Our Daily Bleed...
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TAIJI YAMAGA
Japanese anarchist theorist, esperantist.
ST. NICHOLAS' DAY: Nicholas became a Bishop when quite young. From this fact arose the old European tradition of Boy Bishops, who reigned from December 6 to 28, in a cold Burlesque of church officials.
KLOPFELNACHTE: 'knocking nights' — each of the three Thursdays preceding Xmas. Masks, rhymes beginning with 'knock', noise & merriment to drive away the (spirits of) darkness. A moveable feast, we suspect.
[Source: Calendar Riots]
1240 -- Mongols under Batu Khan occupy & destroy Kiev.
1478 -- Baldassare Castiglione lives. Italian humanist/diplomat/courtier, famous for his The Book of the Courtier (1528), which was translated into many languages & made Castiglione the arbiter of aristocratic manners during the Renaissance. Wrote also Italian & Latin poems, & letters illustrating political & literary history.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/castigli.htm
1631 -- First predicted transit of Venus (Kepler) is observed.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap991119.html
1670 -- Near miss: the Duke of Ormond is pulled from his coach & dragged unconscious toward Tyburn with the intention of hanging him [1670].
Source: 'Calendar Riots'
1712 -- Richard Steele & Joseph Addison publish the last issue of "The Spectator."
1717 -- Author Elizabeth Carter lives.
1788 -- Author Thomas Ingoldsby (Richard Harris Barham) lives.
1797 -- Mme de Stael meets Napoleon, who takes an immediate dislike to her.
1810 -- Mexico: Miguel Hidalgo issues a decree abolishing slavery.
http://www.patriagrande.net/uruguay/eduardo.galeano/memoria.del.fuego/18101206.htm
1811 -- England: Curfew is declared in Nottinghamshire to try to stop Luddites revolt; in response, 36 frames are destroyed in the next six days.
Source: 'Calendar Riots'
1865 -- US: 13th amendment ratified, abolishing slavery. Sorry, does not include wage slavery.
1869 -- US: Meeting of first national black labor group, the Colored National Labor Convention, in Washington, DC.
1872 -- Thomas Ala Edison records "Mary had a little lamb."
(Eat yer hearts out Led Zeppelin!!)
First sound recording made.
1882 -- Anthony Trollope dies, 67, Hastings, Sussex.
1882 -- Outer Space: Atmosphere of Venus detected during transit.
1884 -- US: An aluminum capstone completes the Washington Monument, Washington, DC.
[Details / context] 1886 -- Poet Joyce Kilmer ("Trees") lives, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
1889 -- US: Great trial of the Chicago Haymarket anarchists begins.
Again, national & international protest. When the Illinois Supreme Court rejects their appeal, George Bernard Shaw wrote (this is close to his exact words):
"If the world must lose eight of its people, it can better afford to lose the eight members of the Illinois Supreme Court."
1889 -- Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Jefferson Davis, President of Confederate States of America (1861-5), dies.
1893 -- Sylvia Townsend Warner lives, Harrow, Middlesex, England. Self-proclaimed "accidental" writer whose career began when she was given paper with a "particularly tempting surface" & whose first novel, Lolly Willowes, or the Loving Huntsman (1926), was written because she "happened to find very agreeable thin lined paper in a job lot."
1893 --
| Strange: December Fortean Events | "[Fall of a] lump of ice weighing four pounds, Texass (Scientific American, 68-58); The Complete Books of Charles Fort. New York: Dover, 1974. [p.185]." http://www.passarola.com/strange/decfort.html http://www.sacred-texts.com/fort/damned/damn03.htm |
1896 -- Songster Ira Gershwin lives.
1900 -- Agnes Moorehead lives.
1904 -- US: "Roosevelt Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine asserts the American right to serve as international policemen anywhere in the Western Hemisphere. Didna ask anyone else. To "protect" US interests.
1906 --
Brazil: First Săo Paulo State Congress, at Salăo Excelsior, December 6- 8th.
[Details / context]
1907 -- US: 361 coal workers killed. In West Virginia's Marion County, an explosion at a mine owned by the Fairmont Coal Company in Monongah is the worst mining disaster in American history.
[Sources]
1909 -- Russia: Moishe Tokar, a young Russian Jewish anarchist & exiled member of Judith Goodman's group in London before slipping back into Russia, attempts to assassinate Hershelman, the hated military commander of the Vilna Fortress.
1912 -- US: Anarchist-feminist Emma Goldman scheduled to lecture on syndicalism in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn.
