Giovanni Rossi (photo tirée du magazine Orto), courtesy L'Ephéméride Anarchiste

As a youth Henri Willems worked as a sculptor, & in 1893 ran "Libertaire". Prohibited by the police today, in 1895 Willems was sent to prison for 2 -1/2 years for his writings in both "Libertaire" & the newspaper "Antipatriote".

[Source: L'Ephéméride Anarchiste]

In an 1857 address Douglass proclaims (quote): "If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, & yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder & lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did & it never will."

http://www.frederickdouglass.org/douglass_bio.html

http://www.spunk.org/texts/places/russia/sp001861/bolintro.html http://ytak.club.fr/fevrier3.html#20

1898 -- Boogie-woogie pioneer Jimmy Yancey, lives, Chicago. A mainstay in the jazz & blues circles in Chicago, playing at after-hours joints & rent parties. Piano pieces such as "Yancey Stomp," & "State Street Special," were signature songs. No matter what key he played in, he ended every song in the key of E flat. Inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1986, but, despite his success as a musician, he earned his living for 26 years as a groundskeeper at Comiskey Park for baseball's Chicago White Sox.


1900 -- England: Emma Goldman speaks out against the Anglo-Boer War at a meeting of the Freedom Discussion Group; lectures on "The Effect of War on the Workers."




1902 -- Nature photographer Ansel Adams lives, Frisco, California.

Daily Bleed Saint April 22, 2003-05
Sensitive photographer of natural beauty, celebrant of wild(er)ness.
http://www.twbookmark.com/features/anseladams/

1907 -- US: Immigration Act authorizes the president to exclude Japanese.


1912 -- Pierre Boulle lives, Avignon, France. Novelist who successfully combined adventure & psychology based largely on experiences in Southeast Asia.

Best known for two vastly different novels: The Bridge on the River Kwai, a WW II tale of morality & madness among British troops in a Japanese prison camp. Boulle received an Academy Award for the best screenplay, for which he had not written a word. Actually much of the screenplay was written by Michael Wilson, a blacklisted writer, & Carl Foreman. Boulle also wrote Planet of the Apes. The key line in the film is:

"Get your stinking paws off me, you damn dirty ape."

1915 -- US: Mother Earth "Red Revel" Ball takes place in New York City; attended by close to 800 people of many nationalities. Them anarchists do know how to party!
Source: Emma Goldman Papers

1916 -- US: Celebration in New York City for Margaret Sanger following the dismissal of all charges against her; Robert Minor's motion for Emma Goldman to speak at the meeting is not supported.



1918 -- England: Inter-allied Labour & Socialist conference opens in London.


1920 -- Eugene O'Neill's Beyond the Horizon, opens at the Neighborhood Playhouse in NY.


1924 -- France: In a Parisian restaurant Ernesto Bonominitakes revenge for the beating murder of his teacher/friend by a squad of fascist thugs in Italy, silencing Nicola Bonservizi, secretary of "Faisceau," a writer for "L'Italie Nouvelle" & Mussolini's fascist paper, "Popolo d' Italia," with several shots from his revolver. The brutal murder in June, of Giacomo Matteotti, an Italian socialist & antifascist politician, by Mussolini's henchmen, creates a sympathetic atmosphere for Bonomini: facing a possible death sentence, he gets eight years hard labor (later commuted to prison time).
[Further details]


1924 -- France: During an extraordinary congress held to save the daily Le Libertaire from bankruptcy, the U.A. (Union Anarchiste) creates the association "Amis du Libertaire" (Friends of Libertaire).
http://libertaire.org/article132.html
http://public.federation-anarchiste.org/article.php3?id_article=105

1925 -- Robert Altman lives. Film director, M*A*S*H, Straw Dogs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Altman



1926 -- France: Jules Durand (1880-1926) dies. Anarchist, revolutionary trade unionist, secretary of the Le Havre coalmen's union.

Durand fell victim to a politico-legal skullduggery following a death in a brawl, for which he is wrongly blamed & sentenced to death. Corrupt witnesses & a ignominious press campaign led to a death sentence on November 25, 1910. On November 28, in a show of solidarity & to fight this injustice, a protest strike is called in Le Havre, which spread internationally, to English & American docks.

1927 -- US: Roy Cohn, lawyer, "Grand Inquisitor" for Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Senator Joseph McCarthy, lives. In the name of protecting individual liberties they trample the rights of anyone that suits them. Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Robert Kennedy is one of their assistants.



1927 -- US: Golfers in South Carolina arrested for violating the Sabbath.


