Red Tour of Portland
With Michael Munk
Sunday, December 13 | 1PM
$10 General / $8 Picklers
Who were the Portlanders who fought for the eight-hour workday, women and gay rights, for the end of the Vietnam War and for civil rights for all? Join Michael Munk, author of The Portland Red Guide: Sites & Stories of Our Radical Past (Ooligan Press, 2007) and the Dill Pickle Club in examining our city’s tradition of progressive activism – one often taken for granted by Portlanders today.
Learn about sit down shipyard strikes, working class watering holes, radical union eat-ins, a forgotten lesbian abortionist doctor and the Police Department’s covert Portland Red Squad. Through a two-hour walk and happy hour, Munk will highlight sites and stories of our radical past – starring a cast of activists and oddballs rarely found in local history texts.
The tour will end with drinks at Paddy’s Bar & Grill – itself a stop in Munk’s guidebook, as the site of The Harbor Club, an early gay bar the City of Portland closed in 1965. Space is limited to 30 people and will fill to capacity. Books will be available for sale afterward. As Portland Tribune writer Phil Stanford reviewed Munk’s tome, “Who knew that being on the losing side of just about everything could be so fun?”
Visit Mike's website at www.michaelmunk.com.
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