LaborFest

Schedule:

11:00 am - 1:00 pm: Revolutionary Poets: Fighting Techno Fascism

Join Us With Workers Rights Reading!

Featuring: Dee Allen, Sarah Menefee, Roarrschock, Karen MM, Poets of the Revolutionary Bridge and more.

Location: North Beach Library – 850 Columbus St. San Francisco

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm: Play – Seven Jewish Children: A Play for Gaza

(Zoom event)

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.

Location: Online

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm: 14th Annual San Francisco Living Wage Coalition Awards Dinner
(entrance on Kansas Street, between 16th and 17th Streets)
Street parking available, wheel-chair accessible

Honorees:
Labor Woman of the Year award – Kim Evon, Executive Vice President, Service Employees International Union Local 1021.

Labor Man of the Year award – David Williams, retired member, Service Employees International Union Local 1021.

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 – $60 per ticket in advance or a group rate of $400 for eight tickets in advance bought before July 15. $70 per seat at the door. We have special sponsorship levels and congratulations in the printed program if received by July 12.

Location: SEIU Local 1021 hall – 350 Rhode Island, San Francisco

6:30 pm - 9:30 pm: Film "The Revolt Of The Good Guys" by Sensible Cinema

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.

Location: Film showing at First Unitarian Universalist Church – 1187 Franklin St, SF