BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:www.indybay.org PRODID:-//indybay/ical// v1.0//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:Indybay-18757741 SEQUENCE:18871711 CREATED:20140622T132200Z DESCRIPTION:7th Annual LaborFest BookFair \n\n10:30 - 12:00 Noon \n (3rd floor Room A)\nGone Postal\nBy Ron V. Ramirez (2009)\nRon V. Ramirez who spent his career in the post office as a letter carrier is in touch with the dangerous and sometimes deadly working conditions. This novel is about a postal worker who has a murder conviction on his record. At work, he finds himself in love and busy engaged in affairs with coworkers. He is being pushed to the edge not only by his relationship and history but the stress that is called “going postal”. \nhttp://www.gone-postal.com\n\n(3rd floor Room B)\nDollar Democracy: with Liberty and Justice for Some, How to Reclaim the American Dream For All\nBy Peter Mathews (2014)\nPeter Mathews, professor at Cypress Community College, was involved in working for a tax on oil to fund education.\n His book looks at how the wealthiest corporations and the billionaires are able to avoid paying taxes while they push privatization of public education and public services.\nhttp://www.epetermathews.com/dollar-democracy-op-ed\n\n(First floor theater)\nThe Border-Labor, Immigration And Worker Organizing\nWith Al Rojas - LACLAA Sacramento, founder of United Farmworkers\nAl Rojas grew up as an agricultural worker in California and was one of the founders of the UFWA. He later became a Labor Commissioner and is now active in Labor Council For Latin American Advancement in Sacramento.\n Adan Robles is a member of Los Angeles Unite Here Local 11 and works as a hotel worker in Los Angeles. He was also active in the SEIU 399 janitors struggle in Los Angeles and a member of the Multi-Racial Alliance.\n\nDiscussion will focus on the events since 2006 when the largest mobilization among worker class immigrants in modern U.S. history took place. It will also look at the effects of the militarization of the border and ongoing ICE campaigns of terror resulting in the deportation of thousands of workers and the separations of families, which is responsible for nearly 30,000 children placed in foster care. The forum will also look at the effect of SB 744, the so-called “Immigration Reform” legislation and explore the reasons it is being supported by the AFL-CIO and the UFW.\n\n12:30 - 2:00 PM\n(3rd floor Room A)\nFresh Fruit, Broken Bodies\n By Seth Holmes\nSeth Holmes’ book is an ethnographic witness to the everyday lives and suffering of Mexican migrants. The book is based on five years of research in the fields following migrant workers from Oaxaca as they travel up and down the U.S. West Coast following seasonal crops. Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies weds the theoretical analysis of the anthropologist with the intimacy of the journalist to provide a compelling examination of structural and symbolic violence, medicalization, and the clinical gaze as they affect the experiences and perceptions of indigenous Mexican migrant farmworkers, farm owners, doctors, and nurses. This reflexive, embodied anthropology deepens our theoretical understanding of the ways in which socially structured suffering comes to be perceived as normal and natural in society and in health care.\nhttp://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520275140\n\n(3rd floor Room B)\nEmpire-Logistics & Global Supply Chains Mapping international networks of solidarity\nWith Gifford Hartman and Frank McMurray\nThis presentation examines the modern system of production and distribution of goods along vast supply chains, a “factory without walls,” that encircle the planet. This system has decimated the ability of workers across the world to fight for better pay, benefits and working conditions. Gifford Hartman (an adult education teacher) of the Empire-Logistics Mapping Project is creating an online, interactive map to chart commodity chains across the globe. The Project’s goal: Give workers information they need to create solidarity up and down the supply chain, and across sectors, borders – and even oceans – as they struggle against rampant exploitation.\nhttp://www.transportworkers.org/node/1126\n\n(First floor theater)\nMigrant Workers In China, Culture, Media and The Communication Revolution\nBy Bu-Wei\nProfessor Bu-Wei, who is a professor at the Institute For Journalism & Communication with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing, studies the migrant workers in China. These 260 million workers are now becoming urbanites and are using their use of the cell phone to communicate and get their stories out.