Daily Bleed for January 30th

Now,
only a spider of black wires
where once the Oracle spoke
in a whirlwind.

— Dieter Weslowski, "The Angelus Hour"

Daily Bleed in full,
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0130.htm

excerpts:

JANUARY 30 -- OSCEOLA
Great defender of the Seminole Indian nation.

Ontario, Canada: BON SOO Winter Carnival.

______________________________

1649 -- Heads Up?: Charles I of England beheaded.

The 'Calves Head Club' first undertakes
riotous activity outside a tavern in Charing
Cross, stoning rich folks' houses & fighting
local militiamen.

The loose association of revelers has been
formed to ridicule Charles I on every anniversary
of his execution & a drunken debauch celebrates
sporadically on this day in London from the late
17th century until 1735.

1838 -- US: Osceola, Seminole war chief, dies under
questionable circumstances while imprisoned at Fort
Moultrie, South Carolina. Some say of some sort of
throat disease, others say malaria, others say of a
broken heart.

1871 -- Stoyanov Parachkef (1871-1941) lives.
Significant figure of Romanian & Bulgarian
anarchism.

1882 -- Nicaragua: Congress votes to educate poet
Ruben Dario at government expense. Almost as good
as two cows.

1894 -- Brazilian revolutionaries fire on the US flag in the
harbor of Rio de Janeiro.

Now why they do that?
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Faces&Masks.htm#1899Rio

1909 -- US: Radical organizer Saul Alinsky lives.

1926 -- France: The chief of police in Paris forbids the playing
of jazzed-up versions of the French national anthem, "La Marseillaise."

1930 -- Vladimir Mayakovski play "The Bathhouse"
premiers, Leningrad, Russia.

1940 -- Denis Langlois lives, Etrechy, France. Lawyer,
anarchiste & pacifist writer who does prison time for his
beliefs ("Le cachot").

1943 -- Germany: RAF makes its first daylight raids on Berlin
in WWII & a saturation attack on Hamburg. It is only the bad
guys, not the good guys (Allies) who kill & terrorize civilians
en masse.

1948 -- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the political
& spiritual leader of the Indian independence
movement, is assassinated in New Delhi by a
Hindu fanatic.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/BeckMalinaLT/beckGandhi.jpg

1952 -- Lehmer discovers 13th & 14th Mersenne primes (2521 - 1, 2607
- 1) 14th Mersenne
prime =

531137992816767098689588206552 468627329593117727031923199444

138200403559860852242739162502265229285668889329486246501015346579337652707239409519978766587351943831270835393219031728127.

We believe these primes were hiding
off the right edge of your computer screen for centuries;
we also know this is larger than any number than can be
used to count or measure (unless you are counting
Auntie Dave's toes & fingers).

1970 -- US: For the second time in six months, rioting
erupts during an anti-war protest in East Los Angeles.

1972 -- Northern Ireland: "Bloody Sunday." British
soldiers gun down 14 Roman Catholic civil-rights
marchers in Londonderry.

The reality is that civil war has long since moved into
the metropolis. Its mutations are part of everyday life
in our cities, not just in Lima & in Johannesburg, in
Bombay & in Rio, but in Paris & Berlin, in Detroit
& Birmingham, in Milan & Hamburg.

The combatants are no longer just terrorists & secret police,
Mafiosi & skinheads, drug dealers & death squads, neo-Nazis
& cowboy security guards. Even ordinary members of the
public are transformed overnight into hooligans, arsonists,
rioters & serial killers. & as in the African wars, the
combatants are becoming younger by the day.

H a n s M a g n u s
E n z e n s b e r g e r

1992 -- US: Chicago gravediggers end a 43-day strike.
See "Layabouts":

1999 -- US: The Layabouts
check for beer
in the fridge.

World beat sound;
Rock, reggae, ska.
Dance your feet off
while listening to lyrics of ferment,
exalting you to
smash the state
& eat the rich!

They, & The Luddites, play Alvin's
tonite, Detroit.

