The Daily Bleed: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Agustin Gomez Arcos, Vasilis Evangelidis, Emma Goldman, Alexander Berkman The Blast, La Brochure mensuelle Emile Bidault, Casa del Obrero Mundial, Solidaridad, A.I.T., Anselmo Lorenzo, Pierre Monatte, Colony Aiglemont Le Communiste

      Oh, my son, if only I could
      with a plough of frost
      scratch furrows in the night
      that holds my throat so tight
      do you know what I would do? First
      I'd plant white roses.

— Ernesto Diaz Rodriguez, from his Cuban prison cell
http://www2.fiu.edu/~fcf/beauty.jail.html

JANUARY 15

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
Civil rights martyr, Gandhian pacifist, anti-war activist.

FEAST OF THE ABBOT OF UNREASON.

US: HAT DAY.

Japan: ADULTS DAY.

France: MOLIERE DAY.

FEAST OF THE ASS: In the European Middle Ages, maidens ride asses to church, priest bray & sing hymns with heehaw choruses.
"Every time (the president) talks about trust it makes chills run up & down my spine.
The very idea that the word 'trust' could ever come out of his mouth after ... the way he has trampled on the truth is a travesty of the American political system."
— So says Bill Clinton of George "Upchuck" Bush in 1992 (ass to ass, cheek to cheek)

FEAST OF ISADORE, patron saint of laborers — slack off, since it's also the birthday of Paul Lafargue, Karl Marx's wayward son-in-law & author of The Right to be Lazy (1842).

1559 -- England: Two months after the death of her half-sister, Queen Mary I of England, Elizabeth Tudor, the 25-year-old daughter of Henry VIII & Anne Boleyn, is crowned Queen Elizabeth I at Westminster Abbey in London.

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1622 -- Moliere, French satirical playwright/actor, baptized, Paris, France.

"Without music, no State could survive," Jaques Attali quotes a character in Moliere as saying.

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

1752 -- Tobias Smollett anonymously publishes "Habakkuk Hibling," pamphlet charging Henry Fielding with plagiarism.

1757 --

Germany: New Quarters? The Archbishopric of Koln approves a schedule of fees victims of torture must pay (up to 5 thalers, for quartering by horses). Heads I Win, Tails You Lose...

George Bush gives thumbs up

1759 -- England: Thumbs Up? British Museum opens in Bloomsbury, London. Among the earliest treasures on display were a starved cat & a rat, a tree trunk gnawed by a beaver & a mummified thumb found beneath the St. James’s Coffee House. Twas a strong brew.

1771 -- US: "Bloody Act" passes North Carolina assembly, making rioters guilty of treason.

1797 -- England: First top hat worn in London — James Hetherington is fined £50 for wearing it & causing a breach of the peace, it being found that he "appeared on the public highway wearing a tall structure of shining lustre & calculated to disturb timid people." Brute!
Source: [Calendar Riots]

Proudhon tattoo

1809 -- France: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon lives. Famous philosopher, economist, sociologist, often referred to as the 'father of modern anarchism.'

Project Gutenberg (& several mirror sites) has online texts of What is Property & The Philosophy of Poverty (his attack on Marx; Marx responded in kind with The Poverty of Philosophy).

"Property is theft!"
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"Anarchy is order."

"Whoever puts his hand on me to govern me is a usurper & a tyrant. I declare him my enemy."

http://recollectionbooks.com/anow/ppl/rev/proudhon/
http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/library/ProudhonNewPalgraveDictEco.htm

http://www.ephemanar.net/janvier15.html
http://classiques.uqac.ca/classiques/Proudhon/proudhon.html

"To be governed is to be ...
/siml/library/anarchQuotes.htm#ProudhonQuote

1811 -- US: Acting in secret session, Congress authorizes the President to annex Spanish East Florida, without consent of inhabitants, if local authorities consent, to "protect US interests."

1815 -- Lady Byron takes her one-month-old daughter Augusta Ada from Lord Byron's London apartments & goes to stay with her family. Byron never saw his wife or child again.

1827 -- M. Chabert, wearing an asbestos suit, enters an oven carrying a steak. He emerges after 12 minutes, with the steak well-done. We suspect he was too.

