Daily Bleed for This 1st of June

The wind blows hard among the pines
toward the beginning
of an endless past.

Listen: you've heard everything.

— Shinkichi Takahashi

Today's Bleed, in full, 'bout 120 thumpin' entries,
50 some links,
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0601.htm

excerpts:

JUNE 1

WILLIAM SLOANE COFFIN
American anti-war activist, radical peace worker, cleric.

DON'T GIVE UP THE SHIP DAY.

England: SHEEPSHEARING FESTIVALS.
Dancing, singing, feasting, spinning & weaving contests.

Keep in mind, this is:

Gay Pride Month, Fight the Filthy Fly Month, National
Accordion Awareness Month, Gay & Lesbian Book Month.

The first week is: National Bathroom Reading Week,
Brain Tumor Awareness Week.

2nd week is: Graffiti Week

3rd week is: National Fink Week

Movable Holidays include:

3rd Saturday: National Hollerin' Contest (Spivey's
Corner, North Carolina)
Saturday before Whitsunday: Lazybones Day (Luilak)
Last Sunday: Gay/Lesbian Pride Parade (Frisco)
Last Thursday: Watermelon Thump & World Champion Seed Spitting Contest

June Indeterminate Holidays include:
Chicken Clucking Contest

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1586 - New World: Ralph Lane & English garrison murder
Pemisapan, behead & mutilate his corpse, announcing
"Christ our Victory" as they lay siege to Dasemunkepeac.

Other patriot chiefs such as King
Phillip, Pontiac, Tecumseh, Sitting Bull, et al,
suffer similar fates, as the pattern is set. Such acts
are defended by creeps like cultist/novelist Ayn Rand
for their "civilizing" qualities.

1771 - England: When a crowd of women is arrested while
destroying the fences around Rewhay Common, another mob
rises to march on Burton-on-Trent where they free their
comrades & carry them away in triumph.

1802 - The 1st US book fair, Beaver St. Coffee House, NYC.

Probly not the anti-union Starbucks.

1833 - No RVs?: A treaty officially banishes the Winnebago
Indians from southern Wisconsin.

Some Winnebagos lead a fugitive existence in the
Madison area for decades. Toward the end of the
century, their favorite campsites are Fullers Woods,
Frost Woods, the Arboretum, & Mills Woods, what will
become the Elmside Boulevard area.

There the Winnebagos live in wigwams & eat boiled
lily bulbs, muskrats & fish. To make money they trap
mink & spear muskrats in local marshes. When they've
collected enough pelts, they sell them on the
Capitol Square for 10 cents apiece.

Done been Civilized good.

1867 - Jules Valles, French novelist, journalist,
anarchist propagandist, launches the weekly magazine
"The Street," involving artists & writers such as
Emile Zola & Gustave Courbet, before being suppressed.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/VallesJules.htm

1873 - Albert Laisant lives (1873-1928). Son of
Charles Ange Laisant (1841-1920). Introduced to
anarchist ideas by Sébastien Faure & turns the whole
family into anarchists, including his father & his
two sons, Maurice & Charles.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/11ref.htm#1/1841

1880 - First public phone booth installed, New Haven,
Connecticut. Gives Superman a place to change clothes
so he'll quit exposing himself in public.

1890 -- There are 106,485 insane people & 95,609
feeble-minded in the US.

(How they all got elected is beyond us.)

1907 -- US: In Los Angeles, Ricardo Flores Magon,
Librado Rivera & Antonio I. Villarreal, all on the
run with bounties on their heads, clandestinely
publish the premier issue of "Revolución".
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/MagonRicardoFlores.htm

1910 -- Japan: Writer Mori Ogai (Saiki Koi & Other Stories, The Wild Geese,
Vita Sexualis, & other classics) & 26 others are arrested for plotting to assassinate
Japanese Emperor Meiji.

1917 - US: At a peace meeting in Madison Square
Garden, Morris Becker, Louis Kramer, & two others
are arrested for circulating leaflets advertising a
June 4 mass meeting of the No-Conscription League.

Although Emma Goldman & Alexander
Berkman claim full responsibility for the event,
Becker & Kramer are later found guilty of conspiracy
to advise people against military registration.

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/GoldmanEmma.htm
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/BerkmanAlexander.htm

1929 -- China: At a meeting in Peking of the KAFC it is decided
to divert all resources outside Korea itself to Manchuria & most
KAFC members moved to the anarchist zone in northern
Manchuria.

Over 2 million Koreans are living in Manchuria,
& the Korean Anarchist Federation is active &
influential among them.

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/06ref.htm#01/1929

1967 -- How Many Soldiers Does It Take To...?:

At Ft. Belvoir, Virginia, six soldiers
electrocuted while erecting a flagpole at a
Little League baseball game.

1968 -- Libertarian Socialist, triple-sense-deprived
Helen Keller dies.

HELEN KELLER, Daily Bleed Saint 2006-2008
Saw, heard, & spoke more wisdom than most people
ever will. Friend of many socialists & anarchists.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist
in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole
experience it.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than
outright exposure.

Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

To keep our faces toward change & behave like free
spirits in the presence of fate is strength
undefeatable.

1968 -- France '68: The Wild Days of May spills
into June. An internationalist spirit of "to hell with
borders" takes hold.

In opposition to government deportations of foreign
activists & the sealing of French borders to young
radicals from Germany & Italy who are attempting
to get to Paris an Action Committee in Paris urges
Europeans to spread the revolution throughout
Europe.

2004 -- Songster Etienne Roda-Gil dies. Legendary French
songwriter & novelist responsible for dozens of chart hits for
everyone from Vanessa Paradis (Joe le Taxi) to Mort Shuman,
& Julio Iglesias, scoring hits through the most openly commercial
channels while avowing political ideas often bordering on the
anarchist side of leftwing.

Makhnovtchina, Makhnovtchina
black army of our partisans
Who battled in the Ukraine
against the Reds & the Whites

Makhnovtchina, Makhnovtchina
black army of our partisans
who wanted to drive away all tyrants
forever from the Ukraine.

— La Makhnovtchina, excerpt,
hymn by Etienne Roda-Gil

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We've got to protect all our citizens fair
So we'll send a battalion for everyone there

& maybe we'll leave in a couple of years
'Cause we're the Cops of the World, boys
We're the Cops of the World

— Phil Ochs

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— anti-Flagpole 1997-6666

Daily Bleed for 5.31.2010

Web leaves, easy readin',
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0531.htm

excerpts:

MAY 31

WALT WHITMAN
Singer of the Body Electric, America's finest poet.

Ancient Rome: AMBARVALIA, no work; plows & tools wreathed in
flowers. Silent processions, incense, chanting of priests, animal
sacrifices to Ceres, Bacchus & others. Urns of the dead decked in
flowers, followed by wine & noisy feasting.

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1678 - Tax protester Lady Godiva rides naked through Coventry.

1779 - By George!?: Beloved & Respected comrade Leader
General Washington orders Iroquois suppressed. A scorched-earth
policy, in which dozens of villages are burned, follows.

Washington orders General John
Sullivan to invade the Iroquois Confederacy in New York.
Washington tells Sullivan his mission is the capture of as many
prisoners of every age & sex as possible:

"It will be essential to ruin their
crops now in the ground &
prevent their planting more."

During the next six months Sullivan carries out the most ruthless
scorched-earth policy in American history.

1819 - Walt Whitman lives (1819-1892). American poet, journalist,
essayist & famous queer, best known for Leaves of Grass (1855),
which has often been banned for "indecency". Worked as a nurse
among Civil War wounded. The war affected him deeply, as
reflected in "Democratic Vistas". An inspiration to the Beats & many,
may others....

"I am as bad as the worst,
but thank God I am as good
as the best."

1836 - Jean-Baptiste Clement (1836-1903) lives, in Boulogne.
Communard & author of the famous song "The Time of Cherries".

1870 - E.J. DeSemdt patents the stuff that became the foundation
of American culture: Asphalt. Got it's name when a test batch was
incorrectly poured. A foreman screamed:

"It's your ass & your fault!"

About 55% of the surface area of a
typical American city's core
is paved with the stuff. You think
Heroin, Cocaine, Meth, Crack,
& Alcohol addictions are tough?

Just try & take away the car keys.

1906 - Spain: In Madrid the young anarchist Mateo Morral throws a
bomb at King Alphonso XIII's wedding party.

¡Tú fuiste en mi vida una llamarada
Por tu negro verbo de Mateo Morral!
¡Por su dolor negro! ¡Por su alma enconada,
Que estalló en las ruedas del Carro Real!...

— excerpt, Rosa de Llamas by Valle-Inclán

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mateu_Morral

1912 - Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Henry
'Scoop' Jackson, US Senator from Boeing, lives.

It is not true that "pooper scoopers"
are named after him.

