"...kick at the darkness
until it bleeds daylight ..."
— Bruce Cockburn,
Lovers In A Dangerous Time
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JOAN MIRO
Great Catalan painter, sculptor, prolific printmaker, bon-vivant.
FESTIVAL OF FABULOUS WILDWOMEN.
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1812 -- England: Luddite problem. Colliers from Hollinwood
& local mob attacked Mr Burton's manufactory in Middleton
& again 22nd April, 10 rioters killed. Food riots in Manchester,
Bolton, Ashton & Oldham, & all through Cheshire north-east of
Stockport.
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1841 -- First detective story, Poe's Murders in the Rue
Morgue published.
1859 -- First volume of Charles Dickens'
A Tale of Two Cities appears.
1887 -- Oscar Wilde writes:
"Every great man nowadays has his disciples,
& it is usually Judas who writes the biography."
1893 -- Catalan artist Joan Miró lives.
'Miró: A single line, a definition inspired
by the Catalan landscape.'
— Abridged Dictionary of Surrealism (1938).
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1914 -- US: Ludlow Massacre of Striking miners & families by
National Guard.
In an attempt to persuade strikers at Colorado's Ludlow Mine
Field to return to work, company "guards," engaged by John D.
Rockefeller, Jr. & other mine operators attack a union tent
camp with machine guns, then set it afire.
Five men, two women
& 12 children died as a result.
The "Cleveland Leader", echoing the sentiments
of much of the US press, writes,
"The charred bodies of two dozen women & children
show that Rockefeller knows how to win!"
1916 -- US: Emma Goldman, on trial for presenting a lecture
on birth control on April 8th, defends herself & is convicted.
Refusing to paying a $100 fine, she serves 15 days in the
Workhouse at Queens County Penitentiary.
According to the NY Times (April 21, 1916) Emma was
applauded by several hundred sympathizers as she was led
from the courtroom where a squad of officer friendlies was
posted.
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1948 -- US: Labor leader Walter Reuther is shot & seriously
wounded by would-be assassins.
1951 -- France: Guy Debord meets the lettrists at the Cannes
Film Festival, following the screening of Isou's "Traité de bave
et d'éternité" (Treatise on Slime & Eternity).
1953 -- US: Members of Communist Party USA forced to register as
"foreign agents."
1966 -- Six US pacifists, including Barbara Deming & 82-year-
old A.J. Muste, deported for anti-war protests, Saigon,
South Vietnam.
1967 -- Aldino Felicani (1891-1967) dies. Italian-American
libertarian, typographer, editor, & publisher of many papers.
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1969 -- People's Park planted, Berkeley, California — a
resistance to the encroachment of the authorities into
"peoples' space".
1970 -- The New York Times reports Catholic & Protestant
youth groups have adopted the Yellow Submarine as a religious
symbol.
1983 -- Korean Airlines flight 007 shot down by Soviets in
Russian airspace. They claim it is a spy plane. It is loaded
with civilians, & many say spy gear. Everyone aboard dies.
(Current evidence indicates it was carrying spy gear.)
1985 -- US: Some 250,000 march in Washington to protest US
policy in Central America.
1992 -- Austria: Women in Black demonstrate in
solidarity with their Serbian sisters.
1998 -- Octavio Paz dies in Mexico City. Mexico's great
poet, writer, critic, & winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize for
Literature. A prolific writer, best known for the book-
length essay The Labyrinth of Solitude & the poem "Sun
Stone."
1999 -- US: Second Columbine Massacre.
"& with respect to the police, the events this past
spring have convinced me more than ever that the
cops, being inept & useless parasites at their very
best, are not only incapable of preventing crimes
of this nature, but only contribute thereafter to the
anguish & suffering of victims."
— Paul Roasberry, parent
Many media (eg, Reuters, UPI) erroneously call this the
biggest school massacre, but it was not; On May 18, 1927,
45 people were killed, including 38 elementary students,
by a series of dynamite explosions at the Bath Michigan
School detonated by Andrew Kehoe, a school board member.
The Columbine Massacre you never hear about occurred
Nov 21, 1927, when IWW picketing miners were brutally
massacred.
Columbine Massacre Monument
Lafayette
Northern Colorado Mine Workers Historical Marker,
a sign on Highway 7 leading to Lafayette, marks the
Columbine Massacre where miners were killed while
on picket duty during a 1927 strike.
2001 -- Canada: Quebec City has the dubious honor of hosting
the Summit of the Americas.
The Anti-Capitalist Convergence (La Convergence
des luttes anti-capitalistes; CLAC) participate
in a large-scale grassroots mobilization against the FTAA.
CLAC organizes a Carnival Against Capitalism.
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At some point we must draw a line
across the ground of our home & our being,
drive a spear into the land, & say to the bulldozers,
earthmovers, government & corporations,
"thus far & no farther."
— Edward Abbey, novelist, anarchist, eco-warrior
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— Auntie-WorkHouse 1997-6721
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"Free thought, necessarily involving freedom of speech
& press, I may tersely define thus: no opinion a law —
no opinion a crime."
— Alexander Berkman
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