"They lived together on the Bank side, not far from the playhouse, both bachelors; lay together; had one wench in the house between them which they did so admire the same clothes & cloak, etc. between them."

"If it will satisfy you that I should know you, love you, love you — when then indeed . . . You should have my soul to stand on if it could make you stand higher."

http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/poet36.html


1860 -- US: Congress passes the Pre-emption bill, giving away Indian western territories as "free" land to white settlers. As Ayn Rand would say, since they had no fences, written titles, or any civilization, the Indians had no property rights.


1863 -- Italian fascist Gabriela d' Annunzio (1863-1938) lives, Francavilla al Mare, Pescara. Poet/novelist, military commander. His best known novel, Il Trionfo della Morte (1894) featured a Nietzschean hero. Other famous writers with nazi or fascist sympathies: Ezra Pound, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Knut Hamsun, Curzio Malaparte (later a Maoist), Wyndham Lewis, D.H. Lawrence, P.G. Woodhouse.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/dannun.htm


1896 -- Jesse "Lone Cat" Fuller lives, Jonesboro, Georgia. A country blues singer & one-man-band, he wrote the classic "San Francisco Bay Blues," among many other songs, & influenced numerous early-60s white folk-blues artists.


1898 -- Ribeiro Couto, Brazilian poet/short story writer, lives, Santos. Symbolist poet, gravitated & became a leading figure of the Modernismo movement of the early 1920's. Short stories in O crime do estudante Batista (The Crime of Bastista the Student), poetry in Um homen na multidão (A Man in the Crowd).


1898 -- US: Emma Goldman, still on her speaking tour of Feb-June (addressing 66 meetings), is among several speakers at an international celebration of the 27th anniversary of the Paris Commune in Pittsburgh attended by 300 people. http://www.library.northwestern.edu/spec/siege/index.html



1912 -- US: American Girl Guides founded. The name is changed to Girl Scouts next year. Been selling cookies ever since.

Why can't Girl Scouts be more like Boys — Scouts, that is? That's what James Dobson & his conservative Christian group want to know when it comes to gays & God.

http://www.detnews.com/2001/religion/0102/15/a06-180150.htm
http://www.lacarte.org/fairness/sexuality/boyscouts/

The preachers, cops & money-kings were working hand in hand,
The boys in blue, with stars & stripes were sent by Uncle Sam;
Still things were looking blue 'cause every striker knew
That weaving cloth with bayonets is hard to do.

— Joe Hill, from the song, "John Golden & the Lawrence Strike."

For more than nine weeks, 32,000 strikers do not waver, even when 18-year-old Syrian worker John Rami is killed, when Annie Welzenbach & her two teenage sisters are arrested & dragged from their beds in the middle of the night, or when 200 cops ("To protect & to Serve") draw their clubs on February 19th & go after 100 women pickets, knock them down & begin wailing on them. Two pregnant women are beaten so badly they lose their babies & almost die.

As we come marching, marching, unnumbered women dead
Go crying through our singing their ancient cry for bread.
Small art & love & beauty their drudging spirits knew.
Yes, it is bread we fight for — but we fight for roses, too!

— James Oppenheim, from the poem, "Bread & Roses"
(There is also an Italian song with the same title, "Pan e Rose," written by the Italian-American poet Arturo Giovannitti which is used by the Italian Dressmakers' Local 89 of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.)

http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/parton/2/breadrose.html

U. Utah Phillips has recorded "Bread & Roses," probably downloadable via Kaaza or some other music sharing site (no longer online at any of the Wobbly pages).
http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/parton/2/johngold.html#bg
http://www.marxists.org/subject/women/authors/vorse/lawrence.html
http://linux.cohums.ohio-state.edu/redir/1912_history.htm
http://www.holtlaborlibrary.org/Lawrence.html
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/12may/deland.htm

1912 -- US: Shingleworkers strike in Raymond, Washington.


1917 -- Russia: Czarist regime overthrown. State Duma & Soviet of Workers' Deputies organized.


1917 -- Russia: Abolition of the death penalty. Yup. Somebody remember to tell Uncle Joe Stalin.
http://www.moreorless.au.com/killers/stalin.html
http://english.pravda.ru/society/2001/12/19/24015.html


1922 -- Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) lives, Lowell, Massachusetts.

