Situationist International, Joe Hill, Liard-Courtois, Emma Goldman, Buenaventura Durruti, João Penteado, Neno Vasco, Edgard Leuenroth, Oreste Ristori, Gigi Damiani, José Alvés, on this day in recovered history November 19

Tomorrow I expect to make a trip to the planet Mars &, if so, will immediately commence to organize the Mars canal workers into the I.W.W. & we will sing the good old songs so loud that the learned star-gazers will once & for all get positive proof that the planet Mars is really inhabited....

I have nothing to say for myself, only that I have always tried to make this earth a little bit better.

— Joe Hill to "Solidarity" editor Ben Williams,
while awaiting his execution

NOVEMBER 19

JOE HILL
"I dreamt I saw Joe Hill last night."
Wobbly organizer, genius songwriter.
Murdered by state of Utah.
"Don't mourn for me — Organize!"
are his last words before his execution.

GROUP RATES FOR GROUP SOULS DAY.

HAVE A BAD DAY DAY.

461 -- A Bad SitComLaughTrack? St. Hilarius becomes the 46th pope (-468).

1493 -- "Christ-bearing Dove" Christopher Columbus 'discovers' Puerto Rico. On his second voyage to the New World Columbus set sail with 17 ships & almost 1,500 men. He found the island populated by as many as 60,000 Taíno or Arawak Indians. The Taíno Indians who greeted Columbus made a big mistake when they showed him gold nuggets in the river & told him to take all he wanted.
The bodies of infants are very soft, & apparently were quite a tasty treat for the dogs, so the Spaniards regularly fed infants to their dogs, alive, & at times while the horror-stricken parents watched. The Spaniards had contests to see who could cut a living person in half with one stroke of the sword. They would test the sharpness of their blades by beheading the nearest handy native.

http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Haiti
http://welcome.topuertorico.org/reference/taino.shtml

1692 -- English dramatist/poet laureate Thomas Shadwell dies, suspected opium overdose. Thomas Brown eulogizes him: "Tom writ, his readers still slept o'er his book / For Tom took opium, & they opiates took."

1792 -- France: French Convention offers assistance to all European revolutionaries.

1797 -- US: "Ain't I a Woman?": Isabella Baumfree born as a slave, on or about this date (d.1883). Freed in 1827 by the NY State Emancipation Act. After a divine revelation, she changed her name to Sojourner Truth (June 1, 1843) & begins speaking for emancipation of African-Americans & woman's rights.
http://www.kansasheritage.org/crossingboundaries/pagex6b3.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sojourner_Truth

1812 -- Third US attempt to invade Canada during War of 1812 collapses. American troops refuse to leave NY State & force General Henry Dearborn to return them to Pittsburgh.

1822 -- US: John Cleves Symmes petitions Congress for aid in making a voyage to the center of the earth, which he believes is hollow. He is, as every Bleedster knows, quite correct...

1862 -- France: Liard-Courtois (Auguste Courtois) lives, Calais. Militant labor & anarchiste speaker.
Sentenced to two years prison & a strong fine, for a lecture tour in 1891 advocating the General Strike.

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He formed the anarchist group "La Revanche Fourmisienne." Forced into exile in Belgium & England, when he returned to France, he was sent to prison for five years.

In 1914 he aligns with Jean Grave & the "Manifesto of the Sixteen." alt; Manifesto of the 16

Wrote Souvenirs du bagne (1903) & Après le bagne. Died early November 1918.

Source: http://www.ephemanar.net/novembre19.html

1863 -- US: At the close of a dedication ceremony for a cemetery for Union army dead at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President Abraham Lincoln delivers his Gettysburg Address, commonly considered one of the finest speeches ever uttered by an American politician.

1874 -- Crime Pays: William Marcy "Boss" Tweed, Grand Sachem of New York City's Tammany Hall, convicted of 204 counts of fraud. Estimates of sum Tweed swindled from City Treasury range up to $200 million.

1883 -- The United States Uniform Time Zone Plan (4 zones of 15 degrees) is put into operation: modern capitalism asserts total control of the social through the development of mass communications & transportation .
"Despite all the good scientific & military arguments for world time, it was the railroad companies & not the government that were the first to institute it. Around 1870, if a traveller from Washington to San Francisco set his watch in every town he passed through, he would set it over two hundred times."

