History Pub Monday at Kennedy School
"Julia Ruuttila: The Proudest Moment in an Oregon Activist's Life"
- Kennedy School Theater |
- Monday, January 30
- 7 p.m. |
- Free; please bring a canned good to donate to the OR Food Bank |
- All ages welcome
Join us for beer and history, sponsored by the Oregon Historical Society, Holy Names Heritage Center and McMenamins, in which you'll hear lively local or regional history while you enjoy a frosty pint or two of handcrafted ale.
Julia Ruuttila was a labor and investigative journalist, a poet and fiction writer, and a union, peace, and justice activist who lived all but a few years of her life in Oregon.
She founded a defense committee that freed a union martyr after twenty years in the penitentiary, headed the Woodworkers Ladies' Auxiliary during an 8-month lockout, stood up to the inquisitors of the House Un-American Activities Committee, and got fired from a state job for her coverage of the Vanport Flood. Yet none of these qualified for what she claimed was her proudest moment.
Presentation by Sandy Polishuk, author of Sticking to the Union: An Oral History of the Life and Times of Julia Ruuttila. She has taught oral history at Portland State University and is the founder of Occupy History, an international organization of historians in support of the Occupy Movement.
About History Pub Monday at Kennedy School
Join us for beer and history, sponsored by the Oregon Historical Society, Holy Names Heritage Center and McMenamins, in which you'll hear lively local or regional history while you enjoy a frosty pint or two of handcrafted ale.
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