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Participating artists: Mike Alewitz, Rachel Breen, Keith Christensen, Olivia Levins Holden, Juxtaposition Arts youth, Carolyn Olson, Mike Rivard, and Brooks Turner Organized by Keith Christensen in conjunction with members of the Remember 1934 Collective

Participating artists: Mike Alewitz, Rachel Breen, Keith Christensen, Olivia Levins Holden, Juxtaposition Arts youth, Carolyn Olson, Mike Rivard, and Brooks Turner Organized by Keith Christensen in conjunction with members of the Remember 1934 Collective

2024 San Francisco LaborFest; NOTE: 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT (3-5p EDT); FREE, ONLINE This year is the 90th anniversary of both the Minneapolis Teamster General Strike and the San Francisco General Strike. This panel will look at the victories and lessons of those strikes for today. Panel: Professor Peter Rachleff – Co-Executive Director of the East Side Freedom Library, and a retired professor of history at Macalester College in the St. Paul, Minnesota specializing in United States labor, immigration and African American Keith Christensen – St. Cloud State University Emeritus, Designer & Artist, Remember ’34 Collective Gifford Hartman – Labor historian, LaborFest Committee

NoVa Labor Book Club: The Hammer Tuesday July 2 at 7:30 pm The Hammer by Hamilton Nolan

Participating artists: Mike Alewitz, Rachel Breen, Keith Christensen, Olivia Levins Holden, Juxtaposition Arts youth, Carolyn Olson, Mike Rivard, and Brooks Turner Organized by Keith Christensen in conjunction with members of the Remember 1934 Collective

San Francisco LaborFest NOTE: 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT (4-6p EDT); FREE Readers from the group share poetry, memoir, fiction and nonfiction during a live event at the renowned San Francisco bookstore – Bird and Beckett. Your chance to hear rabble-rousers, activists, leftist radicals, union members, immigrants, native-born and plain old trouble-makers read from their work. LaborFest Writers Group was formed in 2005 to honor labor and working people, and to provide a platform for writing that might otherwise go unheard. Their work gives voice to what has gone before and why we must confront new technologies that threaten to undermine our livelihood and rights. Their anthology, aptly titled “Giving Voice” reflects this mission. Current members of the group: Keith David Cooley, Margaret Cooley, Susan Ford, Jerry Path, Alice Rogoff, Robert Rubino and Nellie Wong.

Participating artists: Mike Alewitz, Rachel Breen, Keith Christensen, Olivia Levins Holden, Juxtaposition Arts youth, Carolyn Olson, Mike Rivard, and Brooks Turner Organized by Keith Christensen in conjunction with members of the Remember 1934 Collective

San Francisco LaborFest NOTE: 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm PDT, FREE The American Dream. It used to mean a job, a house, a car, a spouse, 2.5 kids, and a .4 dog. But what does it mean now? For Gabriel Pearce, a Black man tired of liberal failures, on the day after the presidential election it means victory! Giving up on progressivism wasn’t easy, but casting his vote for a Conservative who promise to be grateful could mean a dream come true. However, for his daughter Paine – a teacher at a university caught between protesting students and threats to funding – it’s a nightmare! Or was the lost election just a dream? Or will A.I. catch fire, like Oliver sees in his nightmares? Do androids dream of electronic voting? Can we create the utopia of justice activist student Emma hopes for, or is the present just a dream within a dream within a dream. But whether you’re asleep or Woke what some see as nightmares others see as… American Dreams.

Participating artists: Mike Alewitz, Rachel Breen, Keith Christensen, Olivia Levins Holden, Juxtaposition Arts youth, Carolyn Olson, Mike Rivard, and Brooks Turner Organized by Keith Christensen in conjunction with members of the Remember 1934 Collective

San Francisco LaborFest 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm PDT; FREE Walk with Gifford Hartman (about 2 hours) Ninety 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. 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.

San Francisco LaborFest 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm PDT, FREE Ninety years ago. San Francisco’s class relations were transformed by the General Strike. This commemorative event “Bloody Thursday” (this year it’s on Friday), when police shot more than five dozen and killed two strikers, catalyzing a spontaneous work stoppage that paralyzed most of the Bay Area. (the “official” General Strike only lasted 4 days). Learn how the 34 strike canoes through history and the International Longshore and warehouse Union. This represents an essential example of 20th century labor history, Automation, multi-tiered and solidarity among waterfront workers continue to shape our work today, whether port workers, UPS and us in between and at either end of this complex system. Speakers: Joel Schor – former sailor and current ILWU Local 10 member Samantha Levens – International Transport Federation Inspector No. Cal and IBU Member Gifford Hartman – Labor Educator Hosted by Shaping San Francisco and Left by the Bay

