1858 -- France: Justice by P-J Proudhon — philosopher, economist, sociologist, anarchist — appears.

"Property is theft!"

Plays pitcher for the Armageddonia Anarchists; not as good as BleedMeister's Nummer One Son, but has a wicked slider.

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/ProudhonPierre-Joseph.htm
http://recollectionbooks.com/anow/ppl/rev/proudhon/
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/jean-pierre.proudhon/
http://www.radio4all.net/index.php?...program_id=14444

"To be governed is to be ... /siml/library/anarchQuotes.htm#ProudhonQuote

1875 -- Henry James' Transatlantic Sketches published.
http://www2.newpaltz.edu/~hathaway/


1885 -- England: Women admitted to exams at Oxford University for the first time.


1894 -- A Capitol Crime?: Jacob Coxey's protest Army of the Poor reaches Washington D.C. Led a group of 500 unemployed workers from the Midwest & arrested for trespassing on Capitol grounds.

JACOB COXEY 1999 SAINT (April 16)
Leader of "Coxey's Army" of hoboes, arrested for strolling on the White House lawn.

When they busted all the unions,
You can't make no living wage.
And this working poor arrangement,
Gonna turn to public rage.
And then get ready . . .
We're gonna bring back Coxey's Army
And take his message to the street.

— Eddie Starr, The Return of Coxey's Army, from the CD War Zone, Union Jax.

http://wbai-labor.igc.org/kensbook/zone.html

1895 -- Joseph Conrad's first novel, Almayer's Folly is published.

Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent … [constructs] anarchism as a form of fraudulent self-deception symptomatic of a widespread social degeneracy in British society. The...novel's ambivalent engagement with Nietzsche, showing how through a dialogue with Nietzschean intertexts anarchism is constructed as a form of religious fanaticism that is connected with the dangers of both foreign imperialism & the lower classes.

1895 -- Warships sent to Nicaragua to "protect" US interests. (Are there ever any others?)


1896 -- Séverin Ferandel (1896-1978) lives, in Basses-Alpes. Travel agency interpreter, anarchist militant, syndicalist, ran a radical bookstore, aided Spanish refugees, etc. while living in France & Mexico. See the Anarchist Encyclopedia page, http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/FerandelSeverin.htmalt: Severin Ferandel




1899 -- Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (1899-1974), jazz man, lives to Take the "A" Train.
http://www.schirmer.com/Default.aspx?TabId=2419&State_2872=2&composerId_2872=2311
http://www.wnur.org/jazz/artists/ellington.duke/
http://www.redhotjazz.com/duke.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Ellington

1899 -- US: Their demand that only union men be employed refused, members of the Western Federation of Miners (WFM) dynamite the $250,000 mill of the Bunker Hill Company at Wardner, Idaho, destroying it completely. Levels the playing field for a few minutes.

Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President McKinley responds by sending in black soldiers from Brownsville, Texas with orders to round up thousands of miners & confine them in specially built "bullpens." 1899 - 1901 saw US Army troops occupying the Coeur d'Alene mining region in Idaho.

[Sources]

1912 -- Terence De Vere White lives. Irish author of more than two dozen books, literary editor of the Irish Times & a leading figure in the cultural life of Dublin for over 30 years.



1913 -- Every Motel Has Some? The all-purpose zipper is patented by Gideon Sundback.
http://www.zippythepinhead.com/



1915 -- Netherlands: Women's International League for Peace & Freedom founded, The Hague.


1915 -- US: Late this month, Emma Goldman embarks on a lecture tour.

This tour is motivated primarily by need to pay off debts of her publication, "Mother Earth."

One of Emma's first engagements, in Philadelphia, is delivering "The Limitation of Offspring" in Yiddish before an audience of 1,200.

1916 -- Ireland: Irish nationalists surrender to British in Dublin.



1917 -- Visionary filmmaker, ethnologist Maya Deren lives, Kiev, Ukraine.

I make my pictures for what Hollywood spends on lipstick.

— Maya Deren

Maya did things in the Forties that other women didn't do. Somehow we never got the idea that a woman could be a film director. It's very difficult to conceive that something can be done if it hasn't been done before. It always requires an innovator, a heretic. & Maya was a heretic.

