LaborFest - 60th Anniversary of the 1946 Oakland General Strike Commemoration

60th Anniversary of the 1946 Oakland General Strike Commemoration

The Oakland General Strike was the last of six general strikes in 1946, which is still the all-time record year for strikes and work stoppages. This event will attempt to keep the memory of that era of community-wide working class solidarity alive.
Oakland's Work Holiday began spontaneously with rank-and-file solidarity with retail strikers at Kahn's and Hastings department store in defiance of police scab herding. Within 24 hours, it involved over 100,000 people and shut down nearly all commerce in the East Bay for 54 hours.

Together with the Labor Studies Program at Laney College, we invite you to a forum with Evelyn and Val Schaaf and Earl Watkins, who participated in the strike; Gifford Hartman's multi media presentation and a documentary; Albert Lannon, retired chair of Labor Studies at Laney college, whose musical tribute to the General Strike will be performed by the Labor Heritage Rockin' Solidarity Chorus, and a performance by Avotcja of wordpower & song.

For more info: (415) 751-1572; sfbay [at] flyingpicket.org; http://www.flyingpicket.org

The Oakland General Strike of 1946: A KPFA Radio Show
http://www.indybay.org/uploads/oakland_gstrike.mp3

This radio show from the Pacifica Radio Archives was on the Oakland General Strike of 1946 and was broadcast on 11/29/76 on the 30th anniversary of the strike. (56.50 min 26 MB)

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