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)

SCHEDULE

Main Gallery (Book Presentations)

9:30 AM-10:45 AM

Fernando Gapasin on: Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path toward Social Justice. http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/11121.php

11:00 AM-12:15 PM

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on: Roots of Resistance: A History of Land Tenure in New Mexico.

http://www.counterpunch.org/dunbar09222007.html

1:15 PM-2:30 PM

Jean Pfaelzer on: DRIVEN OUT: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans.

http://www.udel.edu/PR/drivenout/

2:45 PM-4:00 PM

Scott Martell on: Blood Passion: The Ludlow Massacre and Class War in the American West.

http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu/acatalog/__Blood_Passion_1832.html

Theater

12:00 PM-1:30PM

Lincoln Cushing Presentation and Slide Show on: Art/Works - American Labor Graphic.

http://www.docspopuli.org/ArtWorks.html

1:45 PM-3:15 PM

Bryan D. Palmer on: James P. Cannon and the Origins Of the American Revolutionary Left.

http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/83cyh3wc9780252031090.html

3:30 PM-5:00 PM

LaborFest Poetry Reading

With Jenifer Rae Vernon, Julia Stein, Alice Rogoff, Matthew Diaz, Benjamin Balthuser, James Tracy, and others.

Small Gallery

9:30 AM-12:00 Noon

The LaborFest Writers Workshop will conduct writing exercises inspired by the American Life Histories of the WPA Federal Writers' Project Folklore Project. Main themes will be on the industrial and occupational lore of working class people and families. We will explore the customs, cultures, and regional traditions of our diverse backgrounds.

12:30 PM 1:45 PM

Dan Berman on: Death On The Job and the State Of Health And Safety. http://labornet.org/cgi-bin/ib/cgi-bin/ib.cgi?action=read&id=159

2:00 PM ­ 3:15 PM

Suzanne Gordon on: Safety In Numbers, Nurse-to-Patient Ratios and the Future of Health Care Suzanne Gordon; John Buchanan; Tanya Bretherton

3:30 PM ­ 5:00 PM

Lauren Cooley on: California: a Multicultural Documentary History.

For other events and information - www.laborfest.net