Daily Bleed Radical Literary History for October 28th

Don't argue with me on this unless you're itchin' for a brick.

OCTOBER 28

CAMILO CIENFUEGOS

Most beloved of the "barbudos" Cuban revolutionaries.

England, Italy, elsewhere:
FEAST OF SAINTS SIMON & JUDE,
saints long confused/entangled with Simeon & Judas. Simeon is considered a goblin-saint or saint of witches. Christian observances & occult ritual compete on this day in history probably due to proximity of Samhain/Halloween.

ST. JUDE'S DAY. Patron of desperate or hopeless cases. Heads Up! Bibliomaniacs, MoocHeads, Bleedsters.

FOLLY DAY. Not unlike the rest of the year for Bleeders.

NATIONAL CHOCOLATE DAY.
http://www.virtualchocolate.com/chocolatemuse/

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1636 -- New World: Harvard College (now Harvard University) is founded.


1659 -- Author Nicholas Brady lives.


1704 -- Surcease?: Empirical philosopher John Locke, 72, dies in High Laver, Essex His last words — "Cease now" — addressed to Lady Masham, who is reading him the Psalms.



1726 -- Irish satirist Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels published.

& he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, & do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.

— Jonathan Swift, "Voyage to Brobdingnag"

1818 -- Ivan Turgenev lives, Russia, novelist/poet/playwright (Fathers & Sons).


1838 -- Two-For-One?: August Bebel lives. Leader in German socialist movement & founding member of two socialist parties.



1863 -- Scotland: Black Rain again at Slains.

The Rev.James Rust (sic) states a black rain fell at Slains, Jan 14, 1862 & another on May 20, 1862 & still another today.

[Details / context]

1872 -- Author Pío Baroja lives.



1879 -- Luisa Capetillo lives (1879– 1922). One of Puerto Rico's most famous labor organizers. She was also a writer & an anarquista who fought for workers & women's rights. The first woman to wear pants in public in Puerto Rico, her struggles as a leader in the emerging labor movement & in a male dominated society made her a woman who was far ahead of her time. Sadly missing from contemporary historical documents which fail to mention her.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luisa_Capetillo
http://www.lucyparsonsproject.org/anarchism/aldebol_luisa_capetillo.html


1882 --

Jules Vallès relance le Cri du Peuple ouvert à toutes les tendances du socialisme (jusqu'en 1887) Paul Brousse publie aux éditions du Prolétaire : La propriété collective et les services publics.

1886 -- US: Free Erections? Statue of Liberty dedicated — just two months after the show trial of the Haymarket anarchists — on Bedloe's Island in NY harbor. The island is later renamed Liberty Island.



1893 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Carter Harrison, Mayor of Chicago, is assassinated by Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Disappointed Office-Seeker Patrick Prendergast. Mrs. O'Leary's cow can't be blamed for this one — nor those anarchist terrorist bastards.


1898 -- US: Two mine workers killed in Virden, Illinois.


1902 -- Kate Austin (1864-1902) dies, Kingman, Kansas. Working woman, Universalist, feminist, anarchist, writer.


1903 -- Titanic Event?: Evelyn Waugh (Decline & Fall; Brideshead Revisited) lives at 11 Hillfield Road, Hampstead. Involved in both gay & heterosexual romances. While some regard him a leading satirical British novelist of his day, Edmund Wilson finds, "His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship."

"Evelyn Waugh concealed — beneath a camp façade of tweediness, snobbery, literary argumentantiveness, downright insulting behaviour — a tenacious insecurity, social, sexual, & aesthetic, which never left him."

— Philip Core, From Camp: The Lie That Tells the Truth (1984).

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ewaugh.htm

1904 -- François-Charles Carpentier lives. French anarchist, friend of Louis Mercier Vega & fighter with the Durruti Column.
http://recollectionbooks.com/anow/history/spain/


1910 -- Marie Dollinger lives, Germany. She dropped the baton in 1936 Olympic sprint.



1913 -- France: "Le Cinéma du Peuple," a co-operative film company, is created by a group of Parisian anarchistes.

The coop seeks to promote a true social cinema involved in the reality of workers' struggles, & raising "l'intellectualité du peuple" through the awareness that only they can emancipate themselves. The company produces & distributes several films (including the first full-length film on the Paris Commune), before WWI brought the project to an end.

[Details / context]

1914 -- Jonas Salk, medical researcher, who makes polio go away, lives, New York City.



1918 -- Separation Anxiety?: Krazy Kat becomes a separate comic strip.The bricks keepa flying.
"kontinue kuriousity to its illogical klimax"

"Another biography states that although Herriman was vague & often conflicting with information about his background, someone went through the trouble to search the 1880s census to find his parents enumerated as Mulatto & that his birth certificate lists him as Negro.