Novelist/poet, leading figure & spokesman of the Beat Generation. On the Road (1957) — written in three weeks. Also Dharma Bums, Mexico City Blues, Doctor Sax, Desolation Angels. His work presented a new, spontaneous, unpolished style, which appealed to a subculture of folksingers, hipsters, mystics, & writers of 50s Cold War America where conformity & witchhunts sought to impose straitjacket freedom. Pals with kooks like Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, & Ted Joans. (Ted Joans page maintained by Recollection Books.)

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/kerouac.htm
http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/essays/kerouac.htm
http://www.levity.com/corduroy/kerouac.htm

1925 -- China: Sun Yat-sen dies, Peking.


1928 -- Playwright Edward Albee (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)lives, Washington, D.C.


1934 -- Italy: L'IRI assume la proprietà della Banca Commerciale, del Credito Italiano, della Banca di Roma e di molte imprese controllate da questi istituti bancari.
[Source: Crimini e Misfatti]



1935 -- Spain: Festividad de las Fallas, Valencia, March 12-19th. Poster by Monleon, who did some of the more famous CNT-FAI posters, along with other groups during the Spanish Revolution. http://www.sbhac.net/Republica/Carteles/Monleon/Monleon.htm


1935 --

You can't wipe memory off your mustache... Poet, writer, film maker (Ariope Colliope & many others) & Seattle Native Son, Marvin Albert, lives.

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



1936 -- Virginia Hamilton, author of The People Could Fly, lives.



1936 -- Italy: Il riordino del sistema bancario sancisce l'ingerenza e il controllo da parte delle stato su tutte le banche. E si parla ancora di capitalismo!
[Source: Crimini e Misfatti]



1938 -- In the New Statesman, George Orwell assesses John Galsworthy:

He "was a bad writer, & some inner trouble, sharpening his sensitiveness, nearly made him into a good one; his discontent healed itself, & he reverted to type."

http://www.resort.com/~prime8/Orwell/
http://www.k-1.com/Orwell/bookmemo.htm
http://www.levity.com/corduroy/

1938 -- Austria: German troops occupy the country; tomorrow the Anschluss is proclaimed.



1942 -- Spain: Juan Montseny (aka Federico Urales) dies (1864-1942). Teacher, novelist, publisher, anarchist militant, companion of Teresa Mañé (Soledad Gustavo) & father of Federica Montseny.
[Details / context]

Truman claims the US must help "free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures." But in fact, the biggest outside pressure was the United States...

Truman says the world "must choose between alternative ways of life." One based on "the will of the majority . . . distinguished by free institutions"; the other on "the will of a minority . . . terror & oppression . . . the suppression of personal freedoms."

To this end, American military support, government money, & corporate capital flows into Greece to prop up what Richard Barnet (Intervention & Revolution) calls "a particularly brutal & backward military dictatorship."

American schools still teach that the Truman Doctrine advanced the spread of democracy ("Truman asked Congress for $400 million to support democracy in Turkey & Greece ... [the] Result was positive for democracy in both countries.") See, for example,
http://www.curie.cps.k12..../US%20History/topicnotes/13-3.htm

Contrast this with,
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/zinn-chap16.html#trumandoc

1955 -- Bird Lives! Jazz musician Charlie "Bird" Parker dies, 34, New York City, of heart failure. He more-or-less invented the be-bop form of music & just a week ago played at the Birdland jazz club (named after him).

http://www.charlieparker.com/
http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/5066/

1955 -- Wales: A British Avro-Tudor airliner, chartered by rugby fans attending a championship match in Belfast, crashes while landing at Cardiff; only three of the 83 aboard survive.


1955 -- Louis Esteve (né à Gaillac-sur-Tarn en 1884) dies. French individualitst anarchist. Etudes à l'université de Toulouse, poète, romancier et essayiste, auteur d'une Psychologie de l'Impérialisme (1913). Il est un fidèle collaborateur du journal anarchiste individualiste d'Émile Armand "l'En Dehors" et ensuite de "l'Unique."
http://ytak.club.fr/mars12.html


1956 -- US: Dark Ages? Nearly a hundred Congressional Representatives & Senators sign the "Southern Manifesto," vowing to fight the Supreme Court school desegregation decision.




1958 -- Jazz singer Billie Holiday, who pled guilty to a narcotics-possession charge in 1956, is given a year's probation by a Philadelphia court.



