Bocce Tournament & Fundraiser!
- Join us on Sunday August 21st at Colonel Summers Park at 1pm (sharp!) for a bocce tournament to benefit the upcoming IWW Food & Retail Workers Convention! To reserve your spot in the tournament, register now!
IWW Benefit Show!
- Featuring: Chris Chandler & Paul Benoit, David Rovics, and I Wobble Wobble!
- When: Thursday July 21st 8pm
- Where: Alberta Rose Theatre (NE Alberta & 30th)
- Cost: $10 in advance at Alberta Rose Theatre and $12 at the door
Solidarity Action at Hotel Lucia!
Portland Wobbly Study Circle
Organizing 101: Every Worker An Organizer!
- Ready to organize?
- Need a refresher to kick-start your campaign?
- Interested in the I.W.W.’s organizing method?
The IWW Organizer Training provides the tools and builds the confidence to start organizing on the job. The training is packed with lessons learned from decades of IWW organizing campaigns from across the union, and answers these questions:
- What makes the I.W.W. a unique union?
- What are the stages of an organizing campaign?
- How do I begin talking to coworkers about union?
- What does ULP and NLRB stand for?
Saturday & Sunday
June 25th & 26th
9:00am-5:00pm
Registration is required. [Registration is now closed. 6/13] Email pdxiww_edout[at]riseup[dot]net if you have questions. Please register to reserve your spot at the training by June 11th.
The training is open to all IWW members, or to any non-member who has first attended an IWW Intro Class. Attendance both days of the training is vital since the second day builds upon the previous day’s instruction. A $5 registration fee goes to providing food, beverages, and training materials.
Sunday! Sunday! SUNDAY! is International Workers Day!
Sunday May 1st at the South Park Blocks – SW Park & Salmon
- 2pm: Activist Fair
- 3pm: Rally
- 4pm: March
Join us!
Read more about May Day in an interview with a Fellow Worker in the PSU Vanguard.
[Flyer image via: Portland Jobs With Justice]
Please join us, Thursday April 21st, 7pm sharp @ the Red and Black Cafe, 400 SE 12th Ave, for an evening of amazing, diverse music and Stand in Solidarity with survivors of assault in the Olympia City Jail!
On November 13, 2007, 39 women were arrested during a peaceful demonstration against the war in Iraq. When taken to the jail, many were forced to remove clothing to a point that exposed their breasts, even though the circumstances of their arrest did not warrant probable cause for strip search.
They were told that they would not be allowed to put their clothes back on after stripping. Neither did they receive prison wear or blankets to cover themselves and were left under the watch of male officers in the jail’s Sally port, which is unheated.
Jail policy firmly states that prisoners must be allowed to keep pants, skirts, shirts, dresses, socks and undergarments. Other articles of clothing, such as jackets, jewelry and shoes may be held by jail staff until the prisoner’s release. The city, against their own policies, destroyed the jail’s video tape of that night and maintains that they are completely innocent of any crime. Three of the women filed suit against the city.
In any other setting, holding power over people with the threat of violence while demanding that they remove their clothing is clearly seen as a sexual assault. Why would we tolerate it in this setting?
Music for the Working Class!
It’s time once again for the Portland IWW’s monthly Music for the Working Class!
- When: Wednesday April 27th at 7pm
- Where: Red and Black Cafe, SE 12th & Oak
- Bands: General Strike, Renegade Minstrels, and I Wobble Wobble
No cover charge! Drink discounts for union members and service industry workers! So come on down to Music for the Working Class and enjoy an evening of songs to fan the flames of discontent!
Intro Class & Organizing 101!
- Intro Class: Wednesday April 27th, 7 – 9pm
The IWW Intro Class is ideal for new members, though non-members interested in finding out more about the IWW are welcome to attend. No cost, snacks & beverages provided. Register HERE. If you have any questions, please contact: pdxiww_edout[at]riseup[dot]net.
- Organizing 101: June (Day & Time TBA)
The Organizing 101 training is open to all IWW members interested in organizing their workplace, or just interested in learning IWW organizing strategies. Non-members are required to attend the Intro Class and are encouraged to become a member before attending Organizing 101. To register, please contact: pdxiww_edout[at]riseup[dot]net.
Radical Movie Night: Finally Got the News
- Saturday March 26th, 7 pm, at In Other Words:
The IWW Portland Branch is hosting a free Radical Movie Night! The night will begin with a brief introduction about the content of the film. Then a viewing of Finally Got The News: a documentary film about the League of Revolutionary Black Workers. It will be followed by a discussion about the film, radical labor, and African-Americans in the Labor Movement.
The film documents workers’ efforts to build an independent Black labor organization that, unlike the UAW (United Auto Workers), will respond to workers’ problems, such as the assembly line speed-up, dangerous working conditions, an extreme lack of opportunity to advance and inadequate wages faced by African American workers in the auto industry.