After Mount St. Helens blew her
top a lot of ash fell in the Ritzville,
Washington area. The clean-up
entailed digging a giant pit east of town
& filling it with the fall-out. It soon
became known as the

"Scoop Jackson Memorial Ashhole."

1921 -- US: Sacco & Vanzetti trial begins.

"Both Nick [Sacco] & I are anarchists — the radical of
the radical — the black cats, the terrors of many, of all the
bigots, exploitators, charlatans, fakers & oppressors.

Consequently we are also the more slandered, misrepresented,
misunderstood, & persecuted of all. After all we are socialists,
as the social democrats, the socialists, the communists, & the
IWW are all Socialists. The difference — the fundamental one —
between us & all the other is that they are authoritarian while
we are libertarian; they believe in a State or Government of
their own; we believe in no State or Government."

— Bartolomeo Vanzetti (1927)

1925 --
Julian Beck lives, New York.
Cofounder of the famed Living
Theatre, along with his partner Judith

Malina.

Beck wrote & directed plays many
plays throughout the course of his
life. Julian led massive political
demonstrations in NY in the 60s. All
were involving peace. Julian Beck
was a lifelong poet & anarchist.

"I CALL FOR A THEATRE IN WHICH THE ACTORS
ARE LIKE VICTIMS BURNING AT THE STAKE,
SIGNALLING THROUGH THE FLAMES."

— Antonin Artaud

1940 - A memorial meeting for Emma Goldman is held at New York's
Town Hall, presided over by Leonard Abbott; films of Emma in
Spain, Canada, & of her funeral are shown; speakers include
Norman Thomas, Rudolf Rocker, Roger Baldwin, Harry Kelly, Carlo
Tresca, Eliot White, Rose Pesotta of the ILGWU, Martin Gudell,
Dorothy Rogers, & Harry Weinberger.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/GoldmanEmma.htm
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/RockerRudolf.htm
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/TrescaCarlo.htm

1946 - Rainer Werner Fassbinder lives. Controversial German
director/playwright, attracted attention with politically committed
& nonillusory work. Central themes were misuse of power
& consequences of oppression.

Fast living & fast working, he died of a drug overdose
at age 36, on June 10, 1982. His death symbolically marks
the end of the most experimental period of the German
cinema since the 1920s.

1951 - USSR: Russia claims inventing the television in 1907.

"The Revolution will not be televised"

— Gil Scott-Heron

1956 - Brendan Behan becomes a folk hero overnight, appearing,
drunk & unintelligible, on a BBC television interview.
http://recollectionbooks.com/links.html#BrendanBehan

1962 - Adolph Eichmann is hanged. Just doing his job like any
good bureaucrat/patriot.

1982 - No 'Power to the People'?: Vancouver Island, Canada:
"Direct Action" group blows up BC hydro power substation.

1986 - China: "18th day" of Chinese demonstrations; 100,000(?) in
Tienamen Square.

2000 -- Mexico City: Protesting teachers burn pamphlets at a
fence around the Los Pinos presidential residence as riot police
attempt to protect the building. Teachers from various
Mexican states have been protesting for better wages &
education reform since May 15.

2000 -- Argentina: 20,000 protesters take to the streets
against spending cuts announced on the 29th.

2005 -- US: W. Mark Felt admits that he is Watergate source "Deep Throat."

2008 -- France: Salon Livre Libertaire, sponsored by Radio Libertaire
& Librarie Publico, in Paris.
http://salonlivrelibertaire.radio-libertaire.org/


— @nti-CopyRite 1997, until we say uncle, or something akin/achin'

Daily Bleed for 5.29.2010

'Twas the twenty-ninth of May, /'twas a holiday
Four & twenty tailors / set out to hunt a snail;
The snail put forth his horns / & roared like a bull,
Away ran the tailors, / & catch the bull who will.

— Anonymous

MAY 29

LOUISE MICHEL
Feminist hell-raiser, key figure in the Paris Commune of 1871.
Verlaine was inspired to write a Ballade for her.
http://www.library.northwestern.edu/spec/siege/

Netherlands: LUIAK (LAZY BONES DAY).
Troops of young people whistle & beat on pots & pans, ringing doorbells
& waking everyone up.
Anyone refusing to join the fun is branded Luilak.

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1830 -- France: The Red Virgin & Parisian Communard leader Louise Michel lives.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/BB/j0118.jpg

1830 -- Leather Boys? Duty on leather is abolished in England & Ireland.

1848 -- US: No Silver Lining? "The Californian" suspends publication because
most of its subscribers have left for the goldfields.

1883 -- France: Eugène Bizeau lives. Vine-grower, pacifist, anarchist poet
& songster, member of the "Muse Rouge" who fought for his ideals until his
death at 105.

1884 -- England: Oscar Wilde marries Constance Lloyd, Paddington.

"Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by
reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some
perfectly uninteresting event."

— Oscar Wilde

1911 -- US: Another Snuff Flick? Supreme Court breaks up American Tobacco
Company Trust & American Snuff Co.

I was with some Vietnamese recently, & some of them were smoking two
cigarettes at a time. That's the kind of customers we need!


— US Senator Jesse Helms

1922 -- Macau: Portuguese army & police open fire on 10,000 protesters
outside the police station demanding release of three Chinese barbers
who beat up soldiers for sexually harrassing a Chinese woman. Seventy
people are shot dead & over 100 people beaten. A general strike is declared.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/05ref.htm#29/1922

1943 -- Germany: Women & Children Beware! RAF drops 1,500 tons of bombs
on Wuppertal ...719 bombers, dropping 1,900 tons of bombs & killing 2,450
civilians & claim that half of Wuppertal has been ‘wiped off the map’.
Nearly 4,000 houses are completely destroyed.

1953 -- Edmund Hillary & his guides are the first people to reach the summit
of Mount Everest. Actually his guide, Nepalese mountaineer Tenzing Norkay
(alt. sp., Tensing Norgay), is the first person & was a hero back in Katmandu,
to Hillary's ire.

Later Hillary returned to the Himalayas to find the
Abominable Snowman, but the latter refused to meet with him.

1968 -- France: In the midst of the Upheavals of 1968, Beloved & Respected
Comrade Leader President de Gaulle, his wife & aides climb into three helicopters
& vanish. Panic has the country's propertied classes on the edge of madness;
on the streets the mood is the greatest jubilation imaginable...

1968 -- US: Anti-war demonstrations on Michigan State University campus. Hard
working "real" students keep their heads in the ground so they can "prepare
themselves for a contributive future..."

1969 -- Vietnam: US troops abandon "Hamburger Hill," 8-days after "winning"
one of Vietnam War's bloodiest battles. Of no strategic value to the US, the
fighting raged for 19-days, with 11 American assaults in 10 days. Apparently
this was a gonad contest to see who could pile up the most dead & wounded.

1978 -- Guatemala: Troops massacre 100 campesinos protesting against
eviction. Panzos, Alta Vehapaz.

Oh the companies keep a sharp eye
And pay their respects to the army
To watch for the hot-blooded leaders
And be prepared for the junta to
crush them like flies.

— Phil Ochs, "United Fruit"

1989 -- China: Student protesters in China erect a replica of the Statue of Liberty.

2000 -- US: Artist Alfred Levitt (b.1894) dies. Artist, anarchist, philosopher,
spelunker & adventurer, kicks off at the ripe old age of 105.
http://raforum.info/article.php3?id_article=2191


2001 -- US: Armed kids hold off sheriff's deputies near Sandpoint, Idaho after
their only parent, their mother, is arrested for child neglect.

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"This is the place to jump, the place to dance! This is the wilderness!
Was there ever any other?

"It remains a secret.

It is publicly known but not avowed. Publicly the wilderness is elsewhere,
barbarism is abroad, savagery is on the face of the other."

— Fredy Perlman, Against His-Story, Against Leviathan!

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— Anti-customers 2010

Daily Bleed for 5.27.2010

The cycle has come round again. America is where
Anatolia was. It is a place where human beings, just
to stay alive, have to jump, to dance, & by dancing
revive the rhythms, recover cyclical time. Anarchic
& pantheistic dancers no longer sense the artifice
& its linear His-story as All, but as merely one
cycle, one long night, a stormy night that left Earth
wounded, but a night that ends, as all nights end,
when the sun rises.

— Fredy Perlman,
Against His-story, Against Leviathan!
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/PerlmanFredy.htm

Daily Bleed in full,
Web style: http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0527.htm

excerpts:

MAY 27

IBN KHALDUN
Great Arabic historian, chronicler.

THROW ALL THE BASTARDS OUT DAY.

"Bombing to end war is like
balling to end bastards."

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1525 -- Thomas Munzer, millenarian leader, Anabaptist communist,
rebel against the authority of the church & all official
representatives of god on earth, executed.

1818 -- Amelia "Hot Pants" Bloomer lives.

1871 -- France: End of the Paris Commune (Bloody Week). Desperate
combat by the Communards ends up even in Père Lachaise cemetery.
The Communards will be lined up & shot against the wall — which
becomes known as "mur des fédérés", in honor to their memory.

