7/5/05 LaborFest Movies & Entire LaborFest Schedule

LaborFest was established in 1994 to institutionalize the history and culture of working people in an annual labor cultural, film and arts festival. 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.

With the pending BART workers strike and a pending strike at the San Francisco Chronicle, the latter being the subject of the July 11 rally listed below, the labor movement is carrying on a long tradition of labor organizing both in the Bay Area and around the world which is the primary means of advancing the needs and interests of both labor and all humanity.

http://www.laborfest.net/2005schedule.htm
San Francisco LaborFest July 2005 Schedule

July 5 (Tuesday) $ 8.50
International Working Class Film & Video Festival
Opening Day
6:00 PM Reception
7:00 PM Mardi Gras: Made In China
8:00 PM The Concrete Revolution
San Francisco Premier Screening and film maker Xiaolu Guo will be in attendance to answer questions after the screening.
The Concrete Revolution
Chinese with English subtitles 61 min. (2004)
By Xiaolu Guo
The historic construction boom now going on in China and the effect
on Chinese workers is the focus of this new film by Xiaolu Guo.
Xiaolu captures the transformation of Beijing and how it is changing
and effecting the workers who are doing the work. Ziaolu also allows
the workers to speak for themselves about their work, their lives
and their hopes. It is a powerful statement that has not yet been
heard in the United States. Who is building the new China and what
are their hopes and dreams in the country with the largest
population in the world. Novelist and filmmaker Ziaolu’s works touch
universal themes and through her film we see the humanity and warmth
of the Chinese working people.
http://www.guoxiaolu.com <http://www.laborfest.net/www.guoxiaolu.com>
guoxiaolu [at] yahoo.com Mardi Gras: Made In China
By David Redmon, 2005, 61 min
Millions of Americans have attended the New Orleans Mardi Gras
celebration. Hidden behind the celebration are the sweatshop
workers, mostly women and teenagers who produce the millions of
beads that are thrown out to the crowds during the celebration. This
film counterpoints the party with the lives of the workers who make
the beads. In illuminating interviews we learn about the method of
production that is now employing large numbers of Chinese workers as
well as the ideology of the owners.
http://www.calleymedia.org <http://www.laborfest.net/www.calleymedia.org>
Four Star Theater
2200 Clement, SF (at 23rd Ave.)

July 6 (Wednesday) 7:00 PM $5.00
Latin American Working Class Film & Video Festival
Opening Day
San Francisco Premier Screening
RAYMUNDO -The Revolutionary Filmmakers’ Struggle
By Ernesto Ardito & Virna Molina
127 minutes (2002) Argentina (Spanish with English subtitles)
The documentary film is about the life and work of Raymundo Gleyzer,
one of the most important Latin American filmmakers, kidnapped and
murdered by that country’s military dictatorship in 1976.
Through Raymundo’s life, we follow the story of Latin American
revolutionary cinema and the liberation struggles of the 60’s and
70’s. Raymundo was one of the major architects of the militant
cinema, yet after his "disappearance", he fell into oblivion. It is
essential that the new generation rediscover his life and works,
which are a source of inspiration today more than ever. This
documentary shows that the CIA and the Latin American dictatorships
couldn’t destroy the memory, the ideals and the courage to tell the
truth.
http://www.filmraymundo.com.ar
<http://www.laborfest.net/www.filmraymundo.com.ar>
Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
2868 Mission St., at 25th, San Francisco

July 6 (Wednesday) 7:00 PM $5.00
The Iguazu effect (Il effecto Iguazu)
By Pere Joan Ventura (Spanish with English subtitles) 89 min,
(2002), Spain
In 2001 Telefonica, the national telephone company of Spain, sold
the major subsidiary named Sintel as a part of globalization process
of the country. As a result of this, about 1800 workers were laid
off. The people driven out from the most stable jobs to the streets
built a 'Camp of Hope' in the middle of flourishing down town of
Madrid and started the struggle which went on for 187 days. Workers
from all over the country felt a little strange about the situation,
but as they ate and slept together, they formed a solidarity
community. The title "Iguazu Effect" means that a fisher man doesn't
realize the danger or is fooled by the calmness of a river, until he
gets to the verge of a waterfall. This is a metaphor of workers'
situation in the wild globalization age.
The director Ventura has worked for various TV networks mostly
producing news and teleplays. This is his first feature film.
Filming "Iguazu Effect", he shot total amount of 90 hours for
187days. Beside this, he participated in a project called "Hay
Motivo" which were short films of 32 directors criticizing
government policy.
Bloodletting : Life death healthcare
By Lorna Green, 67 min, 2004 USA
What happens when a filmmaker borrows a camera to explore
healthcare? It becomes personal. BLOODLETTING is about a filmmaker
who travels to Cuba to investigate its healthcare system, only to
return home where two family members, uninsured by their employers,
develop illnesses. The film reveals the cruel underbelly of
America's healthcare system.
http://www.lornagreen.org
Humanist Hall
370 27th Street, Oakland, near Broadway

