Our Daily Bleed: Fransesc (Francisco) Layret, Miguel Abós, Abbie Hoffman, Raoul Vaneigem, Acácio Tomás de Aquino, Oscar Wilde, Narcís Vidal, Henri Beylie, Anselmo Lorenzo, Gaston Cremieux, Pietro Gori; anarchico, anarchiste, anarquista, anarsizm, anarþizme, Anarþist, Anarquismo, Anarchismus, anarchia, anarchisme, anarchizm, anarkisme, libertarians, What Happened on this day, in recovered history November 30

In the ventless room, Over the beds at the hour of rising, Hangs now the smother & stench of the crude flesh; & at the grimed sink We fill the basin of our mutual use, Where our forty faces, rinsed daily, Leaves each its common trace...       – William Everson (Brother Antoninus), excerpt, "Hospice Of The Word"

NOVEMBER 30

MILORAD PAVIC
Serbian philosopher, author of ergodic, chaotic cybernovels.

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INDEPENDENCE DAY - Barbados.

NATIONAL DAY - People's Republic of Benin.

JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER DAY.

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30 -- [BC] Cleopatra, Egyptian queen, commits suicide.



1016 -- Edmund II, Ironsides, King of Saxons, dies at 27.


1216 -- Pope Innocent III orders Jews to wear a special badge.




1554 -- Roman Catholicism briefly restored to England under the reign of Mary Tudor. "Bloody Mary" had Thomas Cranmer, Hugh Latimer, Nicholas Ridley & nearly 300 other Protestant leaders burned at the stake.


1566 -- Nicholas Udall comedy "Ralph Roister Doister" is acted, Eton (the first original native comedy in English literature).
Source: [Robert Braunwart] [Hereafter attributed with symbol: ]


1624 -- New Old World: Foul? Richard Cornish executed for violating Virginia's anti-sodomy law. How now, Brown cow?


1631 -- Rabbi Samuel Eliezer ben Judah ha-levi Edels dies.


1667 -- Jonathan Swift, critic, lives, Dublin, Ireland. Reads the Book of Job aloud on his birthday, perhaps because his Gulliver's Travels is the only work for which he ever receives payment: 200 pounds.
See Kenneth Rexroth, More Classics Revisited.
http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/index.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Swift
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/jswift.htm


1782 -- Treaty of Paris ends the American War of Independence.



1812 -- US: Twice, General "Apocalypse" Smythe orders his troops to cross the Niagara River to invade Canada, & twice his courage failed & he called off the attack. As the soldiers clambered from their boats the second time, they turned their weapons upon their commander's tent; Smythe turned tail & fled to Virginia.


1817 -- Theodor Mommsen lives. German classical scholar/historian, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1903. Wrote the three volume The History of Rome.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/mommsen.htm


1830 -- England: Agricultural laborers riot at Shaftesbury, Dorset, to secure the release of five imprisoned comrades. Simultaneously, in Banwell, Somerset, paupers riot at the poorhouse, then follow up with an attack on the lock-up & release its prisoners.
Source: 'Calendar Riots'


1835 -- American humorist & radical social critic Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) lives, Florida, Missouri (sic). Author of The War Prayer.

Rudyard Kipling, a fan, thinks "Cervantes was a relation of his"; another big fan, Bill Faulkner calls him "a hack writer who would not have been considered fourth rate in Europe".

Better is Kenneth Rexroth; see, for example, Classics Revisited or Assays.

MARK TWAIN
Attributed his long life & good health to whiskey, cigars, & pocket billiards. Jubilee Calendar Saint 1999

Mark was separated at birth from his evil twin brother, Mindy, by their mother who vows, "Never the twains shall meet!"

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/mtwain.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5jarRec3qo

1854 -- US: "Fighting Mary" Eliza McDowell lives. A social worker, she helped organize the first women's local union of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters in 1902. Comprised mostly of women workers, the Local grew to more than 1,000 members.


1870 -- France: Henri Beylie lives, Paris. Militant anarchiste, antimilitarist & naturalist.

Henri Beylie helped found the Ligue antimilitariste, which became a part of the Association Internationale Antimilitariste. He participated in the Amsterdam antimilitarist congress in 1904, & that of August 1907 which followed on the heels of the International Anarchist Congress.

Beylie helped rebuild the anarchist movement following WWI & helped publish & direct Libertaire.