1829 -- Honore de Balzac signs a contract with publisher for "Les Chouans", the first work to appear under his own name. He is so anxious to perfect the text that the publisher has difficulty getting him to surrender the manuscript.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/balzac.htm

1831 -- US: First American-built locomotive to pull a passenger train makes first run; first US railroad honeymoon trip, Mr & Mrs Pierson, Charleston, South Carolina. First train on a train.

1831 -- Victor Hugo completes his novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

1842 -- Author Paul Lafargue (Marx's son-in-law) lives. Wrote The Right to Be Lazy in 1893 while layin' about in prison. Translated & published by Charles Kerr Publishing Co-op in Chicago, 1907 (updated version expanded & edited by Bernard Marszalek, 2011).

PAUL LAFARGUE 1997 PATRON SAINT 29 MARCH
Karl Marx's bum of a son-in-law, the original lay-about author.
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"Hélas! Les loisirs que le poète païen annonçait ne sont pas venus; la passion aveugle, perverse et homicide du travail transforme la machine libératrice en instrument d'asservissement des hommes libres: sa productivité les appauvrit."

"Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving & drinking, except in being lazy."

— Lessing
http://righttobelazy.com/blog/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Right_to_Be_Lazy

1850 -- Mihail Eminescu, poet who transforms both the form & content of Romanian poetry, creating an influential school of poetry, lives, Ipotisti, Moldavia. His talent is recognized in 1870 after two poems are published in "Convorbiri literare."
http://luceafarul.com/Pages/

1857 -- US: Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison declares, "No union with slaveholders," at the State Disunion Convention, Worcester, Massachusetts.

1869 -- England:
Strange Stuff: Something frightened flocks of sheep (see Jan 9, 13, 1869), Swaffham, Norfolk - [London Standard]
Damn perverts!

http://www.resologist.net/damn03.htm

1870 -- US: Democratic Party first depicted as an ass, in a political cartoon appearing in Harper's Weekly.

1870 -- Spain: First issue of Solidaridad appears, in Madrid. This newspaper, created by Anselmo Lorenzo & friends, is the first paper published by the Spanish anarchist section of the A.I.T.
http://www.ephemanar.net/janvier15.html

1877 -- US: Stuck? Standing Bear, Ponca chief, refuses to move to reservation because it is within lands already given to Lakota.

1877 --
More Strange Stuff: Fall of snakes after localized ("in a space of two blocks") violent rainstorm, Memphis, TN [Monthly Weather Review]
http://www.resologist.net/damn03.htm

1881 --

Pierre Monatte lives (1881-1960).

Monatte was a central figure of French anarcho-syndicalist movement. Influenced by Émile Pouget, friends with Albert Camus, he fought the Stalinist & reformist positions in the trade unions. Monatte had joined the Communist Party for a few years after the Russian Revolution, but was kicked out for challenging its authoritarianism.
In 1925, Monatte founded Révolution prolétarienne, an anarchist-syndicalist publication which many anarchists wrote for. The review stopped publishing in 1939, resuming again in 1947.
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Camus' biographer Herbert Lottman comments on his association with numerous anarchists, with Pierre Monatte, with Giovanna Berneri of Volontà, Jean Paul Samson who published Témoins, Maurice Joyeux of Le Libertaire & Le Monde Libertaire, & with Spanish exiles producing Solidaridad Obrera until, as Lottman explains, "the paper was eventually banned by the de Gaulle government to avoid giving offence to General Franco.''

In his political isolation he had recourse to "the men & women of political movements with which he could still sympathize, those of the far-out left, who on their own chosen terrain were often as lonely as he was."

— noted by Colin Ward

http://www.socialanarchism.org/mod/magazine/display/20/index.php

1891 -- Russian poet Osip Mandelstam (Mandel'shtam) (1891-1938), memorialized in his widow Nadezhda's Hope Against Hope, lives, in Warsaw. Victim of Uncle Joe Stalin's Gulag.

Perhaps my whisper was already born before my lips.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/mandelst.htm

1896 -- Matthew Brady, photographer, dies.

