Open mic before and after the featured poets. Sign up at 3 pm.

LaborFestWriters

Writing by and for working people since 2005

Who We Are:

"The corporate-controlled media amplifies the voices of the powerful and diminishes the voices of working people. We are dedicated to overcoming that."

The LaborFest Writers grew out of a single afternoon in July 2005 — a writing workshop at the Exit Theatre in San Francisco's Tenderloin, led by labor writer Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. Eight or nine people sat around a few tables in a dark little café and wrote about their first jobs. By the end of the day they had agreed to exchange email addresses.