Shall we hang thus by taut navel strings
To this corrupt placenta till we're flyblown;
Till our skulls are cracked by crow and kite
And our members become the business of ants,
Our teeth the collection of magpies?"

— Kenneth Rexroth,
"From the Paris Commune to the Kronstadt
Rebellion" (1936)

Poem in full,
http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/library/RexrothParisCommune.htm
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/RexrothKenneth.htm

1894 -- Dashiell Hammett lives (1894-1961). American
novelist/screenwriter. Important "hard-boiled" writer. Wrote
The Thin Man, The Glass Key, Red Harvest, The Dain Curse.
Best known for The Maltese Falcon ( filmed three times),
introducing PI Sam Spade. Victim of HUAC witch hunts.

"Many writers continued their Hollywood careers
under pseudonyms, or "fronts," sometimes with
comic results. Alfred Levitt, for example,
screenwriter of "The Boy with Green Hair" (1948),
relates how a story conference got off on the
wrong foot when he was addressed by
four different names."

1907 -- Birth of Rachel Carson, whose books in the 1950's & 60's
spurred the beginnings of the mass environmental movement.

1916 -- US: Late May-July Emma Goldman conducts lecture tour in
Philadelphia, Cleveland, Denver, Los Angeles, & San Francisco.
Emma plans meeting with Wobbly militant/poet Arturo Giovannitti
& others to begin work on an anti-militarist manifesto.

1942 -- Pierre Ramus (aka Rudolf Grossman) (1882-1942) dies,
fleeing from Nazi-occupied Europe. Austrian writer, pacifist &
propagandist. Organized the German FKAD (Federation of
Anarchist Communists of Germany) parallel to Rocker's FAUD.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/RamusPierre.htm
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/RockerRudolf.htm

1944 -- Jean-Paul Sartre play "No Exit" premiers, Paris.

1955 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Ghost Buster
President Buck Truman tells Ed Murrow the White House is haunted
by Abe Lincoln. Same clown what dropped atomic bombs on civilian
targets in Japan.

1963 -- Aquilino Ribeiro (1885-1963) dies. Great Portuguese novelist
of the first-half of the 20th century, a life-long activist & youthful
militant anarchist. Nominated in 1960 for a Nobel Prize.

1966 -- Artist Andy Warhol & his Plastic Inevitable, Velvet
Underground & Nico, plus the Mothers, at Fillmore
Auditorium in Frisco.

1967 -- Australia gives citizenship to aborigines.

1968 -- France: The Upheavals of May '68 continue. The agreements
of Grenelle (signed between employers & the trade unions),
ratifies a wage increase, but is rejected by the workers who heap
abuse on the trade-union representatives.

The majority still think in terms of changing rulers rather than
taking control for themselves.

De Gaulle & his puppets were so scared by the possibility
of revolution that he flew to Saint-Dizier to confer with top
Generals, & see if he could rely on them if he needed army
help to maintain his grip on power.

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/05ref.htm#27/1968

1975 -- US: Alaska legalizes home use of marijuana.

Now everyone in Alaska can see Russia from
their front porch.

1977 -- The Sex Pistols release "God Save the Queen" in Britain.
A patriotic act...

1978 -- Nearly 20,000 rally in New York City to protest nuclear
weapons, marking the beginning of a resurgence in anti-nuclear
weapon activism culminating in the Freeze campaign of the early 80's.

1980 -- Korea: 3,000 killed in Kwangju uprising. This massacre
of civilians demonstrating for democracy was condoned by the
US government.

This massacre & its cover-up is not unlike the little known
US backed & perpetrated murder of possibly 60,000
civilians in the Cheju-do Massacre of 1950.

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/05ref.htm#27/1980

1987 -- Wanna Rumble?: During a show in Rome's Flaminio Stadio,
U2's sound system sets off earthquake alarms in two neighborhoods.
Rock'n'Roll!

1992 -- Massacre of bread queue, Sarajevo, Bosnia.

1999 -- UN War Crimes Tribunal announces its indictment
of Slobodan Milosevic.

1999 -- Lies! Damn Lies!?: Gorbachev says US desire for global
hegemony risks war.

2006 -- Canada: Paul Zilsel (1923-2006) dies.

Theoretical physicist, militant activist, communist,
then an anarchist.

In 1973 he co-founded Left Bank Books collective in Seattle, Washington.

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/ZilselPaulMemorial.htm

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— @nti-CopyRite 1997-5,000,000,001 (Bingo!)
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/BB/dormir.jpg

I love commenting on douche-bag corporate amazon.com seller's pages after they undercut us...

Just a little example of some of the digital graffiti we go around posting late at night:

"Hey, FUCK YOU!

Have you always made your way in the world by undercutting nobel, independent sellers? Well, I suppose it's the Walmart Way, American Way of Big Business right? Well maybe I'll just buy some surplus missles and stick one up your stupid corporate ass you motherfuckers.

Grow a set and call me if you ever want to book-brawl. My team could take yours on any field you fucking capitalist pussies.

I request that you stop undercutting other booksellers and devaluing this literature, and also that you immediately cease selling We Are An Image From the Future, as I can guaran-fucking-tee you the authors of this book don't want you to be making jack shit off of it. Which must be close to what you're making.

Have fun sliding through life on a one percent profit margin you hacks. I'm gonna piss on your graves."

Hold BP Accountable for Environmental Degradation!

We have to do something to hold BP accountable for what's turning into the worst oil spill of all time! This is just a first step--and it's not like there's a good oil company--but I just signed a pledge to boycott BP for three months. You can join the boycott at www.BeyondBP.org and make at least a dent in the profits of at least one negligent corporation.

A cute communique from an ebay customer

"By the way, may I congratulate you on your candor & honesty? I have an eclectic taste in books, so I do a fair amount of ordering through eBay. Lately. I've noted a tiny number of delays in getting back to me and the excuses have ranged from:

1. England: Volcano ash has apparently slowed down every type of shipping up to and including trucks.

2. New Orleans: Oil slicks have apparently slowed down every type of shipping up to and including trucks.

3. NYC: F**k off! You'll get your damn books when we get around to sending them!

4. Russia: Really? That slow? Let us know when you receive the package (?)

5. LA: Do you really need books? Maybe you should take a walk...

6. Hong Kong: Sorry, don't speak Englsih. Or German. Or French...

Like I said, don't sweat it. I'll get it when I get it."

-Anonymous

Last Word Books Granted One Day Moratorium on Evergreen State College Campus Bookselling Monopoly!

Last Word Books & Last Earth Distro will be on Red Square slingin' books in full force on Saturday, May 22nd thanks to the organizers of Synergy for finagling us a one-day moratorium on the bookseller ban (why grant a failing business a monopoly? must be the American Way). See: http://www.counterpointjournal.org/story/cxpj-issue/november-2009/bookstore-bans-books

Of course, we aren't allowed to sell any Angela Davis books and we can only be there from 11-4. Which means we're not bringing the book dome this year. But we've got a few aces up our sleeves that should prove especially bitter-sweet to corporate rats most concerned with justifying their own bloated salaries.

That's aimed at you sir! Thanks a lot Ken Danis (The relatively new Evergreen Bookstore manager), you saboteur and local bookseller-outer. You could have gone about stealing our ideas in a much more professional and polite manner than corporate, institutional subterfuge, you fuck. In five years time we'll have your job and do it twice as well for half the cost and three times the profit. Read it and weep.

That was an especially nice touch when you swept the Friends of the Evergreen Library Contract out from under us. Have fun yelling at your interns to dig faster through that veritable mountain of shite for the few nuggets of gold. You're smart to be insourcing, but you're just another greedy douche-bag more interested in self-preservation than community and you're doing more harm than good.

The Karmic scales are definitely not tipped in your favor, you backstabber. Why not tackle the issue of students undermining your business through Amazon.com instead of alienating a good percentage of your local, previously-loyal customers and business-associates? Your predecessors had an excellent relationship with us and you, ha! you didn't even try, asshole. Reap the whirlwind.

Angela Davis and Antwi Akom Speak!

May 22 | 3:30 p.m. doors open, 4:30 p.m. – 12 p.m.

Location: The Evergreen State College, CRC

Ticket Information:

• $5 ADVANCE TICKETS for ANY students, staff, & faculty of ANY school w/school i.d.:
(Available at the Evergreen Bookstore or online @ http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/110928)

• $15 ADVANCE TICKETS for general public:
(Available at the Rainy Day Records or online @ http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/110928)

• DAY OF SHOW:
$20 at the Door for everyone

For more information on the event, please see the Facebook event

ABOUT ANGELA DAVIS (Author, Educator and Activist):

Through her activism and her scholarship over the last decades, Angela Davis has been deeply involved in our nation’s quest for social justice. Her work as an educator – both at the university level and in the larger public sphere – has always emphasized the importance of building communities of struggle for economic, racial, and gender equality.

