[...] of homespun of oatmeal gray          without a blazon is the flag          that I hold up & do not wag. — Paul Goodman, excerpt, "Little Te Deum"

   MARCH 30

PAUL VERLAINE
Radical French decadent symbolist poet.

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LIMITED LIABILITY DAY.

Collage by SaintMeister James Koehnline

FESTIVAL OF REALITY FABRICATION.

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1282 -- Sicily: Vespers Massacre: Sicilians launch a successful revolt against the French occupation with a riot at a Palermo church, killing 2000 on the first day.


1327 -- England: Chartering of the Most Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths.


1536 -- Strangulation of Ibrahim, Grand Vizier of Turkey.


1746 -- Spanish painter Francisco Goya lives.

FRANCISCO GOYA
Politically persecuted painter of the disasters of war.

http://www.imageone.com/goya/index.html


1763 -- After dining with Lord Eglinton, James Boswell observes in his London Journal: "We drank tea. We talked on human happiness. I said I wondered if any man ever passed a whole day pleasantly."
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/boswell.htm


1820 -- English writer Anna Sewell, author of Black Beauty, lives, Norwich.


1844 -- Poet Paul Verlaine (Bonheur; Elegies) lives, Metz, France. Opened the way for free verse.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/verlaine.htm


1849 -- The first issue of the weekly periodical Household Words appears, edited by Charles Dickens; it includes the first installment of a novel, Cranford, by Elizabeth Gaskell.



1853 -- Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh lives, Groot Zundert, Brabant, Netherlands.

Van Gogh painted furiously & "The Starry Night" vibrates with rockets of burning yellow while planets gyrate like cartwheels. The hills quake & heave, yet the cosmic gold fireworks that swirl against the blue sky are somehow restful.

1853 -- Patent granted to Hyman Lipman for a pencil with an ERASER!



1855 -- US: Bands of proslavery "Ruffians" from Missouri cross the Kansas border to intimidate "free-soil" voters, & to cast illegal ballots themselves. The result: the election of legislators that strongly supported slavery in the territory.


1855 -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, writes "My Lost Youth."


1857 -- In Podhajce, Galicia, Austria (now Pidhaytsi, Ukraine), Gabriela Zapolska, lives. She first pursues an acting career in Paris &, being unsuccessful, turns to writing novels & plays.


1867 -- US: Alaska purchased from Russia for $7,200,000.



1869 -- Lithuania: Anarchist writer/activist & feminist Emma Goldman lives, Kaunas.

[Details / context]

1870 -- US: Black men win the right to vote. Poll taxes & ridiculous literacy tests to subvert the 15th Amendment of the US Constitution soon follow — enacted by the same great patriots who wave flags, gush about a free democratic society & the holy Constitution.


1880 -- Around the corner from 7 Eccles Street, Sean O'Casey lives, in the working-class ghettos of Dublin that he would later make famous. Irish playwright renowned for realistic dramas of the Dublin slums in war & revolution, in which tragedy & comedy are juxtaposed.



1883 -- France:

Sur le chemin de la préfecture Louise Michel est arrêtée
et conduite au dépôt.
[Source: Michel Chronologie]

1886 -- Granddaughter of Charles Darwin, Frances Cornford, lives, Cambridge, England, about which many of her short poems are penned. Her first book of poems was published in 1910.
"Scientific American" Gives Up On Darwin
http://www.sciamdigital.com/index.cfm?...


1900 -- Nicolas Faucier lives, in Orleans. French anarchiste, trade unionist & pacifist. Ran the bookshop "La librairie sociale," & with Louis Lecoin formed the "Comité pour l'Espagne libre," (later the SIA [solidarité internationale antifasciste]) & did a many stints in prison for his anti-war activities & only an escape during WWII saved him from the German camps. See the Anarchist Encyclopedia page, http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/FaucierNicolas.htm



1915 -- Spain: Francisco Sabaté (El Quico), anarquista guérilla extraordinaire, lives, in Barcelona.

See the Anarchist Encyclopedia page, http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/SabateFrancisco.htm

Sabater Llopart



1915 -- US: Red Emma Goldman invited by the students of the Union Theological Seminary in New York to speak on "The Message of Anarchism," but the administration cancels the engagement. The quality of "freedom" in America is a fragile thing, particularly among bureaucrats, who are rather prone to mangling it beyond recognition if given the chance.



1919 -- India: Closure of shops in protest against Rowlatt Bills begins, New Delhi.


1925 -- Anthroposophist Rudolph Steiner dies, Dornach, Switzerland.


1928 -- Carl Solomon lives, Bronx, New York.

