[Sfbay-video] LaborFest 2005 Includes Latin Amerian Working Class Film & Video Festival

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 12th Annual LaborFest

July 3, 2005 - July 31, 2005

Taking On The Boss
>From Baghdad To The Bay
 







Welcome to LaborFest 2005

LaborFest 2005, this year takes place one year before the 100th anniversary
of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. One hundred years ago, San Francisco
labor was on the move. The Union Labor Party was a growing force in San
Francisco and eventually P.J. McCarthy; a carpenter from Local 22 was
elected mayor of the city in 1909. The workers were key to rebuilding the
city after the quake and we will be looking at this in the coming year.
LaborFest is organized to commemorate the San Francisco general strike in
1934 through art, music, theater, film and poetry. We need to take back our
history and only working people will be able to do that.
Today, there is a growing anger and frustration among working people about
the attacks they face from the terminations as well as privatization of
their pensions, to wage cuts and the massive attacks on public services,
healthcare and education. Young people face a bleak future where they cannot
afford to move out of their homes and they are finding it more and more
difficult to continue their education.
The right to have a union is also under attack in every corner and many
employers are taking their lead from the President to the governor in their
effort to set the labor movement back to the 1920¹s. The illumination of the
history and struggles of working people in San Francisco nationally and
internationally is more important than ever and this year¹s LaborFest is a
rich celebration of it all. It includes labor history, culture and art from
the workers building the new east span of the Bay Bridge to the theater and
poetry of Bay Area trade unionists and workers. We are also happy to present
the first Latin American Working Class Film and Video Festival in the U.S..
Please participate and celebrate. Also, you can join our email list to get
regular updates. Finally you can also make a financial contribution which is
tax deductible. This festival is only possible with the important
contribution of the trade union movement, the artists and the volunteers who
put it together.
In Solidarity,
The LaborFest Organizing Committee

July 5 (Tuesday) $ 8.50
6:00 PM Reception
7:00 PM Mardi Gras: Made In China
8:00 PM The Concrete Revolution
International Working Class Film & Video Festival
San Francisco Premier
The Concrete Revolution
Chinese with English subtitles 61 min. (2004)
by Xiaolu Guo
The historic construction boom now going on in China and the effect on
Chinese workers is the focus of this new film by Xiaolu Guo. Xiaolu captures
the transformation of Beijing and how it is changing and effecting the
workers who are doing the work. Ziaolu also allows the workers to speak for
themselves about their work, their lives and their hopes. It is a powerful
statement that has not yet been heard in the United States. Who is building
the new China and what are their hopes and dreams in the country with the
largest population in the world. Novelist and filmmaker Ziaolu¹s works touch
universal themes and through her film we see the humanity and warmth of the
Chinese working people.
www.guoxiaolu.com, guoxiaolu at yahoo.com

San Francisco Premier
Mardi Gras: Made In China
by David Redmon, 2005, 61 min
Millions of Americans have attended the New Orleans Mardi Gras celebration.
Hidden behind the celebration are the sweatshop workers, mostly women and
teenagers who produce the millions of beads that are thrown out to the
crowds during the celebration. This film counterpoints the party with the
lives of the workers who make the beads. In illuminating interviews we learn
about the method of production that is now employing large numbers of
Chinese workers as well as the ideology of the owners. www.calleymedia.org

Four Star Theater 
2200 Clement, SF (at 23rd Ave.)


July 6 (Wednesday) 7:00 PM  $5.00
Latin American Working Class Film & Video Festival
San Francisco Premier Screening
RAYMUNDO -The Revolutionary Filmmakers¹ Struggle
By Ernesto Ardito & Virna Molina
127 minutes (2002) Argentina
Spanish with English subtitles
The documentary film is about the life and work of Raymundo Gleyzer, one of
the most important Latin American filmmakers, kidnapped and murdered by that
country¹s military dictatorship in 1976.
Through Raymundo¹s life, we follow the story of Latin American revolutionary
cinema and the liberation struggles of the 60¹s and 70¹s. Raymundo was one
of the major architects of the militant cinema, yet after his
"disappearance", he fell into oblivion. It is essential that the new
generation rediscover his life and works, which are a source of inspiration
today more than ever. This documentary shows that the CIA and the Latin
American dictatorships couldn¹t destroy the memory, the ideals and the
courage to tell the truth.
www.filmraymundo.com.ar

Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
2868 Mission St., at 25th,  San Francisco


July 6  (Wednesday) $5.00
The Iguazu effect (Il effecto Iguazu) (Spanish with subtitles)
89 min, (2002), Spain,
By Pere Joan Ventura
In 2001 Telefonica, the national telephone company of Spain, sold the major
subsidiary named Sintel as a part of globalization process of the country.
As a result of this, about 1800 workers were laid off. The people driven out
from the most stable jobs to the streets built a 'Camp of Hope' in the
middle of flourishing down town of Madrid and started the struggle which
went on for 187 days. Workers from all over the country felt a little
strange about the situation, but as they ate and slept together, they formed
a solidarity community. The title "Iguazu Effect" means that a fisher man
doesn't realize the danger or is fooled by the calmness of a river, until he
gets to the verge of a waterfall. This is a metaphor of workers' situation
in the wild globalization age.
The director Ventura has worked for various TV networks mostly producing
news and teleplays. This is his first feature film. Filming "Iguazu Effect",
he shot total amount of 90 hours for 187days. Beside this, he participated
in a project called "Hay Motivo" which were short films of 32 directors
criticizing government policy.
Bloodletting : Life death healthcare
67 min, 2004 USA
By  Lorna Green
What happens when a filmmaker borrows a camera to explore healthcare? It
becomes personal. BLOODLETTING is about a filmmaker who travels to Cuba to
investigate its healthcare system, only to return home where two family
members, uninsured by their employers, develop illnesses. The film reveals
the cruel underbelly of America's healthcare system.
http://www.lornagreen.org