Professor Davis’ teaching career has taken her to San Francisco State University, Mills College, and UC Berkeley. She has also taught at UCLA, Vassar, the Claremont Colleges, and Stanford University. She has spent the last fifteen years at the University of California Santa Cruz where she is Professor of History of Consciousness, an interdisciplinary Ph.D program, and Professor of Feminist Studies.

Angela Davis is the author of eight books and has lectured throughout the United States as well as in Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, and South America. In recent years a persistent theme of her work has been the range of social problems associated with incarceration and the generalized criminalization of those communities that are most affected by poverty and racial discrimination. She draws upon her own experiences in the early seventies as a person who spent eighteen months in jail and on trial, after being placed on the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted List.” She has also conducted extensive research on numerous issues related to race, gender and imprisonment. Her most recent books are Abolition Democracy and Are Prisons Obsolete? She is now completing a book on Prisons and American History.

Angela Davis is a member of the executive board of the Women of Color Resource Center, a San Francisco Bay Area organization that emphasizes popular education – of and about women who live in conditions of poverty. She also works with Justice Now, which provides legal assistance to women in prison and engages in advocacy for the abolition of imprisonment as the dominant strategy for addressing social problems. Internationally, she is affiliated with Sisters Inside, a similar organization based in Queensland, Australia.

Like many other educators, Professor Davis is especially concerned with the general tendency to devote more resources and attention to the prison system than to educational institutions. Having helped to popularize the notion of a “prison industrial complex,” she now urges her audiences to think seriously about the future possibility of a world without prisons and to help forge a 21st century abolitionist movement.

ABOUT ANTWI AKOM (Award Winning Educator, Scholar and Writer):

Antwi Akom is a leading expert on the green economy, climate change, and educational equity. His research focuses on the links between race, environmental health, and educational equity in cities and schools; the role of the green economy in facilitating pathways out of poverty for vulnerable populations; and the role of local knowledge in the production of environmental health and educational equity.

Dr. Akom’s research and practice works to build partnerships between local residents, schools and universities, environmental and educational experts, community based organizations, labor unions, green businesses, and city planners working together to generate policy and planning solutions that improve community health, economic mobility, and the pedagogies and practices of community leaders and decision-makers.

Professor Akom is currently working with The California Endowment and a number of non-profit organizations to conceptualize a set of “Emerald city” projects and develop a set of “Green Health Equity” indicators; all aimed at promoting human health, job creation, and environmental sustainability.

He is also working with the Ella Baker Center, the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, and the East Bay Green Corridor to create “Green Education Technology” (GET) academies that attract and engage students, especially low-income students, students of color, and other vulnerable populations who have been marginalized by the educational system, for career pathways into existing and emerging green energy careers.

In 2009, Professor Akom co-founded the Environmental Sustainability Planning Network (ESPN), a national learning and climate change action network working to improve the lives of residents in seven cities across the United States. The project team, which includes the California Center for Civic Participation, the Youth Planners Network, the Lawrence Berkeley Hall of Science, and the Global Metropolitan Studies Initiative at U.C. Berkeley, are drafting local and regional climate action plans and policies aimed at significantly reducing carbon emissions, securing land tenure, and improving economic opportunities, infrastructure and improving environmental health. The team is also conducting a youth participatory action research project culminating in the production of an Environmental Justice Bill of Rights.

Professor Akom is a 2010 recipient of a RIMI Investigator Award in Health Disparities Research from the National Center on Minority and Health Disparities. He is currently co-editing a book with Professor Jason Corburn from U.C. Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design/City Planning entitled Revolutionary Urbanism: Race, Climate Justice, and the Politics of Pollution in Cities and Schools, which explains the nature of climate change in urban communities in the United States and abroad, the ways in which cities and schools in the global north and global south are responding to climate change, and the potential role for public and private partnerships to mitigate and adapt to the climate crisis.

Additionally, he is working on his first solo authored book, Ameritocracy: The Racing of our Nations School Children. He has received research support for his work from the National Institutes of Health, The David and Lucille Packard Foundation, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, The Charles Mott Foundation, The California Endowment, and the National Science Foundation.

He has also served as a consultant on community based participatory action research processes and outcomes with major philanthropic organizations, departments of public health, school districts, and community based organizations in the United States as well as abroad. Professor Akom has held research appointments at the University of California, San Francisco, and UC Berkeley’s Institute for the Study of Social Change.

Daily Bleed for 5.19.10

Web version in full, 100 entries:

http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0519.htm

excerpts:

MAY 19

MALCOLM X
Petty criminal, prisoner, convert to Islam, one-time spokesman
for Elijah Muhammad. Embracing a more enlightened orthodox
Islam, he was assassinated by the FBI or Black Muslims.
Revolutionary genius & martyr.

Brittany: PARDON OF THE POOR: Pilgrimage of poor
to shrines of St. Yves.

________________________________________________


1850 -- Four thousand Mexican miners gather in Sonora, California,
to protest the Foreign Miners' Tax, which was enacted to drive
them from gold fields.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/05ref.htm#19/1850

1890 -- Beloved & Respected Comrade Vietnamese Leader Ho Chi Minh lives.

1895 -- Cuban revolutionary Jose Marti dies, Dor Rios, Cuba.

"I lived in the monster & I know the entrails."

1896 -- Dimple-producing machine patented.

1897 -- Oscar Wilde is released from Reading Gaol.

London is too full of fogs & serious people.

Whether the fogs produce the serious people or
whether the serious people produce
the fogs, I don't know.

1902 -- US: Explosion in Coal Creek, Tennessee kills 184 miners.

1904 -- Daniel Guerin lives (1904-1988). One of France's best
known revolutionary activists & thinkers, libertarian communist,
anti-colonialist, Gay Rights militant, anti-militarist.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/GuerinDaniel.htm

1910 -- "We're Back!!" US Marines land in Bluefields & Corinto,
to "protect US interests." The US invaded earlier, in 1907, when
the "Dollar Diplomacy" protectorate was set up. They leave
(Sept. 4), then come back again in 1912 for some serious
10 year protection.

1920 -- US: The Battle of Matewan.

http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/library/BattleOfMatewan.htm

1925 -- Malcolm X lives, as Malcolm Little, Omaha, Nebraska.

"The common goal of 22 million Afro-Americans is respect
as human beings, the God-given right to be a human being.
Our common goal is to obtain the human rights that America
has been denying us.

We can never get civil rights in America until our human rights
are first restored. We will never be recognized as citizens there
until we are first recognized as humans."

1928 -- First annual Frog-Jumping Contest, Calaveras County,
California. The current record is held by Rosie the Ribiter from
Santa Clara, California. Rosie made the record-setting 21 feet,
5-3/4 inch jump in May of 1986.

1932 -- Sing For Your Dinner?: US Congressman Claude
introduces a resolution requiring all Civil Service employees to
"sing, write or recite the words to the 'Star-Spangled Banner'"
by memory.

1934 -- US: 10,000 participate in "No More War" march, New York City.

1934 -- Boris Karloff/Bela Lugosi movie "The Black Cat" is released.

1952 -- Dramatist Lillian Hellman advises the House Committee
on Un-American Activities (HUAC) that she refuses to testify
against friends & associates:

"I cannot & will not cut my conscience
to fit this year's fashions."

1954 -- Modernist composer Charles Ives dies.

1954 -- Postmaster General Summerfield approves CIA
mail-opening project in the Land of the Free.

"The highest ambition of the integrated
spectacle is still to turn secret agents into
revolutionaries, & revolutionaries into
secret agents."

— GUY DEBORD, 1988

"A few years back, a man high up in the CIA name
Ray Cline was asked if the CIA, by its surveillance
of protest organizations in the United States, was
violating the free speech provision of the First
Amendment. He smiled & said:

'It's only an amendment.'"

— Howard Zinn, The Zinn Reader, pp412-13.

1956 -- US: 15-megaton bomb dropped in South Pacific causes
radiation levels in the US to rise 10 times above normal.

1968 -- France: 1968 Uprising continues.
Two million workers are now on strike.

"Our situations will be ephemeral, without a future.

Passageways.

Our only concern is real life; we care nothing about the
permanence of art or of anything else. Eternity is the
grossest idea a person can conceive of in connection
with his acts..."

— Report on the Construction of Situations & on the
International Situationist Tendency's Conditions of
Organization & Action

http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/report.htm

1968 -- England, Laos, Spain, South Vietnam:

>The British government denies any intention of
forcibly returning immigrants who had settled in.

>The revolt of the students & workers in
France is part of a world-wide ferment, says Lord
Brockway, addressing the Movement for Colonial Freedom.
A disastrous racial war was inevitable in Rhodesia & South
Africa, which perhaps might spread to Britain.

>Hippies are being expelled from Laos.
The government is 'disturbed' by the reputation they are
giving the country.

