The Portland Red Guide: Sites & Stories of Our Radical Past
by Michael Munk
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Read in January, 2007
Is your house down the block from WW-1 resisters' headquarters? Did a worker's strike take over your office building in 1970? Was your neighborhood where all the Wobblies lived? These questions and more are answered by the Portland Red Guide.
The book's dedication reads "To those who worked for a better world rather than their own place in the present one."
What are you doing to get your house on the map for the 2050 edition!?
The book's dedication reads "To those who worked for a better world rather than their own place in the present one."
What are you doing to get your house on the map for the 2050 edition!?
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Read in September, 2007
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Portland history buffs, lefties, reds
Wow. I learned an incredible amount of the history of social movements in Portland from this book...union organizing, secret police squads, Black Panther connections, and tons more. The book includes maps of historical buildings and sites, tons of historical photos, and is well researched. I'm looking forward to doing my own 'Portland red walking tour' sometime soon.
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Read in January, 2006
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Portlanders
This is a great book. I helped acquire and edit this one for Ooligan Press. If you want to know about the people and events of Portland Oregon's radical history that didn't make it into the official history books, you'll love The Portland Red Guide. Without this book, all of these interesting tales would be lost forever.
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portland history buffs, reds
interesting subbaculture history bits from Stumptown's edgy political underbelly. I really liked the maps and photos. If one was seriously into our "little Beirut" past, they could take a tour now of all the important sites. Lots of obscure factoids even for you non-rabble rousers.
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