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An informal illustrated history and walking guide to about 150 radical sites, the Red Guide asks us to remember and respect ?those who worked for a better world rather than their own place in the present one.? Fits in your back pocket. Original cover art by Icky A.
Check out :John Reed's birthplace /William Z. Foster's favorite bar/ Elizabeth Gurley Flynn's home with Portland's radical doctor Marie Equi/ the site of "Bloody Wednesday" where police shot four longshoremen during the Great 1934 waterfront strike/ Woody Guthrie's home while composing "Roll On, Columbia"/ the site of the Afro-American's League 1898 protest against the only armed overthrow of a elected municipal government... and 150 other sites related to Portland's radical, labor and equal justice struggles.
Blurbs
A thorough and thoroughly fascinating trip through Portland's rabble-rousing history. Munk has a passion for his subject that comes accross on the page and in person. --Jeff Baker's "Hot Sheet" in The Oregonian
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Michael Munk is the Lewis and Clark of Portland?s radical past, leading his readers on a voyage of discovery through a long-lost and wonderfully evocative historical terrain. I only wish the Red Guide had been around in the days when I was one of those Portland radicals he writes about with such knowledge (and affection).--Maurice Isserman, author of If I Had a Hammer: the Death of the Old Left and the Birth of the New Left; former staffer at the Willamette Bridge and The Portland Scribe
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Whoop! Whoop! I?m impressed by how many names from Portland?s past have not made it into our official histories and public memorials. Some were good friends of mine. Local history is too often overlooked. Good work, Mike.--Bud Clark, saloon keeper, Goose Hollow Inn, and Mayor of Portland, 1985?1992
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The writing is often vivid. To a surprising and completely appropriate extent he incorporates poetry, ranging from known Portland writers to the published verse of a six-year-old child supporting paper workers on strike. The extensive photos are well chosen and integral to the book's mission of enabling us to see and think anew.-- Norm Diamond in the Portland Alliance
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Michael Munk did a terrific job of researching local leftist and labor struggles usually ignored by conventional historians and the commercial media.--Gene Klare, columnist, Northwest Labor Press. Former reporter, pre-strike The Oregonian and the Portland Reporter
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What fun to learn all the ordinary places have a not-so-ordinary history. Some will call The Portland Red Guide subversive, others will welcome it as the sweet breeze of revelation, but all will have to admit it adds a fascinating new layer to appreciating Portland. Even those Portlanders who think they know their city?s past will likely find themselves shocked at the wealth of radical Portland history related in this volume. One hopes it becomes as ubiquitous as cell phones in Portland pedestrians? hands.--Sandy Polishuk, author of Sticking to the Union: An Oral History of the Life and Times of Julia Ruuttila
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Going to these addresses can bring to mind what has gone before and perhaps, encourage more resistance today. I had no idea so much has happened in Portland. And reading the names of people who struggled and whom I worked with brought up lots of memories.--Sandra Ford, former wife of Black Panther Party leader Kent Ford
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A roller-coaster ride through Portland?s radical past. Who knew that being on the losing side of just about everything could be so much fun?--Phil Stanford, Portland Tribune columnist, author of Portland Confidential
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The Portland Red Guide: Sites and Stories From Our Radical Past by Michael Munk
michael munk, July 2, 2007
An informal illustrated history and walking guide to about 150 radical sites, the Red Guide asks us to remember and respect ?those who worked for a better world rather than their own place in the present one.? Fits in your back pocket. Original cover art by Icky A.Check out :John Reed's birthplace /William Z. Foster's favorite bar/ Elizabeth Gurley Flynn's home with Portland's radical doctor Marie Equi/ the site of "Bloody Wednesday" where police shot four longshoremen during the Great 1934 waterfront strike/ Woody Guthrie's home while composing "Roll On, Columbia"/ the site of the Afro-American's League 1898 protest against the only armed overthrow of a elected municipal government... and 150 other sites related to Portland's radical, labor and equal justice struggles.
Blurbs
A thorough and thoroughly fascinating trip through Portland's rabble-rousing history. Munk has a passion for his subject that comes accross on the page and in person. --Jeff Baker's "Hot Sheet" in The Oregonian
***
Michael Munk is the Lewis and Clark of Portland?s radical past, leading his readers on a voyage of discovery through a long-lost and wonderfully evocative historical terrain. I only wish the Red Guide had been around in the days when I was one of those Portland radicals he writes about with such knowledge (and affection).--Maurice Isserman, author of If I Had a Hammer: the Death of the Old Left and the Birth of the New Left; former staffer at the Willamette Bridge and The Portland Scribe
***
Whoop! Whoop! I?m impressed by how many names from Portland?s past have not made it into our official histories and public memorials. Some were good friends of mine. Local history is too often overlooked. Good work, Mike.--Bud Clark, saloon keeper, Goose Hollow Inn, and Mayor of Portland, 1985?1992
***
The writing is often vivid. To a surprising and completely appropriate extent he incorporates poetry, ranging from known Portland writers to the published verse of a six-year-old child supporting paper workers on strike. The extensive photos are well chosen and integral to the book's mission of enabling us to see and think anew.-- Norm Diamond in the Portland Alliance
***
Michael Munk did a terrific job of researching local leftist and labor struggles usually ignored by conventional historians and the commercial media.--Gene Klare, columnist, Northwest Labor Press. Former reporter, pre-strike The Oregonian and the Portland Reporter
***
What fun to learn all the ordinary places have a not-so-ordinary history. Some will call The Portland Red Guide subversive, others will welcome it as the sweet breeze of revelation, but all will have to admit it adds a fascinating new layer to appreciating Portland. Even those Portlanders who think they know their city?s past will likely find themselves shocked at the wealth of radical Portland history related in this volume. One hopes it becomes as ubiquitous as cell phones in Portland pedestrians? hands.--Sandy Polishuk, author of Sticking to the Union: An Oral History of the Life and Times of Julia Ruuttila
***
Going to these addresses can bring to mind what has gone before and perhaps, encourage more resistance today. I had no idea so much has happened in Portland. And reading the names of people who struggled and whom I worked with brought up lots of memories.--Sandra Ford, former wife of Black Panther Party leader Kent Ford
***
A roller-coaster ride through Portland?s radical past. Who knew that being on the losing side of just about everything could be so much fun?--Phil Stanford, Portland Tribune columnist, author of Portland Confidential
(10 of 19 readers found this comment helpful)