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1871 -- France: Gaston Cremieux (1836-1871) executed. Républican radical, Proudhonian socialist. Insurgé de la Commune de Marseille; attempted to create a revolutionary commune in 1870, which failed, prior to the commune established in March of this year.
http://www.ephemanar.net/juin22.html#cremieux


1874 -- England: Winston Spencer Churchill lives, at the family seat of Blenheim, near Woodstock, Oxfordshire.

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In 1953 he gets the Nobel Prize for Literature for his six volume history, The Second World War:

"Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy & an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster & fling him to the public."

http://www.winstonchurchill.org/
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/churchil.htm

This is the same Churchill who was brutal in his treatment of striking workers, vehemently opposed to woman's suffrage, was careerist & snobbish. He was also a terrorist who, as foreign secretary, ordered the use of mustard gas against Kurdish Villages.

‘I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas...I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilized tribes [to] spread a lively terror.’

http://web.archive.org...idler.co.uk/features/enemies-of-idleness-winston-churchill/

In another context, the lionized peace man declared, "Your movement (fascism) has abroad rendered a service to the whole world...Italy has shown that there is a way to combat subversive forces."

1874 -- Lucy Maud Montgomery lives. Canadian writer, famous for her juvenile books, especially Anne of Green Gables (rejected by several publishers) published in 1908, & followed by six sequels.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/lmmontg.htm


1894 -- American humorist, actor, playwright, Academy Award-winning screenwriter, Donald Stewart, lives, Columbus, Ohio. Best remembered for his screenplay adaptation of The Philadelphia Story (1940), & his membership in the Algonquin Round Table, the literary circle famous for the witty repartee of Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley & others.



1900 -- Irish wit, playwright, anarchist & gay pioneer Oscar Wilde 46, dies in Paris, France. Dying in an apartment, Oscar takes one last look at the world he is leaving behind & declares,

"This wallpaper is killing me; one of us has got to go."

A witty death is as sublime as a birth.

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Born in Dublin on October 16, 1854. Poet, writer, gay wit, publishes in 1890 The Soul of Man Under Socialism, which is characterized by its libertarian nonconformism. In 1895, he is condemned to two years hard labor for his homosexuality.

Wrote "De profundis" there, exalting revolutionary action & political agitation. This small book was not published in its entirety until 44 years later.

"All authority is quite degrading.
It degrades those who exercise it, & degrades those over whom it is exercised."

http://struggle.ws/ws98/ws53_wilde.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde

Wilde had been charged three times with indecency, specifically "the seduction & corruption of young men." Evidence admitted against him included testimony about the fecal stains on his sheets.

"I was a man who stood in symbolic relations to the art & culture of my age...The gods had given me almost everything. I had genius, a distinguished name, high social position, brilliancy, intellectual daring; I made art a philosophy, & philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men & the colour of things: there was nothing I said or did that did not make people wonder...I treated Art as the supreme reality, & life as a mere mode of fiction: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth & legend around me: I summed up all systems in a phrase, & all existence in an epigram."

1906 -- John Dickson Carr lives. Pseudonyms Carr Dickson, Carter Dickson, Roger Fairbairn. American born writer of detective fiction, whose specialty was "locked-room” puzzles, which he developed to its limits. Published about 80 mysteries. Fifty of them featured one of his three detectives — Henri Bencolin, Dr. Gideon Fell, & Sir Henry Merrivale.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/jdcarr.htm
http://www.thrillingdetective.com/eyes.html


1907 -- US: Pike Place Market dedicated in Seattle, Washington. Current home of Left Bank Books, a collectively owned & operated anarchist bookstore still going after 25 years. Next to the flower shop at the beginning of the market, you can just see the bookstore sign. Auntie Dave worked in this collective from 1978-1995, helping found their Books-to-Prisoners project, Left Bank Distribution & Publishing, & aka Used Books.



1912 -- Gordon Parks, film director/writer (The Learning Tree) lives. Photographer for Life magazine, director of "The Learning Tree" & "Shaft," called a "Twentieth Century Renaissance man" by the NAACP, who awards him the Spingarn Medal in 1972.


1913 -- México: Two American pilots flying for different Mexican factions exchange pistol shots, near Naco in Sonora — the world’s first air-to-air combat.



1914 -- George Tilyou, amusement park inventor, dies.
GEORGE TILYOU 1997 PATRON SAINT
Very amusing guy.