I decided I too can play this game of taking only the information I want out of reality & carefully wording my conclusions to make the point I want people to understand. I will latch onto the biographies that allow me to include George Herriman as a pioneering cartoonist of Color (since being of Color can be as non-specific as his star character's gender throughout the run of the comic strip Krazy Kat.)"

— Tim Jackson
http://www.frenchcreoles.com/CreoleCulture/famouscreoles/georgeherriman/george%20herriman.htm
http://www.ignatzmouse.net/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krazy_Kat
See 1952 below

1919 -- US: Drink Up? Senate passes the Volstead Prohibition Enforcement Act over Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President Woodrow Wilson's veto.



1919 -- US: "Reds" of Various Hue Light Up
Emma Goldman's Cheery 'Coming Out' Party. In [New York] Evening World (Oct. 28, 1919) Reel 63.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klC8jOVrHq8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST_Xj4wvt8g
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Goldman/Guide/titleindex.html

1920 -- England: Docked Again? Sylvia Pankhurst imprisoned for urging people to loot the docks.
Source: [Calendar Riots]


1921 -- Argentina: In response to an employers' & government offensive, workers revolt & the anarchist flag of red & black flies. Isolated, the groups are encircled & destroyed by the army. Over 1,500 workers die, including all the leaders of the revolt.

In the late 1980s the labor force numbered about 11.8 million. Most of Argentina's 1,100 labor unions are affiliated with the Confederacion General del Trabajo (CGT; a Peronist-leaning umbrella labor organization).

The right to unionize, suspended in 1976, is restored in 1982, & the labor movement embraces some 3 million workers by the late 80s. In the early 90s, privatization programs result in the loss of several hundred thousand jobs.

http://recollectionbooks.com/anow/world/la/argentina/index.html

1929 -- US: Stock Exchange collapses (Black Friday), starting the Great Depression, & world economic crisis. (This source suspect, since it also cites 29 October as "Blue Monday"; another "lost" weekend?)

1929 -- US: Bottoms Up? First child born in an airplane. Like many a drug smuggler, somewherehigh above Miami, Florida.


1929 -- Author John Hollander lives.


1929 -- Italy: L'Accademia d'Italia, modelled on the Académie Française, is inaugurated in Rome, in an effort by the fascist government to win the favor of the intellectuals. Solo pochi (tra cui Benedetto Croce) sapranno resistervi conservando la propria indipendenza.
Source: [Crimini e Misfatti]


1932 -- US: Department of Interior removes Papago tribal land in Arizona from mineral exploration. This horrifying precedent is rescinded two years later by the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934.


1942 -- US: Sixteen killed, 20 injured as a passenger train smacks into a bus full of schoolchildren & factory workers at a grade crossing in Detroit, Michigan.


1945 -- England: People's Peace Crusade launched by PPU.


1952 -- A No Show?: e. e. cummings, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard, gives the first of six "non lectures."
"kontinue kuriousity to its illogical klimax"

"Ignatz Mouse & Offissa Pupp are opposite sides of the same coin. Is Offissa Pupp kind? Only in so far as Ignatz Mouse is cruel. If you're a twofisted, spineless progressive (a mighty fashionable stance nowadays) Offissa Pupp, who forcefully asserts the will of socalled society, becomes a cosmic angel; while Ignatz Mouse, who forcefully defies society's socalled will by asserting his authentic own, becomes a demon of anarchy & a fiend of chaos. But if — whisper it — you're a 100% hidebound reactionary, the foot's in the other shoe. Ignatz Mouse then stands forth as a hero, pluckily struggling to keep the flag of free will flying; while Offissa Pupp assumes the monstrous mien of a Goliath, satanically bullying a tiny but indomitable David. Well, let's flip the coin — so: & lo! Offissa Pupp comes up. That makes Ignatz Mouse "tails." Now we have a hero whose heart has gone to his head & a villain whose head has gone to his heart."

— e.e. cummings on Krazy Kat

http://tumblr.austinkleon.com/post/27699352
http://cssgn.org/krazy_kat_cummings_project.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._E._Cummings

1954 -- Enrique Flores Magón (1877-1954), Mexican revolutionary anarchist & brother to the better known Ricardo Flores Magón, dies.

Magon brothers pictured in a contemporary mural gracing the wall of Bound Together Books in San Francisco. Enrique Flores Magón is cited as 3rd from the left in the front row (to the right of Sacco & Vanzetti), but this is surely Ricardo, so Enrique must be 4th from the left. http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/worldwidemovements/mexicobiblio.html http://recollectionbooks.com/anow/world/na/mexico/index.html

1954 -- American author Ernest Hemingway wins the Nobel Prize.


1958 -- Pope John XXIII elected, leading to massive Catholic Church reforms.



1959 -- Cuba: Camilo Cienfuegos dies when his small plane disappears. Raised in a family of anarquistas, he became a key figure of the Cuban Revolution, along with Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Raúl Castro & Huber Matos. Played on the same baseball team as Fidel Castro, close friend of Cuban author & historian Carlos Franqui.

