it plunges into the red flesh of the soil
it plunges into the blaxing flesh of the sky
my negritude riddles with holes
the dense affliction of its worthy patience.

— Aimé Césaire, excerpt, "Cahier d'un retour au pays natal" (Return to My Native Land)

-- JUNE 25

GEORGE ORWELL
British novelist, anarchist journalist, anti-Stalinist.

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Spain: FIESTA OF STANA OROSIA. Pilgrims climb to murdered maiden's mountain sanctuary where the saint's head is displayed, picnic, sing, dance, drink, fight & make love.

FESTIVAL OF THE OPTIONAL HOLIDAY.

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841 -- Fontenoy-en-Puisaye: Defeat of Emperor Lothair of the Holy Roman Empire by Charles "the Bald" & Louis "the German."


1096 -- Old World: Crusaders murder Jews who escape the massacre at Koln, Wevlinhofen.



1178 -- Five Canterbury monks report something exploding on the Moon.



1240 -- France: Public debate between Rabbi Jehiel of Paris & apostate Jew Nicholas Donin begins at the French Court to decide the fate of confiscated volumes of the Talmud — they are burned two years hence.


1594 -- Margrett Fray & Agatha Birenseng burned as witches.


1630 -- New World: Forked Tongue? Governor Winthrop introduces the table fork in Massachusetts Colony.


1684 -- England: Archbishop Robert Leighton dies, London. Leaves his valuable library to the diocese of Dunblane where he was Bishop after the Restoration. It still remains open to the public.


1694 -- England: Viagra? London contracts for the erection of the first British lamp-posts.


1735 -- First copies of William Hogarth's "Rake's Progress" engravings are published.


1798 -- US: Congress passes the 2nd Alien Act, providing for deportation.


1822 -- German phantasist author E.T.A. Hoffman dies, Berlin.

Daily Bleed Saint 2002-2005
German phantasist, visionary, proto-surrealist.

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

1825 -- US: Capture of Bob Forbes, leader of the Maroons (blacks resisting slavery) in Virginia.

Gone to Croatan: Origins of North American Dropout Culture
— Ron Sakolsky & SaintMeister James Koehnline, editors:

Lost history viewed through cracks in the cartographies of control, including "tri-racial isolate" communities, buccaneers, "white Indians," black Islamic movements, the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp, the Métis nation, scandalous eugenics theories, rural "hippie" communes, & many other aspects of North American autonomous cultures. A festschrift honoring historian Hugo Lemming Bey of the Moorish Science Temple.

http://www.t0.or.at/hakimbey/taz/taz3d.htm
http://www.koehnline.com/

1840 -- For the 400th anniversary of the Gutenberg printing press, Mendelssohn presents his "Symphony No. 2" (Lobegesang), Thomaskirche, Leipzig.

1852 -- Spain: Catalan architect Antoni Gaudi lives, Reus, Tarragona.
http://www.red2000.com/spain/barcelon/phgau.html


1856 -- Germany: Ego-philosopher-anarchist Max Stirner dies, Berlin. A left Hegelian with Karl Marx & others, gone bad. Wrote The Ego & Its Own.



1857 -- France: Baudelaire's volume of poems Les Fleurs du Mal is published. He & his publisher are prosecuted for offending public morals.
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Metro/1301/
http://www.empirezine.com/spotlight/bau/bau-bio.htm

1867 -- Lucien Smith patents barbed wire. Lucien Smith patents barbed wire. Rhymes with Empire. First used for military defense, by US forces, in Cuba in 1898.


1868 -- US: Congress establishes 8-hr day for government laborers, workmen & mechanics.


1870 -- Puerto Rico: As a result of the efforts of Roman Baldorioty de Castro, Luis Padial & Julio Vizcarrondo efforts, the Moret Law is approved, giving liberty to slaves born after September 17, 1868 & to slaves over 60 years old.



