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DESCRIPTION:5th Annual LaborFest \nBook Fair & Poetry Reading\nJuly 22 (Sunday) 10:00 - 
 9:00 PM\n\n10:00 - 11:30 AM \n(3rd floor Room A)\nUndocumented Labor 
 Migration: The Trail of Globalization\nBy Sharat G. Lin\nThe surge of 
 undocumented immigration into the U.S. from 1994 onwards was a direct 
 consequence of the dumping of subsidized U.S. corn on the Mexican market 
 after the signing of NAFTA. Follow the migration trail from the villages of 
 Jalisco State to an increasingly militarized U.S. border to the fields and 
 worksites of California. Sharat G. Lin writes on global political economy 
 and labor 
 migration.\nhttp://www.sanjosepeace.org/article.php/20120126083538624\n\n(3rd 
 floor Room B)\nBarge Wood \nBy Alice Elizabeth Rogoff\nShe will read from 
 her newest published poetry book Barge Wood.\nDEAD BIRDS or AVIAN BLUES\nBy 
 Howard Pflanzer \nHe reads from his new bookshort edgy poetic plays 
 commenting on the human condition politically, socially and sexually. 
 \nhttp://www.laborfestwriters.org/alicerogoff.html\n\n(1st floor 
 Theater)\nMy Desire for History: Essays in Gay, Community & Labor History 
 \nBy Professor Estelle Freedman \nWith a slide presentation, she will 
 discuss the history of Allan Bérubé and particularly his work around 
 labor history.  “My Desire for History: Essays in Gay, Community, & Labor 
 History” by Bérubé was an important work partly on the militant Marine 
 Cooks and Steward’s Union MCSC. This union played a central role in 
 integrating the segregated ships in US maritime history and also fought 
 anti-gay discrimination.\n MCSU members stopped the ships from sailing 
 unless they were integrated. This powerful action forced the integration.\n 
 The MCSU flourished from the 5,000 members it had at the time of the 1934 
 maritime strike to a high of 19,000 after the Communists and radicals who 
 had taken it over insisted on reversing the color bar and admitting blacks, 
 Chinese, and other people of color. That leadership used strikes to end the 
 owner-imposed skin-color bar to employment on cruise liners. \nAs a result 
 of the cold war witch hunt and McCarthyism, the union was broken up and 
 destroyed in the early 1950’s, and many of it’s members were jailed 
 under the Taft-Hartley. The ship owners and US government controlled by 
 them wanted no militant union that took direct action on the jobs to defend 
 all the members regardless of race, politics and sexual orientation. 
 \nhttp://uncpress.unc.edu/browse/book_detail?title_id=1905 
 \nhttp://ebf.stanford.edu/\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_B%C3%A9rub%C3%A9\n\n12:00 
 - 1:30 PM\n (3rd floor Room A)\nThe Lessons of The 1930s and Coit Tower 
 \nJoin Ruth Gottstein, the 90-year-old daughter of Bernard Zackheim, one of 
 the muralists of world famous Coit Tower, will speak. Ruth Gottstein, who 
 was 12 at the time that the murals were painted by her father, talks about 
 the Coit tower project, the effort to destroy it and also the 1934 General 
 Strike, to which she was a witness. \nRuth Gottstein is the publisher 
 emerita editor of Volcano Press that pushes her sister's book, Coit Tower 
 San Francisco\nIts History and Art by Masha 
 Zackheim.\nhttp://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-coit-tower-20120103,0,4283890.story\nhttp://www.volcanopress.com/pages/catalog.cgi?mrchcatid=9&mrchid=132\nhttp://www.bernardzakheim.com/index.asp\n\n 
 (3rd floor Room B)\nAutoworkers Under the Gun\n By Gregg Shotwell \nRetired 
 autoworker, writer and blogger Gregg Shotwell spent decades fighting for 
 justice and worker rights at GM and its subsidiary Delphi. His newsletter 
 “Live Bait and Ammo” was distributed to auto workers on the 