Humanist Hall
370 27th Street, Oakland, near Broadway


Ongoing Exhibition Until September 9th
Art & Courage, The Life and Work of Louise Gilbert
The show of Louise Gilbert¹s art reflects 70 years of dedication to labor,
human rights and world peace. She has contributed to the working people of
SF.
www.geocities.com/louise_gilbert_artist/index.html

City College of SF, Atrium Gallery
in Rosenberg Library, 2nd Floor
Call for the Library hours (415) 452-5541


July 7 (Thursday) 6-9:30 PM
View From The Bridge
Opening reception for the photo exhibition
by Joseph A. Blum
Photographs documenting the construction of the Bay Bridge and the workers
who are building it.
Exhibit dedicated to the memory of Tom Goff.
Exhibit held from July 5 ­ July 30 2005
www.peopleandwork.org

The Photo Center Harvey Milk Center
50 Scott Street, San Francisco, CA 94117
415-554-9522

July 7 (Thursday) 7:00 PM  $5.00
Latin American Working Class Film & Video Festival
Bolivia, The War of the Gas
By Carlos Pronzato  50 min (2003) Brazil
On October 2003 a national rebellion took place against the government of
Sanchez de Lozada.  His plan to privatize the gas was met with mass
resistance.  He used the US supplied army against the people and over 80
died and hundreds were wounded. Filmmaker Pronzato interviews Evo,  Felipe
Quispe, Jaime Solar and others

The Gas Is Not For Sale (El Gas, No Se Vende)
By Tercer Mundo 26 min (2003) Bolivia
This video shows the rebellion from the ground floor. They use both their
own footage, television footage and fine editing to show the power of
workers, peasants, students and women in protesting the policies of the IMF
and World Bank.
Labor Music Videos (5 minutes) from Bolivia
This is a fine example of the mixture of art, song and video in the struggle
for justice.
Tercer Mundo is also organizing a Latin American Working Class Film and
Video Festival in El Alto, Bolivia this coming October.
tercermundo at hotmail.com

Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
2868 Mission St., at 25th, San Francisco


July 8 (Friday) 6:30 PM  $5.00
International Working Class Film & Video Festival
With Sea Shanty Songs by Jim Nelson
San Francisco Premier
Betrayed: The Story of Canadian Merchant Seamen
by Elaine Briere 56 min. (2004) Canada
Videographer Elaine Briere will be present after the screening.
This Canadian video tells the story of the privatization of the shipping
industry and the use of the McCarthy witchhunt in the US to attack the
Canadian Seaman¹s Union (CSU) which strongly opposed the sale. The
privatization policy led to the total destruction of the Canadian shipping
industry and the victimization of thousands of Canadian sailors.
briere at pacificcoast.net

Fighting Wal-Martization
by Labor Video Project 26 min. (2004)
Wal-Mart plays a critical role in holding down wages in the US. This video
looks at how the labor movement is seeking to stop the Wal-Martization of
America and why this threatens the living conditions of all the people.
lvpsf at labornet.org

New College
777 Valencia St. at 19th St., San Francisco


July 9 (Saturday) 10:00 AM Free
WALKING TOUR by Dave Giesen
Land, Labor and Buildings
Visiting historic downtown San Francisco
Come along on a brisk, provocative walking tour exploring the
accomplishments of Labor in literally building San Francisco. Along the way,
we learn about Kate Kennedy who set the legal precedent for equal pay for
women in the U.S., discover an SF newspaperman's attempt to liberate Labor
from income taxes (afterall, he argued, doesn't labor fully give of itself
in the course of laboring), and burnish the memory of Sun Yat-sen who
proposed, while in SF, the most extensive labor reform ever proposed for
20th Century China!
The narration rings with tales of engineering marvels, saucy living,
astonishing proposals, and gentle humanity.

Meet at Dewey Monument in the center of Union Square, concluding at the
corner
of Market and Montgomery Streets.(2 hrs.)
For info: Call 415-452-8860


July 9 (Saturday) 2:00 PM Free
Presentation on Maritime Women
Presentation with  filmmaker and writer Maria Brooks. Maria Brooks has
focused her extensive work on maritime workers and their history. Her latest
endeavor is a video history of women workers in maritime that will also
include a book. 
www.maritimewomen.org

Modern Times Bookstore
888 Valencia St./20th St., San Francisco


July 9 (Saturday) 8:00 PM Free
Song and Poetry Swap with Freedom Song Network
For over 20 years, the Freedom Song Network has been helping keep alive the
spirit of labor and political song in the Bay Area, on picket lines, at
rallies, on concert stages and at songswaps. Bring songs or poems to share.
Everyone welcome, regardless of musical ability or training.

