Our Daily Bleed...
Until lions have their historians,tales of the hunt
shall always glorify the hunter.
— African proverb
SEPTEMBER 28
MILES DAVIS.
Saint Cool.
Old China: CONFUCIUS DAY.
Huichol, Mexico: FESTIVAL OF WAWTSARI, God of Deer Peyote; Peyote mushroom festival.
AMERICAN INDIAN DAY.
US: DRINK AS MUCH BEER AS POSSIBLE DAY.
Egypt: FEAST OF KHEPERA, The Beetle God.
Rootworm Beetle Dip
2 cup low-fat cottage cheese
1 1/2 teaspoon lemon juice
2 tablespoons skim milk
1/2 cup reduced calorie mayonnaise
1 tablespoon parsley, chopped
1 tablespoon onion, chopped
1 1/2 tsp. dill weed
1 1/2 tsp. Beau Monde
1 cup dry-roasted rootworm beetlesBlend first 3 ingredients. Add remaining ingredients & chill (out?).
551 -- [B.C.] — Chinese sage Confucius lives.
1573 -- Painter of Italian street life Caravaggio lives.
http://www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/~malek/Caravaggio.html
1618 -- Gilles van Ledenberg, Secretary of Utrecht States (1588-1618), suicide at 68.
1704 -- US: Maryland allows divorce if wife mispleases clergyman/preacher.
1785 -- US: David Walker lives, abolitionist who wrote the famous "Walker's Appeal," lives, Wilmington, N.C. See below, 1829.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2930.html
1803 -- Prosper Mérimée, whose translations of Russian classics introduce the works in France, lives, Paris. French dramatist & short story master, archaeological & historical dissertations, & travel books. Wrote his first play, Cromwell, at 19.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/merimee.htm
1810 -- Mme de Staël, writes to Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Napoleon protesting the suppression of her book De l'Allemagne.
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~scat0385/rambles.html
1810 -- Mexico: Las tropas de Miguel Hidalgo toman la ciudad de Guanajuato / the troops of Miguel Hidalgo take the city of Guanajuato.
http://www.patriagrande.net/uruguay/eduardo.galeano/memoria.del.fuego/18100928.htm
1812 -- US: On the southern front in the War of 1812, Creek & Seminole warriors battle a contingent of 250 Georgia volunteers.
An English agent, Colonel Edward Nicholls, negotiated an alliance with the Seminoles & built a fort on the Apalachicola River, & stocked it with hundreds of gunpowder barrels.
After the war, escaped slaves establish themselves in the compound, & it becomes known as the Negro Fort. Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader General Andy Jackson sends troops to destroy it. During the battle the gunpowder exploded, killing 270 men, women & children.
Jackson's troops summarily execute the black leader & Choctaw chief who survive the blaze.
1820 -- Friedrich Engels lives.
1829 -- David Walker issues, on his birthday (see above) his publication, An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World, but in Particular & Very Expressly to those of the United States of America.
The south will put a price on his head for such endearments as urging slaves to rise up &,
"Slit their oppressors' throats from ear to ear."
Charles Darwin reads Thomas Malthus's essay on population; this suggests the idea of natural selection to Darwin. Australia: A mass meeting of workers is held in Sydney to protest legislation making conspiring to increase wages or improve working conditions illegal (it passes anyway, on Oct. 20). 
Philippines: Guerrillas ambush US troops at Balangiga, killing 48 US soldiers.DESTROY ALL GOO-GOOS
Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader General Jake Smith orders his troops to kill everyone on the island.
Following his butchery in Balangiga, "Hell Roaring" Jake was promoted to brigadier general & put him in charge of the Samar campaign to pacify our "little brown brothers". In Samar, Smith earned fame with his orders to "kill everyone over the age of ten" & make the island "a howling wilderness." In May of 1902, Smith was court-martialed & was retired with no punishment.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Crete/9782/people.htm#smith
http://www.loompanics.com/Articles/DestroyAllGooGoos.htm
US: The directorate of the Mexican Liberal Party is formed, St. Louis, Mo. It is this party in which the Flores Magon brothers (Jesus, Enrique & Ricardo & other anarchists play such a prominent part, staging numerous military battles in an effort to overthrow the Mexican government. Cuba: US troops reoccupy the country, & stay until 1909. Canada: The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) union is outlawed. 
They seize William Brown, a black man, accused of raping a white woman; he has been tossed in jail though crippled with rheumatism. The mob gets him, hang him, shoot him & then drag his body through town. Some reports say the mutilation of his body also includes extensive burns.After committing these acts of murder, the mob goes on a rampage through downtown Omaha, breaking windows & stealing goods from storefronts. Troops are called in on the 30th to put an end to the chaos.
"It's considered one of the most notorious lynchings in the United States; tens of thousands of people were involved." — Laura Partridge, playwright, Minstrel Show
"The injustice is clear. It was the city, the system, & the society that was crooked, not the players. . . So, in the end, the owners won & the workers lost..."
— Ricky Durst, "Shoeless Joe & Juris Rudkus"
With the mass factory occupations in September 1920 a defining moment was reached. Things had gone so far that turning back was not a real option. As Errico Malatesta warned,
"If we do not carry on to the end, we will pay with tears of blood for the fear we now instill in the bourgeoisie".
But there was a loss of nerve, not among those occupying the factories, but among the leaders of the Socialist Party (PSI) & the CGL union. Instead of expanding the industrial struggle & linking it directly with the various community & rural struggles, they negotiated a deal & ordered their members back to work. & at the moment that the momentum was lost the rattled bourgeoisie were given their moment for revenge. The fascist squads were to be the instrument of that revenge.
http://www.anarchosyndicalism.net/newswire/display_any/166
http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/anarchism/writers/anarcho/anarchism/italianfascism.html
1923 -- Fug You!! Anarchist songster, author Tuli Kupferberg lives! (Coca Cola Douche, CIA Man, Paint It Red [&Black], Wide, Wide River.) "One of the leading Anarchist theorists of our time", according to "Reader's Digest" (4/87).
