ALICE NEEL

"The seer of now pours his vision on sheets of paper, on banks of arid craters where armored bullies stand guard & demand the password, Positive Evidence. No vision can pass by their gates. The only song that passes is a song gone as dry & cadaverous as the fossils in the sands."

— Fredy Perlman,
Against His-story, Against Leviathan
http://www.primitivism.com/leviathan.htm
http://www.geocities.com/~johngray/indx1.htm
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/PerlmanFredy.htm

1814 -- Stendhal's first book published, containing partially plagiarized biographies of Mozart & Haydn.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/01ref.htm#23/1783


1832 -- US: William Lloyd Garrison's anti-slavery weekly "The Liberator", is published; includes Lydia Maria Child's first piece, "Stand From Under."



1841 -- Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904) lives, Denbigh in North Wales, the illegitimate son of John Rowlands & Elisabeth Parry. American journalist & adventurer, who took the "New York Herald's" mission "to go & find Livingstone."

"Then sing, O friends, sing the journey is ended;
Sing aloud, O friends, sing to the great sea."

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

1846 -- Charlotte Brontë writes to a London publisher about the poems of her sister Emily & their worthiness for publication.


1852 -- US: Abolitionist Wendell Phillips says "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty", Mass.


1853 -- Cuba: Revolutionist José Martí (1853-1895) lives, Havana. Cuban poet, essayist & journalist, who became symbol of Cuba's struggle for independence. The popular song "Guantanamera" is based on a poem by Martí. Worked on underground papers & sent to jail & forced into exile (three columns & you're out?)

"No man has any special right because he belongs to any specific race; just by saying the word man, we have already said all the rights."

— José Martí

http://members.aol.com/enriques/index1.html
http://www.patriagrande.net/cuba/jose.marti/

1854 -- US: 30 miners attack a peaceful Indian village on the Coquille River near Randolph, Oregon, killing 16.

"The West did not provide what they needed. Make-believe fandangos, transvestite laundresses, hydrophobic wolves, ant-fights, crazed foreigners, pretty sunsets — this was not enough. The West was not dull, it was stupendously dull, & when it was not dull it was murderous. A man could get killed without realizing it. There were unbelievable flash floods, weird snakes, & God Himself did not know what else, along with Indians descending as swiftly as the funnel of a tornado."

— Evan S. Connell

http://www.zmag.org/zmag/articles/dec95barsamian.htm



1861 -- US: American Miners Association, first national coal miners' union, founded.


1861 -- US: State convention in Texass to consider secession from the Union convenes in Austin. Lots of Little Grey Men & the music scene prove too too distracting.



1873 -- French sexual liberationist writer (Sidonie-Gabrielle) Colette lives, Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye. Begins her writing career ghostwriting stories for her author-husband "Willy" who locks her into a room until she finishes each assignment. Wrote Cherie, Gigi (filmed), etc. Her novels are characterized by a representation of erotic instinct & sensuous experience & a sympathy with nature, especially flowers & animals.

I was by chance spared the sight of Renée dying, then dead. She carried off with her more than one secret, & beneath her purple veil, Renée Vivien, the poet, led away — her throat encircled with moonstones, beryls, aquamarines, & other anemic gems — the immodest child, the excited little girl who taught me, with unembarrassed competence: "There are fewer ways of making love than they say, & more than one believes."

       — Colette, as quoted by Dolores Klaich in "Woman Plus Woman"

Natalie,

my husband kisses your hands,

& I the rest.

       — Colette, in a note to Natalie Barney

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

1874 -- Innovative movement theorist Vsevolod Meyerhold lives.
(Jan 28 old style; Feb 9 new style), Penzq, Russia.

Visionary radical Soviet theatre director, choreographer. 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 Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Uncle Stalin’s terror, Meyerhold was arrested & imprisoned in 1939, then executed in 1940.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vsevolod_Meyerhold
http://newmedia.cgu.edu/stageart/freedlander/meyerhold.html

Anarchist illegalist, member of the Bonnot Gang. Arrested April 4, 1912, condemned on February 27, 1913 to penal servitude for life, Carouy commits suicide (by poisoning) in his cell on the 28th. See Doug Imrie's article, "The Illegalists", & background material on the Bonnot Gang. http://ytak.club.fr/fevrier4.html#28

http://www.nmwa.org/collection/profile.asp?LinkID=630
http://www.marinphotography.com/people/neel.html

At a rally of 10,000 workers in Munich, the anarchist poet/playwright

Erich Mühsam

calls for the continuation of the strike movement.
He is seized afterwards by police & put under house arrest.