1928 -- Canada: Emma Goldman embarks for France from Halifax, Nova Scotia.



1929 -- "American" Samoa is organized as a US territory. Free, Free at last!


1933 -- US: First time the Federal government seizes & classifies a book to prevent publication (Herbert O. Yardley's Japanese Diplomatic Secrets).


1934 -- US: Utopian Society in Los Angeles starts a chain-letter campaign informing US citizens that "Profit is the root of all evil." Spread the word...


1934 -- Virgil Thomson's opera Four Saints in Three Acts opens in NYC. Gertrude Stein, the librettist, attends, after years abroad.


1937 -- Nancy Wilson, jazz singer, lives, Ohio. Feel Like Making Love.


1937 -- US: National Lawyers' Guild founded.
http://www.nlg.org/


1937 -- England: Spanish exhibition opens, to raise funds for Spanish refugees. (A broad English coalition sympathetic to the Republican cause mounted the exhibition of photographs, cartoons, posters, & pamphlets from Spain. It is a financial failure, & in March, & in response, Emma Goldman begins organizing a benefit in London.)



1938 -- England: Emma Goldman speaks at a small meeting arranged by the ILP in Eastbourne at which Communists in the audience attack her.
Emma Goldman Papers


1941 -- Now That the Buffalo Are Gone, Buffy Sainte-Marie, folksinger, lives, Canada. Wrote the popular protest song "Universal Soldier" (1964).

She was ... born on one of the reservations in the Quappele Valley in Saskatchewan, I think the Pasqua Reserve but I am not certain of which one. She was apparently adopted & grew up in Maine & Massachusetts...

— Bleedster Pat M.

http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0003082

1941 -- John Ford movie "Tobacco Road" is released.

Erskine Caldwell's once-scandalous novel Tobacco Road resulted in an equally steamy stage play by Jack Kirkland, which became one of the longest-running productions in Broadway history. This story of indigence & amorality amongst inbred "poor whites" had to be heavily expurgated for movie consumption...it would have been impossible under prevailing censorship to include the play's famous opening scene, in which the family watches intently while a teenage girl masturbates...

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
MPAA Rating: NR (Suitable for Children)

1942 -- Norway: Teachers begin successful nonviolent strike against Nazification of schools.


1942 -- Lieutenant Edward "Butch" O’Hare becomes the first US Navy flying ace of World War II while defending the U.S.S. Lexington from a Japanese bomber attack.

In November of 1943, he was killed in action over the Gilbert Islands. Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport & the US destroyer O’Hare were later named in his honor.

1942 -- US: First boatload of 172 Issei internees departs from Honolulu for mainland concentration camps.



1943 -- Mexico: New volcano Paracutin erupts in farmer's corn patch.


1946 -- Texass: The "Texarcana Moonlight Murderer," never-caught killer of five, attacks his first Lover's Lane couple, pistol-whipping the man & raping the woman; both survive, Texarcana, Texass.


1947 -- US: 15 killed & 100 injured as an explosion levels a Los Angeles, California, electroplating plant where a chemical mixing error occurred. Damages several nearby buildings.



1950 -- Dylan Thomas arrives in New York for his first series of American poetry readings. Welsh poet, drunk, high-liver, lifestyle libertarian.

Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn & rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night. Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Wild men who caught & sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night. Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight Blind eyes could blaze like meteors & be gay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. And you, my father, there on the sad height, Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray. Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. http://www.dylans.com/ http://www.guerilla-films.com/dt/dthomas.htm

1950 -- US: Air Force B-36 bomber carrying an H-bomb develops engine trouble over the Pacific off Vancouver Island, crew members detonate the bomb (with its plutonium core removed), scattering 45kg of highly enriched uranium into the atmosphere. Five crew members die.


1950 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Senator Joe McCarthy speaks to the US Senate for 6 hours on the 81 State Department employees he claims are Communists. Inspires the Leiber & Stoller classic song "Yakety-Yak," recorded by the Coasters.
http://bojack.org/fastsearch?query=coasters


1952 -- Bogart/Hepburn movie "The African Queen" is released.


1954 -- US: Secretary of the Army Robert Stevens orders army officers to ignore Beloved & Respected Comrade Witch-Hunter Senator Joseph McCarthy's subpoenas.