Participating artists: Mike Alewitz, Rachel Breen, Keith Christensen, Olivia Levins Holden, Juxtaposition Arts youth, Carolyn Olson, Mike Rivard, and Brooks Turner Organized by Keith Christensen in conjunction with members of the Remember 1934 Collective

San Francisco LaborFest 10:30 am - 12:30 pm PDT (7:30A-9:30A EDT), FREE; ONLINE VIA ZOOM The destruction of workers in Southern African including in South Africa and Namibia is escalating. Workers are being forced into contract labor which was the type of labor under apartheid conditions. These panelists will report on the fight against union busting and also the role of contract labor in destroying unions and working conditions. Speakers: Marcia Kauatjitotje – Fired union steward at Namibia Husab mine Eagle Nightwatch Security. Edwardo Baptista – Fired Mineworkers Union Of Namibia President at Rossing Mine in Namibia Patrick Bond – University of Johannesburg Professor and Labor Researcher and Activist Mametlwe Sebe – President of General Industrial Union of South Africa GIWUSA

San Francisco LaborFest 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm PDT, $25 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. Shaping San Francisco is asking for a donation of $25~$50. (Donation to Shaping San Francisco) (Limited capacity, RSVP required. Please contact: shaping@foundsf.org For more information: (415) 608-9035. RSVP required: shaping@foundsf.org

San Francisco LaborFest https://laborfest.net/event/racism-labor-and-white-supremacy/ This panel will look at the historic struggle against white supremacy in the labor movement and the growth of fascism in the US today. There has been an escalation of hanging noose incidents and racist attacks in the workplace and community. It will look at how unions like the ILWU have fought systemic racism by direct action and the jobs and the growing threat of a fascist government and what unions and working people need to do to confront this deadly danger and the threat of civil war. Speakers: Clarence Thomas – ILWU 10 Secretary Treasurer Retired Chris Silvera – IBT 808, New York

Participating artists: Mike Alewitz, Rachel Breen, Keith Christensen, Olivia Levins Holden, Juxtaposition Arts youth, Carolyn Olson, Mike Rivard, and Brooks Turner Organized by Keith Christensen in conjunction with members of the Remember 1934 Collective

San Francisco LaborFest 2:30 pm - 5:00 pm PDT, FREE https://laborfest.net/event/sweden-worker-rights-the-struggle-at-tesla/ With Jordin Williams and Carlos Reymon Gabriel Today the Tesla service workers in Sweden who are members of IF Metall union have been on strike since October 2023 against the billionaire union buster Elon Musk. Their union sees the struggle as a fundamental and existential struggle to defend union rights in Sweden and the Netherlands. Many other workers including metal workers, dockers and even postal workers are refusing to deliver cars and even mail. Speakers: Jordin Williams – A Swedish American trade unionist who will report on this strike and the lessons for Swedish and US workers who want to organize Tesla workers at Fremont and throughout the country. At Fremont Musk fired 700 workers who wanted a union, conspired to avoid workers compensation and has systematically discriminated against women and Black workers. Carlos Reymon Gabriel – Fired Tesla worker at Fremont, California Sponsored By Tesla Workers Solidarity Network https://www.instagram.com/tesla_worker_solidarity/

Participating artists: Mike Alewitz, Rachel Breen, Keith Christensen, Olivia Levins Holden, Juxtaposition Arts youth, Carolyn Olson, Mike Rivard, and Brooks Turner Organized by Keith Christensen in conjunction with members of the Remember 1934 Collective

San Francisco LaborFest (Zoom event) ILWU, the longshore union, has been one of the most militant unions when it comes to solidarity actions. Beginning with the 1984 anti-apartheid boycott of a ship from South Africa this presentation will include film footage of the Liverpool, England dockers struggle (1995-1998,) the Charleston 5 Campaign against union busting (2000), the (2003) anti-war protest in the port of Oakland, the (2010) Boron lockout, (2011) Export Grain Terminal in Longview, Washington and the solidarity actions for the Palestinian people from (2010-2024)

Participating artists: Mike Alewitz, Rachel Breen, Keith Christensen, Olivia Levins Holden, Juxtaposition Arts youth, Carolyn Olson, Mike Rivard, and Brooks Turner Organized by Keith Christensen in conjunction with members of the Remember 1934 Collective

Participating artists: Mike Alewitz, Rachel Breen, Keith Christensen, Olivia Levins Holden, Juxtaposition Arts youth, Carolyn Olson, Mike Rivard, and Brooks Turner Organized by Keith Christensen in conjunction with members of the Remember 1934 Collective

