Art display at festival: history panels - "The Legacy of 1934: An Historical exhibit by the Longshore Division of the International Longshore & Warehouse Union (2009)," survey of current and historic labor posters, quilt of women's tools.

Films and videos on these subjects will be shown in sessions indicated (list is partial and inconfirmed)- Rosa Parks, The Power of Song (Pete Seeger), Paul Robeson, Salt of the Earth, Highlander Center, Guy Carawan, documentary on SEIU’s Moe Foner and the 1199 Bread and Roses Project, Vukani’s South Africa trip.

Friday, January 16

6 pm  Registration opens

7-10 pm  Arts exchange - song and poetry swap
Featured Performer: Ananda Esteva (unconfirmed).


Vukani Mawethu

Saturday, January 17
9-10 am Muffins, juice, coffee available – donations please; informal songswap/arts exchange

10-noon Workshops
* Bay Area Labor Chorus and Women’s Voices (Bev Grant, Anne Feeney, and Rebel Voices, as yet uncomfirmed)

* YouTube production workshop with Karin Hart & Valeria Valasquez (limited to 20 people, sign up!)

* Films (see list above )

Noon – 1 pm Lunch
Sandwiches and salad available at a reasonable price

1:15– 2:15 pm
Labor and visual arts general session
Presentation by Lincoln Cushing on American labor posters, and Doug Minkler talking about producing visual images on labor issues

2:30-4:00 pm Workshops
* Spanish Civil War workshop, with Bobbie Rabinowitz and Eliot Kenin.

* Making the ILWU history panels, with Robin Walker and Richard Bermack.

* Immigration workshop with David Bacon & Francisco Herrera

4-5:30 pm Workshops
* Political Writing that Doesn’t #&@*, moderated by James Tracy, with Raj Patel (author, Stuffed and Starved), Kari Lydersen (co-author of Shoot an Iraqi: Art, Life and Resistance Under the Gun), Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (author, Red Dirt, Growing Up Okie and Outlaw Woman), Leroy F. Moore Jr. (columnist, Poor Magazine), Chris D. Cook, author of Diet for a Dead Planet; workshop co-sponsored by Left Turn Magazine.

* Labor History Through Display (Electronics Museum)

* YouTube production workshop with Karin Hart & Valeria Valasquez (limited to 20 people, sign up!)

5:30-7 pm Dinner – Hot meal available at a reasonable price

7-10 pm Arts Exchange
* Featured performers: Shotwell, Reggie, The Diggers performing “The Labour History Show” (focus on Northwest U.S. & Canada

Aya deLeon | Jimmy Collier

Sunday, January 18
9-10 am Muffins, juice, coffee available – donations please; informal songswap/arts exchange.

10:30 - Noon Workshops
* Theater Group or Song Swap (TBD)

* Theater preparation with the S.F. Mime Troupe or Elise Bryant

* Political Satire workshop with Roy Zimmerman

* Steve Pitts “An Economy that Works for All”

* Films (see list above)

Noon – 1 pm Lunch
Sandwiches and salad available at a reasonable price.

1:30-2:30 pm Mid-day tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; Featured performer TBA; short film Stand by Me

4:45 pm Practice for concert performance
Drama group from morning workshop; chorus group, led by Jon Fromer.

5-6 pm Dinner – Hot meal available at reasonable price.

7 pm Benefit Concert
Aya de Leon, MC; featured performers: Roy Zimmerman, Jon Santos and Francisco Herrera, Son del Centro (Pedro's band); Labor Art award to Doug Minkler (visual arts); Alex and Harriet Bagwell (music). Concert proceeds going to striking Grace Honda workers.

Bev Grant


Jon Fromer and Jimmy Collier

“As you know, the establishment of social justice in our nation is of profound concern to me. This great struggle is in the interest of all Americans and I shall not be turned from it. Yet no sane person can afford to work for social justice within the nation unless he simultaneously resists war and clearly declares himself for non-violence in international relations.”
-Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.