885 Clayton St., at Carl St., SF
For more info: (415) 648-3457


July 10 (Sunday) 2:00 PM Free
Legacy of The New Deal in California
Panel on the Public Legacy of the New Deal in California with writer Gray
Brechin, photographer Bob Dawson, and LaborFest New Deal Tour Guide Harvey
Smith. 
A major research project sponsored by the California Historical Society is
underway documenting the enduring but invisible landscape left us by FDR's
alphabet soup agencies.  Usefully employing millions of unemployed workers
during the Depression, the WPA, CCC, PWA and other public works agencies
immensely expanded the concept of the public realm and offered an
alternative vision of what can be done at a time when the very idea of
"public" is under relentless assault.
www.newdealproject.org

Modern Times Bookstore
888 Valencia St./20th St., San Francisco


July 10 (Sunday) 5:00 PM Free
Five Women Poets: On Labor, Local to International
>From San Francisco Lockouts to Union Struggles in Latin America. Readers are
Leslie Simon from Poetry for the People, and Women¹s Studies Department of
City College, San Francisco and author of Collisions and Transformations by
Coffee House Press, Nellie Wong from Radical Women, and delegate to the San
Francisco Labor Council, member of the union local UPTE CWA 9119, author of
Stolen Moments, and in Older Women Writing by Chicory Blue Press, Phyllis
Holliday, a member of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union Local 2,
published in Peace and Pieces Anthology, and Poets West Anthology,  Alice E.
Rogoff, a National Writers Union San Francisco Chapter Steering Committee
member, and Award Winner in the Blue Light Book Award Contest for her book,
Mural, and Lynn Werner, author and performer with direct experience
documenting human rights abuses in Columbia, prize winning labor
videographer for Cortenas de Cana based on the struggles of sugarcane
workers in Columbia, and writer on human rights violations against women.

City Lights Book Store
261 Columbus at Broadway, San Francisco


July 11 (Monday) 12:00 noon
Rally For SF Chronicle Newspaper Workers
San Francisco newspaper workers at the Hearst owned SF Chronicle rally for a
contract. New publisher Frank Vega known as Darth Vega has be brought in
from Detroit with his goons to help attack the unions.

SF Chornicle Building
5th & Mission St. in San Francisco


July 11 (Monday) 7:00 PM Free
Poetry / Words: The Wars At Home And Abroad
with Poets Bob Carson, Adam David Miller, Carol Denney, Roland Carrillo and
others.
Suvival is the focus of this night of words. Hundreds of billions of dollars
are being spent on wars around the world but working people in the Bay Area
cannot afford healthcare and housing.  These artists and musicians will
speak out and sing out about the struggle to survive in 2005.

New College
766 Valencia St./19th St., San Francisco


July 12 (Tuesday) 7:00 PM Free
Labor and The Earthquake
Labor historian Michael Kazin on the  San Francisco trade union movement
during  the period of The 1906 Earthquake  and musicians. Kazin is author of
Barons of Labor, The San Francisco Building Trades and Union Power in the
Progressive Era. He charts the growth and history of early San Francisco
construction labor and the rise of carpenter P.H McCarthy who became a
leader of the San Francisco Building Trades and in 1909 under the banner of
the Union Labor Party became mayor of San Francisco. Professor Kazin will be
introduced by ILWU historian Harvey Schwartz with the SFSU Labor Archives.
Musicians Jim Nelson & Jack Chernos will perform
Sponsored by the Rebuilding San Francisco Project. www.rebuildingsf.org
(under construction)

ILWU Local 34 Hall
5 Berry St. To the left side (north) of PacBell Park


July 13 (Wednesday) 5:30 PM Free
A Walking Tour of SF City Hall Exhibition
Making Connections: Career Waitresses of San Franisco
This important exhibition reveals how waitresses are not only serving our
food but bringing a community spirit to their job and the places they work
at. Their customers grow to love them not only for the work they do but the
humor and character they bring to the table.
www.careerwaitresses.com
slingingpower at yahoo.com

Continuing exhibition through 7/22
San Francisco City Hall


July 13 (Wednesday) 7:00 PM Free
Lessons of The Bread & Roses Strike for Today & Screening of
Cry of The Children
Also screening will be The Lawrence Strike of 1912  with  speakers Jim
Bresnahan and Manny Sears.
Bresnahan and Sears are both from Lawrence, Massachusetts where this
historic strike took place. After the films, they will discuss the causes of
the strike and why we face some of the same problems today.

Bricklayers and Allied Crafts Local 3
186 Potrero St San Francisco, near 16th St.


July 13 (Wednesday) 7:30 PM $5.00
Latin American Working Class Film & Video Festival
RAYMUNDO -The Revolutionary Film-Makers¹ Struggle
(Spanish with English Subtitles)
By Ernesto Ardito &  Virna Molina
127 minutes (2002) Argentina
The documentary film about the life and work of Raymundo Gleyzer, one of the
most important Latin American filmmaker, kidnapped and murdered by that
country¹s military dictatorship in 1976. (Please check the detail of this
film at page 3 of this brochure.)

