LaborFest

Schedule:

10:00 am - 12:00 pm: Berkeley Radical 60s Walk

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.

Location: St. Joseph the Worker Church

11:00 am - 1:00 pm: From E. Palestine to Hunters Point/Treasure Island

(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 and 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

Location: Online

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm: The New Deal Film Festival: From the Workers Film and Photo League To The U.S. Film Service

(Zoom event)

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)

Location: Online

6:00 pm - 9:00 pm: Workers Voices, Workers power – Labor Song and Storytelling Festival

(Thomas Starr King Room)

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!

Location: The First Unitarian Universalist Church – 1187 Franklin St., SF

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm: Class Struggles in Argentina and U.S. Imperialism

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.
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Location: Medicine For Nightmares Bookstore