San Francisco LaborFest (Presentation) The introduction of UBER and Lyft has decimated the taxi industry and led to a massive growth of the gig economy in the US and internationally. Now Google with Waymo, GM with Cruise and other companies are developing autonomous vehicles in San Francisco and California. The use of AI and the internet are critical to this development and this event will look at this technology and the future of drivers and Teamsters. Speakers: Mark Gruber– Taxi Workers Alliance, San Francisco Edwardo Escobar – Alliance For Independent Workers Susan Vaughan – Educator, transit expert & advocate for public transit Danny Roberts – Videographer on platform workers in San Francisco

Participating artists: Mike Alewitz, Rachel Breen, Keith Christensen, Olivia Levins Holden, Juxtaposition Arts youth, Carolyn Olson, Mike Rivard, and Brooks Turner Organized by Keith Christensen in conjunction with members of the Remember 1934 Collective

San Francisco LaborFest Book reading of “Postcards to Hitler” by Bruce Neuburger An intimate and dramatic narrative history of Munich residents Benno and Anna Neuburger and their circle of relatives and friends drawn from family stories, interviews, and archival documents, including those from the Gestapo and the Nazi People’s Court. Postcards to Hitler follows the arc of history, from a “Golden age” of Jewish accomplishment in Germany to the depth of mass murder: A portrayal of the rise of racist antisemitism and fascism in the years that encompassed two world wars. It is the story of resistance that contradicts the myth of German Jewish passivity to Nazi oppression. Discussion following the author’s presentation might open up topics that bear on what we see unfolding in the U.S. and the world today as genocide and fascism once again become loathsome features of our world! “If Benno’s story has any broader importance, it is that the desire, means, and courage to resist oppression exists even in the most repressive societies. And such resistance is never futile.”

San Francisco LaborFest FREE (Panel discussion) Public workers are under attack in San Francisco, the US and the world. The privatization of all public services are at epidemic proportions and in San Francisco, so called “non-profit” workers are cleaning so called business districts and maintaining and doing public work. Speakers will look at the attack on public services and how “non-profits” are being used to undermine the public sector while destroying the conditions of these workers. Speakers: Cheryl Thornton – SF SEIU 1021 Community Healthcare V. Chair Cristine Guiterrez – RUF Monique Flambures – SEIU 2015 non-profit worker Brad Weidmaier – SEIU 2015

San Francisco LaborFest FREE (Zoom event) The ongoing battle to prevent the development by UC of People’s Park in Berkeley continues. The park was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and an important Court of Appeal victory was won. However, UC appealed the court decision to the State Supreme Court and simultaneously subverted the court victory by getting the legislature to pass a bill to undermine it. Construction is halted until the court issues its decision. Organizing strategies are still being pursued to protect the park from destruction by 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 also talk about how privatization is pushing the monetization of the public assets of the University and how this process has become a national trend. 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

Participating artists: Mike Alewitz, Rachel Breen, Keith Christensen, Olivia Levins Holden, Juxtaposition Arts youth, Carolyn Olson, Mike Rivard, and Brooks Turner Organized by Keith Christensen in conjunction with members of the Remember 1934 Collective

San Francisco LaborFest FREE (Zoom event) (Presentation) The political and economic attack on public education is escalating under agencies called the FCMAT (Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team) and ACCJC (Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior College). These entities have no real oversight and have been used to attack urban school districts and push charters and privatization throughout the state. Speakers: Madeline Mueller – CCSF Music Dep. Chair Rick Baum – CCSF Lecturer & AFT 2121 Member Dr. Kitty Kelly – Education Professor Taj Powell – Stop Warren Lane Closure Committee, Inglewood and others Sponsored By Higher Education Action Team (HEAT) www.ccsfheat.org

Participating artists: Mike Alewitz, Rachel Breen, Keith Christensen, Olivia Levins Holden, Juxtaposition Arts youth, Carolyn Olson, Mike Rivard, and Brooks Turner Organized by Keith Christensen in conjunction with members of the Remember 1934 Collective

San Francisco LaborFest Walk with Harvey Smith 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. The tour will also include the California Folk Music Project, the Western Museum Laboratory site, the old UC Press Building, and WPA prints from the Berkeley Public Library. The tour will conclude on the UC Berkeley campus to view the incredible WPA mosaic mural and to learn about the range of WPA projects on the UC campus. For more info: 510-684-0414

