WILLIAM BLAKE
Major romantic poet. Entertained angels in the garden.

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/saints/StBlakeWilliam.htm

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Scotland: THE GLORIOUS 12TH opens grouse-hunting season.

Surrey, England: MITCHAM FAIR. A "Charter Mayor" is selected, who opens the three-day fair with a four-foot key to unlock the joys of the fair. A great variety of games & amusements.

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Last year his brother's wife, Squaw Sachem of Pocasset (known to the English as Wetamoo), was cornered & shot by the English while she was trying to escape. After the English arrested & poisoned Sachem's husband — Wamsutta, the chief of the Wampanoag — she helped raise a guerrilla army of 20,000 to fight the white intruders. After killing Squaw Sachem, the English mounted her head on a pole for a display in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

1774 -- Robert Southey lives, Bristol, England. Appointed poet laureate in 1813.


1812 -- England: Lady Ludd "leads" women in Knottingly in riots over high bread prices.

No one should ever work.

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Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world. Almost any evil you'd care to name comes from working or from living in a world designed for work. In order to stop suffering, we have to stop working.

That doesn't mean we have to stop doing things. It does mean creating a new way of life based on play; in other words, a ludic revolution. . .

The ludic life is totally incompatible with existing reality. So much the worse for "reality," the gravity hole that sucks the vitality from the little in life that still distinguishes it from mere survival. Curiously — or maybe not — all the old ideologies are conservative because they believe in work. Some of them, like Marxism & most brands of anarchism, believe in work all the more fiercely because they believe in so little else.

— Bob Black, The Abolition of Work
http://www.zpub.com/notes/black-work.html

[Luddite Chonology]

1827 -- English romantic poet William Blake dies at 70 in the small room off the Strand where he has spent the last few years. See the Daily Bleed's Saint page, http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/saints/StBlakeWilliam.htm

"I mock thee not, though I by thee am mockéd. Thou call'st me madman, but I call thee blockhead" — William Blake http://www.betatesters.com/penn/blake.htm

Contemporary rediscovery of Fourier owes a great deal to André Breton, who saw in him a precursor of surrealism. Breton was a refugee in the USA. In 1945 he visited the "Indian reserves" in the south-west & discovered thus the Native American culture & art. About the same time he read Fourier's works, leading him to write his Ode à Charles Fourier — a confrontation between Fourier's dream of a harmonious society, & the 20th century's nightmares of imperialism, fascism, & Stalinism, which reached an unforeseen peak before & during the war. Fourier is recognized as a surrealist because he not only wanted to revolutionize society, but to completely change life. On Fourier, see Kenneth Rexroth's chapter in Communalism. http://arthur.u-strasbg.fr/~ronse/CF/fourier.html#amer

"When we talk about property, State, masters, government, laws, courts, & police, we say only that we don't want any of them."

       — Luigi Galleani, The End of Anarchism?

       http://www.workersolidarity.org/ital1920.html

See: Rosinante to the Road Again by J. Don Passos (1922); Jacinto Benavente & His Theatre by J.A. Diaz (1972); Benavente & the Spanish Panorama by R.L. Sheehan (1976).
http://www.grandpoohbah.net/Grandpoohbah/BookReviews/alcarria.htm


1867 -- American author/educator Edith Hamilton (The Greek Way; The Roman Way) lives, Dresden, Germany.



1869 -- US: America's Greatest Ruler,
bar none, wants to party down.
http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist1/norton.html



1876 -- The Bayreuth theatre opens. Nietzsche & Wagner had convinced the German Reich to fund the theatre's construction. The guests include nobility, as well as Piotr Ilitch Tchaikovsky. This moment marks a break with Wagner... the concerts are a disappointment for Nietzsche — & the Reich, which withdraws financial support.
http://www.tameri.com/csw/exist/nietzsche.shtml



1877 -- Thomas Edison invents the CD.

"This tongueless, toothless instrument, without larynx or pharynx, mimics your tones, speaks with your voice, utters your words & centuries after you have crumbled into dust, may repeat every idle thought, every fond fancy, every vain word that you choose to whisper against the thin, iron diaphragm."

— Thomas Alva Edison

1880 -- British novelist Radclyffe Hall lives.

RADCLYFFE HALL
Lesbian novelist of new identities & new realities; Daily Bleed Saint 1998.
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Her novel Well of Loneliness created a scandal & Britain banned it for its treatment of lesbianism & held an obscenity trial on November 16, 1928.
In 1929, another wise & learned court — in the US — ruled similarly, finding it obscene in its sympathetic portrait of homosexuality, & because it "pleads for tolerance on the part of society."

http://www.tales.ndirect.co.uk/RHALL2.html
http://www.ncac.org/

1881 -- US: Labor union, United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners of America, founded.


