July 2007 Laborfest Calendar of Events

http://www.laborfest.net/2007schedule.htm

LaborFest 2007 Schedule

July 5 (Thursday) 7:00 PM ($5.00) -Roxie Theatre 3117 16th St., SF
International Working Class Film & Video Festival
Big Brother is Watching - The Other Side of Samsung (40 min)
By Labor News Production (Korea) 2006
Cell phones, beepers and the myriad of electronic devises have
become essential tools in our lives but in this riveting documentary
by Korea∂s Labor News Production, we learn that there is another
side to these devises when Samsung employees want to find out about
their labor rights. Samsung in Korea has a long virulent history of
attacking all those who seek to form unions and they are now using
their high tech to head off unionization. Workers to their horror,
discover that their every word outside the factory is being fed back
to Samsung and this continues even when some of the workers no long
even work at the company. This film goes to the heart of how new
communication technology can and is being used to thwart democratic
labor rights. It is an eye opener on the new telecom world and what
this means for our society. http://www.lnp89.org <http://www.lnp89.org>
Battle Of Local 5668 (54 min) 2007 by Shawn Bennett
1700 men and women union members were locked out of their jobs for
over a year by international fugitive from justice, Marc Rich. The
film centers on local union 5668 of the United Steelworkers of
America. In 1992, the prospect for labor was bleak. Reagan had just
fired the air traffic controllers, “big business” was given free
reign. Amongst the mation’s constant pursuit of money, chain stores,
and city sized Wal-Mart shopping centers, comes this little-known
story of 1700 men and women in rural West Virginia who refused to
given in to big business and fought for their
rights.http://www.battleoflocal5668.com <http://www.battleoflocal5668.com>

July 6 (Friday) 7:00 PM ($5.00) -Roxie Theatre 3117 16th St., SF
International Working Class Film & Video Festival
Against Coercion ( Kimigayo Fukiritsu) (60 min) 2006
by Video Press (Japan)
Under Tokyo mayor Ishihara, the Tokyo government is now punishing
teachers who don∂t stand up during the singing of national anthem
"Kimigayo". Since last October 2003, 345 teachers have been punished
and this video exposes their struggle against militarization.
This video shows how this effort to re-introduce militarism in the
schools is taking place.
Also attending and speaking will be Japanese teacher Ms Sato Etsuko
who is a member of the Mirua Peninsula Teachers∂ Union In Kanagawa
and has faced discipline against her protests.
http://www.geocities.jp/dorosien28/Default.wmv
<http://www.geocities.jp/dorosien28/Default.wmv%20>Mgg01231 [at] nifty.ne.jp
<mailto:Mgg01231 [at] nifty.ne.jp>
http://www.vpress.jp <http://www.vpress.jp>
<http://www.vpress.jp>Korea, Labor and FTA (25) 2006 by MediAct (Korea)
From "16 Takes On Korean Society"
This segment and music video shows the reason Korean workers are up
in arms against the proposed US-Korea Free Trade Agreement. From
temporary workers to teachers and public workers, the FTA will
drastically affect their labor rights and living conditions.
http://mediact.org/web/eng/eng02.php
http://www.archive.org/details/16takes

July 6 (Friday) 7:00 PM ($5.00) -Fellowship of Humanity Hall 370
27th St., Oakland
International Working Class Film & Video Festival
Maquilapolis (68 min) 2006 by Vicky Funari & Sergio DeLa Torre
In 2001 Tijuana suffered a recession as transnationals looking to
cut labor costs even further, left for Asian countries. In the
global marketplace workers are mere commodities. The filmmakers gave
several women workers in Tijuana video cameras to make a record of
their lives, giving the documentary the intimate feel of video diaries.
http://www.newsreel.org <http://www.newsreel.org>
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/vogel010507.html
My Bicycle (Bisikletim) (12 min) 2006
by Esra Var, Seda Özdemir, Ercan Çof, Tolga Sert
In this documentary, we learn about the living conditions and
stories of temporary workers from a 13 years old boy from Turkey. He
comes to Eskisehir –one of the big cities of Turkey every spring to
work as a temporary beet worker.
No Te Rajes (29 min) 2006 by Caitlin Manning
The peaceful civil disovedience movement took over the heart of
Mexico City for 49 das in 2006. This film provides background and
context for the current wave of social movements in Mexico.
Caitlin_manning [at] csumb.edu <mailto:Caitlin_manning [at] csumb.edu>


Estamos Aqui (10 min) 2005 by Insurgent Media
The American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees
(AFSCME) initiated a one-day strike at all University of California
campuses in April of 2005. At UC Santa Cruz, students and workers
physically shut down the campus for hours as thousands blocked the
two entrances. This film gives an inside look at this historic events.
solidarityfilms [at] riseup.net <mailto:solidarityfilms [at] riseup.net>
http://www.mediainsurgente.com <http://www.mediainsurgente.com>

July 7 (Saturday) 10:30 AM ($15 to $50 sliding scale donation to
CounterPULSE). Bring a bag lunch) Meet at 1310 Mission St. at 9th, SF
Labor Bike Tour with Chris Carlson of San Francisco’s labor history.
For more info: call Chris Carlsson (415) 608 9035
carlsson.chris [at] gmail.com <mailto:carlsson.chris [at] gmail.com>
<http://www.laborfest.net/carlsson.chris [at] gmail.com>

July 7 (Saturday) 2:00 PM ($5.00) -Roxie Theatre 3117 16th St., SF
International Working Class Film & Video Festival
Ballad of Joe Hill (115 min) 1971 (Sweden/United States)
By Bo Widerberg
Joe Hill was one of the most important trade unionist, labor
cultural worker and militant in the history of the United States.
His word sand music still hit home and this dramatic film tells his
story as an immigrant coming to the United States. This rarely seen
Academy Award nominated film is about an ingenious immigrant labor
organizer who is framed on a murder charge in a highly
sensationalized trial with little evidence. Despite worldwide
appeals by the King of Sweden and the President of the USA, Hill is
martyred after being shot by a Utah firing squad in one of the most
controversial capital punishment trials of the 20th Century. He also
was here during the San Francisco earthquake and wrote about this
experience.
Land, Rain and Fire (28 min) 2006 by Tami Gold
What began as a teachers’ strike on May 22, 2006 for better wages
and more resources for students has erupted into a massive movement
for profound social change in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. This film
tells the story of the police attack on the morning of June 14th
when more than fifty thousand teachers were camped out with their
children. The attack backfired as public anger transformed the
strike into an unprecedented democratic insurgency, demanding the
resignation of the Governor and the creation of a new constitution.
tamigold@mindspring com <mailto:tamigold [at] mindspring.com>
http://www.twn.org <http://www.twn.org>

