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DESCRIPTION:This opening event of the 21st annual Laborfest is produced by another San 
 Francisco treasure, the 56 year old San Francisco Mime Troupe.  The 4th of 
 July weekend shows will take place July 3, 4 and 5, 2015 with live music at 
 1:30 p.m. and the 1.5 hour or so show at 2 p.m.  The biggest crowd is of 
 course on the 4th of July.  Bring a picnic lunch, water, your 
 suntan/sunscreen lotion as needed (and it is always sunny in the Mission 
 District), sign the petitions that you like, and enjoy some of the best 
 traditions of San Francisco with the SF Mime Troupe and Laborfest.  
 \n\nLaborFest was established in 1994 to institutionalize the history and 
 culture of working people in an annual labor cultural, film and arts 
 festival. It consists of a month of movies, music, bike rides, boat rides, 
 bus rides, and walking tours so you learn labor history while you enjoy 
 your rich labor cultural heritage.  It begins every July 5th, which is the 
 anniversary of the 1934 “Bloody Thursday” event. On that day, two 
 workers Howard Sperry and Nick Bordoise were shot and killed in San 
 Francisco. They were supporting the longshoremen and maritime workers 
 strike. This incident brought about the San Francisco General Strike which 
 shut down the entire city and led to hundreds of thousands of workers 
 joining the trade union movement.\n\nIt is as a direct result of the 1934 
 general strikes of San Francisco, Minneapolis and Toledo that in 1935, we 
 won Social Security, unemployment insurance and the right to organize labor 
 unions.  One of the tasks that remains is to win socialized medicine, 
 guaranteeing free medical care to all from cradle to grave, paid for with 
 our tax dollars, instead of paying for war.\n\nThis year's free original 
 show by the SF Mime Troupe, performed by professional actors, is 
 Freedomland.  The synopsis is:\n\nA door is blown off its hinges! Into a 
 blasted room of scarred walls and shattered windows, armed with M-16’s, 
 America’s bravest duck and dodge for cover, finally training their deadly 
 gun sights on... an old black man watching TV on his couch? This isn’t 
 Baghdad or Kandahar - its home, and for ex- Black Panther Malcolm Haywood, 
 it’s just another wrong door police raid in the War on Drugs. So of 
 course Malcolm is horrified when the grandson he’s tried to protect, 
 Nathaniel, returns from serving in Afghanistan only to find another war 
 zone at home - and one where young Black men like Nathaniel are in the 
 crosshairs! Meanwhile the Mayor and the Police Chief - one desperate for 
 votes, the other desperate to fund his militarized police force - ramp up 
 the fear (and their shiny new tank) to fight the newest, drug threat to 
 America. Worse than weed, meth, coke, crack, or crank, it’s... 
 SNORF!!\nSee also 
 http://www.laborfest.net/2015/2015schedule.htm\nhttp://sfmt.org/schedule/   
  More Northern California shows\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/06/14/18773480.php
SUMMARY:Laborfest: "Freedomland" by SF Mime Troupe
LOCATION:Dolores Park - 18th & Dolores, San Francisco: J Church, 22, 33 Buses 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/06/14/18773480.php
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