Ongoing Exhibition until September 9th
Art & Courage, The Life and Work of Louise Gilbert
The show of Louise Gilbert’s art reflects 70 years of dedication to
labor, human rights and world peace. She has contributed to the
working people of SF.
http://www.geocities.com/louise_gilbert_artist/index.html
<http://www.laborfest.net/www.geocities.com/louise_gilbert_artist/index.html>
City College of SF, Atrium Gallery
in Rosenberg Library, 2nd Floor
Call for the Library hour’s (415) 452-5541

July 7 (Thursday) 6-9:30 PM
View From The Bridge
Opening reception for the photo exhibition
By Joseph A. Blum
Photographs documenting the construction of the Bay Bridge and the
workers who are building it.
Exhibit dedicated to the memory of Tom Goff.
Exhibit held from July 5 – July 30 2005
http://www.peopleandwork.org
<http://www.peopleandwork.org/>The Photo Center Harvey Milk Center
50 Scott Street, San Francisco, CA 94117
415-554-9522

July 7 (Thursday) 7:00 PM $5.00
Latin American Working Class Film & Video Festival
Bolivia, The War of the Gas
By Carlos Pronzato 50 min (2003) Brazil
On October 2003 a national rebellion took place against the
government of Sanchez de Lozada. His plan to privatize the gas was
met with mass resistance. He used the US supplied army against the
people and over 80 died and hundreds were wounded. Filmmaker
Pronzato interviews Evo, Felipe Quispe, Jaime Solar and others.
The Gas Is Not For Sale (El Gas, No Se Vende)
By Tercer Mundo 26 min (2003) Bolivia
This video shows the rebellion from the ground floor. They use both
their own footage, television footage and fine editing to show the
power of workers, peasants, students and women in protesting the
policies of the IMF and World Bank.
Labor Music Videos (5 minutes) from Bolivia
This is a fine example of the mixture of art, song and video in the
struggle for justice.
Tercer Mundo is also organizing a Latin American Working Class Film
and Video Festival in El Alto, Bolivia this coming October.
tercermundo [at] hotmail.com
<http://www.laborfest.net/ href="mailto:tercermundo [at] hotmail.com">tercermundo [at] hotmail.com>
Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
2868 Mission St., at 25th, San Francisco

July 8 (Friday) 6:30 PM $5.00
International Working Class Film & Video Festival
With Sea Shanty Songs by Jim Nelson
San Francisco Premier
Betrayed: The Story of Canadian Merchant Seamen
By Elaine Briere 56 min. (2004) Canada
Videographer Elaine Briere will be present after the screening.
This Canadian video tells the story of the privatization of the
shipping industry and the use of the McCarthy witchhunt in the US to
attack the Canadian Seaman’s Union (CSU) which strongly opposed the
sale. The privatization policy led to the total destruction of the
Canadian shipping industry and the victimization of thousands of
Canadian sailors.
briere [at] pacificcoast.net
Fighting Wal-Martization
By Labor Video Project 26 min. (2004)
Wal-Mart plays a critical role in holding down wages in the US. This
video looks at how the labor movement is seeking to stop the
Wal-Martization of America and why this threatens the living
conditions of all the people.
lvpsf [at] labornet.org
New College
777 Valencia St. at 19th St., San Francisco

July 9 (Saturday) 10:00 AM Free
WALKING TOUR by Dave Giesen
Land, Labor and Buildings
Visiting historic downtown San Francisco
Come along on a brisk, provocative walking tour exploring the
accomplishments of Labor in literally building San Francisco. Along
the way, we learn about Kate Kennedy who set the legal precedent for
equal pay for women in the U.S., discover an SF newspaperman's
attempt to liberate Labor from income taxes (afterall, he argued,
doesn't labor fully give of itself in the course of laboring), and
burnish the memory of Sun Yat-sen who proposed, while in SF, the
most extensive labor reform ever proposed for 20th Century China!
The narration rings with tales of engineering marvels, saucy living,
astonishing proposals, and gentle humanity.
Meet at Dewey Monument in the center of Union Square, concluding at
the corner of Market and Montgomery Streets (2 hrs.)
For info: Call 415-452-8860

July 9 (Saturday) 2:00 PM Free
Presentation on Maritime Women
Presentation with filmmaker and writer Maria Brooks. Maria Brooks
has focused her extensive work on maritime workers and their
history. Her latest endeavor is a video history of women workers in
maritime that will also include a book.
http://www.maritimewomen.org <http://www.laborfest.net/www.maritimewomen.org>
Modern Times Bookstore
888 Valencia St./20th St., San Francisco

July 9 (Saturday) 8:00 PM Free
Song and Poetry Swap with Freedom Song Network
For over 20 years, the Freedom Song Network has been helping keep
alive the spirit of labor and political song in the Bay Area, on
picket lines, at rallies, on concert stages and at songswaps. Bring
songs or poems to share. Everyone welcome, regardless of musical
ability or training.
885 Clayton St., at Carl St., SF
For more info: (415) 648-3457