— Stephen Kern, The Culture Of Time & Space

Source: 'Calendar Riots'

1883 -- Swedish author Hjalmar Fredrik Elgerus Bergman lives.

1887 -- Start of Sherlock Holmes' "Adventure of the Dying Detective" (BG).

1894 -- George Bernard Shaw writes to fledgling journalist R. E. Golding Bright: "You must give up detesting everything appertaining to Oscar Wilde or to anyone else. The critic's first duty is to admit with absolute respect, the right of every man to his own style."
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/goldman/socsig/shawintro.html
http://struggle.ws/ws98/ws53_wilde.html

1896 -- Start of Sherlock Holmes' "The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire" (BG).

1897 -- US: Emma Goldman continues her heavy lecture campaign throughout the midwest.
In mid-November Emma lectures four times in Detroit, aided by Robert Reitzel & his paper, Der arme Teufel.

Today Emma speaks at the People's Tabernacle despite opposition from the congregation; the event is sensationalized in the press. In response to Goldman's talk, the deacons & members of the church request the pastor's resignation.

Late November-December, Emma lectures in Cleveland before several liberal societies.

On her return east she delivers several successful lectures in Buffalo — where she speaks at the Trade & Labor Council Hall, the Spiritualist Temple, & before German anarchists — & Rochester, where she visits her family for the first time since 1894. Considers her meetings in Rochester, Buffalo, & Detroit to be the best of her 1897 tour.

http://web.archive.org...sfsu.edu/~jmmoran/index.htm
http://www.servinghistory.com/topics/Anarchism_in_the_United_States::sub::Notable_American_Anarchists

1899 -- England: Emma Goldman speaks, Atheneaum Hall, Sunday, November 19 & 26, London.
http://jwa.org/womenofvalor/goldman

1900 -- Anna Seghers lives. German novelist, essayist, short story writer, radical who gained international fame with her novels The Seventh Cross (1942) & Transit (1944). Her major themes were social injustice & the political upheavals of modern age.
Daily Bleed Patron Saint, November 16, 2003-4
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German radical intellectual, communist, feminist. Her silence in the late 1950s in the Stalinist trial of Walter Janka, the director of Aufbau publishing company, has shadowed her reputation among leftist intellectuals. See entry for Nov 19, 1900.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/mmbt/www/rescuers.html

Author's first novel, The Revolt of the Fishermen was a German Depression Era novel of a spontaneous insurrection of desperate Breton fishermen "who strike, starve, fail, & go back to toil for a wage that is still to leave their wives & children hungry." Here Seghers formed her key themes — that people must work together to fight oppression & rebellion gives meaning to one's life. Winner of Kleist Prize for 1929 & made into a 1934 Soviet Union film by the radical theatre director Erwin Piscator. Her work inspired, among others, Christa Wolf.

Seghers was a member of the Communist Party & the Union of Proletarian & Revolutionary Writers. Her silence in the late 1950s in the Stalinist trial of Walter Janka, the director of Aufbau publishing company, has shadowed her reputation among leftist intellectuals.

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/seghers.htm
http://faculty.vassar.edu/vonderem/g301/project/Seghers/

1903 -- Carrie Nation attempts to address Senate, speech called hatchet job.

1904 -- US: Some 6,000 workers in Chicago, members of the United Garment Workers of America, strike the 27 wholesale houses which were then members of the National Wholesale Tailors' Association.
http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/mmh/LaborConflict/ChicagoStrike/

1910 -- Spain: Poco después del congreso será elegido para entrar a formar parte del Consejo directivo de la CNT esta vez con el seudónimo de Timoteo Herrer (secretario Segundo) El secretario general de éste comité sería Josep Negre.
http://manelaisa.com/34-agrupacion-pro-cultura-faros/articulo-2-tomas-herrero-miquel/
http://www.veuobrera.org/00finest/cnt-deta.htm

