7/23/2010 SF Labor TV "Union City" San Francisco 1980 Hotel Strike & "Driven Out" Talk

7/23/2010 SF Labor Cable Shows "LaborLine" and "Labor On The Job"
Union City San Francisco 1980 Hotel Strike & "Driven Out" Presentation By Jean Pfaelzer On Chinese On The West Coast

8:30 PM - 9:00 PM Friday July 23, 2010

Programmed on San Francisco Cable Channel 29 SF Commons And Live Stream
Friday July 23, 2010 9:00 PM PST
http://www.bavc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1881&Itemid=1911

Union City SF HERE Local 2 Organizing, Strikes and Struggles 1978-1980
http://blip.tv/file/3884268
In 1978 through 1980 thousands of San Francisco hotel and restaurant workers
were in revolt against the Local 2 HERE union bureaucracy and for a democratic
rank and file control. A militant rank and file organized at Zim's restaurant chain
was successful and the power of the ranks was growing until the International put
the local in trusteeship.
For copies of more information on this video contact
Mary Ellen Churchill (415)573-6886 ;mchurch66 [at] hotmail.com

Union City HERE Local 2 1980 Hotel Strike
In 1980, thousands of hotel workers went out in strike at 4 major hotels in San
Francisco. This video film by Grand Illusions lets the workers speak about their
issues including the International take-over of the Local and the installation of
Vincent Sirabella as a trustee.
This history is crucial in understanding the struggles within Here Local 2.


9:00 PM - 10:00 PM
"Driven Out" Presentation At Angel Island by Jean Pfaelzer On Chinese On West Coast

Programmed on San Francisco Cable Channel 29 SF Commons Live Stream
Friday June 26, 2010 9:00 PM PST
http://www.bavc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1881&Itemid=1911

"Driven Out" Presentation At Angel Island by Jean Pfaelzer On Chinese On West Coast

http://blip.tv/file/3846172/
Presentation by Jean Pfaelzer On "Driven Out, the Forgotten War Against
Chinese Americans" http://blip.tv/file/3846172/ Jean Pfaelzer, author of
"Driven Out, the Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans" made a
presentation on July 3, 2010 about her work at the Angel Island Immigration Station.
This also marks the 100th anniversary of the Angel Island Immigration Station. Pfaelzer's
talk was titled "BEFORE ANGEL ISLAND: THE FORGOTTEN WAR AGAINST CHINESE AMERICANS"
Pfaelzer who was also using slides outlined the brutal and systematic "ethnic cleansing" of
Chinese American workers in California in the second half of the nineteenth century, and how
Chinese miners, railroad workers, field laborers, domestic servants and prostitutes fought
back against the violent purges and deportations -- with the first general strike in California,
the earliest farmworker strikes, and the first law suits for reparations.
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