The people all filled the station, a million head or more George used his elbows & his knees until he reached the door But when he reached those portals, he could not take the gaff The conductor shut the door on him & cut poor George in half The train pulled out of Times Square, the swiftest on the line It carried poor George's head along, but it left his body behind Poor Georgie died a hero's death, a legend [martyr] plain to see & the very last words poor Georgie said were "Screw the IRT" Now when you ride the IRT & you approach Times Square Incline your head a few degrees & say a silent prayer For his body it lies between the ties, amidst the dust & dew & his head it rides the IRT to Flatbush Avenue. — Dave Van Ronk, excerpt, Georgie on the IRT

1870 -- US: Wyatt Outlaw, black leader of Union League in North Carolina, is lynched.


1877 -- Canada: Vancouver Island's first Coal Miner's union founded.


1879 -- US: American salonista Mabel Dodge Luhan lives, Buffalo, NY. American writer, pacifist, famed for her salons in the Bohemian heydey of NY's Greenwich Village, contributor to the famed magazine, "The Masses." Her autobiographical work, including Background (1933), European Experiences (1935), Movers & Shakers (1936), & Edge of Taos Desert (1937), are peopled with many well-known American radical authors, including Gertrude Stein, John Reed, & Walter Lippmann. The main character in D.H. Lawrence's short-story, "The Woman Who Rode Away," was based on Dodge.

In the years shortly before World War I, NY's Greenwich Village was a vibrant community of mostly young intellectuals enthralled with what Max Eastman, called a "universal revolt or regeneration, of the just-before-dawn of a new day in American art & literature & living-of-life as well as in politics."

A tenuous sense of coherence united a wide spectrum of people, including such luminaries as John Reed, Emma Goldman, Randolph Bourne, Walter Lippmann, & Margaret Sanger, who congregated at the offices of exciting little magazines like "Seven Lively Arts" & "The Masses" or met at the famous salon of Mabel Dodge Luhan to debate socialism, birth control, feminism, free love, Freud, modern art & literature.

http://www.mabeldodgeluhan.com/
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAdodge.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mabel_Dodge_Luhan

With the passing of the "Laws scélérates" [outrageous or villainous laws [Related details] ], the state had a way to attack the anarchist press & Grave in particular (he was also publisher of "La Révolte" & "Temps Nouveaux"). For his dastardly crime Jean Grave was sent to prison for two years & the court ordered his book destroyed. Octave Mirbeau, who wrote the preface, testified in Grave's behalf, as did Élisée Reclus, Paul Adam, & Bernard Lazare — but to no avail obviously. http://www.iisg.nl/today/en/26-02.php http://lycee.reclus.free.fr/index1.htm

With the help of William Marion Reedy, Emma Goldman's lectures are widely attended. Here Emma meets political artist Robert Minor, & Roger Baldwin arranges two speaking engagements for Emma at the exclusive Wednesday Ladies' Club.

Her lecture topics include "The Eternal Spirit of Revolution," "The Social Importance of Ferrer's Modern School," "Tolstoy — Artist & Rebel," & "Galsworthy's Justice."

Reedy was a literary entrepreneur who played a large role in breaking down the genteel literary tradition, developing a native poetry, & helping to form some fifty significant poets. Emily Dickinson, Stephen Crane, Ezra Pound, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Amy Lowell, Sara Teasdale, Carl Sandburg, & Vachel Lindsay are just a few of the writers whose works Reedy featured in his weekly magazine, the Mirror.

In 1919 Malatesta returned for the last time to Italy, landing at Genoa where his arrival was greeted with great enthusiasm. At once he threw himself into the struggle. Settling in Milan he accepted the editorship of the newly founded daily Umanita Nova which soon had a circulation of 50,000.

At the end of 1920 he was arrested along with 80 other militant anarchists & held in prison for almost a year before being brought to trial & acquitted.

Upon release Malatesta moved to Rome & continued to edit "Umanità Nova" until it was forced to close down after Mussolini's 'March' on Rome (during which a portrait of Malatesta was burnt by the fascists in the Plaza Cavour).

http://isole.ecn.org/uenne/

Partisan of the "Milieux libres," publisher of "Flambeau" ("an enemy of authority") in 1901 in Vienna. Most of his energies were devoted to creating anarchist colonies (communautés expérimentales) in which he participated in several.

In 1898 Butaud founded a radical colony in the Parisian suburbs; another in 1899 in Saint Symphorien d' Ozon, in Isère, then in the "Milieu libre de Vaux" near Chateau-Thierry (1902 to 1906); in 1913 in Saint Maur (the Seine) a community farm devoted to agriculture & breeding.

Butaud, sensitive to various issues of food consumption, became an advocate of vegetarianism, which he practiced, after the war, in the colony of Bascon (Aisne).

Source: ’Ephéméride Anarchiste’

"Baby don't you let your dog bite me."

