Our Daily Bleed...
SAROJINI NAIDU
LAMMAS EVE.
Once upon a Lammas Night
Indian emancipationist, rights activist.
ALWAYS LIVE BETTER THAN YESTER DAY.
When corn rigs are bonny,
Beneath the Moon's unclouded light,
I held awhile to Annie...
http://www.greatorlandodiscounts.com/disney/indiana.htm
1485 -- Caxton publishes Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur.
[Source: Robert Braunwart]
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1566 -- Fray Bartholomew de Las Casas, fanatic for human dignity, dies, in Madrid, Spain.
Will he be punished for his disobedience?
To the 92-year-old, little it matters to him. Half a century fighting.
The fingers don't obey, so he dictates the letter. Without permission of anybody, he addresses himself to the Holy See. He asks Pope Pius V to stop the wars against the Indians & the plunder that uses the cross like an alibi.
While he dictates he becomes infuriated, the blood rises, & the hoarse & feeble voice that remains to him trembles.
Suddenly he falls to the floor.
http://www.patriagrande.net/uruguay/eduardo.galeano/memoria.del.fuego/15660731.htm
China: US troops land in Shanghai to protect American interests (-Aug. 2). 
Involved in the antislavery movement as a youth & discovered anarchism with the reading of Peter Kropotkin.
Wrote d'Ideólogos, (1903), d'Os Emancipados, (1906), & Virgem-Mãe, (1908), the first novels in Brazil to tackle the social question.
Like her sister Armandine, the partner of the individualist anarchist Albert Libertad...Wrote for many movement papers, author of L'hérédité et l'Education (1908).
"Démontons la pédagojie oficièle faite pour fabriquer des esclaves. Bâtissons une pédagojie qui conviène à des cerveaus d'homes."
Married mystery writer Helen McCloy. They ran a literary agency & Toquil Publishing Company. In the late 1950s he used ghostwriters to continue his work. "Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine" appeared in 1956, until cancellation in 1990.
His Mike Shayne novels have been translated into seven languages, made into motion pictures, television series, & radio plays.
Founding member of the Mystery Writers of America, & 1953 recipient of an Edgar Award for his criticism.
Note: Brett Halliday is also a pseudonym of Bill Pronzini, who writes as Robert Hart Davis, Jack Foxx, William Jeffrey, Alex Saxon, John Barry Williams.
Mexico: Electricity workers strike, DF; the beginning of a General Strike. SlaughterHouse: 3rd Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele), Belgium (-Nov. 10); 500,000 casualties on both sides by the end of the battle; Britain loses 300,000 men. Levi also wrote poetry, science fiction, essays, & short stories.
Perhaps best known is The Periodic Table (1975). Uses chemist Mendeleyev's periodical table of elements as base of autobiographical meditations, each named for a chemical element; 'Vanadium' represents an unexpected encounter with a former Auschwitz official & 'Zinc' explores the fascist myth of racial purity.
Levi wrote for the resistance magazine "Giustizia e Libertàand". Captured & sent to Auschwitz. His last 40 years were devoted to problems resulting from the fact of his survival of the camp.
His constant & compulsive rationalizing of life's irrationality could not save him in the end — died April 11, 1987, an apparent suicide.
Also wrote: If This is a Man / Survival in Auschwitz; The Truce / The Reawakening; The Sixth Day; The Monkey Wrench; The Drowned & the Saved; The Mirror Maker.
Founding convention of the British Communist Party opens (-Aug. 1); Cecil Malone is one of the founders, becoming the first Communist MP. England: Wisps of wet hay larger than dinner plates fall, Stone. Cudda swore we weren't stoned... 
"Tell you a story about, uh, old black singer called Clarence "Frogman" Henry. I wonder who remembers him, anybody at all?
"I don't know why I love you but I do," is what he sang, he sang it very well indeed, it was great. I, I like frogs in general & Clarence "Frogman" Henry is, is, is part of that."