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/BB/layaboutsjan99.gif

2006 -- México: Civil rights activist Coretta Scott King
dies, Playas de Rosarito.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coretta_Scott_King

_____________

"To combat cultural
genocide one needs a
critique of civilization itself."

— Gary Snyder

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— anti-CopyRite 6666-3000 (yup)

Daily Bleed for January 24th

"I have paid you a rare compliment;
I have assumed that you mean what you say."

— Nero Wolfe

Daily Bleed webpage in full, updated
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0124.htm

Excerpts:

SHUSUI KOTOKU
Japanese anarchist activist, martyr.

PAUL PITCHER DAY: Cornish tin miners traditionally
set up a pitcher in a public place & threw stones
at it to destroy it.

A replacement pitcher was then bought &
filled with beer, which was replenished
throughout the day as they drank from it.

The miners were great inventors for reasons
to celebrate; this one was a rebellion against
the rule that only water was to be drunk
during work time.

TRICKNOLOGY DAY, celebrating the clever
tricks of a ruling-class conspiracy.

______________________________

1869 -- Spain: In Madrid, Giuseppe Fanelli (sent by
Bakunin) gathers the first Spanish group to join the
First International & sows the seeds of anarchism
among the peasants & workers with lasting effect
for over the next century.

1892 -- Uganda: Battle at Mengo: Doing God's work,
French missionaries attack British missionaries.

The victors force the vanquished to perform
unspeakable acts — in the missionary
position, right?

1911 -- Japan: Shusui Kotoku (1871-1911) & 11 other
anarchists hanged for a plot against the Japanese
emperor's life.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/01ref.htm#24/1911

1913 -- Franz Kafka stops work on Amerika, which he
never completes, never writing again. His signature
work is the novella Metamorphosis. Dystopian
allegorist.

Ion Caramitru .... Solemn Anarchist
Hilde van Mieghem .... Female Anarchist
Jan Nemejovsky .... Mustachioed Anarchist
Toon Agterberg .... Youthful Anarchist

— cast of Steven Soderbergh's film "Kafka," (1991).
http://recollectionbooks.com/anow/ppl/wri/kafka/

1915 -- Italy: In Pisa, the Italian anarchists declare themselves
against the war. Malatesta later vigorously protests against the
interventionist's "Manifesto of the 16" (issued by Kropotkin, Jean
Grave & 13 others in 1916).
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/manifesto16.htm
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/01ref.htm#24/1915

1929 -- US: Emily Dickinson poems found that had been
hidden for 40 years.

1935 -- US: First canned beer appears, Krueger Finest Beer.

Up next? Canned Music!!

1941 -- HEY!! AIN'T THIS THE USA!!!!!!!
Lenus Westman (D) is denied his seat in the Washington
State Senate for "Communist sympathies."

1949 -- John Belushi lives, Chicago.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/BB/belushi.jpg

1952 -- US: Minimum wage raised to 75¢ an hour.
May happen all over again in 2011.

1955 -- US: Ira Hamilton Hayes, a Native American
(Pima) who was one of six US Marines to raise the
American flag at Iwo Jima during WWII, dies of exposure.

Two summers ago during one of our trips around
the SW, French & I found the stone memorial to
Ira Hayes on his reservation in AZ.

It was cracked, the plaque vandalized, the
square on which it sat full of litter & weeds.

— Bleedster Ruth S.

1970 -- It's announced that John Lennon & Yoko Ono
have shaved their heads to commemorate the start of
Year One for Peace.

"We're all Christ & we're all Hitler. We are trying to
make Christ's message contemporary. We want Christ
to win. What would he have done if he had advertisements,
TV, records, films & newspapers? The miracle today is
communication. So Let's use it."

1990 -- Panama: Tootin' Tortillas!?! Cocaine allegedly found in
Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Noriega's HQ turns out to
be corn tortillas. The dictator was once America's sweetheart &
on the CIA payroll, but things went south.

