LaborFest--Tribute to Al Robles at Manilatown Center Thursday July 28th

p span class="style128"span class="style56"span class="style111"a name="28"/astrongfont color="#990000" size="4"July 28 (Thursday) /font/strong/span/span/spanspan class="style128"font size="3"5:00 PM (Donation)/font/span strongspan class="style249"emfont size="3"span class="scayt-misspell" data-scayt_word="Manilatown" data-scaytid="1"Manilatown/span Center/font/em/span/strong - span class="style21"font size="3"868 span class="scayt-misspell" data-scayt_word="Kearny" data-scaytid="3"Kearny/span St., SF nbsp; /font/spanbr / strongfont size="4"span class="style65"Unsung Heroes of U. S. History /span/font/strongbr / span class="style56"font size="3"font color="#333333"strong6:00-7:00 PM/strong - /font/fontfont size="3"font color="#333333"strongemBuffalo Soldiers in the Philippine War - A Conflict of Conscience for African Americans/em/strongbr / Descendants of Buffalo Soldiers who married Filipino women and moved back to the Bay Area will be invited to share their family stories.br / strong7:00-8:00 PM/strong ndash; Film Preview of /font/fontfont size="3"font color="#333333"strongemldquo;The Delano span class="scayt-misspell" data-scayt_word="Manongs" data-scaytid="7"Manongs/span: Forgotten Heroes of the span class="scayt-misspell" data-scayt_word="UFW”" data-scaytid="13"UFWrdquo;/span/em/strongbr / The Delano span class="scayt-misspell" data-scayt_word="Manongs" data-scaytid="9"Manongs/span tells the unknown history of a group of Filipino span class="scayt-misspell" data-scayt_word="farmworkers" data-scaytid="15"farmworkers/span in Delano, California who toiled under the yoke of racism for decades, then rose up in their twilight years to fight for fair wages and ethical work conditions.br / The span class="scayt-misspell" data-scayt_word="Manongs" data-scaytid="11"Manongs/span (a span class="scayt-misspell" data-scayt_word="Manong" data-scaytid="17"Manong/span is a Filipino term of respect for an older brother) instigated one of the American labor movementrsquo;s finest hours ndash; the Great Grape Strike of 1965 that brought about a successful joining of the Filipino and Chicano (Mexican-American) labor groups and the creation of the United Farm Workers Union (span class="scayt-misspell" data-scayt_word="UFW" data-scaytid="19"UFW/span). This program will show the 10 min. trailer. There will also be a discussion with the filmrsquo;s director Marissa Aroy./font/font/spanbr / nbsp;/p p span class="style56"font size="3"font color="#333333"strong8:00-9:00 PM/strong ndash; /font/fontfont size="3"font color="#333333"strongemTribute to Al Robles ldquo;Uncle Alrdquo;/em/strongbr / Alfred A. Robles (February 16, 1930 - May 2, 2009) dedicated his life to working for social justice.nbsp; A community character, he was instrumental in the political fight against the city to stop the demolition of the International Hotel on span class="scayt-misspell" data-scayt_word="Kearny" data-scaytid="5"Kearny/span Street./font/font/span/p