LaborFest – Easter Rising, Renee Gibbons Tribute

100th Year of Easter Uprising & Celebration of Renee Gibbons’s Life
6:30 PM – Film showing: James Connolly, Ireland’s Greatest (50 min.) (2013) (RTE)
This film recounts the life of James Connolly and his role as a trade unionist, theoretician and international socialist. He and his family were economically forced to immigrate to the United States. When he returned to Ireland, he became one of the key leaders of the Easter Rising in the struggle for independence and worker rights, which cost him his life.

7:30 PM – Concert
This year is the 100th anniversary of the Easter Rising Irish struggle for independence from England. The Irish labor movement played a key role in the fight for independence and John Connolly along with other trade unionists helped organize the struggle. When their struggle was crushed by British troops, Connolly was shot along with other supporters of the Easter Rising. Many Irish workers and their families immigrated to San Francisco after the uprising.
At this concert, we will commemorate this important event as well as the life of LaborFest supporter and singer musician Renee Gibbons.
Renee, who passed away this year, used her beautiful voice and talents to get the story of working people out from Ireland to the US and all countries.
Performing at the commemoration concert will be: Margaret Cooley, Pat Wynne, Bernie Gilbert, Carol Denney, Jack Hirschman, Elisabeth Creely, Jimmy Kelly and others.

July 9 (Saturday) 6:30 PM (Free) ILWU 34 Hall – 801 2nd St. next to AT&T Ball Park website