Humanist Hall
370 27th Street, Oakland, near Broadway


July 14 (Thursday) 7:30 PM $10-12 (Sliding scale)
>From Bastille to Bush
A Concert to Celebrate Bastille Day
Join a concert to celebrate Bastille Day with international labor troubadour
Anne Feeny and other labor musicians as well as labor videos. The Bastille
tradition continues to live in France and is celebrated around the world. It
is no accident that following the massive rejection of the EU constitution
in France, tens of thousands made their way to the Bastille to celebrate.
Anne Feeny will be returning from a tour of Europe. Let¹s make Bastille Day
come alive in the US.

La Pena Cultural Center
3105 Shattuck at Prince, Berkeley


July 15 (Friday) 7:00 PM $5.00
Filipine Labor Cultural Solidarity Night
There's Blood In Your Coffee
26 minutes
with Cultural performances and Filipino Labor speaker by Southern Tagalog
Exposure (people's center for progressive media) & PAMANTIK-KMU.
Amidst the Supreme Court rule favoring the Union, the Swiss company that
owns Nestle would not give  into the just & legal demands of the workers.
For over 2 years, workers of Nestle factory in Laguna, Philippines has been
on strike. The struggle for their rights have been met with repression not
only from the multi-national company, but also from the Philippine
governement. sometimes subtle, often time violent.

Filipino Community Center (FCC)
35 San Juan Ave. near Mission St. SF
415) 333-6267

July 16 (Saturday) 7:00 PM
$10 (No one turned away for lack of funds)
Los Vientos de Marzo  (The Winds of March)
Lynn Werner performs an original solo theater piece with poetry and prose
based on her eight years documenting labor and human rights abuses in
Colombia, torture, assassination and disappearances.
Poet and award-winning videographer Lynn Werner spent nearly eight years in
Colombia where she participated in that country's agonizing struggle for
basic human rights.  Working closely with labor collectives, she documented
the systematic torture, disappearance and assassination of trade unionists,
grassroots organizers, and displaced rural peasants by Colombia's military
and their partners in crime, the paramilitary. Through her original poetry
and prose, she leads the audience through sugarcane fields to hear the
voices of corteros, the flight of displaced rural peasants as they flee to
urban misery only to have their shacks bulldozed by the military, the voices
of Afro-Colombia women in villages of the Pacific Coast of Colombia herded
onto cattle cars to work in the fields of Cauca, the testimony of torture of
the Coordinator of the Committee for the Rights of Political Prisoners who
is raped as a form of military intimidation.
www.theexit.org

EXIT Theatre (Reservations: 415-673-3847)
156 Eddy St., San Francisco
No late seating


July 16 (Saturday) 1:00 PM Free
Art, Witchhunts, Past and Present
With Artists Louise Gilbert, Mike Alewitz, Doug Minkler, Susan Greene, Jan
Cook. 
This panel will look at the effect of past and present witchhunts on
artists. The effort to silent and censor political art from the McCarthy
period and today will be examined and exposed. It will also look at how
artists use their art to further and advance the cause of working people
here and around the world.

Modern Times Bookstore
888 Valencia St./20th St., San Francisco


July 16 (Saturday) 7:00 PM $5-10
(No one turned away from lack of funds)
Day Laborer¹s Benefit
Concert of the Choruses
Join in supporting the struggle for human rights by the San Francisco Day
Laborers program. Immigrant workers are under attack and this benefit with
songs performed by Francisco Herrera and The Coro Obrero will help their
cause. The concert includes the Labor Heritage Rockin¹ Solidarity Chorus
featuring "Who Said That", a piece reflecting spoken and musical voices of
working people with songs that were performed on the Hotel Workers Picket
Lines, the Bush Medley, Stand Up, Rise Again and Listen to the Voices.

New College
777 Valencia St./19th St., San Francisco

 
July 16 (Saturday) 7:00 PM $5.00
The Iguazu effect (Il effecto Iguazu) Spanish with subtitles
89 min, (2002), Spain,
By Pere Joan Ventura

In 2001 Telefonica, the national telephone company of Spain, sold the major
subsidiary named Sintel as a part of globalization process of the country.
As a result of this, about 1800 workers were laid off. The people driven out
from the most stable jobs to the streets built a 'Camp of Hope' in the
middle of flourishing down town of Madrid and started the struggle which
went on for 187 days. Workers from all over the country felt a little
strange about the situation, but as they ate and slept together, they formed
a solidarity community. The title "Iguazu Effect" means that a fisher man
doesn't realize the danger or is fooled by the calmness of a river, until he
gets to the verge of a waterfall. This is a metaphor of workers' situation
in the wild globalization age.
The director Ventura has worked for various TV networks mostly producing
news and teleplays. This is his first feature film. Filming "Iguazu Effect",
he shot total amount of 90 hours for 187days. Beside this, he participated
in a project called "Hay Motivo" which were short films of 32 directors
criticizing government policy.
Bloodletting : Life, death,  healthcare
67 min, 2004 USA
By  Lorna Green
What happens when a filmmaker borrows a camera to explore healthcare? It
becomes personal. BLOODLETTING is about a filmmaker who travels to Cuba to
investigate its healthcare system, only to return home where two family
members, uninsured by their employers, develop illnesses. The film reveals
the cruel underbelly of America's healthcare system.
http://www.lornagreen.org


Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
2868 Mission St., at 25th,  San Francisco



July 15 through July 30
Every Friday, Saturday  8:30 PM  $10
Boxcar Bertha
One Woman Play by Kerry Reid in collaboration with Christina Augello & John
Warren
Boxcar Bertha is an one-woman play with musical backdrop based on the
legendary depression era hobo, feminist, and anarchist Bertha Thompson.
Featuring Christina Augello, this depression era saga follows Bertha, a
rugged hard living woman who rode the rails in the 1930s, on a journey from
hobo to grifter, from prostitute to activist.
Christina Augello is the founder and artistic director of EXIT Theatre. She
has been an actress, producer and director in the Bay Area for over 30
years.
Jack "Applejack" Walroth ia a veteran freelance San Francisco singer,
musician, songwriter, and music publisher, whose career has remained
somewhat below the radar, even though it has included longstanding
associations with many better known musicians  in the San Francisco Bay
Area. 
(Funding has been made possible by the Puffin Foundation) www.theexit.org

EXIT Theatre
156 Eddy St., San Francisco
(Reservations: 415-673-3847)


July 17 (Sunday) 10:15 AM Boarding
$25.00    10:30 AM Departure
Labor Maritime History Boat Tour
This year, the tour will focus on women working on the waterfront.
On the boat, we will hear about the labor, social, environmental and
political history of the Bay Area from the people who know it. Historians
Sue Englander, Charles Wollenberg, Gray Brechin and Herb Mills among others,
will offer comments. From the boat, we will view the old Kaiser shipyard and
Ford assembly plant where many women worked during World War II. We hope to
hear from three women who worked in Richmond during the 1940¹s: Betty Ried
Soskin, from a segregated Jim Crow shipyard union, Phyllis Gould, as a
welder; and her sister, Marian Sousa, as a draftswomen in the shipyard.
Also, on board will be Donna Graves who was instrumental in having a "Rosie
the Riveter Memorial" created in the adjacent water front park.
The tour will include viewing the construction sites for the new east Span
of the Bay Bridge, the Oakland Port and the San Francisco waterfront.
To make your reservation, call (415) 642-8066, and leave your 1) name (spell
it out), 2) number of your reservation, and 3) your phone number. You should
also send a check to LaborFest, P. O. Box 40983, San Francisco, CA 94140.
You can also contact us by e-mail: laborfest at laborfest.net

Terminal E (South side of the Ferry building), SF
Boat leaves promptly at 10:30 AM
Tour lasts 3 hours
Some food and refreshments will be available on board.


July 17 (Sunday) 2:00 PM Free
Labor Maritime History Walk
with Louis Prisco
A four-hour walk along San Francisco's Waterfront, revisiting the terrain of
the maritime strikes and general strike, which established organized labor
on the West Coast. We will stop at the sites of major events: including the
burning of the "Blue Books," Battle of Rincon Hill and scene of the
fatalities on "Bloody Thursday," July 5, 1934. The walk will be free, but a
$3.00 pamphlet with a map is also available. Each walk will be limited to 20
persons. 

Harry Bridges Plaza
In front of Ferry Building, San Francisco
Reservation required (limited to 20)
Call (415) 841-1254 to make reservation


July 17 (Sunday) 2:00 PM Free
War at Home:
The Corporate Offensive From Reagan To Bush
By Jack Rasmus
A book reading with author and union chairperson of the NWU-UAW 1981 Bay
Area Chapter, Jack Rasmus. His book is an account of the current corporate
offensive against workers and unions in America, which began a quarter
century ago under Ronald Reagan and is now accelerating under George W.
Bush.  http://www.kyklosproductions.com

Modern Times Bookstore
888 Valencia St./20th St., San Francisco


July 17 (Sunday) 6:30 PM $5 - 20
Sex Workers Organizing Film Night
By Benefit for Sex Workers Organized for Labor, Human and Civil Rights
and the Erotic Service Providers Union
Tales of the Night Fairies
by Shohini Ghosh, Bengali, 74 min 2002
Indian sex workers organized for labor, human and civil rights.
There will be an art opening and another film shown after this film

Artists Television Access
992 Valencia St. at 20th St., SF


July 19 (Tuesday) 7:00 PM Free
Latin American Labor Poetry, Music and Film Night
Join Alfonso Toxidor, Maria Medina Seratin and others as they present poetry
and music along with videos from Latin America.
Venezuela Bolivariana: Publo y lucha de la IV Guerra Mundial 76 min. by
Marcelo Andrade Arreaza y Colectivo "Calle y Media" and others will be
shown.

Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
2868 Mission St., at 25th, San Francisco


July 19 (Tuesday) 7:00 PM Free
Book Reading 
THROUGH THE WALL: A Year In Havana
By Margot Pepper (UAW-NWU 1981 member)
Come find out what workers¹ rights mean when you work in Cuba.  "From her
unique vantage point as a journalist working for a year in Special Period
Cuba, Margot Pepper has written a smart and politically sophisticated
memoir..."--Piri Thomas.
http://www.freedomvoices.org

City Lights Book Store
261 Columbus at Broadway, San Francisco


July 20 (Wednesday) 7:30 PM $5.00
Latin American Working Class Film & Video Festival
(No English subtitles on all films this night)
Street Love (Amor de La Calle)
By Asa Faringer, 71 min Mexico
This film shows the organizing efforts of sex workers in Mexico and how
their efforts to fight exploitation run into battle with the police and the
authorities.
No Olvidamos
By Grupo de cine de la Veron, 20 min Argentina
This video shows the June 26 2002 massacre carried out by the police forces
under the Duhalde government in De Avellanedea and the role of the present
Kirchner government.
Piqueteros Carajo
By Ojo Obrero , 25 min.  Argentina
The piqueteros movement has been a vital and critical force in fighting
oppression and defending the people. This video show the massive repression
faced by the piqueteros movement including the murder of it¹s activists.

Humanist Hall
370 27th Street, Oakland, near Broadway


July 20 (Wednesday) 7:00 PM Free
Labor Movement And Class Struggle in Europe
With Austrian journalist and Labournet founder Karl Fischbacher and Vienna
Women¹s Studies Professor Irmi Voglmayr.
The policies of privatization and deregulation that have driven US politics
are now being pushed in Europe and have resulted in a backlash by France and
Holland in rejection of the new EU constitution. This presentation will
provide a front seat view of how these policies are effecting the working
class of Europe and how workers are seeking to defend their conditions.
Fischbacker is the founder of Labournet Austria
(http://www.labournetaustria.at/)  and  Dr. Irmi Voglmayr has done research
on the labor conditions of women in Austria and the role of the Internet.

Modern Times Bookstore
888 Valencia St./20th St., San Francisco


July 21 (Thursday) 7:00 PM  $5.00
Latin American Working Class Film & Video Festival
The Traitors (No English subtitles)
by Raymundo Gleyzer
Fiction/Color/105 min./1973 Argentina
A militant trade unionist joins the Peronist bureaucracy and   is
transformed into an opportunist in the union elections. The power he gains
is used by him to betray the workers as he collaborates with the military
dictatorship. This film had to be made surreptitiously in order to protect
the filmmakers.
Greve! (No English subtitles)
by Joao Batista Andrade, Brasil, 35 min.
In 1979, hundreds of thousands of auto workers in Brazil struck for better
conditions and benefits. This film of the massive militant struggle shows
the disputes during the strike and the role of Lula who has gone on to lead
the Workers Party and government of Brazil.

Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
2868 Mission St., at 25th,  San Francisco


July 22 (Friday) 7:00 PM $5.00
International Working Class Film & Video Festival
Breaking Walls
By Nir Nader in Video 48 Israel 47 minutes
Video 48 is a group of alternative filmmakers focusing on the situation of
Arabs inside Israel.   When Israel began walling itself off from the
Palestinians of the West Bank, Mike Alewitz, who paints colorful murals,
from L.A. to Baghdad, asked the Workers Advice Center (WAC) to help him find
a site in an Arab village. WAC chose Kufr Qara, where workers picked a
promising wall at the football stadium. They told Alewitz that they wanted
"a mural that would help them explain to other workers why joining a union
is important." nirnader at yahoo.com
www.hanitzotz.com/video48/breaking-walls.htm
Everywhere We Go
By Valerie Lapin Ganley (40 min.)
This video tells the story of mostly immigrants who fight for justice in the
US and organize to rally in Washington D.C.
Filmmaker Valerie Lapin Ganley will be on hand and will also report on the
struggle of the hotel workers in San Francisco for a contract.
vlapin at aol.com

Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
2868 Mission St., at 25th, San Francisco


July 22 (Friday) 7:00 PM $10.00
July 30 (Saturday) 7:00 PM
(No one turned away for lack of funds)
I, Candidate Upton Sinclair
Performed by Jay Martin
"In September everybody was saying we had the election Œin the bag.¹ Even
our enemies conceded it; newspaper correspondents expressed their surprise
at how leading businessmen gave up, saying there was no way to Œstop
Sinclair.¹ All our friends took to calling me ŒGovernor.¹ But I said, ŒWait,
the fight hasn't begun yet.¹"
Upton Sinclair ran for governor in 1934 with a plan to End Poverty In
California. Supported by thousands of EPIC volunteers, he won the primary
but lost the election.
Jay Martin performs excerpts from Upton Sinclair's memoir I, Candidate for
Governor, and How I Got Licked.

EXIT Theatre (Reservations: 415-673-3847)
www.theexit.org
156 Eddy St., San Francisco


July 22 (Friday) 7:30 PM
Wobblies A graphic history of the Industrial Workers of the World
Edited by Paul Bohle and Nicole Schulman
Labor historian Paul Buhle will talk about the vibrant history of the
"Wobblies" throught the use of art and stories in his new book. "Wobblies"
which was published this year for the centenary of the founding of the IWW
includes the stories of Elisabeth Gurley Flynn, Emma Goldman, John Reed
alongside the witchhunts, mob lynching of labor organizers and revolts will
be brought to life at this book reading.
http://www.codysbooks.com/

Cody's Bookstore
2454 Telegraph Ave. Berkeley


July 23 (Saturday) 1:00 PM Free
Writing Workshop for Working People
By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
The stories and lives of working people have been hidden by the corporate
controlled media to prevent a growing consciousness among labor. Labor
writer and historian Roxanne Dubar-Ortiz will conduct a workshop to show how
working people can write about their lives for themselves and others.
Telling your story is part of the need to liberate the truth.