1870 -- Author Robert Erskine Childers lives. Author & Irish nationalist who was executed in 1922. Credited with writing the first spy novel. Fully involved in the struggle against British rule following their brutual supression of the Easter Rebellion. He joined Sinn Féin, forming a close association with Éamon de Valera & Michael Collins.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Erskine_Childers


1875 -- Uruguay: In Montevideo the Fédération Ouvrière Régionale Uruguayenne is founded. It adheres to the antiauthoritarian A.I.T. & becomes, in August 1876, a section of the International at the time of the Congress of Verviers. It is the primary vehicle for workers' & revolutionary fights in this country during the first quarter of the 20th century.
http://ytak.club.fr/juin25.html


1876 -- US: Got Reservations? Lakota, Cheyenne & Arapahoe tribes defeat the US Army at Little Big Horn, Montana. Resisting the authority of the US government efforts to herd them onto "reservations" (internment camps), they liquidated Red-baiting General Richard Armstrong Custer & wipe-out his troops at Little Big Horn, Montana. Euphemistically called "Custer's Last Stand."

"Maybe we should not have humored them when they asked to live on reservations. Maybe we should have said, No, come join us. Be citizens along with the rest of us."

— acting Beloved & Respected US President Ronald Reagan during a trip to Moscow, when a student asks about US treatment of Native Americans

1878 -- US: Despite mass protests, Ezra Heywood gets two years hard labor for advocating free love / sexual emancipation as part of women's rights.

Heywood was an individualist anarchist "arrested" by prude & vigilante Anthony Comstock. He was married to Angela Tilton, considered more radical than he in her day. One admirer, the anarchist Dyer D. Lum, was inspired to write a poem to immortalize the phrase that Angela used when she referred to marriage — that is, 'The Penis Trust.'

Released on 19 December 1878. Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President Rut Hayes issued a pardon the following day.

http://www.blackcrayon.com/people/heywood/
http://raforum.info/article.php3?id_article=1105

1878 -- The first of three major revolts against French colonialism in Kanaky (French Caledonia) begins.

Kanaks are well-prepared for the uprising, having gathered guns, made systematic reconnaissance of military outposts, & established guerrilla camps with food gardens where the rebels can retreat. The revolt lasts more than nine months & although it ends in defeat & massacre, it provides a heritage of resistance that is taken up again in insurrections in 1917 & 1984.

[Source: Calendar Riots]

1881 -- US: Crystal Eastman lives (1881-1928). Greenwich Village feminist, Bohemian, free-lover. Lawyer, antimilitarist, feminist, socialist, & journalist. Founded the Woman's Peace party (renamed the Women's International League for Peace & Freedom in 1921). During the War to End All Wars, she organized the National Civil Liberties Bureau to protect conscientious objectors, & this later became American Civil Liberties Union. After the war, she organized the First Feminist Congress (1919). She co-owned & edited a radical journal of politics, art, & literature, "The Liberator", with her brother Max.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Eastman


1887 -- George Abbott — producer, director actor, playwright — lives, Forestville, New York.

1893 --

Haymarket Martyrs' Monument is dedicated. Erected by the Pioneer Aid & Support Association, an organization begun by the anarchist Lucy Parsons , Albert's widow. It features a woman as Justice placing a crown of laurels on the brow of a fallen worker, while preparing to draw a sword. Sculptor Albert Weinert's design was inspired by a verse from the French anthem, the "Marseillaise," which the five anarchists had sung before their hanging. On the front of the monument are the last words of August Spies: "The day will come..." On this day thousands of workers & visitors to the World's Columbian Exposition marched to a train station & rode to the cemetery. Floral tributes were sent by several nations. Speeches were made in English, German, Polish & Bohemian, & an orchestra played the Marseillaise. Tomorrow, Illinois Governor Altgeld pardons the three survivors: Neebe, Schwab & Fielden. Michael Schwab died in 1898 & Oscar Neebe in 1916, & were both buried here beside their comrades. Samuel Fielden, who died in 1922, is the only one of the eight not buried in Waldheim. Every year on the Sunday closest to May 4, & the anniversary of Black Friday, November 11th, labor organizations come to this monument to pay tribute — though most are loathe to recall or avoid mention that the martyrs were anarchists. http://recollectionbooks.com/anow/history/haymarket.html http://www.kentlaw.edu/ilhs/haymkmon.htm http://www.graveyards.com/IL/Cook/foresthome/ne-haymarket.html

"The day will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you are throttling today." — August Spies

1894 -- US: Eugene Debs & his American Railway Union call a boycott of all Pullman railway cars during the now-famous Pullman Strike. Within days, 50,000 rail workers comply & railroad traffic out of Chicago comes to a halt.
[Details / context]


1894 -- Party, Party, Party? A goose found in Nevada with a Fremont Party brass tag dated 1846.


