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Someone basic as a fuse in the cellar of a tenement darkened by lightning, one who makes sure water comes out of the faucets, maintains the necessary order of things at the highest level of discreet invisibility like simplicity itself, is often the indigenous immigrant at the root of what makes the whole show continue, the human janitor, who must not be slashed like a throwaway book by the cut-crazy backstabbers of the people, the he or she who is the real governor of the state of things still possibly human. from "Something Basic" (For Local 87 AFL-CIO) |
NOVEMBER 27
FERNAND BRAUDEL
Revolutionary French historian of material life.
FESTIVAL OF SOLITUDE.
1884 -- US: The black flag appears in first known display by anarchists in America, at a demonstration in Chicago.According to historian Paul Avrich, August Spies, one of the famous Haymarket martyrs, "noted that this was the first occasion on which [the black flag] had been unfurled on American soil."
According to historian George Woodcock, the earliest instance found of anarchists using a black flag is by Louise Michel, who flew it in Paris on March 9, 1883 during a militant demonstration of the unemployed.
1885 -- Earliest photograph of a shower made.
1896 -- Also Sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spake Zarathustra) debuts in Frankfurt.
1898 -- US: Emma Goldman (November-December) supports efforts of Alexander Berkman's defense committee to seek a pardon. With Justus Schwab & Edward Brady, she reluctantly follows the recommendation of defense attorneys to seek Andrew Carnegie's influence in granting a pardon. They approach Benjamin Tucker, individualist editor of Liberty, to meet with Carnegie, but reject his suggestion that Berkman be presented as a "penitent sinner." All plans to meet with Carnegie are eventually abandoned.
http://www.spunk.org/texts/otherpol/critique/sp001281.txt
http://www.wendymcelroy.com/news.php?extend.2054
1900 -- Philippines: US troops coax information from Filipino town president by forcing salt water down his throat from 100-gallon tank. The Americans terrorized the population & burned the town to the ground. To "protect US interests."
1903 -- Johnny Blood aka John McNally, lives.
1909 -- American journalist James Agee (Let Us Now Praise Famous Men; A Death in the Family) lives, Knoxville, Tennessee: "I lived there, so successfully disguised to myself as a child."
JAMES AGEE 1997 PATRON SAINT
Compassionate American chronicler of poverty, despair.
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap10/agee.html
http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/AmeLit.html#1900
http://research.hrc.utexas.edu:8080/hrcxtf/view?docId=ead/00139.xml
1911 -- US: Audience throws vegetables at actors for first recorded incident.
http://www.driveways.com/
1912 -- Successful businessman Sherwood Anderson, 36, leaves wife, family, & job in Elyria, Ohio, to become a writer.
http://sherwoodandersonfoundation.org/2010/02/sherwood_anderson_a_brief_biog_1.php
1915 -- England: First convention of No-Conscription Fellowship.
1920 -- US: In West Virginia, following strike-related violence & the killing of a state trooper, Governor Cornwell proclaims martial law in Mingo County. (The state had no military force, the National Guard not having been reorganized after service in World War I.)
[Sources]
1920 -- Spain: Andrés Nin & Josep (or José) Canela attacked by "pistoleros" in Plaza Buensuceso, Barcelona. Nin is unscathed but Canela dies.
Part of the government's bloody campaign to destroy the CNT. The so-called "Free" Unions (syndicat libre) were organized to serve as the bosses' gunmen, &, protected by the civil & military authorities, they murdered the most selfless of the trade union militants: Salvador Segui, Evelio Boal, José Canela were just a few among hundreds of others. These death squads & their assassinations were directed by Barcelona Governor Martinez Anido.
At the end of month, the CNT's labor lawyer Francesc Layret is assassinated & 36 more union leaders imprisoned.[Details / context]
1920 -- Russia: Leon Trotsky (aka "The Red Butcher") orders an attack on Nestor Makhno's headquarters. Yesterday Makhno's anarchist commanders were executed after being lured to a meeting with Trotsky under a flag of truce. The Cheka simultaneously arrests members of the Nabat Confederation in Kharkov & raids anarchist clubs & organizations throughout Russia.Yesterday Makhno's anarchist commanders in the Crimea, fresh from victories over General Wrangel's rightwing White army, met with Trotsky's leftwing Red Army under a flag of truce. They were seized & immediately shot. See http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/1126.htm
"Your flags black in the wind,
black for our sorrow,
red for our blood."