July 10 (Sunday) 2:00 PM Free
Legacy of The New Deal in California
Panel on the Public Legacy of the New Deal in California with writer
Gray Brechin, photographer Bob Dawson, and LaborFest New Deal Tour
Guide Harvey Smith.
A major research project sponsored by the California Historical
Society is underway documenting the enduring but invisible landscape
left us by FDR's alphabet soup agencies. Usefully employing millions
of unemployed workers during the Depression, the WPA, CCC, PWA and
other public works agencies immensely expanded the concept of the
public realm and offered an alternative vision of what can be done
at a time when the very idea of "public" is under relentless assault.
http://www.newdealproject.org <http://www.laborfest.net/www.newdealproject.org>
Modern Times Bookstore
888 Valencia St./20th St., San Francisco

July 10 (Sunday) 5:00 PM Free
Five Women Poets: On Labor, Local to International
From San Francisco Lockouts to Union Struggles in Latin America.
Readers are Leslie Simon from Poetry for the People, and Women’s
Studies Department of City College, San Francisco and author of
Collisions and Transformations by Coffee House Press, Nellie Wong
from Radical Women, and delegate to the San Francisco Labor Council,
member of the union local UPTE CWA 9119, author of Stolen Moments,
and in Older Women Writing by Chicory Blue Press, Phyllis Holliday,
a member of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union Local 2,
published in Peace and Pieces Anthology, and Poets West Anthology,
Alice E. Rogoff, a National Writers Union San Francisco Chapter
Steering Committee member, and Award Winner in the Blue Light Book
Award Contest for her book, Mural, and Lynn Werner, author and
performer with direct experience documenting human rights abuses in
Columbia, prize winning labor videographer for Cortenas de Cana
based on the struggles of sugarcane workers in Columbia, and writer
on human rights violations against women.
City Lights Book Store
261 Columbus at Broadway, San Francisco

July 11 (Monday) 12:00 Noon
Rally For SF Chronicle Newspaper Workers
San Francisco newspaper workers at the Hearst owned SF Chronicle
rally for a contract. New publisher Frank Vega known as Darth Vega
has been brought in from Detroit with his Vance goons to help attack
the unions. Sponsored by IBT-GCIU Local 4
SF Chornicle Building
5th & Mission St. in San Francisco

July 11 (Monday) 7:00 PM Free
Poetry / Words: The Wars At Home And Abroad
With Poets Bob Carson, Adam David Miller, Carol Denney, Roland
Carrillo and others.
Survival is the focus of this night of words. Hundreds of billions
of dollars are being spent on wars around the world but working
people in the Bay Area cannot afford healthcare and housing. These
artists and musicians will speak out and sing out about the struggle
to survive in 2005.
New College
766 Valencia St./19th St., San Francisco

July 12 (Tuesday) 7:00 PM Free
Labor and The Earthquake
Labor historian Michael Kazin on the San Francisco trade union
movement during the period of The 1906 Earthquake and musicians.
Kazin is author of Barons of Labor, The San Francisco Building
Trades and Union Power in the Progressive Era. He charts the growth
and history of early San Francisco construction labor and the rise
of carpenter P.H McCarthy who became a leader of the San Francisco
Building Trades and in 1909 under the banner of the Union Labor
Party became mayor of San Francisco. Professor Kazin will be
introduced by ILWU historian Harvey Schwartz with the SFSU Labor
Archives.
Musicians Jim Nelson & Jack Chernos will perform.
Sponsored by the Rebuilding San Francisco Project.
http://www.rebuildingsf.org <http://www.laborfest.net/www.rebuildingsf.org>
(under construction)
ILWU Local 34 Hall
5 Berry St. To the left side (north) of SBC Park

July 13 (Wednesday) 5:30 PM Free
A Walking Tour of SF City Hall Exhibition
Making Connections: Career Waitresses of San Francisco
This important exhibition reveals how waitresses are not only
serving our food but also bringing a community spirit to their job
and the places they work at. Their customers grow to love them not
only for the work they do but the humor and character they bring to
the table.
http://www.careerwaitresses.com
<http://www.laborfest.net/www.careerwaitresses.com%C2%A0>
slingingpower [at] yahoo.com
<http://www.laborfest.net/ href="mailto:slingingpower [at] yahoo.com">slingingpower [at] yahoo.com>
Continuing exhibition through 7/22
San Francisco City Hall

July 13 (Wednesday) 7:00 PM Free
Lessons of The Bread & Roses Strike for Today & Screening of
Cry of The Children
Also screening will be The Lawrence Strike of 1912 with speakers Jim
Bresnahan and Manny Sears.
Bresnahan and Sears are both from Lawrence, Massachusetts where this
historic strike took place. After the films, they will discuss the
causes of the strike and why we face some of the same problems today.
Bricklayers and Allied Crafts Local 3
186 Potrero St San Francisco, near 16th St.