1897 -- Margaret Oliphant, Victorian Scottish novelist, dies.


1898 -- Puerto Rico: The USS Yosemite arrives off San Juan harbor, Puerto Rico, to blockade the port in advance of it's invasion of the island on July 25.


1903 -- Modern prognosticator George Orwell lives, as Eric Blair, Motihari, Bengal, India.

His first book, Down & Out in Paris & London, relates his near-destitution while struggling to become a writer.

The biting satire of Communist ideology, The Animal Farm, followed his horrendous experiences with the Stalinists, especially in the Spanish Revolution (see his Homage to Catalonia). Then came his anti-utopian Nineteen Eighty-Four.

'All animals are equal,
but some animals are more equal than others.'

Other writer-witnesses in the Spanish Revoution include:
Ernest Hemingway, Federico Garcia Lorca, André Malraux, Langston Hughes, Ilya Ehrenburg.

http://www.resort.com/~prime8/Orwell/
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/9820/spain11.html

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/gorwell.htm

1906 -- US: Best Laid Plans? Architect Stanford White shot dead atop Madison Square Garden (which he designed) by Harry Thaw, jealous husband of Evelyn Nesbit, whom Stanford had designs on.


1910 -- US: The Mann Act, popularly known as the "white slave traffic act," passed by Congress, prohibiting interstate or international transport of women for "immoral purposes."



1913 -- Martinique: Anti-colonialist surrealist poet Aime Cesaire lives, Basse-Pointe.

"I am talking of millions of men who have been skillfully injected with fear, inferiority complexes, trepidation, servility, despair, abasement."

— Discours sur le colonialisme

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/cesaire.htm

1916 -- India: British reinstitute slavery in India (according to Indian writer S.C. Dutt, writing in 1880).


1916 -- Italy: Clandestine meeting of the Council general of the militant Unione Sindacale Italiana (USI; anarcho-syndicalist labor union) in Florence, June 25, 26 & 27. The government has outlawed all opposition to the war to end all wars. The Council, meeting , reaffirms its opposition to the war.
http://ytak.club.fr/juin25.html


1921 -- Czechoslovakia: The word "robot" enters the world's languages when Karel Capek's play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) premieres. Even the robots won't put up with lousy work & crummier wages, & rebel.

In the days when Czechoslovakia was a feudal society, "robota" referred to the two or three days of the week that peasants were obliged to leave their own fields to work without remuneration on the lands of noblemen. For a long time after the feudal system had passed away, robota continued to be used to describe work that one wasn't exactly doing voluntarily or for fun, while today's younger Czechs & Slovaks use robota to refer to work that's boring or uninteresting.

1922 -- France: Delegates of the first congress (June25-July 1, in Saint-Etienne) of the C.G.T.U. (Confédération générale du travail unitaire) align with the Communist International. This decision marks the defeat of the anarcho-syndicalists within its ranks.
http://libertaire.org/article137.html
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/CGTU


1923 -- British author Nicholas Mosley lives. Wrote the screenplay for Joseph Losey's 1973 film, The Assassination of Trotsky. Eldest son of lovely anti-semite & fascist Oswald Mosley (P.G. Wodehouse's character Roderick Spode is patterned after Oswald; the Elvis Costello song "Less Than Zero" is an attack on Mosley; selected by the BBC History Magazine as the 20th century's worst Briton in 2006; fascist leader of Great Britain in Guy Walters' alternate-history novel The Leader).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Mosley



1926 -- France: In Paris, three Spanish anarchists are arrested, accused of preparing to assassinate Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Alphonse XIII: Ascaso, Durruti & Jover. Louis Lecoin mounts a major protest campaign to prevent their extradition; gains their release in July of 1927.

Francisco Ascaso, Buenaventura Durruti & Gregorio Jover, meet for a banquet in a Parisian restaurant to celebrate their recent release; in addition to their families, those released are joined by the "Comité International de Défense Anarchiste," some 30 militants, including Sebastien Faure, Nestor Makhno & Louis Lecoin (who mastermind their release).

Source: http://libertaire.org/article133.html

1929 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President Herbert Hoover authorizes more socialism, the building of Hoover Dam with simple epitaph: "Damn it!"


1937 -- José Martins Fontes dies. Portuguese doctor, lecturer, poet, anarchist, militant activist in Brazil.

