Though the Knights' central office denounced socialists & anarchists, the Order spawned them; Victor Drury, Joseph Buchanan, Daniel DeLeon, & two of the Haymarket martyrs sharpened their radical teeth in KOL locals. The KOL denounced strikes, but grew when they were won; it called for an end to the wage system, but accepted employers into its ranks.

Powderly denounced Joseph R. Buchanan as an anarchist in 1888, but apologized four years later when he needed allies to fight Hayes. The fact that Buchanan was an anarchist was secondary to Powderly's quest to maintain personal power.(pg. xviii-xix)

http://users.crocker.com/~acacia/kol_cult.html

See also, Joseph R. Buchanan, THE STORY OF A LABOR AGITATOR. ( Outlook New York. 1903. 1st Edition, Cloth 8vo, 461 pages; Reprint: Westport: Greenwood Press, Publishers, 1970).

Marlatt, Gene Ronald. "Joseph R. Buchanan: Spokesman for Labor during the Populist & Progressive Eras." 429 p. Ph.D. dissertation, U of Colorado, 1975.

Buchanan published the Western labor paper, the "LABOR ENQUIRER" & led its supporting group, the Rocky Mountain Social League. He was also an anarchist who affiliated with the Black International & led one of the first American divisions (Rocky Mountain).

Labor Enquirer (Chicago)
120p.5, 121 p.1, 125p.5, 129p.1, 135p.1. See also Buchanan, Joseph R. (editor).

1872 -- England: Peace advocate Norman Angell lives. Labour Party MP, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1933. The pacifist movie The Grand Illusion was deliberately given its title in reference to his book, Europe's Optical Illusion (1909).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Angell


1877 -- US: Workingmen's Party reorganized as the Socialistic Labor Party. Political activists gain control. It is later named the Socialist Labor Party.

"Everything that happened to me happened too late.... It was even so with my birth. Slated for Christmas, I was a half hour too late."

Daily Bleed Saint, 1997, 2005-2008
Harlem Renaissance leader, Gurdieffian, poet, scholar. Poetic chronicler of bittersweet life in the Deep South.

"Racially, I seem to have (who knows for sure) seven blood mixtures: French, Dutch, Welsh, Negro, German, Jewish, & Indian. One half of my family is definitely colored.... &, I alone, as far as I know, have striven for a spiritual fusion analogous to the fact of racial intermingling."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Toomer

One of these mornings I murdered myself on some dusty Mexican road, & the event left a deep impression on me...until my recent death I have played havoc with my parents & various relatives, friends & colleagues. These touching episodes have splashed blood over my days — or my stories, which is all the same to me... To put an end to my days, I joined the troops of Pancho Villa & chose one of those many stray bullets zooming through the Mexican skies these days. This method proved more practical than hanging, cheaper than poison, more conventional than firing with my own finger, & more dignified than waiting for disease or old age. — Eduardo Galeano, Century of the Wind,

"We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over. "

       — Ambrose Bierce

"I went to the consulate & requested a visa. The form asked, among other things: Are you planning to assassinate the president of the United States of America? I responded modestly, certain the question was a joke, inspired by my teachers Ambrose Bierce & Mark Twain, that I was not even planning to assassinate the President of Uruguay. My answer was a bad answer & the visa denied.... Perhaps I am confusing this convention of North American booksellers for a confessional...But where better for a writer to confess than before a bookseller? & for many sins, where better than before so many booksellers?" — Eduardo Galeano, speaking at the annual convention of the American Booksellers Association, 1992

"Death is a dignitary who when he comes announced is to be received with formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with him."

       — Ambrose Bierce, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"

See Carlos Fuentes, The Old Gringo. (El Gringo Viejo, Fondo deCultura Económica, 1985; Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1985). Fuentes bases this novel on the mysterious disappearance of Ambrose Bierce. Bierce is looking for death & redemption as he travels into war-torn Mexico in search of Pancho Villa. The novel eventually comes to discourse on the tangled & tragic history shared by Mexico & the US.

