BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:www.indybay.org PRODID:-//indybay/ical// v1.0//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:Indybay-18682307 SEQUENCE:18764810 CREATED:20110619T150900Z DESCRIPTION:9:30 - 11:00 AM (3rd floor Room A)\nBreaking Through, Discovering the Riches Within by Allan McDougall\nAllan McDougall who was a hard rock United Steelworkers miner from Canada and now works for the USW Emergency relief team which helps workers who are injured or killed on the job. We get a real look at the life of the hard rock miner in today’s world. Facing an addiction to alcohol because of the work and the stress McDougall breaks his addiction and in the process transforms himself. \n\n9:30 - 11:00 AM (3rd floor Room B)\nShe Was One of Us: Eleanor Roosevelt and the American Worker by Brigid O’Farrell\nThis biography is about the role of Eleanor Roosevelt in the battles in the midst of the depression and attacks on workers rights. She used her position as wife of the president to support labor and human rights struggles throughout the US and for that she was hated by those who wanted to break unions. Her friends included Rose Schneiderman of the Women’s Trade Union League and a leader of New York garment workers and the garment unions and Walter Reuther, “the most dangerous man in Detroit” to the bosses.\nhttp://www.bofarrell.net/index.html\n\n10:00 - 12:00 Noon (1st floor Theater)\nPanel \nThe Attack On Public Education and The Lessons of The Struggle of UC UAW 2865 \nWith Jessica Taal, Head Steward, UC Davis and Katy Fox-Hodess, UC Berkeley\nThe continuing attack on public education, including the drive to privatize California’s university system, is threatening not only the rights of working class students to go to the\nuniversity but also the lecturers and educational process. This forum will look at the crisis in education and how this has reflected in the struggle within the 12,000 member statewide UAW 2865 lecturers local.\n\n11:00 - 12:30 PM (3rd floor Room A)\nThe Power of Literature of Radical Labor in Oklahoma\nWith Rachel Jackson and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz\nOklahoma has a militant labor history that has been buried by the corporate media and politicians both in Oklahoma and nationally. As a result of the formation of LaborFest Oklahoma, the real history of the working people and farmers is now being presented. These panelists will discuss this history and its relevance today.\nhttp://www.facebook.com/OklahomaLaborfest\n\n11:00 - 12:30 PM (3rd floor Room B)\nThe Civil Wars in US Labor \nby Steve Early \nLong time labor writer Steve Early covers the growing internecine warfare developing within the SEIU and the internal divisions that erupted between the SEIU’s leadership led by Andy Stern and SEIU UHW led by Sal Rosselli. Tied up in this crisis is the growing attack labor faces including the failure of the Democrats to pursue EFCA after promising that this would be one of their top issues. The book looks at the causes of these internal divisions and also the cost of this civil war within labor which still continues.\nhttp://www.haymarketbooks.org/pb/The-Civil-Wars-in-US-Labor\n\n12:30 - 1:45 PM (1st floor Theater)\nConcert \nIn Commemoration of the 125th Anniversary of May Day and the Battle At Haymarket\nWith The Troublemakers Union Band \nMay Day is a seminal event for working people around the world and it started in the fight for the 8 hour day in Chicago. The role of immigrant workers was also key at the time and is important today. They organized and fought for justice and strong unions on the job. \nThe SF Bay Area’s own TROUBLEMAKERS UNION presents “international music for human rights.” Jazz, rumba, rap, blues, nyabinghi, samba, funk and bomba...the T.U. brings the world together for peace and global justice.\nhttp://www.myspace.com/the-troublemakers-union\n\n2:00-3:00 PM (Suggested donation #5.00 to LaborFest) (2nd floor Gallary) \nLearn by Suing\nPerformance and Discussion by Jay Martin\nWith a layoff looming in 2008, Jay Martin looked at the law. 60-day\nnotice, it said. Jay became the lead plaintiff in a class action\nagainst his former employer, an experience more about phone calls than\ncourtrooms. Jay appeared previously in LaborFest reading Upton\nSinclair's memoir "I, Candidate." This year, learn what Jay learned\nabout the law that protects workers during a mass layoff, the WARN\nAct.\n\n2:00 - 3:30 PM (1st floor Theater)\nWoody Guthrie, American Radical by William Kaufman\nWoody Guthrie made a major contribution to working class music and culture in the US and the world. \nThis book provides an inside view of the intersection between Guthrie as an artist and labor troubadour and his political perspectives and collaborations. This is an important critical work on how one of the most powerful political artists in America drew from its tremendous working class history and wove that into his writing. His words and songs are a breath of fresh air and his work remains a force today.\nhttp://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/65gpr5rm9780252036026.html \n\n2:30 - 4:00 PM (3rd floor Room A)\nRebel Rank and File by Cal Winslow\nReviving The Strike by Joe Burns\nPanel on how unions can reorganize and rebuild.\nThe growing attacks on labor and the internal battles are forcing working people to look at new ways of fighting back for survival within their unions and against the bosses offensive.\nThese two authors have written about some of these internal struggles and how workers can fight back using the lessons of the past. Included is the use of secondary strikes and why the Taft-Hartley which bans these must be challenged.\nhttp://www.versobooks.com/books/282-282-rebel-rank-and-file\nhttp://www.revivingthestrike.org/\n\n2:30 - 4:00 PM (3rd floor Room B)\nTrampling Out the Vintage by Frank Bardacke\nA dramatic new history of César Chávez and the rise and fall of the United Farm Workers. Trampling Out the Vintage is the authoritative account of the rise and fall of the United Farm Workers and its most famous and controversial leader, César Chávez. Based on many years of interviews—with farm workers, organizers, and the opponents and friends of the UFW—the book tells a story of collective action and empowerment rich in evocative detail and stirring human interest. Beginning with the influence of the ideas of Saul Alinsky and Catholic Social Action at the union’s founding, through the UFW’s thrilling triumphs in the California fields, the drama concludes with the debilitating internal struggles that left the union a shadow of its former self.\nhttp://www.versobooks.com/books/800-trampling-out-the-vintage\n\n4:00 - 6:00 PM (3rd floor Room A)\nA Trial in Summer 2011 by Ann L. McLauglin\nThis novel is about the daughter of a judge who arrives in San Francisco with her father in 1939 for the trial of ILWU longshoreman and union leader Harry Bridges. The government was seeking to expel Bridges for his alleged lies about membership in the Communist Party when he applied to become a citizen. \nhttp://www.danielpublishing.com/jdforthcoming.html \n\n4:00 - 6:00 PM (3rd floor Room B)\nWorking Class Wordplay-Spoken Word Performers\nWorking class poets and musicians speak truth to power in the struggle for survival in a depression and open class warfare.\nSpoken word & music performers\nDee Allen, Jack Hirschman, Steven Gray, Carol Denney, Edward Frank, Muteado Silencio, Mitch Park \nSee also:\nhttp://www.laborfest.net/2011/2011Bookfair.htm\nhttp://www.laborfest.net/2011/2011schedule.htm \n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/06/19/18682307.php SUMMARY:Laborfest: Bookfair Readings & Music LOCATION:Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts\n2868 Mission St., at 25th St, San Francisco. 24th St BART URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/06/19/18682307.php DTSTART:20110724T163000Z DTEND:20110725T013000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR