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Our Daily Bleed...
OCTOBER 7
GIL J. WOLMAN
French lettrist & situationist theorist.
Alternate Saint,
JOE HILL![]()
Wobbly martyr of American Zerowork movement.
NEW YEARS DAY: in the ancient Sumerian calendar; celebrated with a festival to the Goddesses Ishatar & Astarte.
Libya: EXPULSION OF FASCIST SETTLERS DAY.
Nottinghamshire, England: 700-year old, 3-day GOOSE FAIR opens.
-3761 -- [BCE] -- Epoch (starting point) for Jewish chronology.
Source: [Calendar Riots]
1571 -- Future novelist Miguel de Cervantes is wounded three times while fighting in the naval Battle of Lepanto.
http://www.malaspina.org/cervantesm.htm
1719 -- Pirated installment of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe appears, the first novel to be serialized.
http://www.incompetech.com/authors/defoe/
1737 -- India: 40 foot waves sink 20,000 small craft & kill 300,000, Bengal.
1849 -- Edgar Allan Poe dies in Baltimore at age 40, saying "Lord, help my poor soul."‘Quoth the Raven,“Nevermore”’
http://www.poemuseum.org/
1849 -- James Whitcomb Riley, poet, lives. "My work did itself. I'm only the willer bark through which the whistle comes."
1864 -- France: Victor Barrucand lives, à Poitiers. Poète, musicien, journaliste et écrivain; d'abord militant anarchiste puis fédéraliste et enfin humaniste bourgeois, défenseur des droits des musulmans algériens.
Victor Barrucand drawing by Félix Vallotton
http://www.ephemanar.net/octobre07.html#barrucand
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/misc/@fotos.htm
1879 -- Sweden: Joe Hill lives! in Gàule. Labor martyr executed by state of Utah, the famous Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) labor songster/organizer. Workman, popular singer, poet, anarchist trade union militant.
1879 -- Leon Trotsky lives. Russian Jewish communist leader & Bolshevik politician, a close friend of Lenin. Author of In Defense of Terrorism & Literature & Revolution.
1886 --Author Caroline Slade lives. Wrote novels, to an extent that puts better-known writers such as Steinbeck to shame, about the dispossessed, exploited, & impoverished Americans of the 1930s & 1940s. First president of the foundation that built the Yaddo writers' colony. Most of her novels deal with the otherwise forgotten & struggling Americans. Her best-known work is Margaret (1947).
http://neglectedbooks.com/?p=168
1888 -- Sargent C. Johnson lives, Boston, Mass. Pioneering artist of the Harlem Renaissance, known for his wood, cast stone, & ceramic sculptures. Among his most famous works is "Forever Free" & "Mask."
1891 -- Archibald John Motley, Jr. lives, New Orleans, LA. Renowned African American painter of the 1920's & 30's.
1894 -- American physician, poet, & humorist chiefly remembered for a few poems & for his "Breakfast-Table" series of essays, Oliver Wendell Holmes dies in Cambridge.
1897 -- US: Elijah Muhammad lives, Sandersville, Ga. A leader in the Nation of Islam, the largest African-American movement since Garveyism.
1901 --
Mexico: Death threats received by Ricardo & Jesus Flores Magón, who are jailed. This period also marks the first forced suspension of their publication "Regeneración". See "Regeneración y Otros órganos de la Prensa Magonista,"
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/ArchiveMirror/cronologiaREGENERACION.htm
1905 -- Paintings of a radical group of artists, including Henri Matisse & André Derain, go on display, Paris; beginning of the Fauvist movement.
Source: [Robert Braunwart] [Hereafter attributed with symbol:]
1907 --England: The ever-dangerous anarchist feminist Emma Goldman speaks in London, on "The Labor Struggle in America"; she is trailed by Scotland Yard detectives. Sherlock Holmes was reputedly doing his drugs. Thus doth labor still struggle to this day.
1907 -- Novelist Helen MacInnes lives, Glasgow. Scottish-American, librarian who wrote espionage novels such as Above Suspicion; Decision at Delphi.
1909 --US consul reports a revolution against the Nicaraguan government will begin October 8.
1911 --México: Revolutionaries with the anarquista Zapata take Axochiapan, Morelos, from government forces.
1911 -- Italy: In un discorso a Torino Giolitti definisce la guerra per occupare la Libia "una fatalità storica."
Source: [Crimini e Misfatti]
1916 -- US: 222 points are scored in a football game between Georgia Tech & Cumberland University of Lebanon, Tennessee. 666 new goal.
1919 -- Nicolas Thomassin (1849-1919) dies. French weaver, socialist, anarchiste, participant in "Sans patrie" (formed October 18, 1891) with Gustave Bouillard, Pierre Leroux, Paulin Mailfait, etc.Nicolas Thomassin supported Jean Baptiste Clement for legislative election in 1884, lost his job & became a news vendor for Le père Peinard & La révolte. He founded the anarchiste groups "Les sans Patrie" & "Les deshérités de Nouzon" in 1891 — resulting in police harassment & numerous arrests. In 1916, Thomassin was still listed as a subscriber to Cubilot, published by the libertarian colony of Aiglemont.
1920 -- H.G. Wells, author/socialist, on a trip to Russia, is invited to address the Petrograd Soviet.H. G. Wells was torn between two visions...one of salvation & one of doom. He was so obsessed with the future he invented a time machine to take him there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._G._Wells_Society
1920 -- Spain: Two union militants are assassinated by hired gunmen.Francesc Capistrón "Xiquet," president of the Sindicato de Vaqueros, & Victoriano Abarca of the Barcelona Sindicato del Metal de la CNT, are cut down by pistoleros del Libre (goon squads supported by big business & the Catholic Church). Also today cenetista Pedro Antonio Carranza is arrested & held for nearly three months before learning he is in jail for "injurias a la Guardia Civil" (insulting the hated Civil Guard).
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/sources.htm#BarcelonaCronica
1924 -- Russia:
Nicolas Lazarevitch & Alexis Maslov are arrested for belonging to a criminal workers' organization. Both were active this past summer in Moscow with an anarcho-syndicalist group publishing "Dynamo". Maslov is sent to the camp at Urda & Lazarevitch is imprisoned for nearly three years (Lubianka, Butyrki, Souzdal, & Vladimir prison), before a campaign gains his deportation in 1926.
1927 -- R.D. Laing, British radical anti-psychiatrist, lives."Humanity is estranged from its authentic possibilities."
— R.D. Laing, introduction to Politics of Experience
"In the context of our present pervasive madness, sanity, freedom, all our frames of reference are ambiguous & equivocal."
http://www.reocities.com/Athens/Olympus/5214/laing.html
1929 -- France: French lettrist & situationist theorist Gil J Wolman lives."Making petrified conditions dance by singing them their own tune . . . . .
Don't call us, do it yourself!"B U R E A U O F P U B L I C S E C R E T S
http://www.bopsecrets.org/index.shtml
http://www.nothingness.org/SI/index.htmlhttp://www.notbored.org/films.html
http://www.notbored.org/wolman.html
http://www.notbored.org/contents.html
http://www.notbored.org/anticoncept.html
1929 --William Faulkner novel The Sound & the Fury is published.
1931 -- South African Bishop Desmond Tutu lives. Receives Nobel Peace Prize for his work to dismantle apartheid.
1931 -- André Colomer (1886-1931) dies. Poet, anarchist & finally a Communist.Involved with the review L'action d'art, an organizer with the CGTU, involved in Libertaire & La revue anarchiste. Broke with anarchism to become a "true Communist."
[Details / context]
1932 -- Zelda Fitzgerald's only novel, Save Me the Waltz, is published. It receives mixed notices & sells badly.
http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/scribner.html
1933 -- Joseph A. Labadie
1934 -- Amiri Baraka (aka LeRoi Jones, Imamu Amiri Baraka) lives. American dramatist, poet & novelist, whose works have explored the experience & anger of African-Americans. In the process he became for some time a racist & anti-Semite himself: 'We must eliminate the white man before we can draw a free breath on this planet.'
"God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability & air conditioning." — Imamu Amiri Baraka
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/baraka.htm
In 1958 Baraka founded Totem Press. In Harlem he established the Black Arts Repertory Theatre. Co-editor with Beat poet Diane Di Prima of Floating Bear. His poems reflect an interest in music, & he wrote Black Music (1968), Blues People & The Music: Reflections on Jazz & Blues (1987). After 1974 his political ideology had him advocating the overthrow of capitalist system, black or white.
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/BeatGen.html
1934 -- Ulrike Meinhof lives. German terrorist who end up commiting suicide in her jail cell in 1996. She was a member of the "Baader-Meinhof Gang," also known as the Red Army Faction (RAF), with Andreas Baader.
http://www.baader-meinhof.com/timeline/1973.html
1934 -- Brazil: Green Shirt fascists in São Paulo attempt to mimic Mussolini's "March on Rome," only to be scattered in disarray when confronted by the anarchists & workers from the Federação Operária de São Paulo, determined to stop them at the Praça da Séto.
Simão Rodovich, discovering the fascists are armed with machine guns to counter the antifascists, gets into an enormous shoot out that leaves six people dead.