>Hundreds of Madrid students fight the police after
6,000 had attend a performance by Raimon, Spain's protest
singer. Banners representing Che Guevara were carried.

>Vietcong guerrillas make a rocket attack on the heart of Saigon.

>In the US students in Berkeley are arrested; a student protest is
held in New York; an attack on an ROTC center occurs in Baltimore
— the old world seems to be "on the ropes."

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/05ref.htm#11/1968

1969 -- US Supreme Court overturns Timothy Leary's conviction for
crossing from Mexico to Texass with marijuana & overturns two

anti-marijuana laws.

1986 -- Nicholas von Hoffman expresses skepticism about Nancy
Reagan's anti-drug campaign. Noting the First Lady's "dead eyes &
death mask smile," he asks,

"Can you think of a well known American with less
chance to influence the green-haired, angel-dusted,
coke-sniffing teen-agers prancing through the school
corridors than this prissy inanimate lady?"

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/BB/nancy.jpg

1990 -- US: Culver City, Cal. school bans Little Red Riding Hood.

[We suspect it's because of her darn commie porn photos.]

1991 -- Kuwait: Man is given 15 years
in prison for wearing a Saddam T-shirt.

1997 -- Colombia: Two international human rights workers, Mario
Calderon & Elsa Alvarado, plus Alvarado's parents, are shot dead
in Bogota by paramilitaries.

1997 -- US: "Art & Revolution" anti-corporate procession
unexpectedly parades through downtown Seattle with hundreds
of dancers, giant puppets, stilt-walkers, street theatre
participants & general spectacle.

2161 -- You Should Live So Long?: Syzygy: 8 of 9 planets
aligned on same side of sun.

All are stacked against you.

Yes, you, you misaligned (mal)content!

______________________________

Children ask the really dumb stupid questions:

"Why can you buy stuff with real money but not
with play money. They're both just pieces of paper."

______________________________

_________



— Auntie Alignment, 1997-666

Daily Bleed for 5.17.10

Language is not eternal.

It will be replaced.

We are not going to talk for ever.

— Harry Hooton, poet

Web page in full:
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0517.htm

excerpts:

MAY 17

OMAGOG
Radical caveman, last neanderthal, anti-civilization activist.

Alternate Saint,
ERIK SATIE
French composer, ally of Surrealism & Rosicrucianism;
collected umbrellas & never answered his mail.

Norway: INDEPENDENCE DAY: Singing, dancing in the
streets, fireworks.

WORLD COMMUNICATIONS DAY. Fat Chance.

______________________________________________


1866 -- Less-is-more composer Erik Satie lives, Paris.

1880 -- Gustav Hedenvind-Eriksson lives. Swedish
novelist/short story writer, considered the first great
proletarian writer in Sweden. Worked as sailor, farm
worker, lumberjack, miner & participated in political
activities to improve workers' life.

1903 -- Cool Papa Bell lives. With daring speed, cunning
game awareness, coupled with finesse at the bat, Cool
Papa Bell epitomized the game of "tricky" baseball. He
raised the once conservative game to an art form. An art form
that revolutionized modern day baseball. Inducted
into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974.

He batted .400 several times & stole 175 bases
in one year.

Known as the fastest player ever, Cool Papa
often stole two bases on one pitch or scored
from second on a sacrifice fly.

Satchel Paige said Bell could turn off the light
& "be in bed before the room was dark."

1910 -- Podunk: Halley's Comet terrifies millions. As these things
often turn out — there wasn't much of a tail to tell.

1917 -- US: Tom Mooney's scheduled date of execution is
stayed while case is appealed. Wrongly convicted, in a few
decades he will be pardoned.

1918 -- US Sedition Act — watcha you speech in the land of
the free.

1919 -- Women's International League for Peace & Freedom
formally established, Zurich, Switzerland.

1931 -- US: Emma Goldman, long-since kicked out of the
"land of the free" & refused reentry, is included in John
Haynes Holmes's sermon in New York on
"The Ten Greatest Living Women."

1940 -- US: Emma Goldman is buried in Waldheim Cemetery,
Chicago, close to the Haymarket martyrs, her casket covered by
an SIA-FAI flag & bouquets of flowers sent by friends &
organizations across the nation.

Perhaps now, in a casket, it is safe for America to let Emma back in.

Now in Waldheim where the rain
Has fallen careless and unthinking
For all an evil century's youth,
Where now the banks of dark roses lie,
What memory lasts, Emma, of you,
Or of the intrepid comrades of your grave,
Of Piotr, of "mutual aid,"
Against the iron clad flame throwing
Course of time?
Your stakes were on the turn
Of a card whose face you knew you would not see.

— Kenneth Rexroth, excerpt,
"Again at Waldheim"

http://bopsecrets.org/rexroth/poems/1940s.htm
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/RexrothKenneth.htm

1961 -- Intractorable?: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader
Cuban Premier Fidel Castro offers to exchange 1,167
prisoners captured during the US Bay of Pigs invasion for 500
tractors. The United States, in its humbleness, refuses.

1968 -- US: Back Draft I? "Catonsville Nine," including Phil &
Dan Berrigan, break into Catonsville, Maryland draft board
center & burn over 600 draft files.

1968 -- France: Today the Occupations Committee, including
members of the Situationist International (SI) & the enragés
from Nanterre University, sent the following telegram to the
Communist Party of the USSR:

SHAKE IN YOUR SHOES BUREAUCRATS STOP

THE INTERNATIONAL POWER OF THE WORKERS'
COUNCILS WILL SOON WIPE YOU OUT STOP

HUMANITY WILL NOT BE HAPPY UNTIL THE LAST
BUREAUCRAT IS HUNG WITH THE GUTS OF THE LAST
CAPITALIST STOP

LONG LIVE THE STRUGGLE OF THE KRONSTADT
SAILORS AND OF THE MAKHNOVSCHINA AGAINST
TROTSKY AND LENIN STOP LONG LIVE THE 1956
COUNCILIST INSURRECTION OF
BUDAPEST STOP DOWN WITH THE STATE STOP

The Occupations Committee of the Sorbonne was an assembly
held in permanent session. Groups of enragés in Strasbourg,
Nantes & Boudreaux had previously been inspired by the
Situationists & attempted to "organize chaos" on the campuses.

"Free the Passions; Never Work;
Live Without Dead Time".

At the end of 1967, Guy Debord in The Society
of the Spectacle & Raoul Vaneigem in The Revolution of
Everyday Life presented the primary ideas & attitudes of
Situationist theory, & these exerted a widespread influence in
France during the 1968 rebellion.

1968 -- France: Several thousand students march for the
second time in 24 hours from the Sorbonne to the Renault
works in spite of the opposition of the trade unions which are
afraid of revolutionary contamination.

The take over of factories & paralysis of government by the
"mad ones" is the nation's most severe revolt since the
1871 Paris Commune.

In the next few days, sit-in strikes spread through the
engineering & chemical industries, coal mines cease
production, & mass transit, rail travel & postal service
come to a standstill. The strike also spurs middle-
professionals, including civil servants, teachers &
television workers to strike.

Over 10 million workers
are involved with occupations in 120 factories.

1968 -- Spain: A red flag flies for three hours at the University
of Madrid; also today, 200 black students occupy the administration
buildings of Dower University.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/05ref.htm#11/1968

1972 -- Italy: Milan police chief Luigi Calabresi, in charge
at the time police "suicided" the anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli
on December 15, 1969, is assassinated.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Pinelli

1974 -- US: Nation watches, on live TV, hundreds of heavily
armed police lay siege to a suspected Symbionese Liberation
Army (SLA) hide-out, setting it afire & killing six (including
SLA Field Marshall Cinque), but failing to find the principal
object of their search — Patricia Hearst.

1989 -- China: A million demonstrate in Beijing. Protests in
seven other cities.

1990 -- "Jigras" imported as organic worms & wipe out crops
in US — famine threatens.

1992 -- We Thought He Was Born That Old? Lawrence Welk
dies of complications from pneumonia. 86'd at 89.

1994 -- Israel officially pulls last soldiers out of
Palestinian areas of Gaza & Jericho, ending 27 years
of illegal occupation. Yup.

2001 -- Poland: Antiglobalization protesters hit Beloved
& Respected Comrade Leader Bill "WeeWilly" Clinton
with an egg, Warsaw.

_________________


"Any idiot can face a crisis. It's the day-to-day
living that wears you out."

— Anton Chekhov

_________________

— Auntie-Day-to-Day Living 1997-Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday-Friday
or thereabouts, more or less

The Daily Bleed - Sinners & Saints galore
"Better to go hungry than to feast on lies."
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/calmast.htm

Daily Bleed for 5.15.10

The smoke of my own breath,
Echos, ripples, & buzzed whispers...loveroot, silkthread,
crotch & vine,
My respirations & inspirations....the beating of my heart....
the passing of blood
& air through my lungs.

— Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855

Web version, 69 entries 2002, 106 in 2006, 109 this,
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0515.htm

Excerpts:

MAY 15

CHEIKHA RIMITTI
Algerian matriarch of raï music.

Spain, Philippines, Columbia, etc.: CELEBRATIONS OF SAN ISIDRO,
the saint who got the angels to do all his plowing for him.

INTERNATIONAL CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS' DAY —
what if they gave a war & nobody came?

______________________________


1618 -- Johannes Kepler discovers his harmonics law.

Inspires the Blues Brothers.

1834 -- US: Cherokee Indians force-marched, in defiance of the
US Supreme Court, on the Trail of Tears, reaches Little Rock,
Arkansas.

1855 -- Walt Whitman, having registered "Leaves of Grass",
brings the copyright notice to the Brooklyn printing office of
James & Thomas Rome, where he is working on the first,
privately printed, edition. Brother George comments,

"I saw the book, but I didn't read it at all — didn't think it
worth reading. Mother thought as I did."

1856 -- L. Frank Baum lives (1856-1919). American
journalist/writer, whose stories about the imaginary Land of Oz
are classics of fantasy literature.

On January 3, 1891 (a few days after the Wounded
Knee massacre) "The Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer"
published an editorial, written by Baum, declaring
"only safety depends upon the total extirmination
[sic] of the Indians..."

In another related to the death of Sitting Bull
again advocated genocide:

"The Whites, by law of conquest, by justice of
civilization, are masters of the American continent,
& the best safety of the frontier settlements will be
secured by the total annihilation of the few remaining
Indians."

For a contemporary defense of exterminating Indians,
& taking "their" lands, see Ayn Rand.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/03ref.htm#6/1974

1871 -- Arthur Rimbaud writes the second of his two
Lettres du Voyant.

1872 -- Julia Ward Howe declares the first Mother's Day
as an anti-war holiday.

1885 -- Louis Riel surrenders, ending Metis Rebellion in Canada.

1886 -- Recluse poet Emily Dickinson dies,
having not left her house since 1865.

1890 -- Katherine Anne Porter lives (1890-1980) Indian Creek,
Texass. American essayist, short story writer, & journalist,
whose best known & only novel is The Ship of Fools (1962).

Briefly involved with Mexican revolutionary politics,
& also wrote The Never-Ending Wrong, an account of
the infamous trial & execution of the anarchists Sacco &
Vanzetti.

1892 -- Mexico: The Flores Magón brothers organize an
anti-reelection demonstration.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/MagonRicardoFlores.htm

1893 -- Founding of the Western Federation of Miners (WFM),
the union of Big Bill Haywood, later head of the
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).

1916 -- First appearance of the term "Dada" in print, Zurich,
Switzerland.

1917 -- US: "Red" Library Cards? The Library Employees' Union (AFL)
is chartered.

1919 -- General Strike begins in Winnipeg, Canada,
involving 30,000 workers, lasting until June 24th.

1921 -- US: A Real Cat Fight? Felix the Cat animated cartoon
"Felix Goes on Strike" is released.

1942 -- Death of great IWW songwriter T-Bone Slim, New
York City. See Selected Writings of T-Bone Slim, edited by
Franklin Rosemont.

THE LUMBERJACK'S PRAYER
Tune: Doxology

I pray dear Lord for Jesus' sake
Give us this day a T-bone steak.
Hallowed be Thy Holy Name,
And don't forget to send the same.

Oh, hear my humble cry oh Lord,
And send us down some decent board,
Brown gravy and some German fried
With sliced tomatoes on the side.

Observe me on my bended legs,
I'm asking you for ham and eggs,
And if thou havest custard pies,
I'd like dear Lord, the largest size.

Oh hear me cry, Almighty Host
I quite forgot the quail on toast.
Let your kindly heart be stirred
And stuff some oysters in that bird.

Dear Lord, we know Your holy wish,
On Friday night we must have a fish.
Our flesh is weak and spirit stale;
You better make that fish a whale.

Oh hear me lord, remove these "dogs,"
These sausages of powdered logs;
The beef bull hash and bearded snouts,
Take them to hell or thereabouts.

With alum bread and pressed beef butts
Dear Lord, they've damn near ruined my guts;
The whitewash milk and oleorine
I wish to Christ I'd never seen.

Oh, hear me, Lord, I'm praying still
But if you won't our Union will
Put porkchops on the bill of fare
And starve no workers anywhere.

— from the Little Red Songbook

1953 -- Canada: Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell,
Charlie Mingus & Max Roach perform together at Massey Hall, Toronto.

1964 -- U.S. begins bombing Laos.

1966 -- Buddhist altars placed in streets to stop troops arresting
dissidents, South Vietnam.

1968 -- The French Prime Minister appeals to the population
to resist 'anarchy'. Occupation of the théâtre de l'Odéon.

During the first three or four days of the Sorbonne
occupation (14­17 May) the Situationists & Enragés
express & develop one of the more lucid
approaches to the situation, particularly in the face
of numerous unions, bureaucrats & leftist groupsicles
(Maoist, Trotkyites, etc.) who were trying to catch up
with ideas & events in hopes of either containing the
movement or gaining control or power.

The Situationists, the Enragés & a few dozen other
councilist revolutionaries encourage workers to
bypass them all...

Over 10 million workers will seize hundreds of
factories, mines, shipyards, government offices, a
nuclear facility & at least one whole town.

In one of the longest strikes, 13,000 producers, journalists
& technicians shut down the government-run radio &
television, raising slogans like,

"The police on the screen means the police in your home."

Everywhere public officials are held up to ridicule.

http://www.bopsecrets.org/PS/joyrev3.htm
http://www.cddc.vt.edu/sionline/si/enrages.html
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/05ref.htm#11/1968

1969 -- Battle for People's Park, fought against the University
of California & the police in Berkeley, California, who had
fenced the area off in the middle of the night:

Beloved & Respected Comrade Bad Actor Governor &
Future President of the United States Ronald Reagan sends
in the National Guard.

Police gunfire kills a bystander, James Rector,
60 wounded, including Alan Blanchard, blinded for life.

17 days of street fighting ensue, capped by a march of
30,000, where another 150 demonstrators are shot & wounded.

'If there has to be a bloodbath then let's get it over with.'

— Ronald Reagan

http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/library/reagan.htm

1970 -- Several million US students strike to protest the
Vietnam War.

1971 -- Second anniversary of People's Park demonstration,
"instigated" by the student paper, Daily Cal, leads to Daily Cal
moving off U.C. Berkeley campus.

NOT PEOPLE'S PARK
PEOPLE'S PLANET, CAN THEY
FENCE THAT ONE IN, BULLDOZE IT
4 A.M.?

— Diane di Prima, "Revolutionary Letter #38"

1982 -- 40,000 demonstrate against military electronics fair,
Hanover, West Germany.

1986 -- US: "When the
Layabouts
play, people
dance".

"South End", May, 15, 1986,

http://goodfelloweb.com/layabouts/index.html
http://goodfelloweb.com/layabouts/recording.htm#nomasters

1994 -- England: Stone commemorating conscientious objectors
unveiled, Tavistock Square, London.

1998 -- Human-rights activist Pascal Kambale is arrested in the
Congo (DRC).

2000 -- The UN Committee Against Torture issues its first report on
the US, criticizing stunbelts, prison conditions & police brutality.

2004 -- Canada: The 5th Annual Montreal Anarchist Bookfair!

2006 -- Algerian "Mother of Raï" music, Cheikha Rimitti,
dies Paris, France.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheikha_Rimitti

_________________________


"Most everybody I see knows the truth but
they just don't know that they know it."


— Woody Guthrie

_________________________


— Anti-Copyrite 1997-2010, moor or les

Daily Bleed for 5.13.10

"This is the real world,
muchachos,
& you are in it."

— B. Traven

Web thing: http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0513.htm

excerpts:

MAY 13

APOLINARIO MABINI
Philippine Independentista, revolutionist, social activist.

Ancient Anatolian festival of PURULLIYAS commemorates
legend of conquest of dragon Illuyankas by the Weather God
controlling rainfall over the dragon of drought & flood.
Connected with European folk customs linking Rogation Day,
Ascension & St. George's Day.

LEPRECHAUN DAY.

KIRTLAND'S WARBLER DAY.

______________________________


1794 -- Whiskey Rebellion begins in Pennsylvania.
Tax collector tarred & feathered.

Robert Benchley, when told drinking & smoking
are "slow poison":

"So? Who's in a hurry?"

1842 -- Anti-American?: A "People's Government," organized by
reformer Thomas Dorr, attempts to seize power in Rhode Island by
capturing the arsenal at Providence, but is repulsed when the
incumbent regime calls out the militia.

1846 -- US: Congress declares war on Mexico. With victory the US
annexes Mexico's northern half, including much of what is now
California, Arizona, New Mexico, & Texass, to satisfy Southern
political pressure to add new slave-owning states.

What the hell are all these Mexicans doing here??!!