San Francisco LaborFest FREE (Presentation) The development of AI and robotics threatens millions of jobs. This meeting will look at what AI is and what it means for the working class and the public. A study of Goldman Sachs said that 350 million workers will lose their jobs globally. Many workers are already being affected as AI is introduced in healthcare, education, construction, logistics and public services. Speakers: Hazar Yueksel – Research Scientist, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Semiconductors Jim Araby – Strategic Campaigns Director at UFCW Local 5 Cheyn Anders – Member of No Tech For Apartheid, and a former member of Alphabet Workers Union (prior to being terminated) Kemly Camacho – Professor at the University of Costa Rica and the Technological Institute of Costa Rica, Cooperative Sulá Batsú Sponsored by LaborNet

FREE (Zoom event) The AFL-CIO since its formation has been tied to the Israeli trade union called Histadrut. This union grouping has been central in not only supporting the Israeli state but also operated internationally to support the South African apartheid regime and intervene in countries around the world. In collaboration with the CIA and AFL-CIO leadership, it has also trained AFL-CIO Solidarity Center staff at the Histadrut for international operations. Speakers: Carol Lang – CUNY Professor & AFT PSC Delegate Lisa Milos – UCSF Interpreter UPTE Member & UPTE Members For Palestine Kim Scipes – Professor Emeritus, Author and others Sponsored by LEPAIO

Participating artists: Mike Alewitz, Rachel Breen, Keith Christensen, Olivia Levins Holden, Juxtaposition Arts youth, Carolyn Olson, Mike Rivard, and Brooks Turner Organized by Keith Christensen in conjunction with members of the Remember 1934 Collective

San Francisco LaborFest FREE Walk with David Schooley Labor unionists and environmentalists both confront the same commercial interests. In 1968, David Schooley chained himself to a bulldozer at the foot of the San Bruno Mountain. The activism of David and many other community members was crucial in protecting much of the mountain, allowing for the creation of the public park where working people can find tremendous beauty and peace nearby the cities where they live and work. 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. Limits to 10 people To sign up-call: 415-467-6631 or email: info@mountainwatch.org

San Francisco LaborFest With Jimmy Kelly and others: The Woody Guthrie sing-along on July 14th 2024 will celebrate the works of one of America’s greatest singer-songwriters on what would’ve been his 109th birthday! Co-sponsored by AFM

Angel Island Immigration Station has an important history in California of immigration and labor. Many immigrants from around the world were held at the station and screened with many discriminatory rules particularly against Chinese and Asians. It also was the location of the deportation trial of ILWU leader Harry Bridges. This history will be part of this LaborFest event. 12:00 Noon: The Harry Bridges Trials; A Talk By Harvey Schwartz, ILWU historian, about the 1939 Bridges deportation hearing on Angel Island. ILWU International historian Harvey Schwarz will present on the history of the 1939 Harry Bridges deportation trial at Angel Island. He will discuss the ramification of that trial and what was driving it. 1:00 PM: Labor & California As A Slave State; by Jean Pfealzer, Professor Emeritus: Jean Pfealzer, author of California: A Slave State and Driven Out The Forgotten War against Chinese Americans will discuss the history of slavery in California including the role of Angel Island in the importation of Chinese women and other workers who were forced into slave labor. She will also talk about the Chinese railroad workers which lead the first strike in California. 2:00 PM: History of discrimination against Chinese and the growing xenophobia; SFSU Professor Russell Jeung, SFSU Asian American Studies and is co-founder of Stop AAPI Hate will speak about the history of discrimination against Chinese and the growing xenophobia and attacks on Asians in the United States.

Participating artists: Mike Alewitz, Rachel Breen, Keith Christensen, Olivia Levins Holden, Juxtaposition Arts youth, Carolyn Olson, Mike Rivard, and Brooks Turner Organized by Keith Christensen in conjunction with members of the Remember 1934 Collective

FREE; Zoom event (Zoom event) With AL Stein: This panel will draw upon the experiences of two historians who have written administrative and cultural histories of the New Deal, by focusing on Frances Perkins, FDR’s Secretary of Labor (1933-1945) who was an advocate for workers rights, and the pro-labor legislation passed by the Roosevelt administration during the Great Depression. We will also examine how workers’ stories were recorded by the WPA Federal Writers Project. Panel: Christopher N. Breiseth – Historian/ National New Deal Preservation Association Dr. Jerrold Hirsch – Professor Emeritus of History, Truman State College. Author: “Portrait of America: A Cultural History of the Federal Writers Project,” will discuss “Labor Lore” and The Federal Writers Project. https://uncpress.org/book/9780807854891/portrait-of-america/ Commentator – Harvey Schwartz – Labor historian

Participating artists: Mike Alewitz, Rachel Breen, Keith Christensen, Olivia Levins Holden, Juxtaposition Arts youth, Carolyn Olson, Mike Rivard, and Brooks Turner Organized by Keith Christensen in conjunction with members of the Remember 1934 Collective