1910 --
Ricardo Flores Magón

Anarchist Encyclopedia: Ricardo Flores Magón

Biografía

Por seguir creyendo...
La revolución
«La revolución va a estallar de un momento a otro. Los que por tantos años hemos estado atentos a todos los incidentes de la vida social y política del pueblo mexicano, no podemos engañarnos. Los síntomas del formidable cataclismo no dejan lugar a duda de que algo está por surgir y luego por derrumbarse, de que algo va a levantarse y algo está por caer. Por fin, después de treinta y cuatro años de vergüenza, va a levantar la cabeza el pueblo mexicano, y por fin, después de esa larga noche, va a quedar convertido en ruinas el negro edificio cuya pesadumbre no ahogaba.»

Regeneración, 19 de noviembre de 1910

1911 -- US: Emma Goldman kicks off a series of "Five Sunday Night Lectures," in New York City, with "Communism, the Most Practical Basis for Society," before departing on December 17th for an annual lecture tour with Ben Reitman.

1915 -- US: IWW labor organizer, folk-poet, anarho-sindikalisticka Joe Hill murdered by firing squad in Utah. The subject of numerous songs, plays, & books. His songs have been available continuously in the IWW's Little Red Song Book, now in its 36th edition.

"I don't want to be found dead in Utah."

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Utah authorities & copper bosses execute labor organizer & songwriter Joe Hill for his organizing with the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) — despite an international movement to save him.

Hill was convicted of killing a grocer & his son, even though the bullets were not from Hill's revolver & no one identified him as the murderer. His last words:

"Don't mourn, organize!"

Poet Alfred Hays wrote a ballad in Hill's memory:
"I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night,
Alive as you & me.
Says I, 'But Joe you're ten years dead,'
'I never died,' says he."

http://www.iww.org/
http://www.joehill.org/joesbio.htm

Labor organizer for the radical Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) & writer of union songs, Hill became a martyr upon his execution. Efforts by President Woodrow Wilson, the government of Sweden, & many prominent Americans to get him a new trial had failed.

http://www.folkways.si.edu/dont-mourn-organize...smithsonian
See: Smith, Gibbs M., Labor Martyr: Joe Hill (1972). (Grolier Electronic Publishing, Inc., 1995 Encyclopedia)

1915 -- Billy Strayhorn lives, Dayton, Ohio. Wrote his first song, "Lush Life," age 16 while working as a soda jerk in Pittsburgh, Pa. Joins Duke Ellington as a co-composer, assistant arranger, & pianist. Collaborated with Ellington for 28 years on some of the band's greatest hits, including "Satin Doll," & "Take the A' Train."

1915 -- US: Emma Goldman presents 16 lectures in Chicago (November 19-December 5), including six in Yiddish; "Sex, the Great Element of Creative Art" & "The Right of the Child Not to be Born" are among the topics addressed.

1916 -- Anarchist terrorists?: 1.03 million fatalities at the first battle of the Somme.

1918 -- Brasil: O Rio de Janeiro Atravé dos Jornais 19 de novembro de 1918 REVOLTA DOS ANARQUISTAS.
De sorte que o movimento operário anunciado por todos os jornais, em favor da greve geral, assim de um momento para outro, assumiu o mais grave aspecto. (...) — O Imparcial, 19 de novembro de 1918.

A polícia, num cálculo ao que parece errado, forneceu à imprensa a nota de que se acham paralisados apenas 15 fábricas, estando em greve cerca de 15.190 operários.

— A Rua, 19 de novembro de 1918.
http://www.nodo50.org/insurgentes/textos/brasil/09revolta.htm
http://www.nodo50.org/insurgentes/textos.htm
http://www.nodo50.org/insurgentes/

1919 -- Brasil: In São Paulo, João Penteado, a teacher & militante anarquista, is ordered to close the Modern School n°1 — open since May 13, 1912 (founded by Neno Vasco, Edgard Leuenroth, Oreste Ristori & Gigi Damiani) — when a bomb explodes (accidental?) in a house, killing four anarchists, including José Alvés, the principal of l'Ecole moderne de São Caetano.
[Details / context / links]

1921 -- US: Roy Campanella lives, Philadelphia, Pa. One of the first African-American baseball players signed to major league baseball after Jackie Robinson breaks the color line. Played for the Brooklyn Dodgers, the National League's Most Valuable Player in 1951, 1953, & 1955.

