Suddenly, all at once, the cries & the drums cease. Gods & men have been defeated. With the gods' death, time has died. With the men's death, the city has died....

A stunning silence reigns. & the rain begins to fall. Thunder & lightning fill the sky, & it rains all through the night...

Fire burns the soles of Emperor Cuauhtemoc's feet, anointed with oil, while the world is silent, & it rains.

— Memory of Fire: Genesis, Eduardo Galeano

http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/CIVAMRCA/AZTECS.HTM
http://www.patriagrande.net/uruguay/eduardo.galeano/memoria.del.fuego/15210813.htm

1660 -- England: Charles II issues proclamation calling for the suppression of John Milton's Latin pamphlets Defense of the English People.
http://www.urich.edu/~creamer/milton.html



1673 -- Rhode Island Reds?: Rhode Island colony, founded by persons fleeing religious persecution in Puritan-controlled Massachusetts, exempts religious pacifists from military duty.
http://wildwnc.org/af/rhodeislandred.html


1818 -- Birth of Lucy Stone, feminist theorist.


1840 -- England: The good citizens of Calne in Wiltshire riot against introduction of the police constabulary. One copper killed & several more badly injured.
Source: 'Calendar Riots'


1868 -- A series of major earthquakes in central Peru & Ecuador kill an estimated 20,000 people.


1869 -- US: Joshua Norton I, Dei Gratia Emperor of the United States & Protector of Mexico, may have given Goat Island to Oakland, California.
http://www.zpub.com/sf/history/nort.html




1871 -- Austria: Hippolyte Havel (1871-1950) lives (appears to be some question of exact date), Thabor.

An active author & editor, Havel was a scholarly & notorious anarchist — the original "anarchist dandy" — companion to Emma Goldman, a founder & participant in the first American "Modern School" (based on the ideas of Francisco Ferrer), & he adopted the now famous photographer Berenice Abbott.

Just before WWI he opened a restaurant in NY City which was a meeting place for artists & intellectuals.

[Details / context]

Following in the grand tradition of the Croix de Mission du Bois du Verne (tossing it down a mine shaft to its proper resting place the night August 5/6), & the Alouettes (the night 11/12), on this night the Croix du Bois Roulot receives the same just fate.

The reactionary clerics have earned such admirable fealty from these miltants by siding with the mine owners against the workers.

The religious community is very upset, & authorities are especially worried with the upcoming Feast of the Assumption (August 15).
[Source: L'Ephéméride Anarchiste]

1892 -- US: The first issue of the Baltimore Afro-American is published.


1898 -- Philippines: Admiral Dewey captures Manila; US takes seizes control of this country for next 50 years & thwarts it's efforts for democratic self-rule.



1899 -- Alfred Hitchcock lives (1899-1980), London, England.
http://nextdch.mty.itesm.mx/~plopezg/Kaplan/Hitchcock.html


1910 -- US: Baseball's Dodgers & Pirates play to an 8-8 tie, both have 38 at bats, 13 hits, 12 assists, 2 errors, 5 strikeouts, 3 walks, 1 passed ball & 1 hit by a pitch.


1916 -- Australia: IWWs speak to 80-100,000 on Sydney Domain against the war effort.

Repression against workers & militant unions like the IWW leads to a raid in September & key members arrested. In December seven IWWs sentenced to 15 years in prison for anti-war efforts. Others receive 5 & 10 year sentences. In August 1917 the Wobblies are outlawed & membership rolls made available to employers. Despite widespread repression, the IWW helps lead the General Strike of 1917.

Source: A Brief History of the IWW outside the US (1905-1999) by Morgan Miller
http://www.zabalaza.net/phorum/read.php?f=2&i=665&t=665

Like his son Jean, French authorities give Eugene a big fat Zero for Conduct for his militant activites, pacifism, & anarchist publishing (cofounder of the newspaper "La Guerre Sociale" with Gustave Herve & Eugene Merle, etc), founding member of "l'Association Internationale Antimilitariste" (A.I.A.) & co-secretary of the French section with Yvetot, active in the campaign to save Francisco Ferrer, & founder of "Les Jeunes Gardes révolutionnaires", action combat groups which clash in the street with the extreme-right-wingers & unmask spies within the labor movement.

Zero De Conduite (Zero for Conduct)

Jean Vigo was born to Eugene Bonaventure de Vigo, a militant anarchist, & Emily Clero, another young militant, on April 26, 1906 at rue Polonceau in Paris in an attic full of cats. He was nicknamed Nono, after the hero of Jean Grave's children's stories. Eugene Vigo died in suspicious circumstances, perhaps assassinated, in the Fresnes prison on 13 August 1917.

1917 -- Spain: General Strike throughout the country. Includes members from the Socialist Party, the UGT & cenetistas (anarchosyndicalist CNT members).
[Details / context]


1919 -- US: Nothing to be Upset about?: The previously undefeated racehorse, Man o' War, was upset — by Upset — at Saratoga, New York.


1922 -- Italy: Preparazione di una grande manifestazione fascista a Roma per protestare contro il clima di violenza esistente nel paese. I violenti protestano violentemente contro la violenza : è la bancarotta totale della logica e della morale.
[Source: Crimini e Misfatti]

1923 --

1923 Carlos Cortez Koyokuikatl lives, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Graphic artist, poet, anarchist & Wobbly. Researcher Archie Green tells us that Industrial Workers of the World artists "have been modest in telling their life-stories," & "within this laconic tradition, Carlos Cortez reports key facts." — Archie Green, "Carlos Cortez & Wobbly Artistry," in Carlos Cortez, Where are the Voices & Other Wobbly Poems? Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 1997, p. 5.