— excerpt from the song "Makhnovchtchina"
http://blackeyepress.wordpress.com/2009/09/20/nestor-makhno/
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSmakhno.htm
http://www.spunk.org/library/quotes/sp000092.txt
http://struggle.ws/inter.html
1921 -- US: The Radio Church of America founded.
1926 -- Louis 'Satchmo' Armstrong records "You Made Me Love You."
1934 -- US: Baby Face Nelson bites the bullet. Lester M. Gillis aka Baby Face Nelson, shot by FBI agents, in the face . . . in a face off?
1935 -- New Zealand: Labour Party forms government for first time.
1936 -- England: The Royal Screw? It is revealed that George V's doctor hastened his death so that it would appear in the morning rather than the evening papers.
Source: 'Calendar Riots'
1942 -- Jimi Hendrix, rock guitar wizard, lives, under a bad sign, Seattle, Washington.
"An interview in the PBS series "The History of Rock & Roll" revealed the not-at-all-surprising fact that Hendrix played guitar eight hours a day.
Jimi Hendrix, especially after his death, likely did more to sell Fender Stratocaster guitars than any other individual or organization including the manufacturer. I had finally pestered my parents into getting me one by the time I was 17."
— Bleeder Ben Bradley, GuitarMeister
http://www.musicfanclubs.org/jimihendrix/
1952 -- US: Convicted "trunk murderess" Winnie Ruth Judd escapes Arizona State Insane Hospital for the sixth time.
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/women/judd/1.html
Winnie Ruth Judd: Trunks of Blood:
http://jeff.scott.tripod.com/judd.html
1953 -- Eugene O'Neill, dramatist & radical, dies in Boston, 65.
http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/95oct/egoneill.html
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/oneill.htm
1965 -- US: 'March on Washington for Peace in Vietnam' Washington, D.C. 15,000-30,000 march.
1965 --Ken Kesey & the Merry Pranksters hold first "acid test" open to the public.
One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest was a vehicle for Ken Kesey’s anarchist rant against the oppressive conformism imposed by society’s institutions, immortalised in Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.
http://wild-bohemian.com/kesey.htm
1968 -- US: Warrant issued for arrest of Eldridge Cleaver. Minister of Information for the Black Panther Party, he becomes a fugitive from justice as a parole violator when he fails to return to prison.
1969 -- Vietnam: 700 US Army medics stationed in Pleiku stage a fast to protest the Vietnam War.
http://vietnam.vassar.edu/
http://web.archive.org/...doddcenter.uconn.edu/exhibits/voices/vietnam.htm
1970 -- Soviet author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn writes he cannot go to Stockholm to receive Nobel Prize for fear of not being allowed to return home.
1970 -- Pope Paul VI wounded in the Philippines by dagger-wielding Bolivian painter disguised as a priest.http://web.archive.org/web/20080215010640/http://www.halcyon.com/dagger/
1970 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader J. Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI (Fumbling Bumbling Idiots), warns of terrorist plot by Catholic priest Berrigan brothers (Daniel & Philip) & others."Well, your honor, it appears to me that
you should ask President Bush if he'll stop
making missiles; &, if he'll stop making
them, then I'll stop banging on them & you
& I can go fishing."
— From testimony at the Plowshares Eight
resentencing, 1990.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plowshares_Movement
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/BB/J_Edgar.gif
1976 -- England: 20,000 rally for peace in Northern Ireland, Trafalgar Square, London.
1978 -- US: San Francisco Mayor George Moscone & City Supervisor Harvey Milk, a gay-rights activist, shot to death by former supervisor Dan White who argues the Twinkies he ate made him do it.Moscone & Milk, a progressive & one of the first openly gay public officials in the US, is shot to death in City Hall. The killer is gay-hating ex-Supervisor Dan White.
At his trial in 1979, White was actually acquitted of first-degree murder after his so-called "Twinkie defense," which claimed impaired judgment from eating too much sugar-filled junk food. The verdict ignites a widespread uprising in the city.
1979 -- France: Trial of conscientious objector Jean Fabre results in his release from prison.
1980 -- Home Improvement?: US Justice Department moves to drop charges against former Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader FBI Director L. Patrick Gray III for authorizing his agents to break into homes without search warrants. Proves little Gray Men live on earth, probably in Texass.