July 13 (Wednesday) 7:30 PM $5.00
Latin American Working Class Film & Video Festival
RAYMUNDO -The Revolutionary Film-Makers’ Struggle
(Spanish with English Subtitles)
By Ernesto Ardito & Virna Molina
127 minutes (2002) Argentina
The documentary film about the life and work of Raymundo Gleyzer,
one of the most important Latin American filmmaker, kidnapped and
murdered by that country’s military dictatorship in 1976.
(Please check the detail of this film at July 6 schedule.)
Humanist Hall
370 27th Street, Oakland, near Broadway

July 14 (Thursday) 7:30 PM $10-12 (Sliding scale)
From Bastille to Bush
A Concert to Celebrate Bastille Day
Join a concert to celebrate Bastille Day with international labor
troubadour Anne Feeny and other labor musicians as well as labor
videos. The Bastille tradition continues to live in France and is
celebrated around the world. It is no accident that following the
massive rejection of the EU constitution in France, tens of
thousands made their way to the Bastille to celebrate. Anne Feeny
will be returning from a tour of Europe. Let’s make Bastille Day
come alive in the US.
La Pena Cultural Center
3105 Shattuck at Prince, Berkeley

July 15 (Friday) 7:00 PM $5.00
Filipine Labor Cultural Solidarity Night
There's Blood In Your Coffee ( 26 minutes)
With Cultural performances and Filipino Labor speaker by Southern
Tagalog Exposure (people's center for progressive media) & PAMANTIK-KMU.
Amidst the Supreme Court rule favoring the Union, the Swiss company
that owns Nestle would not give into the just & legal demands of the
workers. For over 2 years, workers of Nestle factory in Laguna,
Philippines has been on strike. The struggle for their rights have
been met with repression not only from the multi-national company,
but also from the Philippine government. sometimes subtle, often
time violent.
Filipino Community Center (FCC)
35 San Juan Ave. near Mission St. SF
(415) 333-6267

July 15 (Friday),16 (Saturday) 7:00 PM
$10 (No one turned away for lack of funds)
Los Vientos de Marzo (The Winds of March)
Lynn Werner performs an original solo theater piece with poetry and
prose based on her eight years documenting labor and human rights
abuses in Colombia, torture, assassination and disappearances.
Poet and award-winning videographer Lynn Werner spent nearly eight
years in Colombia where she participated in that country's agonizing
struggle for basic human rights. Working closely with labor
collectives, she documented the systematic torture, disappearance
and assassination of trade unionists, grassroots organizers, and
displaced rural peasants by Colombia's military and their partners
in crime, the paramilitary. Through her original poetry and prose,
she leads the audience through sugarcane fields to hear the voices
of corteros, the flight of displaced rural peasants as they flee to
urban misery only to have their shacks bulldozed by the military,
the voices of Afro-Colombia women in villages of the Pacific Coast
of Colombia herded onto cattle cars to work in the fields of Cauca,
the testimony of torture of the Coordinator of the Committee for the
Rights of Political Prisoners who is raped as a form of military
intimidation.
http://www.theexit.org <http://www.laborfest.net/www.theexit.org>
EXIT Theatre (Reservations: 415-673-3847)
156 Eddy St., San Francisco
No late seating

July 16 (Saturday) 1:00 PM Free
Art, Witchhunts, Past and Present
With Artists Louise Gilbert, Mike Alewitz, Doug Minkler, Susan
Green, Jan Cook.
This panel will look at the effect of past and present witchhunts on
artists. The effort to silent and censor political art from the
McCarthy period and today will be examined and exposed. It will also
look at how artists use their art to further and advance the cause
of working people here and around the world.
Modern Times Bookstore
888 Valencia St./20th St., San Francisco

July 16 (Saturday) 7:00 PM $5.00
The Iguazu effect (Il effecto Iguazu)
(Spanish with subtitles) 89 min, (2002), Spain
By Pere Joan Ventura
In 2001 Telefonica, the national telephone company of Spain, sold
the major subsidiary named Sintel as a part of globalization process
of the country. As a result of this, about 1800 workers were laid
off. The people driven out from the most stable jobs to the streets
built a 'Camp of Hope' in the middle of flourishing down town of
Madrid and started the struggle which went on for 187 days. Workers
from all over the country felt a little strange about the situation,
but as they ate and slept together, they formed a solidarity
community. The title "Iguazu Effect" means that a fisher man doesn't
realize the danger or is fooled by the calmness of a river, until he
gets to the verge of a waterfall. This is a metaphor of workers'
situation in the wild globalization age.
The director Ventura has worked for various TV networks mostly
producing news and teleplays. This is his first feature film.
Filming "Iguazu Effect", he shot total amount of 90 hours for
187days. Beside this, he participated in a project called "Hay
Motivo" which were short films of 32 directors criticizing
government policy.
Bloodletting : Life, death, healthcare
67 min, 2004 USA
By Lorna Green
What happens when a filmmaker borrows a camera to explore
healthcare? It becomes personal. BLOODLETTING is about a filmmaker
who travels to Cuba to investigate its healthcare system, only to
return home where two family members, uninsured by their employers,
develop illnesses. The film reveals the cruel underbelly of
America's healthcare system.
http://www.lornagreen.org
Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
2868 Mission St., at 25th, San Francisco