Part of the San Francisco LaborFest - The organized effort to target and retaliate against professors and students in the United States who are critical of Israel is going on at many colleges. Organizations funded by millionaires and billionaires such as the “The Canary Mission” and Turning Point USA are part of this organized retaliation. This panel will look at where and how this is taking place throughout the country and what to do about it. Speakers: Professor Howard Pflanzer – CUNY Rabab Abdulhadi – SFSU CFA SFSU AMED Studies Sang Hea Kil – SJSU CFA SJSU Danny Shaw – Formerly at John Jay College, CUNY Sponsored by WorkWeek

Participating artists: Mike Alewitz, Rachel Breen, Keith Christensen, Olivia Levins Holden, Juxtaposition Arts youth, Carolyn Olson, Mike Rivard, and Brooks Turner Organized by Keith Christensen in conjunction with members of the Remember 1934 Collective

Part of the San Francisco LaborFest - Community media is critical to get voices out from labor and working class communities. 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. The threat of fascism may also result in the shutdown of KPFA and Pacifica. Pacifica which KPFA is part of is under present review and surveillance by the government because of a complaint to the FCC by some members of KPFA. Speakers: Fadi Saba – CTA Chapter President CTA Luther Burbank Education Association-School District Lisa Milos – UCSF UPTE Member, UPTE Members For Palestine Sposored by: San Jose Peace Center www.sanjosepeace.org Rescue Pacifica https://rescuepacifica.net

Participating artists: Mike Alewitz, Rachel Breen, Keith Christensen, Olivia Levins Holden, Juxtaposition Arts youth, Carolyn Olson, Mike Rivard, and Brooks Turner Organized by Keith Christensen in conjunction with members of the Remember 1934 Collective

A weekly radio show celebrating the cultural heritage of the American worker. Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant and produced by the Labor Heritage Foundation; broadcast on WPFW 89.3FM Podcast version available at 2p: https://yourrightsatwork.podbean.com/

Part of the San Francisco LaborFest - In 2010, a commemoration was held of the merger between the Black and White local of the Musicians union in San Francisco. This panel will look at that history and screen the video with musicians participants in that documentary history “Commemoration of a Merger”. We will also have a discussion and music. Admission $10 suggested donation (no one turned away for lack of funds) Sponsored by LaborFest, AFM, Tenderloin Museum

Participating artists: Mike Alewitz, Rachel Breen, Keith Christensen, Olivia Levins Holden, Juxtaposition Arts youth, Carolyn Olson, Mike Rivard, and Brooks Turner Organized by Keith Christensen in conjunction with members of the Remember 1934 Collective

Part of the San Francisco LaborFest - Join Us With Workers Rights Reading! Featuring: Dee Allen, Sarah Menefee, Roarrschock, Karen MM, Poets of the Revolutionary Bridge and more.

(Zoom event) Part of the San Francisco LaborFest - 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. Performed by Beth Griffith, directed by Howard Pflanzer, this play provides a unique perspective on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. After the play, there will be a discussion.

Part of the San Francisco LaborFest - 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. Described as the largest wildcat strike in U.S. history, this action resulted in a raise, collective bargaining, and respect for the rank and file letter carriers in New York as well as the United States. In the film we will see an ultimate act of civil disobedience against the Federal Government forcing President Nixon to the bargaining table to address what had been a decades long struggle for equality and respect, and shaping a brighter future for themselves and for those who came after them. After the screening there will be a discussion and Q&A. You can also join by Zoom:

Participating artists: Mike Alewitz, Rachel Breen, Keith Christensen, Olivia Levins Holden, Juxtaposition Arts youth, Carolyn Olson, Mike Rivard, and Brooks Turner Organized by Keith Christensen in conjunction with members of the Remember 1934 Collective

Part of the San Francisco LaborFest - 10:00 AM Meet at St. Joseph the Worker Church 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 walk will explore the many locations where activists lived and the houses that were home to experimental communes. We will briefly explore the political and social roots of these causes, the intervening backlash, and the lasting influence of the counterculture movements of the ‘60s. The route is entirely level and wheelchair accessible.

