Jules Valles was involved in the Revolution of 1848 & a Proudhonist imprisoned in 1853 for a conspiracy against the Emperor. He launched the weekly magazine "The Street," on June 1, 1867, involving artists & writers such as Emile Zola & Gustave Courbet before it was suppressed.

1848 -- George Eliot writes a friend who recommended she read Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre: I "shall be glad to know what you admire in it . . . the book is interesting — only I wish the characters would talk a little less like the heroes & heroines of police reports."
http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Eliot.html


1848 -- Czechoslovakia: Continental revolution continues with the uprising in Prague.
[Source: Calendar Riots]


1854 -- US: In less than four hours, the First San Francisco Vigilance Committee tries, convicts, & hangs their first victim, John Jenks, for stealing a safe, Frisco, California.


1872 -- Canada: Labor unions legalized.


1877 -- US: Great Railroad Strike begins.


1880 -- US: Jeannette Rankin, first women American senator lives, Missoula, Montana.

1882 -- Egypt: Anti-foreign riots led by Arabi Pasha begin in Alexandria — 50 Europeans massacred.


1888 -- Italy: Martyred Italian-American anarchist Bartolomeo Vanzetti lives. See 1920-21 below.



1889 -- Australia: Australian Labour Federation is formed by unions in Brisbane.


1894 -- US: At the first regular convention of the American Railway Union, delegates vote unanimously to urge a boycott of Pullman cars.
[Details / context]




1895 -- Charles Duryea patents a gas-driven automobile.


1898 -- Cuba: US marines land in Guantanamo during the Spanish-American War. Great place for the military to imprison, interrogate & torture prisoners & not have to answer to US laws.


1899 -- Yasunari Kawabata lives (1899-1972), Osaka, Japan. The first Japanese winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1968).
http://nobelprize.org/
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/kawabata.htm

1900 -- Leopoldo Marechal lives, Buenos Aires. Argentine writer/critic known for his philosophical novels. Employed modernists techniques, & his Adán Buenosayres (1948) is a precursor of the Latin-American new novel.



1903 -- William Ernest Henley dies. Poet, dramatist, editor, critic. An amputee, cared for by Joseph Lister. R. L. Stevenson was a lifelong pal. His most famous poem, "Invictus," contains the line:

"My head is bloody, but unbowed."

1906 -- US: The US Congress passes the Employer's Liability Act (later found unconstitutional).


1911 -- American poet Josephine Miles lives.
http://library.wustl.edu/units/spec/manuscripts/mlc/miles/


1912 -- England: A national strike of transport workers begins in Britain.



1913 -- US: 1 Strike & You're Out?: Cops shoot Black & White IWW (Industrial Workers of the World)/AFL maritime workers striking against United Fruit company in New Orleans, killing one, wounding two.

Oh the companies keep a sharp eye
And pay their respects to the army
To watch for the hot-blooded leaders
And be prepared for the junta to
crush them like flies.

So heavy the price that they pay
As daily the fruit it is stolen...

       — Phil Ochs, "United Fruit"

[Sources]
http://www.iww.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company

1913 -- Philippines: US Gen."Black Jack" Pershing orders an attack on the Moros in Bud Bagsak.

500 Moro built a stone fort during the first months of 1913, at Bud Bagsak.

Today the American military attacked. John Browning, inventor of the Colt 0.45 pistol tested his new pistol here. After four days, armed mostly with kris, barongs, spears & few guns, every warrior, woman, & child fell.

Reminiscent of the Battle of Bud Dajo (March 7, 1906), when the

http://www.msc.edu.ph/centennial/hero/armm/page10.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bud_Bagsak

1914 -- US: Emma Goldman finishes lectures in Los Angeles (May 15-June 11) delivering anarchist propaganda & modern drama lectures, which includes discussion of Irish playwright Seamus O'Kelly.

Emma's propaganda lectures include "Revolution & Reform—Which?" & "The Place of the Church in the Labor Struggle." She reports to birth-control advocate Margaret Sanger that "Not one of my lectures brings out such a crowd as the one on the birth strike & it is the same with the W[oman] R[ebel]." Margaret Sanger participated in the Patterson Textile Strike of 1913 which she wrote about in Hippolyte Havel's "Revolutionary Almanac." She also contributed articles to Havel's "Revolt," Emma Goldman's "Mother Earth," Alexander Berkman's "The Blast" & "The Modern School" magazine.

