Schedule Of Events

12:00 pm - 2:00 pm : Bloody Thursday Walk - By Gifford Hartman

Walk with Gifford Hartman (about 2 hours)

Ninety-one years ago (1934), a great battle took place between striking workers and the police and National Guard along the waterfront alongside the piers of San Francisco’s Embarcadero. We will look at the causes of the 1934 General Strike, why it was successful, and how the issues from that strike are still relevant to working class people today. The current movement against police murder of black and brown people can draw lessons from the way strikers invited black workers into their ranks to prevent racist exclusion from breaking their strike. We explain how an 83-day West Coast Waterfront Strike exploded into the 4-day General Strike that paralyzed all commerce in San Francisco. This tour will visit the sites of those events.

Cost : Free

Location : Harry Bridges Plaza south side Tower - Embarcadero at Market St., SF

12:00 pm - 4:00 pm : Labor History Bike Tour – by Chris Carlsson of Shaping San Francisco

Tour starts at 518 Valencia St. near 16th St. (about 4 hours of tour)

Tour ends at Spear and Market.

Labor History Bike Tour by Chris Carlsson (Shaping San Francisco)
From the pre-urban history of Indian Slavery to the earliest 8-hour day movement in the U.S., the ebb and flow of class war is traced. SF’s radical working-class organizations are shaped in part by racist complicity in genocide and slavery, but from the 1870s to the 1940s there are dozens of epic battles between owners and workers, culminating in the 1934 General Strike and its aftermath. This is an entirely different look, during a four-hour bike tour, at San Francisco labor history.

Location : 518 Valencia St

6:30 pm - 8:30 pm : Censored – Dr. Rupa Marya & Professor Sang Hea Kil With a Performance by Equipto

A panel about how these 2 educators, Dr. Rupa Marya and Professor San Hea Kil were punished for speaking about the genocide happening in Gaza.

Cost : Free

Location : 518 Valencia San Francisco, CA