1902 -- US:
Even Morer Strange Stuff: Fall of a meteor near Crater Mountain, AZ [Amer. Jour. Sci., 4-21-353]
http://www.resologist.net/damn03.htm

1908 -- France: Colony Aiglemont issues the first number of Le Communiste.
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The semi-monthly, organ for "Communist-Libertarian Propaganda, Workers Education & Social Achievements," is founded & managed by Fortuné Henry, the founder of the colony, is designed as the successor to Cubilot, but the paper folds after only two numbers.
"Les politiciens sont usés, c'est pourquoi nous apparaissons."

— Émile Henry

Source & Image courtesy of Ephéméride Anarchiste

http://www.aiglemont.com/indexpc.php?r=9&s=16
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/FortuneHenryBiblio.htm

1909 -- US: Great Boston Molasses Flood leaves 21 dead (many drowning), 150 injured.
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The holding tank of the Purity Distilling Corporation in Boston explodes under the pressure of 2.3 million gallons of molasses & spews tons of the syrup in a sudden flood.

The first wave, 30 feet high poured down Commercial Street, oozes into the adjacent waterfront area, overpowering everything in its way, reducing buildings to rubble. Neither pedestrians nor horse-drawn wagons can outrun it. The flood carries off helpless people & animals like driftwood. The tank itself launches shrapnel-like metal pieces, severing a pillar that leads to the collapse of a Boston Elevated Railway section.

After the flood subsides, pools of molasses up to three feet deep clog streets. The molasses (weighing 27 million pounds), originally destined for rum, engulfes 21, & leaves buildings crumbling. Numerous horses can not be extracted from the "liquid" & are shot by the police.

1913 -- México: This month is marked by the rise of anarcho-syndicalism in México City as Casa del Obrero Mundial (COM; House of the World Worker) undermines the government’s Gran Liga union, & dominates organized labor in the city. COM was founded in late September (1912).
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1915 -- US: During these winter months, despite a heavy lecture schedule, Emma Goldman helps organize defense of Matthew Schmidt & David Caplan, arrested for complicity in the 1910 bombing of the Los Angeles Times building. Today she attends the concert of her nephew David Hochstein, a violinist of exceptional talent.
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January-April, Emma Goldman delivers a series of lectures on the war & on sexuality in New York City, Albany, Schenectady, & Boston.

Topics include "Anarchism & Literature," "Feminism — A Criticism of Woman's Struggle for the Vote & 'Freedom'," "Nietzsche, The Intellectual Storm-Center of the Great War," "The Intermediate Sex (A Study of Homosexuality)," & "Man — Monogamist or Varietist?"

By the end of the year Ben Reitman reports that Emma has delivered a total of 321 lectures.

1916 -- US: During this month Matthew Schmidt is convicted & sentenced to life imprisonment for complicity in the 1910 bombing of the Los Angeles Times building.

1916 -- US: Alexander Berkman announces publication of the first issue of his San Francisco-based anarchist journal The Blast.

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Berkman's editorial for the first issue of The Blast published in San Francisco on 15th January 1916,
http://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/j0zq7j

The Blast was co-edited by M. Eleanor Fitzgerald, a Wisconsin labor advocate, political lecturer, & theatrical manager.

Through her involvement with the anarchist movement, Fitzgerald met Emma Goldman & Berkman, joining them in the publication of the Mother Earth Bulletin around 1906.

During World War I (1914-1918) she turned her attention to the "political prisoners" — the conscientious objectors. She raised money for their bail & defense & spoke in their behalf. She left the movement in 1918 when Goldman & Berkman were deported.

1918 -- France: In Paris the group of musicians called Les Six give their first concert.

1919 -- Russia: Peasants in central Russia rise against the Bolsheviks.

1919 -- Rosa Luxemburg & Karl Liebnecht, libertarian communists, are murdered by police.
They are arrested & taken to the Eden Hotel in Berlin, then taken out, smashed in the head repeatedly with rifle butts, then shot in the head at separate locations.

Luxemburg's body is dumped in a canal & not recovered until March.

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

Excellent collection of materials on & by other left communists at the John Gray website, http://www.reocities.com/~johngray/
http://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/

1922 -- Ireland: Irish Free State established.