Cienfuegos has the beard & mane of a biblical prophet, but where a worry-creased face should be, there's only an ear-to-ear grin.

The feat he is most proud of is that time up in the mountains when he fooled a light military plane by painting himself red with iodine & lying still with his arms crossed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camilo_Cienfuegos
http://www.cuba-junky.com/cuba/camilo-cienfuegos.html
http://www.yelah.net/arkiverad/cuba
http://web.archive.org/...eduardo.galeano/memoria.del.fuego/19581231.htm

1962 -- Russia: The Cuban Missile Crisis effectively ends as Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Soviet leader Nicky Khrushchev announces his government's intent to dismantle & remove all offensive Soviet weapons from Cuba.



1965 -- Earl Bostic, popular jazz alto saxophonist & winner of the 1959 Playboy Jazz poll, dies in Rochester, NY. The Tulsa, Oklahoma native, after studying music & playing with bands in the South, landed with Lionel Hampton's big band, among others.


1965 -- Vatican: Pope Paul VI formally absolves the Jews of collective guilt for the crucifixion of Christ. Crucifucked up.
Source: [Calendar Riots]


1967 -- US: Black Panther leader Huey Newton is arrested & charged with murder in Oakland.

5 a.m.: Huey Newton (25) questioned by police in Oakland "desolate district." One hour later under arrest at hospital with gunshot wound in stomach. Few weeks later indicted on murder of one officer (John Frey, Jr.), wounding of another, & kidnapping of bystander.

1967 -- Italy: Luca Pavolini, director of Rebirth, the only newspaper to have published the writing of don Lorenzo Milani, against the military & in favor of conscientious objection, is sent to jail for five months & 10 days for inciting civil disobedience. The (in)giustizia of the state once again reveals itself. (See also 1984 below.)
Source: [Crimini e Misfatti]


1968 -- France: Publication of Enragés & Situationists in the Occupations Movement, signed by René Viénet, Gallimard, Paris.

[Situationist Resources] http://web.archive.org/... geocities.com/signal_event/eastintro.html http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/12.era2.htm http://www.akpress.org/1996/items/enragesandthesituationistsintheoccupationmovementf

1970 -- US: Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, accuses Nixon administration of conducting an illegal war in Laos without congressional knowledge or approval.

For several years, US planes were engaged in an extensive bombing campaign of suspected Communist territory in Laos, including the Ho Chi Minh trail, where supplies moved from North Vietnam to forces in Laos & South Vietnam. In 1965, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) also set up a charter airline code-named Air America, to assist Laos' anti-Communist drug lords by transporting raw opium for sale outside of Indochina.

In 1970, despite congressional criticism, the US steps up its bombing of eastern Laos & its military aid to Laos' anti-Communist factions. See Al McCoy's The Politics of Heroin in SE Asia, still the best book on the subject.

http://www.copi.com/

1971 -- Canada: Alberta Indians begin sit-in at Indian Affairs office in Edmonton, to protest conditions at reserve schools. The sit-in lasts six months.


1981 -- The play "Lennon" opens at the Everyman Theatre, Liverpool.


1984 -- OPEC decides to cut oil production.


1984 -- Italy: Sicilian anarchist Pippo Scarso arrested in October of 1984 & imprisoned for 12 months for refusing to serve his masters in the military.

Esci dal Compromesso con le Istituzioni della Guerra! (Avoid Compromise with the Institution of War!). The poster shows Pippo Scarso being released from his prison cell, against the silhouette of a solider. Originally distributed as a supplement to the Italian anarchist journal "Senzapatria," a publication devoted to antimilitarist issues, the message: "Out with American nuclear bases!" & "Oppose all (military) maneuvers!" Published by Antimilitaristi Anarchici. Offset lithography. 50 cm x 35 cm. Italy, 1985. http://www.ipl.org/div/labadie/europe.html

1987 -- André Masson dies. French poet-artist (Labyrinth), age 91. One of the first of the Surrealist painters to pursue the use of automatism in his works. Friend of André Breton, Joan Miro& Max Ernst, Masson was too individualistic to bend under Breton's thumb, & had an on & off relationship with the "official" Surrealist movement.



1988 -- US: Jurors award $147,000 to Tacoma, Washington parishioner seduced by her minister.


1988 -- US: The Philadelphia Daily News says it "could have endorsed the 1980 George Bush," but not the 1988 version, "who pretends, despite all the evidence, that J. Danforth Quayle is not a callow moron."

1989 -- Czechoslovakia: Police attack 10,000 pro-democracy demonstrators, Prague.

Politieagenten Zijn ook Mensen (Police are People Too) This poster shows a young protester being beaten by policemen. The photograph is believed to have been taken during a confrontation between an anarchist group known as the Provos & police in March of 1966, but it speaks across the ages. Published by the Society for the Rescue of Society. Photography & lithography. The Netherlands, c1970. http://www.ipl.org/div/labadie/europe.html

1989 -- Nicaragua: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Ortega announces he won't extend the cease-fire.