July 16 (Saturday) 7:00 PM $5-10
(No one turned away from lack of funds)
Day Laborer’s Benefit
Concert of the Choruses
Join in supporting the struggle for human rights by the San
Francisco Day Laborers program. Immigrant workers are under attack
and this benefit with songs performed by Francisco Herrera and The
Coro Obrero will help their cause. The concert includes the Labor
Heritage Rockin’ Solidarity Chorus featuring "Who Said That", a
piece reflecting spoken and musical voices of working people with
songs that were performed on the Hotel Workers Picket Lines, the
Bush Medley, Stand Up, Rise Again and Listen to the Voices.
New College
777 Valencia St./19th St., San Francisco

July 15 through July 30- Every Friday, Saturday 8:30 PM $10
Boxcar Bertha
One Woman Play by Kerry Reid in collaboration with Christina Augello
& John Warren
Boxcar Bertha is an one-woman play with musical backdrop based on
the legendary depression era hobo, feminist, and anarchist Bertha
Thompson. Featuring Christina Augello, this depression era saga
follows Bertha, a rugged hard living woman who rode the rails in the
1930s, on a journey from hobo to grifter, from prostitute to activist.
Christina Augello is the founder and artistic director of EXIT
Theatre. She has been an actress, producer and director in the Bay
Area for over 30 years.
Jack “Applejack” Walroth is a veteran freelance San Francisco
singer, musician, songwriter, and music publisher, whose career has
remained somewhat below the radar, even though it has included
longstanding associations with many better known musicians in the
San Francisco Bay Area.
(Funding has been made possible by the Puffin Foundation)
http://www.theexit.org <http://www.laborfest.net/www.theexit.org>
EXIT Theatre
156 Eddy St., San Francisco
(Reservations: 415-673-3847)

July 17 (Sunday) 10:15 AM Boarding $25.00
10:30 AM Departure
Labor Maritime History
Boat Tour
This year, the tour will focus on women working on the waterfront.
On the boat, we will hear about the labor, social, environmental and
political history of the Bay Area from the people who know it.
Historians Sue Englander, Charles Wollenberg, Gray Brechin and Herb
Mills among others, will offer comments. From the boat, we will view
the old Kaiser shipyard and Ford assembly plant where many women
worked during World War II. We hope to hear from three women who
worked in Richmond during the 1940’s: Betty Ried Soskin, from a
segregated Jim Crow shipyard union, Phyllis Gould, as a welder; and
her sister, Marian Sousa, as a draftswomen in the shipyard. Also, on
board will be Donna Graves who was instrumental in having a "Rosie
the Riveter Memorial" created in the adjacent water front park.
The tour will include viewing the construction sites for the new
east Span of the Bay Bridge, the Oakland Port and the San Francisco
waterfront.
To make your reservation, call (415) 642-8066, and leave your 1)
name (spell it out), 2) number of your reservation, and 3) your
phone number. You should also send a check to LaborFest, P. O. Box
40983, San Francisco, CA 94140.
You can also contact us by e-mail: laborfest [at] laborfest.net
<http://www.laborfest.net/ href="mailto:laborfest [at] laborfest.net">laborfest [at] laborfest.net>
Terminal E (South side of the Ferry building), SF
Boat leaves promptly at 10:30 AM
Tour lasts 3 hours
Some food and refreshments will be available on board.

July 17 (Sunday) 2:00 PM Free
Labor Maritime History Walk
With Louis Prisco
A four-hour walk along San Francisco's Waterfront, revisiting the
terrain of the maritime strikes and general strike, which
established organized labor on the West Coast. We will stop at the
sites of major events: including the burning of the "Blue Books,"
Battle of Rincon Hill and scene of the fatalities on "Bloody
Thursday," July 5, 1934. The walk will be free, but a $3.00 pamphlet
with a map is also available. Each walk will be limited to 20 persons.
Harry Bridges Plaza
In front of Ferry Building, San Francisco
Reservation required (limited to 20)
Call (415) 841-1254 to make reservation

July 17 (Sunday) 2:00 PM Free
War at Home:The Corporate Offensive From Reagan To Bush
By Jack Rasmus
A book reading with author and union chairperson of the NWU-UAW 1981
Bay Area Chapter, Jack Rasmus. His book is an account of the current
corporate offensive against workers and unions in America, which
began a quarter century ago under Ronald Reagan and is now
accelerating under George W. Bush.
http://www.kyklosproductions.com
Modern Times Bookstore
888 Valencia St./20th St., San Francisco