1914 -- Mexico: The troops of Pancho Villa & the anarquista Emiliano Zapata enter Mexico City.
http://www.patriagrande.net/uruguay/eduardo.galeano/memoria.del.fuego/19141206.htm
1917 -- Canada: The most devastating man-made explosion in the pre-nuclear age occurs as the S.S. Mont Blanc, a French munitions ship, explodes 20 minutes after colliding with a Belgian relief ship in the harbor of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Spectators had gathered along the waterfront to witness the spectacle of the blazing ship, & minutes later it brushed by a harbor pier, setting it ablaze. The Halifax Fire Department responded quickly, & were positioning their engine up to the nearest hydrant when the Mont Blanc exploded at 9:05 A.M. in a blinding white flash. The massive blast killed more than 1,600 people, injured over 8,000, & destroyed almost the entire north-end of the city of Halifax, rendering more than 10,000 homeless. The resulting shock wave shattered windows 40 miles away, & the sound of the explosion was heard hundreds of miles away. Property damage was estimated at $35 million.
1917 -- Finland: Independence declared from Russia (National Day).
1918 -- US: Department of War abolishes the practice of manacling defiant prisoners to the walls of their cells in solitary confinement, used to torture conscientious objectors (COs) in US prisons during World War I.
1921 -- Ireland: The Irish Free State, composing four-fifths of Ireland, is declared under an historic peace agreement. However, Eamon DeValera, the President of Ireland objected that his state remained part of the British Commonwealth. Not until 1949 did the Irish Free State sever all ties with Britain, as the Republic of Eire.
1922 -- William P. McGivern lives. American novelist, screenplay writer, who published over 20 novels covering the wide genre of thrillers — homicide detection, espionage, political corruption, the world of psychopath, & the crooked cop.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/mcgivern.htm
1933 -- US: Ban on James Joyce's Ulysses lifted. You may ask how a country so proud of its "freedom" could have banned a book to begin with. Then again you may not.
Alternate Daily Bleed Saint, Dec 6, 2001
JAMES JOYCE
Prophet of quantum mechanics, creator of cosmic puns.
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/banned-books.html
1933 -- US: Dorothy Day & others start Catholic Worker newspaper, New York City;
"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."
1933 -- Germany: Kandinsky & Klee leave for France & Switzerland respectively; 60,00 other artists (authors, actors, painters, musicians) flee the woundrous Nazi regime between 1933-39.
1936 -- Spain: In "Solidaridad Obrera" Jaime Balius publishes an article entitled "Durruti's Testament" in which he claims "Durruti bluntly asserted that we anarchists require that the Revolution be totalitarian in character."
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/Durruti.htm
1937 --
The IWA meets in extra-ordinary congress in Paris (December 6 -17) to examine the CNT’s struggle in Spain, especially the problematic entry of anarchists into leading positions within the government.
[Details / context]
1942 -- Novelist Peter Handke lives. Handke speaks of "history as the great fairy tale of the world, of mankind."
1949 -- Blues legend Leadbelly dies, New York City. Influenced Woody Guthrie, The Weavers, Bob Dylan, Martin Mull, myriad others.
HUDDIE LEDBETTER 1997 SAINT
Founding father of socially-conscious American blues.
The number one man on the number one gang on the number one farm in the state.
— Pete Seeger
Fascinating site, Leadbelly Web, http://cycad.com/cgi-bin/Leadbelly/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leadbelly
1955 -- James Koehnline, long-time (jubilee) gardener, lives, Columbus, Ohio. Collage artist par excellence, SaintMeister.
James Koehnline produced the animated film, Dogs Shall Eat Their Masters (premiered by Chicago Surrealist Group during their International Exhibition at Gallery Black Swan in 1976). Student & friend of Harry Bouras. Member of the band "Burden of Friendship" & the North Shore Industrial League. Librarian, author of Gone to Croatan, collage art collected in the book Magpie Reveries. Cooked up the fabulouso Jubilee Saints Calendar, published yearly by Autonomedia. Pumped out 600+ bookmarks for Recollection Books.
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http://www.koehnline.com/
1956 -- Cuba: Fidel Castro's revolution. An improvement over the American & Mafia version, but ultimately just one authoritarian government replacing another.
Related interest, see Cuban Anarchism: the History of a Movement by Frank Fernandez (Tucson: See Sharp Press).
