Our Daily Bleed...
Our Daily Bleed...
JULY 31PRIMO LEVI
Italian-born chemist, Auschwitz survivor, writer...suicide?
ALWAYS LIVE BETTER THAN YESTER DAY.
FESTIVAL OF INNER WORLDS
LAMMAS EVE.
Once upon a Lammas Night
When corn rigs are bonny,
Beneath the Moon's unclouded light,
I held awhile to Annie...
1315 -- Gates of Paris treacherously opened for Charles, King of Navarre.http://www.greatorlandodiscounts.com/disney/indiana.htm
1485 -- Caxton publishes Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur.
Source: [Robert Braunwart]
[Hereafter attributed with symbol:]
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
1703 -- England: Daniel Defoe forced to stand in the pillory in front of Temple Bar, for seditious libel (The Shortest Way with Dissenters), draws sympathetic crowds who pelt him with flowers instead of mud.
http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/bin/litcrit.out.pl?au=def-15
http://www.incompetech.com/authors/defoe/
1774 -- We Can Breathe Now?: Joseph Priestly discovers oxygen.
1784 -- Encyclopedist, Enlightenment writer Denis Diderot dies, Paris. Will-free!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Diderot
1811 -- Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, Mexican hero priest, executed by Spanish.
1831 -- [Old style] Russian theosophist & traveler Elena Blavatsky lives, Ekaterinoslav. Born August 12, new style.
http://sangha.net/agni-yoga/hpbio.htm
1843 -- William T. Lowndes dies in impecunious circumstances in London. Wrote The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature.
1843 -- Peter Rosegger, Austrian poet & novelist lives, near Krieglach, Styria. Wrote Die Schriften des Waldschulmeisters.
1857 --France: Adolphe Willette lives. Painter, illustrator ("L'Assiette au Beurre", etc), caricaturist, lithographer, ran as a one-time "anti-semitic" candidate in the Paris elections of 1889, & an anarchiste.
http://www.graphicwitness.org/group/beurre1.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolphe_Willette
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1864 -- Brazil: Fabio Luz (Fabio Lopez dos Santos Luz) lives (1864-1938), Valença, Bahia. Novelist & outstanding figure of Brazilian anarchism.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.[Details / context]
1865 -- Adalgisa Fochi lives (1865-1957). Mother of Camillo Berneri, grandmother of Maria Luisa Berneri & Giliana Berneri. Antifascists & anarchists, the whole lot of them.
http://www.ephemanar.net/juillet31.html
http://www.comune.re.it/manifestazioni/berneri/adalgisa.htm
1881 -- Anna Mahe lives (1881-1960), Bourgneuf-in-Retz (Loire-Inférieure). French militant individualist & free-love advocate. Co-founded "L'anarchie" with Albert Libertad.Like her sister Armandine, the partner of the individualist 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."
1904 -- Brett Halliday lives. Prolific American mystery writer. Also wrote as Asa Baker, Mathew Blood, Kathryn Culver, Don Davis, Hal Debrett, Anthony Scott, Wayne Anderson.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.
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1919 -- Primo Levi lives, Turin. Italian-Jew, writer & chemist. Gained fame with his autobiographical story If This is a Man (1947), of survival in Nazi concentration camps.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.
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1921 -- Germany: Nie Wieder Krieg ("No More War") demonstration, Berlin.
1921 -- US: No Place Like Home? More of them damn green frogs raining from the sky, in Sterling, Connecticut. We need another Green joke?"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."
http://web.archive.org/...http://rylibweb.man.ac.uk/data1/sy/jch/alwords/als90.htm
1922 -- US: 18-year-old Ralph Samuelson rides world's first water skis, Minnesota. Part of a commie plot to destroy every waterway on the globe.
1922 -- Italy: Nationally the coup de grace comes with the calling of a General Strike against Fascism, the "strike for legality" of 31st July to 2nd August 1922. With the collapse of the strike the Fascists attacked, massing their numbers to deal with the last outposts of resistance.
English language introduction to Italian fascism no longer online; there is a Spanish language version,
http://www.galeon.com/ateneosant/Ateneo/Historia/SigloXX_1/sxx-antifaIt.html
1930 -- Robert Kimmel Smith, the author of The War with Grandpa, lives.