Part of the San Francisco LaborFest - Zoom Event The man-made railroad derailment in East Palestine, Ohio has left the residents and workers with serious health conditions, the loss of their healthcare and no compensation to move out of their homes which have been contaminated with vinyl chloride. Railroad workers were also contaminated along with EPA workers, and the government is still allowing Norfolk Southern bosses and other railroads to have almost daily derailments threatening communities and railroad workers throughout the country. At the same time, residents of Hunters Point Shipyard and Treasure Island in San Francisco have discovered that they have radioactive isotopes in their bodies and workers at UCSF Animal Center have been sickened by the radioactive dump site. They are continuing to fight for healthcare and compensation for all the residents and workers and a criminal cover-up of this radioactive and toxic waste dump that continues to poison and harm people. 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. Speakers: Chris Albright – East Palestine, Ohio resident and LIUNA 1058 member Jami Rae Wallace – Unity Council For East Palestine Train Derailment, former member SEIU 1199 Executive Board Cleveland, Ohio Dr. Ahimsa Sumchai – Founder of Hunters Point Community Biomonitoring Program & advocate for community Dr. Ray Tomkins – Research scientist and investigator of conditions of Hunters Point Arieann Harrison – Community Foundation for Social and Environmental Justice Stella Miranda – Wife of injured UCSF Animal Facility in Hunters Point who was contaminated Carol Harvey – Investigative reporter San Francisco Bay View on Treasure Island

Part of the San Francisco LaborFest - (Zoom event - Click Registration Button and scroll to bottom of page.) Curated by AL Stein 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. Featuring Studs Terkel narrating The Memorial Day Massacre, Woody Guthrie songs and Will Geer (The Waltons) in The Fight For Life (1940) www.documentary.org/parelorentz Stein is co-editor of The Great Depression And The New Deal: A Thematic Encyclopedia [2 volumes, ABC-CLIO, 2009] https://publisher.abc-clio.com/9781598841558/ www.abc-clio.com

Part of the San Francisco LaborFest - For the Union Makes Us Strong! – A Night of Solidarity Song Join us for an inspiring night of working-class music, with performances by outstanding Bay Area choral groups. These include picket line favorites The Freedom Song Network, South African/Civil Rights ensemble Vukani Mawethu, La Peña Community Chorus with freedom songs of the Americas and, the night’s honorees, Pat Wynne and the Rockin’ Solidarity Labor Heritage Chorus. Come, sing along and sing out for freedom!

Part of the San Francisco LaborFest - 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 legislator at the Buenos Aires Province Regional Parliament, and a professor at the University of Buenos Aires, will be speaking about the current struggles in Argentina against the Milei reactionary government and its alliance with Yankee imperialism. Professor Kane will inform us about how the working class and its allies are fighting back against the neoliberal measures that IMF, World Bank, USA and the EU are trying to impose in Argentina. He will be also presenting his book ”La Crisis Del Imperio Norteamericano de Trump a Biden” (The Crisis of The American Empire From Trump to Biden) an excellent analysis of the current state of affairs of the US Empire in the world vs. the working class and the exploited classes, and the USA vs. China, Russia, European Union and others. Habrá traducción al español

Participating artists: Mike Alewitz, Rachel Breen, Keith Christensen, Olivia Levins Holden, Juxtaposition Arts youth, Carolyn Olson, Mike Rivard, and Brooks Turner Organized by Keith Christensen in conjunction with members of the Remember 1934 Collective

Part of the San Francisco LaborFest - At: The First Unitarian Universalist Church (the chapel) 1:00 – 4:00 PM Report Back and Panel Discussion from Labor Notes Conference/Area Organizing Campaigns This year’s Labor Notes Conference in Chicago, combined with the Great Labor Arts Exchange, hosted almost five thousand people, with thousands more turned away. Attendees returned tremendously energized by this outpouring of worker militance and creativity. Join Peter Olney, Organizing Director Emeritus of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and invitees UNITE HERE Local 2, S.F. Jobs with Justice, East Bay DSA and other workers’ organizations in motion to capture this wave, and see where it will take us. Do you like the union? Yes! 5:00 – 8:00 PM Solidarity on Stage – An Evening of Labor Storytelling The right-wing would silence working people’s voices – we lift them up and celebrate them, in all their multicultural glory. We will hear from working-class novelist Michael Dunn, picket-line chant leader Bill Shields, area spoken word artists and, our headliners, the domestic workers theater troupe, La Colectiva de Mujeres Original. ¿Se puede? ¡Si, se puede! For more information, contact Bill Shields at billshieldssf@gmail.com