Célebre poeta e médico santista, José Martins Fontes nasceu em 23/6/1884 e faleceu em 25/6/1937, também em Santos. Suas principais obras: Arlequinadas, Verão, Rosicler, Nos Rosais das Estrelas, A Canção de Ariel, Nós e as Abelhas e Decameron. O texto desta página foi publicado em Antologia de Humorismo e Sátira, de R. Magalhães Jr.

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/MartinsFontes/josemartins.htm
http://web.archive.org/web/20051104220539/http://www.agrorede.org.br/ceca/edgar/Comps/COMPJ.htm

Some of his poems, in Portuguese,
http://www.secrel.com.br/jpoesia/mfo.html
http://www.novomilenio.inf.br/santos/h0007.htm

1938 -- US: The Wages & Hours Act (later Fair Labor Standards) passes, banning child labor & supposedly setting the 40-hour work week (ahh, the good ol' days). The Act goes into effect in October 1940, & is upheld by the Supreme Court February 3, 1941.

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And we gave new courage to the men
Who carried on in nineteen-ten
And shoulder to shoulder we'll win through
Led by the ILGWU
hail the waistmakers of nineteen-nine
making their stand on the picket line,
Breaking the power of those who reign
Pointing the way, smashing the chain

— The Uprising of the 20,000, dedicated to the Waistmakers of 1909

1940 -- Songster Earl Robinson's "Ballad for Americans" premiers, NY Philharmonic.

"Ballad for Americans" was the theme song at both Republican & Communist Party national conventions in 1940.

Seattle-born activist & musician Earl is remembered for writing some of the labor movement's most famed ballads, including "I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night." (Don't Mourn, Harmonize!) Robinson attended West Seattle High School & the University of Washington.

Robinson's cantatas set the tone for a genre of patriotic composition. His "Ballad for Americans" was first performed on radio in 1939 with the great Paul Robeson as soloist.

See Ballad of an American: The Autobiography of Earl Robinson
http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=2029

1941 -- US: A. Philip Randolph (president Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters) calls off Negro march on Washington planned for July 1 when Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President FDR agrees to issue Executive Order 8802 banning racial discrimination in defense industries & government employment (creates Fair Employment Practices Committee).
http://www.aphiliprandolphmuseum.com/
http://www.pbs.org/weta/apr/


1941 -- US: Joe DiMaggio runs his baseball hitting streak to 45 straight games, with a home run off Boston's Heber Newsome. The 'Yankee Clipper' broke the record set by Wee Willie Keeler in 1897.


1944 -- France: Eugene Humbert (1870-1944) dies. Militant pacifist, néo-Malthusian, anarchist,& companion of Jeanne Humbert. Eugene was killed in prison during WWII during an Allied bombing — the day before he was to be released.


1950 -- Korea: Korean War begins as North Korean communist forces cross the 38th parallel, invade South Korea.

http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/korrev.htm
http://www.kimsoft.com/korea/eyewit17.htm
http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=3323
http://www.kwnm.org/index.php?...&id=5&Itemid=27

1952 -- Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges publishes Otras inquisiciones.


1953 -- US: American Library Association (ALA) adopts the Westchester Statement on freedom to read.


1954 -- US: Local 100 defeats union busting move by management by winning exclusive representation rights in NYC transit lines.
[Source]



1955 -- France: Arrest of Pierre Morain, militant of the F.C.L. (Fédération Communiste Libertaire). Sentenced to prison for one year, released in March 1956.

The platformist (FCL) offered “critical support” during the Algerian revolution & cultivated links to the small anarchist movement that existed in Algiers in 1954.

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Their support seems to have mainly taken the form of propaganda: flyers, posters, and newspapers. Members of the FCL used their paper, "Le Libertaire", to publish articles & communiqués in support of the anti-colonial uprisings in Algeria from 1954 onward.

Consequently, the state seized issues of "Le Libertaire" seven times between 1954 & 1956. The five editors of the paper were repeatedly prosecuted by the Ministry of the Interior. FCL activists were detained & interrogated on numerous occasions by French police in relation to the publication. Anarcho-communist Pierre Morain, for example, was prosecuted on charges related to the distribution of pro-revolutionary flyers & to the publication of two pro-MTLD articles in "Le Libertaire." As a result, he spent a year & a half in jail. Ultimately, the criminalization & surveillance of the FCL activists contributed significantly to its dissolution in 1956, well before Algerian independence.