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1936 -- Puerto Rico: Pedro Albizu Campos, Juan Antonio Corretjer, Clemente Soto Vélez & other independence fighters sentenced to 6-10 years in federal prison. In 1937 Albizu Campos & others are transferred out of Puerto Rico to serve time in Atlanta, Georgia.
http://welcome.topuertorico.org/history.shtml
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http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/tmann.htm
1938 -- US: Not Jake? Baseball's NY Yanks suspend Jake Powell after he said on Chicago radio he'd "hit every colored person in Chicago over the head with a club".
1940 -- US: Head-on train collision at Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, kills 43.
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1944 -- France: Author/pilot Antoine de Saint-Exupery disappears on a flight over southern France.
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1949 -- US: FloridaMarlinsCaribou? Lightning strikes a baseball field in Baker, Florida, killing 3rd baseman, 2nd baseman & shortstop. Unassisted outs...(see 30 July).
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1957 -- US: Non-commercial radio pioneer, Pacifica Foundation founder, Lewis Hill, poet, pacifist & journalist, dies.
http://www.kpfa.org/
http://web.archive.org...LewisHill/jan0452.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Hill
http://www.whitings-writings.com/lengthening_shadow.htm
http://web.archive.org/...alsopreview.com/columns/foley/jfoley.html
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1963 -- Spain: The anarquistas Francisco Granados & Joaquín Delgado are arrested for crimes they did not commit. They are executed within two weeks in a grand display of justice.
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.
1964 -- US: Pleasant Grove Baptist Church, in Brandon, Mississippi is leveled by a fire, allegedly set by the Ku Klux Klan.
1964 -- High Seas: Tonkin Gulf Hoax incidents begin as the US Navy destroyer Maddox (DD-731) begins a "reconnaissance" patrol along the coast of North Vietnam. The string of Tonkin Gulf lies, serving the interests of American corporations, media, military & the state, launch America headlong into the Vietnam War. The lies continue for at least another decade & cost 50,000 American boys their lives as true flag-waving patriots cheer them on to their deaths.
1965 -- England: Cigarette commercials banned from British Television.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
1966 -- US: Several radio stations ban the playing of Beatles records after John Lennon's remark that the band is "more popular than Lenny Bruce."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenny_Bruce
1966 -- US: Two men pin down 4,000 National Guards in a sporadic, week-long sniper campaign in Chicago.
Source: 'Calendar Riots'
1968 -- México: Violent battles in México City between students & Granaderos special corp (riot police).
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 die, many wounded, thousands 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.
Source: 1968: a wall between this century (apparently no longer online)
http://rwor.org/a/v20/970-79/975/mex1.htm
http://historicaltextarchive.com/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=161
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1969 -- US: Beached? Beach Boy Carl Wilson indicted for failure to report for community service in place of spending two years in military service.
1969 -- Russia: 3 Chords & You're Out?: A Moscow police chief reports that thousands of telephone booths have been made inoperable by thieves who have stolen phone parts in order to convert their acoustic guitars to electric.
1970 -- Disco?: To fill a contractual obligation, the Rolling Stones hand over the disc, "Cocksucker Blues" to Decca Records. They are now free to form Rolling Stones Records.
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1971 -- Outer Space: "I Brake for Aliens"? Dave Scott is first person to drive on the Moon. Pothole Heaven, but parking is cheap....
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 five 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.
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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 anarchiste, 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.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2aKE9VL-f0
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fugs
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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
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1991 -- START I nuclear arms reduction treaty signed. No idea where & when it will end...WWIII mayhaps.
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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 three "squats" are left in Berlin.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/10ref.htm#03/1990
http://www.notbored.org/squatworld.html
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http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/
2001 --
[The lot where it formerly stood remains an empty eyesore in 2007; in 2008 new construction stops...progress!...]
Photo by Paul Dorpat
http://web.archive.org/...histsea/advocacy/lost_saved_end.htm
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/29207
http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&File_Id=2890
http://web.archive.org/...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://www.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.
2006 -- Cuba: Cuban jefe Fidel Castro cedes state power to brother Raul.
2007 -- England: Millennialist historian Norman Cohn dies, London.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Cohn
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
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