1989 -- US: Jennifer Campbell, Mark Haggerty, Carlos Garza, & Dennis Strong burn an American flag at a Post Office in Seattle's Capitol Hill district to protest a new federal law making flag desecration illegal.

On June 11, 1990, the Supreme Court struck down the law as unconstitutional (it had ruled in a 1984 Texass case that burning an American flag was protected by the First Amendment).

The charges against the four for destruction of goverment property are left intact.

http://recollectionbooks.com/SeattleRadicalTimeLine.htm
http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&File_Id=2492

1990 -- US: Novelist Salman Rushdie appears on the TV program "60 Minutes."

Rushdie eventually develops a fondness for the Pentagon's politics: the British "knighting of Salman Rushdie is the establishment's reward for a man who moved from being a remorseless satirist of the west to cheering on its criminal adventures in Iraq & Afghanistan." (Terry Eagleton, 2007)

1990 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Rep. Jesse Helms refers in a speech to gays & lesbians as "disgusting people marching in the streets demanding all sorts of things"; eslewhere today, in an unrelated event, Placido Domingo & Andre Watts raise $1 million at a fund-raiser for the Gay Men's Health Crisis.


1997 -- US: A doctor is injured by a bullet shot into his home by an antiabortionist, Perinton, NY. Most of such assassination attempts are fueled by rightwing hate-groups whose hallmarks also includes murdering interracial couples, gays & lesbians, & Jews...all in the name of "God." Religiously fundamentalist, ideologically they borrow from groups such as the KKK & the Heritage Foundation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-abortion



1998 -- US: During this month the following, from the microradio movement & mainstream accounts, on the struggle to free the airwaves appear: "Microbroadcasters Zap the FCC & NAB! ("Mikey'Zine"); NY Free Media Alliance coverage (NY Free Media Alliance); "Hacking the airwaves: Outlaw broadcasters fight for America’s" (Brock Meeks, MSNBC).
Source: [Pirate Radio Kiosk]



2006 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader George W. Bush signs, in the dead of night, a rewrite of the Insurrection Act (10 U.S.C.331 -335) giving himself the power to declare a state of emergency anywhere at any time & to use federal troops to suppress any public disorder, as well as to take control of any state troops, forces, or national guard. Surprisingly, there is no outcry in the American media, & little reaction from elected officials.
http://santiago.indymedia.org/news/2006/10/60093.php


2009 -- France: Court in France convicts Scientology of organized fraud. This sect, trying to pass itself off as a religion, has been prosecuted in multiple other countries as well.
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Court_in_France_convicts_Scientology_of_organized_fraud



3000 --

Daily Bleed Saint 2000-04: JALALODDIN RUMI
Major Persian poet & Sufi mystic, Whirling Dervish.

Look at your eyes. They are small, but they see enormous things. Today, like every other day, we wake up empty & frightened. Don't open the door to the study & begin reading. Take down a musical instrument. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel & kiss the ground. Rumi was (in the colloquial of our time) a bad-ass, mo-fo. I'd put him at the top of my list of favorite poets, slightly ahead of Walt Whitman. — Bleedster Scott S, Oct 28, 2000 http://www.indranet.com/potpourri/poetry/rumi/rumi.html

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Daily Bleed Radical Literary History for October 26th

The sky was set for such a role:
the great Cross glittered at the pole
Orion & his wrath were red
& the Milky Way white overhead

— R.A.K. Mason, "Twenty-Sixth October"

OCTOBER 26

NESTOR MAKHNO
Ukrainian anarchist guerrilla general,
fought both Reds & Whites (tyranny left to right).

recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/MakhnoNestor.htm
http://blackeyepress.wordpress.com/2009/09/20/nestor-makhno/
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/Makhno/costatini_12MakhnoMed.jpg

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Old Siam: TOP-SPINNING CEREMONY. Brahmins spin three large tops, each made of nine metals, to divine the events of the coming year.

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"On the 26th day of October we arrived at the metropolis, called in their language LORBRULGRUD, or Pride of the Universe. My master took a lodging in the principal street of the city, not far from the royal palace, & put out bills in the usual form, containing an exact description of my person & parts."

— Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

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1369 -- Charles V "the Wise," King of France, dedicates a monument to his personal chef, for a recipe for pickled fish.



1466 -- Desiderius Erasmus lives, Holland. Scholar/author, wroteIn Praise of Folly.



1669 -- Spanish dramatist Agustín Moreto dies in Toledo. Reputation has fallen. Wrote more than 100 popular plays.



1749 -- US: Black slavery legalized in Georgia.


1764 -- Painter, satirist William Hogarth dies, Leicester Fields, London.

