Friday, June 24, 2011

Daily Bleed Radical Literary History for June 24th

& ran. Escaped. You returned the million dollars. You
restored the lady's virginity.

You were decorated 46 times in rapid succession by
the King of Italy. Took a Nobel Prize. Evicted
again, you went downtown, slept at the movies,
stood in the breadline, voted yourself a limosine.

— Kenneth Fearing, excerpt "1933,"
from Poems (NY: Dynamo, 1936)




Albert Parsons, anarchist & Haymarket Martyr
JUNE 24
ALBERT PARSONS

Radical American editor, printer, Haymarket martyr, husband of "Dark Lucy."


MIDSUMMER'S DAY, long celebrated as the greatest festival of them all.

Summer now firmly established, Druid tradition recommends excursions on the water & beach parties (a form of celebration continued by the Cornish well into the Middle Ages, despite an attempt at suppression by King Canute in the 11th Century).



Stonehenge, England: SUNRISE RITUALS.

FESTIVAL OF CONTAGIOUS MAGIC.


Houdini poster






1358 -- Effective end of the Jacquerie.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquerie


1527 -- Paracelcus burns the books of Galen & Avicenna.

AVICENNA, Daily Bleed Saint 2002-2004
Persian philosopher, brilliant medical pioneer.




Munsters
1535 -- Fall of the Anabaptist Kingdom of Munster; capture & torture of John of Leiden.


1541 -- Source=Robert Braunwart New World: Indians in Nueva Galicia (western Mexico) rebel (Guerra de Mixton).


1541 -- Source=Robert Braunwart England: The Magna Carta is published.


1542 -- St. John of the Cross lives. Unfortunately for him his evil twin brother, St. John the Cross also lives.


1596 -- John Stewart, Master of Orkney, charged with consulting a witch, Anne Balfour, Mistress of Ornery.


1633 -- Source=Robert Braunwart The Catholic Inquisition finally releases the scientist Galileo.


1647 -- New World: Margaret Brent urges women's vote before Maryland Assembly. Ejected.

Brent appears before the Maryland colonial assembly to demand a voice & vote for herself in that body. She completely shocks the all-male Assembly, which refuses her the vote...

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1648 -- Source=Robert Braunwart Poland: 1,000 Jews of Tulchin are tortured & massacred by Cossacks.


1795 -- William Smellie, editor/key contributor to the first Encyclopaedia Britannica (1768), dies.


Tidal Basin, Washington D.C.
1813 -- US: Battle of Beaver Dam — British & Indian forces defeat American forces.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/daily/april99/beaver11.htm


1813 -- Henry Ward Beecher lives.


1821 -- The 1821 Battle of Carabobo decides the independence of Venezuela. See the former Memoria del fuego page, in Spanish,
http://web.archive.org...eduardo.galeano/memoria.del.fuego/18210624.htm


1842 -- Ambrose Bierce lives (1842-1914) Meigs County, Ohio.

"Bitter Bierce" — American newspaper columnist, satirist, essayist, short-story writer & novelist, disappeared in the Mexican Revolution. Presumably died in the siege of Ojinega, January 1914. Strongly influenced by Edgar Allan Poe. His experiences in the Civil War marked him for life.

Pesky devil, (F)red BierceJack London noted of the cynical author of The Devil's Dictionary:

"Bierce would bury his best friend with a sigh of relief, & express satisfaction that he was done with him."

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1844 -- US: Boston African-Americans hold the first of a series of meetings protesting Jim Crow schools.


1848 -- US: Albert Parsons lives, Alabama. Radical American editor, printer. One of the anarchists unjustly accused & executed for the Haymarket bombing in Chicago.

Again, national & international protest. When the Illinois Supreme Court rejected their appeal, George Bernard Shaw wrote (this is close to his exact words):

"If the world must lose eight of its people, it can better afford to lose the eight members of the Illinois Supreme Court.




1848 -- Brooks Adams lives.


1869 -- US: Abolitionist Mary Ellen "Mammy" Pleasant is named Voodoo Queen of San Francisco.


1870 -- Source=Robert Braunwart Adam Lindsay Gordon's Bush Ballads & Galloping Rhymes is published, Australia.