1981 -- The British Phonographic Industry, with the endorsement of rock stars like Elton John, Gary Numan, Cliff Richard, 10cc & the Boomtown Rats, places advertisements in the British press claiming that "Home taping is wiping out music." Yep.
1985 -- Revolutionary materialist historian Fernand Braudel dies, Paris France. Great French Annales-school historian of mentalities.
Daily Bleed Patron Saint August 24, 2004
http://www.braudel.org.br/en/instituto/
http://dannyreviews.com/a/Fernand_Braudel.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernand_Braudel
1988 -- Netherlands: Activists paint anti-military graffiti on war planes due for delivery to Turkey, Woensdrecht.
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~jborocz/walk3.htm
1990 -- Charles Johnson wins the National Book Award for his novel Middle Passage. He is the fourth African-American to win the award.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_R._Johnson
1991 -- Visionary videographer Harry Smith dies, Chelsea Hotel, New York City.
HARRY SMITH, Patron Saint 2005-2010
Historian of indigenous cultures, video artist, beatnik, drop-out.
(Just try & do a search for content links on "Harry Smith" — HemoMeister)Early childhood was spent in the Pacific Northwest, Portland, Anacortes & Bellingham. By the age of 15 Harry had spent time recording many Indian songs & rituals, & was compiling a dictionary of several Puget Sound dialects. Studied anthropology at the University of Washington for five semesters between 1942 & 1944. After a weekend visit to Berkeley during which he met a number of bohemians, intellectuals & artists (including Woody Guthrie), & experienced marijuana for the first time, he dropped out of college.
http://www.harrysmitharchives.com/
1997 -- US: Microradio movement news accounts on the struggle to free the airwaves: "Making Waves: Despite a cease-&-desist letter from the FCC, Free Radio Memphis remains on the air. But for how much longer"? — The Memphis Flyer
Source: [Pirate Radio Kiosk]
1999 -- US: One-year anniversary of the slaying of Seattle Metro bus driver Mark McLaughlin. The local Transit Union holds a ceremony honoring him & dedicates a plaque to his memory at the North Base transit center. McLaughlin, a good friend of HemoMeister, was shot & killed at the wheel, & his bus plunged off the Aurora Bridge, killing one passenger & injuring 33 riders.
http://www.aflcio.org/Issues/Job-Safety/WorkersMemorialDay/A-Collection-of-Workers-Memorials
2000 -- US: Detroit Almanac: About the Fifth Estate, November 27, 2000:The oldest survivor of the hundreds of underground papers started nationwide in the 1960s is Detroit's Fifth Estate. The FE was founded by Harvey Ovshinsky, now an award-winning TV producer, in November 1965.
While the vast majority of alternative papers died or became mainstream, the FE got more radical through the years.
In its 35th anniversary issue, the paper describes itself as the longest-running English-language anarchist journal in US history. The issue carries stories about protests against global capitalism, mental hospitals, radical sexuality, utopias, the myths of the democratic process & a review of Detroit's anarchist band, The Layabouts.
2004 --Virgilio Antonelli (above, front row, third from the left)Italy: "Virgilio Antonelli 1904 - 2004: A Livornese anarchist in the fight against fascism & in the reconstruction" (title of an initiative passed in Livorno today).Virgilio Antonelli (1904-1982) was an Italian anarchist partisan guerrilla during WWII, distinguishing himself in the liberating of hostages & prisoners.In Livorno, anarchists were among the first to seize the arms stored in the barracks & in the Antignano Naval Academy — arms used later against the Germans & the fascists. Organized inside the GAP (Patriotic Action Groups), they took part in guerrilla operations in the area surrounding Pisa & Livorno & were represented in the city’s CLN.
http://www.anarca-bolo.ch/a-rivista/305/18.htm
The last moments of some partisans, in front of a firing squad in Malga Zonta, 1944
http://libcom.org/history/anarchist-partisans-in-italian-resistance
2009 -- US: Tiger Woods, the world's number one golfer, is hospitalized after sustaining injuries in a bizarre car crash when he whacks a fire hydrant in Orlando, Florida. It is soon revealed he is in the running as the world's number one sexpot infidel....
http://www.popsugar.com/Biggest-Headline-2009-Tiger-Woods-Car-Crash-Infidelity-Claims-Break-From-Golf-6735317
"We need help, the Poet reckoned."
— Ed Dorn
http://www.corpse.org/archives/issue_4/burning_bush/dorn.htm
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