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DESCRIPTION:"I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night”\nJoin LaborFest on The 100th 
 Anniversary Concert on Death of Joe Hill with David Rovics\nIn 1915 in Salt 
 Lake City, Utah, IWW union organizer and labor troubadour Joe Hill 
 (1879-1915) was murdered by a firing squad. The effort to silence him 
 failed and he has become one of the most famous labor organizers and 
 musicians in the world.\n It is a sick irony that Utah this year has 
 reinstituted the firing squad for executions! Over 2 million mostly Black 
 and Latino workers are in prison today in the United States and in 
 California, more money is spent on the prison industry than on education.\n 
 Joe’s struggle for union and labor rights is as relevant today as it was 
 in 1915. Millions of workers would like to have unions but are intimidated 
 and bullied by companies like Walmart and Macdonald’s to fire workers who 
 speak up. Walmart this year closed five stores including one in Pico 
 Rivera, California for supposed “plumbing problems” which were really 
 threats of union organizing.\n Although this Walmart’s act is illegal, 
 the corporations who run America and the world flagrantly ignore the laws 
 and protections workers are supposed to have in this country.\nOver 10,000 
 workers are fired every year in this country for union organizing and these 
 are only the workers that have pursued NLRB lawsuits.\n Joe Hill saw the 
 struggle of workers and union rights as the most important struggle in his 
 life, and he paid for it with his life.\n LaborFest will honor the 100th 
 anniversary of his death with a concert with labor troubadour David Rovics. 
 Throughout the year, Rovics has been traveling in Europe in a series of 
 concerts to commemorate the life and struggles of Joe Hill.\n Rovics has 
 performed throughout the world. His hard hitting songs for workers and 
 human rights are powerful and moving. Also performing at  the commemoration 
 will be Carol Denney and Marcus Duskin.\nOther LaborFest Events 
 commemorating Joe Hill:\nJuly 14 at 7: Bastille Day commemoration and 
 remembrance of Joe Hill: Music & Poetry reading at SF's Unitarian Church, 
 Geary and Franklin Streets.\nJuly 15 at 7: Film: "The Ballad of Joe Hill" 
 at ILWU Local 34, 801 2nd St, SF. \nSee also 
 http://www.laborfest.net/2015/2015schedule.htm\nhttp://joehill100.com\nhttp://joehill100.com/commemorations/joe-hill-chronology/ 
 (describes complete legal frame-up of Joe Hill and labor's 
 protests)\nhttp://joehill100.com/iww-organizer-songwriter/\nhttp://joehill100.com/songs-of-joe-hill/ 
 Songs from the IWW's Little Red Songbook.\nhttp://www.iww.org/ (Industrial 
 Workers of the 
 World)\nhttp://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/joehilllastwill.html: \nHis 
 Last Will, written Nov 18, 1915, the day before his execution, epitomizes 
 his outstanding writing skills:\nMy Will is easy to decide, \nFor there is 
 nothing To divide\nMy kin don't need to fuss and moan— \n"Moss does not 
 cling to a rolling stone"\nMy body?—Oh!—If I could choose \nI would 
 want to ashes it reduce, \nAnd let The merry breezes blow \nMy dust to 
 where some flowers grow \nPerhaps some fading flower then \nWould come to 
 life and bloom again \nThis is my Last and Final Will.— \nGood Luck to 
 All of you, \nJoe Hill\n\n\n\n\n 
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SUMMARY:Laborfest: Joe Hill 100th Remembrance Concert
LOCATION:ILWU Local 34 Hall, 801 Second St., San Francisco. Next to baseball 
 stadium. Walk the one mile from Market on Second or on the Embarcadero to 
 801 Second Street or take public transportation: \nT or N train from 
 Embarcadero Station to Second and King Station; \n30 or 45 bus from Market 
 and Fifth Streets (Powell Station) to end of line at Townsend between 
 Fourth and Third, then walk one block to Second Street; \n47 bus which 
 starts at North Point at Fisherman’s Wharf,  travels on Van Ness, 11th 
 St, Bryant and ends at Cal Train Station at 4th and Townsend, then walk on 
 Townsend 2 blocks to Second Street; \n10 bus which runs from Van Ness on 
 Pacific to Battery, on Battery to Second St to Third and Townsend, so get 
 off at Second Street and Townsend. Also runs from 25th and Potrero, on 
 Cesar Chavez St,  Wisconsin, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Townsend to Second 
 Street.\n
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