 line.\nhttp://www.haymarketbooks.org/pb/Autoworkers-Under-the-Gun\nhttp://www.soldiersofsolidarity.com/files/livebaitammo/livebaitammo.html\n\n 
 (1st floor Theater)\nOn Bread and Roses Strike \nMass Organizing, Words And 
 Music\nJulia Stein, a labor poet and writer, will moderate a panel on the 
 Bread and Roses strike and the Triangle Fire. She, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and 
 other poets, singers and writers will discuss and celebrate the victories 
 and lessons. juliast@earthlink.net\nhttp://www.breadandrosescentennial.org/ 
 (1912-2012)\nhttp://rememberthetrianglefire.org/ (March 25, 1911 
 commemorated in 2011 and now)\n\n2:00 - 3:30 PM\n(3rd floor Room 
 A)\nReading for Every Day is an Act of Resistance: Selected Poems of Carol 
 Tarlen \nTarlen,who died in 2004 and who is one of the country’s most 
 brilliant labor poets, is a voice much like Tillie Olsen’s, detailing the 
 struggles working class women.\n Jim Daniels, award-winning poet and 
 professor of poetry at Carnegie Mellon recommends Every Day is an Act of 
 Resistance, saying, “This book is simply a treasure. Carol Tarlen’s 
 poems bring the human and political together in rich, heart-felt ways. She 
 had an uncompromising commitment to the truth ....  Janet Zandy, professor 
 of language and literature at Rochester Institute of Technology, praises 
 both the poet and the poetry: “Tough girl, quiet Quaker, brilliant poet, 
 worker for the working-class, ... Her luminous poetic voice is large, 
 direct, high-steppin, and justice-driven.”  Likewise, current Indiana 
 State Poet Laureate Karen Kovacik, endorses Every Day is An Act of 
 Resistance: “Born of pink-collar labor, Carol Tarlen’s activist poems 
 speak up, sass back, and never, ever cross a picket line. Keep this book 
 next to your heart when standing up for workers. Make room for it on your 
 bookshelf alongside Tillie Olsen and Meridel LeSueur.”\nRead by Aggie 
 Falk, Jack Hirschman, David Joseph, Sarah Menefee, and Julia Stein; 
 introduced by Julia 
 Stein.\nhttp://www.pemmicanpress.com/articles/carol-tarlen.html\nhttp://www.gradesaver.com/author/tillie-olsen/ 
 (1912-2007)\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Daniels\nhttp://www.feministpress.org/books/janet-zandy\nhttp://www.in.gov/arts/2392.htm 
 (Karen Kovacik)\nhttp://www.meridellesueur.org/ 
 (1900-1996)\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Hirschman\nhttp://redroom.com/member/julia-stein\n\n 
 (3rd floor Room B)\nThe 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century: A 
 Social Justice Hall of Fame \nBy Peter Dreier \nThe history of those 
 Americans who have fought for women’s suffrage, federal minimum wage laws 
 and protecting the environment is a hidden history of America. His new book 
 looks at these activists and leaders that changed our history and the 
 world.\nhttp://100greatestamericans.org/\n\n(1st floor Theater)\nLabor 
 Print Makers, Artists and The Class Struggle\nWith Lincoln Cushing, Doug 
 Minkler and Melanie Cervantes. These labor working class artists will talk 
 about their art and how the use of art is critical to the struggle for 
 survival of working people. They will present slides of the art.\n Also an 
 ongoing exhibition at the Oakland Musuem is being presented titled All of 
 Us or None: Social Justice Posters of the San Francisco Bay Area The 
 evolution of street art with a message, March 31, 2012 - August 19, 2012 
 \nhttp://www.dminkler.com\nhttp://www.dignidadrebelde.com\nhttp://www.docspopuli.org/ArtWorks.html\nhttp://www.docspopuli.org/Personal.html\nhttp://dignidadrebelde.com/section/view/melanie_cervantes_biography\nhttp://museumca.org/exhibit/all-us-or-none-social-justice-posters-san-francisco-bay-area\n\n4:00 
 - 5:30 PM\n(3rd floor Room A) \nCollision Course, The Air Traffic 
 Controllers, and the Strike That Changed America\nBy Joseph McCartin\nHe 