1992 -- Time Flies? El Salvador: US-supported Salvadoran officers
convicted of murdering Jesuits get 30 years in jail (they are released
in 1993).

1998 -- Cuba: Pope John Paul II calls for release of political
prisoners. Yup. (& you think he's referring to the American prison
at Gitmo....)

2000 -- US: Irvington students form an 'anarchist' club.
Said Ariel Schwitalla, 15:

"We're the salmon running against the stream."

2002 -- US: The FBI & Secret Service Los Angeles Joint-terror
Task Force armed with sub-machine guns, shotguns, & bullet-proof
vests raids the home of 18-year old Sherman Austin, webmaster of
Raisethefist.com & founder of RTF Direct Action Network.

"Austin appears to be the victim of a serious
miscarriage of justice..." — Noam Chomsky

http://www.raisethefist.com/

_______________


& then revolts break out as storms break out
in the burning summer sky. Resolute &
savage men, led by the kind of bearded
colossus like an ancient god, wrested beams
from the workshops & hurled them like
catapults against the armor-plated palace
doors. The most cautious had made their
get-away; others had fallen under the first
blows & these were precisely the people who
had never wanted to believe in the revolt,
maintaining that these rumors had no
foundation & were started by greedy bankers
who aimed to cause a fall in prices & then
speculate afterwards on the rise which would
follow the denial of the alarming rumors.
These were the same people who always
ended their optimistic speeches by phrases
such as: Our people have too much good sense.

— GIORGIO DE CHIRICO, 1929

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— anti-ArmorPlated, 2006,7,8,9,0,1

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Daily Bleed for January 22nd

Januaries, Nature greets our eyes
exactly as she must have greeted theirs:
every square inch filling in with foliage —

— Elizabeth Bishop, "Brazil, January 1, 1502"

Daily Bleed, web page in full, available around the
globe...in any town square with access to the internet...
which may include you...
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/bleed/0122.htm

Excerpts,

LORD BYRON
Wit, dandy, into incest & man-boy love.
Died fighting for Greek freedom
& romantic ideals. Good poet, too.

______________________________

FESTIVAL OF INVOKING & BANISHING.

ST. VINCENT'S DAY. Patron saint of both
winemakers & drunkards ... inspires Thrift Stores.

FESTIVAL OF THE ORGONE.

______________________________

1778 -- US: Board of War induces Congress to approve
an invasion of Canada.

1788 -- Romantic poet George Gordon, Lord Byron, lives.

1821 Through life's road so dim & dirty
I have dragged to three & thirty.
What have these years left to me?
Nothing except thirty-three."

— Lord Byron, 1821, his 33rd birthday

1824 'Tis time this heart should be unmoved,
Since others it hath ceased to move:
Yes, though I cannot be beloved,
Still let me love!

— Lord Byron, On This Day I Complete My
Thirty-Sixth Year

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/01ref.htm#22/1788

1871 -- France: Louise Michel,
armed with a rifle, takes her first shot at the
Breton mobiles of Trochu in front of the Town hall.

1879 -- Francis Picabia, surrealist, lives.

"La plus belle invention de l'homme
est le bicarbonate de soude"

— Francis Picabia

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/01ref.htm#22/1879

1888 -- France: An attempt to kill Louise Michel
results in her being wounded. The budding anarchist later
testifies in behalf of her attacker, arguing for his acquittal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Michel

1905 -- Russia: Bloody Sunday, massacre of demonstrators
in St. Petersburg: Troops open fire on 100,000 workers,
women & children, leaving over 1,000 demonstrators dead
& 3,000 wounded.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/01ref.htm#22/1905

1905 -- France: Burial of Louise Michel.

A procession of over 100,000 people accompany
her coffin to the Levallois cemetery where she is
buried. The Lepine prefect, who tried to follow
the procession, is driven off ...

The little girl who used to sit by the fire & listen to
her grandfather's stories of the heroes of old,
had now herself become a legend.

