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DESCRIPTION:Join us for the 2015 Western Workers Labor Heritage Festival on January 16, 
 17, & 18 at Machinists Hall. 1511 Rollins Road Burlingame, CA 94010\n\nMore 
 Information and to Pre-Register Now, visit 
 http://www.westernworkersfestival.org/\n\nThe Western Workers Labor 
 Heritage Festival is an annual celebration of the artistic and spiritual 
 culture of labor and working men and women. It is held every year on Martin 
 Luther King Junior weekend, a commemoration of the kind of social justice 
 and economic change that this great leader so firmly endorsed. It's a 
 three-day festival of workshops, presentations, dance, film, graphic arts, 
 spoken word and lots of music ... practically anything that can be 
 interpreted as an artistic expression of worker's voices in the working 
 world will be found at our festival.\n\nFULL PROGRAM SCHEDULE. Check 
 website for up to date information: 
 http://www.westernworkersfestival.org/\n_____________________________________\n\nFRIDAY, 
 JANUARY 16th\n\n6 pm - Registration\n\n7-10 pm - Arts Exchange\n(song, 
 poetry, and story swap)\n\nFeatured Performers:\n• Eliot Kenin\n• 
 Francisco Herrera\n• The 
 Re-Sisters\n_____________________________________\n\nSATURDAY, JANUARY 
 17th\n\n9 am - Registration\n(continental breakfast, informal song 
 swaps)\n\n10 to noon - Workshops\n(music, visual arts, spoken word, 
 film/theater, labor history/culture)\n\n• Rockin’ Solidarity 
 Chorus\n\n• Working Women Songwriters: Beyond Little Boxes\nMark Loring, 
 Mary Rose and Jim Cook\n\n"Wisconsin Rising"\nSam Mayfield and Mike 
 Konopaki\n(Film and discussion)\n\nNoon to 1 pm - Lunch\n\n1:15 to 1:45 - 
 Featured Performers\n\n• Mark Levy\n• Seattle Labor Chorus\n• 
 Avotcja\n\n2 to 3:30 pm - Workshops\n\n• Political Geography and the 
 Future of Labor Movement\nDick Walker and Sasha Lilley\n\n• Strategies to 
 Integrate Songs at Activist Events\nBen Grosscup\n\n• The Sitka 
 Project\nJoe Moore\n\n3:45 to 5:15 pm - Workshops\n\n• Low Wage 
 Workers\nSaru Jayaruman\n\n• Rosie the Riveter\nBetty Reid Soskin\n\n• 
 Displacement Literature\nJames Tracy and others\n\n5:30 to 7 pm - 
 Dinner\n\n7 to 10 pm - Arts Exchange\n\nFeatured Performers:\n• Emma’s 
 Revolution\n____________________________________\n\nSUNDAY, JANUARY 
 18th\n\n9 to 10 am - Registration\n(continental breakfast, informal song 
 swaps)\n\n10 to 11:30 - Workshops\n\n• Worker, War, and Warming - the 
 Confluence\nEmma’s Revolution\n\n• Avotcja\n\nNoon to 1 pm - 
 Lunch\n\n1:30 to 2:30 pm - Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.\n\n• 
 Jimmy Collier\n• Alex and Harriet\n• Liliana Herrera\n• La Pena 
 Community Chorus\n• Youth Spoken Word\n\n3-4:45 pm - Practice for concert 
 performance\n\n• Participatory reading to commemorate the 100th 
 anniversary of the death of Joe Hill\n\n5 to 6pm - Dinner\n\n7 pm - Benefit 
 Concert\n\n• Andrea Turner, MC\n• Labor Arts Award to Lincoln Cushing 
 and Union Honor Roll\n• Vukani Mawetho\n• Emma’s Revolution\n• Roy 
 Zimmerman\n• Saru Jayaruman\n• Chris 
 Chandler\n\n_____________________________________\n\n2015 Western Workers 
 Festival Film Festival\nProgram Schedule and Descriptions:\n\nSaturday, 
 1/17, 10am to 12\n\n“Wisconsin Rising,” by Sam Mayfield, Lower Third 
 Productions, 2014, 55 min. Following conservative Governor Scott Walker’s 
 announcement of his controversial “Budget Repair Bill,” the people of 
 Wisconsin rose up, occupied their state capitol and took to the streets as 
 rarely before seen in American History. Their collective actions are the 
 largest sustained gathering of any workers’ resistance in US 
 history.\n\nFilm will be shown as part of a workshop with Sam Mayfield and 
 Mike Konopaki.\n\nSaturday, 1/17, 2pm to 3:30\n\n“Inequality For All,” 
 directed by Jacob Kornbluth, based on a book by Robert Reich, 2013, 90 min. 
 Features Robert Reich, a professor, best-selling author, and Clinton 
 cabinet member, as he demonstrates how the widening income gap has a 
 devastating impact on the American economy. Through his singular 
 perspective, Reich explains how the massive consolidation of wealth by a 
 precious few threatens the viability of the American workforce and the 
 foundation of democracy itself. Spanish subtitles; also English subtitles 
 for the deaf and hearing impaired.\n\nSaturday, 1/17, 3:45pm to 
 5:15\n\n“SB1070: The Faces,” by Renato Avalos, 2011, 76 min. This film 
 shows the first 18 months of dramatic changes caused by the adoption of 
 SB1070 in Arizona, changes to a community which still clings to the search 
 for the American dream. It also documents the evolution of our laws against 
 illegal immigration, and the rise and fall of Russell Pearce, one of the 
 most important opponents of undocumented immigration in the united States 
 and the main promoter of SB1070. What were the motives of these promoters? 
 Why Arizona? Who are the people most affected? These are some of the 
 questions answered by the film. In Spanish and English.\n\nSunday, 1/18, 
 10am to 11:30\n\n“Dirty Wars,” by Jeremy Scahill, directed by richard 
 Rowley, 2013, 90 min. Viewer’s comments: “A must for everyone who is a 
 keeper of the real American dream: the opportunity for self-determination 
 through character, selfless responsibility, and courage. ‘Dirty Wars’ 
 is about Jeremy Scahill’s investigative journalism and where his search 
 for the truth takes him…this is an oasis from the callous and sanitized 
 insanity of our 20 year war on “terror.”\n\nSunday, 1/18, 3pm to 
 4:45\n\n“Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper.” 2000. 60 min. A film about 
 the poet Langston Hughes, his life and times, and his work as an artist. 
 Born in 1902, he was one of the few prominent black writers of his day to 
 champion racial consciousness as a source of inspiration for black artists. 
 In addition to his example in social attitudes, Hughes had an important 
 technical influence by his emphasis on folk and jazz rhythms as the basis 
 of his poetry of racial pride. \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/12/17/18765739.php
SUMMARY:2015 Western Workers Labor Heritage Festival - January 16-18
LOCATION:Machinists Hall. 1511 Rollins Road Burlingame, CA 94010\n(January 16th, 
 17th, 18th) 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/12/17/18765739.php
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