1958 -- Bulgaria: Manol Vassev (1898-1958), true nameYordan Sotirov, dies. Poisoned by his prison guards one day before his scheduled release. A popular Bulgarian militant anarcho-trade unionist & a living symbol of resistance of both fascism & Bolshevism. He also spent several years in Stalinist concentration camps before his prison years.

Manol Vassev was an anarcho-syndicalist who, as a factory worker, fought clandestinely most of his life, agitating, initiating & carrying out strikes & fights under the name Vassev. After arrests & being thrown in prison — whether by the fascist or Bolshevik regimes — he would emerge only to immediately begin the struggle anew.

The Stalinist regime sent him to concentration camps for several years, then to prison where they murdered him rather than let him out yet again.

Source: Peoples' History

1964 -- US: Malcolm X resigns from Nation of Islam.


1966 -- The Alligator Clip, the Charlatans, Sopwith Camel, & Duncan Blue Boy & his Cosmic Yo-Yo, at the Firehouse on Sacramento Street in Frisco.
Source: [Frisco History Archive]


1968 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Sen. Eugene McCarthy, an anti-war candidate, defeats Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Pres. Lyndon Johnson to win the New Hampshire Democratic primary for Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President. Wins 42% of vote, causing Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader RFK, ever the opportunist, to "reconsider" on Vietnam, & "Hey! Hey! LBJ" not to run for reelection(Great Expectations p.113).

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Voters in the New Hampshire primary give President Johnson only a narrow victory over antiwar candidate Senator Eugene McCarthy.

The New Hampshire primary election brings shocking results. The Eugene McCarthy campaign, benefitting from the work of 2,000 full-time student volunteers & up to 5,000 on the weekends immediately preceding the vote comes within 230 votes of defeating the sitting president Lyndon Johnson. These students, participants in what McCarthy refers to as his "children's crusade" have cut their hair, modified their wardrobes, & become "clean for Gene" to contact the conservative voters in the state.

[Source: WholeWorld is Watching]
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/1553/c68chron.html

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1969 -- Paul McCartney marries Linda Eastman.



1969 -- Raid the Joint?: George Harrison & wife Patti arrested in Esher, Surrey, south of London, on charges of cannabis resin possession after authorities found 120 joints in their house.

Poster by Bleedster James Koehnline
http://www.isomedia.com/homes/harpo/gallery/9600/anti-prohibition_1of1.html

1971 -- England: Fourteen-hour vigil for abolition of NATO, Ministry of Defense, London.


1971 -- Canada: British Columbia Federation of Labor Women's Committee founded.



1974 -- John Lennon has altercation with a photographer at the Troubadour in Los Angeles. Lennon & Harry Nilsson were heckling comedian Tommy Smothers & were ejected from the club.


1974 -- Ireland: Billy Fox, Protestant member of Dublin parliament, assassinated.


1976 -- The American Way? CIA plants false story of Cubans raping Angolan women & the victims shooting the rapists.

1977 --

...1977... Il Movimento Italy: Massive demonstrations nationwide against the police for the killing of a militant. In Bologna, Radio Alice is today suppressed by the government after one year of broadcasting. In Rome & Bologna armories are looted & pistols & ammunition are passed out to protesters. http://www.radiocittadelcapo.it/archiviaudio/audio.asp?augruid=7 http://www.tmcrew.org/movime/mov77/home77.htm

1978 -- Spain: 150,000 demonstrate against nuclear reactor, Lemoniz.

1980 -- Canada: Michael John Thompson, Rare Books: Half an hour before the swat team arrives, Mike is pictured in the back room (there is no other room actually) of his first bookstore (generously put) at 434 West Pender Street, Vancouver. The bum was declared a nuisance & forced to relocate to a more suitable part of town, said to be Houston, Texass, a large "Red Light District," but actually a swamp zoned "industrial wasteland" where Dow chemical workers snort, shoot & smoke napalm.
http://www.mjtbooks.com/

1980 -- US: Jury finds John Wayne Gacy guilty of murdering 33, Chicago. http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial/gacy/gacymain.htm
http://user.aol.com/Karol666/page4/gacy.htm

1980 --

Renee Lamberet dies. Professor, militant anarchist & historian. Collaborated with the historian Max Nettlau. Went to Spain in 1936, helping to produce libertarian propaganda & met her future companion Bernardo Pou-Riera. Lamberet supported clandestine anarchist activity in France & Spain after the fascist victory. Author of Mouvements ouvriers et socialistes (1953) & La première Internationale en Espagne de 1868 à 1888. Died before completing an anarchist biographical dictionary. http://ytak.club.fr/octobre04.html http://projekte.free.de/dada/btip002.htm

1982 -- Korea: 300 women workers stage a slow-down at Control Data in Seoul, protesting the firing of their union president.