1914 -- Anselmo Lorenzo, Spanish anarchist, dies.


1915 -- Brownie McGhee lives. Blues Performer, Singer/Guitarist, Pianist, Kazoo, Songwriter, of Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownie_McGhee
http://web.archive.org/web/20040713083940/http://www.bluesaccess.com/No_26/brownie.html
http://sonnyterryandbrowniemcghee.blogspot.com/2010_04_01_archive.html


1920 -- Spain: The CNT's labor lawyer Francesc Layret is assassinated & 36 more union leaders imprisoned (including Narcís Vidal, Miguel Abós Serena, & Spain: Salvador Caracersa). Part of the government's bloody campaign to destroy the CNT.
[Background / context]Francisco Layret



1924 -- First photo facsimile transmitted across Atlantic by radio; it was an ad featuring Jack Webb captioned, "Just the fax, ma'am."


1927 -- Switzerland: Soviet Foreign Affairs Commissar Maksim Litvinov proposes immediate disarmament at Geneva, but this is rejected as a "Communist trick."


1929 -- Italy: Sandro Pertini viene condannato dal tribunale speciale a 11 anni di carcere per avere diffamato il regime all'estero.
Source: [Crimini e Misfatti]


1930 -- US: Rabble-rouser, labor activist Mother Jones dies, age 100, Silver Spring, Maryland.

MOTHER JONES, Patron Saint 2005-2010
"I'm no lady, I'm a hell-raiser!" Labor radical, agitator.

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"One of the boys said I was looking well. Of course I am. There is going to be a racket & I am going to be in it!"

       — Mary Harris "Mother" Jones, 1910

http://www.johnshepler.com/articles/mojo.html

Mary Harris "Mother" Jones, a founder of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) & a militant leader of miners & other union workers, dies at the age of 100. She is buried in the Mount Olive, Illinois cemetery.

Jones was an organizer or "walking delegate" for the United Mine Workers (UMW), traveling from town to town, living in the homes of miners who sometimes risked their jobs to shelter her. Stories of her bravado are legendary. When she & 3,000 women were released by a militia after being held all night in McAdoo, Pennsylvania, they marched straight to the hotel housing the soldiers & ate their breakfast.

Into her 90s, Mother Jones still roamed through the hills of West Virginia, encouraging miners to organize. When a monument is dedicated to her in 1936, some 50,000 miners attend the ceremony.

1933 -- Sam Gilliam lives, Tupelo, Mississippi. Artist known for unique manipulation of materials resulting in painted sculpture or suspended paintings. His work was in the exhibit African-American Artists 1880-1987.


1935 -- Fernando Pessoa dies. Celebrated Portuguese poet, played a major role in the development of modernism in his country. It is sometimes said that the four greatest Portuguese poets of modern times are Fernando Pessoa. Wrote for avant-garde reviews, notably Orpheu, a forum for new aesthetic views. Noted for his use of heteronyms, or alternative authorial personalities (Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis, Álvaro de Campos, etc), resembling the verse personae of Ezra Pound. Played chess with Aleister Crowley. Among his books is O Banqueiro Anarquista.
http://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/search/index
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/pessoa.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Pessoa



1936 -- US: "Yippie" leader Abbot (Abbie) Hoffman, aka "Free," lives, Worcester, Massachusetts. Wrote the philosophical Steal This Book, & the anarchist dance classic, Square Dancing in the Ice Age. Consummate joiner (Chicago 7, Viet Nam War protester, etc.).

"Sacred cows make the best hamburger."

— Abbie Hoffman

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"Confusion is mightier than the sword."

       — Abbie Hoffman

Steal this Website, http://www.hayduke.com/

Daily Bleed Patron Saint 2003-4

Steal this Calendar!

"Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit."

       — Abbie Hoffman, Soon to be a Major Motion Picture

1939 -- USSR invades Finland over a border dispute.


1948 -- US: Baseball's Negro National League disbands.



1950 -- US: President Truman threatens China with atom bomb.


1950 -- Indian Fellowship of Reconciliation founded.


1951 -- US: Convicted "trunk murderess" Winnie Ruth Judd is recaptured after escaping from the Arizona State Insane Hospital for the fourth time (see 16 October).
http://jeff.scott.tripod.com/judd.html


1951 -- Science fiction author L. Sprague de Camp takes possession of Robert E. Howard's unpublished manuscripts.


