For Immediate Release  http://www.theportlandalliance.org/joehillnight
Contact:  Jim Cook - 503.703.1693
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Joe Hill Night Celebration----
Fanning the Flames of Discontent
Music by General Strike

http://www.generalstrikeband.com/

 

Coming up: JOE HILL NITE!!

Come join General Strike Band in celebration of the life and music of labor activist and songwriter Joe Hill. Special guest appearance by Joe Hickerson.

Wednesday, November 19, 2014
8:00 PM - 11:00 PM


Red and Black Cafe, 400 SE 12th Ave, just off SE Stark Ave. Tel: 503-231-3899
Donations gladly accepted to benefit the Red and Black Cafe.Portland, Oregon

 

Suggested Donations at the Door - $5 - $20

Join General Strike for a Portland tradition
since 1990, celebrating the songs and spirit of Joe Hill and other  
radical song writers.  Joe Hill, an organizer for the Industrial  
Workers of the World (IWW) was framed on a murder charge
and executed  by a firing squad in Salt Lake City, Utah on
November 19, 1915.  Some  of his last words echo today,
"Don't mourn for me, Organize!"

Joe Hill's famous song, "The Preacher and the Slave" is said to have  
been first released and sung on the streets of Portland, Oregon about  
1910.  General Strike will sing and lead Joe Hill songs, and other  
rabble-rousing music.  General Strike, along with the Portland IWW  
and others, has been celebrating Joe Hill Night as a Portland  
tradition since 1990.

General Strike has led songs on picket lines and social justice rallies  
in Portland and the Pacific Northwest since 1987.

Join us in this radical song and history celebration to benefit
the Red and Black.

For more information contact Jim Cook at 503.703.1693.