— Jayacintha Danaswamy

http://struggle.ws/ws98/ws55_louise.html

1924 --
Joseph
Spivak
(1882-1971)
is being
watched, much like you, we
think...
[Agent Report In re:] Neie Geselshaft,
Free Workers Forum, Joseph Spivak —
Russian (Jewish) Anarchist Activities,
Los Angeles [19]24 Jan. 22; Reel 66:

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

1925 -- D. H. Lawrence writes:

"Whoever reads me will be in the thick of the scrimmage, &
if he doesn't like it — if he wants a safe seat in the audience —
let him read somebody else."

1932 -- El Salvador: Peasant uprising leading to the
"Matanza Massacre" of 30,000.

The El Salvador government crushes
the peasants like bugs.

Children die too, for Communists, like snakes,
need to be killed young....

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/sinners/CenturyoftheWind.htm#IZALCO

1951 -- Beanie Baby?: Fidel Castro is ejected from a
Winter League baseball game after beaning a batter.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/sports/bBallColdWar.jpg

1964 -- US: World's largest cheese (15,723 kg) manufactured,
Wisconsin. Sorry, we don't know which President it was.

1971 -- John Lennon & Yoko Ono record "Power to the People"
which goes on to reach number 11 on the charts. Nice idea...

1991 -- US: 14 ACT-UP AIDS activists arrested while
simultaneously disrupting CBS, NBC & PBS
evening news broadcasts with "Fight AIDS, not
Arabs" banners. Members burst onto the CBS
Evening News with Dan Rather & the Public
Broadcasting System's MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour.

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/humor//mediaburn.jpg
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/01ref.htm#22/1991

1993 -- Kobo Abe dies in Tokyo, Japan, after a successful
writing career that has seen most of his avant-gard works of
bizarre & allegorical situations, such as Woman in the Dunes,
& The Boxman, translated into English.

1997 -- South Korea: 150,000 workers walk off their jobs to
protest recent labor legislation. The wave of strikes over
the previous three weeks have already "cost" South Korean
corporations about $3 billion in lost production.

2004 -- International Billy Bragg Meetup Day. 16 hardcore Billy
Bragg Fans of the Bard from Barking worldwide gather at 8 pm to
discuss his music, the Blokes & upcoming shows.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Bragg


2179 -- Hikaru Walter Sulu lives, Frisco, California.

_________________


"And the day came when
the risk it took to
remain tight inside the
bud was more painful
than the risk it took to
blossom."

— Anais Nin
_________________


— anti-CopyRite 1997-2011

Daily Bleed for January 18th

In fresh myrtle my blade I'll entwine,
Like Harmodious, the gallant & good,
When he made at the tutelar shrine
A libation of Tyranny's blood.

— Edgar Allan Poe
Hymn to Aristogeiton & Harmodius,
Translation from the Greek.

Daily Bleed, web page in full, 83 entries, 40+ links
(75+ if you count images, but then, who has so many fingers?),
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0118.htlm

excerpts,

JANUARY 18 -- GILLES DELEUZE
Great French philosopher, theorist of 'horizontal' thought,
of anti-capitalism, schizo-culture.

Taxco, Mexico: FIESTA: Dance, mock battle of Moors &
Christians; Tiger Dance, acrobats, fireworks, etc.

"A nation that continues to spend more on military
defense than on programs of social uplift is
approaching spiritual death."

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

POOH DAY.

______________________________


1671 -- Pirate Henry Morgan defeats Spanish defenders,
captures Panamá.

Drinking brackish water & rum
on shaky schooners
they lost their teeth.
Only their names are still rampant
like the rushes by the seashore, haunting us
for a century or two,
until they too will vanish
like all those who came before them
& left no trace,
not even their names in copperplate
on old sea-charts,
or their collarbones in the dunes.

H a n s M a g n u s
E n z e n s b e r g e r
"Discoverers"

1867 -- Nicaraguan symbolist poet & short-story writer
Rubén Darío lives.