1953 -- US: Albert Michael Espy lives, Yazoo City, Mississippi. In 1987, he is sworn in as the state's first African-American congressman since John Lynch more than 100 years before.



1954 -- First meteorite (8 lb) known to strike a woman (Liz Hodges-Sylacauga).


1959 -- US: Billboard reports the payola scandal "will substantially damage the careers of at least twenty-five DJs." Alan Freed is quoted as saying that his career has gone "down the drain."


1961 -- US: Obese teenager Lowell Andrews, the "Nicest Boy in Woolcott, Kansas" who shot his parents & sister so he could inherit the family farm to finance his dream career of hired gun in Chicago, hanged, Leavenworth, Kansas.



1967 -- US: Eugene McCarthy (Senator from Minnesota) officially enters the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, running on an antiwar platform, opposing the Vietnam War. (this the start of the People's Party?)
http://www.chicago68.com/c68chron.html


1967 -- France: The Revolution of Everyday Life, by Situationist Raoul Vaneigem, is published in Paris.

Vaneigem's book Traité de savoir-vivre à l’usage des jeunes générations finally appears after nearly two years of editorial procrastination by Éditions Gallimard. http://www.cddc.vt.edu/sionline/chronology/chronology.html | [Situationist Resources]

1969 -- US: 600 Native Americans occupying Alcatraz.



1969 -- Simon & Garfunkel's first TV special airs. Sponsor AT&T backs out when they learn that the duo plan to show footage of Bobby Kennedy's funeral march & clips of the Vietnam War, so they called.


1971 -- High Seas: Tanker breaks in half off Japan, spilling 6,258,000 gallons of oil.



1973 -- US: Duck'n'Duck'nStutter? Frozen mallards begin falling on Stuttgart, Arkansas.



1979 -- Zeppo Marx dies at 78.


1979 -- US: Old Shoe? Ted Koppel becomes anchor of ABC-TVs nightly "news," milking the tit of the Iranian Hostages.

1980 -- US: Death of Dorothy Day, anarchist, pacifist, co-founder of Catholic Worker movement, New York City.

SAINT DOROTHY DAY (1997 8 November)
Oddly, the Roman Catholic church will never name her a saint, so we've stepped up to the holy plate (sic).

"The greatest challenge of the day
is how to bring about a revolution of the heart —
a revolution which has to start with each one of us."

— Dorothy Day
http://www.catholicworker.org/

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Poet William Everson (Brother Antoninus) lived at Maurin House in Oakland, California in 1950 before going off from the Catholic Worker to the Dominican order.

He greatly admired Day, whom he referred to in one dedication as the "mother of us all," & noted of his experience at Maurin House:

"What surprised me was that the whole thing worked the way Dorothy Day said it would — each day people would bring produce to us, so all we ever had to buy for the soup was the stock, & even that was often donated by butchers…The things we needed just seemed to show up.

In 1957, after Kenneth Rexroth's "San Francisco Letter" appeared in the "Evergreen Review," Everson was regarded as one of the San Francisco Renaissance poets (the Beats) & he was tagged with the name of "the Beat friar."
http://salt.claretianpubs.org/issues/DorothyDay/legacy.html
http://www.youtube.com/user/4854derrida

1980 -- At the Top Rank club in Wales, Elvis Costello & Squeeze perform a benefit concert for the family of late Welsh boxer Johnny Owen, killed recently by head injuries suffered in an American match.

1984 -- Australia: Eliot V Elliott (1902-1984) dies, in Sydney.

We walked six abreast, two city blocks long; the family, hearse, & SUA officials led the procession; the Union banner & the Merchant Navy flag preceded....

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1987 -- James Baldwin dies. African American novelist, dramatist, essayist, Civil Rights activist, gay.


1987 -- "Weird Al" Yankovic records first of his "Even Worse" LP: "Melanie" & "Stuck In A Closet With Vanna White."


1988 -- LL Cool J performs the first rap concert held in Africa.



1991 -- US: 93 cars & 11 truck accident near Frisco, California during a dust storm, 17 die.



1992 -- Michael Ondaatje novel The English Patient wins Canada's Governor-General's Award.



1994 -- Guy Debord dies, Champot, Upper Loire, France.