July 7 (Saturday) 7:00 PM ($5.00) -Roxie Theatre 3117 16th St., SF
International Working Class Film & Video Festival
Morristown (60 min) 2007 by Jean Lewis
Morristown tells about how workers who are directly faced with the
costs of NAFTA and globalization. Their factory is closed down and
shipped to Mexico. Instead of folding up they work with the Mexican
workers to unionize and fight for their rights. The cross connection
and connected battle of US and Mexican workers is portrayed by
exposing the real lives and costs of our new world economy.
http://www.annelewis.org <http://www.annelewis.org>Alewis615 [at] earthlink.net
<mailto:Alewis615 [at] earthlink.net>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1tdfW0ccOY&eurl=
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1tdfW0ccOY&eurl=>
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1tdfW0ccOY&eurl=>Uncommon Knowledge
(28 min) 2006 by Eliza Kemenway
A unique view of Privatization happening in real time. Uncommon
Knowledge takes place inside the University of California as plans
unfold to shut down its historic San Francisco campus in order to
convert it into a profitable private development.
eliza [at] hemenwaydocs.com <mailto:eliza [at] hemenwaydocs.com>
http://www.hemenwaydocs.com <http://www.hemenwaydocs.com>
<http://www.hemenwaydocs.com> The New Los Angeles (55 min) 2006 by
Lyn Goldfarb
From the bitter, racially-driven elections that brought Tom Bradley
to office as the city’s first black mayor in 1973, to the victory in
2005 of Antonio Villaraigosa, the the city’s first Latino mayor in
more than 130 years, The New Los Angeles examines how race, labor
and immigration have shaped this most complex of cities.(Lyn
Goldfarb will be present)
lyn [at] documentary-films.tv
<mailto:lyn [at] documentary-films.tv>http://www.californiaseries.org
<http://www.californiaseries.org>

July 7 (Saturday) 8:00 PM (Free) -885 Clayton St., at Carl St., SF
Song and Poetry Swap
For over 20 years, the Freedom Song Network has been helping keep
alive the spirit of labor and political song in the Bay Are, on
picket lines, at rallies, on concert stages and at songswaps. Bring
songs or poems to share. Every one is welcome, regardless of musical
ability or training.For more info: (415) 648-3457

July 8 (Sunday) 10:30 AM (Free) -Meet at Dewey Monument in Union
Square, SF
Walk - SF History and 1877 Conditions In SF
By Historian David Giesen
Join this quick paced walking tour of labor and political history
sites of San Francisco. Giesen will tie the buildings to the history
and how politics played an important role in San Francisco. Learn
about the Progressive period and how this figured into politics and
labor in the early 20th century.
(415) 948-4265 telekosmos [at] yahoo.com <mailto:telekosmos [at] yahoo.com>

July 8 (Sunday) 1:00 PM (Free) -Meet at Virginia & Coleridge, near
Mission & 30th St., SF
Walk - Railway Strike of 1907 Bernal History
By Milne and Molly Martin of the Bernal Heights Preservation Society
A walk with a focus on the United Railway Strike of 1907. For more
information, call: (415) 285-8978.

July 8 (Sunday) 2:00 PM ($5.00) -Roxie Theatre 3117 16th St., SF
International Working Class Film & Video Festival
The Spanish Earth (52 min) 1937
By Joris Ivens, written by John Dos Passos & Ernest Hemingway
This landmark political film follows the struggle for democracy that
lay at the heart of the Spanish Civil War. Combining visceral
footage shot at the frontlines, celebration of the Spanish people,
and a powerful narration (written by Ernest Hemingway and John Dos
Passos), the film presents the human face of war in a manner
unmatched by few films before or since.
Souls Without Borders - The Untold Story of The Abraham Lincoln
Brigade (52 min) 2006
By Alfonso Domingo, Anthony L. Geist
Seventy years have passed since the men and women of the Abraham
Lincoln Brigade defied their government’s ban and took a stand
against Franco, Hitler, and Mussolini in the bloody Spanish Civil
War. A Third of them lie buried in Spanish soil.
Director Anthony Geist will be attending.
http://www.diagrama.tv
<http://www.diagrama.tv>tgeist [at] u.washington.edu
<mailto:tgeist [at] u.washington.edu>

July 8 (Sunday) 7:00 PM ($5.00) -Roxie Theatre 3117 16th St., SF
International Working Class Film & Video Festival
Carry On Ken (40 min) 2006 by Toby Reisz
This documentary shows the work and life of working class director
Ken Loach. He has spent his life doing film about the lives, history
and struggle of working people around the world. Meet the people who
work with Ken and how he makes it happen.
info [at] feassiblefilms.co.uk <mailto:info [at] feassiblefilms.co.uk>
http://www.feasiblefilms.co.uk <http://www.feasiblefilms.co.uk>
<http://www.feasiblefilms.co.uk>The GAMA Strike - We Are Workers Not
Slaves (60 min) 2006
by Socialist Party of Ireland (Ireland)
In 2005 a group of Turkish workers made history in Ireland when they
took on their employer, Turkish-owned multinational construction
giant GAMA. Assisted by the Socialist Party (Ireland), whose members
first exposed the scandalous wages and conditions being paid by GAMA
ti its Turkish workers, they engaged in a bitter and hard fought
battle, which eventually brought GAMA to heel.
info [at] socialiftparty.net
<mailto:info [at] socialiftparty.net>http://www.socialistparty.net
<http://www.socialistparty.net>
<http://www.socialistparty.net>This Is The Subway (30 min) 2006 by
Ojo Obrero
This powerful documentary tells the story of how Buenos Aires subway
workers won back their 6 hour day after the military dictatorship.
They faced horrendous health and safety conditions and a union that
did not want to fight but their power and stamina won the day.
info [at] ojoobrero.org
<mailto:info [at] ojoobrero.org>http://www.ojoobrero.org <http://www.ojoobrero.org>
<http://www.ojoobrero.org>Rebuilding San Francisco (28 min) 2006 by
Maria Brooks
The only film about the workers and unions who rebuilt San Francisco
after the 1906 quake. This video is a tribute to the skills, the
talents and union organization of the workers who rebuilt San
Francisco in only three years.