Inspires Immigration Laws & prison industry.

1906 -- Willa Cather becomes an editor for muckraking
"McClure's Magazine".

1912 -- Brazil: In São Paulo, "Ecole Moderne" opens, established
on the principle of rationalist education recommended by Francisco
Ferrer. Four anarchists are founders: Neno Vasco, Edgard Leuenroth,
Oreste Ristori & Gigi Damiani.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/FerrerFrancisco.htm
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/05ref.htm#9/1878
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/gallery/galleryindex.htm#EdgardLeuenroth

1928 -- Man Ray, artist, chess player/designer, anarchist, filmmaker
& photographer, premiers L'Etoile de Mer (The Star of the Sea), a
film by Man Ray based on a poem by Robert Desnos, at the Studio
des Ursulines. It continues to be shown in the same program as
The Blue Angel at least until December.

1937 -- Roger Zelazny (aka Harrison Denmark) (1937-1995) lives. A
prominent American "new wave" science fiction writer along with
P.K. Dick, Samuel Delany, Thomas Disch, Ursula K. LeGuin & Harlan
Ellison.

"I had been . . . crossing & recrossing the line between sanity
& madness so many times that I had all but rubbed it out."

— Corwin, Prince of Amber, in The Guns of Avalon
http://recollectionbooks.com/links.html#Authors

1954 -- Natives of Marshall Islands plead for an end to H-Bomb
testing. All anti-American commie-dupes obviously.

1958 -- Rockin Good Time?: Beloved & Respected Comrade
Leader Dick M Nixon's motorcade greeted with rocks & bottles,
Caracas, Venezuela. Hundreds of anti-US demonstrators hurl
melon-size rocks at his limo.

Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President Eisenhower
immediately orders four companies of Marines & paratroopers to
Caribbean bases to back White House demands that Venezuela
guarantee Nixon's safety. The Trickster & the King trade "too
stoned" on the road tales.

1960 -- US: Students hold "sit-in" against "red-hunting". Protests
against HUAC turn into violent stand-off with cops. Includes
anarchoid Abbie Hoffman. San Francisco police attack students
protesting a local hearing of the House Un-American Activities
Committee (HUAC).

1961 -- US: On Stand-by?: Police watch while counter-protesters
beat pro-Castro "Fair Play for Cuba" demonstrators in Seattle.

1967 -- US: Blacks riot in San Francisco's Playland by the Pacific;
meanwhile the anarchist Diggers host a "love feast" in Haight-Ashbury.

1968 -- France '68: The Sorbonne is occupied by students &
others in the May upheaval. This is the first in the series of
occupations which last throughout the month & into June. Today
discontent with the government spreads into the labor force &
workers began joining in the protest with a series of strikes &
factory occupations.

PARIS POLICE opened fire when students attacked a
police van which had knocked down several of them
in the Place Deufert-Rochereau.

The strike by French students & workers leads
to a General Strike by 10 million workers.

http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/sinners/Paris6814th.htm
http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/May68docs.htm

1971 -- US: At Chadwick University, in Michigan, thousands of
protesters gather at 7pm to protest a banned rally. America's
largest university, has lost its soul to the computer, to industry
& the hunger for material growth.

What happens next, 30 hours later, is inevitable.
It is only a question of
when...

At midnight on the 14th,
Phantom jets roar over to
drop
their
first
bombs.

The Movement, a novel by Norman Garbo (1969).

1981 -- In St. Peter's Square, Turkish terrorist Mehmet Ali Agca
shoots & seriously wounds the Pope.

TV viewers jam the switchboards of stations across America
to complain their soap operas & game shows have been
preempted by coverage of the shooting of Pope John Paul II.

1985 -- US: A long-running confrontation between Philadelphia police
& a radical black cult called MOVE comes to a head as mayor
Wilson Goode orders its headquarters bombed. The resulting blaze
destroys 61 homes, killing 11.

Says one resident, "MOVE in its wildest day never perpetrated
anything on our block like what Wilson Goode did."

The mayor defends his strategy as

"Perfect, except for the fire."

Eleven years after police drop a bomb on
a row house occupied by the anti-government group MOVE, a
jury orders the city of Philadelphia & two former city
officials to pay $1.5 million to a survivor & relatives of two
members of the group who died in the resulting fire.

1989 -- Tasmanian Devils?: Greens gain balance of power
in House of Assembly, Tasmania.

1990 -- Robert Jospin (1899-1990) dies. French socialist, pacifist
& one-time anarchiste. A speaker of talent, deeply
affected by WWI, he gave many speeches as secretary of the Ligue
Internationale des combattants de la paix. Jospin was arrested in
1942 for helping the Resistance.

1991 -- Apple releases Macintosh System 7.0. Beloved & Respected
Comrade Leader Chairman Bill Gates sez, "That's it, I quit!"

1998 -- US: Thousands of yellow cab drivers
go on a one day strike in NYC. Buncha terrorist A-Rabs
taking the day off.

2009 -- Dr. Jessica Gaspar presents “Luisa Capetillo: la musa active”
(Luisa Capetillo: The Active Muse), a play inspired by the life & work of
Luisa Capetillo at the Julia de Burgos Theater, School of Humanities, at
the University of Puerto Rico – Río Piedras.

Remembered by many as the first woman to wear pants in public on the
island, her struggles as a labor leader in a male-dominated society made
her a woman far ahead of her time.

http://www.lucyparsonsproject.org/anarchism/aldebol_luisa_capetillo.html

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Hackers?:

"There are a thousand hacking
at the branches of evil to one who
is striking at the root."

— Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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— Auntie-BranchesOfEvil 2010

Last Words of Che Guevara

"I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man."

Daily Bleed for 5.11.10

i am a man's head hunched in the road.
   i was chosen to speak by the members
   of my body. the arm as it pulled away
   pointed toward me, the hand opened once
   and was gone.

   why and why and why
   should i call a white man brother?
   who is the human in this place,
   the thing that is dragged or the dragger?
   what does my daughter say?

   the sun is a blister overhead.
   if i were alive i could not bear it.
   the townsfolk sing we shall overcome
   while hope drains slowly from my mouth
   into the dirt which covers us all.
   i am done with this dust. i am done.

             — Lucille Clifton, jasper texass 1998

Web page in full, over a hunnert of em:
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0511.htm

excerpts:

MAY 11

EQBAL AHMAD
Indefatigable combatant of capitalist empire.

Guatemala: FIVE DAY RAIN CEREMONY.
Also known as "Seattle Weather".
Heads up Ketchikan, Alaska!

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1846 -- US: "Manifest Destiny" is official. Polk's War on Mexico:
Half of Mexico is soon taken, despite massive troop desertions,
death by disease, & mutinies. In the resulting treaty Mexico is paid
$15 million; as one newspaper put it:

           "We take nothing by conquest . . . Thank God."

  Better is the "timeless lament", in the Carlos Fuentes
  novel, The Old Gringo:

    "Poor Mexico, so far from God, so close to the United States."

1886 -- "The Milwaukee Daily Sentinel" publishes an article
headlined "No Poles Need Apply." The story applauds railroad
companies for firing Polish immigrants & gleefully concludes,

    "A good many of those who struck to have their hours
    reduced to eight have been successful in reducing them
    to nothing."

1894 -- US: Beginning of Pullman Railroad Strike, Chicago,
Illinois. Debs soon joins the strike. The largest industrial strike
to date in US history, eventually broken by federal government
troops. At least 24 strikers are killed...
      
        "Chicago Tribune" headline:

       "Debs Strikers Begin Work Of Destruction,
        Guns Awe Them Not,
        Drunken Stockyard Rioters Defy Uncle Sam's Troops,
        Mobs Invite Death"

    "The New York Times," never one to side with business
    rather than labor, & famed for "balance", in an editorial
    calls Debs,

    "A lawbreaker & an enemy to the human race."

    http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/05ref.htm#11/1894

1898 -- "The Discontent: Mother of Progress", anarchist paper of
Home Colony, Washington, first issued.
http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/library/HomeColony.htm

1914 -- Radical theorist, labor organizer Daniel DeLeon dies.

1918 -- Nobel physicist, teacher, bongo player, Richard Feynman
lives.

   "Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it,
   'But how can it be like that?' because you will get 'down the
   drain,' into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped.
   Nobody knows how it can be like that."

1921 -- US: Burp? Prohibition charges against NY saloon owner
are dropped when the judge discovers the police drank the evidence.

1926 -- Mort Sahl, comedian, political satirist, beatnik (Big Party)
lives.

1932 - Virgilia d'Andrea (1890-1932) dies, NY City, age 43.
Italian poet, teacher, writer. A dedicated anarchist, her anti-fascist
activities forced her to leave Italy, but she continued the
struggle in Germany, Holland, France & the US.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/gallery/galleryindex.htm#d'Andrea

1952 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade FBI
Cross-DressingHunk J. Edgar Hoover publishes
"Could Your Child Become a Red?" in "Parade" magazine.