1917 -- US: Metal Mine Workers Union strike begins, Butte, Montana. The new union, formed just 6 days ago to protest the draft for World War I & the rustling card system, find special impetus following the Granite Mountain disaster of the 8th (worst disaster in US metal mining history). The Smelter workers held out until September 16th & the MMWU until December 28th.
http://web.archive.org/...scripophily.net/parsilandcop.html
http://www.butteamerica.com/labor.htm


1919 -- Italy: Scioperi in Liguria e in Toscana per protestare contro il rialzo dei prezzi (quadruplicati tra il 1913 e il 1918) con la discesa dei salari reali e l'inflazione provocata dal deficit statale.
[Source: Crimini e Misfatti]



1920 -- US: Bartolemo Vanzetti — despite having no previous criminal record — is indicted for the Bridgewater hold-up. The anarchist is quickly brought to trial, convicted, & sentenced to the maximum sentence of 12 - 15 years by Beloved & Respected Comrade Judge Thayer, a rather stupid & prejudiced example of justice in America.


1921 -- US: In the Sacco & Vanzetti trial, Lola Andrews testifies she had spoken to a man working under a car in front of the shoe factory the day of the robbery & identifies Sacco as the man. She denies stating during an interview that a picture of Sacco did not resemble the man she had seen.
[Sacco-Vanzetti Sources]



1922 -- Robert Flaherty's silent documentary "Nanook of the North" opens.

ROBERT FLAHERTY
Daily Bleed Saint, February 16, 2004. Innovative "documentary" cinematographer, activist.



1922 -- Spain: The anarcho-syndicalist CNT withdraws its provisional affiliation with the Third International in favor of the International Workers Association (IWA).

National Congress of the CNT convenes at Saragossa (June 11-12) & decides to withdraw from the Red Trade-Union International & to send delegates to an international anarcho-syndicalist conference held in Berlin in December, from which resulted a "Workers' International Association."

From the time of this breach Moscow bore an inveterate hatred for Spanish anarchism. Joaquin Maurin & Andres Nin were disowned by the CNT & they founded the Spanish Communist Party. In 1924 Maurin published a pamphlet declaring war to the death on his former comrades, a threat carried out during the Spanish Revolution when the Communists began assassinating anarchists.
[Source/Details, here]

1925 -- American author William Styron lives, Newport News, Virginia. Wrote Sophie's Choice.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/styron_w.html


1925 -- China: British sailors fire on Chinese demonstrators in Hankow .
[Source: K.S. Karol]



1925 -- Canada: During a mine workers strike against the British Empire Steel Corporation (BESCO) in Cape Breton, drunken company police charge on horseback beating all who stood in their path, then ride through the school yards, knocking down innocent children while joking that the miners are at home hiding under their beds.

A company president had sneered,

"We hold the cards, they will crawl back to work..."

The collieries are not worked & today, now called Davis Day, because of the murder of a New Waterford coal miner William Davis today by these same thugs, is observed as a civic holiday in the area mining towns. A monument in Davis Square tells the story of the 1925 strike.

[Details / context]

1926 -- US: First 40-hour work week in the country, won by NY fur workers.


1929 -- México: Student strikers occupy buildings of Universidad Nacional de Mexico.



1931 -- Spain: National Congress of the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) held in Madrid.
http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/library/utopia.htm



1934 -- Germany: Richard Strauss accepts an autographed photo of Hitler on his birthday. (See also 1940).
http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/arts/musReich.htm


1937 -- Russia: Soviet tribunal sentences eight high army generals to death for alleged conspiracy with Germany - they are shot tomorrow, making Beloved & Respected Comrade Uncle Joe very happy. Hitler, too.


1938 -- King & Queen of England taste their first "hot dogs" at FDR's party. "Grey Poupon, old chum?"