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"You can't judge a book by it's cover"

http://www.geocities.com/~jimlowe/randb/domino.html

http://home.swipnet.se/~w-35837/cash_e.html




1940 -- Russia: Innovative movement theorist Vsevolod Meyerhold ( (1874-1940) executed — on or about — today.

Founding member of the Moscow Art Theater. Symbolist, talented experimental director of the 1920s & 1930s, whose work inspired revolutionary artists & filmmakers of his era. A victim of Stalin’s terror, arrested & imprisoned in 1939 until today.

Daily Bleed Saint, January 26th.

http://www.sca.unimelb.edu.au/ths/public/Avant-garde_theatre_2001/lec%203%20overheads
http://newmedia.cgu.edu/stageart/freedlander/meyerhold.html

"The one man in the room who was as big as his poems, huge....

I screamed in myself, thinking oh, to give myself crashing, fighting, to you."


1965 -- US: Jimmy Lee Jackson, civil rights activist, killed by Alabama Officer Friendlies.


1966 -- US: 4,000 people picket outside NY's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel as Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President Lyndon Johnson receives the National Freedom Award.

As Johnson begins his speech in defense of his Vietnam policies, James Peck of the War Resisters League jumps to his feet & shouts, "Mr. President, peace in Vietnam!"

On the streets, meanwhile, activist A.J. Muste presents the crowd's own "Freedom Award" to Julian Bond, who has been denied his seat in the Georgia legislature for refusing to disavow his war opposition & his support of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee.

http://www.hpol.org/lbj/warren/

http://www.richardandmimi.com/ads.html

http://www.thesexpistolsfiles.com/

http://www.geocities.co.jp/MusicStar/6282/pistols/discography/boot.html


1988 -- Italy: Three former ministers of public works are indicted in a jail construction scandal (il cosiddetto scandalo delle "carceri d'oro" — “Jails of Gold”).
[Source: Crimini e Misfatti]


1990 -- Czech leader Vaclav Havel announces departure of all Soviet troops.

"Man must in some way come to his senses. He must extricate himself from this terrible involvement in both the obvious & hidden mechanisms of totality, from consumption to repression, from advertising to manipulation through television. He must rebel against his role as a helpless cog in the gigantic & enormous machinery hurtling God knows where. He must discover again, within himself, a deeper sense of responsibility toward the world, which means responsibility toward something higher than himself."

— Vaclav Havel, Disturbing the Peace

1991 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader George Bush is just another crook, admits supporting the Khmer Rouge ( The Killing Fields) in Cambodia — an illegal act.


1991 -- Iraq: US air forces, in the infamous "turkey shoot," drop fuel-air bombs & massacre thousands of retreating Iraqi personnel on the Basra road from Kuwait. Victors are not charged with 'crimes against humanity"... Nor is it politically correct to call Americans "terrorists."


1992 -- Irish Supreme Court rules 14 year old rape victim may get an abortion.



1993 -- US: Terrorist bomb blast rips though seven floors of New York City's World Trade Center, killing 6, injuring 1,000. By the following day, over 40 groups claim responsibility. A prelude to September 11, 2001 & all the political looney Bins.
http://www.motherbird.com/binbush.html


1997 -- US: 36 arrested at a state capitol encampment protesting welfare cutbacks, St. Paul, Minnesota.


1998 -- US: Saddam?!? International weapons inspection team, including Canadian MP Libby Davies, is not allowed to determine the presence of weapons of mass destruction (WPM) at the Bangor (Washington) nuclear submarine base. Aerial photos the same day, however, suggest the odds of such heinous weapons are pretty damn high.


1998 -- México: Expulsion of the parish priest of Chenalhó, Miguel Chanteau, after 32 years in Mexico, for supposedly stating that the Federal Government is responsible for the massacre in Acteal.

45 people attending a prayer meeting of Roman Catholic indigenous townspeople in Acteal, including a number of pregnant women & children, who were members of the pacifist group Las Abejas ("The Bees"), in the small village of Acteal in the Mexican state of Chiapas, were slaughtered on December 22, by unknown paramilitary forces. While the Las Abejas activists professed support for the goals of the Zapatistas, they renounced their violent means. Many suspect this affiliation as the reason for the attack.

Soldiers were found washing the church walls to hide the blood stains...

http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/library/zapatismo.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acteal_massacre
http://www.pbi-mexico.org/88.html

2000 -- US: In NYC thousands march to protest yesterday's acquittal in Albany of four cops for the 1999 murder of Amadou Diallou. Diallo (22), a Bronx street peddler & immigrant from Guinea, was unarmed in front of his Bronx home. Daillo was killed with 19 gunshot wounds when the four blasted 41 shots. Kenneth Boss, Sean Carroll, Edward McMellon & Richard Murphy were charged with second degree murder. Given the ratio of hits to shots fired, one might have thought they would be charged as police impersonators.



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Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I & who are you? Whence do we come & is it quite certain that we did nothing before we were born? This earth is not without some resemblance to a jail. Who knows but that man is a victim of divine justice? Look closely at life. It is so constituted that one senses punishment everywhere.

— Victor Hugo

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