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DESCRIPTION:With Karin Hart of the Labor Studies Program at Laney College and Gifford 
 Hartman of the Flying Picket Historical Society. This walk will revisit the 
 sites of Oakland’s “Work Holiday” that began spontaneously with 
 rank-and-file solidarity with the striking  mostly female­ retail clerks 
 at Kahn’s and Hastings department store whose picket line was being 
 broken by police scab herding. Within 24 hours, it involved over 100,000 
 workers and shut down nearly all commerce in the East Bay for 54 hours. 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 general strike to ever occur in the U.S. and the 
 walk and history talk will attempt to keep alive the memory of this 
 tradition of community-wide working class solidarity.  This is a free 
 event.\nSponsored by Laney College Labor Studies and the Flying Picket 
 Historical Society. \nSee 
 also:\nhttp://www.FlyingPicket.org\nhttp://laney.peralta.edu/apps/comm.asp?Q=30153\nhttp://www.laborfest.net/2009schedule.htm\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/06/21/18603258.php
SUMMARY:Laborfest: 1946 Oakland General Strike Walk
LOCATION:Meet at the fountain in Latham Square at Telegraph and Broadway, Oakland, 
 the intersection where Telegraph and Broadway converge across from the 
 Rotunda Building (Oakland City Center/12th St. BART).\n\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/06/21/18603258.php
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