LaborFest

Saturday, Jul 19, 2025 at 11:30am

518 Valencia Street
Free

Schedule Of Events

11:30 am - 5:00 pm : LaborTech Conference

San Francisco is ground zero for the development of AI, robotics and the elimination of hundreds of millions of jobs which is driving the investment in this technology. As Writers Guild and SAG AFTRA unionists said the issue of AI was existential in their struggle for a future. This conference will look at how AI is affecting drivers, tech workers and whether AI should be developed at all. It will also look at the billionaire techno fascists who not only are the richest people in the world but are in control of the US government including DOGE which was run by Elon Musk and his gang. It will also discuss how unions and working people can confront these challenges and how workers can take control of this technology and how it can be used for the liberation of working people.

11:30 am: PANEL ONE: The ideology, history and methods of Techno Fascism

1:00 pm: Drivers, Robotic And General AI

2:30 pm: Education, Journalism,  & Healthcare and How AI Affects Their Future

4:00pm: The Politics & Program For AI & Technology

Location : 518 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm : From Sea To Shining Sea -  Film And Discussion

John de Graaf, director of Labor’s Turning Point, Subversive? and other worker-oriented films, will show his new film From Sea To Shining Sea: Katharine Lee Bates And The Story Of America The Beautiful (recently adapted for orchestra by the Boston Pops), a timely and surprising look at the pro-labor, anti-Imperialist and social reform messages in America’s most popular song. The 40 minute film will be followed by a discussion and Q and A with director de Graaf and archivist Alan Stein of Labor Fest. 

Location : Online - Zoom Event


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