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<title>Portland Radical History - Tour</title>
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        The following sites were selected and the text written by Kim Fern. The supporting material, including photos and web links, was added by members of the <a href="http://www.lclark.edu/~polyecon/history%20tour.htm" target="_blank">Lewis and Clark College Political Economy Program</a>. As Kim Fern explains, "This tour is an attempt to show you some of what isn't shown, what has been left out of our city's heritage and our "movement's" memory. This is for you to take to the library or the Historical Society or to the City Archives and spend hours finding details that make your heart race. This will show you people, organizations, groups, and events that have inspired and changed us."

There are many stops which have, unfortunately, been torn down. Those stops are marked with an asterisk (*).
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<title>1907 Site of the local  IWW Hall</title>
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        IWW = International Workers of the World<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/77112">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        The Portland IWW hall was raided on September 6, 1917, as part of a national campaign led by the U.S. Attorney General against the IWW. Records and membership cards were seized. This raid marked the beginning of working relations between the city police and federal authorities.

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        Tom Burns was known as the “Mayor of Burnside.” His watch shop housed a major lending library on labor history. Burns was an active IWW organizer throughout the free speech fights of 1913, and was jailed countless times. During the 1930s, he organized a weekly Tuesday night discussion group at SW. 4th and Alder.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/77283">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        In 1934, longshoremen struck along the entire west coast to protest low wages, long work hours, and unsafe and insecure working conditions. In Portland, a group of strikers boarded the ship Admiral Evans, which housed the “special” police (or more accurately, the company hired strike breakers). Most of the police jumped overboard. The strikers cut the anchor and the Admiral Evans became lodged against the Broadway Bridge. The strike ended in victory for the union. A 30 hour work week was established, with increased hourly and overtime pay, as well as hiring halls jointly managed by workers and management.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/77285">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        On May 10th, the second day of the 1934 longshore strike (see site 3), this hiring hall was used by the shipping companies to recruit scabs in an effort to break the strike. The strikers came to the hall and used their numbers to try and prevent the strike breakers from being loaded on busses and when that failed to overturn the busses. The police eventually escorted the scabs to the docks, but the strikers' actions greatly reduce their number.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/77286">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        Ruth Barnett & The Stewart Clinic (1950)
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        Ruth Barnett was known around Portland as the “Abortionist.” At the turn of the century, when Ruth became pregnant, a prostitute told her about a doctor that performed abortions. Shortly after her abortion, and in need of work, Ruth met a female doctor, Dr. Alys Griff, who also did abortions. She pleaded to apprentice under her and ended up learning from and working with Dr. Griff for 11 years. She later worked in an office next to Marie Equi -- an IWW activist, women's rights activist, open lesbian, and one of the first women to graduate with a degree in medicine from the University of Oregon -- in the Lafeyette Building (at 531 S.W. Washington St.).<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/77288">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        In the early months of 1934, the Portland Police Bureau secretly organized and financed a group of “special citizens and officers” into the infamous Red Squad. This group was responsible for monitoring, tracking, collecting information, infiltrating, harassing, and intimidating members of the Communist Party and labor organizers throughout the 1930s, and also worked in cooperation during the 1950s with the Velde Commission/House Un-American Activities Committee investigation of Stanley Moore. The Red Squad used these offices with an unlisted phone number and address.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/77289">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        C.E.S. Wood (known as Col. Wood) came to Portland penniless in 1883. Over the next thirty years he came to live two separate lives. In one, he was a well-known poet and lawyer. He also founded the Portland Art Museum, directed the Portland Public Library, and was an influential member of Portland’s business and social elite. At the same time, Col. Wood thought of himself as a social anarchist and believed that American capitalism was an exploitative system. Therefore, in his second life, he was a vocal supporter of the IWW and defended Emma Goldman, Marie Equi, Tom Burns, and other IWW members, all for free. He was also a strong supporter of birth control, women’s rights, and civil rights. In fact, he quit the Oregon Bar Association in 1913, because it denied membership to an African American lawyer. He kept two different offices, reflecting his two different lives, but used the money he made from his business life to finance the radical causes he believed in. He left Portland in 1920 for Los Gatos, California, where he built an amazing house that still stands.