1923 -- France: La Brochure mensuelle (The Monthly Booklet) begins publishing in Paris.
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La Brochure mensuelle is published by Émile Bidault & the Groupe de Propagande par la Brochure. The first number is a text by Peter Kropotkin "To Young People." Devoted to spreading libertarian ideas, it publishes the writings of over 100 authors in 190 issues before its cessation in December of 1937.
Source & Image courtesy of Ephéméride Anarchiste

1925 -- China: US marines land in Shanghai to protect foreigners during fighting.

1929 -- US: American Civil Rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr. lives, Atlanta, Georgia. The government has made the observance of his birth one of those moveable feasts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.

1929 -- US: Congress passes the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact, signed by 62 nations outlawing war. Yup.

1932 -- US: The Rand School in New York City holds a symposium on Emma Goldman's book, Living My Life.

1934 -- Canada: Emma Goldman gives a well-attended series of lectures, January 15-31, at Hygeia Hall in Toronto.
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Topics include "Germany's Tragedy & the Forces That Brought It About," "Hitler & His Cohorts," "The Collapse of German Culture," & "Dictatorship Right & Left — a Religious Hysteria."

A talk to a Jewish meeting also raises money for anarchists forced to flee repression in Nazi Germany.

During this month US Department of Labor approves a three-month visa, effective Feb. 1, for Emma to lecture on nonpolitical subjects, which may include Living My Life under the category of literature. Once word of her tour leaks out, many lecture agencies in the United States offer their services.

1935 -- Russia: Grigori Zinoviev & other Soviet leaders are convicted of treason.

1939 -- Agustin Gomez Arcos (1939-1998) lives, Almeria, Andalusia. Spanish anarchist, gay dramatist/novelist. Wrote many novels about pro-Franco Spain: L'agneau carnivore (1975), Maria Republica (1976), Ana non (1977), L'enfant pain (1983), Un oiseau brûlé vif (1984).
Often in winter the end of the day is like the final metaphor in a poem celebrating death:

there is no way out.

— Agustin Gomez-Arcos, A Bird Burned Alive, 1988

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/Gomez-ArcosAgustin.htm

1941 -- Olivier Messiaen's "Quartet for the End of Time" premiers, at the Nazi concentration camp Stalag CVIII-A, outside of Gorlitz in Silesia...in -4 degrees fahrenheit.

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A devout Catholic with an interest in mysticism & the supernatural, Messiaen was also a poet & an accomplished amateur ornithologist. He mixed sounds as a painter mixes colors, associating specific shades with certain modes & chords.

Inmate Messiaen (1908-92), chose the prediction of the Apocalypse in the Revelation of St. John to guide his composition, based three movements on earlier-composed material & wrote five in the camp. The writing & this performance of "Quartet for the End of Time," in a German POW camp in the bitter winter of 1941, is called one of the great stories of 20th century music.

See Rebecca Rischin, For the End of Time: The Story of the Messiaen Quartet (Cornell University, 2003).

http://www.b24.net/pow/greatescape.htm

1943 -- US: The Halt & the Lame?: 1,000 workers complete the air conditioning system for the Pentagon, unconditionally. The Pentagon, originally planned as a research hospital & then built as a military facility in eleven months during World War II, is completed in Arlington, Virginia.

1944 -- US: Who's Got The Biggest Baton? Police attend the Boston Symphony to file a complaint against Igor Stravinsky for his arrangement of "The Star Spangled Banner", but its performance is canceled.

1946 -- US: 260,000 US electrical workers strike GE, Westinghouse & General Motors.

1948 -- Jean Cocteau movie Beauty & the Beast is released in the US.

1949 -- Black Dahlia murder victim found in Los Angeles (basis of the James Ellroy novel).
http://www.twbooks.co.uk/authors/jellroy.html
http://www.bethshort.com/
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/famous/dahlia/index_1.html

1950 -- Samuel Putnam, the expatriate American writer who wrote a memoir called Paris Was Our Mistress, dies.

1950 -- US: National Emergency Civil Rights Conference opens, Washington D.C. (-1/17)

1950 -- anarchistMerce Cunningham dances "Before Dawn" & "Pool of Darkness" premier, NY.
http://www.mercecunningham.org/

1951 -- "Cloud of Death" rolls down Mount Lamington, New Guinea kills 3-5,000.