1877 -- Robert Dale Owen dies. American social reformer/politician. Son of the English reformer & utopian socialist Robert Owen, he was steeped in his father's socialist philosophy while growing up at New Lanark in Scotland.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Owen
On Robert Owen, see Kenneth Rexroth's chapter in Communalism.


1880 -- Georges Durupt, French anarchiste, lives.

In 1909 Durupt is one of a group of friends who form the "Fédération révolutionnaire" qui préconise l'emploi de "l'action directe" for "La destruction radicale de la société capitaliste et autoritaire". Others in the group include Rene de Marmande, Jean Goldschild, Miguel Almereyda (Eugène Vigo; his adopted name, Almereyda, is an anagram: Y'a la merde), & others. Vigo, father of the famed film director Jean Vigo, died in prison under mysterious circumstances.

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1884 --


Strange Stuff:
God is still pissed?

"...a slight shock was felt, upon the 24th of June, at Colchester, showing that the phenomena were continuing. ...Was not the loud report heard upon February 18 probably an explosion in the sky, inasmuch as the sound was great & the quake was little? Were not succeeding phenomena sounds & concussions & the fall of debris from explosions in the sky, acceptably upon April 22, & perhaps continuing until the 24th of June?"

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1886 -- Source=Robert Braunwart Nicaraguan poet Ruben Dario arrives in Valpara¡so, Chile.


Caserio illustration by Flavio Costantini
1894 -- France: In Lyon, the Italian anarchist
Santo Geronimo Caserio (Sante Jeronimo Caserio) stabs Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader French president Sadi Carnot to avenge the execution of Auguste Vaillant.

le 24 juin 1894 à Lyon,
Sadi Carnot
Président de la république française
est mortellement poignardé
par l’Anarchiste
Caserio


Carnot dies from the wounds & an hysterical mob plunders Italian stores.

Caserio is arrested, & guillotined on August 16, 1894.

[ Illustrations by Flavio Costantini ]

Lyons-24-June-1894 by Flavio Costantini





1901 -- Pablo Picasso's first exhibition, Paris.

"Give me a museum & I'll fill it."

In his youthful, formative years, Picasso was politically linked with the international anarchist movement, & his art often betrayed this. French police kept him under surveillance for nearly 40 years — & when the Spanish-born painter applied for citizenship the authorities could not decide whether he was an anarchist or a communist so they ruled him undesirable just in case. He later became a Communist Party member, though never particularly an enthusiastic one.




1902 -- Struggling to meet a deadline for Blackwood's, Joseph Conrad upsets an oil lamp & burns the second installment ofThe End of the Tether.
http://www.bibliomania.com/0/0/15/frameset.html


1904 -- Colorado: Troops arrest 22 workers labeled as strike leaders & troublemakers & deport them via train out of the Telluride district.

In March of the same year, another 60 union miners were deported & told never to come back. On April 5, the Telluride Mine Owners' Association delivered the following statement, "We do not propose to enter into negotiations of any nature with the Western Federation of Miners. We do not recognize a union in Telluride. There is no strike in Telluride. There is nothing to settle." After three-months of hardship, the union was broken.

There are numerous newspaper articles chronicling the labor unrest in Telluride in 1901,http://www.rmpbs.org/byways/sjs_strikes.html



Ernesto Sabato
1911 -- Ernesto Sábato lives, Rojas, Argentina. Physics professor & winner of the 1984 Cervantes Prize, Hispanic literature's most prestigious award.

Ernesto Sabato


His first literary success Uno y el universo ("One & the Universe," 1945), published after being removed from his teaching post for his opposition to the government, it is a series of aphorism, statements, & personal observations on diverse philosophical, social, & political matters. His first novel, El túnel ("The Outsider"), brought him fame.

Sabato also authored the online prologue to Nunca Más (Never Again): Report of Conadep(National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons) - 1984:




Ben Reitman with banner advertising Emma Goldman lecture
1912 -- Emma Goldman lectures in Butte, Montana.
(Ben Reitman pictured in the center.)

http://jwa.org/historymakers/goldman
http://jwa.org/onthemap/emma-goldman-mural-at-ahawath-yeshurun-shats-torah-synagogue
http://jwa.org/archive/goldman/egreit.jpg





Vincent Ferrini; source artsgloucester.com/Vincent/Ferrini.html
1913 -- Poet/playwright Vincent Ferrini lives (1913-2007), Saugus, Massachusetts.