1935 -- Australian novelist Thomas Keneally lives.Achieved his greatest success with novels based upon historical events, including The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith (1972), based on a revolt of Aborigines in 1900, & Schindler's List (1982), about a German industrialist who saved the Jews assigned to work in his factory during WWII. Both were made into films.
1935 -- The League of Nations has, finally, an attack of moral conscience & declares Italy an aggressor country for it's invasion of Ethiopia.
Source: [Crimini e Misfatti]
1937 --Sci-fi author Ray Bradbury speaks his first words in fandom.
1938 --Legendary Iranian singer, poet & political activist Fereydoon Farrokhzad lives. Younger brother of the acclaimed Persian poet Forugh Farrokhzad. He was assassinated or murdered in Germany in 1992.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fereydoon_Farrokhzadhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ6MjkyBVwc
1942 --US: The United Mine Workers withdraws from the CIO.
1942 --Denmark: King Christian X attends Copenhagen synagogue in this Nazi-occupied country.
1943 -- Radclyffe Hall, British lesbian novelist, dies.RADCLYFFE HALL
Lesbian novelist of new identities & new realities; Daily Bleed Patron Saint 1998.
1943 -- US: Tule Lake concentration camp administration fires 43 coal workers involved in a labor dispute. Tensions remain high during a month of strife, leading to the Tule Lake uprising on November 4th.
1954 -- France: Denunciation of the Paris Surrealists by the Lettrist International.
1955 -- US: Annette Funicello makes her first appearance on the Mickey Mouse Club.
"Six poets at the Six Gallery. Kenneth Rexroth, M.C. Remarkable collection of angels all gathered at once in the same spot. Wine, music, dancing girls, serious poetry, free satori. Small collection for wine & postcards. Charming event."
— from postcard printed by Allen Ginsberg to publicize 1955 Six Gallery ReadingMuch legend surrounds this event, which took place on October 7, 1955, though the date is sometimes given as October 13
... show details
On-stage, the poets were seated in a semicircle behind the podium. Kenneth Rexroth, dressed in a bow tie & a cutaway pinstripe suit, opened the evening with a few brief introductory remarks. Taking notice of the mixture of literary & political interests represented by those in attendance as well as by those on-stage, Rexroth compared the climate of San Francisco to that of Barcelona at the time of the Spanish anarchists, where culture survived despite an oppressive national political environment.
Also in attendance was Will Petersen
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Gallery_reading
- http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/ginsberg-fbi.html
- http://www.litkicks.com
- http://www.cosmicbaseball.com/playplat.html
- http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/BeatGen.html
- http://www.thing.net/~grist/l&d/mcclure/mcclure.htm
- http://www.litkicks.com/People/KennethRexroth.html
- http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/RexrothKenneth.htm
- http://www.connectotel.com/marcus/beatchr1.html
1957 -- England: Fire in the Windscale plutonium production reactor north of Liverpool, spread radioactive material throughout the countryside.A radioactive cloud was released, the public was told it would go out to sea, but temperature inversion caused the cloud to cover a good part of Britain. Possibly one of closest events to a 'china syndrome' ever. In 1983, the government said 39 people probably died of cancer as a result. All the facts may yet be undisclosed.
1958 --Spencer Tracy movie "The Old Man & the Sea" premiers.
1959 -- Outer Space: Far side of Moon seen for first time, compliments of USSR's Luna 3.
1960 -- France: Hands off Alexander Trocchi, English-language tract protesting Alexander Trocchi's arrest in the US, signed by Guy Debord, Jacqueline de Jong & Asger Jorn, Paris.
[Situationist Resources]
1961 --
São Paulo, Brazil
October 7-8, 1961
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Gathering of exiled Spanish libertarians & Brazilian anarchists, at the Centro de Cultura Social. Spanish exiles include members of the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) & the FFLL.
Source: [Movimento Anarquista no Brasil]
1963 -- US: Government awards $750,000 to Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation as payment for land previously stolen.
1964 --US: LBJ adviser Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Walter Jenkins is arrested for sex in a Washington DC YMCA men's room.
1964 --Canada: FLQ members Gabriel Hudon & Raymond Villeneuve are sentenced to 12 years each for terrorism, Georges Schoeters gets 10, Quebec.
1965 -- Charles Linster does 6,006 consecutive push-ups. Auntie Dave, that sexist pig, in an unguarded moment, reveals in an interview with himself, that he prefers pin-ups to push-ups.
1966 -- Jim Kweskin Jug Band, Big Brother, & Electric Train at the Avalon Ballroom in Frisco, California.
http://www.trussel.com/f_mel.htm
http://www.taco.com/roots/jugband.html
http://www.trussel.com/lyman/jugband.htm
1967 -- Japan: Nationwide demonstrations & riots begin against Viet Nam War & government policies.