July 8 (Sunday) 5:00 PM (Free) City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus at
Broadway, SF
Labor On The Margins (Poetry reading)
Hear poets on subjects that aren't always talked about. Having
troubles, demanding dignity, trying to survive. Writers from sex
workers and exotic dancers, tenants and homeless activists, a mother
who was a sixteen year old unwed mother, having the low income
blues, growing up in the working class West Coast. With Daisy
Anarchy, Barbara Bennett, Rafael F. J. Alvarado (from Los Angeles),
Geri Digiorno (Sonoma County Poet Laureate), and James Tracy.

July 9 (Monday) 7:00 PM (Free) -Location to be announced
Musical and Live Theater
Featuring the SF City College Labor Drama Class and the Labor
Heriatige Rocking Solidarity Chorus

July 10 (Tuesday) 7:00 PM (Free) Modern Times Bookstore 888 Valencia
St., SF
500 Years of Chicana Women's History
Book reading by Elizabeth (Betita) Martinez
Betita's work uncovers a critical history of the struggle and lives
of Latina women workers in the United States. Their strength and
perseverance give testimony to their power in the true history of
this country.
http://www.monthlyreview.org/0702martinez.htm

July 11 (Wednesday) 7:00 PM (Free) New College 780 Valencia at 19th
St., SF
Labor, Imperialism and Indigenous People - (Forum)
Chair, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, writer and professor in Native American
Studies, co-founder Indigenous World Association, 3 decades of
international indigenous organizing.
Speakers:
Aileen "Chockie" Cottier, Lakota from Pine Ridge, co-founder, Women
of All Red Nations, Indigenous World Association, 3 decades of
international indigenous organizing.
Jimbo Simmons, Creek from Oklahoma, International Indian Treaty
Council representative, 3 decades of international indigenous
organizing.
Morningstar Gali, Pit River nation, Northern California, Bay Area
indigenous organizer from the new generation, raised by Pit River,
international activists.

July 11, 12 at Red Vic Theater
The Wind That Shakes the Barley (127 min) 2006
Director Ken Loach, Germany/Ireland/UK
Showtimes: Wed: 2:00, 7:00, 9:35 Thurs: 7:00, 9:35
Tickets: $8.50 regular; $6.50 for 2pm matinees; $5.00 seniors and
children at all times.

July 12 (Thursday) 7:30 PM (Donation) Stanford University -Palo Alto
- Building 420, room 040 - Jordan Hall, lower level in the Main Quad
(Map: http://campus-map.stanford.edu/index.cfm?lD=D1-420)
Maquilapolis (68 min) 2006 by Vicky Funari & Sergio DeLa Torre
(See details of this film)
<http://www.laborfest.net/2007schedule.htm#maquilapolis>

July 12 (Thursday) 7:00 PM Location to be announced
Film Showing by AFTRA
Commitment To Action (28 min) 2007
by BAL-Maiden Films, directed by Amie Williams
MC by Cheryl Jennings and other AFTRA members.

July 12 (Thursday) 7:30 PM (Donation) Poet & Patriot Bar -320 Cedar
St., Santa Cruz
Danish Musicians from Denmark perform
For information: (408) 674-5020, jimmy-kelley [at] sbcglobal.net
<mailto:jimmy-kelley [at] sbcglobal.net%20%20>
More Danish musicians performance on July 14 & 15.

July 13 (Friday) 6:00 PM ($5.00) -New College 777 Valencia, SF
International Working Class Film & Video Festival
The Herd (SURU) (118 min) 1978 by Yilmaz Guney
In this illuminating film, we see how the industrialization of
Turkey destroys the conditions and lives of the rural population. A
sheepherder seeks to take his flock to Ankara to sell and in the
process we see the transformation of society and the life of the
Kurds. This film was banned in Turkey.
Oppression Is Illegal (21 min) 2006 by Labor News Production (Korea)
South Korean workers have some of the most militant and democratic
unions in the world. At the same time they face massive repression
with many trade unionists and leaders jailed and trade unionists
faced with being sued personally for costs when they go on strike.
As a result of these draconian measures, some unionists have
committed suicide. Temporary workers are now the norm in Korea and
this has brought even greater economic problems for the working
people of Korea.
Lnp1989 [at] empal.com <mailto:Lnp1989 [at] empal.com>
http://www.lnp89.org <http://www.lnp89.org>

July 13 (Friday) 7:00 PM ($5.00) -Fellowship of Humanity Hall 370
27th St., Oakland
International Working Class Film & Video Festival
Class Struggle Films from Australia
Film-Work (43 min) 1981 by John Huges
Between 1953 and 1958 the Waterside Workers Federation in Australia
supported a film unit tha produced ten documentary films for several
militant unions. Film-Work, produced in 1981, looks at sequences
from four of these films in conversation with the Unit’s members
raising issues pertinent to current problems of film and labor
history, politics and social change.
jheworks [at] websurf.net.au
<mailto:jheworks [at] websurf.net.au>The Hungry Miles (49 min) 1954 by
Jack Levy, Keith Gow of the Waterfront Workers Federation Film Unit
This labor film, which premiered to 5,000 wharfies in a Melbourne
stadium shows the real lives and struggles of the Australian
dockers. The WWF had made it a high priority to break through the
anti-worker propaganda by the shipping bosses and this film played a
key part in showing the working conditions, hopes and aspirations of
dockers. It also challenged the corporate controlled effort to make
film simply "entertainment" industry.
http://www.api-network.com/cgi-bin/reviews/jrbview.cgi?n=1864032804