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/77290">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        Soapbox orators were active throughout Portland in the early months of 1913 as part of an IWW free speech campaign. The corner of 6th and Washington was a favorite location. The newly elected mayor, immediately upon being sworn in, ordered an end to all public speaking except at religious meetings. IWW activists challenged the ruling, and many, including Marie Equi and Tom Burns, were arrested. This period marked the beginning of police violence against “radical” groups such as the IWW.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/77291">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        Mary Schwab and eight other women were arrested by the police and charged with disorderly conduct for their public speaking as part of the IWW free speech fight. Mary did get to make her speech, however, by climbing the telephone pole.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/77292">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        Dr. Marie Equi was an IWW activist, open lesbian, and one of the first women to graduate with a degree in Medicine from the University of Oregon. She was also a strong supporter of the Oregon Packing Company strike of 1913 and the IWW free speech fight. She was an articulate and effective voice for women’s rights, the working class, and minorities. She was also a fierce opponent of the Government’s effort to build support for U.S. involvement in World War I. At one rally she unfurled a banner which read “Prepare To Die, Workingmen, J.P. Morgan & Co. Want Preparedness For Profit.” She was tried for sedition (an act or threat of act against the U.S. government during wartime). In December 1918, despite a strong defense by C.E.S. Wood, she was found guilty and sentenced to San Quentin for a three year term; she ended up serving half that time. She was an active supporter, including financially, of the 1934 longshore strike. From 1928 to 1936, she lived with Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, a national IWW organizer, at her home at 1423 S.W. Hall. Equi was described as a "holy terror" even in her old age. She died on July 13, 1952 at Portland's Fairlawn Hospital. <br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/78248">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<title>formerly The Heilig Theater (1916)*</title>
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        The Heilig Theater was where Margaret Sanger spoke when she came to Portland on June 17th, 1916. Three men were arrested outside the theater for selling her book. They violated the Comstock Law, which made it against the law to distribute or publish birth control information.
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        In June 1954, the House on Un-American Activities Committee, also known as the Velde Commission because it was chaired by Rep. Harold Velde, came to Portland. Its purpose was to interrogate several local professors to determine whether they were members of the Communist Party. Its main target was Stanley Moore, professor of Philosophy at Reed College. The Velde Commission relied heavily on Red Squad information in its interrogations. Although the Commission never made its case against Moore, the Reed College Board of Trustees decided to dismiss him nevertheless. The courthouse was named after Gus Solomon who, in his younger years, became politicized by the Sacco and Vanzetti case. His greatest success was defending Dirk DeJonge against charges of criminal syndicalism. His work on this case earned him a promotion to a federal justice in 1950.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/78372">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        On May Day, 1935, a group of radicals raised a red flag at city hall and then broke the flag pole mechanism so that it could not be taken down. The red flag flew most of the day.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/78382">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        On August 7, 1915, Emma Goldman and her partner Ben Rietman were arrested for distributing birth control information, a violation of the Comstock Law. Emma was preparing to speak, having been introduced by C.E.S. Wood, when she was arrested by a plain clothes policeman and taken downtown. Wood bailed her out but she and Rietman received $100 fines. Emma spoke two more times in Portland, once against World War II, and the other time against monogamy.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/78384">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        The Communist Party organized “unemployment councils” during the depression, giving unemployed workers a means to support each other and struggle for political change in solidarity with employed workers. By the end of 1931, those in Portland had more than 3000 registered members. When efforts to work within the system failed, these councils often took direction action in defense of their members interests. For example, after some 400 unemployed stormed City Hall, the city agreed to provide housing and shelter for over 1000 unemployed working people.

The main council headquarters was the location for the infamous 1934 police raid at which Dirk DeJonge was arrested for violating the Criminal Syndicalism Law. Criminal syndicalism was defined as "the doctrine which advocates crime, physical violence, sabotage or any unlawful acts or methods as a means of accomplishing or effecting industrial or political change or revolution." DeJonge, once a Communist Party candidate for Mayor of Portland, was charged with engaging in criminal syndicalism for giving a speech at the council headquarters that charged the police with siding with the steamship and stevedoring companies in their effort to break the longshore strike. He was found guilty despite a lack of any evidence that he had violated the law. He appealed the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court and in January 1937 he was cleared of all charges.