1940 -- US: US: NYC Board of Transportation takes control of the IRT & BMT subway lines.
[Source]


1940 -- Just Another Day at de Government SlaughterHouse: Britain Australia & France declare war on Italy; Princess Juliana of the Netherlands arrives in Canada; In Africa, Italy & UK bomb each other's positions; Rheims falls to the Germans; French declare Paris an open city; US Congress appropriates $1.49 billion for the navy; Richard Strauss gives his score of "Festmusik" to the Japanese ambassador in Berlin as a gesture of Axis unity. Whew!


1941 -- Palestine: French planes loyal to the Vichy government bomb Tel Aviv.


1945 -- China: Earth First!?! Mao delivers speech "The Foolish Old Man Who Removed the Mountains."



1947 -- US: WW II sugar rationing finally ends (began May 28, 1942).



1949 -- US: Truman calls for rearming Europe & no reduction in the Marshall Plan. Not enough dead from two World Wars waged by governments.


1955 -- France: Le Mans race car accident kills 83 spectators, race continues.


1956 -- US: InSensitive Supreme Court rules the US cannot summarily dismiss "security risks" in nonsensitive jobs.


1956 -- Final date in Tanizaki Junichiro novel The Key.


1957 -- China: Students fight cops & attack Communist Party HQ in Hang Yang, Workers' Paradise. "The Revolution is Dead! Long Live the Revolution!
[Source: Calendar Riots]


1957 -- ¶ During this month Beatster Jack Kerouac's "Neal & the Three Stooges" (from Visions of Cody) is published in "New Editions 2."
http://www.stoogeworld.com/


1959 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Postmaster General bans D.H. Lawrence's book, Lady Chatterley's Lover from the mails (for containing the words "fuck" & "cunt" & an explicit description of the sex act; not to worry, today people have Internet "filters," including a few Bleedsters who will not get their mail from us today). A perceptive guy, he labels it:

"Pornographic, smutty, obscene, & filthy."

1962 -- US: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the group that pioneers the 60s protest movement, meets June 11th-16, & will issue the Port Huron Statement.
[Details / context]


1963 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Governor George Wallace tries to prevent desegregation by blocking entrance of two black students to University of Alabama. Confronted by Alabama National Guard, placed under Federal control by Kennedy. The two Negro students quietly register. Kennedy gives a tv speech, addresses the nation & says segregation is morally wrong & promises a Civil Rights bill, which Southern Democrats vow to block.

US: Anti-segregation demonstrations. In Cambridge, Maryland, 25 arrested outside courthouse. Previous demonstrations & arrests took place in Tallahasee, North Carolina, & Danville, Virginia where 40 of 65 demonstrators are sent to the hospital; today 200 in Danville protest the police brutality.

1964 -- Laos: Thai pilots in US planes with Laotian markings bomb Pathet Lao HQ.


1965 -- England: It's announced that The Beatles will receive MBE awards from Queen Elizabeth. This sparks controversy & some previous winners turn their medals in. John Lennon returns his in 1969 protesting Britain's support of the US involvement in Vietnam.


1965 -- England: What's Happening? 7,000 turn out for the first "Happening": Wholly Communion, with those rascally anarchists Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gregory Corso, along with a bunch of English poets (Adrian Mitchell), at the Royal Albert Hall, London.This historic Beat underground reading also includes Alexander Trocchi, Voznesensky, et al. Poems & images are captured on Peter Whitehead's film.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Poetry_Incarnation


1965 -- US: Chicago cops arrest 526 school-segregation protesters (-June 15).


1966 -- Janis Joplin makes her first appearance on stage, at the Avalon ballroom in Frisco. She began her professional career at age 23 with Big Brother & The Holding Company.

"Don't Compromise Yourself — It's All You Got!"

I'm buried alive, oh yeah, in the blues,
I'm buried alive, somebody help me, in the blues.
I beg for mercy, I pray for rain,
I can't be the one to accept all this blame,
Something here trying to pollute my brain,
I'm buried alive, oh yeah, in the blues.

1966 -- Vietnam: US troop levels in Vietnam are increased from 267,000 to 285,000. See the light?