1795 -- England: Fired up by the French Revolution, a mass meeting of workers is held today in Islington. In its turn, the meeting prompts, three days later, an angry crowd to waylay King George III in St. James Park. He is stoned & jeered, & the bootmaker John Ridley is unfortunately foiled in his attempt to haul him from his coach & lynch him (though Ridley is never apprehended).
Source: [Calendar Riots]



1806 -- "Lord" Timothy Dexter, classic American crackpot, dies.

His book, A Pickle for the Knowing Ones or Plain Truths in a Homespun Dress, "became one of the great curiosities of American literature." It was at first given away, but eventually was much in demand, & ran into eight editions. It tells the story of his own life & what a great guy he really was, with rambling attacks on politicians, clergymen & others. In response to complaints from people who could barely understand his prose, Dexter added an extra page which contained nothing but punctuation marks. "The Nowing ones complane of my book the fust edition had no stops I put in A nuf here & they may pepper & salt it as they please," was his explanation.

The day went by, & at evening I passed the yard of another neighbor, who keeps many servants & spends much money foolishly, while he adds nothing to the common stock, & there I saw the stone of the morning lying beside a whimsical structure intended to adorn this Lord Timothy Dexter's premises...

— "Getting a Living," Henry David Thoreau (1854)

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/sinners/DexterTimothy.htm

1822 -- At 17, Hans Christian Andersen belatedly enrolls in grammar school to secure an education, towering over his 11-year-old classmates.



1876 -- Switzerland: From the 26th to 29 October the 8th congress of the A.I.T. is held, Bern.
http://bakunista.nadir.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=215&Itemid=104

1879 -- Colombia: Biófilo Panclasta lives (1879-1942) Chinácota. One of the more original individualistic Latin American anarchists.

Daily Bleed Saint 2006-2008
"Soldado, adventurer, artist & knight, beggar & boêmio; without horse, without money..."

Writer, poet, agitator, Panclasta was not distinguished as an organizer, but for the originalidade of his presenceas, an iconoclastic agitator for all Latin America & the irretrievable condition of inqualificável anarchist, said to have lived as "soldado, adventurer, artist & knight, beggar & boêmio; without horse, without money... "

Viajar, siempre viajar, tal es mi suerte,
y al través de mi rústico camino
soy un eterno peregrino que
sólo busca la deseada muerte.

— Biófilo Panclasta

[Details / context]

1880 -- Mark Twain delivers a speech in Hartford, Connecticut: "I don't mind what the opposition say of me, so long as they don't tell the truth."



1880 -- Author Andrei Bely (Boris N. Bugary) lives.


1881 -- US: Gunfight at the OK corral. Thugs, badge-enabled, duel thugs who are badge-deprived.

Wyatt Earp, saloonkeeper, gambler, & alleged stage robber & murderer, his two equally disreputable brothers, & reputed pimp Doc Holliday, shot it out in Tombstone, Arizona with the Clantons & the McClaurys.

When it was all over, Bill Clanton, both McClaurys, & two of the three Earps were either dead or seriously wounded. No one recalls exactly what the fight was about.

1886 -- Vincent Starrett — known especially for his detective fiction (The Great Hotel Murder) & his bibliophilic Books Alive— lives, Toronto, Canada.



1886 -- France: Justin Olive (1886-1962) lives, à Fabrezan (Aude). Militant anarchist & revolutionary syndicalist.
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1889 -- Ukraine: Famed anarchist general Nestor Makhno, lives, Gulyai-Polye. Fights Red & White Russian armies during the Russian Revolution.

Nestor Makhno led a large insurrectionary army of peasants that helped defeat the reactionary White armies. It was eventually crushed by Trotsky's treachery & his Red Army. Makhno went into exile & died in Paris, July 25, 1934.

"Your flags black in the wind, black for our sorrow, red for our blood."
— excerpt from the song "Makhnovchtchina"

"Aucun des commissaires n'osa se montrer devant les ouvriers à la tribune du Soviet. Seule l'anarchiste Marie Nikiphorova occupa cette tribune et appela, de sa voix puissante, les ouvriers à la lutte contre le gouvernement, pour la révolution et pour une société libre de toute autorité."

— Nestor Makhno, in La révolution russe en Ukraine.

1900 -- Henry James writes his first letter to Edith Wharton, who becomes his friend & protégé.



1900 -- Karin Boye lives. Poet, novelist, short-story writer, translator of T.S. Eliot's poems. A leading poet of Swedish modernism, her works were written in symbolic language, confessional in tone, & contain an underlying conflict between social & religious pressure & the yearning for freedom.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/kboye.htm


1902 -- US: Woman's rights leader Elizabeth Cady Stanton dies, New York City. Major American proto-feminist, suffragist.

Daily Bleed Saint 2003-2008
Major American proto-feminist, suffragist leader.