Sources:
http://libertaire.org/article137.html
Anarchist Approaches to Anti-Colonial Struggles: French Anarchists & the Algerian War

1956 -- ¶ Beatster Jack Kerouac begins job training as a mountain firewatcher in Washington State. From July-September he's alone on Desolation Peak in the Cascade Mountains watching for fires. In September, after 60+ days of solitude Kerouac comes down from the mountain & travels to Seattle. From here he heads to México City, rents a one-room apartment above Bill Garver on Orizaba Street, during September-November, where he completes Tristessa & begins writing Desolation Angels.
http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/essays/kerouac.htm


1959 -- US: Charles Starkwether executed.


1959 -- Mao Tse-tung writes his poem "Shaoshan Revisited."


1959 -- Russia: USSR proposes a Balkan/Adriatic denuclearized zone (rejected by peace-loving West).



1961 -- Iraq: Government announces Kuwait is a part of Iraq (Kuwait disagrees). England & US march in on their mechanized moral horses to save the day, right?
[ Poster by Leon Kuhn ]
http://www.leonkuhn.org.uk/


1962 -- US Supreme Court rules official prayers unconstitutional in public schools.


1964 -- US: Riots erupt in Saint Augustine, Fla., when a mob of 800 whites attacks part of a parade of several hundred African-Americans participating in an integration parade.


1967 -- The first global telecast is made this day; Beatles on tv introduce "All You Need Is Love."

1967 -- "Summer of Love": 75,000 - 100,000 in Hashbury.

Also, on or about this day, author Ken Kesey is sentenced to 6 months in jail.

"You are either on the bus or you're not on the bus."

At a Veterans Administration hospital, Kesey was a paid experimental subject, taking mind-altering drugs & reporting their effects. Experiences as an aide at a psychiatric hospital & LSD sessions served as background for One Flew Over Cuckoo's Nest. The book was a vehicle for Ken Kesey’s anarchist rant against the oppressive conformism imposed by society’s institutions, particularly the dehumanising social conformity of the 1950s. Kesey formed the 'Merrie Pranksters', bought an old school bus, & toured America & México with his friends. Their exploits were immortalised in Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1973).

http://www.intrepidtrips.com/
http://www.arewereally.com/titlepage.html
http://www.nii.net/~obie1/deadcd/acid_test_files.htm

1968 -- US: Poor People's Campaign March, 50,000 strong, from Georgia to Washington D.C., concludes.


1968 -- Leonard Marchand (Okanogan) becomes first Indian ever elected to Canadian House of Commons.


1968 -- Got Civilization?: Pan-American Health Organization reports that Central American Indians have a worse diet than the pre-Columbian Mayans.


1968 -- US: In response to the passage of an anti-gay ordinance in Miami, 240,000 people march in San Francisco in the first large-scale version of that city's annual Gay Freedom Day Parade.


1968 -- The Doors, Lonnie Mack, Elvin Bishop Group at the Cow Palace.



1968 -- England: Leed's Students’ Union votes 386 to 48 to occupy the Parkinson Building, then the administrative heart of the University.

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Hundreds of students joined the rota to keep the sit-in going 24-hours-a-day, & various committees were formed to organise security, food & entertainment. Leeds Trades Union Council sent up its banner in support, & the students listened to speakers from other universities in the UK & even France.

The Leeds sit-in was fully supported by the Students’ Union & President Jack Straw. After the future Home Secretary stood on a table to address a 500-strong meeting in the Parkinson Court, he was given a standing ovation which lasted ten minutes.

The Revolution must take place in men before occurring in things.

— GRAFFITI FROM THE WALLS OF PARIS: 1968

http://www.leeds.ac.uk/reporter/may68/protest.htm
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/reporter/may68/

1968 -- US: Red, White & Rue? Congress passes a bill to make it a crime to desecrate the Merican flag.


1969 -- Canada's Minister of Indian Affairs, Jean Cretien, announces a government plan to end the legal status of Canada's native people. This endorsement of cultural genocide so cripples his political career that he later becomes Prime Minister.


1972 -- US: Help, I'm A Republican!? Martha Mitchell phones a reporter, claiming to be a political prisoner.