Carlos Cortez, son of Alfredo Cortez, a Mexican partisan of the Industrial Workers of the World (acronym, IWW, popularly known as "Wobblies"), & a German socialist-pacifist mother, Augusta Cortez. Cortez spent two years in federal prison (Sandstone, Minnesota) during World War II as a conscientious objector "because he did not want to kill living things." — Eugene Nelson, "Introduction" to Carlos Cortez, Crystal-Gazing the Amber Fluid & Other Wobbly Poems, Chicago: Charles H. Kerr Publishing Co., 1997, p. 6. Upon his release from federal detention in 1947 he joined the IWW & has remained active for five decades as a graphic artist, poet, & adviser within that organization. In 1985 at the Gato Negro Press [transl. Black Cat Press] he printed a catalog for a touring exhibition of cartoons, Wobbly: 80 Years of Rebel Art.

At the lower left of his linocut, Carlos Cortez prints the words, Chicano Artistic Movement, with the intention of adding his voice to the manifesto of Flores Magón that is itself printed on the linocut. Thus, the fusion of art & political & social movements that Flores Magón expressed in 1920 is linked to a similar philosophy of art that Carlos Cortez espouses for the contemporary Chicano movement.

This political posture led Carlos Cortez to use inexpensive materials, to sell his work at cut-rate prices, often by himself, not to number the work, & to cut at least one additional edition (on yellow paper stock instead of white), as the first edition was exhausted.

http://www.marchabrazo.org/Carlos_Cortez.htm
http://www.art-teez.org/pr/harvest_fest_05_flyer-background_sheet.htm
http://www.art-teez.org/artists/cc4.htm
http://www.openair.org/maxwell/cortpo.html

http://www.personal.rdg.ac.uk/~lhsjamse/wells/wells.htm





1945 -- Poet Tom Wayman lives, Hawkesbury, Canada. Co-founder of the Vancouver Industrial Writers' Union (IWW), a work-writing circle, & participant in a number of labor arts ventures.

Worked as a laborer in various industries, & the workplace is a central
thematic concern of his poetry.

BleedMeister & Tom go back a few years, with a few weird stories to tell in the aftermath of the '60s, as the FBI
is poking about for various underground radical boogeymen.

& yet as I left, my eye caught the faintest gleam of red, a Soviet remnant I first thought. But no, as I approached the umbrella stand off in the corner, peering out was a red felt cloth. As I looked closer, I couldn't recognize what was plain for me to see, so incongruous did it seem. But there it was: a crumpled old baseball pennant that read: Cleveland Indians.

Even conventional biographies of Trotsky admit that he visited the US: he was in New York briefly before returning to Russia for the revolution. But what connection could this, or anything else, have provided him to Cleveland & the Indians?

http://www.corpse.org/issue_5/critical_urgencies/elias.htm
http://www.negroleaguebaseball.com/

We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control. No dark sarcasm in the classroom. Teacher, leave those kids alone. Hey, Teacher, leave those kids alone ! All in all it's just another brick in the wall. All in all you're just another brick in the wall. — Pink Floyd

It was early in the morning when Berlin was divided by a barbed wire fence. The East Berlin government was adamant in its effort to keep those in the eastern sector from moving into the non-Communist western sector. Regular telephone & postal service between the sectors was stopped. Several days later, the barbed wire was reinforced with a concrete wall between official crossing points. The Berlin wall stood until November 9, 1989.

http://www.dailysoft.com/berlinwall/
http://userpage.chemie.fu-berlin.de/BIW/wall.html
http://www.rs-renningen.bb.bw.schule.de/fotoex1.html

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/Mabel.html
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAdodge.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mabel_Dodge_Luhan

The Matrix, Frisco's first folk night club, opens at 3138 Fillmore in the Marina District. New band called The Jefferson Airplane performs.

One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, was a vehicle for Ken Kesey’s anarchist rant against the oppressive conformism imposed by society’s institutions, immortalised in Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.
http://grove.ufl.edu/~number6/Jefferson.Airplane/airplane.html
http://wild-bohemian.com/kesey.htm
http://www.intrepidtrips.com/
http://www.ulster.net/~shady/thesis.html


1966 -- Veitnam: South Vietnamese Beloved & Respected Comrade American Puppet Premier Nguyen Cao Ky predicts:

"In two or three years, or even before, the Communists will accept defeat."

1967 -- Bonnie & Clyde released — the film, that is. Directed by Arthur Penn, starring Warren Beatty & Faye Dunaway. The original robber duo were killed by Texass Rangers May 23, 1939.



1971 -- Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Attorney General John Mitchell announces there will be no grand jury investigation of the 4 May, 1970 Kent State murders by the National Guard.

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, stays bought.

— Simon Cameron (Lincoln's Secretary of War)

Adesso si scopre che l'Iran ha disseminato le mine italiane per tutto il golfo Persico, rendendo pericolosa la navigazione. Due stati, uno più criminale dell'altro.
[Source: Crimini e Misfatti]

Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience & through rebellion.

— Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism,
in "Fortnightly Review" (London, Feb. 1891; reprinted, 1895)

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