Jimmie Rodgers records "The TB Blues," San Antonio, Texass. Chaco War begins between Bolivia & Paraguay (-June 1935). Germany: Nazis win 230 Reichstag seats, Socialists 133, Center 97 & Communists 89. Russia: Politburo's Operative Order 00447: executions of 193,000 Russians. Irwin Edman reviews Thomas Mann's Freud, Goethe, Wagner, "Saturday Review". http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/tmann.htm US: Bans the export of aviation fuel outside the Western Hemisphere. Germany: Adolf Hitler bans the practice of Christian Science; Reichs Commissar Seyss-Inquart bans homosexuals. Slaughterhouse5: Hermann Goering officially launches the Nazi mass extermination of Jews; Japan apologizes for bombing US river-gunboat "Tutuila" at Chungking; Military Police Corps becomes a permanent branch of the US army. Slaughterhouse5: The German SS gasses 1,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia; RAF stages a heavy night bombing raid on Dusseldorf, Germany; U-boats sank 96 allied ships this month (476,000 tons); FDR creates the US army Transportation Corps; Peter Lorre movie "Invisible Agent" is released. Slaughterhouse5: Allies retake Sansapor, Dutch New Guinea from the Japanese; Transport nr. 77 departs with French Jews to Nazi Germany; The last deportation train out of Mechelen departs for Auschwitz; Gypsy camp at Auschwitz is liquidated; Street fighting begins in Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania. France: The Smugglers' Union in Hendaye goes on strike. Take home pay is an issue? Charles Laughton opens in Brecht's "Galileo". Luis Bunuel movie "Un mujer sin amor" premiers, Mexico. Tibet: Guerrillas form to oppose the Chinese occupation. Granados & Delgado were wrongly accused of exploding two bombs on July 29, in the Main directorate of Seguridad (DGS) of Madrid —"symbol of the pro-Franco torture" — & another in the National Delegation of Unions.
They were brutally interrogated & condemned to death in a field court martial behind closed doors marked by legal irregularities.
With fresh evidence now available, claims that the Tonkin Gulf incident was deliberately provoked gain new plausibility.
[snip] On August 7, 1964, the Senate passed support for Tonkin Gulf Resolution 88-2, with Senators Morse & Ernest Gruening (D-Alaska) voting nay. The House voted 4160 in support. Prophetically, Senator Morse closed his argument by saying, "I believe that within the next century, future generations will look with dismay & great disappointment upon a Congress which is now about to make such a historic mistake."
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The hoax begins with four US boats, under Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader General Westmoreland's directions, attacking two North Vietnam islands.
Over the next few days, two destroyers are brought in for support (the USS Maddox & the Turner Joy) & during maneuvers the Maddox mistakes TJ for a N. Vietnamese vessel attempting to attack. Washington is advised by Navy Pacific command the ships are both under attack. Johnson will use this excuse to escalate the war in Vietnam, & his administration clamps down on the fact the attacks never took place. BleedMeister is aboard another destroyer, which was rumored to have been the ship that was supposed to have been where the TJ was, before it was ordered replaced by the TJ. |
August 2 & 4, 1964
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BleedMeister gets one of these things for his part in the Glorious War to Stop Vietnam From Invading the US:
A "business " card currently online from a former sailor who served aboard BleedMeister's ship, the USS Sproston (DDE 577), which did numerous tours off the Vietnam coast during the 1960s:
I was with some Vietnamese recently, & some of them were smoking two cigarettes at a time. That's the kind of customers we need!— Beloved & Respected Comrade Senile US Senator Jesse Helms, on his meeting with the Vietnamese ambassador designate at a dinner given by the R J Reynolds Company
Students occupy many schools & faculties, & convocate a General Strike. The movement has its tragic climax on the 2nd of October in the Tlatelolco Massacre: Over 300 persons died, many wounded, thousands of arrested & tortured; government forces chose Tlatelolco as the site of the massacre, & bystanders, even small children, were targeted. Tlatelolco residents showed the potential for the student movement to unleash an even more powerful wave of mass rebellion against the ruling class.
http://rwor.org/a/v20/970-79/975/mex1.htm |
US: Seattle police arrest 69 blacks at Garfield High School for failing to disperse. Mayor Braman promises mass arrests will continue after racial disturbances in the Central Area. High Seas: The "rum ration" is ended in the British navy after 283 years. Shipwrecks, drownings & lost anchors drop dramatically. 
1971 -- England: Despite police protection, the home of Secretary for Trade & Industry, John Davies, is bombed by the Angry Brigade. Davies had declared his intention to close Upper Clyde Shipbuilders, throwing thousands out of work.'You can't reform profit capitalism & inhumanity.Just kick it till it breaks.'
— Angry Brigade, communiqué 8.
http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/library/AngryBrigade/
http://www.huzzam.com/etext/angbdocumchro/Communique11.html
http://www.huzzam.com/etext/angbdocumchro/Introduction.html
1972 -- US: 1,000% Thomas Eagleton withdraws as Democratic vice president candidate.