July 14 (Saturday) 11:00 - 4:00 PM Hyde Street Pier Hyde & Jefferson
St., SF (You need to pay the gate fee at the pier)
Living History: SF Waterfront Strike 1901
(Theatrical Performance of 1901 City Waterfront Federation Strike)
With the Hyde Street Pier Living History Players
Witness a recreation of the strike that shut down the San Francisco
waterfront from July 13 to October 2 1901, and resulted after its
conclusion in the general acceptance and growth of labor unions
throughout the city.
Living History Players take roles as striking seamen and teamsters
demonstrating on the pier, carrying picket signs and distributing
leaflets, with impassioned speeches calling for unity and
brotherhood, and theatrical confrontations with employers and
shipowners.
San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park
Hyde Street Pier at the foot of Hyde Street For More Information
Call: (415) 447-5000

July 14 (Saturday) 1:00 PM (Free) The Red Stone Building 16th Street
at Capp, SF
The Redstone Walk – Labor, Art & The Politics of the Mission District
By Louis Prisco
THE REDSTONE BUILDING AND ENVIRONS. An inside look at the Labor
Temple that was headquarters of the 1934 General Strike, plus a
brief tour of the historically rich working class neighborhood
outside. This event is a supplement to the SF General Strike walk on
July 21. To register for July 14 call the leader, Louis Prisco, at
415-841-1254 or send an e-mail to penguinflow [at] hotmail.com
<mailto:penguinflow [at] hotmail.com>

July 14 (Saturday) 6:30 PM ($8.00) SF Community Music Center 544
Capp St., SF
Danish Labor Musicians -
Reception & Concert
(6:30 PM Reception, 7:30 PM Concert)
This year the Labor Festival will be having Danish singers and
musicians performing Danish working class songs. These members of
Danish Musicians Union are - Hanne Skaalum, folk singer, Victoria
Thygesen, folk singer and singer-songwriter, Irina Strange,
international jazz singer and pianist, Micael Castor, singer and
songwriter, Jørn Nielsen, contrabass player, Bendix Nielsen,
drummer, Claus Bastrup, accordion player.
Denmark has had a great tradition of working class songs and music.
In October 2006, the album "Arbejderliv" was released brought
together by Micael Castor. Many of these singers and musicians will
perform at the festival.

July 15 (Sunday) 1:00 - 4:00 PM (Free) Old Dutch Windmill in Golden
Gate Park (On JFK Rd. near the Beach Chalet & the ocean)
Singing of Danish Jazz singer Irina Strange and musician Donald
Pender perform at the Old Dutch Windmill.

July 15 (Sunday) 1:00 PM (Donation) -ILWU Local 6 Hall 255 9th
Street, near Howard, SF
International Working Class Film & Video Festival
Discussion after the films on privatization/corporatization in
education with videographers Jackson Potter and Pepi Leistyna. Also
joining the discussion will be Robert McCarthy a Hayward Highschool
teacher of NEA-CTA who was a one of the videographers of The Channel
16.84 "The Truth" a daily video strike bulletin on youtube.
Renaissance 2010: On The Front Lines (52 min) 2007
by Jackson Potter & Al Ramirez
A video documentary showing the threat to public education stemming
from school privatization. This presentation features teachers from
charter and traditional schools, educational experts, and community
leaders affected by Renaissance 2010. jpottery2002 [at] yahoo.com
<mailto:jpottery2002 [at] yahoo.com%20>
Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class (62 min) 2005
by Loretta Alper & Pepi Leistyna
This film navigates the steady stream of narrow working class
representations from American television's beginnings to today's
sitcoms, reality shows, police dramas, and daytime talk shows.
http://www.mediaed.org/videos/CommercialismPoliticsAndMedia/ClassDismissed

July 15 (Sunday) 5:30 PM (Free) -Terminal E South side of the ferry
building, SF
A performance before the boat ride with Richard Adrianowitz and
Peter Kasin doing sea songs of 19th century African American and
Caribbean sailors and dock workers, and with AFM Local 6 member Jack
Chernos doing Burt Williams' and his own labor songs.
http://www.handspikes.com/ <http://www.handspikes.com/%20>
http://www.sffolkfest.org/2004/performers_and_workshops/
pw_richard_peter_kasin.html
<http://www.sffolkfest.org/2004/performers_and_workshops/pw_richard_peter_kasin.html>

July 15 (Sunday) 6:30 PM ($35.00) -Terminal E South side of the
ferry building, SF (End of the Market Street)
Labor Maritime History Boat Tour
This year, the LaborFest Maritime History Boat Tour is a nighttime
dinner cruise with the Brass Leberation Orchestra. On board, we will
learn about the struggle of the ILWU-IBU and Master, Mates and
Pilots to keep the bay unionized. We will sail by the rising eastern
span of the San Francisco Bay Bridge. Former boilermaker and labor
photographer Joseph Blum will talk about how the new bridge is being
constructed along with presentations by other construction and
maritime workers. Gray Brechin and other historians will provide a
picture of our history in the past and it's relevance today. We
thank Blue and Gold for the use of the boat.
6:15 PM Boarding, 6:30 PM Departure
Tour last 3 hours
Food will be provided, however, if you are on a special diet, please
bring your own food.
To make your reservation:
Call (415) 642-8066 or send e-mail to laborfest [at] laborfest.net
<mailto:laborfest [at] laborfest.net>
and give the following information.
1) Your name (please spell it out if you use phone)
2) Number of your reservation
3) Your phone number
You should send a check to:
LaborFest
P.O. Box 40983, San Francisco, CA 94140

July 16 (Monday) 7:00 PM (Free) New College 766 Valencia St. at 19th
St., SF
1877 Strike and The Chinese Struggle for Justice
Presentation by Anna Naruta Ph.D., Director of Collections of
Chinese Historical Society of America.