1922 -- Turkish poet & novelist Yasar Kemal ( Memed, My Hawk) lives this autumn (exact date unknown). A cotton picker, farmhand, construction foreman, clerk, cobbler's helper, & substitute teacher before publishing his first book in 1943. Of Kurdish descent he is best known for his stories of village life & for his outspoken advocacy on behalf of the dispossessed. Winner of the 1997 Stig Dagerman Prize & long a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
http://www.lightmillennium.org/2005_15th/epamucak_ant_drank_water.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ya%C5%9Far_Kemal

1929 -- US: After a quick trial & failed appeal, Nisei youth Myles Fukunaga was hanged in Hawaii for the kidnap & murder of 10-year old George Gill Jamieson, son of the vice president of the Hawaiian Trust Company.
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Fukunaga confessed, but in doing so exposed the extent of poverty & racial discrimination that was prevalent in Hawai`i in the 1920s.

He unveiled the hardships in his life that drove him to kill the young Jamieson. A bright young man, Fukunaga gave up his education so he could work to support his family. After he was ill for a while, his family could not pay the $20 rent & was threatened to be evicted. Fukunaga "had hard feelings against [the] company," not believing that "a rich company like that could not wait for just a mere $20 sum." The murder scheme was partly developed in revenge to the Hawaiian Trust Company, to whom the rent was owed.

http://archives.starbulletin.com/98/11/04/news/whatever.html

1936 --
Spain: This afternoon, Buenaventura Durruti is mortally wounded under uncertain circumstances while helping to defend Madrid.
Earlier this month Durruti was persuaded by Juan García Oliver & Federica Montseny to bring his column (composed of about 3,000 men) to the city to defend it against Franco's fascist army.

[Durruti & his close friend Francisco Ascaso were once bookshop owners in Paris when in exile there. Both were also condemned to death by the Argentine government as anarchist agitators... Indeed, even the Stalinist hack, Ilya Ehrenburg, later remarked with pride that four capitalist States had condemned Durruti to death.]

We have it here

growing in our hearts, as

your comrade said, & when

we give it up with our last

breaths someone will gasp

it home to their lives.
— Philip Levine
http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/scw/durruti.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFa0LpT2OHU

1942 -- Poet Sharon Olds lives.

1944 -- US: Hutchins Hapgood dies, Provincetown, Massachusetts.
Journalist, author, free love advocator & anarchist.

Chronicled the American progressive movement in fiction & journalism.

1953 -- Vietnam: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader US Vice President Dick M Nixon visits Hanoi.
http://www.vvaw.org/

1959 -- US: Edsel cancels the Ford. Ford later cancels Edsel.
http://www.google.com/search?q=Henry+Ford+Nazi

1960 -- Pen Pals? Novelist Norman Mailer stabs his wife Adele Morales with a penknife.

1961 -- Primitive Capitalist Accumulation?: Michael Rockefeller eaten by cannibals. (Just desserts?)

1965 -- Pop Tarts pastries created.
http://www.pmichaud.com/toast/

1966 -- Righteous Brothers, with April Stevens & Nino Tempo, appears at the USF Gymnasium in San Francisco. Beau Brummels at the Carousel Ballroom. Grateful Dead & James Cotton at the Fillmore.
http://www.blindpigrecords.com/index.cfm?section=artists&artistid=22

1967 -- Purple Onion Two, a hipper version of the original Club, opens at 435 Broadway in San Francisco.

1969 -- US: Right to Die? In an effort to undercut opposition to the Vietnam War Congress passes random selection of draftees thru lottery & permits first calling of 19-year-olds & expired college deferments & allows call-up by birthday (+ second lottery by first letter of last name within each date group + third for within letters).
http://web.archive.org/...veterans/warlib6v.htm
http://recollectionbooks.com/vietnamlist.html
http://web.archive.org/.../warlibrary/lottery.htm

1969 -- Italy: Avviso al proletario italiano sulle possibilità presetni della rivoluzione sociale (Notice to the Italian Proletariat on Current Possibilities for Social Revolution), tract by the Italian section of the Situationist International, Milan, with an appendix.
SITUATIONIST INTERNATIONAL
http://www.cddc.vt.edu/sionline/chronology/chronology.html | [Situationist Resources]

1971 -- US: Northern States Power Company's reactor in Monticello, Minnesota dumps about 50,000 gallons of radioactive waste water into the Mississippi River. Some taken into St. Paul water system.