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bright/dolgoff/cubanrevolution/toc.html
1956 -- Resat Nuri Güntekin dies. A popular Turkish writer, educated at a French school in Smyrna & at Istanbul University, & saw his first publication in 1917. Wrote about social problems based on realistic observations, & Cevdet Kudret, Faruk Nafiz Çamlibel, Yasar Nabi Nayir, Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoglu, Halit Fahri Ozansoy, Nazim Hikmet, Vedat Nedim Tör & Necip Fazil Kisakürek concentrated on problems stemming from structural changes in society.
1957 -- US: Got Viagra? The first American attempt to launch an artificial satellite, a sphere fully 6.4 inches in diameter, fails as the Vanguard rocket rises less than five feet before it topples over & explodes. Like many American males, except for the five feet & the exploding part.
1958 -- England: Forty-six enter Thor rocket site in order to prevent construction. North Pickenham, Norfolk.
1961 -- Frantz Fanon, 36, having completed Wretched of the Earth, dies, Washington, DC. The book appears in English in 1965.
Alternate Daily Bleed Saint, Dec 6, 2002
Frantz Fanon
Radical psychiatrist & proponent of Third World revolution as response to colonial rule.
1963 --
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"...a fake continuation of modern art..."
Also issued, On the Exclusion of Attila Kotányi, circular of the Situationist International, in Paris. http://www.cddc.vt.edu/sionline/chronology/chronology.html | [Situationist Resources] |
1965 -- Rose Pesotta dies. Dressmaker, anarchist & labor activist, the only woman on the General Executive Board of the International Ladies' Garment Workers (ILGWU) from 1933-1944, engaged in a 10-year fight to organize workers, running up against the opposition of the communist faction. Her face was lacerated during a strike in 1937 with a razor.
Rose Pesotta met Sacco & Vanzetti & collaborated on the anarchist newspaper "Road to Freedom."
Rose Pesotta became close a friend of Emma Goldman, with whom she traveled to Europe & England.
See her autobiography Bread Upon the Waters, which appeared in 1946 & reprinted with a new introduction by Ann Schofield (ILR Press, 1987); & Elaine Leeder, The Gentle General: Rose Pesotta, Anarchist & Labor Organizer (State University of New York, 1993); To Do & To Be: Portraits of Four Women Activists, 1893-1986 Gertrude Barnum, Mary Dreier, Pauline Newman, Rose Pesotta by Ann Schofield (Northeastern University Press).
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bright/pesotta/biblio.html
http://www.shmooze.com/lilith/books/9902tobe.shtml
1965 --
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Address to the Revolutionaries of Algeria & All Countries
http://www.cddc.vt.edu/sionline/chronology/chronology.html | [Situationist Resources] |
1966 -- US: Rally at Madison Square Garden. SANE & 36 supporting organizations, Floyd McKissick, I.F. Stone, Pete Seeger participate. Hundreds of balloons with peace doves released. Where are they now when we need them?
http://www.peteseeger.net/
1969 -- Rolling Stones play a free "thank you" concert for 300,000 fans at the Altamont Speedway in Livermore, California after they were denied use of Golden Gate Park. The hastily organized event rapidly falls into a disaster when four people die, including one who was stabbed by a Hell's Angel who was hired to act as a security guard. The murder is filmed & included in the film "Gimme Shelter" which premiers exactly one year later. Marked the end of the San Francisco Rock era.
The infamous free concert at Altamont. Featured The Rolling Stones, Jefferson Airplane, Santana, Crosby Sills Nash & Young , Flying Burrito Brothers. Turned to tragedy when a spectator was fatally stabbed by a Hell's Angel's security guard. Infamous Last Words: Before the concert Mick Jagger sez it would be "a microcosmic society which sets an example to the rest of America as to how one can behave in large gatherings."
1970 -- Japan: Taiji Yamaga (1892-1970) dies. Anarchist militant, born in Kyoto. Advocate of Esperanto & a long-time secretary of international relations for the Anarchist Federation of Japan.
http://ytak.club.fr/decembre1.html#yamaga
http://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/bulletin/featured0105.htm
http://www.antorcha.net/biblioteca_virtual/filosofia/tao/tao.html
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/anarchy/anarchy/english/history1.html
1972 -- England: The Stoke Newington Eight trial ends. It began May 30, 1972, the longest trial in British history. Four defendants are sentenced to ten years after a plea for clemency by the jury, & four are acquitted.
http://www.spunk.org/library/writers/meltzer/sp001591/app1.html
http://www.spunk.org/texts/groups/agb/sp000540.txt
1973 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Gerald Ford sworn-in as first unelected Vice President, succeeding an arrogant rightwinger Spiro T. Agnew (who?). Agnew was, surprisingly, a crook & got caught & lost his office. If the worn out part hadn't been replaced with the new, Agnew would have been the next President.
http://users.rcn.com/acreilly/
1978 -- US: Sid Vicious, out on bail from Riker's Island Detention Center in New York after being charged with the murder of his girlfriend Nancy Spungen, smashes glass in the face of Patti Smith's brother Todd during an altercation at New York rock club Hurrah. Damn anarchists.