1986 -- US: A Dog Meat?: Susan Butcher wins 1,158 mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.


1986 -- Spain: José Martínez Guerricabeitia (aka Felipe de Orero) dies, in Madrid, a suicide.

Martínez was an anarchist & founder of the Ruedo Ibérico publishing house in 1961, of which he was the undisputed heart & to which he devoted most of his life for the next 25 years.

See M. Iñiguez, Cuadernos para una enciclopedia histórica del anarquismo español, No 42, November 1986, Vitoria, Entry No 637.

http://www.christiebooks.com/html/history/archives6.html
http://www.iisg.nl/archives/en/files/m/10760597full.php

1988 -- Nepal: Over 90 people die in Katmandu when a hailstorm causes fans at a soccer stadium to stampede toward exits.


1990 -- Lithuania declares independence.



1990 -- Fernand Rude (aka Pierre Froment) dies. French social historian, sympathetic to libertarian / anarchist movements.
Wrote Le mouvement ouvrier à Lyon de 1827 à 1832; La révolution de 1848 dans l'Isère (1949), Allons en Icarie (1952); C'est nous les Canuts; (1954); Les révoltes des Canuts 1831-1834 (1982). For the Paris Commune Centenary Rude issued Bakunin materials, De la guerre à la Commune & Le socialisme libertaire.

"The most recent significant accession [at the Coste Collection] concerns the Rude collection: a mass of files containing handwriten pieces, papers, photos & opuscules, gathered by the historian Fernand Rude (1900-1990), centered around themes which he researched such as militant commitments throughout his life: the Resistance & the Liberation, the USSR from his first stays there in 1933, social movements, Saint Simonism, Fourierism, anarchism, uprisings in Lyon from 1831 to 1834; as well as the papers of shop foreman Pierre Charnier, witness accounts from the first organizations of worker cooperatives, to the origins of syndicalism.

http://ytak.club.fr/juin13.html

1992 -- Guatemala: Efrain Bamaca, husband of US activist Jennifer Harbury, is seized by military in the employ of the CIA; he is later tortured & killed.


1996 -- Irian Jaya (Indonesia): Rioting erupts again in the town of Timika disrupting Freeport mine operations.

Over 1,000 Irianese went on a rampage in Timika & Kuala Kencana damaging houses & hijacking vehicles. This follows a disturbance by several hundred people at Tembagapura, Freeport's mine, in the mountains 70km north of Timika on Saturday. Last week the National Human Rights Commission said it would send an investigative team to Irian Jaya following a request from the local Amungme tribal council to re-examine allegations of human rights abuses in the vicinity of the Freeport mine.

http://www.geocities.com/kk_abacus/asiaocean.html

1999 -- US: District Court in NY City grants the government's motion to enjoin operation of an unlicensed radio broadcast station known as "Steal This Radio."
http://www.gargoylemechanique.com/str/

2001 -- Robert Ludlum espied dead. Wrote fat spy & espionage books. No one reading the Daily Bleed ever read this stuff but apparently alot of other folks do. Then again, alot of other folks read Chicken Soup for the Soul. Unlike most authors, Ludlum started his career in the theatre. Like most, he's ending his career in the mortuary.


2003 -- US: CAPTAIN AMERICA: "BUSH IS NOT AMERICA... I'M AMERICA"

March 12, 2003, MOUNT RUSHMORE - Thousands of cheering veterans, anarchists, & anti-war protesters gathered here on Thursday to listen to Captain America set the record straight.

"I am tired of being called anti-American every time I criticize the President & his Administration of Evil," the star-spangled superhero told the crowd.

"George W. Bush is not America. I'm America. I've been serving this country since before he was born."

http://www.shaftagents.com/index.htm#THE LEGION OF TERROR


3000 --

“My aim is to agitate & disturb people.

I’m not selling bread, I’m selling yeast.”

      — Unamuno, wall grafitti from Paris, May 1968

http://www.bopsecrets.org/CF/graffiti.htm

4500 --

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