July 17 (Sunday) 6:30 PM $5 - 20
Sex Workers Organizing Film Night
By Benefit for Sex Workers Organized for Labor, Human and Civil
Rights and the Erotic Service Providers Union
Tales of the Night Fairies
By Shohini Ghosh, Bengali, 74 min (2002)
Indian sex workers organized for labor, human and civil rights.
There will be an art opening and another film shown after this film
Artists Television Access
992 Valencia St. at 20th St., SF

July 19 (Tuesday) 7:00 PM Free
Latin American Labor Poetry, Music and Film Night
Join Alfonso Toxidor, Maria Medina Seratin and others as they
present poetry and music along with videos from Latin America.
Venezuela Bolivariana: Publo y lucha de la IV Guerra Mundial
by Marcelo Andrade Arreaza y Colectivo "Calle y Media" and others
will be shown. (76 min.)
Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
2868 Mission St., at 25th, San Francisco

July 19 (Tuesday) 7:00 PM Free
Book Reading
THROUGH THE WALL: A Year In Havana
By Margot Pepper (UAW-NWU 1981 member)
Come find out what workers’ rights mean when you work in Cuba. "From
her unique vantage point as a journalist working for a year in
Special Period Cuba, Margot Pepper has written a smart and
politically sophisticated memoir..."--Piri Thomas.
http://www.freedomvoices.org
City Lights Book Store
261 Columbus at Broadway, San Francisco

July 20 (Wednesday) 7:30 PM $5.00
Latin American Working Class Film & Video Festival
(No English subtitles on all films this night)
Street Love (Amor de La Calle)
By Asa Faringer, (71 min) Mexico
This film shows the organizing efforts of sex workers in Mexico and
how their efforts to fight exploitation run into battle with the
police and the authorities.
No Olvidamos
By Grupo de cine de la Veron, (20 min) Argentina
This video shows the June 26 2002 massacre carried out by the police
forces under the Duhalde government in De Avellanedea and the role
of the present Kirchner government.
Piqueteros Carajo
By Ojo Obrero, (25 min.) Argentina
The piqueteros movement has been a vital and critical force in
fighting oppression and defending the people. This video show the
massive repression faced by the piqueteros movement including the
murder of its activists.
Humanist Hall
370 27th Street, Oakland, near Broadway

July 20 (Wednesday) 7:00 PM Free
Labor Movement And Class Struggle in Europe
With Austrian journalist and Labournet founder Karl Fischbacher and
Vienna Women’s Studies Professor Irmi Voglmayr.
The policies of privatization and deregulation that have driven US
politics are now being pushed in Europe and have resulted in a
backlash by France and Holland in rejection of the new EU
constitution. This presentation will provide a front seat view of
how these policies are effecting the working class of Europe and how
workers are seeking to defend their conditions. Fischbacker is the
founder of Labournet Austria (http://www.labournetaustria.at/) and
Dr. Irmi Voglmayr has done research on the labor conditions of women
in Austria and the role of the Internet.
Modern Times Bookstore
888 Valencia St./20th St., San Francisco

July 21 (Thursday) 7:00 PM $5.00
Latin American Working Class Film & Video Festival
The Traitors (No English subtitles)
By Raymundo Gleyzer
Fiction/Color/105 min./1973 Argentina
A militant trade unionist joins the Peronist bureaucracy and is
transformed into an opportunist in the union elections. The power he
gains is used by him to betray the workers as he collaborates with
the military dictatorship. This film had to be made surreptitiously
in order to protect the filmmakers.
Greve! (No English subtitles)
By Joao Batista Andrade, Brasil, (35 min.)
In 1979, hundreds of thousands of autoworkers in Brazil struck for
better conditions and benefits. This film of the massive militant
struggle shows the disputes during the strike and the role of Lula
who has gone on to lead the Workers Party and government of Brazil.
Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
2868 Mission St., at 25th, San Francisco

July 22 (Friday) 7:00 PM $5.00
International Working Class Film & Video Festival
Breaking Walls
By Nir Nader in Video 48 Israel 47 minutes
Video 48 is a group of alternative filmmakers focusing on the
situation of Arabs inside Israel. When Israel began walling itself
off from the Palestinians of the West Bank, Mike Alewitz, who paints
colorful murals, from L.A. to Baghdad, asked the Workers Advice
Center (WAC) to help him find a site in an Arab village. WAC chose
Kufr Qara, where workers picked a promising wall at the football
stadium. They told Alewitz that they wanted "a mural that would help
them explain to other workers why joining a union is important."
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<http://www.hanitzotz.com/video48/breaking-walls.htm>Everywhere We Go
By Valerie Lapin Ganley (40 min.)
This video tells the story of mostly immigrants who fight for
justice in the US and organize to rally in Washington D.C.
Filmmaker Valerie Lapin Ganley will be on hand and will also report
on the struggle of the hotel workers in San Francisco for a contract.
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Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
2868 Mission St., at 25th, San Francisco

