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Laborfest: SF Hotel Strike History Walking Tour

Date:
Sunday, July 15, 2012
Time:
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Event Type:
Teach-In
Organizer/Author:
Location Details:
Departs from the cable-car turnaround, Powell at Market Streets, San Francisco. All buses and trains going on or under Market and Mission Streets to 5th Street, Powell Street BART/Muni Metro.

San Francisco Hotel strike history walking tour
Frankly, My Dears, I Give a Damn: Let's Strike!
By David Giesen
Come along on a fast-paced history of a good bit of San Francisco hotel workers strike history. Historian David Giesen leads this two-hour survey of a hundred years of put-upon cooks, servers, pillow plumpers and entertainment staff that will first make you simply kvetch, but end with you joining the strikers’ refrain, “Land & Liberty!”
From the Palace Hotel in 1937 to the Hyatt and Frank in 2011, this walk/talk digs under the headlines and behind the rhetoric to reveal the truly sordid story of hospitality industry labor itself without a place to lay its head. UNITE HERE Local 2 members will participate.
See also:
http://www.unitehere.org/
http://www.laborfest.net/2012/2012schedule.htm
Added to the calendar on Mon, Jun 18, 2012 5:52AM
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