1955 -- Billboard reports, "music with an R&B beat is not longer regarded as a passing phase by major recording firms." The magazine points out Perry Como, the Crewcuts, Hutton Sisters & Bill Darnell & Rosemary Clooney have recorded cover versions of Gene & Eunice's #7 R&B hit "Ko Ko Mo." The success of the Crew Cut's cover of the Chords' "Sh-Boom" is noted as a main factor in the pop artists interest in R&B.

1959 -- In Portland, Oregon, Mel Lyman notes:
I have a disease. It burns my insides out...

— Diary of a Young artist
http://www.trussel.com/lyman/mirror.htm

1961 -- US Air Force "Texas Tower" radar station topples into the Atlantic, sinks off the coast of New Jersey, killing all 28 men aboard. A Senate subcommittee report charged the Navy with the major responsibility for the "defects, deficiencies, & inadequacies that led to the structure's failure."

1962 -- US: 1,700 women against nuclear testing arrive in Washington DC on Peace Train Special.

1962 -- US: J. Edgar Hoover calls M.L. King a fellow traveler & a "vicious liar."

1964 -- In a telegram to Harry Guggenheim, Asger Jorn rejects the Guggenheim International Award for his painting Dead Drunk Danes (1960):

Telegram!!

'GO TO HELL WITH YOUR MONEY BASTARD STOP REFUSE PRICE STOP NEVER ASKED FOR IT STOP AGAINST ALL DECENCY MIX ARTIST AGAINST HIS WILL IN YOUR PUBLICITY STOP I WANT PUBLIC CONFIRMATION NOT TO HAVE PARTICIPATED IN YOUR RIDICULOUS GAME STOP'

Dead-drunken Danes; image courtesy of Bleedster László

http://www.cddc.vt.edu/sionline/chronology/chronology.html | [Situationist Resources]

1967 -- US: First Super Bowl played. Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs 35-10.

1968 -- US: Jeanette Rankin Brigade — led by 87-year-old Rankin, the first US Congresswoman & the only member of Congress to vote against US entry to both World Wars — marches on Washington to protest war in Vietnam.
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At the opening of Congress, a coalition of women's peace groups called the Jeanette Rankin Brigade, demonstrated against the Vietnam war. The New York Radical Women staged a "Burial of Traditional Womanhood." This was the first use of phrase "Sisterhood is Powerful."

1969 -- US: Hey, You! Get Offa My...?:
Trial of Janet McCloud (1934-2003; Tulalip Indian tribe) & others for "fish-in" on Nisqually River in Washington state in 1965.
All are found not guilty.
http://sapadawn.indigenousnative.org/

1969 -- US: "Beatings, shootings & a high degree of unrest continues [sic] to prevail in the ghetto area of SE San Diego.... [I]t is felt that substantial amount of the unrest is directly attributable to this [FBI] program." — San Diego FBI report to Washington

1970 -- Nicaraguan poet Leonel Rugama shoots his last bullet & dies resisting a battalion of US-puppet Somoza's troops (in North America it is impolite to call one's friends terrorists).
Leonel Rugama was 20 years old.
Of friends, he preferred chess players.
Of chess players, those who lose because of the girl happening by.
Of those that pass by, the one who remains.
Of those who stay, the one who has yet to come.
Of heroes, he preferred those who don't say they are dying for their mother country.
Of countries, the one born of his death.

http://patriagrande.net/nicaragua/leonel.rugama/

1971 -- US: Seven months after it began, the jury starts deliberations in the trial of Charles Manson, Susan Atkins, Leslie VanHouten, & Patricia Krenwinkel for the brutal, arrogant Tate/LaBianca murders, Los Angeles.

1972 -- US: "American Pie" by Don McLean, & anthem of Pie Brigades around the world, becomes the number one record in the US.

1974 -- US: During the Watergate affair, an expert testifies before the House Judiciary Committee that an 18-1/2-minute gap discovered during a critical subpoenaed recording of a White House conversation between President Richard M. Nixon & White House staff member H. R. Haldeman was caused by deliberate & repeated erasures. The White House fails to satisfactorily explain the long silence during the key conversation between Nixon & Haldeman.

1978 -- Iran: Beloved & Respected Comrade Butcher Shah (installed & CIA-supported CIA puppet) flees Peacock Throne, leading to Islamic overthrow.