July 22 (Friday), 30 (Saturday) 7:00 PM $10.00
(No one turned away for lack of funds)
I, Candidate Upton Sinclair
Performed by Jay Martin
"In September everybody was saying we had the election ‘in the bag.’
Even our enemies conceded it; newspaper correspondents expressed
their surprise at how leading businessmen gave up, saying there was
no way to ‘stop Sinclair.’ All our friends took to calling me
‘Governor.’ But I said, ‘Wait, the fight hasn't begun yet.’"
Upton Sinclair ran for governor in 1934 with a plan to End Poverty
In California. Supported by thousands of EPIC volunteers, he won the
primary but lost the election.
Jay Martin performs excerpts from Upton Sinclair's memoir I,
Candidate for Governor, and How I Got Licked.
EXIT Theatre (Reservations: 415-673-3847)
156 Eddy St., San Francisco
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July 22 (Friday) 7:30 PM
Wobblies A graphic history of the Industrial Workers of the World
Edited by Paul Bohle and Nicole Schulman
Labor historian Paul Buhle will talk about the vibrant history of
the "Wobblies" through the use of art and stories in his new book.
"Wobblies" which was published this year for the centenary of the
founding of the IWW includes the stories of Elisabeth Gurley Flynn,
Emma Goldman, John Reed alongside the witchhunts, mob lynching of
labor organizers and revolts will be brought to life at this book
reading.
http://www.codysbooks.com/
Cody's Bookstore
2454 Telegraph Ave. Berkeley

July 23 (Saturday) 1:00 PM Free
Writing Workshop for Working People
By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
The stories and lives of working people have been hidden by the
corporate controlled media to prevent a growing consciousness among
labor. Labor writer and historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz will conduct
a workshop to show how working people can write about their lives
for themselves and others. Telling your story is part of the need to
liberate the truth.
EXIT Theatre
156 Eddy St., San Francisco

July 23 (Saturday) 8:00 PM $10-20
(Sliding Scale)
Zapatista Strippers, Revolutionary Who...
By Sex Workers Organized For Labor, Human And Civil Rights and the
Erotic Service Providers Union
Live Performance-Theater-Dance-Spoken Word
A performance with Isis Rodriguez and Daisy Anarchy
Two long-time San Francisco sex worker labor activists and
performers challenge the stereotypes people hold of sex workers with
an educational, entertaining and thought-provoking show.
Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
2868 Mission St., at 25th, San Francisco

July 23 (Saturday), 29 (Friday) 7:00 PM $10.00
(No one turned away for lack of funds)
Will Draw For Food
& Chile Con Am
Monologue Performed by Dan McHale & Kristian Ruggieri
What does an animator do when he's laid off in San Francisco? He
goes to South India of course! Will Draw for Food is about animating
cartoons, writing songs and dodging falling coconuts. In Chile Con
Amy, a Habitat For Humanity volunteer takes us with her to Chile,
where she strives to cope with one extremely difficult fellow American.
EXIT Theatre (Reservations: 415-673-3847)
156 Eddy St., San Francisco
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July 24 (Sunday) 7:30 PM $8 - $12 (Sliding scale)
100 Years of Struggle - A Celebration of the IWW and the American
Labor Movement
Features a reading by noted writer Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (Red Dirt
and Outlaw Woman) with music by Folk This! and members of Berkeley's
Allegro Non Troppo opera company, plus special guests.
La Pena Cultural Center
3105 Shattuck at Prince, Berkeley

July 26 (Tuesday) 7:30 PM $5 - 15 donation (Sliding scale)
52nd Anniversary of the start of the Cuban Revolution
Work and Revolution
Intersection Independent Press Spotlight on two worker-run
collectives: Freedom Voices Press and AK Press- Book Reading and
Dramatization.
The evening is a dynamic dialogue between two grass roots presses
via a featured reading and Intersection stage enactment from each
press on the theme of work and revolution. Both presses are
celebrating their 15-year anniversaries! Margot Pepper will shed
light on working in Cuba with excerpts from her new memoir, Through
the Wall: A Year in Havana (FV May 1, 2005).
http://www.freedomvoices.org
http://www.theintersection.org
Intersection for the Arts
446 Valencia (between 15th /16th St.) SF