"... who threw potato salad at CCNY lecturers on Dadaism & subsequently presented themselves on the granite steps of the madhouse with shaven heads & harlequin speech of suicide, demanding instantaneous lobotomy ..."

— From 'Howl (for Carl Solomon)' by Allen Ginsberg

... show details

Carl Solomon is famous for his friendship with Ginsberg. Despite his mental problems he had a hyperactive intelligence, & was able to teach Ginsberg (not exactly a dummy himself) about numerous important writers & obscure geniuses.

Carl Solomon's uncle was A. A. Wyn, publisher of Ace paperback books. Carl worked intermittently for his uncle, & Ginsberg pleaded with Carl & his uncle to help publish his then-unpublishable friends, William S. Burroughs & Jack Kerouac.

Ace Books finally used Burroughs' first novel, Junky as half of a pulp thriller "Two Books In One." But they were among the many publishers who turned down Kerouac's On The Road.

To: Bleed

Here's an added fact about Carl Solomon & Howl, & the CCNY Dadaism lectures

According to Maurice Isserman in his book If I had a Hammer, which is about the left in the fifties, that line is a reference to lectures about avant-garde art put on by Max Schactman, Trotskyist & leader of the Worker's League, of which such notables as Irving Howe & Michael Harrington were associated.

I guess Schactman wanted to mix things up a little bit — Isserman writes that he was much better as a friend to student intellectuals than as a recruiter for the revolution. His orientation was 'Third Camp Trotskyism' — he felt that the US & the Soviet Union were equally bad, as opposed to the more orthodox Trots who felt that despite Stalin the Soviet Union should be defended.

Isserman writes that it was Schactman himself who had the potato salad thrown at him — 'in an example of Dadist direct action.'

— Bleedster John S. Madziarczyk, March 2002 http://www.litkicks.com/CarlSolomon/

1930 -- US: Price of "Progress"? The New-Kanawha Power Company breaks ground on the Hawks Nest Tunnel & Dam, part of the New River power project, with an estimated 800 men employed.

Over the next five years, at least 476 workers, mostly migrant blacks from the South, die from silicosis. Some of the dead are buried in a mass grave to hide the actual number of casualties. Fifty years later, one study places the death toll as high as 764, making it the worst industrial disaster in US history.

[See Martin Cherniack, Hawks Nest Incident: America's Worst Industrial Disaster, & Tim McKinney, Elkem Metals: Ninety Years of Progress in the Kanawha Valley.]

http://jeff560.tripod.com/wv-hist.html

1932 -- Amelia Earhart is first woman to make solo crossing of the Atlantic.



1934 -- US: Native Rights activist Janet McCloud lives, Tulalip reservation in Washington state.

Descended from the Chief Seattle family. The Tulalip comes from fishing people & their legends are linked to salmon. Salmon to the Tulalip are like corn to the Iroquois, or buffalo to the Sioux. She became a political activist for threatened Native Fishing Rights. Arrested with others others for a 1965 "fish-in" on the Nisqually River, they were all found not guilty in 1969.

http://sapadawn.indigenousnative.org/

1936 -- Italy: Le polizie dello stato tedesco e di quello italiano concordano una strategia dei repressione di movimenti di opposizione ai loro regimi.
Source: [Crimini e Misfatti]


1945 -- Ezra Pound is turned over to the American Army by Italian partisans.

After being imprisoned for several weeks in Genoa, he is transferred to solitary confinement in an outdoor wire cage near Pisa. Meanwhile the US government is rehabbing Nazi's (especially police & spies) all over Europe & helping others escape to South America & the US with new identities.

"Go swallow a bottle of Coke & let it fizz out your ears."

— William Carlos Williams, to fellow poet Ezra Pound

1945 -- Eric Clapton, guitarist/vocalist with Cream, Derek & the Dominoes, Bluesbreakers, Blind Faith & the Yardbirds, lives.
http://www.sai.msu.su/~util/clapton.html



1953 -- Chalk This Up?: Einstein announces revised unified field theory.
http://web.archive.org/....sonic.net/~gralsto/einstein/einstein.html


1961 -- US: Former Judge Joseph Peel, Jr., convicted in Fort Pierce, Florida of masterminding the murder of another judge, who allegedly threatened to expose Peel's involvement in a liquor & lottery protection racket.


1965 -- First Owsley acid.


1967 -- Australia: Aboriginals occupy part of Wave Hill Station, Northern Territory. Gurindji cattle workers began a nine-year strike on August 23, 1966 for wage improvements which developed into a successful claim for return of traditional Gurindji lands.
http://web.archive.org/...freedomday.info/history.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_title#1966_.E2.80.93_Wave_Hill_Walk-Off
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gurindiji_Strike


1968 -- Italy: Independently conducted Fiat strike of all 100,000 workers leads to new forms of autonomous struggles nationwide in '68-'69.


