Save the Redstone Labor Temple

12/21/2023

https://www.sfchronicle.com/realestate/article/sf-redstone-nonprofit-office-18561334.php

Nonprofits accuse S.F. firm of squeezing them out of historic Redstone Labor Temple to make room for office space

11/27/2021

https://missionlocal.org/2021/11/redstone-tenants-told-their-107-year-old-building-has-sold/

This article has been corrected. See note at the bottom. Despite years of advocacy to keep the historic Redstone Building in community hands, the building

02/20/2020

Next first Friday event at the Redstone! Friday March 6, 7pm

01/24/2020

Free first Friday events kicking off Feb. 7 at the Redstone...with a return to the building by Theatre Rhinoceros!

07/30/2019

At last, photographic evidence of the 1934 General Strike vote occurring at the San Francisco Labor Temple. And there’s a circulating library next door!

06/24/2019

Thanks everyone who came out and thanks to Rick Gerharter for the photos. We've had commitments from the City that they'll be looking for financing in the budget process!

Save the Redstone Labor Temple
March & Rally from the Redstone to City Hall
Photos by Rick Gerharter

06/24/2019

Save the Redstone Labor Temple
March & Rally from the Redstone to City Hall
Photos by Rick Gerharter

06/20/2019

06/20/2019

June 20, 2019

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Contacts: Karl Kramer, 415-509-9712
Jay Rice, 415-559-8647

LABOR AND COMMUNITY RALLY FOR HISTORIC BUILDING

The Redstone Labor Temple, also known as The Redstone Building, is a hub for social and economic justice organizing, a laboratory for radical arts and culture, the home of an important advocacy group for transgender Latinas, and a declared sanctuary building. It is an important part of the life of San Francisco’s radical culture which needs to be preserved.

The Mission Economic Development Agency (MEDA), a Mission district non-profit dedicated to fighting displacement of the neighborhood’s long-time residents and organizations, is in contract to purchase the building from the current owner. To do so, MEDA needs significant financial help from the City government and other sources. It is now seeking commitments of additional funding which is needed for the purchase.

Supporters of the building, led by the Redstone Labor Temple Association, the building’s tenants group, are rallying on Thursday, June 20, to call for financial help from city government, foundations, and philanthropists. At 11:30 am, community members will march from the Redstone building (at 2940 16th Street, near Capp Street) to City Hall. There will then be a rally on the Civic Center-side steps of San Francisco's City Hall from 12 noon to 1 p.m.

Built by the San Francisco Labor Council in 1914, the building was the epicenter of the historic 1934 San Francisco General Strike. The City designated it as a landmark in 2004.

Supervisor Hillary Ronen, along with Supervisors Shamann Walton and Gordon Mar, sponsored a resolution passed by the Board of Supervisors at its Tuesday meeting which pledged to support for efforts to preserve the building and prevent the eviction of its tenants.

"The Redstone Building is a city landmark celebrating the powerful history of San Francisco labor Struggles. But no less than that, it is a present-day gem that houses nonprofits, cultural institutions, and Legacy Businesses," said Supervisor Ronen. "I am so sick of the nonstop displacement of the heart and soul of my district. I am impressed by the Redstone tenants’ determination and their creativity to save this precious Mission resource, and I am ready to do whatever I can to support them in this struggle."

Redstone Labor Temple Association
2940 - 16th Street
San Francisco, CA 94103

06/19/2019

Another article on Supervisors Ronen, Mar, and Walton introducing a Resolution to Save the Redstone Labor Temple, as well as our rally tomorrow!

Mission Economic Development Agency under contract to purchase Redstone Building for $15M