 has written one of the most important books on the PATCO air traffic 
 controller strike called Collision Course, The Air Traffic Controllers, and 
 the Strike That Changed America. This strike was used by the Reagan 
 administration to launch a national attack on the trade union movement 
 encouraging employers throughout the country to use the defeat of the PATCO 
 workers to bust their unions. The lessons of this strike are still vital to 
 understand.\nhttp://mccartin-collisioncourse.blogspot.com/\nhttp://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/HistoryAmerican/?view=usa&ci=9780199836789\n\n(3rd 
 floor Room B) \nFor All The People\nBy John Curl\nHis book shows how the 
 cooperative movement has a long history in the United States and has been 
 used to defend people’s jobs and lives. In the light of the collapse of 
 capitalism for millions of workers, the history of worker cooperatives in 
 America is an important experience for 
 today.\nhttp://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php?story=johncurl\n\n(1st 
 floor Theater)\nWisconsin Uprising-Labor Fights 2012\nBy Steve Early\nThis 
 collection of articles by a wide variety of labor journalists, reporters 
 and activists looks at the lessons of the mass movement in Wisconsin, its 
 strengths and weaknesses, and where labor needs to go today. In the Bay 
 Area, ILWU Local 10 closed down the port on April 4, 2012 in solidarity 
 with Wisconsin workers and thousands of other workers joined protests. The 
 efforts of Governor Scott Walker and the Republicans to destroy organized 
 labor led to one of the biggest working class mobilizations since the 
 1940's yet it has turned into an electoral effort to replace Scott 
 Walker.\nEarly will discuss this development and where labor needs to go to 
 be able to take the 
 offensive.\nhttp://monthlyreview.org/press/books/pb2808/\n\n6:00 - 7:30 
 PM\n(3rd floor Room A)\nTransportation Workers Under Attack\nA Panel 
 Discussion\nThe deregulation of the airline industry by President Carter 
 was the opening shot to destroy organized labor in the airline industry. It 
 continued with the strike breaking at PATCO which included jailing by 
 President Reagan and continued with deregulation in trucking and many other 
 transportation areas. Professor Joseph A. McCartin and transportation 
 workers from northern California will be on the panel.\n\n(3rd floor Room 
 B)\nThe Making of A Working Class Hero\nBy Sean Burns\nSean Burns, the 
 author of the book Archie Green, The Making Of A Working Class Hero, will 
 discuss the book and the life of worker and labor writer Archie Green. This 
 book was recently awarded the CLR James Book of the Year Award by Working 
 Class Studies 
 Association.\nhttp://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/55xxs3ep9780252078286.html\n\n 
 (2nd floor Gallery)\nPoetry In The Struggle\n Hosted by Alfonso 
 Texidor\nWith Poets:\n Nina Serrano: Emcee for event\n Neeli cherkovski\n 
 Maria Machetes\n Sylvia Parra (Mamacoat)\n q.r. hand, jr.\n Miguel Robles\n 
 Alfonso Texidor 
 cabezonesunidos@yahoo.com\nhttp://www.bookrags.com/biography/nina-serrano-dlb/\nhttp://www.neelicherkovski.com/\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neeli_Cherkovski 
 (Nelson Cherry)\nSee 
 also:\nhttp://www.laborfest.net/2012/2012Bookfair.htm\nhttp://www.laborfest.net/2012/2012schedule.htm\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/06/21/18715908.php
SUMMARY:Laborfest: Book Fair & Poetry Reading
LOCATION:Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts,  2868 Mission St., at 25th St, San 
 Francisco.  24th St BART.  Buses: 12, 14, 27, 49, 36, 67
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/06/21/18715908.php
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