1978 -- Spain: Demonstration organized by the C.N.T., the anarchist trade union now legalized for six months, draws 10,000 protesters in Barcelona, opposing the Moncloa pacts (allowing only the C.C.O.O (communist) & U.G.T (socialist) the right to represent workers).
http://www.ephemanar.net/janvier15html

1981 -- El Salvador: The American supported Salvadoran government disappears eight staff members of "El Independiente." This sort of "free press" provides a new meaning to the expression "disappearing ink" — chemire, chimaera — the kind of magic the US government can get really excited about.

1985 -- Bollingen Prize for poetry is awarded to John Ashbery & Fred Chapell.

1991 -- Vigils around the world mark expiry of US/UN deadline for military attack on Iraq if they don't leave Kuwait.

1991 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President Bush restores $42.5 million in military aid to El Salvador. Americans are markedly generous in their generosity to other peoples...
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15 children under 14 who had been detained charged with terrorism are found decapitated. 13,500 civilians murdered or disappeared in eight months...

The army no longer bothers to use prisons.

Every morning at dawn, they lined up, these relatives, friends, & lovers of the disappeared of El Salvador. They came looking for or offering news; they had no other place to ask about the lost or bear witness.

The door of the Human Rights Commission was always open;
or one could simply step through the hole
the last bomb had opened in its wall.

1994 -- Singer Harry Nilsson dies of heart disease. Best known for songs like "Everybody's Talkin'," "Without You" & "Coconut." He was 53.

1997 -- South Korea: A general strike is called by a coalition of labor unions. The unions claim 600,000 workers observe the strike call, the government claims it is "only" 100,000.

1999 -- Greece: Demonstrations in nearly every city against the "2525/97 Act." Clashes break out. In Athens, 14 are arrested.
Two, Arban Belala, a 17-year old student-emigrant from Albania & Vasilis Evangelidis, a 30-year old anarchist & unemployed teacher, face serious charges. Others, facing lighter charges, were set free. Two more student-emigrants from Albania are arrested in Thessaloniki.

Demonstrations, clashes & arrests continue through the month.

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On the 16th, Evangelidis was brought to the interrogator & declares:

"As a graduate of the School of Philosophy & an unemployed, I participated in last year's struggle of the unemployed teachers. That struggle today continues with the pupils' movement, to which I declare my solidarity, also as an anarchist. As one of the 25,000 people who took part in Friday's demonstration.

The charges against me are fabricated, I reject them & I protest." Vasilis is ordered imprisoned until his trial.

2001 -- US: A truck hits the 92-year-old Pioneer Square pergola in Seattle, destroying it.

2003 -- US: ACLU report "Bigger Monster, Weaker Chains" warns of a Big Brother society in the US.

2009 -- From the Mouths of Babes?: Baywatch actress writes to Mumbai, India,
"Dogs cannot use condoms..."
(Sounds like another edict from Beloved & Respected Comrade Family Planning Expert George Bush the Junior.)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7831580.stm

2009 -- US: "Granny for Peace" anti-war activist, a Take Back the Night founder, Lillian Willoughby dies. Married to fellow antiwar activist George Willoughby.
http://www.warresisters.org/node/796
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1021-04.htm

3002 --

"To be governed is to be watched over, inspected, spied on, directed, legislated, regimented, closed in, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, assessed, evaluated, censored, commanded; all by creatures that have neither the right, nor wisdom, nor virtue... To be governed means that at every move, operation, or transaction one is noted, registered, entered in a census, taxed, stamped, priced, assessed, patented, licensed, authorized, recommended, admonished, prevented, reformed, set right, corrected. Government means to be subjected to tribute, trained, ransomed, exploited, monopolized, extorted, pressured, mystified, robbed; all in the name of public utility & the general good. Then, at the first sign of resistance or word of complaint, one is repressed, fined, despised, vexed, pursued, hustled, beaten up, garroted, imprisoned, shot, machine-gunned, judged, sentenced, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed, & to cap all, ridiculed, mocked, outraged & dishonored. That is government, that is its justice & its morality!"
— P-J Proudhon
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/Proudhon/toBeGoverned.jpg
/siml/library/anarchQuotes.htm#ProudhonQuote

4000 --

http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/new_deal_for_the_arts/celebrating_the_people1.html
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