May Day Event&Commune Film&Conf

Join LaborFest In the 2001 May Day Celebration At La Pena Cultural Center
With
La Pena Choir
US Premier Screening of "Slaves Of Free Trade" By Yappa Kashyapa
Poet Jack Hirschman, Singers Carol Denney, Larry Shaw, Pam Pam
Report On Kurdish prisoner and legislator Lela Zana
US Premier of video on Korean Daewoo Auto Workers

Tuesday May 1, 2001
7:30 PM
$7.00 Donation Requested Benefit For Sri Lankan Women's Free Trade Zone
Center Sri Lanka & LaborFest

La Pena Cultural Center
3105 Shattuck/Prince
Berkeley, CA
For Further Information on LaborFest May Schedule Go To
http://www.laborfest.net or call (415)642-8066
Or Write LaborFest P.O.Box 40983 San Francisco, CA 94140


130th Anniversary of the Paris Commune
The first screening in the United States
Film “THE COMMUNE” by Peter Watkins
Saturday May 5, 2001 9:00 am
Roxie Theater
16th St & Valencia, San Francisco
$10 Donation
Film maker Patrick Watkins will be attending.
For further information on the film, go to:
http://www.peterwatkins.lt
Sponsored by LaborFest -http://www.laborfest.net
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Conference On “The Paris Commune and It’s Relevance Today”
Sunday, May 6, 10:00am - 2:00pm (Conference)
Also performing "Folk This" and Larry Shaw
The film “The Commune” with Patrick Watkins 3:00pm - 8:00pm
Mission Cultural Center For Latino Arts (2868 Mission at 25th St.)
$10.00 - This includes the conference and the film “The Commune”

One hundred and thirty years ago, tens of thousands of Parisians took over
their city and began to run it in the interests of the people. This was the
first successful people’s revolt in modern history. They established a
structure that allowed for real democracy and began to deal with the issues
that led to the revolt. They organized to provide food and housing to the
people and opposed France’s colonization of Algeria and Mexico. They
established new laws that provided for the full rights of women to vote and
to participate in their new commune. It was for this reason, that the
royalty of Europe needed to crush this powerful people’s movement. Over
30,000 Parisians and other international supporters of the Commune were
massacred to silence and destroy any memory of this historic event.
Today, many people even in France have very little knowledge of this
important story and struggle in the history of working people.
We however have not forgotten! Today in the US and around the world,
hundreds of millions live in abject poverty with no medical care, housing or
education. The corporatization of all of our society is leading to the
destruction of all our democratic, social and political rights and the
relevance of the Paris Commune is as important today as it was 130 years
ago.

PRESENTERS:
Patrick Watkins, Ron RG Davis, Toni Mendocino, Jean Michel Normand, Paul
Thomas,
Ron Kelchie, Steve Zeltzer, and others
Also performing will be "Folk This" and singer Larry Shaw.

For further information on the Paris Commune, go to:
http://perso.club-internet.fr/lacomune.
http://www.marxists.org/history/france/paris-commune/index.htm
Sponsored by the Labor Video Project, News and Letters, Peace and Freedom
Party, Freedom Socialist Party

For Further Information email
lvpsf [at] igc.org or
Phone (415)282-1908