FEBRUARY 14

GUEORGUI CHEITANOV
Romantic Bulgarian anarchist theorist, orator. He of the wonderful slouch hat.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/CheitanovGueorgui.htm

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VALENTINES DAY:

Grew out of Roman LUPERCALIA, when young people drew names from urns to determine true loves ...
St. Valentine is the patron saint of prisoners.

The day birds & animals choose their mates.

Portland, Dorset: BINDING DAY — Movable holiday, probably not today, but this will have to do: the 7th Wednesday after Christmas, according to a fine tradition, you burgle your neighbours' house & ransom the stuff back. This commemorates a successful counter-attack by locals who had managed to remain hidden whilst raiders slew local men & carried off the women.
[Source: Calendar Riots]

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1349 -- Germany: 2,000 Jews burned at the stake in Strasbourg.


1571 -- Italy: Benvenuto Cellini, sculptor/metalsmith & author of a remarkable autobiography, dies in Florence.


1776 -- Captain James Cook killed by native Hawai'ians after taking hostages. or 1779?


1804 -- US: New Jersey is the last Northern state to abolish slavery.


1817 -- US: Black abolitionist, orator Frederick Douglass lives, born a slave, founder of the influential The North Star newspaper in Rochester, New York.

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom & yet deprecate agitation are people who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder & lightning. That struggle might be a moral one; it might be a physical one; it might be both moral & physical, but it must be struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did & never will. People might not get all that they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get."

1819 -- England: Joshua Norton I, Dei Gratia Emperor of the United States & Protector of México lives, London, England. Greatest Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader the US has ever had.

"Everybody understands Mickey Mouse. Few understand Hermann Hesse. Hardly anybody understands Einstein. & nobody understands Emperor Norton."

— Malaclypse the Younger, K.S.C.

http://www.zpub.com/sf/history/nort.html

1831 -- France: Parisians plunder a church & Archbishop's palace in a demonstration against the former Bourbon dynasty.


1848 -- Prussian Revolution begins.



1856 -- Editor Frank Harris, author of the erotic memoir My Life & Loves, lives, County Galway. Oscar Wilde quips:

"Frank Harris is invited to all the great houses in England — once."

http://www.oddbooks.co.uk/harris/harrislinks.html
http://struggle.ws/ws98/ws53_wilde.html

1859 -- George Ferris lives, inventor of the Wheel.


1870 -- US: Esther Morris becomes the nation's first woman justice of the peace.

Morris is credited with winning women's suffrage in Wyoming territory last year. She arm-twisted two Democratic lawmakers into sponsoring legislation giving women the vote. Most Wyoming lawmakers treated the measure lightheartedly, hoping their bold step would attract more women to the territory. Democrats, for their part, were counting on a veto by Governor John Campbell. After the bill passed, however, Campbell promptly signed the bill, making Wyoming the first state or territory to enact women's suffrage. In 1872, the Democrats try to repeal the bill, offering Campbell 2,000 dollars to cooperate. The governor firmly refused.

1877 -- Julia Bertrand lives.(1877-1960). French teacher, militant anarchist, feminist & free thinker. See the Anarchist Encyclopedia page,
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/BertrandJulia.htm



1885 -- France: Jules Valles dies. Journalist, anarchist propagandist, novelist. Valles was involved in the Revolution of 1848 & a Proudhonist imprisoned in 1853 for a conspiracy against the Emperor. He launches the weekly magazine "The Street," on June 1, 1867, involving artists & writers such as Emile Zola & Gustave Courbet, before it was eventually suppressed. See
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/VallesJules.htm



1894 -- US: TV comedian Jack Benny fiddles around.


1894 -- Venus is both a morning star & evening star.




1895 -- Oscar Wilde's comedy The Importance of Being Earnest opens in London at the St. James's Theatre.

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

http://struggle.ws/ws98/ws53_wilde.html

1896 -- Bulgaria: Gueorgui Cheitanov lives, Yambol. Writer, speaker, theorist of the Bulgarian anarchist movement. Captured & executed following an attack in Sofia.



1899 -- US: The indefatigable Emma Goldman delivers 10 lectures, in German & English, in Philadelphia; speaks before the Friendship Liberal League, Ladies' Liberal League, the Fellowship for Ethical Research, the Knights of Liberty, & the Arbeiter Bund. she also helps organize a regional committee of anarchists from Philadelphia & surrounding areas.


1903 -- US: Western Federation of Miners (WFM) strike for the 8-hour working day.


1903 -- US: Composer Abel Meeropol lives, Bronx, NY.
Daily Bleed Saint 2005
"Strange Fruit" composer, Rosenberg-case activist.
Source: Autonomedia Calendar


1907 -- Leading Lithuanian poet/editor/critic & pseudonymous Vyte Nemunelis, author of popular children's books, Bernardas Brazdzionis lives, Stebeileliai.
http://members.efn.org/~valdas/brazdzionis.html



1911 -- US: Bern Porter lives, just south of Houlton, Maine, a human child, & works on the atomic bomb as a human adult, (freely creating however, yes). So be it. &, the question now is, where would Porter suggest we go on this website?

When war came, Bern was drafted for uranium separation work on the Manhattan Project, a job he quit after the bomb dropped on Hiroshima in August of 1945.

From 1944-1948, Porter & George Leite published the literary magazine "Circle 10." Bern also published Henry Miller's anti-war tract, "Murder the Murderers", becoming the first US publisher of Miller.

He actively promoted & published other writers under the Bern Porter Books imprint while developing his own art, which included found poetry...

http://www.ubu.com/sound/porter.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bern_Porter


1913 -- US: American labor gangster Jimmy Hoffa lives. (Where is this guy?)

The 29-year-old anarchist Giovanni Passannante attempted to assassinate the Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader King Humbert I, whom he stabbed & wounded.

Condemned to death, his sentence was commuted to life in prison. Every night seamen from Elba could hear Passannante’s screams of pain as he was savagely beaten. The prison governor, Simon, was to brag to Amilcare Cipriani:

1917 -- France: Emile Roger (b.1871) dies. Ardennes anarchiste, member of "Les desherities" & "Les libertaires de Nouzon." Correspondent for Gustave Hervé's paper "La guerre sociale". Died in 1917 during the war by civilized nations that ended all wars by civilized nations.
http://ytak.club.fr/janvier4.html#roger


1919 -- Colombia:

1919 - Fabric workers' strike, in Medellín, Colombia, with the worker Betsabé Espinoza as director & negotiator. Women's "swarms" are formed to protect strikers from police attacks. http://www.alasbarricadas.org/ateneovirtual/index.php/14_de_febrero

1921 -- US: In New York, Jane Heap & Margaret Anderson face obscenity charges for publishing a portion of James Joyce's Ulysses in the Little Review. They got fined $50.

  

"Little Review" reunion:
Jane Heap, Mina Loy, & Ezra Pound, Paris, c. 1923
 
 
 
 

1923 -- US: American-Italian anarchist Nicola Sacco goes on prison hunger strike.

Long ago a British judge was quoted as saying he refused clemency at popular demand to uphold the principle of capital punishment & to prove he was not to be intimidated by public protest. During Hitler's time, Himmler remarked that for the good of the state, popular complaints should be ignored, & if they persisted, the complainers should be punished. Judge Webster Thayer, during the Sacco-Vanzetti episode, was heard to boast while playing golf, "Did you see what I did to those anarchistic bastards?" The Never-Ending Wrong Katherine Anne Porter http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/oj/porterf.htm

http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/sacvan.html
http://infoshop.org/page/Sacco-Vanzetti

1925 -- In the film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre a close-up of a lottery list shows the winning numbers drawn in the Mexican National Lottery, dated February 14, 1925.

The camera pulls back to the hands of a man holding a lottery ticket.

The scraggly-looking bum, a dirty, ragged scrounger [later identified as Fred C. Dobbs "Dobbsie" (Humphrey Bogart)], tears his losing ticket to pieces.

— From John Huston's film script of the anarchist B. Traven's book, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.

1928 -- Venzuela: Pío Tamayo, poet & influential militant anarchist, arrested along with student leaders Rómulo Betancourt, Jóvito Villalba & Prince Lara. La Federación de Estudiantes demanded their release. Anti-dictatorial fighter who died 1936.


