Between the freeway & the gray conning
towers of the ballpark, miles
of mostly vacant lots, once
a neighborhood of small
two-storey houses
— Philip Levine, excerpt,
A Walk with Tom Jefferson
http://libcom.org/history/
Daily Bleed in full:
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Excerpts:
AUGUST 23 MALVINA REYNOLDS
POP/FOLK PROTEST SINGER OF 1960s FAME.
Lithuania: HARVEST FESTIVAL.
Ridiculous speeches, feasting & dancing.
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Excerpts:
AUGUST 23 MALVINA REYNOLDS
POP/FOLK PROTEST SINGER OF 1960s FAME.
Lithuania: HARVEST FESTIVAL.
Ridiculous speeches, feasting & dancing.
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1500 -- Christopher Columbus, accused of mistreating the
natives of Haiti, is arrested & sent back to Spain in chains.
Plunder continued to take precedence over
conversion, but the Catholics continued to
be embarrassed...
— Fredy Perlman,
The Continuing Appeal of Nationalism
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1757 -- England: The first riot against the Militia Act occurs at
Washingborough, Lincs, from where it spreads rapidly to Beds
1799 -- William Blake writes to John Trusler: "You say that I want
somebody to elucidate my ideas. But you ought to know that what is
grand is necessarily obscure to weak men."
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1871 -- Germany: Alfred Sanftleben (aka "Slovak") lives.
Militant anarchist.
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1900 -- Folk, protest singer Malvina Reynolds lives... Was refused her
diploma by Lowell High School because her parents were opposed to
US participation in World War I.
http://www.sisterschoice.com/Militant anarchist.
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1900 -- Folk, protest singer Malvina Reynolds lives... Was refused her
diploma by Lowell High School because her parents were opposed to
US participation in World War I.
1901 -- Boer prisoners are executed, in the movie "Breaker Morant."
court martialed & executed in South Africa in 1902. Scapegoat of the
British Empire, subject of numerous poems, novels & histories.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
1903 -- Muhammad Yamin lives. Indonesian writer & politician,
member of the leftist Murba Party. One of the pioneers of modern
poetry in Indonesia.
1907 -- The arrest of Mexican anarchists Ricardo Flores
Magon, Villarreal & Rivera by US authorities...
1911 -- Ishi — last member of his stone-age
tribe — discovered in California.
sentences Marxist Karl Liebknecht to four years.
1917 -- Riot occurs in Houston, Texass, when the 24th Infantry
seeks revenge on the city's white police after the brutal beating
of two of the regiment's soldiers.
1918 -- Mollie Steimer arrested for distributing leaflets against
the landing of American troops in Soviet Russia...
The Abrams case, as it became known, constitutes a
landmark in the repression of civil liberties in the US.
It was the first important prosecution under the Espionage
Act. It is cited in all standard histories, as one of the
most flagrant violations of constitutional rights
during the Red Scare
1927 -- Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian-born
anarchist labor militants, executed in the electric chair.
Judge Webster Thayer, during the
Sacco-Vanzetti trial, was heard to boast whilelandmark in the repression of civil liberties in the US.
It was the first important prosecution under the Espionage
Act. It is cited in all standard histories, as one of the
most flagrant violations of constitutional rights
during the Red Scare
1927 -- Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian-born
anarchist labor militants, executed in the electric chair.
Judge Webster Thayer, during the
playing golf,
"Did you see what I did to those anarchistic bastards?"
They are subjects of many songs, poems & books.
http://www.torremaggiore.com/
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1932: US: The Seattle Library Board, all fired up, fires married women.
1933 -- US: Vigilantes, patriots all, assault 200 migrant workers"Did you see what I did to those anarchistic bastards?"
They are subjects of many songs, poems & books.
http://www.torremaggiore.com/
http://recollectionbooks.com/
1932: US: The Seattle Library Board, all fired up, fires married women.
in Yakima, Washington.
1936 -- Thomas Mann completes his novel Joseph in Egypt.
1939 -- Germany/USSR: Pen Pals?: Hitler-Napoleon Non-Aggression
Pact signed in preparation for Germany's September visit to Poland.
1943 -- US: Workers strike the Brewster fighter plant at Warminster, Pa.
for four days. The head of the local union is quoted as saying,
"If I had brothers at the front line who needed the 10 or 12 planes
that were sacrificed in the strike, I'd let them die... to preserve
our way of life".
1946 -- Humphrey Bogart movie "The Big Sleep" opens.
1946 -- US: Three white men are fined $10 in Collins, Miss. for
the attempted rape of three young black women at gunpoint.
1958 -- Shell Game?: Communist China begins an artillery blockade
of Quemoy (-Sept.). A compromise is subsequently worked out, whereby
China can shell the islands on odd dates & the KMT can resupply them
on even dates.
1962 -- US: JFK's administration approves a
massive sabotage effort against Cuba.
1968 -- Yippies sponsor the "Festival of Life" at the Democratic
Convention & get national headlines by nominating Pigasus the Pig
for President.
1974 -- John Lennon reports seeing a UFO in NYC.
Just another day in the Big Apple...
1977 -- US: Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis proclaims
"Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti Day" on the 50th anniversary
of their death.
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1977 -- Germany: Marxist philosopher Rudolf Bahro
is imprisoned in East Germany.
Released in 1979, went to West Germany, aligned with "Deep
of a revolutionary cultural movement to dismantle the industrial
system (the "exterminist megamachine") & reconstruct human
society & cultural reproduction on a communitarian basis.
Called an "ecoanarchist theorist", Bahro's vision was extra-
parliamentary, that is, Greens should focus their organizing
outside of parliament.
1989 -- R.D. Laing, radical anti-psychiatrist, dies.
1996 -- 'Today the net worth of the world's 358 richest people is
equal to the combined income of the poorest 45 per cent of the
world's population — 2.3 billion people.'
— James Gustave Speth, administrator UN Development Programme
An estimated 35,000 people, according to the Seattle Police
Department, came to Myrtle Edwards Park to display their
affection for the popular garden weed.
2001 -- US: French Toast? Thierry Devaux, a Frenchman
using a motor-driven parachute, is arrested after becoming
snagged on the Statue of Liberty.
Carkeek Park, all day long. Who brought the pizza oven?
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— anti-45% 2010
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