Excited to be speaking this Saturday for the performance series Foolish Oracle about a cool story I encountered at my job as the Digital Storyteller for the Washington State History Museum!

It’s about the Unemployed Citizens League, a radical political and mutual aid collective of unemployed workers formed right here in Seattle during the Great Depression.

Believe me when it comes to Seattle progressive labor history, this story has it all: working class struggle and solidarity, political betrayal, disgusting grain alcohol, Socialist vs Communist beefs, and fisticuffs on the Olympia Capitol stairs! I’ll be using archival photos, illos, and even a historical recreation to tell the story.

AND, there will be some other fantastic union-oriented folks there doing their thing including the Seattle Art Museum’s VSO union, labor research scientist Valerie Bentivegna, and some musical mayhem/old union songs/rabble rousing with Eric Wardisko and Jack Boone.

This Saturday, September 2, 11am at Bulldog News in the U District. Come by! If you aren’t yet radicalized, you will be after you see this