Jobs With Justice and Black Site Records present the inaugural Workers Revival Festival - two days of music, art and workshops celebrating working class power!
WHERE: recordBar, 1520 Grand Blvd, Kansas City, MO
WHEN: May 11 & 12, 2018 - 7 pm
BANDS: Downtown Boys, Baracatunga, Rev. Sekou, Austin Lucas, Friendship Commanders, Red Kate, Ebony Tusks, Nublvckcity, Scruffy & The Janitors, Lovergurl and more!
SPEAKERS: Erica Smiley, National Jobs With Justice; Kim Kelly, leader and organizer at Writers Guild of America East (WGAE), music and labor writer at VICE; Victoria Ruiz, lead singer of Downtown Boys and national workers’ rights activist; Justin Stein, Missouri Jobs With Justice; Martin Rucker, retired NFL Players Association and LiUNA 663 member.
SPONSORS: Jobs with Justice, Black Site Records Cooperative, Greater KC AFL-CIO, 90.1-FM KKFI, ULLICO (Union Labor Life Insurance Co.), Pipe Fitters Local 533.
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Kansas City, MO – This past week, volunteers have been turning in hundreds of thousands of signatures to the Missouri Secretary of State’s office to place two citizen-driven initiatives on the November ballot - raising the statewide minimum wage to $12/hr by 2023 and reforming Missouri’s campaign financing and ethics laws. Coupled with last year’s drive to include on the ballot a citizen’s veto “right-to-work” law the legislature passed in 2017, it is clear that working people are FED UP with corporate power running their government (and their lives), and they are FIGHTING BACK!
To celebrate the work of thousands of volunteers, union members and concerned citizens throughout the region, festival organizers are throwing a WORKERS’ REVIVAL FEST May 11 and 12 at the recordBar in Kansas City. The festival will celebrate work in all its forms and teach one another how to stand up to corporate power, support working people, and come together to demand higher pay and a better quality of life.
“This festival will help us change how we talk about workers’ rights,” said Justin Stein, from festival sponsor Missouri Jobs with Justice. “We can move away from the dangerous right-wing narrative that has eroded pay and working standards and toward the truth - that organizing is the only way to ensure working people are bargaining and not begging for better wages and benefits.”
Sponsored by Jobs with Justice, Black Site Records Cooperative, the Greater Kansas City AFL-CIO, ULLICO (formerly known as Union Labor Life Insurance Co), 90.1-FM KKFI, and Pipefitters Local 533, the WORKERS’ REVIVAL FEST will feature a wide range of music from national, regional and local bands including hip hop (Ebony Tusks and NuBlvckCity), Americana/roots (Austin Lucas), Latin/Trad. Central American (Baracutanga), indie rock (Scruffy & The Janitors, Lovergurl) and potent political punk rock and roll (Downtown Boys, Friendship Commanders and Red Kate).
Friday, May 11 - 7 pm
11:45 - Downtown Boys
https://www.subpop.com/artists/downtown_boys
10:45 - Red Kate
9:30 - Friendship Commanders
http://friendshipcommanders.bandcamp.com
8:30 - Ebony Tusks
https://soundcloud.com/ebonytusks
7:30 - NuBlvckCity
https://www.soundcloud.com/nublvckcity
Saturday, May 12 - 7 pm
11:45 - Baracutanga
http://baracutanga.bandcamp.com
10:45 - Rev. Sekou
9:30 - Austin Lucas
http://austinlucas.bandcamp.com
8:30 - Scruffy & The Janitors
http://thistallrecords.bandcamp.com/album/scruffy-and-the-janitors
7:30 - Lovergurl
Between bands both nights, they’ll have prominent speakers in the labor, arts and activist communities, as well as several local worker leaders and poets. The list includes:
Erica Smiley, National Jobs With Justice
Kim Kelly, leader/organizer at Writers Guild of America East, music and labor writer at VICE;
Victoria Ruiz, lead singer of Downtown Boys and national workers’ rights activist
Martin Rucker, retired NFL Players Association and LiUNA 663 member.
Justin Stein, Missouri Jobs With Justice
And finally, this wouldn’t be a labor festival without some good ol’ educating and organizing! Workshops are scheduled on Saturday, May 12 at the Collection Restaurant, 1532 Grand Blvd. Workshops are FREE but registration is requested at: http://tinyurl.com/KC-WRF-Tix
Saturday, May 12
10 am - 4 pm Activist Art led by Julia Cole, Dave Loewenstein, and Rico and IT
10 am - 12 pm Know Your Rights at Work led by labor educator Judy Ancel
1 pm - 3 pm Organizing 101 led by Kim Kelly
1 pm - 4 pm Storytelling Workshop w/ Center for Story-based Strategies
Tickets for the music portion of the Fest are $10 each night, or $16 for both nights and can be purchased at the door, or in advance at: http://tinyurl.com/KC-WRF-Tix. The Fest is All Ages, though minors must be accompanied by a legal guardian.
Connect with the Fest online:
Website - https://workersrevival.com/
Facebook Page - https://www.facebook.com/workersrevival/
Facebook Event Page - https://tinyurl.com/KC-WRF-FBevent
Workshop Details - http://tinyurl.com/KC-WRF-Workshops
Twitter - https://twitter.com/workersrevival, @workersrevival
Spotify Playlist- https://tinyurl.com/KC-WRF-Playlist
CONTACT:
Natalie Patrick-Knox
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