5th Annual LaborFest Book Fair & Poetry Night | SF

Come on out to Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts for the 5th annual LaborFest, taking place on Sunday, July 22, 2012. The event will take place from 10am till 9pm.

The LaborFest BookFair features a wide range of speakers, discussions, and authors, including:

• Ruth Goldstein on the Coit Tower
• Professor Estelle Freedman on Allan Bérubé, his book,” My Desire for History: Essays in Gay, Community, & Labor History”
• Autoworkers Under the Gun
• The 100th anniversary of the Bread and Roses strike
• Reading for Every Day is an Act of Resistance: Selected Poems of Carol Tarlen
• Peter Dreier and “The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century: A Social Justice Hall of Fame”
• Labor Print Makers, Artists and The Class Struggle wiith Lincoln Cushing, Doug Minkler and Melanie Cervantes.
• John Curl on how the cooperative movement has a long history in the United States and has been used to defend people’s jobs and lives.
• Steve Early on the Wisconsin Uprising
• Sean Burns and his book “Archie Green: The Making Of A Working Class Hero”
• and many more

Links: Event details

Cost: FREE
Categories: *Top Pick*, Lectures & Workshops, Literature, San Francisco Submitted by Kelsey Bryant