     Well, stop me on the highway, search my car and my cavities,
     delve into my past like I'm a supreme court nominee.
     If I don't got nothing to hide, then why should I complain?
     And if I don't like it, I can always live with Castro or Hussein.

     Well, I'm a real american. I bought a little flag
     to prove I ain't no commie, fascist, muslim, pinko fag....

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/war/bloodycowboy.jpg

1958 -- Last Poet's Follies, Frisco, California.

1961 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Liberal JFK
sends 500 more US advisers to South Vietnam & orders
clandestine warfare against the North & infiltration of
South Vietnamese into Laos.

1962 -- US: The FBI names Martin Luther King, Jr. a Communist
scheduled for arrest in a national emergency.

1967 -- Jackson State Riot Number One. One student killed & two
wounded as cops fire into a crowd after rioters stormed a police
barricade. The National Guard was called in to quell the
violence.

1968 -- Paris: The "Night of the Barricades", May 10-11.

  The students are now calling everything into question, generating
  enormous enthusiasm for the re-examination & criticism of all
  aspects of public & private life. The three biggest French labor
  federations call a General Strike to support students.

  Today saw the decisive battle & the defeat of the Government.
  There was ferocious fighting, barricades were set up
  by the students & cars overturned to form a barrier. It was a
  night of the barricades which the capital had not witnessed since
  the Commune days of 1870.

  The brutality of the police horrified reporters.

  The students have to fight off the dubious embrace of the
  Communist Party & all those now climbing on the bandwagon.

1970 -- US: Beloved & Respected
Comrade Cross-Dress-Code FBI honcho-hunk J. Edgar Hoover
says students killed at Kent State "got what they deserved".

1975 -- US: 80,000 turn out in New York's Central Park to
celebrate the end of the Vietnam War.

1981 -- In Miami's Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, reggae star Bob
Marley, 36, dies. Succumbs to a brain tumor that ended his
career in October 1980. Regarded a hero both in Jamaica &
abroad. He is given a state funeral & buried near his
birthplace in St. Ann's Parish, Jamaica.

1983 -- Canada: Crabby!? A mob of 100 fishermen burn &
sink two fisheries patrol boats in Nova Scotia to protest
lobster quotas.

1996 -- Brazil: 55 police are indicted for the April massacre
of peasants.

1997 -- IBM's Deep Blue defeats chess champ Garry Kasparov
in 6-games.

2001 -- Don't Panic?! Douglas Adams takes the Big Hike, aged 49.
Author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy which was
five books ("So long & thanks for all the books" -- Rbt Braunwart),
about the adventures of a fella traveling the universe & using a handy
dandy guide (The Daily Bleed?!) to help him out. The guide was
inscribed with the useful advice "Don't Panic." Adams died of a heart
attack while exercising (Reader Beware!). Detective Dirk Gently is
investigating this unlikely scenario...

       "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made
        a lot of people very angry ..."

2002 -- Israel: 50,000 Jews protest the government occupations
of the West Bank & Gaza.

     While most American Jews have recently donned war-paint in
     support of Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Ariel Sharon's
     terrorism on Palestinians, Israeli novelist Amos Oz today describes
     Sharon & Yasser Arafat as "miserable leaders," calls for
     their replacement & for establishing a "peace party".


— Auntie-Event 2010

Daily Bleed for This 9th of May

My father makes counterfeit money
My mother makes synthetic gin
My sister makes love for a dollar
My god how the money rolls in.

My brother's a young missionary
Who saves young people from sin.
He'll save you a blonde for ten dollars
My god how the money rolls in . . .

— Vance Randolph, Unprintable:
Ozark Folksongs & Folklore
Edited with an introduction by Gershon Legman

Majestic Web version, in full, about 91 entries:
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0509.htm

Excerpts:

MAY 9

JOHN BROWN
Radical abolitionist. "His truth goes marchin' on."

ASTRONOMY DAY. Look up. (after de sun goes down is best)

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1432 -- Charges of Witchcraft dismissed against Margery
Jourdemain, John Virley, & John Ashwell, in England. They're
executed for littering instead.

1785 -- Pumpin' Iron? Joseph Bramah receives British patent
for beer pump handles.

1800 -- US: John Brown, anti-slavery freedom fighter, who attempted
a guerilla war in the very heart of the south, lives.

There's a flutter in the Southland, a tremor in the air;
For the rice-plains are invaded, the cotton fields laid bare;
And the cry of "Help" and "Treason" rings aloud from tongue
and pen John Brown has crossed the border with a host of
fifteen men.

— "A Plea for Captain John Brown"
by Henry David Thoreau

1878 -- Neno Vasco (1878-1920) lives.
Portuguese lawyer, journalist & libertarian.

Vasco was part of a group of students of the University of
Coimbra who became anarchists at the start of the century.
Active in both Brazil & Portugal, & one of the most influential
militant libertarians in those countries.

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/05ref.htm#9/1878

1883 -- Philosopher José Ortega y Gasset lives, Madrid, Spain.
Wrote The Revolt of the Masses, characterizing 20th-century
society as dominated by masses of mediocre & indistinguishable
individuals. His ideas converged with other 'mass society'
theorists such as Karl Mannheim, Erich Fromm & Hannah Arendt.
In exile during the Spanish Revolution, refusing to support either
side or hold academic office under Franco.

1897 -- U.S. cruiser ordered to Honduras to "protect U.S. interests".

1898 - Marcel Wullens lives (1898-1928). French
militant libertarian & syndicalist who participated, with his
brother Maurice, in the review "Les humbles," the journal
"L'insurgé," & helped found "La révolution prolétarienne"
& later became an organizer, with Andre Breton & Leon
Trotsky, of the F.I.A.R.I.

1921 -- Radical priest, anti-war activist & christian anarchist
Daniel Berrigan lives. Loves to burn draft records.

J. Edgar Hoover & his elegant crew of FBI guys have the same
affinity for Berrigan as for Martin Luther King, Jr. — trying to
smear & destroy him & also his brother Philip (a then Josephite
priest also doing God's work as a christian anarchist).

J. Edgar, now best-known for his peculiar interpretation of
"dress code," went so far as to publicly call Howard Zinn &
Berrigan "traitors" for going to North Vietnam & securing the
first release of American POWs.

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/gallery/galleryindex.htm#DanielBerrigan

1927 -- Debut of Felix the Cat in daily comic strip.

Felix the Cat is God.

1932 -- US: Real Class Act? Rockefeller boards up Diego Rivera's
mural at Rockefeller Center, NYC.

1933 -- First Nazi-inspired mass public book-burning, Germany.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/BB/burnbk.jpg

1961 -- FCC chairman Newton Minow decries,

"If you were tune in one channel & watch it from sign-on to
sign-off, what you would find is a vast electronic wasteland."

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/humor/mediaburn.jpg

1962 -- Beatles sign their first contract with EMI Pstlophone,
after being turned down at Decca with the infamous

"Guitar bands are on the way out."

1967 -- Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) stripped of his
heavyweight boxing title after being indicted for refusing
to accept induction into the army.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/military/army.jpg

1970 -- Five days after the Kent State killings, 100,000 march in
Washington, D.C. against Vietnam War. About 600 Canadian
protesters deface the Peace Arch at the U.S.-Canadian border at
Blaine, Washington.

1973 -- End of American Indian Movement occupation of Wounded
Knee, South Dakota. Protesters & US sign agreement in which the
government agrees to examine Lakota treaty rights; due to
government inaction, surprisingly, the treaty never takes effect.

1974 -- Impeachment hearings against Beloved & Respected
Comrade Leader Richard "Tricky Dick" m Nixon begin.

"The American people deserve to know
whether or not their President is a crook."

(What? Was there a question?)

1977 -- James Jones dies. Wrote From Here to Eternity. Sounds
like a lot of writing.

"[I]ts largely a matter of luck that decided whether or not you get killed.

It doesn't make any difference who you are, how tough you
are, how nice a guy you might be, or how much you may
know, if you happen to be at a certain spot at a certain time,
you get it.

— James Jones, letter to his brother, Jeff Jones, from
Guadalcanal, January 28, 1943

1999 -- Protests at US embassies in Beijing & around the
world after the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade is hit in a bungled
NATO air strike.

1999 -- US: Karl Yoneda, aged 92, dies.

As a student Yoneda read the works of Marx & the Russian anarchist
Vasily Eroshenko. He studied with Eroshenko & took dictation.
Yoneda later became an organizer for the Communist Party in Los
Angeles.

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/05ref.htm#9/1999
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/EroshenkoVasily.htm

2000 -- US: Belly Up To The Bar? Fire destroys a Wild Turkey distillery near
Frankfort, Kentucky; bourbon runoff into the Kentucky River subsequently
causes a massive fish kill.

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"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids both
rich & poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the
streets, & to steal bread."

— Anatole France

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— Auntie Majestic 2010 or so, most probably