Now they fear the bullying of their northern
neighbor, which outrages even nonpolitical
poets such as Rubén Darío...

You think that life is fire,
that progress is eruption,
that wherever you shoot
you hit the future.

No.

— Rubén Darío, excerpt "To Roosevelt"

1888 -- France: Louise Michel sent to prison for 15 days
for insulting authorities (outrages à agents).

1911 -- The cry of "Museifu Shugi Banzai!" (Long Live Anarchy!)
resounds in a Japanese court room, shouted by Kanno Suga, one of
26 defendants in the "High Treason Case" (Taigyaku Jiken). This is in
response to a death by hanging verdict for 24 of them, & jail
terms of 8 & 11 years for the others.

They are charged with conspiring to assassinate the
God Emperor.

She is the first woman political prisoner to be executed
in modern Japanese history.

1921 -- Antonio Téllez lives (d.2005); anarqusita, guerrilla, historian.

1921 -- Spain: In a series of reprisals between the CNT &
Barcelona police, police murder ("Ley de Fugas") cenetistas
currently being held in jail.

Police announce all are killed in an attempted jailbreak. In
fact, however, Antonio Parra is only wounded, buried
beneath the dead bodies of his companions. (Parra survived,
dying in exile in Venezuela, 1970).

1922 -- Irish author Liam O'Flaherty & several Republican
comrades take over the Rotunda in Dublin; they hold the
building for several days.

1925 -- Left libertarian anti-capitalist philosopher Gilles
Deleuze lives, Paris, France.
http://www.webdeleuze.com/php/index.html
http://www.hack.org/mc/mirror/www.spunk.org/library/misc/sp000962.txt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_Deleuze

1927 -- Brazil: Roberto Freire lives, São Paulo.

Brazilian intellectual life is marked by the intense multiplicity
of his work. Anarchist, writer, dramaturg, journalist, doctor,
psychiatrist, ex-psychoanalyst, he also worked with theatre,
television & cinema. His long & rich trajectory was always
characterized by his effort in combining the ideology of
pleasure ('tesão') with his scientific & artistic work.

He created SOMA, an anarchist therapy based on the ideas
of Wilhelm Reich & the art of Capoeira Angola.

1932 -- Robert Anton Wilson, novelist, illuminated.

"If voting could change the
system it would be illegal."

*EVERYBODY FOR PRESIDENT!*

— Reality Is What You Can Get Away With

http://deoxy.org/raw.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Anton_Wilson

1937 -- England: Emma Goldman speaks on "The Spanish Revolution
& the CNT-FAI" at a large meeting chaired by novelist Ethel Mannin
in London.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/ManninEthel/mannin1.htm

1965 -- US: Malcolm X says,

"You have to have someone else's blood
to suck
to be a Capitalist."

1966 -- France: Eleuterio Quintanilla dies. Influential in
the Asturian CNT. A founder of "Acción Libertaria" & "El
Libertario."
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/11ref.htm#18/1910

1972 -- Australia: Anarchist Germaine Greer
launches her book The Female Eunuch; recently rated
as the second most important book of non-fiction ever
written in Australia.
http://www.takver.com/history/sydney/greer.htm

1978 -- Ending of the last show of the Sex Pistols' US tour,
Johnny Rotten sneers at his Frisco audience,

"How does it feel to be swindled?"

2002 -- US flies six "terror suspects" from Bosnia to custody
in Cuba after the Bosnian Supreme Court orders them released
for lack of evidence. Justice, Texass style.

2003 -- Demonstrations worldwide against Bush's
long-contemplated war on Iraq.

Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Bush &
his rightwingnut Bully Boys had the invasion of Iraq
on their agenda from Day One in the White House &
have concocted a series of concerted lies for
public consumption.

http://pics.livejournal.com/toddalcott/pic/0004ke4b/s320x240


2004 -- US: New York Times reports Wal-Mart Stores & Sams Clubs lock
in their night shift workers with no key. Injured, heart attack, fire, hurricane,
other emergency? Too-too bad for you...