1973 -- US: Unanimous Supreme Court decision supports Puyallup tribal fishing rights vs. state of Washington.

1991 -- US: 1,603 African-American women protest Clarence Thomas's appointment to the Supreme Court after Senate confirmation hearings deride testimony of Thomas's long-standing pattern of sexual harassment.

1994 -- Netherlands: Dutch Gold? Rotterdam University study finds that 1/4 of Dutch MPs have smoked marijuana. Like a dog's breath, friendly secondhand smoke...

1996 -- US: "God Said, Ha!," opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 22 performances.

Pirate Radio ship; source freedomforum.org

1997 -- Bleedster Jesse Walker's article "Rebel Radio" published in The New Republic.

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1997 -- US: Feds shut down pirate radio stations in Tampa, Florida.

2000 -- US: Florida counts presidential ballots (more or less)...

http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/library/anarchistQuotesVoting.htm

2000 -- US: 1,700 protesters are arrested at US army School of Assassins (aka "School for the Americas, located at Fort Benign, Georgia, & best known for training armies of Latin American murderers in the fine arts of making the world Safe For ~~Haliburton & Corporate Welfare~~ Democracy).
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/1118-12.htm

2001 -- US: Second Bush regime accuses Iraq & North Korea of developing germ warfare programs. Thankfully the US ~~stockpiles~~ has none...

2009 -- The discovery of three ancient crocodile species announced: Kaprosuchus saharicus, Araripesuchus rattoides & Laganosuchus thaumastos.

3000 --

Long haired preachers come out every night,
Try to tell you what's wrong & what's right;
But when asked how 'bout something to eat,
They will answer with voices so sweet:

You will eat, bye & bye,
In that glorious land above the sky: Work & pray, live on hay,
You'll get pie in the sky when you die.

Workingmen of all countries unite;
Side by side we for freedom will fight.
When the world & its wealth we have gained
to the grafters we'll sing this refrain:

You will eat, bye & bye,
When you've learned to cook & fry;
Chop some wood, t'will do you good,
& you'll eat in the sweet bye & bye.

— Joe Hill, song written for the Spokane Free Speech Fight of 1910

Joe Hill

Phil Ochs, Ballad of Joe Hillhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwKdRodMpWY
Ballad of Joe Hill (live in Sweden)
Joe Hill, Paul Robeson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8Kxq9uFDes
Joe Hill's Ashes, Otis Gibbs, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkf12sJ_mY0
Pie in the Sky, Ani DiFranco & U. Utah Phillips http://www.emusic.com/m3u/song/10864511/13391946.m3u
Joe Hill, Billy Bragg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdSbKSQYXgo
I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night, Joan Baez http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS1aiAMWaz0
Narrative, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn & Rebel Girl, Hazel Dickens http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-OpIDV_EZ8
Joe Hill's Last Will, Utah Phillips

3001 -- Only hours before facing the firing squad labor organizer Joe Hill composed his "Last Will":

My will is easy to decide,
For there is nothing to divide.
My kin don't need to fuss & moan
Moss does not cling to a rolling stone.
My body - Oh! - if I could choose,
I would to ashes it reduce,
& let the merry breezes blow
My dust to where some flowers grow.
Perhaps some fading flower then
Would come to life & bloom again.
This is my Last & Final Will.
Good luck to all of you,
— Joe Hill
http://www.kued.org/productions/joehill/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Hill
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067276/

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"I don't want to be found dead in Utah."

"Don't mourn, organize!"

"I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night, Alive as you & me. Says I, 'But Joe you're ten years dead,' 'I never died,' says he."

"I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night,
Alive as you & me.
Says I, 'But Joe you're ten years dead,'
'I never died,' says he."