\n She also works with Chinese migrant worker artists, film makers and cultural workers including a Migrant Workers Band. \nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvbMURTERnk&feature=youtu.be\n\n2:30 - 4:00 PM\n(3rd floor Room A)\nIncome Inequality, Thomas Picketty and Capitalism\nA Critique By Charles Andrew\nThomas Picketty has written a new book called Capitalism In The Twenty-First Century. His view is that capitalism is creating growing economic inequality that threatens the social and political stability of capitalism itself.\n Charles Andrews who is a writer about healthcare, and worked in the past with the California Nurses Association, will look at the contradictions and problems with Picketty’s new book. \n http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2014/andrews220314.html\n\n(3rd floor Room B)\nSave Our Unions Dispatchers From A Movement In Distress\nBy Steve Early\nLabor Journalist and CWA-TNG Local 39521/Pacific Media Workers Guild member Steve Early’s latest book Save Our Unions Dispatches from A Movement in Distress looks at the state of the labor movement from the struggles of activists and dissidents within many unions including the Teamsters, TWU, miners and CWA. He looks at programs such as “corporate wellness” program and labor management partnerships and how these programs end up emasculating workers and their unions.\n He also looks at the battle within the AFL-CIO that led to the formation of Change To Win and what that did to the labor movement.\n As the war on labor continues this book shows some of what labor is doing to respond. \nFrom: http://monthlyreview.org/press/books/pb4277/\n"Piketty's work is a demonstration of the adage: follow the money. Good advice. But when you need deep understanding of society, follow the labor."\n\n(First floor theater)\nPanel Discussion -\nFrom the Border to the Valleys –\nOppression and resistance in the fields of California, Washington and the Southwest\nFrom the U.S./Mexico border regions to the farm valleys of Washington, California and Arizona, farmworkers face low wages, long hours, sexual abuse including rape in the fields, dangerous and punitive border conditions, high rates of injury and death and a host of other issues. A broad grouping of authors and activists will discuss the structures that produce “colonized labor”, some of the key features of the fields today and the beginnings of some new activism. \n\nPanelists include: \nGilbert Gonzales, UCI professor author of Guest Worker or Colonized Labor\nhttp://www.paradigmpublishers.com/books/BookDetail.aspx?productID=367828\nSeth Holmes, UCB Medical Anthropologist and author of Fresh Fruit and Broken Bodies\nhttp://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520275140\nMaria Blum-Sullivan, activist with the Center for Farmworker Families in Watsonville\nhttp://www.farmworkerfamily.org/\nFroilan Medina, veteran farmworker activist from the 1970s and currently active in the Calexico-Mexicali border area\nBruce Neuburger, author of Lettuce Wars: Ten Years of Work and Struggle in the Fields of California.\nhttp://monthlyreview.org/press/books/pb3324/\n\n4:00 - 5:30 PM\n(3rd floor Room B)\nLabor Struggles in the Carnation Revolution\n By Sharat G. Lin\nThe overthrow of the Estado Novo military government of Portugal after a 48-year-old dictatorship in 1974 freed Portugal’s remaining colonies and spawned new political parties, trade unions, and social movements for land reform, worker takeovers, nationalizations, and even collectivization. It was accomplished without a shot being fired and the revolution was named the “Carnation Revolution”\n\nSharat will discuss the historical and socio-economic context and recount his experiences during the Portuguese Revolution.\nhttp://www.sanjosepeace.org/article.php/20120126083538624 (Sharat Lin)\n\n(First floor theater)\n Forum - KPFA, Pacifica, Unions And Labor\nKPFA and Pacifica are the most important broadcast platforms for labor news and information. They provide more news and voices from working people and unions that any other national broadcast network. This panel will look at the struggles at KPFA and Pacifica and the role of organized labor in KPFA and Pacifica. It will also look at how KPFA and Pacifica can help develop a national multi-media labor platform.\n Initial Speakers: Jeff Blankfort, Journalist and radio host at KZYX; Speakers from KPFA CWA Staff and Unpaid Staff Organization\nSee also for this forum:\nhttp://www.unitedforcommunityradio.org/\nhttps://www.facebook.com/UnitedForCommunityRadio\n\nSee also:\nhttp://www.laborfest.net/2014/2014Bookfair.htm\nhttp://www.laborfest.net/2014/2014schedule.htm\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/06/22/18757741.php SUMMARY:Laborfest: BookFair & Forums on KPFA & others LOCATION:Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, 2868 Mission St., at 25th St, San Francisco. 24th St BART Station. Buses: 12, 14, 49, 67 URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/06/22/18757741.php DTSTART:20140727T173000Z DTEND:20140728T033000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR