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Bay Area GMB Meeting

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:10:13 +0400

Start: júl 3 2008 - 7:00pm

End: júl 3 2008 - 9:00pm

The Monthly Business Meeting. All are welcome.

For more information email bayarea@iww.org

Location:

Grassroots House

2022 Blake Street

Berkeley

Global Day of Action Against Starbucks!

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:03:22 +0400

Start: júl 5 2008 - 12:01am

End: júl 5 2008 - 12:00pm

The Grand Rapids Starbucks Union (IWW) and the Spanish CNT have announced a Global Day of Action to protest Starbucks union busting in Sevilla, Spain and Grand Rapids, Michigan. On April 24th, 2008 Monica, a member of the CNT, was fired from a Starbucks in Sevilla for her union activity. In Grand Rapids the National Labor Relations Board continues to investigate Starbucks for Unfair Labor Practices. The two groups are calling on all social organizations, unions, and invdividuals to organize and participate in this Day of Action. Stand up for worker's rights and against globalization!

[Laborfest SF] International Working Class Film & Video Festival

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:24:16 +0400

Start: júl 5 2008 - 2:00pm

End: júl 5 2008 - 2:00pm

Sacco and Vanzetti (2006) 82 min. By Peter Miller

Sacco and Vanzetti brings to life the story of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two Italian immigrant anarchists who were accused of a murder in 1920, and executed in Boston in 1927 after a notoriously prejudiced trial. Millions of people around the world protested on their behalf, and now, 80 years later, their story continues to have great resonance, as civil liberties and the rights of immigrants are again under attack.

Powerful prison writings (given voice by John Turturro and Tony Shalhoub) and passionate interviews with Howard Zinn, Arlo Guthrie and Studs Terkel are interwoven with artwork, music, and film clips. Through the story of Sacco and Vanzetti, audiences will experience a universal - and very timely - tale of official injustice and human resilience. http://www.willowpondfilms.com/sacco_and_vanzetti.html

Eugene Debs & The American Movement (1977) 43 min.

Baltimore GMB

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:53:57 +0400

Start: júl 8 2008 - 8:00pm

End: júl 8 2008 - 10:00pm

The Baltimore GMB will be holding it's monthly general membership meeting on July 8 at 8pm. We will be holding our meeting in our office at 2640 St. Paul St. Please enter via the far door (next to the apartment building.) Remember to bring dues money!

Bay Area IWW iu670 Organizing Committee Meeting

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:50:14 +0400

Start: júl 9 2008 - 7:00pm

End: júl 9 2008 - 9:00pm

Open to all members of the Bay Area iu670 organizing committee

For more information, please contact the Bay Area IWW

Phone - (510) 845-0540
Email - bayarea [at] iww.org
Web - bayarea.iww.org
Myspace - http://www.myspace.com/bayareaiwwgmb

Testimony from the Bangladesh Center for Workers Solidarity in Philadephia

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:06:33 +0400

Start: júl 12 2008 - 11:00am

End: júl 12 2008 - 1:00pm

Register for the SweatFree Communities National Conference taking place on the same weekend www.sweatfree.org Saturday, July 12, 11:00am-1:00pm Broad Street Ministry, 315 S. Broad St., Philadelphia 11:00-12:30pm Worker Rights Board Hearing: Sweatshops & State Purchasing Practices Testimony by sweatshop workers and public employees who wear the uniforms they make. 12:30pm-1:00pm Sweatfree Rally @ National Governors' Association Centennial Meeting Gather at Broad Street Ministry Urge all 50 governors to join the Sweatfree Consortium to stop tax dollar support for sweatshops. Speakers will include: * Carmencita "Chie" Abad, former sweatshop worker in U.S. territory of Saipan * Kalpona Akter, former child garment worker from Bangladesh * Dennis Brutus, human rights activist * Bishop Dwayne Royster, Pastor of the Living Water United Church of Christ, Philadelphia The Philadelphia Workers' Rights Board is a project of the Philadelphia Area Jobs with Justice, a coalition of faith leaders, students, unions, and community members who fight for living wages, top-notch benefits, and respect on the job for people in Philadelphia.

[Laborfest SF] San Francisco General Strike Walk

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:31:12 +0400

Start: júl 12 2008 - 10:00am

End: júl 12 2008 - 2:00pm

With ILWU Local 10 longshoreman Jack Heyman and Labor historian Louis Prisco

This walk and history talk will look at the causes of the 1934 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.

Free.

For more events and information, please visit - www.laborfest.net

[Laborfest SF] Labor BookFair - 1st Annual LaborFest Book Fair & Poetry Reading

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:49:24 +0400

Start: júl 19 2008 - 9:30am

End: júl 19 2008 - 5:00pm

Join LaborFest for our first annual Labor Book Fair, Word Slam and Video Screenings. Understanding our history and working class issues are an essential ingredient to change our lives. This includes the poets and artists who are contributing to our awareness and understanding of our history and reality. The event will take place between 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM at the Mission Cultural Center For Latino Arts.

(Schedule is subject to change. Please check the web page for any changes)

Tacoma Branch Meeting

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:34:00 +0400

Start: júl 19 2008 - 7:00pm

End: júl 19 2008 - 9:00pm

Monthly business meeting of the Tacoma branch of the IWW.

[Laborfest SF] The Redstone Walk - Labor, Art & The Politics of The Mission Dist.

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:42:16 +0400

Start: júl 20 2008 - 10:00am

End: júl 20 2008 - 10:00am

By Louis Prisco

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. To register for July 14 call the leader, Louis Prisco, at 415-841-1254 or send e-mail to penguinflow@hotmail.com.

Free.

For other events and information see - www.laborfest.net

[Laborfest SF] Boat Tour - Building Bridges and Labor Maritime History

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:56:17 +0400

Start: júl 20 2008 - 5:00pm

End: júl 20 2008 - 8:00pm

Join labor process photographer Joseph Blum, labor historians Gray Brechin, Tim Dresher, Harvey Schwartz and others.

Join us for this evening cruise on labor history and also a close up look at the massive construction project of the eastern span of the San Francisco Bay Bridge. The skills of the iron workers, operators, carpenters, laborers, electricians and maritime workers who are building this monument are creating a vital link and beautiful artifact of the Bay Area. Joseph Blum who is documenting the construction of this project will let us know what is being done and how they do it. Also dinner will be provided.

The Masters, Mates and Pilots Union MMP and ILWU Inland Boatman's Union will staff this trip.

Boat leaves promptly at 5:00 PM

Tour lasts 3 hours

A meal will be provided, however, if you are on a special diet please bring your own food.

$35.00

[Laborfest SF] 1968 The Emergence Of The Women's Liberation Movement & Its Relationship to Working Women

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:00:56 +0400

Start: júl 21 2008 - 7:00pm

End: júl 21 2008 - 9:00pm

With Chude Pam Allen and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Chude Pam Allen was an early working class organizer in the women's liberation movement and was in San Francisco in 1968. She helped build the Union Women's Alliance to Gain Equality in 1974, she coordinated their 1975 Organize! Conference and later became editor of its newspaper, Union WAGE. She is author of the Union WAGE pamphlet, Jean Maddox, Labor Heroine.

Roxanne Dubar Ortiz has been involved in the struggle for women's rights also since the 60's. In New Orleans, she organized the Southern Female Rights Union and the New Orleans Women Workers Association. She is a university lecturer and has written 12 books. Roxanne grew up in rural Oklahoma of a family of tenant farmers. Her grandfather was active in the Oklahoma Socialist Party and the IWW in the first 2 decades of the 20th century.

Free

For more information and events visit - www.laborfest.net

[Laborfest SF] The Lessons of May Day 2008

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:04:57 +0400

Start: júl 24 2008 - 7:00pm

End: júl 24 2008 - 7:00pm

With video screening of May Day 2008 action

No Peace, No Work, ILWU Shuts Down West Coast Ports To Protest War (20 min) 2008 by Labor Video Project

The ILWU has a long tradition of independent labor action and solidarity and this past May was no exception. For the first time since the 1940â€™s, workers went out on May Day, which is the traditional day for workers around the world. They also took this action to protest the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. This educational meeting will examine how and why this took place. It will also screen the video No Peace, No Work, ILWU Shuts Down West Coast Ports To Protest War. Following the presentations and video there will be discussion.

Organized and presented by the ILWU Local 10 Education Committee.

For more information and events visit - www.laborfest.net

[Laborfest SF] Oakland General Strike Walk

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:08:43 +0400

Start: júl 26 2008 - 10:00am

End: júl 26 2008 - 10:00am

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).

[Laborfest SF] Workers' Power In The Present [IWW organized and hosted event!]

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:15:44 +0400

Start: júl 26 2008 - 2:00pm

End: júl 26 2008 - 2:00pm

A Presentation Workers' power is our ability to change reality. From post-war West Coast longshoremen, who dictated, daily, the conditions of work, to revolutionary explosions, like in France in 1968 or Hungary in 1956, aimed at seizing the reins of society, workers have always fought for control over their lives. We do it everyday. We do it because there is no alternative.

In this interactive presentation, led by members of the Bay Area Branch of the Industrial Workers of the World, we will investigate the path of workers' collective action.

For more information and events visit - www.laborfest.net

[Laborfest SF] Folk This! tribute concert honoring the late Utah Phillips

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:20:48 +0400

Start: júl 27 2008 - 7:00pm

End: júl 27 2008 - 10:00pm

Folk This! And Friends

By Folk This!

Join Folk This! and friends at a tribute concert honoring the late Utah Phillips, singer, songwriter, storyteller, anarchist, railroad tramp, defender of the homeless and working people everywhere.

"I thought I knew all the revolutionary songs there were, but these folks just taught me five new ones." --Utah Phillips on Folk This!

$10 - For more information and events visit - www.laborfest.net

[Laborfest SF] Wobblies on the Waterfront

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:16:36 +0400

Start: júl 29 2008 - 7:00pm

End: júl 29 2008 - 9:00pm

Peter Cole, author of Wobblies on the Waterfront, will be speaking at Modern Times Bookstor, 888 Valencia Street, San Francisco

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The rise and fall of America’s first truly diverse labor union

For almost a decade during the 1910s and 1920s, the Philadelphia waterfront was home to the most durable interracial, multiethnic union seen in the United States prior to the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) era. In a period when most unions, like many institutions, excluded blacks or segregated them, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) was ideologically committed to racial equality. More than any other IWW affiliate, however, Local 8 worked to become a progressive, interracial union. For much of its time, the union majority was black, always with a cadre of black leaders, which included Ben Fletcher. Local 8 also claimed immigrants from Eastern Europe, as well as many Irish Americans, who had a notorious reputation for racism.

Tribute to Utah Phillips [Bay Area IWW]

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:14:55 +0400

Start: aug 1 2008 - 8:00pm

End: aug 1 2008 - 11:00pm

The IWW, KPFA, Earth First!, KPFA and the Berkeley Unitarians invite you to come celebrate the life, songs, and stories of this beloved American troubadour, hobo, wobbly organizer, rabble rouser, and tireless crusader for peace, environmental justice, and the rights of working people everywhere.

Join Rebecca Riots, the Labor Chorus, Hali Hammer, Darryl Cherney, Carol Denney and others for a rousing evening of music and memories of the unforgettable Utah Phillips, who left us on May 23. Proceeds will benefit the Hospitality House homeless shelter in Utah's hometown of Nevada City.

Videos of Utah will be shown during the program.

Doors open at 8 p.m.

$10 donation requested

For more information: 510-548-3113