1980 -- US: Help Yourself?! "When you help the shepherd, you're helping the sheep."
— Religious TV evangelist Jim Bakker to disciple Jessica Hahn in a Florida motel room.
1981 -- Japan: 2,000 women march in Tokyo in remembrance of the day Japan bombed Pearl Harbor with a banner, "We Will Not Allow The Way To War."
1982 -- Ireland: Eleven soldiers & six civilians die by bomb planted by Irish National Liberation Army exploded in a pub in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland.
1984 -- Philippines: Children picket the Mendiola Bridge in Manila, demanding release of their parents, who are being held as political prisoners by the US-supported Marcos regime.
1985 -- Hugo Gellert (1892-1985) dies, Freehold, New Jersey. Radical illustrator/artist.
Hugo Gellert was born in Hungary in 1892 & emigrated to the US with his family in 1906. He was a very well-known artist in this country during the 1930s, yet he has essentially been forgotten.
Today he is perhaps more infamous for his passionate commitment to leftist political agitation than for his contribution to American art, but Gellert strongly disavowed any distinction between the two. He professed that, for him, political agitation & art were the same thing.
1916 first anti-war cartoons published in the New York Hungarian socialist daily, Elöre. Gellert contacts radical literary journal, The Masses where he meets & befriends John Reed, Mike Gold, Floyd Dell, & Art Young. 1919 teaches art to the children of workers at the Modern School, Stelton, New Jersey. 1932 submits study for a mural to an exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) titled "Us Fellas Gotta Stick Together": it depicts John D. Rockefeller, Henry Ford, President Hoover & J.P. Morgan in the company of Al Capone. MOMA wants to remove the work, & the work of two other artists, Ben Shahn & William Gropper, but upon threat by other artists to withdraw their work, all the 'offending' art is hung, albeit not reproduced in the catalog. (for details of controversy, see article by James Wechsler).
1982 appears in Warren Beatty's film Reds as a 'witness' to historic events. http://newdeal.feri.org/gellert/wechsler.htm
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/depression/artgallery.htm
http://www.graphicwitness.org/contemp/gellert1.htm
1986 -- Spain: C.O.'s (conscientious objectors) occupy government office for conscientious objectors, Madrid.
1986 -- France: Riot in the Latin Quarter of Paris: cars trashed & shops looted for fun; a newspaper kiosk is set alight —"Don't do that! It belongs to a worker."
Up runs a guy:
"I work here ... burn it, burn it!"
1988 -- Songster Roy Orbison dies of cardiac arrest at the age of 52.
http://royorbison.musiccitynetworks.com/
1989 -- Canada: Fourteen female students are assassinated at a L'ecole Polytechnique in Montreal by a man vowing to kill feminists. Worst Canadian mass murder wouldn't even earn the McDonald's McMass McMurder title in the McUSA.
1989 -- Frances Beauvier actress, dies at 86.
1990 -- US: Police in Oakland, California spent two hours attempting to subdue a gunman who was barricaded inside his home. After firing ten tear gas canisters, officers discover the man was standing beside them, shouting"Please come out & give yourself up!!"
http://www.opensecrets.org/diykit/
1992 -- India: Riots follow Hindu attack on Ayodha Mosque.
1994 -- Maltese Falcon auctioned for $398,590.
http://www.thrillingdetective.com/eyes.html
http://www.bibliomysteries.com/
1995 -- Spain: VIII Congreso Confederal, Granada, del 6 al 10 de diciembre.
http://www.ecn.org/a.reus/cntreus/cong/indice.html
2002 -- US: Philip Berrigan (1923-2002) dies. Radical Roman Catholic priest, anti-war activist & christian anarchist.Along with his brother Daniel Berrigan, also a priest & anarchist, he was for a time on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list for actions against Vietnam war.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Berrigan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Berrigan
2003 -- England: The 5th Manchester Radical Bookfair, Manchester. A day of Anarchism, Peace, Direct action, Social change; Books, Stalls, Ideas, Discussions, Workshops...
3000 --
"The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed."
— Steve Biko
