Regional Planning at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA; a contributing faculty member of Walden University, a planner; and an author who writes about cities. She received her master’s in architecture from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee and her Ph.D. in Urban Policy from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. Dr. Day has taught political science, public administration, and city planning. She has published two books, journal articles, and many blog posts. Dr. Day served on the Architectural Review Commission of the City of San Luis Obispo, California for four years, where she evaluated building and site design. Dr. Day recently published “This House is Just Right: A Design Guide to Choosing a Home and Neighborhood,” a homebuyer’s guide to choosing a higher density home in a location that is connected to job and activity settings by transit.

Location: Tenderloin Museum

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm: The Fight To Protect Laguna Honda Hospital, Labor, Healthcare, and Privatization

The threatened closure of San Francisco Laguna Honda hospital has exposed the dangerous and deadly crisis in our healthcare system. The forced discharge of patients led to the deaths of patients and residents and nursing homes owned by billionaires who fund the politicians are understaffed and a killing ground. This panel will look at the struggle to save Laguna Honda and the fight for a humane health system run and owned by working people.

Speakers:
Jeff Armstrong, Pacific Northwest Staff Union
Cheryl Thornton, SEIU 1021
Dr. William Bronson, Medicare For All

Location: Online

July 23, 2023

12:00 pm - 2:00 pm: San Francisco Immigration, Workers and Imperialism

Speakers:
Christina Guiterrez, Community Activist
Pierre LaBossier, Haiti Action Committee
Lucretia Bermudez, with Colectivo Kausachunnn.

Location:
474 Valencia St., SF

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm: LaborFest Writers Group

Readers from the LaborFest Writers Group share memoir, storytelling, oral history, and poetry. LaborFest Writers explore the issues that we face today within our families, communities, and government whether its health, housing, jobs, race and gender discrimination, or homelessness. The LaborFest Writers Group and Workshop was created to honor labor and working people and for “Giving Voice” like the title of the Group’s anthology.

Readers include:
Keith Cooley, Nellie Wong, Alice Rogoff, Robert Rubino, Jerry Path, and Margaret Cooley.

Zoom information:

Topic: LaborFest Reading 7-23-23
Time: Jul 23, 2023 02:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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Location: Online

July 24, 2023

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm: From Silicon Valley To Hunters Point, Whistleblowers, Workers & Residents

Speakers:
Ray Tomkins
Ashley Gjovik
Other speakers to be announced

Location: Online

July 25, 2023

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm: Play – The Judgement: AI Robojudge by Howard Pflanzer

Play “The Judgement: AI Robojudge” written by Howard Pflanzer.

Robojudge programmed by Artificial Intelligence is forced to testify, and then judge himself guilty or not, when the government finds classified material in his memory which he is unaware of. Manipulation of AI memory material is the key to this situation. Can the law be interpreted through the filter of AI and judgements be rendered by an algorithm? The play dramatizes this legal conundrum in a personal trial.

Location: Online

July 27, 2023

10:00 am - 12:30 pm: "Bloody Thursday" July 5, 1934 – Professor Bob Cherny SFSU Class

This is a class presentation by Zoom by Dr. Robert Cherny, San Francisco state University. https://www.campusce.net/sfsu/course/course.aspx?C=1010&pc=110&mc=0&sc=0

Fee $35 for SFSU

Since 1934, San Francisco union members have called July 5 “Bloody Thursday.” That day, police killed two union members and injured a hundred as longshore and maritime unions struggled to resist the Industrial Association, which had long prided itself on maintaining a union-free environment in San Francisco’s major industries. This course will review events leading up to July 5 and those that followed, including a four-day general strike that shut own nearly all economic activity in the city.

Location: Online

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade and Labor: A Discussion on Archie Brown and other organizers

Location: Online

5:30 pm - 7:30 pm: Revolutionary Poets

Poetry Reading: Global poetry for human rights and equality for all, with poets from the Bay Area, including the Revolutionary Poets Brigade:
Lisbit Bailey, Kristina Brown, John Curl, D.L. Lang, Karen Melander-Magoon, Sarah Menefee, Dorothy Payne, Roarschock, Nina Serrano, Raymond Nat Turner and others
Open mic follows

Location: at Tenderloin Museum

July 28, 2023

5:00 pm - 6:30 pm: Exhibition Opening – 1973 Durban Working Class Uprising against apartheid & 1984 ILWU Boycott Apartheid South African Cargo

This year is the 50th anniversary of the workers’ rebellion against apartheid in Durban, South Africa. This was the first most important workers struggle to smash the apartheid regime. Labor organizer, researcher and photographer David Hemson documented this. Also there will be a photo exhibition of the ILWU 1984 boycott of South African cargo at Pier 80 in San Francisco.

Location: ILWU Local 10, Henry Scmidt Room, 400 North Point St., SF

July 29, 2023

10:00 am - 12:00 pm: AFL-CIO, South Africa, Namibia, China, Privatization and Labor

The attack on workers in South Africa is escalating. The privatization of the wealth of South Africa and the sale of all the resources of Namibia from uranium and marble mines and ports  to Chinese state and private companies has led to frontal attacks on unions and their leaders.

Location: Online

12:00 pm - 2:00 pm: 1946 Oakland General Strike Walk with Gifford Hartman

This year is the 77th 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, where picket lines were broken by police-escorted scabs. Within 24 hours, it involved over 100,000 workers and shut down nearly all commerce in the East Bay for 3 1/2 days.
In 1946, there were six general strikes across the U.S.; that year set the all-time record year for strikes and work stoppages. The Oakland “Work Holiday” was the last citywide general strike to ever occur in the U.S. This history talk will attempt to keep alive the memory of this tradition of community-wide working-class solidarity.

Location:

Meet at the fountain in Latham Square, at the intersection where Telegraph and Broadway converge, across from the Rotunda Building (Oakland City Center/12th St. BART)

2:00 pm - 6:00 pm: LaborTech Conference – AI & Labor

LaborTech Conf. – Labor tech & AI drivers taxis, trucks, bulldozers operating engineers on the bulldozer. AI Entertainment, industry, workers from light scale labor, tech event, entertainment, industry and the lessons of the writers strike.

Location:
518 Valencia St., SF

July 30, 2023

11:00 am - 1:00 pm: Walk – Labor Politics & Architecture of San Francisco with Brad Wiedmaier

Walk with Brad Wiedmaier, retired member of SEIU 2015 & architectural historian.
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.
For more information call (415) 694-3605.

Location: ILWU Sculpture at Mission & Steuart, SF

6:00 pm - 9:00 pm: Labor Maritime History Boat Tour

Join the best labor maritime boat trip in the world as we go to historical sites on the bay and the Oakland container port. We will hear about our working-class history, and how the SF General Strike helped shape the character of San Francisco and the Bay Area with historians Gray Brechin, Harvey Smith and other historians. We will have musicians on the boat trip.

Location:
Pier 41, Gate 1, 94133

Date: July 1 - 30, 2023

Location: Various Venues in San Francisco, CA

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