1881 -- Where To Get Off?: Cecil B. deMille, director of God, lives.



1883 -- France: The newspaper "Drapeau noir" (Black Flag) begins publishing in Lyons. ... more

The use of the black flag goes back as early as 1831, when French workers on strike in both Rheims & Lyons adopted it to signal their revolt against the misery & despair they are subjected to, emblematic of their sadness & their anger during their demands for social justice.

In March 1882 Louise Michel adopted the black flag so as to dissociate herself from authoritarian socialists & parliamentarians & remove any ambiguity about her anarchism. & as recent as March 9, 1883, during an unemployed workers' protest, Louise is seen waving an old black underskirt fixed to a broom handle.

Oh ! flottez sur nous, bannières noires et rouges; flottez sur nos deuils et sur notre espoir dans l'aurore qui se lève!"

— Louise Michel, Extrait de ses mémoires: Symbole du drapeau noir

"Drapeau noir" eventually falls victim of repression & ceases publication with its seventeenth number.

http://drapeaunoir.avenir-geopolitique.net/
http://ytak.club.fr/aout2.html#8

1888 -- Wanna Drag?: Bertha, wife of inventor Karl Benz, makes first motor tour.



1890 -- US: Mississippi constitutional convention begins systematic exclusion of blacks from politics.



1891 -- Lillian Evanti (Lillian Evans) lives, Washington, DC. World-famous American opera star who debuts in France with the Paris Opera & performs in the US & 11 countries on three continents. A founder of the National Negro Opera Company.




1892 -- Zanzibar: The Sultan falls behind on payments owed to Italy & concedes some Somalian ports. Inspires John Brunner's science fiction novel, Stomp on Zanzibar.

http://www.polyarchy.org/basta/crimini/tre.html

1894 -- France: In Paris, the "Procès des trente" (Trial of the Thirty), which began August 6, comes to a close.

This was simply a political show trial, charges of an anarchist conspiracy going unproven, but it did not prevent the court from meting out harsh sentences (up to 20 years).

Among the defendants were Charles Chatel, Sébastien Faure, Félix Fénéon, Jean Grave, Louis Armand Matha, Maximilien Luce, Emile Pouget, Paul Reclus, Alexander Cohen, Gabriel-Constant, Louis Duprat, etc.

1898 -- US: Coal company guards kill seven, wound 40 miners trying to stop scabs, Virden, Illinois.

After god had finished the rattlesnake, the toad, the vampire, He had some awful substance left with which he made the SCAB.... A SCAB is a two-legged animal with a cork-screw soul, a water logged brain, a combination backbone of jelly & glue.... When a SCAB comes down the street, men turn their backs, angels weep in heaven, & the Devil shuts the gates of Hell to keep him out.... Judas Iscariot was a gentleman compared to a SCAB. For betraying his master, he had character enough to hang himself. A SCAB has not. — Jack London (not wanting to mince words) A STRIKE BREAKER IS A TRAITOR TO HIS GOD, HIS COUNTRY, HIS FAMILY AND THE WORKING CLASS

1901 -- Boer general Kritzinger driven out of Cape colony (for being too boring?).



1911 -- Samuel Fuller lives. American screenwriter, producer & director, who wrote most of the screenplays of his film.

During the Depression years Fuller began writing short stories. His first pulp novel BURN BABY BURN was published in 1935.

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In WWII he fought in North Africa & Europe, reflected in his masterpiece THE BIG RED ONE (1980), hailed by many as one of the greatest American war dramas ever filmed (adapted to a novel).

In the 1980s Fuller settled in France, where he was especially admired. He appeared in several films as an actor or himself, as in Jean-Luc Godard´s Pierrot le Fou (1965), Wim Wender´s American Friend (1977) & Hammett (1982), & Mika Kaurismäki´s Helsinki Napoli (All Night Long) (1987).

Among Fuller´s best known films are UNDERWORLD U.S.A., SHOCK CORRIDOR, THE BIG RED ONE, & WHITE DOG.

1920 -- France: Bernard Voyenne lives (1920-2003). Journalist, professor, a convinced Proudhonian & also militant anarchist-syndicalist & federalist. During WWII Voyenne was a resistance fighter against the Nazis.

A writer for Albert Camus' journal "Combat," he was passionate about journalism & the French language. He began teaching at the "Centre de formation des Journalistes" in 1952, & eventually published 10 volumes on the history of the press & writers, as well as providing an accessible version of Proudhon's memoirs.

http://ytak.club.fr/decembre4.html#voyenne

1921 -- Spain: Abel Paz lives. ... more

A militant anarchist, Paz helped found the "Los Quijotes del Ideal" group in August 1936, along with Victor García, Liberto Sarrau, & other young libertarians. (Los Quijotes del Ideal opposed anarchist collaboration with the Republican government.)

