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"Delia" California rolls into
Sleepy summer, & the air
Is full of the bitter sweet
Smoke of the grass fires burning
On the San Francisco hills.
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BA JIN |
Purged during the Cultural Revolution.
Nominated for the 1975 & 2001 Nobel Prize in Literature.
The 2001 nomination letter notes,"Ba Jin has made great efforts in fighting for man's freedom, democracy, man's psychic liberation; his in-depth exploration about human nature & man's esteem has been recorded in history of Chinese culture."
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bright/bajin/bajinarchive.html
FESTIVAL OF BIG TALK.
FESTIVAL OF SHADOW ECONOMIES.
US: NATIONAL DAY OF MOURNING FOR AMERICAN INDIANS.
IT HAS BEEN SAID DAY:
"All bleeding eventually stops"
— HerrDr.Prof. Vladimir, Texassican
1731 -- William Cowper — poet, translator of Homer, editor of Milton — lives, Great Berkhampstead Rectory in Hertfordshire: "I have no more right to the name of a poet than a maker of mousetraps has to that of an engineer."
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/5080/
http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/poet79.html
http://www.urich.edu/~creamer/milton/
http://www.docfizzix.com/
1792 -- US: American anti-slavery & suffragist activist Sarah Grimke lives.
1855 -- US: "Wakarusa War," a series of armed skirmishes between pro-slavery "Border Ruffians" from Missouri, & Kansas Free State men, erupts near Lawrence, Kansas.
1862 -- US: On meeting Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom' Cabin, Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President Able Lincoln comments:
"So this is the little lady who made the big war."
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/mmbt/www/women/StoweHB.html
http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln.html
1864 -- US: Major Scott Anthony orders Cheyennes, living near Fort Lyon in Colorado for protection from vigilantes, to move, precipitating the Sand Creek Massacre of 29 November.
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/resources/archives/four/sandcrk.htm
1864 -- Lewis Carroll sends the handwritten manuscript of Alice in Wonderland to 12-year-old Alice Liddell as an early Christmas present.
http://www.lewiscarroll.org/carroll.html
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/lcarroll.htm
1865 -- Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland published.
In Alice in Wonderland Carroll pokes fun at organised religion's attempts to control chronological time with a thinly veiled attack on the Christian debates over the correct day for celebrating Easter:
"Fourteen of March, I think it was," he said.
"Fifteenth," said March Hare.
"Sixteenth," said the Dormouse.
"Write that down," the king said to the jury; & the jury eagerly wrote down all the three dates on their slates, & then added them up, & reduced the answer to shillings & pence"
See also 25 August & 21 March.
http://www.lewiscarroll.org/carroll.html
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/lcarroll.htm
1868 -- US: Ignoring orders to kill only warriors, a U.S. Army contingent led by Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader General Custer massacres 103 sleeping Cheyenne — including Black Kettle, a survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre — in the so-called "Battle of the Washita," Oklahoma Territory.
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/resources/archives/four/sandcrk.htm
1882 --
Peter Kropotkin begins publishing his ideas on anarchist communism during this month. [I don't have the exact date — ed.]
His first major contribution was in the area of popular expropriation. In November & December 1882, he published a series of articles on the subject, arguing that a libertarian communist revolution would not succeed unless everything that could be used to exploit the people was immediately expropriated & socialized for the benefit of all.
1883 -- US: Black emancipationist Sojourner Truth dies, Battle Creek, Michigan. Poet, freedom fighter, feminist, abolitionist & former slave. SOJOURNER TRUTH
Freed slave, emancipationist, feminist, social activist. Daily Bleed Saint 1998
1883 -- US: Supreme Court declares 1875 Civil Rights Act unconstitutional.
1895 -- France: Arthur Arnould (1833-1895) dies. French journalist, novelist, anarchist member of First International & the Paris Commune, friend of Michael Bakunin. Arnould wrote L'Etat et la Révolution (1877), a history of the Paris Commune, & numerous novels as A. Matthey. See the Anarchist Encyclopedia page, http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/ArnouldArthur.htm
1909 -- Eugène Ionesco lives. Romanian-born French dramatist whose one-act antiplay The Bald Soprano (1950) inspired the Theater of the Absurd (see also: Samuel Beckett, Alfred Jarry). Since 1970s his writing has mainly been non-theatrical.