— Hella Hammid

http://www.deep-focus.com/flicker/mayadere.html

1919 -- Germany: From April 29 to May 2, government forces in Munich crush in blood the Republic of the Councils of Bavaria. Resistance results in many hard-fought street battles. Many resistors (workers, socialists, anarchists, sympathizers) are summarily executed, leaving over 700 dead.
http://www.ephemanar.net/avril29.html#baviere


1919 -- Italy: I deputati approvano a grande maggioranza (382 a favore e solo 40 contrari) la politica estera del governo caratterizzata da nazionalismo gretto e da mire espansioniste.
[Source: Crimini e Misfatti]



1933 -- Constantine Cavafy, poet, dies in Alexandria, Egypt, at 70.

http://users.hol.gr/~barbanis/cavafy/



1937 -- Spain: Late this month a poster from Friends of Durruti Group is pinned up on trees & walls throughout the city of Barcelona. In it, they set out their program:

"All power to the working class. All economic power to the unions. Instead of the Generalidad, the Revolutionary Junta."

[Source: Agustin Guillamón, Friends of Durruti Group]
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/8195/Durruti.html

1938 -- England: A literary & musical evening in London for the S.I.A. (Solidarid Internacional Antifascista) draws a small audience & is a financial flop; Ethel Mannin finds Emma Goldman's militant speech inappropriate to the occasion, organized to promote humanitarian ends.

During the Spanish Revolution the C.N.T. [Confederacion Nacional del Trabajo] floated a new international fund, principally but not exclusively for Spanish refugees, the Solidarid Internacional Antifascista (SIA). At that time the ABC (Anarchist Black Cross) was no longer in existence. The monetary support came mostly from the CNT members themselves.

After the defeat the Spanish refugees, especially in France, required massive support but all they received was that contributed by other Spanish comrades in the S.I.A.

http://flag.blackened.net/ksl/bullet3.htm
raforum.info/article.php3?id_article=240

1945 -- Poet Ezra Pound turned over to the American Army by Italian partisans as a fascist traitor.

Ezra Pound made pro-fascist radio statements in Italy during WWII. Imprisoned in Genoa, then transferred to solitary confinement in an outdoor wire cage near Pisa before incarcerating him in a nut house.

Meanwhile, back on the ranch, the US government is rehabbing Nazi's (read "anti-communist" — especially secret police, spies, scientists & bureaucrats) in Europe & helping war criminals escape prosecution, hiding them in South America & the US & elsewhere.

http://www.lit.kobe-u.ac.jp/%7Ehishika/pound.htm
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/ArchiveMirror/Parascope/ufocoldwar.htm

1945 -- US troops liberate concentration camp victims, Dachau.


1951 -- Viennese philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein dies, Cambridge, England.


1959 -- US: EnCore? CORE lunch counter sit-in in Miami.


1961 -- England. 826 arrested in nuclear disarmament demonstration, London.



1962 -- México: Day-Glo Decor? A México City boy named Henry Espinola dies of radiation poisoning. In March Henry found seven pellets of radioactive cobalt in the street, brought them home, & kept them in a cookie jar as a decoration.

Henry's mother dies on July 19. Three days later, authorities discover the pellets & remove them from the house.

Henry's sister dies August 18 & his grandmother on October 15. Only his father, who visited just on weekends, survived.

1965 -- US: An earthquake measuring 6.5 on the Richter Scale shakes Seattle, Washington, killing five & causing over $15 million in damage.


1966 -- Spain: This year has seen the formation of the First of May Group to co-ordinate Spanish resistance outside the DI (a secret section (Interior Defence) to organise & co-ordinate actions of the Spanish Resistance). Today Mgr Ussia (Ecclesiastical Counsellor to the Spanish Embassy to the Vatican) kidnapped in Rome; the first action claimed by the First of May Group.
http://www.spunk.org/library/writers/meltzer/sp001591/app1.html


1968 -- US: Rev. Ralph Abernathy succeeds Martin Luther King, Jr. as President of Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC).


1968 -- US: Hair! premieres on Broadway — back in the good ol'days when BleedMeister had hair.


1970 -- US: National Guard shoots seven students at Ohio State University.


1971 -- US: Third sabotage in as many months at Berkeley nuclear power station, Glos.
'Calendar Riots'



1973 -- Over 15,000 attending a rock concert by Elvin Bishop, Canned Heat, Buddy Miles & Fleetwood Mac are routed from a baseball stadium in Stockton, California, by police firing tear-gas canisters. More than 80 people, including 28 cops are hurt & 50 arrests are made.