Member of the Situationist International, writer, filmmaker, critic of Spectacular, Too-Late Capitalism, best known for his book The Society of the Spectacle, popularized with the May Uprising of 1968. His ashes are scattered on the point of ile de la Cite, Paris.

In the decor of the spectacle, the eye meets only things & their prices

— graffiti, May 1968

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1996 -- US: Tiny Tim (Herbert Buckingham Khaury), singer with falsetto warble & ukulele ("Tiptoe Through the Tulips"), dies. Reported about 64 at death, he was born April 12, 1923, so he was 73.


1998 -- Portugal: Acácio Tomás de Aquino (b. 1899) dies. Militant anarcho-trade unionist & lifelong anarquista, imprisoned in the Tarrafal concentration camp 1933-1949. Companion of Luísa Adão, a nurse & also an anarchist. alt: anarquista, Luisa do Carmo Franco Elias Adao
http://www.ephemanar.net/novembre09.html#aquino



1999 -- US: WTO (World Trade Organization) meets in Seattle, Washington amid massive ongoing protests, cab strikes. The Emperor wears no clothes.

"Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system."

— Dorothy Day

"The masters, whether they be priests or kings or capitalists, when they want to exploit you, the first thing they have to do is demoralize you, & they demoralize you very simply by kicking you in the nuts."

— Kenneth Rexroth

"There are no limits to creativity. There is no end to subversion."

— Raoul Vaneigem , The Revolution of Everyday Life

November 30th, '99 history walkin' on a tightrope line big money pullin’ on invisible strings gettin’ into everything so deep, it’s hard to believe it’s in the food & the water & the air you breathe & the chemistry, the bio-tech the banker with the bottomless check the corporations & the CEOs & the bottom line is, the profit grows the money talks, you don’t talk back they don’t like it when you act like that but didn’t we shut it down didn’t we — Jim Page, Seattle songster, "Didn’t We" http://www.flyingdisk.com/didn't_we.htm WTO image from the Stan Iverson Memorial Archives, http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/wto/wtoRunLikeHell.jpg Many more WTO images archived,http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/wto/ Video online, "Showdown in Seattle: 5 Days That Shook the WTO," http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFLOvz9zPW8 http://theanarchistlibrary.org/...Finding_Hope_After_Seattle http://web.archive.org/...eatthestate.org/04-06/WTOOverview.htm http://www.notbored.org/seattle.html http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/wto.htm Seattle Radical Timeline

1999 -- US: In Morgantown, 20 people from the Morgantown Anarchist Group, the West Virginia University branch of the Sierra Club, & others, gather to protest against the WTO.
http://theanarchistlibrary.org/...Finding_Hope_After_Seattle

2000 -- US:

Florida...

2001 -- US: THE PEOPLE'S HOLIDAY - In A Celebration of Art & Action - 3pm-11pm; Second Anniversary of the 1999 WTO Ministerial in Seattle.
Seattle Radical Timeline


2001 -- US: Gary Ridgway is arrested for four of the Green River slayings, Seattle.


2001 -- US: Ex-sheriff Sidney Dorsey is arrested for killing sheriff-elect Derwin Brown, who beat him at the polls, DeKalb County, Georgia.



2001 -- Italy: Commemorative gathering in homage to the anarchico Pietro Gori. Piazza alle Mura Illuminazione lapide commemorativa di Pietro Gori con dcon deposizione di una Corona di Alloro; Convocazione del Consiglio Comunale aperto ai ragazzi delle scuole Medie con omaggio a Pietro Gori; Reflections, poetry & freedom songs by groups of artists & local musicians in Public square Dante Alighieri.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietro_Gori
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/gallery/galleryindex.htm#PietroGori


2002 -- Dig This: The remains of Alexandre Dumas are re-interred in the Pantheon, Paris.


2007 -- Sudan: Protesters demand execution of Gillian Gibbons for insulting the prophet Muhammad after she let students name a teddy bear after him. No word on executing the kiddios or poor Teddy Muhammad.



2009 -- Serbia: Internationally prominent cybertextual pioneer novelist, poet, historian, & candidate for Nobel Prize in Literature, Milorad Pavic dies, Belgrade. Author of Dictionary of the Khazars.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milorad_Pavi%C4%87_%28writer%29
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/dec/17/milorad-pavic-obituary


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Often in winter the end of the day is like the final metaphor in a poem celebrating death:

there is no way out.

— Agustin Gomez-Arcos, A Bird Burned Alive, 1988

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