1956 -- US: American government rejects Soviet proposal to ban nuclear weapons tests & deployment.
http://www.shundahai.org/US_Atmospheric_Nuclear_Tests_Database.htm
http://www.aracnet.com/~pdxavets/

1958 -- ¶ During this month Beatster Jack Kerouac's The Subterraneans is published by Grove Press.
http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/essays/kerouac.htm



1960 -- US: Jimi Hendrix's first concert, at Seattle's Garfield High School. BleedMeister attended Ballard High across town at this time. There was not a single black face in Ballard (Little Scandinavia) in those good ol days.


1962 -- US astronaut John Glenn orbits earth 3 times in the Mercury capsule Friendship 7.


1963 -- US: Greenwood, Mississippi: SNCC Voter Registration headquarters & 4 Negro businesses burned.



1967 -- Kurt Cobain, of Seattle grunge band Nirvana, lives.
http://members.tripod.com/~react2/kurt.htm



1968 -- US: The Fugs exorcise the grave of Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Senator Joe "I have here in my hand..." McCarthy, Appleton, Wisconsin. [Due to the Daily Bleed's High Family Decency Standards, we cannot speculate on what part of his anataomy was in hand.]
[Bleedster Scott shares some fuggin' grave details]


1968 -- US: State troopers use tear gas to stop demonstrations at Alcorn A&M College.


1968 -- US: FBI sends Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President "Hey! Hey! LBJ" a memo on Martin Luther King's sex life.



1970 -- US: Judge Hoffman sentences the convicted Chicago 7 defendants.
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/


1970 -- England: Three students captured as they are about to firebomb Barclays Bank.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/gallery/galleryindex.htm#AngryBrigade




1971 -- US: National Emergency Center erroneously orders US radio & TV stations to go off the air. The mistake wasn't resolved for 30 minutes.



1974 -- Year of oil shortages; Exxon announces annual $2,500,000,000 profits. (A pittance compared to the record breaking profits it & other major oil corporations make off people's misery, post-Hurricane Katrina, in the fall of 2005.)


1981 -- Canada: 4,000 protest the Feb. 5 police raids on gay bathhouses, Toronto.


1984 -- Faroes Islands' Parliament declares country a nuclear-free zone.


1984 -- US: Supreme Court upholds ruling that 12 acres taken by Port of Tacoma, in Washington state, worth $112 million, belong to the Puyallup Indians.


1985 -- Clarence Nash, voice of Donald Duck, dies.


1985 -- Sot Chitalada, Thailand, kayos Charlie Magri & retains WBC flywt title belt. However, he should have been wearing a money belt...his $104,000 purse is stolen by a ringside pickpocket.


1986 -- Grenada: Beloved & Respected Comrade Castro Reagan visits this US-occupied country & inaugurates a Cuban-built airport. A fine tribute to Free Market Communism...


1987 -- US: Unabomber's 12th bomb injures one at CAAM's, Inc., Salt Lake City, U-Tah.


1988 -- Brazil: 500 die in heavy rains in Rio de Janeiro.



1990 -- US: A garden snail named Verne is clocked at 0.233 cm/s over 31 cm, Michigan. He was cheatin' (he had afterburners strapped to his shell).
http://www.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/web/web_990430-F-0000B-002.jpg


1991 -- Albania: Uprising.


1991 -- England: Residents chase poll tax bailiffs out of the Marsh Estate, Lancaster.
[Source: Calendar Riots]


1996 -- Bad Rap?: Rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg & bodyguard found not guilty of first-degree murder. The jury deadlocks on voluntary manslaughter charges, a mistrial is declared.




1997 -- US: Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream introduces a new flavor — Phish food — named after rock group Phish. Contains chocolate ice cream, marshmallows, caramel & fish-shaped fudge. Hope they cleaned them first...anything I can't stand is Fudge Phish that haven't been cleened!



1998 -- Afghanistan: A doctor amputates the hand of Hameedullah, 18, on orders of the Taliban; 10,000 spectators turn out for the entertainment.


2003 -- US: 2nd annual National Day of Solidarity with Muslim, Arab & South Asian Immigrant.

"Nobody seems to know what my crimes are.

The charges are vague but ... I am actually on trial for Sex, Drugs, & Rock & Roll...

"Firework shells carrying the sealed ashes of "gonzo" journalist Hunter S. Thompson arrived in an armored truck at his mountain home as final preparations..."

November 2004: "We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world, a nation of bullies & bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. "We are not just Whores for power & oil, but killer whores with hate & fear in our hearts. We are human scum, & that is how history will judge us. "No redeeming social value. Just whores...." http://www.omegagrafix.com/mouseover/HST.swf http://www.gonzo.org/hst/pix/gonzo2.swf http://www.gonzo.org/ http://dir.salon.com/topics/hunter_s_thompson/