1929 -- US: St. Valentine's Day Massacre. Seven members of Chicago's Moran gang, waiting in a garage for a shipment of hijacked liquor, are executed by a Capone firing squad outfitted (fittingly?) in police uniforms.


1936 -- Spain: The CNT (anarcho-syndicalist trade union) issues a prophetic manifesto warning that right-wing elements are ready to provoke a military coup.
[See Murray Bookchin, The Spanish Anarchists, p. 273]


1937 --

Saragossa, Spain 14 y 15 de febrero

"Congreso Extraordinario de Colectividades de Aragón donde se funda la Federación de Colectividades de Aragón" Meets today & tomorrow at the Teatro Goya, in Caspe, Saragossa. 456 delegates represent 150,000 to 300,000 colectivistas, & some 275 to 500 active collectives (with still others joining soon after). Adopted measures include defending & promoting collectives, the suppression of currency, & the construction of a true federalism. http://www.alasbarricadas.org/ateneovirtual/index.php/14_de_febrero

1937 -- Scotland: Emma Goldman speaks in Glasgow to an audience of 600 on "The Part of the CNT-FAI in the Spanish Revolution" in the afternoon; & in Paisley on "The CNT-FAI & Collectivisation" in the evening.




1942 -- Jamake Highwater lives. Native American novelist / writer. Cofounder of the San Francisco Contemporary Dancers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamake_Highwater


1943 -- US: Stanley Murphy & Louis Taylor begin three-month prison hunger strike over discrimination against conscientious objectors, Danbury, Connecticut.


1945 -- Germany: Allied fire-bombing of Dresden, killing more than 135,000 German citizens, enters into its second day.

Many die of suffocation as firestorms, purposely created by dropping incendiary bombs in the raids, consume all the oxygen over large areas of the city.

To the victor goes more than the spoils, but also the cover-up of its own crimes & atrocities. The US & its Allies & its media divert attention from these by focusing on German atrocities, & especially the Holocaust.

"It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of increasing the terror, should be reviewed. Otherwise we shall come into control of an utterly ruined land."

— Winston Churchill, memorandum to Air Marshall Arthur Harris (28th March 1945), concerned with the physical & economic destruction, not the murders of innocent civilians

& "so it goes"

Collage by SaintMeister James Koehnline
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWdresden.htm
http://www.123helpme.com/assets/3017.html

1949 -- Canada: Asbestos workers begin six-month strike, Quebec.


1949 -- US: Michael Zinzun lives (d.2006). American anti-police brutality activist of African American & Apache descent.

Daily Bleed Saint 2006-2007
Anti-cop activist, African American Apache, former California Black Panther.

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

1951 -- France: During this month premier numéro des cahiers mensuels d'études sociales "Contre-Courant," in Paris. Publishes until 1968, with the aid of many collaborators, under the direction of Louis Louvet.
[Details / context]


1957 -- US: Georgia Senate unanimously approves Senator Leon Butts' bill barring blacks from playing baseball with whites.


1958 -- Too Hip?: CBS television newsman Walter Cronkite reports the Iranian government has banned rock & roll on the grounds that it's against the concepts of Islam & a hazard to health. Iranian doctors advise the "extreme gyrations" of rock & roll dances are injurious to the hips.




1959 -- Tsitsi Dangarembga lives, Mutoko in colonial Rhodesia. Zimbabwean writer, whose novel Nervous Conditions (1988) has become a modern African classic. It was awarded the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 1989. http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/tsitsi.htm


1965 -- US: Malcolm X's home fire bombed, New York City.


1966 -- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote becomes a bestseller.


1967 -- México: Treaty banning nuclear weapons in Latin America signed in Tlatelolco.

1967 -- Jim Morrison & The Doors perform at Whisky A-Go-Go, 568 Sacramento St., Frisco, California.


1968 -- The Airplane opens at the Carousel Ballroom, Van Ness Ave. & Market Street, Frisco, California.

1968 --

YOUR...       YOUR TURN...       YOUR TURN TO...          YOUR TURN TO PLAY...