1910 -- France: Une honte ! (Edition spéciale de "Vérités" du 26 novembre 1910).
"Ils étaient douze, douze brutes, douze gribouilles: 12 jurés ont condamné à mort un innocent: [Jules] Durand. Le distillateur d'alcool, on le fait décorer. Le capitaliste, on le fait statufier. Le syndicaliste, on le fait guillotiner. La République française inflige au monde entier un pareil scandale ? C'est une honte ! Alors Camarade réfléchis ! Durand qui est le premier martyr du syndicalisme, maudit par la bourgeoisie, ne doit pas éveiller en toi qu'un simple juron à l'adresse de ses bourreaux. II faut que tout ton être vibre violemment, il faut que tu recherches les vrais coupables du meurtre qui se prépare, il faut qu'à ce tableau de chasse nulle autre victime ne soit inscrite.
Et le jour où ton syndical te dira "Lève-toi" n'hésite pas !"
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1911 -- Death of Paul Lafargue (son-in-law of Karl Marx). Went to Spain in a foolish effort to counter the Bakuninist ideas spread there by Giuseppe Fanelli. No anarchist he, but he's not all bad — after all, he wrote The Right to Be Lazy in 1893 while in prison. Translated & published by Charles Kerr publishing coop in Chicago, 1907.
PAUL LAFARGUE 1997 SAINT 29 MARCH
Karl Marx's bum of a son-in-law, the lay-about author."Hélas! Les loisirs que le poète païen annonçait ne sont pas venus; la passion aveugle, perverse et homicide du travail transforme la machine libératrice en instrument d'asservissement des hommes libres : sa productivité les appauvrit."
1911 --US: The anarchist-feminist Emma Goldman lectures, in New York City, on "Mary Wollstonecraft the Pioneer of Modern Womanhood."
1912 -- US: Emma Goldman speaks at a meeting organized by Almeda Sperry in New Kensington, Pa., followed by meetings over the next four days in Pittsburgh, New Castle, & McKees Rocks.
1914 -- US: Emma Goldman lectures on "The War & 'Our Lord,'" in Grand Rapids, Mich., organized by William Buwalda of the Analyser Club. From the 29th to December 6, in St. Louis, Emma delivers eight English & two Yiddish lectures to receptive audiences.
1914 -- England: Battleship HMS Bulwark explodes at Sheerness Harbor, 788 die.
1920 -- Russia: Red Army led by "Snowball" (Trotsky's name in Orwell's Animal Farm) & Kamenov murders Makhnovist anarchist delegation under a flag of truce & attacks agrarian commune federation.
1921 -- France: Second congress of l'Union Anarchiste meets for two days, in Lyon (or Villeurbanne?).
http://libertaire.org/article28.html
1922 -- Dust Buster?: Howard Carter opens the tomb of Tutankhamen.The tomb of The Boy King, Tutankhamen, was discovered in Egypt by Lord Carnarvon of England & Howard Carter of the United States. The find was called, "The greatest archaeological discovery of all time." People in America, desiring brevity in identifying great things before they forget, shortened the name to "Tut." Critics of the grave-robbers cluck, tut-tut.
1924 -- Mongolian People's Republic proclaimed.
1930 -- Argentina: Adolfo Perez Esquivel, co-founder of Servicio Paz y Justica lives.
1941 -- Japanese carrier force left its base & moves east toward Pearl Harbor, never to be seen again.
1945 -- England: "Save Europe from Starvation" rally, London.
1956 -- Famed swing-era band leader & trombonist Tommy Dorsey dies, the result of an accident in his Greenwich, Connecticut home.
1956 -- USSR: Single sculls winner Vyacheslav Ivanov wins Olympic gold medal, in his excitement he jumps for joy, & loses his medal, as it sinks to the bottom.
1965 -- Judy Collins performs, with guest Mimi & dick Farina, White Plains, NY.pop1('http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/BB/poster-judy-dick-mimi-65.jpg
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http://www.richardandmimi.com/ads.html
1966 -- UnEasy Rider?: Peter Fonda is among 100 arrested in Los Angeles during protest of a 10 P.M. curfew in Sunset Blvd. entertainment district.