____________________

I regret living in a world where sorcerers & soothsayers
must live in hiding, & where in any case there are so few
genuine soothsayers . . .

as far as I'm concerned, I find it astounding
that fortune-tellers, tarot-readers, wizards, sorcerers,
necromancers & other REINCARNATED ONES have
for so long been relegated to the role of mere characters
in fables & novels, & that, through one of the most
superficial aspects of modern thinking, naivete is defined
as having faith in charlatans.

I believe whole-heartedly in charlatans, bonesetters,
visionaries, sorcerers & chiromancers, because all these
things have being, because, for me, there are no limits, no
fixed form to appearances.

ANTONIN ARTAUD, 1927

____________________


— anti-Sooth 1997-43666 or thereabouts

Daily Bleed for January 14th

"Those are my principles.

If you don't like them

I have others."

— Groucho Marx(ist)


Daily Bleed web page in full,
with some 106+ links in case you're
looking for something to do at work...
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0114.htm

excerpts:
JANUARY 14
MILTON WOLFF
Last American commander of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade.

Suffolk, England: CAKES & ALE DAY, food to the poor.

All Souls College, Oxford: MALLARD DAY, celebrating the
discovery of an unusually large & tasty duck on this day in 1437.

Hindu World: PONGOL OF THE COWS. Sacred animals are
sprinkled with water, saffron, flowers & leaves of sacred
plants; their horns are painted, garlands hung about their
necks. With drums & cymbals they are driven through town
with much festivity.

FEAST OF ST. FELIX. Or Felix the Cat?

______________________________

1699 -- "New World": Witch One? Massachusetts holds
a day of fasting for wrongly persecuting "witches".

In a cold world woolly thinking is comfortable
when worn next to
the skin.

1850 -- While held in the Königstein fortress, Russian
Michael Bakunin is today condemned to death.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/01ref.htm#14/1850
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/Bakunin.htm

1858 -- France: Italian Nationalists led by Felice Orsini
bowls three bombs under Napoleon III's carriage
– but only slightly wounding the Beloved & Respected
Comrade Leader Empress Eugenie.

As she stepped completely uninjured from the
wreckage, the Empress was heard to comment,

' C'est le metier' – 'It's all part of the job.'

1866 -- US: Art Young, "Masses" cartoonist, lives.
Daily Bleed Saint December 29.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/ARTyoung.htm

1912 --
American author /
socialist / feminist
Tillie Olsen lives,
about this time
(1912 or 1913; she is
not sure of the
date because it
was never
recorded.)

"& when is there time to remember, to
sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?"

— Tillie Olsen (d.2007 )

1918 -- US: Emma Goldman fined & sentenced
to 2 years prison for obstruction of justice (opposing the
draft). She is soon deported from the "Land of the Free".
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/GoldmanEmma.htm

1919 -- Russia: Voline, Russian revolutionary & anarchist
historian, arrested & dragged from one prison to another.

Trotsky, pretender to the throne, has ordered his execution,
& Voline escaped death only by sheer accident...

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/01ref.htm#14/1919

1921 -- Murray Bookchin, American anarchist, lives. Prolific
author, philosopher, advocate of Libertarian Municipalism,
head of the Institute for Social Ecology.

Daily Bleed Saint 2007-2009
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/BookchinMurray.htm

1927 -- US: Henry Ford's Old Fashioned Dance
Orchestra records "Hungarian Varsovienne",
reflecting the immigrant population of Ford's plants.

"A man checks 'is brains & 'is freedom
at the door when he goes to work at Ford's."

— anonymous worker,
as related to Edmund Wilson

http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0730.htm#HenryFord

1938 -- England: Author/novelist Ethel Mannin & Emma
Goldman speak on "The Betrayal of the Spanish People"
in London; the audience turns against the Communists
when they attempt to break up the meeting.

I am purely evil;
Hear the thrum
of my evil engine;
Evilly I come.
The stars are thick as flowers
In the meadows of July;
A fine night for murder
Winging through the sky.

