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December 9, 1867: Arlington Club Founded

December 9, 2011 by Dave Knows Leave a Comment

Portland’s exclusive Arlington Club was founded on December 9, 1867 by thirty-five businessmen who agreed to found a club where they could fraternize for mutual enjoyment and relaxation, and to provide a meeting place for discussing their own and Portland’s destiny. Translation: no women or Jews allowed.

Prominent early members included Simeon Reed, Henry Failing, C.H. Lewis, and John C. Ainsworth. In 1881 George H. Williams, formerly chief justice of the Oregon Supreme Court, U.S. senator, and attorney general of the United States, drafted the articles of incorporation.

The Arlington Club wouldn’t admit jews until the late 1960s after federal judge Gus Solomon criticized the exclusion rules. And not until 1990 did the club permit women to join.

Photo credit: Arlington Club photo by Wikimedia Commons contributer Finetooth used under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

BrewHaHa PDX: Your Slice of Occu-Pie (11-December-2011)

December 7, 2011 by Dave Knows Leave a Comment

BrewHaHa PDX: Your Slice of Occu-Pie takes place this Sunday, December 11, 2011 at The Cleaners (adjacent to the Ace Hotel at 1022 SW Stark).

Wanna be a champion of the 99% but don’t want to pitch a tent?

Curious what’ll happen next in the land of Occupy and what you can do to help economic justice & government accountability?

Enjoy drinks & pie?

Then this BrewHaHa is for you! March on down to The Cleaners at the Ace Hotel. The Bus Project & the Portland Mercury are hosting a discussion about how 99%ers who aren’t camping out can help promote equality.

At this free event get yourself some edification, and most importantly, free pie from sponsors Whiffies and Random Order! There will also be beer, and soda for the under-21 crowd. Occu-pie goes from 4pm to 6pm.

Visit the Portland Mercury and the Facebook event page for more information.

History Pub: Politics and Crime in Portland: Drug Enforcement in the 1980s (21-November-2011)

November 19, 2011 by Dave Knows Leave a Comment

Join the Oregon Encyclopedia this Monday, November 21, 2011 for the latest installment of History Night at the Mission Theater (1624 NW Glisan): Politics and Crime in Portland: Drug Enforcement in the 1980s.

In the 1980s, the Portland Police Department uncovered a massive drug conspiracy headed by a cocaine dealer named Jose “Pepe” Chavez. Police Sergeant Ray Tercek was part of what would become one of the largest drug trafficking conspiracy investigations in the nation, and he shares his experiences breaking the conspiracy and negotiating the politics of City Hall.

Ray Tercek, a twenty-six years veteran of the Portland Police Bureau, has published two memoirs documenting his experiences.

This history pub is free and open to the public. Doors open at 6pm, presentation begins at 7pm.

The 99%: A Teach-in on Occupy Portland (14-November-2011)

November 11, 2011 by Dave Knows Leave a Comment

The Dill Pickle Club, Portland’s creative cultural club, presents The 99%: A Teach-in on Occupy Portland, this Monday, November 14, 2011 at the Portland Building Auditorium (1120 SW 5th).

The forum will consist of short presentations to objectively bring together various perspectives on the current occupations movement. The event will focus on the economic, political and social factors that have led to the emergence of occupations throughout the country, and more specifically the movement’s impact on a localized level.

Presenters include Dr. Randall Bluffstone (Professor of Economics, Portland State University), John Coghlan (Filmmaker, Occupy Portland Video Collective), Dr. Veronica Dujon (Professor of Sociology, Portland State University), Michael Moore (Organizer, Right2Survive), Nina Reierson (Info Booth Volunteer, Occupy Portland), and Denis Theriault (Journalist, Portland Mercury).

Admission is free. Presentations begin at 6pm.

For more information, visit the Dill Pickle Club website and the Facebook event page.

November 9, 1857: Oregon Constitution Ratified

November 9, 2011 by Dave Knows Leave a Comment

We the people of the State of Oregon to the end that Justice be established, order maintained, and liberty perpetuated, do ordain this Constitution.-

Oregon’s electorate, made up of white men over the age of twenty-one, ratified the Oregon Constitution on November 9, 1857.

The process of drawing up the constitution began earlier in the year, with growing concerns over the slavery question.

Democrats hoped to consolidate their power despite splits in the party over slavery, while anti-Democrats sought to avoid having slavery forced upon them by the federal government in the wake of the disturbing events in “Bleeding Kansas” and the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision.

Delegates met in Salem in August to draft the constitution. On November 9 the voters ratified the constitution, rejected making Oregon a slavery state, and also passed a negro exclusion clause. The U.S. Senate ratified Oregon’s constitution soon thereafter, but the Congress didn’t agree until February 12, 1859. President James Buchanan signed the law making Oregon a state on Valentine’s Day, 1859.

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