1973 -- US: John Dean eats the cheese before Senate Watergate Committee. Testifies for four days, indicting himself, Dick M Nixon, Ehrlichman, Mitchell & others, while revealing the use of "hush money" & an "enemies list."
http://www.chron.com/content/interactive/special/watergate/quiz/index.html


1975 -- The Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (FRELIMO) frees the nation from 500 years of Portuguese rule.

The new government espouses the aims of establishing a socialist society & elimination of white minority regimes in southern Africa. The country provides a haven for Zimbabwean nationalist forces despite strong Southern Rhodesian military reprisals. For the next several years, the front defends the nations's independence against Jonas Savimbi's terrorist forces, sponsored by South Africa & (surprise) the US.

1976 -- Poland: In an uprising against the government's food price rises announced yesterday, striking workers tear up railroad tracks outside Warsaw while others plunder factories & shops in the city centre.
[Source: Calendar Riots]


1977 -- US: A Quick Study? Lightning strikes Virginia park ranger Roy Sullivan for the 7th time.


1978 -- The Riverboat coffeehouse folk-music venus closes in Toronto.


1982 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Secretary of State, & one-time pretender to the throne, Alexander Haig Jr., reliquishes control of the US; turns in his crown & is replaced by Schultz.


1982 -- 1,653 arrested for blockading the UN missions of the US, USSR, France & China, NYC, (protesting nuclear weapons).



1984 -- French philosopher Michel Foucault dies, of AIDS, in Paris.
http://acjournal.org/holdings/vol1/iss1/editorials/mcgee/suffix2.html
http://www.poetrymagic.co.uk/literary-theory/foucault.html
http://www.criminology.fsu.edu/crimtheory/foucault.htm
http://www.foucault.qut.edu.au/


1985 -- Fireworks factory near Hallett, Oklahoma explodes, 21 workers killed.


1986 -- US: House reverses itself, approves aid to Nicaraguan contra terrorists.


1987 -- Greece: Conscientious objector Michaelis Maraggakis jailed four years for refusing compulsory military service, Thessaloniki.


1990 -- Spain: Hundreds rally, Madrid, for an end to bullfighting.


1990 --

"I am freer than anybody else. I am free to choose the parents I want, the country I want, the age I want."

— Anarchist author B. Traven, according to Mrs Lujan (his widow), New York Times, June 25, 1990

1990 -- Madonna donates the proceeds from her last North American concert of her Blonde Ambition tour ($300,000) to AIDS research, Rutherford, NJ.


1991 -- Yugoslavia: Croatia & Slovenia declare independence.
http://www.newint.org/issue323/essay.htm
http://www.glypx.com/BalkanWitness/watson.htm

1991 -- Canada: James Bay Cree erect a barricade at Whapmagootui airport to force hearings into Hydro-Quebec's Great Whale Dam project.


1994 -- China: More than 80 executed in honor of World Anti-Drug Day.


1995 -- US: Pearl Jam cancels tour because of an ongoing feud with Ticketmaster. They contend the ticket giant has a monopoly & sticks fans with too big a surcharge on concert tickets.


1996 -- Saudi Arabia: Truck bomb kills 19 at a US military base.


1996 -- Australia: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Liberal MP Barry Morris is jailed for making death threats (Vote or I'll Kill You!?).


1998 -- Cuba: Actor Jack Nicholson meets with Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Fidel Castro, La Habana.



2001 -- China: 60 people executed in honor of World Drug Day (-June 26).


2002 -- PennyWhistles?: WorldCom confirms reported earnings over the last 15 months are inflated by $3.8 billion.


2002 -- UK, EU & UN reject Beloved & Respected Comrade Coup Leader Bush's call for B&RCL Arafat's ouster. Position taken by AB, GH, XY & Z yet to be determined. Stay tuned...


2002 -- European Court of Justice rules that if cheese does not come from Parma, it can't be Parmesan cheese. The fantabulous Daily Bleed rules if Blue Cheese does not come from the (Blue) Moon, it cannot be Blue Cheese.

3500 --

"No daring is required to protest against a great injustice."

— Emma Goldman, anarchist activist & organizer, lecturer & agitator, feminist, spokesperson for the new drama, advocate of birth control & free speech

http://www.angelfire.com/ok/Flack/emma.html

Collage by SaintMeister James Koehnline

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