“When women understand that governments & religions are human inventions; that bibles, prayer-books, catechisms, & encyclical letters are all emanations from the brains of man, they will no longer be oppressed by the injunctions that come to them with the divine authority of ‘Thus sayeth the Lord.’”

http://www.nps.gov/wori/historyculture/elizabeth-cady-stanton.htm
http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/john_murphy/stanton.html

1902 -- Pilot & author Beryl Markham lives (1902-1986).
[Excerpts from West With the Night]


1905 -- (New style; Oct 13 old) Russia: Workers in St. Petersburg form first workers' council (Soviet) to coordinate militant job actions & strikes being undertaken by workers throughout the city. All-Russian Railway Workers initiates a General Strike.




1905 -- Union of Sweden & Norway ends. The Supreme Court had ruled that the treaty ("Ya, sure, ya betcha") is legally null & void.
http://www.lutefisk.com/




1908 -- England: Sometime in October & November 1908 [I don't have an exact date — db.] British anarcho-syndicalist E.J.B. Allen speaks in London along with Errico Malatesta &Rudolf Rocker at the Haymarket commemoration held at the Charlotte Street Club (presumably this is the Socialist Club then located on this street).

Sources: cited in "Syndicalism in the Colne Valley," Catalyst No.1, Winter 1987
& at http://www.takver.com/history/nz/tm/tm08.htm

1909 -- Prince Ito of Japan is assassinated by a Korean.


1911 -- Mahalia Jackson, "Queen of the Gospel Song," lives, New Orleans, Louisiana.



1913 -- José Ester Borrás (1913-1980) lives, Berga (province of Barcelona). Spanish anarchist, active in the resistance in France & in the Mauthausen concentration camp, & co-founder of the founder of the Federación Española de Deportados e Internados Políticos (Spanish Federation of Former Political prisoners & camp inmates [FEDIP]).

Ester fought in the famed Colonna Tierra y Libertad during the Spanish Revolution of 1936. He was arrested by the communists, fled to France, arrested & tortured by the Gestapo...

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1915 -- US: Emma Goldman delivers five lectures — including "Preparedness, the Road to Universal Slaughter" in Philadelphia, October 26-30. Scott Nearing of the University of Pennsylvania attends one of her lectures. During this period her friend Ben Reitman, a champion of women's reproductive rights, begins work on a book about venereal disease.


1921 -- F. Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald's daughter, Frances Scott, lives, St. Paul, Minnesota.
http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/index.html


1922 -- Scott Greer (1922-1996), social scientist with the soul of a poet, lives, Sweetwater, Texass.

Published a literary magazine, "Crescendo: A Laboratory for Young America" which he types, edits & publishes from a garage behind his parent's home (1941-44). He publishes works by such major authors as Octavio Paz, John Gould Fletcher & Henry Miller. Worked as a postal carrier in Seattle & lived on a houseboat in Seattle. A conscientious objector during WWII. Friends with labor leader & poet Jack Lyons.

http://recollectionbooks.com/SeattleRadicalTimeLine.htm
http://www4.uwm.edu/letsci/urbanstudies/greer/aboutgreer.cfm

1922 -- Italy: Inizia la marcia su Roma incontrando scarsa resistenza da parte delle autorità militari e di polizia.
Source: [Crimini e Misfatti]



1926 -- Nicaragua: Augusto Sandino takes up arms for the constitutionalist cause.
While in exile in México during early 1920s, Sandino participated in strikes led by the IWW. Inspired by them, he returns to foment revolution in Nicaragua & adopts the IWW's black & red colors.

http://www.patriagrande.net/uruguay/eduardo.galeano/memoria.del.fuego/19261026.htm

1936 --

"With Plenty Of Money & You" Hal Kemp & His Orchestra, 10/26/36

This song expressed the fantasy of many young men during the Depression. Unemployment meant the deferral of family life, & the marriage rate plummeted along with job opportunities. (Couples already married tended to stay so; divorce cost money.) The song debuted in Gold Diggers of 1937 (Dick Powell sang it), & was one of the memorable collaborations of lyricist Al Dubin & composer Harry Warren for Busby Berkeley's musicals. Band leader Hal Kemp led a popular 'sweet band,' noted for its muted staccato brass & the pallid vocals of drummer Edgar C. "Skinnay" Ennis. — Mark Humphrey, "The Great Depression: American Music in the '30s" http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/library/mirror/Depressionmusic2.htm

1939 -- John Arden lives, England. Novelist/playwright. Wrote Left Handed Liberty.



1945 -- Laurence Housman opens Housman's Bookshop, Shaftesbury Avenue, London, England. Long-standing publisher & distributor of pacifist & anti-nuke materials, still going strong today.

Publishers of the annual Housman's Peace Diary & World Peace Directory, one of the many resources for the Daily Bleed. Apparently not on the internet. Snail address, Housman's Books, 5 Caledonian Road, London N1 9DX. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Housman

1945 -- Pat Conroy, American writer, lives. Wrote Great Santini; Prince of Tides.

