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DESCRIPTION:100th Year of Easter Uprising & Celebration of Renee Gibbons’s Life\n6:30 
 PM - Film showing: James Connolly, Ireland’s Greatest (50 min.) (2013) 
 by: Raidio Teilifis Eireann (RTE) \n \nThis film recounts the life of James 
 Connolly (1868-1916) and his role as a trade unionist, theoretician and 
 international socialist. He and his family were economically forced to 
 immigrate to the United States. When he returned to Ireland, he became one 
 of the key leaders of the Easter Rising in the struggle for independence 
 and worker rights, which cost him his life.\n\n7:30 PM - Concert\nThis year 
 is the 100th anniversary of the Easter Rising Irish struggle for 
 independence from England. The Irish labor movement played a key role in 
 the fight for independence and John Connolly along with other trade 
 unionists helped organize the struggle. When their struggle was crushed by 
 British troops, Connolly was shot along with other supporters of the Easter 
 Rising. Many Irish workers and their families immigrated to San Francisco 
 after the uprising.\n \nAt this concert, we will commemorate this important 
 event as well as the life of LaborFest supporter and singer musician Renee 
 Gibbons.\n \nRenee, who passed away in December 2015, used her beautiful 
 voice and talents to get the story of working people out from Ireland to 
 the US and all countries.\n \nPerforming at the commemoration concert will 
 be: Margaret Cooley, Pat Wynne, Bernie Gilbert, Carol Denney, Jack 
 Hirschman, Elisabeth Creely, Jimmy Kelly and others. \n\nSee 
 also:\nhttps://www.marxists.org/archive/connolly/\nhttp://www.socialistworld.net/doc/323\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Connolly\nhttp://www.1916rising.com/bioConnolly.html\nhttp://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sfgate/obituary.aspx?pid=176981793 
 (Renee Jackson 
 Gibbons)\nhttp://thereadersreview.org/2015/03/thursdays-at-readers-poetry-series-renee-gibbons-and-john-curl/ 
 (Renee 
 Gibbons)\nhttp://www.birdbeckett.com/renee-gibbons-longing-for-elsewhere-a-listening-party/\nhttp://www.laborfest.net/2016/2016schedule.htm\n\nILWU 
 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 as follows: \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 24th and 
 Potrero, on Rhode Island to 26th St, on Cesar Chavez St  to Dakota, 
 Wisconsin, Connecticut, DeHaro, Rhode Island at 16th St, on Townsend to 
 Second Street.\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/06/17/18787658.php
SUMMARY:Laborfest: Film: James Connolly & Renee Gibbons Memorial Concert
LOCATION:ILWU Local 34 Hall, 801 Second St., San Francisco. \n(More information 
 below).
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/06/17/18787658.php
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