The Theology behind Labor Struggles: a walking tour

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Date:

Saturday, July 08, 2017

Time:

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Event Type:

Teach-In

Organizer/Author:

David Giesen

Location Details:

American Youth Hostel
312 Mason Street
San Francisco

Whether you believe in the random eventuality of life from gasses and plasma, or believe in some cosmic coherent motive (call it God), or in some other explanation for "how did consciousness come into being?" you believe in some truth. Let's call your belief in that truth "theology," and now we have a starting place for a discussion about the impulse to defend and advance the right of workers to get their fair share.

Come along on a walking tour which nominally is about San Francisco social movements, but indeed is an interactive exploration of the grounds for championing people justice. Our premise: the value of habitat is a commonwealth because we are self-aware of habitat being a "condition of existence."

During the walk we connect the Black Liberation movement with "back to the land" hippiedom, while drawing parallels with the 1840's Mormon hegira, LGBTQ struggles, and Feminism . . . and more.

And yes, on the heels of Independence Day we catechize your knowledge of the Liberty Bell. There is in fact a theological intersect between the Fourth of July and your interest in justice. Come and get it!

Free. Provocative. Aerobic.

For more information: http://www.TheCommonsSF.org

Added to the calendar on Wed, Jul 5, 2017 2:27PM

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§speaking in terms of theology facilitates speaking of dignity

by David Giesen

Fri, Jul 7, 2017 1:37PM

It would have been helpful had the calendar item notice plainly stated that framing social discussions in terms of theology facilitates referring to rights and dignity with respect to the individual human being. The assumption that a living being can have dignity presumes an integrity to the individual. How can there be integrity and a certain sovereignty to the individual (or even these qualities inhering in aspects of the whole) unless we acknowledge a basis for that dignity existing. Theology considers such a basis, whether that basis be the statistical improbability of life or an inscrutable motive behind life.

Speaking of "the dignity of labor" presumes an integrity of the individual most simply defined as self-consciousness. Where two or more "self-consciences" engage one another there arises social justice.

For more information: http://www.TheCommonsSF.org

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