1974 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader John Ehrlichman sentenced to a 20 months to 5 years Country Club term for his role in the burglary at the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist under Dick M Nixon's reign of terror.
John Ehrlichman & G. Gordon Liddy were indicted on September 4, 1973 in connection with the 1971 burglary of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist. Ellsberg had given Pentagon documents to the New York Times in 1971, & Ehrlichman's & Liddy's "White House Plumber's Unit" was designed to plug such security leaks.
On October 20, Attorney General Eliot Richardson resigned during the "Saturday Night Massacre". He had refused to fire special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox. Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus also refused to fire Cox & also resigned. Solicitor General Robert Bork then took over the job of firing Cox.
On October 23, eight impeachment resolutions were introduced in the House, & Dick M Nixon announced he would turn over the Watergate Tapes.
On November 21, an 18.5 minute gap in the tapes was revealed, & on November 27, Nixon's personal secretary Rose Mary Woods testified she "accidentally" erased five minutes of the tapes.
1977 -- France: 60,000 strong demonstration against Super-Phenix nuclear reactor, Malville. One person killed.
1980 -- Louis Simon (1900-1980) dies. French militant pacifist & individualist anarchist, mathematician, as well as a writer & poet. Organized the "Ligue d'Action Pacifiste" with Pierre Martin, & a proponent of the ideas of Han Ryner.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/gallery/galleryindex.htm#SimonLouis
1982 -- France: 46 kids & 7 adults die as 2 buses & several cars collide.
1983 -- US: No (R)egrets?: Avinger, Texass is ankle-deep in bird shit. Caused by cattle egrets imported by ranchers in 1953.
Inspires shit-kicker's gospel song, Wide, Wide River, by that ol' anarchist-Fug, Tuli Kupferberg: I've been floating in this river of shit
Over 20 years & I'm gettin' tired of it
But I've got to keep swimming in this river of shit,
'cause I don't want to die...... Some politicians say we've got to stop violence in this country
While he's spending 15,000 dollars a second snuffing gooks....River of shit, bringing health, wealth, & prosperity to every man, woman, & child.
1984 --
1987 --
1989 -- US: Socialist leader Michael Harrington dies. A chronicler of poverty during an age of affluence.
http://www.dsausa.org/
http://academics.hamilton.edu/history/misserma/Harrington.html
1990 --
1991 -- START I nuclear arms reduction treaty signed. No idea where & when it will end...WWIII mayhaps.
1992 --
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1996 -- Germany: During this month the eviction of the wagon places on the East-Side-Gallery & the rear house at Kreutziger Strasse 11. Next month the last squat in West Berlin is evicted: Marchstrasse/Einsteinufer. By this month next year only 3 "squats" left in Berlin.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/10ref.htm#03/1990
http://www.sindominio.net/rbronka/ftb/squat.html
http://www.notbored.org/squatworld.html
1996 --
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2001 --
http://www.globalpolicy.org/finance/info/usdebt.htm
http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/
2001 --
[The lot where it formerly stood remains an empty eyesore in 2006...progress!...]
Photo by Paul Dorpat
http://www.cityofseattle.net/commnty/histsea/advocacy/lost_saved_end.htm
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/set/teepee.htmlhttp://www.historylink.org/output.CFM?file_ID=2890
http://www.drunkinseattle.com/reviews/twin_teepees.html
"...now that the Twin Teepees, the Pioneer Square pergola, & most of Fremont, just to name a few, have been flattened, I figure it's only a matter of time before somebody slaps a Master Use Permit over my husband Bob, the children & the hamster."
— Jane Lotter, Jet City Maven, Sept 2001
http://seattle.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2002/12/09/daily20.html
http://www.callihan.com/seattle/deaddiners.htm
2005 -- France: René Bianco d'Acierno (??-2005) dies, Marseilles. Son of an Italian immigrant, Bianco learned to read by reading his father's anarchist papers. While maintaining his militant activities, over the years he took a degree in philosophy, then education (ultimately a professor of geography & history) & was a prolific writer as well.
3000 --
Meanwhile everyone wants to breathe & nobody can & many say,
"We will breathe later."
& most of them don't die because they are already dead.
— graffiti, Paris May '68
4000 --
anti-CopyRite 1997-3000, more or less
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