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DESCRIPTION:This extraordinary full day book fair, videos, music and poetry reading is 
 free.  \nSCHEDULE\nMain gallery\n9:30 AM \nMark Evans speaks on Stopping 
 The Presses, The Murder Of Walter W. Liggett by Marda Liggett 
 Woodbury.\nOne of the hidden stories of the 1930’s was the murder of 
 journalist and muckraker Walter W. Liggett. \n\n10:30 AM \nJeanetta Calhoun 
 Mish will read from her new book of poetry, Work Is Love Made Visible; she 
 will also share writings by other contemporary Oklahoma writers and a 
 selection of Woody Guthrie's work.\nMish is a founding member of the Woody 
 Guthrie Poets at the Woody Guthrie Free Folk Festival in Okemah, 
 Oklahoma.\n\n1:00 PM Panel Discussion\nThe Struggle In The SEIU and The 
 Crisis In Labor\nWith labor journalist Steve Early, SEIU 521 Vice President 
 Wren Bradley, writer Michael Yates, writer Randy Shaw and Al Rojas.\nThe 
 internecine crisis wracking the trade union movement including the 
 trusteeship of SEIU UHW and the raid of UniteHERE by the SEIU is now 
 tearing the labor movement apart. This forum will discuss what is taking 
 place, why it is taking place and where it is going.\n\n2:30 PM Panel 
 Discussion\nWomen Organizers During the 1930s & 1940’s\nWith Elisabeth 
 Martinez, Julia Stein, Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, Jeanetta Calhoun Mish and 
 others.\nWomen workers during the depression and the 1930’s and 1940’s 
 were battling for justice and survival. This panel will discuss who some of 
 these women workers were and what they did to build the labor 
 movement.\n\nTheater\n9:30 AM \nMichael Yates on Why Unions Matter.\nYates 
 in this important book shows that the vehicle for fundamental change rests 
 within the labor movement. He acknowledges the weaknesses of labor but 
 proposes that labor must rebuild its power by building a broad working 
 class movement that can confront the control of capital.\n\n10:30 AM \nby 
 Zeese Papanikolas\nBuried Unsung: Louis Tikas and the Ludlow 
 Massacre\nPapanikolas work focuses on Louis Tikas, a Greek immigrant and 
 union organizer killed in the Ludlow massacre in Colorado in 1914. The 
 fight he led for justice and labor rights cost him and many other 
 immigrants their lives, and this work illuminates that part of hidden 
 history.\n\n12:00 Noon Video Screening\nLabor Imperialism, Corporate 
 Unionism And the SEIU (2008) (59 minutes) by the Labor Video Project\nThis 
 video focuses on the June 2008 convention of the SEIU in San Juan Puerto 
 Rico and the protests by Independistas, the Puerto Rican teachers union 
 FMPR and the battle on the floor of the convention over union democracy and 
 the merger agenda of the SEIU.\n\n1:00 PM Poets and Musicians \nPoets 
 Avotcja, Julia Stein, Alice Rogoff, Jeanetta Calhoun Mish and others. 
 \n\n2:30 PM Panel Discussion\nDeath on The Job And The Workers of 9/11\nBy 
 Daniel Berman , John Sferazo and Mike Daly.\nDaniel Berman, author of Death 
 on the Job will join with Iron Worker and IOUE member John Sferazo who was 
 a first responder at the 9/11 attack and Ironworkers Local 377 member Mike 
 Daly on the lessons for health and safety of 9/11 and the crisis in OSHA 
 and workers compensation for injured workers.\n\nSmall Gallery\n9:30 AM 
 \nJack Rasmus on the Epic Recession And Financial Crisis: Prelude To Global 
 Depression\nHis prescient perspective about where the economy has been and 
 where it is going is a framework for understanding the nature of the 
 attacks that working people are facing.\n\n10:30 AM \nAlicia Lutz-Rolow on 
 The Plane Truth \nAMR Airline Safety Compromised by Executive Greed: The 
 Disturbing Firsthand Story of an American Airlines Flight Attendant\n\n1:00 
 PM \nJeffrey B. Perry on Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 
 1883-1918\nHubert Harrison was an important figure in the Black working 
 class in America and Perrry’s book influenced many including A. Philip 
 Randolph and Marcus Garvey. He was “a freethinker and early proponent of 
 birth control, a supporter of Black writers and artists...”\n\n2:30 PM 
 \nMichael Perleman on The Invisible Handcuffs of Capitalism: How Market 
 Control Undermines the Economy by Stunting Workers\nPerleman has been 
 exposing the contradictions in the system and the reason that capitalism is 
 now destroying the the lives of millions of working people and their 
 families.\nSee 
 also:\nhttp://www.laborfest.net/2009/Bookfair.htm\nhttp://www.laborfest.net/2009schedule.htm\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/06/22/18603356.php
SUMMARY:Laborfest: Book Fair, Videos, Music & Poetry Reading
LOCATION:Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, 2868 Mission St., San Francisco 
 (24th St BART)\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/06/22/18603356.php
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