Part of the San Francisco LaborFest - At: San Francisco Labor Archives, 4th Floor of the J. Paul Leonard Library on the San Francisco State University, 1630 Holloway Ave. “San Francisco Reds – California Communism and Its Afterlives” by Professor Robert W. Cherny In Discussion With Steve Zeltzer of WorkWeek, Pacifica and KPOO 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. Cherny’s work talks about the early growth of the party in California and the role of the trade union and class struggle particularly in the San Francisco 1934 general strike. The presentation will starts with slid show. He also writes about the political twists and turns of the Soviet Union’s communist party and how their political changes reflected itself in California members of the Communist Party. Book review: by Matt Ray and Matthew Wranovics …………………………………………………….. Also the Labor Archives has an exhibition which attendees can view. Labor Archives and Research Center Exhibition: Fields of Struggle: Agricultural Laborers in California, 1939-1966 Curated by Digital Archivist Leah Sylva, this exhibit examines the tensions and solidarity between distinct groups of migrant agricultural laborers, with an emphasis on the Bracero Program and the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC), drawn from the photographs, documents, audio, video, and artifacts of the Henry P. Anderson Papers. WHERE: Labor Archives and Research Center, Room 460, 4th floor of the J. Paul Leonard Library at San Francisco State University Parking: Metered and free parking is available on Holloway Ave. Public transit: Muni M line or 28, 28R Line from Daly City Bart to the corner of Holloway and 19th Avenue.

(Zoom event) Part of the San Francisco LaborFest - Alcatraz Tour workers have been fighting for a union contract for decades and faced one union busting attack after another. This panel of Alcatraz Tours workers will talk about their struggle for justice and workers rights on the job through their struggle to get a contract with the company and IBU Bay Area.

Participating artists: Mike Alewitz, Rachel Breen, Keith Christensen, Olivia Levins Holden, Juxtaposition Arts youth, Carolyn Olson, Mike Rivard, and Brooks Turner Organized by Keith Christensen in conjunction with members of the Remember 1934 Collective

Participating artists: Mike Alewitz, Rachel Breen, Keith Christensen, Olivia Levins Holden, Juxtaposition Arts youth, Carolyn Olson, Mike Rivard, and Brooks Turner Organized by Keith Christensen in conjunction with members of the Remember 1934 Collective

(Zoom event) Part of the San Francisco LaborFest - With Ashley M. Gjøvik, EPA, OSHA Whistleblower and Fired Apple senior engineering program manager 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. She went to EPA and had also been harassed and retaliated against on other issues including improper spying on her. She filed complaints with the EPA, Federal and Cal-OSHA and many other agencies and eventually filed a RICO complaint against Apple. She discovered they were releasing fumes from a silicon manufacturing facility close to her apartment and the homes of others. She also discovered that Apple had hired former Obama director of the EPA Lisa Jackson to run the Environmental and Government relations for Apple. She will report on the systemic violations of health and safety, labor and human rights by Apple and what it means to working people and organizing at Apple.

Participating artists: Mike Alewitz, Rachel Breen, Keith Christensen, Olivia Levins Holden, Juxtaposition Arts youth, Carolyn Olson, Mike Rivard, and Brooks Turner Organized by Keith Christensen in conjunction with members of the Remember 1934 Collective

Participating artists: Mike Alewitz, Rachel Breen, Keith Christensen, Olivia Levins Holden, Juxtaposition Arts youth, Carolyn Olson, Mike Rivard, and Brooks Turner Organized by Keith Christensen in conjunction with members of the Remember 1934 Collective

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(Location to be announced) Part of the San Francisco LaborFest - 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 is a member of the Workers Party in Argentina, an elected Deputy in the Buenos Aires legislature and a professor at Buenos Aires University. He and his party is also a member of the Workers Left Front. He will report on the formation of the Workers’ Left Front. How it was organized and the struggle to defend against Milei and his supporters including the US government and IMF which are demanding the imposition on a draconian program for the working people of Argentina. He will also report on the role of the US in Latin America including the AFL-CIO which supported the 1972 coup in Chile and coups in Brazil and Argentina in 1976 and a possible plans for a coup in Argentina.

The 90th commemorative events of the Minneapolis Truckers’ Strike of 1934 will be held in the Twin Cities from May-July, 2024. These include exhibitions, film screenings, music, and a picnic gathering. Film screenings of labor history and contemporary issues in the Pohlad Theater • Labor’s Turning Point, The most distinguished documentary film about the 1934 strike. 1981, 43 m, Director: John DeGraaf • Breaking Walls, The film is on artist Mike Alewitz’s mural project with Palestinian construction workers in the Occupied Territories. 2004, 44 m, Director: Jonathan Ben Efrat • Dissent Minnesota, Minnesota filmmaker Mike Rivard’s project about local, contemporary protests, 2024, 8 m • A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to Despair, Minnesota filmmaker Gus Ganley shares a film on the Teamster pension fund fight, 2021, 30 m ART EXHIBITION Participating artists: Mike Alewitz, Rachel Breen, Keith Christensen, Olivia Levins Holden, Juxtaposition Arts youth, Carolyn Olson, Mike Rivard, and Brooks Turner Organized by Keith Christensen in conjunction with members of the Remember 1934 Collective