Whether it is the racism found in The Water is Wide, the tyranny of authority in The Great Santini, the coexistence of honor & brutality in The Lords of Discipline, or the cruelty & betrayal exposed in The Prince of Tides, Pat Conroy does not flinch from writing about the evils & harsh realities of life.

1946 -- Hillary Rodham, wife of the "World's Most Famous Cocksuckee," lives.

If you came upon Bill Clinton struggling in a raging river, & you had a choice between rescuing him or taking a prize-winning photograph, what shutter speed would you use?



1947 -- South Africa: Benedict Wallet Vilakazi, best known for his poetry & his study of Zulu & the Bantu languages, dies in Johannesburg.
http://www.anc.org.za/show.php?include=docs/misc/2010/umzabalazo.html

1955 -- US: The Village Voice is first published, backed in part by the socialist & novelist, Norman Mailer.

1956 -- Hungary: Russian tanks fire on unarmed demonstrators in Budapest. Armed resistance begins in industrial centers, General Strike begins, & state power disrupted as power is now in the factories & the streets.

The revolution had begun. An arms factory rushed truck loads of weapons to the city, where thousands of workers had gathered. Police & soldiers handed their arms over to the people. By early the following morning the main streets were in the hands of the workers & students, a Revolutionary Council was formed in Budapest & a General Strike, soon spread to all of Hungary. Armed only with light weapons & molotov cocktails, thousands fought back. After three days 30 tanks were destroyed & Russian tank crews began siding with the rebels. Workers' councils (2,100 across the country —ed.) were formed in factories, steel mills, power stations, coal mines & railway depots throughout Hungary. Peasants spontaneously formed their own councils, redistributed land, & supplied the towns with food. From the first day liberated radio stations broadcast the news across the country. [Details / context]

1957 -- Cretan novelist/poet/thinker, lover-of-life Nicos Kazantzakis dies.



1960 -- El Salvador: Military coup deposes Beloved & Respected comrade Leader President Jose Marie Lemus.



1960 -- US: John F. Kennedy calls Coretta King & Bobby Kennedy call helps Martin Luther King, Jr.'s release from jail (see yesterday). Good liberal public relations for JFK.
http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/96jan/king.html

1962 -- Mel Lyman, in North Carolina, prepares to leave for Florida:

"Today is Friday. We're making last minute preparations like painting over the more objectionable signs on the Studebaker..."

BleedMeister has had one of these sitting in the driveway for about 10 years now with a broken wheel:

http://www.trussel.com/lyman/mirror.htm


1963 -- Author Danilo Dolci begins 10-day fast for building of a dam to relieve poverty, Roccamena, Sicily.
http://bertola.eu/usenet/faq/testi/faq-pace.htm


1964 -- US: Rolling Stones on Ed Sullivan Show. Ed is such a rockin dude.


1966 -- Germany: Psychosociologist & cybernetician Abraham Moles' inaugural class at Strasbourg is interrupted in its first few minutes by 10 students who throw tomatoes & chase him from his lecturn.

Also, Le retour de la colonne Durruti (Return of the Durruti Column), a détourned comic by André Bertrand (AFGES), announcing the forthcoming publication of 'the most scandalous brochure of the century,' is plastered on the walls of Strasbourg. On the Poverty of Student Life fulfills that promise; published by the Strasbourg students' association (AFGES) & the French National Students Union (UNEF), the scandal leads to AFGES offices & management being sequestered in November. http://www.cddc.vt.edu/sionline/chronology/chronology.html [Situationist Resources]

1967 -- Iran: Shah of Iran crowns himself after 26 years on Peacock Throne. Inspired to do so while cheating at checkers.


1970 -- "Doonesbury" debuts in 28 US papers.



1970 -- England: Administration building on Keele University campus fire-bombed. Barclays Bank at Stoke Newington fire-bombed. Newspaper report says: "Police are investigating several similar incidents at other branches." Part of numerous attacks this fall, most believed attributable to the anarchist Angry Brigade.

1972 -- US: Guided tours of Alcatraz (by Park Service) begin, where Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Peacenik Henry Kissinger declares "Peace is at hand" in Vietnam.

http://www.san.beck.org/GPJ32-Chomsky.html

1976 -- Walter Murphy's Big Apple Band earns a gold record for its debut album, "A Fifth of Beethoven," which features the title single, a disco treatment of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony that hit Number One.



1976 -- Brazilian artist Emiliano Di Cavalcanti (1897-1976) dies. Jailed twice (1932 & 1936) for his communistic beliefs. Sought to free Brazilian art of any noticeable European influences. Prominent member of Brazil's Generation of 1922, Group of Five, etc. Married to painter Noêmia Mourão. His work immortalized the mulatas, sambas, brothels & local characters typical of the shantytowns & slums.
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?pos=9&intObjectID=4989345&sid=
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emiliano_Di_Cavalcanti



1977 -- India: Manager of Swadeshi Cotton Mills in Kanpur province locked up for 53 hours while workers besiege factory to claim unpaid back wages.