July 17 (Tuesday) 7:00 PM (Free) AFM Local 6 Hall 116 9th St., near
Mission St., SF
Denmark, Labor, Art and The Working Class Movement
A report on the labor situation in Denmark and role of labor culture
and arts. This delegation of musicians were supported in their trip
to the United States by the Musicians union and other unions in
Denmark.

July 18 (wedbesday) 7:00 PM (Free) Modern Times Bookstore
888Valencia St., SFG
From Us to Them: The $Trillion Dollar Income Shift
Book reading by Jack Rasmus -Jack's book critically looks at the
massive and historic shift in income in the US. The growing
disparity of wealth and real decline in living standards of working
people in the US is a story that is generally covered up by the
corporate controlled mainstream media.

July 19 (Thursday) 8:00 PM ($10 - No one turned away)
a.Muse Gallery 614 Alabana St., SF
Brecht Concert
Songs of Bertolt Brecht with music by Hanns Eisler, Kurt Weill, and
Paul Dessau. Readings of poetry and other texts by Brecht.
Joyce Todd McBride, voice, with Miles Graber, piano, plus special
guests, present an evening of songs and poems by Bertolt Brecht as
part of LaborFest 2007. For information: (510)548-3111
jetmcbride [at] gmail.com <mailto:jetmcbride [at] gmail.com>

July 20 (Friday) 7:00 PM ($5.00) -Mission Cultural Center for Latino
Arts 2868 Mission St., at 25th St., SF
International Working Class Film & Video Festival
The 20th anniversary of the largest strike wave in the history of
South Africa
.In 1987, a militant mass strike wave took place in South Africa
against the apartheid regime. This strike involved railway workers,
teachers, public workers and the entire Black labor movement. To
commemorate this strike, Brother Robert Mashego 2nd Vice President
of SATAWU from Johannesburg, South Africa who was in the strike has
been invited to speak. We will also show a video of that strike, a
video The Long March, The BTR Strike and a video of the 1984 Action
Against Aparthied at Pier 80 in San Francisco and the support for
this action by ILWU Local 10.
COSATU and The Freedom Charter (60 min) 1987
Producer unknown
This valuable historical video record of the 1987 strike wave
against the apartheid regime of South Africa covers the miners,
railway workers, auto workers and the strike rallies and actions
during that year. Union members speak out throughout the film and
debate at the COSATU Congress the role of their unions and why they
need a “Freedom Charter.” This film is a critical resource in
understanding and depicting the working class struggle in South
Africa against apartheid and for workers power.
The Long March, The BTR Strike (26 min) 1986
by Open Eye Productions
Follows the NUMSA Sarmcol strike. This strike of the BTR workers in
South Africa won support from throughout the world including the Bay
Area. The workers organized collectives to raise funds through the
production of t-shirts and other products. These workers wrote plays
about their struggle and fought starvation and many assassination
attacks by government and company supporters.

July 20 (Friday) 7:00 PM ($5.00) -Fellowship of Humanity Hall 370
27th St., Oakland
International Working Class Film & Video Festival
The Scavengers (69 min) 2007 by Karahber (Turkey)
Hundreds of people who have been pushed out of their Kurdish village
Ördekli Kotran's in Hakkari during 1994 are still in a battle for
survival. Their work is collecting paper for recycling from the
garbage in the center of Ankara. In 2001, a group of these workers
started to video record their daily lives. They documented the
suffering as a result of their forced migration and their struggle
against unregulated face of capitalism in the capital city of
Turkey. Their work tells the story of those people - from a 13 years
old child looking after his family in the garbage of Ankara to an
old man being dismissed from his village at the age of 60 with their
only resources being their labor. Despite forced migration,
alienation and degradation, they are proud of what they do.
(Kurish and Turkish with subtitles)
http://www.karahaber.org

Central Bakery O, Dridi (33 min) 2002 by Camy Julien (France)
One night with a bakerman. Omar Dridi is born in Algeria and he
arrived after the Algerian’s war in France where he lost his
parents. He talks about his life, his work, his dream, the new
generation etc.
juliencamy [at] gmail.com <mailto:juliencamy [at] grmail.com>

July 20 (Friday) 7:00 PM (Free) -The Beat Museum 540 Broadway at
Columbus, SF
Chris Chandler Performance
For more information: (415) 399-9626

July 21 (Saturday) 10:30 AM (Free) Meet at Harry Bridges Plaza Front
of Ferry Building, SF (at the end of Market Street)
San Francisco General Strike Walk
With ILWU Local 10 longshoreman Jack Heyman and labor historian
Louis Prisco
This walk and history talk will look at the causes of the ‘34
general strike and why it was successful. How was the strike
organized and why are the issues in that strike still relevant to
working people today? Also you will walk by the key historical sites
in this important US labor struggle.
Join us on the waterfront.

July 21 (Saturday) 12:00 Noon (Free) New College 777 Valencia at
19th St., SF
Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Poetry and Stories (LaborFest Writing Group)
The group will read their writing honoring working people. This
group evolved out of the 2005 LaborFest writing workshop with
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. The reading will be on the theme Our Working
Life and Our Working Ancestors. With Margaret Cooley, Keith Cooley,
Phyllis Holliday, Susan Ford, Jerry Path, Bernadette St. John, and
Alice Rogoff. There will also be a writing exercise with the audience.

July 21 (Saturday) 2:00 - 5:00 PM (Free) New College 777 Valencia at
19th St., SF
WORDS ON FIRE (A spoken word performance, poetry/theater, and
topical songs)
with Albert Vetere Lannon & Friends
An Open Mic follows the show - bring your poems, songs, stories to
share. Albert Vetere Lannon is a former ILWU Local 6 officer and
retired Coordinator of the Laney College Labor Studies Program. He
now lives near Tucson and performs regularly at local spoken word
events and slams. He is a founding member of the Tucson performance
poetry troupe Paris Moves.