The suddenness flowers have
startled the air
with their fire & ether
as we do with what is ours
because we are
the gardeners of each other.



— The Gold



Worked with, & wrote about, the shoe-industry workers in Lynn, &, later, the fisher folk in Gloucester, Massachusetts. It was also there that Ferrini became friends with Charles Olson, whose theory of Projective Verse catalyzed the Beats. Ferrini & Olson were both friends & literary competitors...

Bill Witherup


See Walter Lowenfels' Poets of Today (1964), & The Whole Song: Selected Poems: Vincent Ferrini. Edited & with Intro by Kenneth A. Warren & Fred Whitehead. (University of Illinois, 2004).



ANARCHY
1915 -- France: Charles Gogumus (1873-1915) dies. Militant syndicaliste révolutionnaire, anarchiste et antimilitariste.
http://www.ephemanar.net/aout25.html#gogumus



1916 -- Poet John Ciardi (Person to Person) lives, Boston.


1917 -- US: IWW Domestic Workers (Maids) Union reports they are supplying sandwiches to dozens of draft resistors in the Duluth, Minnesota jail.
http://www.iww.org/


French anarchist Jean-Louis Pindy
1917 -- Jean-Louis Pindy (1840-1917) dies. Member of the Internationale, communard, anarchist, carpenter.

Elected to the Paris Commune, it was Pindy who ordered the Hôtel de Ville burned down during the Bloody Week.

Condemned to death, he slipped into Switzerland...


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1917 -- Source=Robert Braunwart The Russian Black Sea fleet mutinies at Sevastopol.


1919 -- US: Following an attack on the house of Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Attorney General Palmer on June 2, 1919, the Italian anarchist Luigi Galleani & collaborators on the newspaper "Cronaca Sovversiva" are expelled from the country.


1919 -- Source=Robert Braunwart Hungary: An unsuccessful revolt against the Hungarian Soviet government occurs.
http://recollectionbooks.com/anow/history/hungary.html



1924 --
Anarchitecte


Michel Ragon lives, Marseille, France.After meetingHenry Poulaille & being introduced to the libertarian movement he discovered his vocation as writer & anarchist critic.

A veritable autodidact, he collaborated on various publications like "Les cahiers du peuple."

Ragon's thirst for knowledge lead him into the milieu of painters & he became member of the Cobra group in 1949...

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Michel RAGON, anarchist, artist
Michel Ragon
Proletarian writer, poet, critic & historian of art & architecture, fellow traveler of anarchy.
Panosophist



1933 -- Dramatic soprano Matilda Sissieretta Jones dies of cancer. Called "the first Negro prima donna," Jones toured with the Tennessee Jubilee Singers & performed at Carnegie Hall, Madison Square Garden & at the White House in 1892. She was dubbed "Black Patti," a name she disliked for its allusion to white contemporary, Adelina Patti.


Luigi Fabbri; source ytak.club.fr
1935 -- Luigi Fabbri dies. Professor, Italian anarchist theorist. Fabbri & Pietro Gori participated in the review "Il pensiero."

In 1926 Fabbri went into exile to escape the fascist regime, taking refuge in France, Belgium, &, finally, after being expelled several times, in Uruguay.... Luigi Fabbri died prematurely in the thick of the struggle...

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1935 -- Singer Carlos Gardel (1890 - 1935) dies in an airplane accident. Carlos Gardel has a voice of colors, able to create dark notes & opaque letters. See Memoria del fuego page, in Spanish,
http://www.patriagrande.net/uruguay/eduardo.galeano/memoria.del.fuego/19350624.htm


1940 -- Italy: Hanno termine le operazioni militari contro la Francia senza aver conseguito alcun risultato di rilievo. L'unica località conquistata è

Menton, subito oltre il confine ligure. A Villa Incisa, nei pressi di Roma, il governo francese e quello italiano firmano l'armistizio. Il governo italiano si accontenta di poco (smilitarizzazione di alcuni territori di confine, uso del porto di Gibuti) se si fa il confronto con le incredibili richieste avanzate solo una settimana prima. Il buffone Mussolini ci aveva provato.
[Source: Crimini e Misfatti]



Otto Rühle
1943 -- México: Otto Rühle (1874-1943) dies. German Left communist of the Spartacist League (anti-Leninist, it included Liebknecht, Luxemburg, Mehring, et al. Council Communists have much in common with libertarian communism & most strains of anarchism).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_R%C3%BChle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_communism





1944 -- US: "Made in the USA"? Conscientious objectors volunteer as guinea pigs for medical research.


