Hop a fast rattlin’ boxcar with Woody Guthrie, America’s greatest folk icon, as he takes you on a rockin’, reelin’, sanctifyin’ musical journey! Hear Woody teach, preach & beseech in his wry, wise & witsome style o’ speech – Guaranteed to knock you ON your feet.
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Here’s our new event:
Remember the Past. Inform the Future
L.A. Laborfest & Public Works Improvisational Theatre
present
Bread & Roses
“The Singing Strike”
Centennial Celebration
1912-2012
A Benefit for the
Garment Workers Center & United Service Workers West
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Sunday, March 25
Meal at 4pm * Program at 5pm
SEIU-USWW Hall
828 W. Washington Blvd, Los Angeles 90015
Suggested Donation $10; $15 w/meal. No one turned away for lack of funds
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Song, theatre, spoken word and film commemorate this strike led by women and children immigrants. Celebrate the victory and further the struggle!
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FEATURING PERFORMANCES BY
Ross Altman * Lee Boek * Joanna Cazden * Linda Fisher * Andy Griggs * Jill Holden
The Leftous Sisters * Emma Rosenthal * Julia Stein
ENDORSERS
Arbeter Ring So CA * CA Faculty Assn, * CSU Dominguez Hills * Community College Staff Guild, AFT 1521 * CLUE–LA * CLUW–LA * ICUJP * IWW – LA * Jewish Labor Committee * LA County Federation of Labor * MLK Coalition for Jobs, Justice and Peace * Occupy the Hood * San Pedro Laborfest * SEIU-USWW *
Sholem Community * UNITE HERE Local 11 *USW Local 675 • The WE Project
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To endorse, sponsor, contribute, volunteer or for more information, email lalaborfest@gmail.com, call 310-704-3217, or go to www.lalaborfest.org
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This event is wheelchair accessible and dis-ability affirmative. If you need any other accommodations, contact us 72 hours in advance.
March 25, 2011 is the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Factory Fire, which took the lives of 146 workers, mostly young immigrant women and girls. It galvanized a national movement to protect workers’ health and safety. Now, as attacks on … Continue reading
LA Laborfest was created in 2011, as an educational and cultural not-for-profit association/organization. Its purpose of the is to present educational, cultural and promotional events, designed to educate the public about working people and unions, their history, their challenges in society, and to promote international understanding and solidarity with workers, both waged and unwaged, throughout the world.
Our first project is coordinating a six-week commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. This tragic fire galvanized a national social justice movement to protect workers’ health and safety, and bolstered the modern labor movement defense of the rights of all workers.