July 21 (Saturday) 7:00 PM ($5.00 donation) New College 777 Valencia
at 19th St., SF
Tillie Olsen "Her Words Ring Out"
A benefit reading and video with devorah major, Annie Hershey,
Nellie Wong, Merle Woo, Daisy Anarchy, Alice Rogoff, Leslie Simon
and others. Tillie Olsen was in the thick of it during her life. As
a child she witnessed a lynching in her small town and that incident
along with many others made her a fighter for justice, humanity and
workers power. She wrote about the San Francisco general strike in
1934 and what this strike meant to the common people. Some of these
writings are contained in the work"Yonnondio: From the Thirties".
Her words still have the same clarity and power they had when she
wrote them and we were lucky at LaborFest that she helped bring her
voices to the workers today.
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/olsen/onlineinterviews.htm
<http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/olsen/onlineinterviews.htm%20>

July 22 (Sunday) 10:00 - 2:00 PM (Free) New College 777 Valencia at
19th St., SF
Labor, Telecommunications, The Public & Media
Telecommunications are a critical issue for the labor movement from
the use of this technology to spy on workers to how workers and
unions can use youtube and municipal broadband to get their story
out and break the information blockade.
This educational training will provide an over-view on these issues
as well as hands on training on the use of video and new technology.
Invited speakers are: AFTRA, Bruce Wolfe -public.freemuni.net, Will
Goodo -fired Comcast Worker, Carl Bryant -producer TV214, Dave
Mathison -author “Be The Media”, Robert McCarthy -Producer daily
strike TV video show on youtube called “The Strike”.

July 22 (Sunday) 3:00 PM (Free) New College 777 Valencia at 19th
St., SF
"The Devil in Silicon Valley: Northern California, Race and Mexican
Americans"
Book Reading by Stephen Pitti
Stephen has made an important contribution in discovering the hidden
history of Silicon Valley and Northern California. The first
multi-nationals in California in fact used Indian slave labor to
mine cinnabar in New Almaden and these stories keep coming.
http://press.princeton.edu/titles/7386.html
<http://press.princeton.edu/titles/7386.html%20>

July 22 (Sunday) 7:00 PM (Free) ILWU Local 6 Hall 255 9th St. near
Howard, SF
Housing Struggles: Workers, Unions, and the Bay Area Crisis
A panel discussion with labor and housing rights activists on the
housing crisis, one of the most pressing issues for workers in the
Bay Area and beyond, and how unions and other organizations play a
part in this battle.

July 23 (Monday) 6:00 PM (Free) Plumbers Hall 1621 Market St. at
Franklin St., SF
1877 Great Strike and The 1907 SF Car Workers Strike
In honor of the 100th anniversary of the 1907 Carmen’s strike in San
Francisco and the 1877 national railway strike, the San Francisco
Labor Council is presenting the video “The Grand Army of Salvation”
(28 minutes) by the American Social History Project. Also, Michael
Theriault Secretary Treasurer of the San Francisco Building and
Construction Trades Council will make a presentation on the 1907
strike and the death of a union ironworker in that year. Finally
UAW-NWU member and writer Larry Shoup will make a presentation on
the 1877 strike and its affect in the Bay Area. These two important
struggles are part of the hidden history of San Francisco and the
American working class.

July 24 (Tuesday) 7:00 PM (Free) New College 777 Valencia St. at
19th St., SF
Faced Off The Land : A Story of One Family's Struggle in 1847 Ireland
Reading and presentation by Margaret Cooley
Margaret went to Ireland and found within the story of her family a
portrait of working class oppression. Hear through the personal
story of one family’s struggle to hold onto their land tenancy, how
the potato economy forced the immigration of the tenant workers of
Ireland to make way for capitalist enterprise.
marg_cooley [at] yahoo.com
<http://www.laborfest.net/marg_cooley [at] yahoo.com%20>
Video Showing
Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America (28 min) 2007
by Rosemary Feurer, Laura Vasquez
Mother Jones, one of the most famous Irish born labor activists in
the US had a brutal life. Her 5 children died in a yellow fever
epidemic in Memphis, Tennessee. She then moved to Chicago and during
the Chicago fire she lost her home, shop and all her belongings. In
her late 50’s she began to struggle for workers rights with the
United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) and helped organize strikes
and marches including marches to protest child labor.
This powerful video tells her story and the fight for rank and file
power that she stood for. Rose will also discuss her new book
Radical Unionism In the Midwest 1900-1950.
http://www.press.uillinois.edu/s06/feurer.html
http://www3.niu.edu/~td0raf1/labor/indexpage.htm
<http://www3.niu.edu/%7Etd0raf1/labor/indexpage.htm>
http://www3.niu.edu/~td0raf1/radicalunionism/index.htm
<http://www3.niu.edu/%7Etd0raf1/radicalunionism/index.htm>

July 25 (Wednesday) 5:30 PM (Donation) -SEIU Local 87 Hall 240
Golden Gate Ave., SF
International Working Class Film & Video Festival
The Scavengers (69 min) 2007 by Karahber (Turkey)
(See details) <http://www.laborfest.net/2007schedule.htm#scavengers>
Producing Just Garments (25 min) by Media Insurgence
500 workers of the Textile Union STIT are forced to occupy and run
their factory after the bosses pulled out in an effort to destroy
the union. Forming a workers’ cooperative, they face illegal firings
and the might of international capital.
Solidarityfilms [at] riseup.net http://www.mediainsurgente.com
<http://www.laborfest.net/Solidarityfilms [at] riseup.net%20http://www.mediainsurgente.com>

Labour Days (29 min) 2007 by Stuart Cryer (Canada)
It takes us through the history of the company town and how the
workers began to organize and fight for their rights. Twenty workers
talk about what a union means to them from protecting their
healthcare and safety on the job to fighting discrimination and
harassment on the job.
terrav [at] cyberbeach.net <mailto:terrav [at] cyberbeach.net>

July 25 (Wednesday) 7:00 PM (Free) Niebyl Proctor Marxist Library
6501 Telegraph Ave. in Oakland
IWW: From the Bay Area to the Ends of the Earth
Presentation by IWW members: Since its founding in 1905 the
Industrial Workers of the World has played an important role in the
international movement toward workers’ emancipation. With the IWW
experiencing resurgence in the last decade, a critical look at this
unique movement is vital. With a focus on the Bay Area, we will
trace the IWW from its current form back through diverse areas of
strike struggles and working class culture.