1945 -- Author Solana Gutiérrez dies in Madrid, Spain.



Rain of UFOs
1947 -- US: Pilot Kenneth Arnold sights flying saucers over Mt. Tahoma, Washington, near Seattle.

Mt Rainier
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/ArchiveMirror/Parascope/rainufo.htm
http://www.ufoevidence.org/cases/case511.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qbseh0kgLY




1948 -- Germany: Russia imposes rail & road blockades of West Berlin, West Germany.


1953 -- Source=Robert Braunwart US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Golfer President Ike Eisenhower writes to the American Library Association (ALA) to support intellectual freedom. It's a mean nasty job, but somebody's got to step up...


1954 -- Source=Robert Braunwart Humphrey Bogart/Fred McMurray movie "The Caine Mutiny" is released, US.


1957 -- France: František Kupka (1871-1957) dies, in Puteaux. Czech Abstract Painter, anarchist, satirist & illustrator.


1960 -- Source=Robert Braunwart Second Newport Folk Festival opens, Rhode Island, USA.


1962 -- England: 323 arrested in 24-hour blockade of H-Bomber base, Greenham Common.


1965 -- A Spaniard in the Works published, the second book by songster John Lennon; this went through four impressions & sold 100,000 copies within three months.


Vietnam: Apocalypse Now icon button
1966 -- Vietnam: Ky agrees to add 10 civilians to his South Vietnamese military directorate & announces elections for constitutional convention.


1968 -- US: National Guard ordered out in DC as looting breaks out in black section of city.


1968 -- US: 14,000 gather to protest proposed nuclear power plant at Seabrook, New Hampshire.


Vietnam Chien Thang, poster
1968 -- US: General Earle G. Wheeler, Chief of Staff, US Army, assures a Long Island, NY audience that "the enemy has lost whatever chance he had of taking South Vietnam by military force."


1968 -- US: Deadline for redeeming silver certificate dollars for silver bullion (or silver bullets, for redemption?).


1969 -- US: Blacks riot in Omaha, Nebraska.



Vietnam
1970 -- US: Backbone? Senate votes overwhelmingly to repeal Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. A couple of million dead late. The resolution was based on government lies, intentionally designed to provide Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Lyndon Johnson & the military sweeping powers in the Vietnam War.
http://www.americancivilrightsreview.com/docs-tonkinresolution1964.htm


DickHead
1971 -- US: First "White House Enemies List" is circulated by the staff of Special Presidential Counsel Charles W. Colson.

John Dean, Counsel to President Nixon, described a "siege mentality" in the White House. Dean testified Nixon approved a plan to use wiretaps, burglary & other forms of surveillance against citizens he considered radical or subversive.

Dean also made public a White House "enemies list" of 256 persons in the media, business, entertainment, politics & the academic world. The idea was to "use the available federal machinery to screw our political enemies" through such government actions as tax audits.

He also said the CIA was used to "block a full FBI investigation of Watergate."




1971 -- US: Seventeen workmen killed as the second explosion in two days rocks a partially completed water tunnel in Sylmar, California.


1971 -- The German Socialist Patients' Kollektiv is declared a 'criminal union':

"The system has made us sick, let us strike a death blow to the sick system."

Making a weapon out of illness.
Source: [Calendar Riots]


Baseball dugout
1972 -- US: Baseball's first woman umpire, Bernice Gera, calls balls & strikes in her first game — then resigns a few hours later after receiving threats.




1976 -- Poland: Government hikes staple food prices enormously. The response was immediate: nationwide strikes, public protests & rioting. In Radom demonstrators burn Communist Party headquarters, build barricades & fight the police — injuring 75 cops.

