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07 / 12
Start: 11:00 am
End: 1:00 pm
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.
Start: 10:00 am
End: 2:00 pm
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
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07 / 13
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07 / 14
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07 / 15
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07 / 16
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07 / 17
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07 / 18
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07 / 19
Start: 9:30 am
End: 5:00 pm
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)
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Monthly business meeting of the Tacoma branch of the IWW. | ||
07 / 20
Start: 10:00 am
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
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
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
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07 / 21
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
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
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07 / 22
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 10:00 pm
The Baltimore General Membership branch is hosting an NLRB representative to come and train us! The training is on Tuesday July 22 at 2640 St. Paul St. in our office. The training will discuss the, "ABC's of labor law," and the proper way to file a ULP.
The event is free! Please rsvp at 240 393 2955. | ||
07 / 23
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07 / 24
Start: 7:00 pm
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 1940’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
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07 / 25
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07 / 26
Start: 10:00 am
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).
Start: 2:00 pm
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
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07 / 27
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 10:00 pm
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
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07 / 28
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07 / 29
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Peter Cole, author of Wobblies on the Waterfront, will be speaking at Modern Times Bookstor, 888 Valencia Street, San Francisco
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07 / 30
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07 / 31
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08 / 1
Start: 8:00 pm
End: 11:00 pm
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 | ||
08 / 2
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08 / 3
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08 / 4
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08 / 5
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
The monthly meeting of the Twin Cities General Membership Branch of the IWW will be held at a new location:
IWW Twin Cities GMB meeting
August 5th 2008 7:00pm sharp
Mayday Books 301 Cedar Ave (downstairs)
Minneapolis MN
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08 / 6
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08 / 7
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
The Monthly Business Meeting. All are welcome. For more information email bayarea@iww.org Location: Grassroots House2022 Blake StreetBerkeley | ||
08 / 8
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08 / 9
Start: 8:00 pm
End: 10:00 pm
One Night Only!
Rhizome Cafe, 317 E. Broadway, Vancouver
Storyteller and multimedia artist Chris Chandler returns to Vancouver with blues guitar great Paul Benoit "He is the best performance poet I have ever seen." - Utah Phillips $2 to $20, nobody turned away! Presented by the IWW Vancouver | ||
08 / 10
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08 / 11
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Industrial Workers of the World General Headquarters PO Box 23085, Cincinnati, OH 45223-3085, USA tel: (513) 591-1905 Email - ghq [at] iww.org Website - www [at] iww.org |
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