July 26 (Thursday) 7:00 PM (Free) Modern Times Bookstore 888
Valencia St. at 20th St., SF
Golden Gulag : Prison, Surplus, Crisis and Opposition in Globalizing
California
Reading By Ruthie Gilmore
Ruthie shows the roots of the drive to build more prisons in
California and the forces that are driving this. Both political
parties are now fully engaged in pushing billions more for
criminalization of large parts of the population. With more money
being spent on prisons than education in California the need to
understand this insidious development is vital for the future of our
society.
http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/10234.html
<http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/10234.html%20>

July 27 (Friday) 7:00 PM ($5.00) Mission Cultural Center for Latino
Arts 2868 Mission St., at 25th St., SF
International Working Class Film & Video Festival
USA vs Al-Arian (52 min) 2007 by Line Halvorsen
This is the story of the targeting by the US government of
Palestinian American professor Dr. Sami Al-Arian at the University
of South Florida in Tampa. Sami who was also a member of the NEA
United Professors of Florida received their support against the
pressure to fire him after he appeared on Fox∂s Bill O∂Reilly show.
The film shows a personal story of a family living in a society
where fear of terrorism has resulted in increasing stigmatization
and discrimination against Muslims. For years, Nahla Al-Arian and
her children have been fighting to prove the innocence of husband
and father Sami, a Palestinian refugee, and civil rights activist,
who has lived in the USA for more than thirty years. In 2003, Sami
Al-Arian was accused of giving material support to a terrorist
organization and held in solitary confinement for over three years.
His six-month trial ended without a single guilty verdict. The
failure to convict Dr. Al-Arian was seen as a stinging rebuke for
the federal government. While the Bush administration considered
this a landmark case in its campaign against international
terrorism, Professor Sami Al-Arian claims he has been targeted in an
attempt to silence his political views. Because the jury hung on
some of the counts, however, Dr. Al-Arian remained in jail as the
prosecution threatened to retry him.
Laila Al-Arian, daughter of Sami Al-Arian will be attending.
http://www.usavsalarian.com
The Alley (14 min) 2007 by a-films/RJI
From Occupied Palestine, this film explores aspects of the current
political economy of Balata Refugee Camp in Nablus. Perspectives
from this hard-hit community include the insights and voices of
vegetable sellers and other residents of Balata, such as those
forced by the harsh conditions of Israeli occupation to seek work in
a sweatshop at the edge of the camp.
a-filns [at] riseup.net
<mailto:a-filns [at] riseup.net>ripplescross [at] yahoo.com
<mailto:ripplescross [at] yahoo.com>http://www.researchjournalisminitiative.net
<http://www.researchjournalisminitiative.net>Suicide Jumpers (13
min) by Herbert Docena (Lebanon)
This work focuses on the Filipina house domestics who were seeking
to leave Lebanon during the Israeli attack during 2006. Around
30,000 to 50,000 Filipino migrant workers - most of them female
domestic helpers - were subjected to collective punishment in August
2006 in Israel because of the Lebanon bombing. Many of them were
locked in their homes and had to jump out of their employers homes
to escape back to the Philippines. It looks at the expoitation of
these women and the hidden cost of the war in Lebanon.
herbert [at] focusweb.org <http://www.laborfest.net/herbert [at] focusweb.org%20>
The Wisconsin Plan: From Welfare to Work? (13 min) 2007
by Sawt el-Anel/The Labor’s Voice
Israel’s welfare-work experiment “Wisconsin Plan” has entered its
decisive phase, as the two-year pilot period is about to end in June
2007. This film shows how this plan is causing the social and
economic problems on Palestinian people in Israel.
laborers [at] laborers-voice.org
<mailto:laborers [at] laborers-voice.org>http://www.laborers-voice.org
<http://www.laborers-voice.org>

July 27 (Friday) 7:00 PM ($5.00 donation) SEIU Local 87 Hall 240
Golden Gate Ave., SF
Concert of The Choruses
Join in supporting the struggle for human rights by the San
Francisco Day Laborers’ program. Immigrant workers are under attack.
This benefit with songs performed by Coro Obrero with Francisco
Herrera will help their cause. The concert includes the Labor
Heritage Rockin’ Solidarity Chorus performing songs and narrative
from their new performance piece We Are All Immigrants. Also
performing will be the San Francisco Day Laborer’s Chorus.

July 27 (Friday) 7:00 PM ($5.00) Fellowship of Humanity Hall 370
27th St., Oakland
International Working Class Film & Video Festival
Mother Jones (30 min) 2006 by Rosemary Feurer
(See details) <http://www.laborfest.net/2007schedule.htm#mj>
Stolt Australia (11 min) by MUA film unit
A video by the MUA film unit about the fight by MUA ship crew of the
MT Stolt who to keep it from being reflagged with the resulting
destruction of jobs. The crew debates whether to take up the fight
and what it means from them and the workers in the rest of the
industry. The need for solidarity was clearly the decisive factor in
making this a victory for the crew and the union.
http://www.mua.org.au/news/general/stolt7.html
We Live on The Railroad (20 min) by Doro-Chiba (Japan)
This is the story of the fight against privatization of JR (Japan
Rail) by railroad workers union.
http://www.doro-chiba.org/english/english.html
<http://www.doro-chiba.org/english/english.html%20>
The Cleaners Christmas Carol (4 min) by Chris Kasrils (U.K.)
Rail and tube cleaners campaign by the UK RMT for decent wages ( a
living wage of £7.05 per hour). The living wage campaign goes up
against scrooge.
C.Kasrils [at] rmt.org.uk <mailto:C.Kasrils [at] rmt.org.uk>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5nWLoC5hqE
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5nWLoC5hqE%20>http://www.rmt.org.uk/Templates/Internal.asp?NodeID=98930&int1stParentNodeID=89732>
Hola Australia
<http://www.rmt.org.uk/Templates/Internal.asp?NodeID=98930&int1stParentNodeID=89732%3E>
(20 min) by MUA Film Unit (Australia)
Australian wharfies win a trip to Cuba and learn about fellow
maritime workers as well as the healthcare system of the country.
This first hand look at the healthcare in Cuba and how it operates.

