Events on 7/22 & 7/23 for 60th Anniversary of Oakland General Strike

[Rich Gibson <rgibson@pipeline.com>]

I went on this walk and had a great time. Hope others up there enjoy it.




> As part of the 13th annual San Francisco Bay Area
> LaborFest (LaborFest.net):
>
> 60th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION OF THE OAKLAND GENERAL
> STRIKE
>
> JULY 22 (SATURDAY) 6:00 PM (This event is free)
>
> YWCA of OAKLAND, 1515 Webster Street (at 15th Street)
>
> In the first week of December 1946 Oakland's "Work
> Holiday" began spontaneously with rank-and-file
> solidarity in support of the mostly women retail
> clerks striking at 2 department stores in defiance of
> police scabherding. Within 24 hours it involved over
> 100,000 people and shut down all commerce in the East
> Bay for 54 hours.
>
> Together with the Labor Studies Program at Laney
> College in Oakland, we invite you to a forum with
> Evelyn and Val Schaaf and Earl Watkins, who
> participated in the strike; Gifford Hartman's
> multi-media presentation The Last General Strike?;
> the documentary Smashing the Tower: The 1946 Oakland
> General Strike (1996, 18 min.); Albert Lannon, author
> of Fight or be Slaves!: The History of the
> Oakland-East Bay Labor Movement and retired chair of
> Labor Studies at Laney, whose musical tribute to the
> General Strike will be performed by the Labor
> Heritage/Rockin' Solidarity Chorus; and the  wordpower
> & song of Avotcja (www.avotcja.com).
>
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>
> OAKLAND GENERAL STRIKE WALK
>
> JULY 23 (SUNDAY) 2:00 PM (This event is free)
>
> Meet at the fountain at Latham Square (Where Broadway
> & Telegraph converge, nearest BART is the 12th Street
> Oakland City Center Station, take the City Hall Plaza
> exit and go north on Broadway for 1 block)
>
> The walk will revisit the sites that sparked the "Work
> Holiday" that shut the East Bay down.
>
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>
> Both events co-sponsored by Laney College Labor
> Studies and the Flying Picket Historical Society
>
> Contact information:
>
> Laney's Labor Studies:
> http://laney.peralta.edu/apps/comm.asp?$1=30153
>
> FlyingPicket.org; e-mail: SFBay@FlyingPicket.org;
> (415) 751-1572
>
>
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