Ideas improve. The meaning of words takes part in it.    EVERYTHING DISPUTABLE IS TO BE DISPUTED.    THE BLUE IN THE SKY WILL REMAIN GRAY AS LONG AS IT IS NOT REINVENTED.    Let it be said ! ! !    YOUR TURN TO PLAY, COMRADES!    — Special printing-shop of the Enraged, Nanterre, [France], 2/14/1968 14 À Nanterre comme ailleurs... (In Nanterre as Elsewhere ...), fly-poster comics by the Enragés. http://www.cddc.vt.edu/sionline/chronology/chronology.html | [Situationist Resources]

1968 --

14 février  68 "Affaire Langlois", 3 000 manifestants contre la police à la Cinémathèque française.
One of numerous incidents at universities throughout France by students demanding freedom of speech & movement, which culminates in the near-toppling of the government in May.

1970 -- US: The Chicago Seven Trial, case goes to the jury. http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/Chicago7/chicago7.html
http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Exhibits/Track16.html#Poster
http://theaction.com/Abbie/

1971 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Nixon orders secret taping system in the white House. Instructs Bob Haldeman to "get reel."



1972 --

"El Ángel Rojo"

Spain: Melchor Rodríguez García, "El Ángel Rojo," dies.



1973 -- First group of American prisoners of war (POWs), formally held by North Vietnam, arrive in the US at Travis Air Force Base, California.



1974 -- Rolling Stone reports David Bowie has turned down a Gay Liberation group who asked him to compose the "world's first Gay National Anthem."
http://www.notbored.org/bowie.html


1978 -- First 'microcomputer on a chip' patented by Texas Instruments.
http://www.austinlizards.com/songs/stupid_texas_song.mp3



1985 -- Poet/playwright/critic Douglas Stewart, dies in Sydney, Australia. Much of his work, like the retelling of a Maori legend in The Golden Lover (1944), uses myth to recreate the past.



1986 -- Frank Zappa appears on TV's "Miami Vice," playing a crime boss named "Mr. Frankie."
http://www.science.uva.nl/~robbert/zappa/



1986 -- US: Smithsonian Museum of Natural History agrees to return Native American skeletal remains for reburial when a clear biological or cultural link can be established



1989 -- Everyone's A Critic?: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Ayatollah Khomeini (aka "Chuckles") passes a sentence of death on Salman Rushdie, orders Muslims to murder the Satanic Verses novelist. (or yesterday?)

Also wants to kill Penguins (a case of black & white)?

"I inform the proud Muslim people of the world that the author of the Satanic Verses book which is against Islam, the Prophet & the Koran, & all involved in its publication who were aware of its content, are sentenced to death."

http://www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/burning/sr-death.html

"Elsewhere in the U.S. writers famous & obscure rallied in support of Rushdie, with some daring Iran to kill them along with the author of 'The Satanic Verses.' "

— Newspaper account
http://www.notbored.org/rushdie.html

1990 -- Universal Commie Plot?: Space probe Voyager 1 takes photograph of entire solar system. Scientists are shocked to discover "it's not a system, it's a collective."



1991 -- Iraq: While the military & American press are agog with their proclamations of "precision" bombing, US war planes bomb civilian shelter, killing at least 500, in Baghdad.

Graphic by Sue Coe http://www.graphicwitness.org/coe/enter.htm



1996 -- Huck?: Eva Hart, Titanic survivor, dies at 90, river rafting.


1997 -- In "Prince of Peace Plowshares," six activists pour blood & symbolically disarm the U.S.S. Sullivans at the Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine. All are eventually convicted of trespass & destruction of government property.


1997 -- Palestine: Last remaining Jahalin Bedoiin families, who had been living in the Abu-Dis area for over 40 years, are forcibly removed to make way for new Jewish settlements (illegal under the Oslo accords).

3000 --

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Sheltered in an underground meat storage locker, the Hoosier soldier managed to survive a combined American/British firebombing raid that devastated the city & killed an estimated 135,000 people — more than the number of deaths in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki combined.

After the bombing, the soldier wrote his father:

"We were put to work carrying corpses from Air-Raid shelters; women, children, old men; dead from concussion, fire or suffocation. Civilians cursed us & threw rocks as we carried bodies to huge funeral pyres in the city."

Re: Slaughterhouse Five

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/People/spok/most-banned.html
http://title.forbiddenlibrary.com/
http://www.vonnegut.com/
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/4953/vonn.html

3500 --

"Anarchist history Day book, anarchist almanac, anarchist daybook, anarchist chronology"

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