July 28 (Saturday) 10:30 AM (Free) Latham Square Telegraph and
Broadway, Oakland
Oakland 1946 General Strike Walk
With Karin Hart of the Labor Studies Program at Laney College and
Gifford Hartman of the Flying Picket Historical Society. This walk
will revisit the sites of Oakland∂s "Work Holiday" that began
spontaneously with rank-and-file solidarity with the striking -
mostly women - retail clerks at Kahn∂s and Hastings department store
whose picket line was being broken by police scabherding. Within 24
hours, it involved over 100,000 workers and shut down nearly all
commerce in the East Bay for 54 hours. In 1946 there were 6 general
strikes across the U.S.; that year set the all-time record year for
strikes and work stoppages. The Oakland "Work Holiday" was the last
general strike to ever occur in the U.S. and the walk and history
talk will attempt to keep alive the memory of this tradition of
community-wide working class solidarity.There will be a reception
after the walk at the Niebyl-Proctor Library at 6501 Telegraph Ave.
(at Alcatraz), in Oakland.Sponsored by Laney College Labor Studies
(510-464-3210) and the Flying Picket Historical Society (415-751-1572).
Meet at the fountain in Latham Square, in the intersection where
Telegraph and Broadway converge across from the Rotunda Building
(Oakland City Center/12th St. BART).

July 28 (Saturday) 12:00 Noon (Free) Location to be announced
Kids at Work and on Strike
A program for school-age children with labor history stories, songs
and activities. With storyteller & retired IUOE Local 39 member Gail
Ryall and friends.

July 28 (Saturday) 3:00 PM (Free) ILWU Local 6 Hall 255 9th St. near
Howard, SF
The Living New Deal: Excavating the Public Landscape of the Great
Depression
Presentation By Gray Brechin
In less than a decade, President Franklin Roosevelt's various public
works agencies radically transformed the United States, giving
employment to and improving the lives of millions while setting the
stage for the post-war economic boom. For the past quarter century,
however, the New Deal's ideological enemies have systematically
rolled back and erased the memory of its epochal accomplishments
without understanding how it profited them and continues to do so.
Dr. Gray Brechin will discuss the Living New Deal Project - a
statewide collaborative effort to document and map the physical
legacy of the New Deal in California and to honor the surviving
veterans. The Project will provide the foundation for a national
inventory and for a discussion of the role of the public sector in a
just society.

July 29 (Sunday) 10:00 AM ($15.00) Aquatic Park Next to Ghiradelli
Square, SF
WPA Bus Tour
With Gray Brechin and Harvey Smith
Join Gray Brechin and Harvey Smith as they travel through history on
a bus tour of historic sites built by unionized labor. You will
learn about the major contribution workers made during the
depression era of the New Deal program. They will discuss about 75
years of WPA.
Co-sponsored by UTU Local 1740
Meet at the bottom corner of Aquatic Park Hyde & Jefferson
Reservation required: call (415) 642-8066
or by e-mail: laborfest [at] laborfest.net <mailto:laborfest [at] laborfest.net>
Make reservation, then send check to:
LaborFest, P.O. Box 40983, SF, CA 94140
(Sandwiches and drinks will be available on the bus.) Bus will be
back at Hyde & Jefferson
Tour lasts about 5 hours

July 29 (Sunday) 1:00 - 3:00 PM (Free) New College 777 Valencia St.
at 19th St., SF
Publishing Contract Workshop
With the National Writers Union (UAW Local 1981). With Mike Bradley,
Alice Rogoff, and Joe Gold. A workshop on contracts for writers and
nonwriters to explain how publishing contracts affect freelance
journalists, work for hire writers, and book and literary writers.
The NWU believes that writers deserve respect, rights, and
renumeration. The work of NWU grievance officers will also be discussed.

July 29 (Sunday) 7:00 PM ($10.00) La Pena Cultural Center 3105
Shattuck Ave., Berkeley
Wasn’t That a Time - A ‘People’s Songbook’
Folk This! and Friends - An Evening of Radical Protest Music and
Theatre
Now in its eighth year, Folk This! has been presenting Bay Area
audiences with an eclectic mix of protest songs from the 18th, 19th,
20th and 21st centuries. Joining us at our annual event at La Pena
will be singer/songwriter Carol Denney and Robert Temple, theatre
artist Steven Low, who will be presenting excerpts from the “Yellow
Fever Express”, and special guests.
Produced by FolkThis! and LaborFest.
For more information call (415) 431-8485
http://www.folkthis.org

July 30 (Monday) 7:00 PM (Free) Bird and Beckett Bookstore 2788
Diamond St., SF
National Writers Union Reading
A Literary Reading sponsored by the National Writers Union (UAW
Local 1981). A sampling of work from members of the Poetry and
Fiction Committee of the San Francscio/Bay Area Chapter. With Adam
David Miller, Cesar Love, Alice Rogoff, Margaret Cooley, Keith
Cooley, John Rhodes, Margot Pepper, Eileen Malone, Joe Gold, Mickey
Ellinger and David Gray.

July 31 (Tuesday) 7:00 PM ($5.00 Donation) El Rio 3158 Mission St.
at Precita, SF
Closing Party
LaborFest’s closing event will be a special CD release party for the
Angry Tired Teachers Band’s new album. This band which is based in
Hayward has written about the travails of teachers at working class
districts in the Bay Area, and was also featured in a daily video
strike bulletin show called “The Truth” which can be seen by going
to http://www.youtube.com and typing in “HUSD strike”. Also performing will
be Keith Gow, Norma Disher, Jock Levy and Musica Humana Blues with
Arnoldo Garcia- Vocals and guitar, Andrew Kong Knight - violin and
vocals, Jose Parafox- percussion. Join us in supporting this working
class band from Hayward.
andykongknight [at] yahoo.com <mailto:andykongknight [at] yahoo.com>
http://www.andrewkongknight.com/att/mp.html
<http://www.laborfest.net/www.andrewkongknight.com/att/mp.html>
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=h.u.s.d.%20strike&search=Search
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