1968 -- US: O.J. Simpson is named football's Heisman Trophy winner for 1968.A running back for the University of Southern California, amassing 3,187 yards in 18 games & 33 touchdowns in two seasons. Plays professional football with the Buffalo Bills & San Francisco 49ers, then a sportscaster & actor. More recently obsessed with tracking down the killer of his wife, presumably linked to the greens, which he now haunts.
1968 -- Cream gives its last concert at the Royal Albert Hall, London. The crowd chants "God save the Cream." Clapton & drummer Ginger Baker continue to work together in Blind Faith.
1968 -- Uncle?: U.N. passes Resolution Against Capital Punishment. Guess who ignores it?
1968 -- US: Robert R. Smith, President of San Francisco State College, resigns. S.I. Hayakawa named acting president.
1968 -- Vietnam: After stalling for months, the South Vietnamese government agrees to join in the Paris peace talks.
[Source: WholeWorld is Watching]
1969 -- US: Crap Shoot — Military draft lottery established.
1973 -- Albert DiSalvo, Boston Strangler, stabbed.
1973 -- Mexico: Spanish-Mexican anarquista Miguel Giménez Igualada (1888-1973) dies. CNT member, anarcho-syndicalist & then deeply influenced by Max Stirner, an anarchist-individualist. Author, publisher & editor during the Spanish Revolution & afterwards. With the defeat of the revolution he took refuge in France, Argentina, Uruguay & Mexico.
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_Gim%C3%A9nez_Igualada
http://www.cnt.es/fal/Bicel16/8.htm
1976 -- Sex Pistols release their debut single "Anarchy In The UK."
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OKAY, songsters, rockers, punkers, highbrows, opera buff(e)s, folkies fans, wannabes & other pretenders....
BleedSongMeisterAuntieDave put together a music quiz for aging & aspiring anarchists & rockers, to test your heavy mettle, at the "Research on Anarchism" site in France, for all & (a)sundry...
Take the quiz!, cheat, swear, sweat, bang your head on the wall, see how you fare!!
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/Music@Quiz/quiz_2002_1.html
http://www.geocities.co.jp/MusicStar/6282/pistols/discography/boot.htmlhttp://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/7412/punklinx.html
1983 -- England: Heathrow Airport, robbed of 6,800 gold bars worth $38.7 million.
1991 -- US: Condoms are handed out to thousands of NY High School students.http://www.condom.com/
1991 -- US: Red Plots? Custer Battlefield Nat'l Monument in Montana is renamed Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument. Reservations may be required. & the parking lot, of course, is mostly occupied by Winnebagos & Jeep Cherokees. Damn militants.
1993 -- Israeli troops shoot to death Palestinian guerrilla leader Khaled Mustafa Zer in the Arab Jerusalem suburb of Sur Bahir.This is the third killing, in eight days, of opponents of a September 13 peace accord between Israel & the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). On November 24 in Gaza, Israeli troops killed Imad Aqal, the founder & commander of Izzedine el-Qassem & a legendary figure among Palestinians. Yesterday, in the most widespread & violent protests since the accord, Palestinian rebels stoned soldiers from behind burning barricades.
A Wilmington, N.C., neurosurgeon's license was suspended after he left a patient's brain exposed for 25 minutes while he got lunch. The state medical board said neurosurgeon Raymond Sattler, 50, forgot the names of surgical equipment & told a nurse to drill holes in a patient's head & work on the outer brain even though she was not trained to do so.
— The Washington Post, A16, 26 Nov 1994
2000 -- US: Florida...
2000 --WARNING WARNING
Prepared To Meet Thy Chipmaker??? Only 35 shopping days left until Big Dooom Y2K . . .
http://www.nicorinc.com/gas/consumer_news/jan_y2k.html
http://www.spunk.org/library/writers/woodcock/sp001734.html
2004 -- Italy: 4º Convegno del Sindacalismo Europeo Alternativo, Milan, Nov. 26-28.
http://www.usiait.it/img/2004/storia.htm
http://www.usiait.it/img/2004/rm160504a.jpg
3001 --"Thanks for a nation of finks. Thanks for a nation where nobody is allowed to mind their own business."
— Billy Burroughs, exterminator, suspect reprobate, "Thanksgiving"
4502 --
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