Thursday July 13, 2023 | 5-7PM

at the Tenderloin Museum | 398 Eddy Street SF, CA 94102

Free! No registration required.

LaborFest presents a panel conversation that will look at the Writers Guild Of America West strike and what it portends for the rest of the working class.

The strike of 11,000 writers according to the members is existential. The development and use of artificial intelligence could destroy the industry and force them to become gig worker without living wages, healthcare and retirement. This is also a threat to millions of other workers in transportation, healthcare, education and the building trades.

Speakers:
James Dalessandro, WGAW past Bay Area Picket Captain and filmmaker
Adrienne Williams, Distributed AI Research Institute & Amazonia Organizer
Robert Ovetz, SJSU Instructor, Journalist and Author

This program is presented by LaborFest as part of as part of Education for Action: California Labor School, 1942-1957, a collaboration between TLM & SFSU’s Labor Archives that celebrates the radical, union-founded worker’s school. Established in the TL, the California Labor School was remarkable for its efforts to educate the “whole person” by offering a robust complement of humanities courses in tandem with classes on trade skills and organizing. Now, its curriculum is inspiring the public programs connected to the special exhibit on view at the Tenderloin Museum, including the rich tradition of poetry to articulate and advance the experience and struggle of the working class.