1970 -- US: After years of struggle & a nationwide boycott, the United Farm Workers sign the first table-grape contract with two of California's largest grape growers.

But the victory will prove to be only one battle in a long war. By 1974, the union is threatened not only by growers but by more powerful unions. The mob-controlled International Brotherhood of Teamsters will muscle its way into the fields & sign sweetheart contracts with growers who haven't signed with United Farm Workers. The combined wealth & political power of the Teamsters & the growers nearly destroys the UFW.

1972 -- Ireland: Great Britain imposes direct rule on Northern Ireland.


1972 -- Scotland: Bomb containing 13 sticks of gelignite planted on railway line near Stranraer, Glasgow, used by the Army to transport men & equipment to ferry for N. Ireland.
Source: Chronology in Albert Meltzer's I Couldn't Paint Golden Angels
http://www.spunk.org/library/writers/meltzer/sp001591/app1.html
http://www.spunk.org/texts/groups/agb/sp000540.txt


1978 -- Philippines: 10,000 demonstrate against Marcos.


1979 -- Airey Neave has the INLA take a look under the bonnet of his car & see what they can fix for him.
Source: [Calendar Riots]


1980 -- Henry Poulaille dies.

French author, anarchiste, director of éditions Grasset, where he published proletarian authors, & the journal "Le nouvel âge littéraire," promoting worker literature & gained him the enmity of the Communist Party. See the Anarchist Encyclopedia page, http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/PoulailleHenry.htm

1981 -- US: Acting President Ronald Reagan shot by John Hinckley Jr. Near miss. Moral is, think about what you're going to do today & try to get it right first time — you may only have one shot at it.
http://deoxy.org/reagan.htm


1981 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Secretary of State Alexander Haig declares he has assumed (illegally) Acting control of the US. The Bit Part suits him, but he needs a new scriptwriter.



1982 -- West Germany: 80,000 demonstrate against nuclear power, Wackersdorf.



1987 -- Vincent van Gogh's "Sunflowers" sells for 39.9 million, almost four times the previous record paid for a single work of art.

During his lifetime, van Gogh sold one painting.

Inspires a resurgence in sunflower seed sales.

1989 -- Gladys Knight performs solo for the first time since grammar school without The Pips during a gig at Bally's in Las Vegas. Pips down.


1991 -- NY Times editorial today claims:

"America's victory in the Persian Gulf war...provided special vindication for the US Army, which brilliantly exploited its firepower & mobility & in the process erased memories of its grievous difficulties in Vietnam."

Black poet June Jordan, like many other Americans, thinks otherwise:

"I suggest to you it's a hit the same way that crack is, & it doesn't last long."
See Howard Zinn, People's History of the US, p588
http://zinnedproject.org/

1996 -- US: First annual Bay Area Anarchist Book Festival held.
In celebration of their 20th anniversary, Bound Together Bookstore Collective presents the First Annual Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair, Frisco, California.

... show details

Held in the County Fair Building in Golden Gate Park, from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. Admission is free.

Approximately 30-to-40 anarchist & alternative book, magazine, & publishing people at tables selling & distributing materials & examples of their work.

Also include spoken word performances, visual displays, entertainment, a cafe & daycare. Keynote speakers scheduled: satirist & trickster Robert Anton Wilson, author of The Illuminati Triology; sex-positive educator, author & radical feminist Susie Bright; alive-&-well Dead Kennedy Jello Biafra; & cutting edge author, Kathy Acker

http://www.spunk.org/texts/events/sp001528.html

1996 -- US: 500 march in Sunnyside, Washington in a United Farm Workers-sponsored commemoration of Cesar Chavez.




2001 -- US: Seattle raconteur & Blue Mooner Ross Lavroff (1936-2001), "voice" of the historic 1975 Apollo-Soyuz docking among other assignments as an interpreter, dies.

Ukraine-born interpreter who served numerous US government & international agencies. A long-time houseboat resident on Lake Union & a regular at the Blue Moon Tavern, where he delighted in entertaining Soviet guests & annoying the KGB.
http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=3169

2002 -- US: 7th Annual Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair, Frisco, California. Admission is free. Includes The Emma Goldman Papers Project with project literature & Emmarabilia.



2003 --

"You know the world is going crazy
when the best rapper is a white guy,
the best golfer is a black guy,
France is accusing the US of arrogance,
& Germany doesn't want to go to war."

— Alexandre de Oliveira Kappaun,
Central European University, Department of Gender Studies

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If we feel the least degradation in being amorous, or merry or hungry, or sleepy, we are so far bad animals & miserable men.

— William Morris

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