For Immediate Release  http://www.theportlandalliance.org/joehhillnight
Contact:  Jim Cook - 503.703.1693
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Joe Hill Night Celebration----Fanning the Flames of Discontent
Music by General Strike and I Wobble Wobble
http://www.generalstrikeband.com/
Saturday, November 19, 2011
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM

STAR E ROSE --- NE 24th and Alberta
Portland, Oregon

A Benefit for The Portland Alliance Newspaper
http://www.theportlandalliance.org

Suggested Donations at the Door - $5 - $20

Join General Strike and  I Wobble Wobble 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 for  
the Portland Alliance Newspaper.

For more information contact Jim Cook at 503.703.1693.