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

http://www.barnsdle.demon.co.uk/russ/rusrev.html
http://fbuch.com/posters.htm

The Bolsheviks & Workers Control, 1917 - 1921:The State & Counter-Revolution:
http://www.spunk.org/texts/places/russia/sp001861/bolintro.html

Anarchist militant & organizer. With Joseph Tortelier & others, Bidault founded the "Ligue des antipatriotes" (League of Antipatriots) to combat militarism, the war it promotes, & its corollary, patriotism.

Editor of "La Brochure mensuelle" &, in 1934, manager of the "Conquête du pain" (Conquest of Bread), a libertarian review open to all the tendencies of anarchism (N° 1 appeared on October 13, 1934).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pisagua#Pisagua_as_a_camp_for_prisoners
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_concentration_and_internment_camps#Chile http://libcom.org/history/1872-1995-anarchism-in-chile
http://recollectionbooks.com/cs/index.htm#chile

1951 -- XXX?: "La Vie Commence Demain," which depicts artificial insemination & is the first X-rated movie, opens in London.

A general bon vivant, ladies man, & all around fun guy at parties, Picasso lived life to its fullest. Anyone who has been called "That Nietzscean monster from Malaga" & "The Walking Scrotum" must have been living it up, don't you think?

I have this opening in London on Jan. 9, 1951. I think my source was Patrick Robertson's "The Book of Firsts," generally a reliable work for British dates, but I'm not sure... I also couldn't find anything conclusive on the Internet... You might also want to mention that the cast of this movie included Sarte, Picasso, Gide, Le Corbusier & Rostand (the real people). See
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0140679/

— Bleedster Bobby B.

1967 -- First sacred plant conference.
[Image, "Caduceus" by Bleedster James Koehnline]
http://hempfest.org/

JOSEPHINE HERBST, Daily Bleed Saint 12/20/98

"The real events that influence our lives
don't announce themselves with brass trumpets
but come softly, on the feet of doves."

"Herbst's merciless examination of the middle class is almost too much for the average reader. Courageous, even remorselessly patient in her descriptions, Herbst created a literary monument that is almost forbidding."

— Paul Buhle

See Walter B. Rideout's The Radical Novel in the United States, 1900-1954; also Paul Garon's review, "Radical Novel, 1900-1954" (Firsts 4:3; March, 1994) at, http://www.abaa.org/pubs/radicalnovel.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Herbst
http://newdeal.feri.org/nation/na3641.htm
http://members.aol.com/lsmithdog/bottomdog/CHWCBIB.htm

"On the surface, selling arms to a country that sponsors terrorism, of course, clearly, you'd have to argue it's wrong, but it's the exception sometimes that proves the rule."

— Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader George Bush speaking on TV

http://www.stickergiant.com/page/sg/CTGY/gwbush_store

http://www.omega23.com/books/bios/darrow.html
http://www.iww.org/


1994 -- William Levitt, urban planner & father of suburbia, creates a sprawling mess, then dies, Manhasset, NY.




1995 -- Canada: George Woodcock, Canadian literary critic, anarchist & historian, dies, age 82.

One-time editor, in England, of the anarchist paper "Freedom," & during WWII, the anti-war anarchist paper, "War Commentary."

George Woodcock's anarchist literary journal Now began to appear in 1940, with poems by Alex Comfort, Roy Fuller, Kenneth Rexroth & Julian Symons...

Woodcock published a significant number of books, articles, & poetry, as well as biographies of William Godwin, Proudhon & Kropotkin.

He also wrote Anarchism: A History of Libertarian Ideas & Movements, where he pronounced the movement dead, then lived to see its resurgence in the 1960s.

1996 -- Jerry Siegel, comic book writer (Superman), dies at 81.

http://www.supermanbook.com/index.php3?gg_id=0128656769

According to the Confederation, the bioengineered corn "risks transmitting to man a resistance to the effect of certain antibiotics."


2002 -- US: The Justice Department says it has covered two statues in its headquarters with drapes because one of them has a breast exposed. No word on the boobs who work there.


2003 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Bush tells Congress Iraq tried to import uranium from Africa (one of many lies used to justify the rightwing NeoCon invasion of Iraq).
http://dir.salon.com/story/opinion/scheer/2003/09/10/bush_speech/index.html?source=search&aim=/opinion/scheer

3000 --

"I feel envious, when I think back, of the privileged little urchin I was in those days. As an accompaniment to my modest, fill-in meals — a chop, a leg of cold chicken, or one of those hard cheeses, "baked" in the embers of a wood fire & so brittle that one blow of the fist would shatter them into pieces like a pane of glass — I drank Chateau Lafites, Chambertins, & Cortons which had escaped capture by the "Prussians" in 1870. Certain of these wines were already fading, pale & scented still like a dead rose; they lay on a sediment of tannin that darkened their bottles, but most of them retained their aristocratic ardor & their invigorating powers. The good old days!"

      — Colette

4000 --

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