1930 -- US: Lou Gehrig's errorless streak ends at 885 consecutive baseball games. The winning pitcher is Babe Ruth, beating the Red Sox 9-3.
1936 -- Spain: National plenum of CNT regionals. (Here Horacio Martínez Prieto launches his political collaborationist ('pajaros carpinteros'),efforts which eventually put him outside the anarchist movement.)
1937 -- Spain: With Augustin Souchy, Emma Goldman leaves Valencia for Barcelona, which comes under bombardment by Franco's fascist forces a few days later.
Souchy asked Emma to work for the foreign-language press office of the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo-Federación Anarquista Ibérica (CNT-FAI).
Souchy, with Arthur Lehning & Rudolf Rocker, was a founder of the German FAUD in 1919. Augustin Souchy, German anarchist pacifist, see August 28, 1892
http://www.anarchy-movement.org/topic.php?ID=38
http://hemsidor.torget.se/users/c/Chilli/anarkisterna.htm
He grew up to be a fighter
Against the people's wrongs
He listened to their grief & joy
& turned them into songs
His hands were gentle, his hands were strong— "Victor Jara," words by Adrian Mitchell, music by Arlo Guthrie
Murdered by the Chilean government, along with thousands of others in an American-supported rightwing overthrow of the democratically elected government.
http://www.arlo.net/resources/lyrics/victor-jara.shtml
http://www.patriagrande.net/chile/victor.jara/
The Situationist International commemorates the 100th anniversary of the founding of the International Workingmen's Association (IWA) by releasing a postcard bearing a portrait of Marx saying:
"On 28 September 1964, it will be exactly one hundred years since we founded the Situationist International. It's starting to take shape!"
The caption is a line from de Sade, "How can lawful pleasures be compared to those which embody not only much more piquant delights but also the priceless joy of breaking all social taboos and overturning all laws?"
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Arquivo Edgard Leuenroth at Brazil’s Universidade Estadual de Campinas is the largest archive of anarchist material in South America, followed by Biblioteca Popular ‘Jose Ingenieros’ in Buenos Aires (founded in 1935).
1969 -- West Germany: First (postwar) Socialists take power (Willy Brandt & Social Democrats in coalition with Free Democrats).
1970 -- John Dos Passos dies. American novelist, developed a fictional style incorporating documentary devices to lend realism to his work. His most notable achievement, the trilogy U.S.A., chronicled the disintegration of American social values as a consequence of 20th-century capitalism. Independent leftist radical in the 20s & 30s, later became a Cold War warrior.
all right we are two nations
America our nation has been beaten by strangers who have bought the laws & fenced off the meadows & cut down the woods & turned our pleasant cities into slums & sweated the wealth out of our people & when they want to hire the executioner to throw the switch
but do they know that the old words of the immigrants are being renewed in blood & agony tonight do they know that the old american speech of the haters of oppression is new tonight in the mouth of an old woman from Pittsburgh of a husky boilermaker from Frisco who hopped freights clear from the Coast to come here...
Italy: Mick Jagger punches a reporter for "asking stupid questions," Roma. 
...The man in the riverhttp://recollectionbooks.com/siml/library/index.html#chilewears a white shirt, dark pants & sprawls
as if sleeping while water riffles his hair.
This is a photograph from the coup or golpe,meaning also hit or shock — just one death
from thirty thousand...— Stephen Dobyns, "Paco"
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/dobyns.htm
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/~lcushing/DocsPop/index.html
Iran: Millions shouting "Death to America!" demonstrate. Actually they were shouting "Love America", but the interpreter was having a bad day. US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Acting President Ronnie Reagan says "We have never interfered in the internal government of a country". This guy was not only elected president, Americans loved to be regaled by his fairy tales. (You may recall it was Ronnie who, on November 23, 1981, authorizes CIA to form paramilitary squads of exiles to overthrow the Sandinista government of Nicaragua.) Yup.
http://www.stlouiswalkoffame.org/inductees/miles-davis.html US: Revolt of the gorillas: one gorilla at the Bronx Zoo & two at the Miami Zoo temporarily escape. Three keepers are bitten. US: "Hammering Man" sculpture in front of the Seattle Art Museum keels over. Scuttlebutt has him out sucking up suds earlier, at the Blue Moon Tavern, where he got seriously hammered (home of the famed "Hammered Man").
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1996 -- England: The anarchist "Reclaim the Future" alliance throws its weight alongside sacked dockers & their trade union & socialist supporters. A massive anniversary demo triggered a 24 hour strike by tugme.
http://www.labournet.net/docks2/9610/demo.htm
1997 --
2000 -- Czech Republic: 'Battle of Prague' continues . . .
http://www.sherwood.it/
http://www.infoshop.org/s26.html
2001 -- US: Frisco Critical Mass bike ride.
2001 --
2001 --
2002 --
BURROUGHS: I'm always asking rock 'n' roll people if they know who Petrillo is, & none of them do. Well, they wouldn't have a dime if it weren't for Petrillo because he organized the Musicians' Union way back at the end of the 30s. & that is why they make money on their records. There wouldn't be any white Rolls Royces or anything like that...
MORGAN: Did Jimmy Page know who Petrillo was when you talked to him?
BURROUGHS: (laughs) No. I'll tell you one who would know is Mick Jagger. He's a businessman, he went to the London School of Economics.
— William S. Burroughs
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