1975 -- South Vietnam: The last US troops flee. Seeing the "light at the end of the tunnel," there is a mad scramble as the last American troops gracefully fall all over themselves in withdrawing from Vietnam. American Navy evacuates US personnel & a select few South Vietnamese refugees. The last American combat death in Vietnam occurs. South Vietnamese President Duong Van Minh surrenders. Tomorrow, April 30, 1975, at 8:35 am, the last Americans, ten Marines from the embassy, depart Saigon.

This is nine years after Tonkin Gulf Resolution; the resolution was based on government falsified information to dupe the Congress & the public, allowing for expanded US military actions against North Vietnam.

"...what we get mostly from the media & the textbooks & the histories is ideological, biased not in the humanist direction but towards wealth & power, expansion, militarism & conquest...

You can go back to the Spanish-American War & talk about how the history textbooks all said that the reason we got into that war was that popular opinion demanded it. Therefore the President went along. There were no public opinion polls then, no mass rallies on behalf of going into Cuba. By public opinion they meant a few powerful newspapers.

So when I get to the Vietnam War I talk about how the government manipulated the information, not only the general public, but the newspapers, Congress, how they fabricated incidents in the Gulf of Tonkin in the summer of 1964 to give Lyndon Johnson an excuse to go before Congress & get them to pass a resolution giving him carte blanche to start the war full-scale.

I talk about the history books & how they omit what the United States has done in Latin America, & how when they get to the Spanish-American War they will talk about what we did in Cuba but not much about what we did in the Philippines. The war in Cuba lasted three months, while the war in the Philippines lasted for years, a big, bloody, Vietnam-type war.

So I try to give historical examples to show how that ideology manifests itself."

— Howard Zinn, "One Step Ahead of the Landlord," Interview by David Barsamian

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

1976 -- After playing Memphis on a southern tour, Bruce Springsteen jumps the fence at Graceland to see idol Elvis Presley. Vainly mentions his simultaneous appearances on the covers of Time & Newsweek to security — but, unimpressed guards give him the boot.


1978 -- England: 10,000 demonstrate against nuclear power plant expansion, Windscale, Cumbria.



1980 -- Film & TV thriller master Alfred Hitchcock dies, Los Angeles.




1980 -- Jehan Jonas (1944-1980), chanteur libertaire, dies. Death of an anarchist talent, cabaret songster, poet, playwright. Jehan Jonas has his hour of glory in the Sixties & Seventies without ever being truly famous. A splendid artist whose texts fall in the realm between Boris Vian & Léo Ferré & Brassens, his works were subjected to the censure, & remain forgotten or ignored.

In 1964 Jonas perfomed with Léo Ferré & in 1970 performed in the Midem: Gala des Indépendants with Robert Charlesbois, Jacqueline Francois & Michel Corringe. Jonas died prematurely, his beautiful stamp of voice gone: hospitalized in Salpêtrière with a brain tumor, he died on April 29, 1980, 35 years old. "Un éternel soleil a brisé mon élan On dirait que la mort s'enrhume à l'infini Le macchabée récite un pater circoncis Et l'on part en cercueil vers l'ancien testament" www.jehanjonas.free.fr http://gastoncoute.free.fr/liens.htm

1983 -- US: Harold Washington sworn in as Chicago's first black mayor.

1992 -- US: Los Angeles riots kick off immediately following the "Not Guilty" verdict in the Rodney King trial.

Despite a videotape documenting the episode, an innocent verdict is returned in the savage police beating of African American Rodney King, leads to the worst rioting in Los Angeles history, with much destruction of property, looting, 53 deaths & hundreds of injuries.

1996 -- South Korea: Three men are arrested for protesting a nuclear power plant under construction, in violation of the country's Law Of Atomic Energy, which strictly limits the scope of permitted action in opposition to state nuclear policy.


2000 -- US: Mid-Atlantic Anarchist Bookfair. Seth Tobacman from NYC performs a slide presentation of his amazing artwork! Detrius (from the band Angry Folk!) plays acoustic Anarcho folk punk. Len Bracken on 'The artwork theory of revolution & a general theory of civil war', from his book The Arch Conspirator, with mention of LaFargue's The Right to Be Lazy.
http://www.infoshop.org/news.html


3000 --

The world that we have made as a result of the level of thinking that we have done so far, has created problems we cannot solve at the level of thinking at which we created them.

— Albert Einstein

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