Historian & the author of Durruti, the People Armed , CNT 1939-1951: El anarquismo contra el Estado franquista (Madrid: 2001), etc.

http://ytak.club.fr/aout2.html#13

1933 -- Camille Billops lives, Los Angeles, Calif. Painter, archivist, sculptor, ceramist, & filmmaker. Solo exhibitions in the US, Russia, Europe, Africa, & the Far East.

With the poet Owen Dodson & photographer James Van Der Zee in 1978 she published The Harlem Book of the Dead & persuaded Toni Morrison to write the foreword.

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"All I have left is the costumes, the gestures, the smile, the cock of a hat, the crossed leg under a pleated skirt. My mother & father in the Kodak defy the cotton fields of their former lives in the south. Texas & South Carolina have been washed from their mouths. When I drew them years later, I showed them as they saw themselves to be."

http://www.varoregistry.com/billops/

1933 -- Cuba: Machado's tyranny is brought down by a general strike fermented & maintained by anarchist elements of the Transport Union, first, & then by the Streetcar Worker's Union, & finally by the masses of people.

All of previous vicious harrassment couldn't prevent the anarchists from gathering within a new organization, created in 1924, Federacion de Grupos Anarquistas de Cuba (FGAC).

It promulgated strikes, circulated propaganda & contributed to the violence & disorder of the most confused & bloody periods of Cuban history, 1930-33 & culminates in Machado's downfall.

[Details / context]

1935 -- US: Babe Ruth's final baseball game at Fenway Park, 41,766 fans on hand.


1936 -- Spain: First International Brigade volunteers arrive.
[Sources]


1942 -- US: The first 292 inmates (Japanese Americans who aren't quite so equal as their white equals) arrive at the Heart Mountain Concentration Camp in Wyoming.
[Sources]

Stalin didn't drop the bomb on a few hundred thousand civilians like Beloved & Respected Comrade Truman & the American military, but his reputation for steel gonads (& a Gulag to prove it) remained intact. Terrorism & the weapons of mass destruction are a potent state monopoly...

1955 -- Author Thomas Mann dies at 80, in Zürich, leaving instructions that his diaries be sealed for 20 years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Mann


1958 -- Spain: Goliardo Fiaschi, Italian partisan, anti-fascist & anarchist guerilla , & Luis Agustín Vicente appear before a Court Martial, with Fiaschi receiving a prison term of 20 years & one day, with Vicente receiving 24 years & four months. The two guerillas had entered Spain a year ago with José Lluís Facerias who was killed in a separate ambush.


1959 -- US: Little Rock, Arkansas responded to a Federal Court order with the token integration of two public schools (six blacks in all were admitted). Segregationist mobs reacted with violence.


1970 -- US: Postal reform measure signed, creating an independent Postal Service, thus relinquishing government control of the US mails after almost two centuries.


1972 -- Venezuela: Colombian Bari Indian leader Maurico Cobaira Bobrichora is killed by white settlers on the Venezuelan border.


1975 -- US: Laurance Labadie (1898-1975) dies, aged 78. Individualist anarchist, son of Joseph Labadie. Represented that libertarian impulse which became known in the early decades of the 20th century as "Mutualism," blending the ideas of Josiah Warren, P. J. Proudhon, William B. Greene, Benjamin Tucker & others.
[Details / context]


1978 -- South Korea: Police storm YH Industrial Wig factory sit-in. 180 arrested & one killed.


1978 -- US: 40 arrested for scaling fence at nuclear plant site, Shoreham, Long Island, NY.


1978 -- Arron Marshall completes a record shower of 336 hours.


1982 -- US: Twelve arrested in sea blockade of first Trident submarine at Hood Canal, Washington.


1982 -- Spain: Members of 7th International March beaten by police for leafleting arms factory workers, San Fernando.


1985 -- It's a record! Japan Airlines Boeing 747 crashes, 520 die. Most fatalities in a single plane crash.


1990 -- South Africa: Violence erupts between Xhosa & Zulu factions.
http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/



1992 -- US: Anarchist composer & musician John Cage dies, New York City.

"I have nothing to say / & I am saying it / & that is poetry / as I needed it"

— John Cage

2001 -- Canada: Canadian annual Hempfest goes up in smoke once again.

http://hempfest.org/

3000 --

I give you bitter pills in sugar coating. The pills are harmless; the poison is in the sugar. — Stanislaw Lem http://world.std.com/~mmcirvin/vitrifax.html http://www.lem.pl/ NOTE: This is often quoted as being by Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, a Polish writer, from his Unkempt Thoughts. Easily confused with Lem. (Have seen it written Lee— almost certainly a mistake.) Am about to add this one to my sigs. — Bleedster Merrill

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