1968 -- France '68: In the factories of Peugeot-Sochaux, two die, including the worker Pierre Byelot, killed by the hated CRS.

11 juin 68 Manifestations après la mort de Gilles Tautin.
Réoccupation de Flins par les grévistes. au quartier Latin.

"It is forbidden to forbid. Freedom begins by forbidding something: interference with the freedom of others." — Wall graffiti, Paris 1968 http://www.engelen.demon.nl/fqtrspl.htm#QUE

An election campaign started on 10 June, & there are still some violent incidents, especially today as 400 are hurt, 1500 arrested & a demonstrator is shot & killed at Montbéliard. Tomorrow, demonstrations are forbidden in France. The day after, students are evicted from the Odéon & two days later, from the Sorbonne.

In the first round of the elections, the federation of leftist parties & the communists lose ground. In the second round a week later, the parties of the right win an overwhelming majority. Leftist groups lose 61 seats & the communists 39. Pierre Mendés-France is not re-elected in Grenoble.

[Sources]

1968 -- Spain: F.C. Barcelona es campeón de copa.
http://www.elmundo.es/larevista/num132/textos/crono.html


1970 -- Leopoldo Marechal, Argentine writer/critic, dies in Buenos Aires. Driven into virtual seclusion with the fall of Juan Perón.




1970 -- US: The "Helix," Seattle's first underground newspaper, folds.

Paul Dorpat & associates published the first edition of "Helix" & readers quickly snapped up the first 1,500 copies of the 12-page, multi-colored "counter culture" tabloid.

"Helix" grew out of discussions at the Free University of Seattle, an alternative college in the University District, & reflected the rapid rise of "underground newspapers" such as "The Berkeley Barb," San Francisco's "Oracle," & New York's "East Village Other."

In addition to Dorpat, author Tom Robbins (Another Roadside Attraction), Gene Johnston, Ray Collins (illustrator), Bleedster Scott White, & Gary Finholt are contributors to the first issue.

"Helix" published a total of 125 biweekly & weekly editions before folding today.

See former staffer Walt Crowley's Rites of Passage: A Memoir of the Sixties in Seattle (University of Washington, 1995).

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&File_Id=1990
http://books.google.com/books...scott+white+helix

Article on Scott White, from "Pacific Magazine":
http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/ScottWhite/scottWhitePacificMag1.jpg
http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/ScottWhite/scottWhitePacificMag2.jpg

1970 -- US: The International Union announces that UAW Local 598 will represent workers at the Truck Plant & the seniority lists of the two plants (which had been represented by Local 659 & Local 598) will be merged as one. In about two weeks Fisher Body 2 goes out of existence.

The 67 day strike at General Motors in the Fall of 1970 is a classic example of the anti-employee nature of the conventional strike....

See John Zerzan's "Organized Labor versus 'The Revolt Against Work'"

[Details / context]

1970 -- England: The anarchist Stuart Christie's home is raided with explosives warrant. Bombings continue this month & throughout the year.
http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/library/AngryBrigade/1970.html



1971 -- US & Japan sign accord to return Okinawa to Japan. Among the details is picking a date & time when everybody will switch from driving on the right side of the road to the left. Just for a moment, think about that one... & imagine trying this in an era of .357 road rage.



1971 -- US: Nineteen-month occupation by Native American protesters of Alcatraz Island, in San Francisco Bay, ends.



1972 -- US: The controversial 62-minute XXX-rated film, "Deep Throat," opens at the Mature World Theatre in New York City. Linda Lovelace starred, or, whatever...

Originally, the Cigarette-Smoking Man was to have killed the alien who survived the West Virginia crash of Christmas 1991.

But he flipped a coin & Deep Throat lost, so he had to do it.

1973 -- US: Women are licensed to box or wrestle in Pennsylvania following a ruling by the Justice Department of the State of Pennsylvania.


1973 -- Spain: General Strike against General Franco, in Pamplona.