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        On June 27, 1913, over 50 of Oregon Packing Company’s all female staff walked out to protest low wages and unsafe working conditions. Their strike was met with repression, as the recently elected mayor authorized aggressive actions against the women. In one case a number of the strikers were trampled by police horses. The strike was immediately supported by the IWW, and especially by IWW women such as Marie Equi and Mary Schwab. The strike became tied to the free speech fight when strikers hung banners reading “Forty cents a day makes prostitutes” and were told that they could be arrested for such actions.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/79327">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        On Friday, August 15, 1975, after four days of camping out in front of the BPA building, approximately 100 members of the Survival of American Indians Association took over the BPA offices. The action was designed to call attention to the violation of human rights that was taking place on the Pine Ridge Reservation and the murder of Joe Stuntz at Wounded Knee, and to demand an end to the undeclared state of martial law in South Dakota. A six day march from Olympia preceeded the occupation.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/79330">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        On October 16, 1967, three people were arrested during a massive anti Vietnam War demonstration in front of the Selective Service Headquarters. The arrests were the result of a planned demonstration, the aim of which was “breaking down the effectiveness of the draft.” One of the people arrested had twice tried to gain entrance to the draft records room to seize the records. The protest was followed by another demonstration at the Armed Forces Examining Station at 424 S.W. Taylor.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/79331">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        Dawson Park has been the meeting point for many African American and Black Panther rallies. Many Martin Luther King Jr. memorial events have been held here. It has also served as an important starting point for marches. Over 400 people began a march here after the 1963 assassination of Medger Evers, the NAACP Mississippi field secretary. On January 1, 1970, it was the starting point for a march of over 250 people protesting the unequal treatment of African American youth in Portland Public Schools.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/79333">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        The People’s Clinic operated for 9 years and offered programs for sickle cell anemia and lead posioning testing, as well as general health care. It also helped individuals arrange transportation to visit family members in prison. Members of the community rallied to save it, by picketing against a proposed expansion by Emanuel Hospital.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/79334">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        One June 13, 1969, Kent Ford, a leader of the Black Panthers, was brutally beaten by Portland Police when he tried to stop them from arresting a number of young people for curfew violation. The beating triggered a riot involving approximately 150 youths that lasted two days and resulted in over 12 arrests.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/79335">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        One February 19, 1970, Albert Williams was shot and wounded in front of the Black Panther Party headquarters.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/79336">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        On June 18, 1906, federal agents raided the White Eagle Tavern to arrest a band of anarchists who were said to be plotting to assassinate President Roosevelt. The tavern was run by several Polish immigrants who were threatened with deportation should any of them become involved with the anarchist movement.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/79342">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        The International Labor Defense Organization was formed during the Sacco and Vanzetti trial. While she was in Portland, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was its chair. It eventually became the Oregon Civil Rights Congress. In 1948, the Portland School Board, under pressure from the Portland Police Bureau Red Squad, refused to rent the Benson High School Auditorium to the Congress for an event.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/79329">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-05-05 21:41:34.18246+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Louise Bryant’s studio (1915)</title>
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        Louise Bryant was a relentless critic of U.S. imperialism, although she is best known for her love affair with John Reed. Louise grew up in Reno, Nevada and moved to Eugene, Oregon to attend the University of Oregon. In Eugene she was active in the movement for women’s suffrage. In 1914, Louise moved to Portland. She wrote for The Masses, and in 1917, she traveled with John Reed to Russia to cover political developments. She was highly critical of Nicholas II and the Russian autocracy and believed that democracy could only be achieved through their overthrow. She published her views on the Russian Revolution in “Six Months in Russia.” She came back to Portland in 1919 as part of a national speaking tour, and spoke to an audience of 4000 about the importance of opposing the U.S. military intervention against the newly formed Bolshevik government. She died in Paris in 1934.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/77287">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-05-03 00:03:44.702947+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Black Panther Dental Clinic*</title>
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        The Black Panther dental clinic was open Mondays and Wednesdays, and saw an average of between 6 to 9 patients a day. In addition to dental services, the clinic also offered the community a monthly preventative hygiene program.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/79332">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-05-05 22:01:43.848263+00:00</dc:date>
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