EXIT Theatre
156 Eddy St., San Francisco


July 23 (Saturday) 8:00 PM  $10-20
(Sliding Scale)
Zapatista Strippers, Revolutionary Who...
By Sex Workers Organized For Labor, Human And Civil Rights and the Erotic
Service Providers Union
Live Performance-Theater-Dance-Spoken Word
A performance with Isis Rodriguez and Daisy Anarchy
Two long-time San Francisco sex worker labor activists and performers
challenge the stereotypes people hold of sex workers with an educational,
entertaining and thought-provoking show.

Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
2868 Mission St., at 25th, San Francisco


July 23 (Saturday) 7:00 PM $10.00
July 29 (Friday) 7:00 PM
(No one turned away for lack of funds)
Will Draw For Food 
& Chile Con Amy
Monologue Performed by Dan McHale & Kristian Ruggieri
What does an animator do when he's laid off in San Francisco? He goes to
South India of course! Will Draw for Food  is about animating cartoons,
writing songs and dodging falling coconuts. In Chile Con Amy, a Habitat For
Humanity volunteer takes us with her to Chile, where she strives to cope
with one extremely difficult fellow American.

EXIT Theatre (Reservations: 415-673-3847)
156 Eddy St., San Francisco
www.theexit.org


July 24 (Sunday) 7:30 PM $8 - $12 (Sliding scale)
100 Years of Struggle - A Celebration of the IWW and the American Labor
Movement
Features a reading by noted writer Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (Red Dirt and Outlaw
Woman) with music by Folk This! and members of Berkeley's Allegro Non Troppo
opera company, plus special guests.

La Pena Cultural Center
3105 Shattuck at Prince, Berkeley


July 26 (Tuesday) 7:30 PM $5 - 15 donation (Sliding scale)
52nd Anniversary of the start of the Cuban Revolution
Work and Revolution
Intersection Independent Press Spotlight on two worker-run collectives:
Freedom Voices Press and AK Press- Book Reading and Dramatization.
The evening is a dynamic dialogue between two grass roots presses via a
featured reading and Intersection stage enactment from each press on the
theme of work and revolution. Both presses are celebrating their 15-year
anniversaries! Margot Pepper will shed light on working in Cuba with
excerpts from her new memoir, Through the Wall:  A Year in Havana (FV May 1,
2005).
http://www.freedomvoices.org
http://www.theintersection.org

Intersection for the Arts
446 Valencia (between 15th /16th St.) SF


July 27 (Wednesday) 7:30 PM $5.00
Latin American Working Class Film & Video Festival
National Stadium (No English subtitles)
By Carmen Light Parot, 90 min. Chile
Between September and November of 1973 in Chile, the national stadium was
turned into a concentration camp for more than twelve thousand people.
Survivors, the military and journalists reconstruct those dark days.
Paso a las Luchadoras (Open The Road to The Women Fighters)
(with English subtitles)
By Ojo Obrero, 30 min. 2004, Argentina
Thousands of Women in Argentina have taken up the struggle for liberation by
their own hand. This film focuses on seven women whose day-to-day struggles
against sexism takes in all aspects of life.
www.ojoobrero.org
Swift (No English subtitles)
Documentary 12min. 
This is a clandestine report of the E.R.P. on the kidnapping of the English
consul and manager of the US refrigerator company Swift de Rosario, After
the kidnapping the E.R.P. demanded labor improvements and that the
merchandise be distributed among the workers.

Humanist Hall
370 27th Street, Oakland, near Broadway


July 28 (Thursday) 7:00 PM  $5.00
Latin American Working Class Film & Video Festival
Cronicas De Libertad (No English subtitles)
By Grupo Alavio, 50 min. Argentina
This video shows the movement of the Piqueteros who have shaken the roots of
Argentina in the struggle to defend their lives.
Desterro (No English subtitles)
By Eduardo Walls, 18 min. Brazil
This video is about the 1894  federalist revolution in  the south, President
Floriano Peixoto organizes mass repression to stop the revolution. In
Desterro, the state capital the population lives terrified as summary
executions occur against the people.

Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
2868 Mission St., at 25th,  San Francisco


July 29 (Friday) 7:00 PM  $5.00
Latin American Working Class Film & Video Festival
La Rebelion de los Colgados (Rebellion of the Hanged)
Based on B. Traven¹s novel
By Alfredo B. Crevenna, Emilio Fernandez
Fiction, 84 min. 1954 (in Spanish) Mexico
This important film chronicles peonage and debt slavery under the Porfirio
Diaz rule in Mexico. Chiapas peasants were driven into the forests to cut
down the mahogany trees. Failure to reach the quotas meant that the men were
hung from the trees. This leads to a militant rebellion in the labor camps
and haciendas and this little known film shows the real causes of the
Mexican revolution.

Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
2868 Mission St., at 25th, San Francisco




July 30 (Saturday) 12:00 noon $15.00 - $50.00 (No one turned away for lack
of funds.) 
Labor History Bicycle Tour
Local historian and activist Chris Carlsson will conduct a bicycling Labor
History tour. Covering the early 8-hour day movement, through the ebb and
flow of class struggle that shaped San Francisco in the 19th century, it
focuses on the important intersection of human labor and the urban
landscape, broadening labor history into an inquiry into ecology and transit
and how we collectively shape our physical environment. The tour provides a
detailed look at the famous 1934 strike, what led to it, and what it led to,
the rise of the ILWU, its storied history and crucial role in the political
and economic life of San Francisco, and its surprising role at the fulcrum
of globalization. Finally, Carlsson's own history of co-publishing the
infamous underground financial district magazine Processed World will add an
awareness of contemporary labor realities seldom heard among the club of
labor historians...
Meet at 12 noon at CounterPULSE, 1310 Mission Street at 9th. A sliding scale
donation of $15-50 is requested to benefit CounterPULSE, a nonprofit arts
organization that hosts Shaping San Francisco.
Reservations required: call 626.2060.  carlsson.chris at gmail.com


July 30 (Saturday) 5:30 PM Free
Book Reading
The Land of Orange Groves and Jails - Upton Sinclair¹s California
Professor Lauren Coodley reads from her newly acclaimed book "The Land of
Orange Groves and Jails/Upton Sinclair¹s California". Coodley is an active
member of the AFT and activist for labor rights including the fight against
Wal-Mart.

EXIT Theatre
156 Eddy St., San Francisco


July 31 (Sunday) 10:00 AM  $15.00
"New Deal" Structures Bus Tour
With Harvey Smith & Gray Brechin
You will learn about the major contribution construction workers made during
the depression era New Deal program in the building of San Francisco. Their
monuments stand as important landmarks for all working people
SCHEDULE
9:30 AM    Assemble at Aquatic Park
10:00 AM    Depart for Rincon Annex - View lobby and Murals; View Treasure
Island (across the bay)
10:30 AM    Depart for Sunshine School (Bryant & 25th) via the old Federal
Building - View interior of Sunshine School
11:15 AM    Depart for the Former SF State Nornal School/UC Extension Campus
12:30 PM    Depart for Beach Chalet - View mural, mosaics and wood carvings,
and have a beer or soda
2:30 PM    Return to Aquatic Park
(Times are approximate, depending on traffic and how long we talk to the
horses.)

Meet at the bottom corner of Aquatic Park Hyde & Jefferson
(Reservation required: call (415) 642-8066)
Make reservation and send check to LaborFest, P.O. Box 40983, SF, CA 94140
(Sandwiches and drink will be available on the bus)


July 31 (Sunday) 7:00 PM Free
Closing Musical Theater Poetry Party
Join with the many poets, artists and singers as we celebrate the final day
of LaborFest 2005.

Women¹s Building
3543 18th St. at Valencia, San Francisco


Endorsers:
LaborFest is endorsed and supported by ILWU International, District Council
of Iron Workers, Maritime Trade Port Council, ILWU Local 10, Carpenters
Local 22, Bricklayers, Tilelayers and Allied Craftworkers Local 3, Laborers
International Union Local 261, Teamsters Joint Council 7, SEIU Local 535,
MEBA, Sailors¹ Union of the Pacific, International Federation of
Professional & Technical Engineers 21,  IBEW Local 6, San Francisco Labor
Council, Sign Display & Allied Crafts Local 510, AFT Local 2121, ILWU Local
34, Labor Video Project, Iron Workers 377, California State Employees
Association, UFCW 648, National Writers Union Unit 3(UAW Local 1981), Holt
Labor Library, Pride at Work, OPEIU 3, OPEIU 29, GCIU 583, Mission Cultural
Center for Latino Arts, El Tecolote, New College of California, Fellowship
of Humanity and many others.
Special thanks to San Francisco Art Commission for it¹s generous
contribution, and to Ojo Obrero and the FELCO Festival held in Buenos Aires,
Argentina in November 2004. (www.felco.ojoobrero.org)
We also thank the following for the use of their facilities: Mission
Cultural Center for Latino Arts, Exit Theatre, Modern Times Bookstore,  City
Lights Bookstore, New College Center for Education & Social Action, Humanist
Hall, Four Star Theatre, BAC Local 3 and ILWU Local 34.

The LaborFest Planning Committee and the Advisory Committee are all
volunteers. We believe that this festival will bring greater solidarity and
labor consciousness for all working people. We thank those who have given
their talent, time and financial contribution to make this festival a
success. 
In solidarity, 
LaborFest Planning Committee

LaborFest Advisory Committee: Tillie Olsen, Archie Green, Roxanne
Dunbar-Ortiz
LaborFest Planning Committee: Alice Rogoff, Kazmi Torii, David Williams,
Steve Zeltzer, 
Jack Chernos,  Jay Martin, Carl Bryant, Tami Bryant, Harvey Smith, Daisy
Anarchy, Maxine Doogan, Lynn Werner  and Segment volunteers: Dave Giesen,
Louis Prisco, Jan Cook
LaborFest booklet designed by Kazmi Torii

LaborFest
P.O. Box 40983
San Francisco, CA 94140
(415)642-8066
laborfest at laborfest.net
www.laborfest.net




















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