Part of the San Francisco LaborFest - At: ILWU Local 6 – 99 Hegenberger Rd. Oakland There are less than 200 OSHA inspectors for the 18 million workers of California. The Covid pandemic led to the deaths of many workers at food processing companies like Foster farms and many nursing homes because of a failure to provide PPE and educate the workers. Additionally seriously injured workers face a gauntlet of obstacles getting prompt medical treatment and compensation. 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. They will report on this crisis and how it is destroying workers and their families. Speakers: Injured Workers Unite Desiree Rojas – President, Labor Council For Latin American Advancement Sacramento Chapter, and others Sponsored by WorkWeek

Part of the San Francisco LaborFest - 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, 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.

The 90th commemorative events of the Minneapolis Truckers’ Strike of 1934 will be held in the Twin Cities from May-July, 2024. These include exhibitions, film screenings, music, and a picnic gathering. Speakers, music, exhibits, food +

Part of the San Francisco LaborFest - At: ILWU Local 6 – 99 Hegenberger Rd. Oakland The massive investment and speculation around AI and robotics is already having a major effect for workers in California. Following the UPS contract, over 20,000 workers were terminated without compensation, and the company plans to eliminate 100,000 UPS Teamsters. In San Francisco, Governor Newsom and the legislature have allowed the unregulated introduction of Google Waymo autonomous vehicles that will replace all taxi and UBER Lyft drivers and delivery workers. Workers in the entire logistics chain including ILWU & ILA longshore, teamsters, railroad workers are also faced with the elimination of large number of jobs and increasing stress and pressure on those workers remaining on the job. Big data and algorithms are now at the center of this drive for greater profits by the massive elimination of millions of workers. Speakers: John Palmer – IBT Teamster Vice President At Large Adrienne Williams – Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR), Former Amazonia Organizer San Leandro Peter Racioppo – UCLA UAW 4811 Member & AI Mark Gruber – San Francisco Taxi Workers Alliance

Part of the San Francisco LaborFest - 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 supporting the call of the Palestinian trade union movement for a blockade of all trade and cargo to Israel along with military and economic aid by the US. They are also calling for a break by the AFL-CIO with their relationship with the Israeli trade union federation the Histadrut. Panelists will speak about the labor actions now and what is needed to stop the genocide. Speakers: Clarence Thomas – ILWU 10 Retired Secretary Treasurer Jack Heyman – ILWU10 Retired Peter Racioppo – UCLA UAW 4811 Jose Negrete – Member IBT Local 952 & Mobilizer Lisa Milos – UPTE UCSF Member and Interpreter Rosa F Villarroel – RN UCSF Mission Bay & Union Nurses For Palestine/Healthcare Workers For Palestine Fadi Saba – Luther Burbank Education Association CTA/NEA President

Part of the San Francisco LaborFest - Meet at: ILWU Sculpture at Mission & Steuart, SF 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.

Part of the Minneapolis Truckers’ Strike of 1934 90th commemorative events.

Part of the San Francisco LaborFest - 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. 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, Bob Churney, Harvey Smith and others. We will have musicians on the boat trip. ………………………………………………… 5:45 PM boarding, 6:00 PM departure Blue & Gold Fleet at Pier 41 (scheduled at gate 1-in case of change, we will let you know ) Boat leaves promptly at 6:00 PM (Boat can’t wait because of the gate schedule, so please arrive there at least 30 minutes before the boarding time to allow yourself time to locate the correct gate. ) Tour lasts 3 hours and come back to Pier 41 by 9:00 PM Some food will be available for free, however, for those who need to be cautious, or special diet, please bring your own food. There is a no host bar. Mask is not required, however, we suggest you to bring it and wear it inside the boat, except when you are on the outside deck. ………………………………………………… To make your reservation: By E-mail: laborfest@laborfest.net or call: (415) 642-8066 Let us know the following information 1) Your name 2) Phone number (cell # prefer) 3) Number of your party Then, mail a check ($50/person)(under the age of 12 – $25, under 6 is free) to: LaborFest P.O. Box 40983, San Francisco, CA 94140 ……………………………………………… We will let you know as soon as we receive your check. We don’t send out tickets, but you just come to Pier 41 on July 28. You look for a LaborFest person who is handing out tickets at the gate. You need to get your tickets at the gate before boarding, but don’t go to the Pier 41 ticket booth (because this is a chartered boat).

Tuesday July 30 at 7:30 pm The Bee Sting by Paul Murray