Wages had not been paid in over 1 1/2 months. This was paid but the company proceeded to withhold wages yet another 1 1/2 months. On 6 December another demonstration breaks out, this time with the production manager & the controller locked up as hostages. A fracas between police & 3,000 workers ensued, with hostages being killed when cops open fire.

1979 -- South Korea: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President Park Chung-hee assassinated.


1985 -- Australia: A Piece of the Rock? Government gives Ayers Rock back to the Aborigines.


1986 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Acting Prez Ronnie Reagan vetoes a bill that would impose trade sanctions on apartheid regime of South Africa.
http://www.anc.org.za/show.php?include=docs/misc/2010/umzabalazo.html


1987 -- El Salvador: Herbert Anaya, human rights activist, assassinated.


1988 -- US-Soviet effort free two grey whales from frozen Arctic, Barrow, Alaska.


1991 -- Hard Rain Gonna Fall?: Lori Rae Matthews, crushed to death by an artist's 485 lb umbrella.

Crusoe umbrella Claes Oldenburg

1993 -- Puerto Rico: Catholic churches in San Juan, open their doors for the night & urges residents to tie black ribbons on trees to protest Madonna's first concert there.


1994 -- Israel & Jordan sign treaty to end 46 years of war. What to do next, having removed what governments do best?



1996 -- Aurelio Chessa (1913-1996), anarchist, dies, Rapallo. Militant des GIA & infatigable animateur de l’Archivio Famiglia Berneri repris avec talent aujourd’hui par sa fille Fiamma.
http://www.ephemanar.net/octobre26.html#olive
http://artic.ac-besancon.fr/histoire_geographie/HGFTP/Autres/Utopies/anitadat.doc



1998 -- Dick Higgins (1938-1998) dies in Quebec City, Canada.

Higgins studied with John Cage & Henry Cowell. He attended Cage's composition class, where he met other future Fluxus artists & was with one of the groups to develop the concept of Happenings. Higgins also published the Something Else Newsletter & presented the first exhibit of concrete poetry in the US.

Unpublished Editions/Printed Editions was a hybrid small press & an artists' cooperative. It included Higgins, Knowles, Cage, Philip Corner, Geoffrey Hendricks, Jackson Mac Low, Pauline Oliveros, & Jerome Rothenberg.

[Details / context]

2001 -- US: Frisco Critical Mass bike ride.




2002 -- US: Garrett Ct. Press presents the New Orleans Bookfair. Approximately 40 different independent presses from the US, including AK Press & Soft Skull are there. Agitators, collectives, anarchists, zinesters, independent publishers & all others are encouraged "to come on down to the dirty south."
http://www.nolabookfair.com/



2005 -- US: Two years after Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader George Bush declares victory in Iraq ("Iraq is one victory in the war on terror"), Department of Defense announces American deaths in Iraq officially reach 2,000...

“I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.” — George W. Bush

May 1, 2003: Bush addresses the nation from the dramatic setting of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln. Standing on the giant flight deck, with a banner reading "Mission Accomplished" overhead, Bush delivers his Orwellian announcement:

"Major combat operations in Iraq have ended."

DoublePlusGood!

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

— Erasmus

http://icasualties.org/
http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0920-09.htm
http://www.studentsfororwell.org/
http://911review.org/Wiki/AmericanStateTerrorism.shtml

"George Walker Bush, during his tenure as President of the United States, has repeatedly violated the letter & spirit of laws & rules of criminal procedure used by civilian & military courts, & has violated or ignored regulatory codes & practices that carry out the law, has contravened the laws governing agencies of the executive & the purposes of these agencies, & in conducting the foreign affairs of the United States of America has proceeded in flagrant violation of the core body of international laws, to which the United States of America is bound by treaty."

— from Articles of Impeachment, authored by Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga.)
http://warisacrime.org/node/16230
http://www.peterwerbe.com/bushpages.html

2008 -- Tony Hillerman, novelist, journalist, & educator, dies in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Award-winning mystery writer, featuring Jim Chee in his respectful Navajo series. Hillerman followed in the tracks of the Australian Arthur Upfield, who embodied Aboriginal culture into novels set among tribal aborigines in remote desert regions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hillerman


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"My feeling about anarchism is that it is not a movement with an ideology. It is a tendency in the history of human thought & action which seeks to identify coercive, authoritarian, & hierarchic structures of all kinds & to challenge their legitimacy — & if they cannot justify their legitimacy, which is quite commonly the case, to work to undermine them & expand the scope of freedom." — Noam Chomsky, anarcho-syndicalist, media-myth debunker, linguist, prolific writer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky%27s_political_views
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