Laborfest: Frame-Ups, Mumia & 1916 Staged Bombing

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Sunday, July 24, 2016

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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM

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Panel Discussion

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Laborfest

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ILWU Local 34 Hall, 801 Second St., San Francisco. Next to baseball stadium. Walk the one mile from Market on Second or on the Embarcadero to 801 Second Street or take public transportation as follows:
T or N train from Embarcadero Station to Second and King Station;
30 or 45 bus from Market and Fifth Streets (Powell Station) to end of line at Townsend between Fourth and Third, then walk one block to Second Street;
47 bus which starts at North Point at Fisherman’s Wharf, travels on Van Ness, 11th St, Bryant and ends at Cal Train Station at 4th and Townsend, then walk on Townsend 2 blocks to Second Street;
10 bus which runs from 24th and Potrero, on Rhode Island to 26th St, on Cesar Chavez St to Dakota, Wisconsin, Connecticut, DeHaro, Rhode Island at 16th St, on Townsend to Second Street.

The Lessons of the Preparedness Day Bombing for Today
Repression, Frame-up, Labor and Political Prisoners
One hundred years ago, the trade unionist and labor activists Tom Mooney and Warren Billings were framed for a bombing that they did not do. After the bombing in San Francisco, unions were raided and the anti-labor business lobby went on a witch-hunt against organized labor, using this incident as a pretext.
Labor did mobilize to free Mooney and Billings. Hundreds of mass meetings were held and protests were organized. Major unions including the Machinists’ Lodge, the Iron Molders’ Association and United Steelworkers chose to strike, halting a large sector of the economy to demand their freedom. Two hundred and twenty big unions outside of industrial centers also joined in Mooney’s cause.
This forum will look at the use of so-called “terror” incidents to create a new anti-labor political environment. The use of “terrorism” as a political vehicle is a growing pretext for attack on our democratic and union rights.
This forum will look at some of the history of such incidents and political frame-ups of trade unionists and political activists.
It will also look at how labor has helped build a working class political movement to defend political prisoners in the US and around the world. Sponsored by KPFA WorkWeek.
Endorsed by Labor Committee To Free Mumia Abu-Jamal
See also:
http://www.laboractionmumia.org/
http://www.freemumia.com/
http://www.millions4mumia.org/
http://prisonradio.org/
http://archive.prisonradio.org/
https://prisonradio.wordpress.com/category/mumia-abu-jamal/
http://journalists4mumia.blogspot.com/
http://www.emajonline.com/
http://mumiaabujamal.com/
http://www.nodeathpenalty.org/get-the-facts/ten-reasons-why-you-should-support-mumia-abu-jamal
http://www.nlg.org/national-campaigns
http://sfbayview.com/2012/mumia-abu-jamal-files-challenge-to-illegal-sentence-of-life-imprisonment-without-parole/
http://www.peaceandfreedom.org/home/downloads/mumia.pdf
https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/amr51/001/2000/en/
Frame-up: The Tom Mooney-Warren Billings Case by Curt Gentry
http://www.dickmeister.com/id331.html, Mooney and Billings: Framed
http://www.laborfest.net/2016/2016schedule.htm

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