— Ethel Mannin, 'Song of the Bomber'
in response to the fascist bombing
raids during the Spanish Revolution

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/ManninEthel/mannin1.htm

1945 -- France: Jean Ajalbert lives. Avocat, poète
impressionniste, écrivain naturaliste & anarchiste. Active
in the decadent movement with Tailhade, et al., transposing
the effects of impressionist painting into poetry.
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Ajalbert
http://www.ephemanar.net/juin10.html#ajalbert

1957 -- Humphrey Bogart (Whiskey Straight) dies at 57;
arguably America's most famous film actor, news programs
treated his funeral as a national event.

"The glittering treasure you are hunting for
day & night lies buried on the other side of
that hill yonder."

— B. Traven, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0123b.htm#1899
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/TravenB.htm

1967 -- US: Gathering of the Tribes for the First Human
Be-In (first hippie "be-in") at Golden Gate Park in Frisco,
California. Probably 20,000 come to play, though Emmett
Grogan says as many as 300,000 in Ringolevio. Familiar
names include Michael McClure, Gary Snyder, & Lenore
Kandel. Among the performers are The Grateful Dead &
The Jefferson Airplane. Speakers include Jerry Rubin,
Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti & Timothy Leary.

1970 -- US: Ammon Hennacy dies. "Christian-anarchist-
pacifist" who never paid taxes nor went to war.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/HennacyAmmon.htm

1976 -- Spain: Wildcat strike wave spreads across the
nation to Barcelona, resulting in the formation of workers'
general assemblies & defiance of the unions & government.

"Each of them [parties, unions, groupuscles] organizes
repression against those who are not organized, or who
are not organized according to their particular methods.

The difference between these organizations is measured by
the amount of repression they are prepared to exercise."

— Jacques Camatte, Against Domestication

http://www.geocities.com/~johngray/agdom.htm
http://www.bopsecrets.org/PS/joyrev3.htm
http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/cofeeHouse/Contributions.html

1977 -- Amorous novelist Anais Nin is amorous nomour.

1989 -- England: 1,000 enlightened Muslims burn Salmon Rushdies'
Satanic Verses in Bradford England. Probly some religious thing.

1990 -- The Simpsons live. Homer makes one of the great
parental statements to Lisa, when she says he does not
understand something:

"Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand."

1994 -- Spanish anarquista, feminist, educator Federica Montseny
(1905-1994) dies.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/01ref.htm#14/1994
http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/berneri/in_government.html

2003: Human Rights Watch annual report criticizes Burma,
China, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Liberia, Russia, the US & Vietnam.
Don't know how the US came to be on this Family Values list.

2005 -- US: Army Specialist Charles Graner Jr., ringleader
of a band of rogue guards at the Abu Ghraib prison, convicted
of abusing Iraqi detainees. Probly scapegoated, sentenced to
10 years in prison (not, however, in Abu Ghraib).

2008 -- US: Milton Wolff, the last surviving Abraham Lincoln
Brigade leader from the Spanish Civil War, & a prominent social
activist dies, Berkeley, California, at age 92. Author of Another
Hill: An Autobiographical Novel & A Member of the Working Class.

2009 -- US: Prosecutors charge Olympia mixed-martial-arts
champion & avowed anarchist Jeff Monson with first-degree
malicious mischief for spray-painting an anarchist symbol on
the state Capitol building.

A warrant for Monson’s arrest was filed today. Monson, 37,
is charged with first-degree malicious mischief, a Class B felony
carrying a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison & a $20,000 fine.

The graffiti cost $19,000 to clean up.

At that cost they could rebuild the Capitol building...

http://sports.espn.go.com/espnmag/story?id=3835617
http://www.king5.com/news/local/64312647.html


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"The white man knows how to make everything,
but he does not know how to distribute it."

— Sitting Bull

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— anti-CopyRite 1997-7812, mour or less, non-attenuated

"We keep de pot a-boilin"