On the 26th the price increases are repealed in an effort to deflate the protest, then two days later reinstated at half the initial amount.

BBC reports that in 1975 Absenteeism is widespread, accounting for 8-1/2% of all working time. There are frequent descriptions of workers lining up at 7a.m. to buy bottles of vodka instead of going to work.

A survey in Wroclaw concluded that absenteeism this year is up 33% & that 2/3 of the absent workers are between 23 & 29 years old.

[I.C.O., Poland: 1970-71, Capitalism & Class Struggle, (Detroit: Black & Red, 1977), p117]




Uruguayan victims of repression, animated
1976 -- Uruguay: Elena Quinteros arrested at her home in Montevideo. Teacher & activist in theFederación Anarquista Uruguaya (FAU). Four days hence she briefly escapes from her military captors, gaining entrance to the Embassy of Venezuela. Her captors then violate the embassy grounds & recapture her. Venezuela breaks diplomatic relations with Uruguay in protest.
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/undocs/newscans/107-1981.html



1982 -- US: ERA supporters admit defeat: 33 states have ratified in 10 years, three short of the three-quarters needed by the June 30 deadline.


1983 -- Scotland: Peaks for Peace commemorate dead of Hiroshima & Nagasaki bombings with a peace plaque at the summit of Ben Nevis.


1986 -- US: Top This? Seven women arrested in Rochester, New York for conducting a topless picnic to protest local laws which allowed men — but not women — to be shirtless in public.


1987 -- TV comedian Jackie Gleason dies.


1993 -- US: Eight Muslim fundamentalists arrested in New York, accused of plotting a day of bombings of the United Nations, a federal building & the Holland & Lincoln tunnels.


1994 -- US: After years of refusal, government finally ratifies International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.



1995 --

1995 -- André Laude (1936-1995) dies. French writer, poet, journalist, militant anarchist, surrealist, "Carried the bags" during the Algerian revolution.

Barely out of the womb Laude was subject to the torments of history — his communist father went off to Spain in the International Brigades, & then, in 1942, his Polish-Jewish mother was sent to Auschwitz (where she died).

In 1953, Laude discovered anarchist ideas & joined the Libertarian Communist Federation. In 1954, as an anti-colonialist journalist, he supported the Algerian revolutionists & was arrested, in Paris, & imprisoned for a year in a camp in the South-Sahara where he underwent torture.

When he was freed, Laude joined a news service in Algiers, returning to France only after the fall of Ben Bella (1965) & was again arrested, this time for "collaborating with the enemy." The surrealists, especially Benjamin Péret & André Breton (who testified in his behalf) took up his cause, & Laude joined their movement.

Poetry now became Laude's "raison de vivre," rather than journalism. Politically he was briefly involved with the PSU (Left Socialist Unified), but in 1968, as a friend of Raoul Vaneigem, Guy Debord & Dany Cohn-Bendit, he participated in the l'internationale situationniste. He remained, basically, a libertarian & a true poet until his death.

"Only the poets who preach disorder are, in my eyes, authentic poets."

— Comme une blessure rapprochée du soleil(1979).

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2000 --
CafeMan: Go ahead! Make Yourself at home! June 24, 2000 — BleedMeister (Anti-)Dave & Co. begin moving back into their humble digs after a four month sojourn through hell — where the bleeding never stops — following a nasty little house fire back on February 15 which left them homeless, wandering the streets more aimlessly than usual.



Anarchist demonstration in Spain
2002 -- Spain: Massive anarchist CGT demonstrations nationwide, in Madrid, Sevilla, etc.



Arafat: At least I won the popular vote
2002 -- Source=Robert Braunwart Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader George W. Bush calls for the replacement of Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Yassir Arafat as head of the Palestinian Authority. As of this date in 2004, neither has seemingly beheaded the other.


2002 -- Source=Robert Braunwart China: A 3-day riot of textile workers in Guangdong begins.



3000 --


CAPITAL, n.
The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the table & the knife & fork for the Anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the disgrace before meat. Capital Punishment, a penalty regarding the justice & expediency of which many worthy persons — including all the assassins — entertain grave misgivings.




WrongWay, (F)red
4500 --

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