1974 -- US: Wildcat! Labor dispute at the Chrysler Truck Facility erupts into a spontaneous strike, June 11 - 14 in Motor City, Michigan. As two Dodge Truck strikers wrote, "[we wanted] to free ourselves from the tyranny of the workplace; stop being forced to sell our labor to others; stop others from having control over our lives." For four days, the collective decision of thousands of Chrysler employees was to say no to the demands of the alarm clock, production line, bosses, union bureaucrats, judges, & cops.
See Wildcat Dodge Truck, June 1974 by Millard Berry with Ralph Franklin, Alan Franklin, Cathy Kauflin, Marilyn Werbe, Richard Wieske & Peter Werbe (Detroit: Black & Red, no date [ca. 1974]).



1977 -- US: Seattle Slew wins the Belmont Stakes & the Triple Crown.


1981 -- US: First baseball player's strike in major-league history begins midseason after Seattle defeats Baltimore 8-2. For two months, the nation's favorite pastime was watching negotiations between the players' union & team owners. Things got worse in 1994. Baseball is not the nation's favorite pastime anymore...



1981 -- Cannibal Issei Sagawa kills Dutch student.
http://www.grudge-match.com/History/lector-dahmer.shtml


1984 -- US: 3 Ouldas & You're Out?: Supreme Court declares illegally obtained evidence may be admitted at trial if it could be proved that it would have been discovered legally. Coulda, woulda, shoulda? 1984 indeed.


1988 -- England: Nelson Mandela Freedomfest is held in London's Wembley Stadium , $4 million is raised for antiapartheid groups.


1989 -- Canada: Folk musicians, including Ian & Sylvia, Gordon Lightfoot & Murray McLauchlan, give a free concert to protest an Alberta dam.


1990 -- Bulgaria: June 11-18, barricades & anarchists in the streets of Sofia against the election manipulations of the various political forces.


1990 -- US: Supreme Court strikes down a federal flag-burning law.


1990 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Actor Ronnie Reagan's national security adviser John Poindexter is a crook, sentenced to six whole months for his role in the Iran-Contra Conspiracy.


1991 -- Nature Calls?: Mount Pinatubo erupts, Philippines, becoming the first act of nature ever to permanently close a US military installation.



1991 -- Shades of Saddam? Amnesty International says Kuwait is using torture & conducting unfair trials.


1991 -- Madagascar: 100,000 protest against the government, Antananarivo.


1994 -- US: Prairie Peace Park & Maze opens at Interstate 80 exit of Pleasant Dale, Nebraska.

Torn Notebook Coosje Van Bruggen / Claes Oldenburg, Lincoln, Nebraska http://www.pbs.org/net/tornnotebook/

1998 -- US: Drug paraphernalia law goes into effect today, State of Washington. Penalties range from $250, to having your carburetor finger cut off for repeat offenders. Proponents declare:

"Since marijuana is the gateway drug, elimination of the *bong toke* will mean the end of all drug use by Monday."

http://www.lotusglass.com/

1998 -- US: Washington Supreme Court declares first Amendment protection for calculated lies in political campaigns. Whew! If they'd ruled the other way, there would be no politicians allowed in the state.


2000 -- Canada: Protests begin at the World Petroleum Congress, Calgary.


2001 -- US: A bomb explodes at an abortion clinic in Tacoma, Wash.; no injuries.



2002 -- US: Earth First! activists win $4.4 million in a false-arrest lawsuit against Oakland police & the FBI (they were arrested for bombing their own car while they were in it...to protect & "preserve"?).

A Federal jury returns a stunning verdict in favor of Judi Bari & Darryl Cherney in a landmark civil rights lawsuit.

Daily Bleed Saint Nov. 4
Ecological activist, fiddler, labor radical, Earth-First warrior.

"Ten jurors got a good, hard look at the FBI & they didn't like what they saw."

The jury unanimously finds six of the seven FBI & OPD defendants framed the two militants in an effort to crush Earth First! & chill participation in Redwood Summer, awarding them $4.4 million in damages. See the award-winning documentary The Forest For The Trees, detailing Judi's 12-year lawsuit to clear her name of false charges of carrying a bomb (she was nearly killed her when a planted bomb exploded under her driver's seat).

http://www.judibari.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judi_Bari

2002 -- Israel: Government begins building a 360-km fence around the West Bank.



3000 --

'In a society where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles.

Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.'

— Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle

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