1969 -- US: Haymarket statue (memorial to cops slain who fired on workers in 1886) in Chicago bombed. (or yesterday?)"Every anarchist hole was entered & the assassins in some instances were dragged from their beds."
http://recollectionbooks.com/anow/history/haymarket.html
http://www.chipublib.org/cplbooksmovies/cplarchive/timeline/index.php
1969 -- US: PAT? Black football players at the University of Wyoming are kicked off the team for protesting against them Mormons from Utah state's segregated Brigham Young University.
1970 -- Australia: Draft Resistor's Union underground network becomes operational.
1970 -- BOAC Air terminal at Victoria, booby trap hand grenade found.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/gallery/galleryindex.htm#AngryBrigade
1974 -- US: Willie? Washington, D.C. police stop the car of Representative Wilbur Mills, chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee, at the Tidal Basin, finding him "intoxicated, scratched, & bleeding." While questioning him, Annabel Battistella, a stripper who known as "Fanne Fox, the Argentine Firecracker," jumps out of his car & leaps into the water.
1975 -- No Joint?: John Lennon wins his lengthy 3-year fight to stay in the US when the US Court of Appeals in NY rules that his 1968 arrest in Britain for possession of marijuana was contrary to US ideas of due process & is invalid as a means of banishing him from America. (or 1974?)
http://hempfest.org/
1979 -- US: 2,500 anti-nuke demonstrators attempt to occupy two nuclear plants under construction at Seabrook, New Hampshire.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkFtCmG9pcQ
1984 -- Philippines: More Shoes Than Imelda?: 20,000 march against Marcos dictatorship, Manila.![]()
In 1986 Imelda Marcos revealed the reason there were so many shoes (thousands) in her closets: "Everybody kept their shoes there.
The maids ... everybody."
1985 -- US: People for Ethical Treatment of Animals erects giant rabbit banner near the Capitol to protest testing of cosmetics on rabbits.
1987 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Religious Whacko Pat Robertson acknowledges a Wall Street Journal report that he's been less than candid about his wedding date, & that his first child was born only 10 weeks after his marriage. Complains the candidate, "I have never had this kind of precision demanded of me before."
1989 -- US: Housing Now! march in Washington DC draws 200,000.There are lots more people in the House. I don't know how many exactly — I never counted but at least a couple hundred.
— future American President Dano Quayle, explaining the difference between the House & the Senate.
1989 -- England: Anarchist Book Fair, London. Held annually, & still going strong in 2012.
1990 --US: Justice Department reports US prison population doubled in the last 10 years. Worst in the Western World, last we heard, over 3% of the population in jail or in the corrections system. By 2006 it has reputedly added 16,000 to its secret prisons around the globe.
1990 --Palestine: Israeli security forces raid Gaza City mosque & steal Islamic writings.
1991 --US: Reagan official Elliott Abrams pleads guilty to Iran-contra crimes.
1991 --US: Jackson Browne, James Taylor & Bruce Cockburn headline a NY concert to protest the James Bay Two hydroelectric project in northern Quebec.
1993 --Guatemala: A mass grave of 150 women & children murdered by the US-supported & trained Guatemalan army is opened.
1993 --US: Demonstration & book burning are held to protest the donation of two gay-themed books to 42 Kansas City, Mo. high schools.
1995 --China: Painting "Chairman Mao Goes to Anyuan" is auctioned for $662,810. Who needs Andy Warhol?
1998 --Russia: Hundreds of thousands of Russians demonstrate against Beloved & Respected Comrade Boris Yeltsin.
1999 --Novelist Carlos Fuentes receives the Belisario Dominguez award from the Mexican Senate.
2001 -- US: Missles unleased on Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden & the ruling Taliban.
2002 --US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader George Dubya says Iraq "possesses & produces chemical & biological weapons,", in Cincinnati. This was not a lie, only a slip of the tongue, having meant the US, not Iraq.
2002 --Palestine: An Israeli missile kills 10 Palestinians in a crowd, Gaza Strip.
2010 -- Perúvian-Spanish writer Mario Vargas Llosa wins the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature.
3000 --
"The world at once present & absent which the spectacle makes visible is the world of the commodity dominating all that is lived.
The world of the commodity is thus shown for what it is, because its movement is identical to the estrangement of men among themselves & in relation to their global product."— Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle
http://www.nothingness.org/SI/debord.html
Photo of 1010 Montgomery Street apartment in San Francisco, where Ginsberg wrote 'Howl.' A little hard to see, but the album on the shelf says "Mass In B Minor." Probably Bach or Vivaldi or some stuff like that. Hey, you know those Ivy League types.
3500 --
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