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Interview session 8, 2020 August 1

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Scope and Contents

In the eighth interview session, conducted on August 1, 2020, Partridge discusses organizing postal workers to resist an attempt by the administration of President Donald J. Trump to dismantle the U.S. Postal Service at the time of the interview in 2020. He revisits the topic of his involvement with the Central American Solidarity Committee in the 1980s, talks about the connection between the labor movement and revolutionary politics in Central America, and discusses Canadian postal unions. He talks about his career as a letter carrier for the U.S. Postal Service in Portland from 1984 to 2011. He also discusses campaigning for Jesse Jackson in the 1980s.

Dates

  • Creation: 2020 August 1

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research.

Extent

732 Megabytes (1 audio file (WAV, 1 hr., 6 min., 38 sec.))

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Repository Details

Part of the Oregon Historical Society Research Library Repository

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