July 27 (Wednesday) 7:30 PM $5.00
Latin American Working Class Film & Video Festival
National Stadium (No English subtitles)
By Carmen Light Parot, (90 min.) Chile
Between September and November of 1973 in Chile, the national
stadium was turned into a concentration camp for more than twelve
thousand people. Survivors, the military and journalists reconstruct
those dark days.
Paso a las Luchadoras (Open The Road to The Women Fighters)
(with English subtitles)
By Ojo Obrero, (30 min.) 2004, Argentina
Thousands of Women in Argentina have taken up the struggle for
liberation by their own hand. This film focuses on seven women whose
day-to-day struggles against sexism takes in all aspects of life.
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<http://www.ojoobrero.org/>Swift (No English subtitles)
Documentary, (12min.)
This is a clandestine report of the E.R.P. on the kidnapping of the
English consul and manager of the US refrigerator company Swift de
Rosario, After the kidnapping the E.R.P. demanded labor improvements
and that the merchandise be distributed among the workers.
Humanist Hall
370 27th Street, Oakland, near Broadway

July 28 (Thursday) 7:00 PM $5.00
Latin American Working Class Film & Video Festival
Cronicas De Libertad (No English subtitles)
By Grupo Alavio, 50 min. Argentina
This video shows the movement of the Piqueteros who have shaken the
roots of Argentina in the struggle to defend their lives.
Desterro (No English subtitles)
By Eduardo Walls, 18 min. Brazil
This video is about the 1894 federalist revolution in the south,
President Floriano Peixoto organizes mass repression to stop the
revolution. In Desterro, the state capital the population lives
terrified as summary executions occur against the people.
Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
2868 Mission St., at 25th, San Francisco

July 29 (Friday) 7:00 PM $5.00
Latin American Working Class Film & Video Festival
La Rebelion de los Colgados (Rebellion of the Hanged)
Based on B. Traven’s novel
By Alfredo B. Crevenna, Emilio Fernandez
Fiction, (84 min.) 1954 (in Spanish) Mexico
This important film chronicles peonage and debt slavery under the
Porfirio Diaz rule in Mexico. Chiapas peasants were driven into the
forests to cut down the mahogany trees. Failure to reach the quotas
meant that the men were hung from the trees. This leads to a
militant rebellion in the labor camps and haciendas and this little
known film shows the real causes of the Mexican revolution.
Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
2868 Mission St., at 25th, San Francisco

July 30 (Saturday) 12:00 noon $15.00 - $50.00
(No one turned away for lack of funds.)
Labor History Bicycle Tour
Local historian and activist Chris Carlsson will conduct a bicycling
Labor History tour. Covering the early 8-hour day movement, through
the ebb and flow of class struggle that shaped San Francisco in the
19th century, it focuses on the important intersection of human
labor and the urban landscape, broadening labor history into an
inquiry into ecology and transit and how we collectively shape our
physical environment. The tour provides a detailed look at the
famous 1934 strike, what led to it, and what it led to, the rise of
the ILWU, its storied history and crucial role in the political and
economic life of San Francisco, and its surprising role at the
fulcrum of globalization. Finally, Carlsson's own history of
co-publishing the infamous underground financial district magazine
Processed World will add an awareness of contemporary labor
realities seldom heard among the club of labor historians...
Meet at 12 noon at CounterPULSE, 1310 Mission Street at 9th.
A sliding scale donation of $15-50 is requested to benefit
CounterPULSE, a nonprofit arts organization that hosts Shaping San
Francisco.
Reservations required: call 626.2060.
carlsson.chris [at] gmail.com
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July 30 (Saturday) 5:30 PM Free
Book Reading
The Land of Orange Groves and Jails - Upton Sinclair’s California
Professor Lauren Coodley reads from her newly acclaimed book "The
Land of Orange Groves and Jails/Upton Sinclair’s California".
Coodley is an active member of the AFT and activist for labor rights
including the fight against Wal-Mart.
EXIT Theatre
156 Eddy St., San Francisco

July 31 (Sunday) 10:00 AM $15.00
"New Deal" Structures Bus Tour
With Harvey Smith & Gray Brechin
You will learn about the major contribution construction workers
made during the depression era New Deal program in the building of
San Francisco. Their monuments stand as important landmarks for all
working people
SCHEDULE
9:30 AM - Assemble at Aquatic Park
10:00 AM - Depart for Rincon Annex - View lobby and Murals; View
Treasure Island (across the bay)
10:30 AM - Depart for Sunshine School (Bryant & 25th) via the old
Federal Building - View interior of Sunshine School
11:15 AM - Depart for the Former SF State Nornal School/UC Extension
Campus
12:30 PM - Depart for Beach Chalet - View mural, mosaics and wood
carvings, and have a beer or soda
2:30 PM - Return to Aquatic Park
(Times are approximate, depending on traffic and how long we talk to
the horses.)
Meet at the bottom corner of Aquatic Park Hyde & Jefferson
(Reservation required: call (415) 642-8066)
Make reservation and send check to LaborFest, P.O. Box 40983, SF, CA
94140
(Sandwiches and drink will be available on the bus)

July 31 (Sunday) 7:00 PM Free
Closing Musical Theater Poetry Party
Join with the many poets, artists and singers as we celebrate the
final day of LaborFest 2005.
Women’s Building
3543 18th St. at Valencia, San Francisco