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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.
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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.
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?
Of a card whose face you knew you would not see.
— Kenneth Rexroth, excerpt,
"Again at Waldheim"
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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.
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1972 -- Italy: Milan police chief Luigi Calabresi, in charge
at the time police "suicided" the anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli
on December 15, 1969, is assassinated.
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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.
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"Any idiot can face a crisis. It's the day-to-day
living that wears you out."
— Anton Chekhov
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— Auntie-Day-to-Day Living 1997-Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday-
or thereabouts, more or less
The Daily Bleed - Sinners & Saints galore
"Better to go hungry than to feast on lies."
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