CYNIC n.

A blackguard whose faulty vision causes him to see things as they are, not as they ought to be.

       — Ambrose Bierce, Devil's Dictionary

http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/as/Portraits/bierce.html
http://bierce.thefreelibrary.com/
http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/bierce.htm

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1921 -- Writer & TV personalty Steve Allen lives.



1933 -- US: Government forswears armed intervention in Western Hemisphere nations. Yup...
Trust In God
http://books.zcommunications.org/chomsky/dd/dd-c05-s05.html

"The plotted book with the hero & heroine is an old-fashioned form. It's like capitalism, the goods distributed to a few favored players. . . . We should do away with the plot & its concentration in the hands of major characters."

— Meridel Le Sueur

http://college.cengage.com/english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/modern/lesueur_me.html

After the Watts riots in Los Angeles, Karenga searched for ways to bring African Americans together as a community. He founded US, a cultural organization, & researched African "first fruit" harvest celebrations. He combined aspects of several, such as those of the Ashanti & those of the Zulu, to form the basis of Kwanzaa. The name Kwanzaa is derived from the phrase matunda ya kwanza, which means "first fruits" in Swahili.

Each family celebrates Kwanzaa in its own way, but celebrations often include songs & dances, African drums, storytelling, poetry reading, & a large traditional meal.

In New York City, on rooftops, empty shirts flap their arms.

1971 -- US: Two dozen Vietnam Veterans Against the War "liberate" the Statue of Liberty (sit-in), to protest resumed bombings in Vietnam, & fly an inverted US flag from the crown (flying the flag upside down is a naval signal of a ship in distress).

Of the million Vietnamese dead, the majority are children. The soul of America is badly infected. Any autopsy will reveal the name of the infection. Any flag draped over the body is unequivocally upside down. The Statue of Liberty seems pitted with smallpox. The deadly breath of smokestacks is brought back to earth by rain & snow like a pox. "We'd better ask God to start over," says a fisherman.

1972 -- US: A study rates conditions in half of Washington's state prisons to be "inhuman." A good Christian might remind you only 10% of the prison population is human anyway.


1981 -- US: Supreme Court upholds right of three Indian tribes to use gill nets to fish in Lakes Michigan, Superior, & Huron.



1985 -- Primatologist Dian Fossey, friend to a bunch of big ol' apes is killed by poachers, Karisoke Center. She had launched an international campaign against poachers who killed one of her favorite gorillas. Daily Bleed Saint, January 16.

http://www.essortment.com/all/dianfosseybiog_otg.htm
http://www.gorillafund.org/
http://www.omnipotent.com/addvalue/sigourney_weaver.html



1988 -- Brazil: Funeral of Chico Mendes, murdered by landowners for his leadership in the struggle against the destruction of Amazon rainforests.

Daily Bleed Saint December 15th
(1944-1988), Defender of Amazon rain forest, native peoples rights; murdered for his leadership in struggle against the destruction of Amazon rainforests.
http://www.chicomendes.com/
http://www.nwf.org/intlwild/1998/mendes.html

1988 -- England: Hunt Saboteurs' Association marks umpteenth year of anti-hunt activities by disrupting annual Boxing Day Hunts.




1991 -- Top Gun?: Jack Ruby's gun sells for $220,000 in auction: Almost brand new, only fired once, on a Sunday.


1992 -- Serbia: Women In Black begin campaign against rape in war, Belgrade.

They have failed read their bible: "Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, & kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves".

— Numbers 31:17-18

I take the rainy landscape from my window, remove the shadow of the wutong tree, wipe you off.

— Yang Mu, The Woman In Black

http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/62/062.html
http://flag.blackened.net/agony/kosovo.html

1992 -- Turkey: A group of Turkish anarchists begin publishing "Ates Hirsizi" (Fire Thief) in Istanbul, with articles mainly in Turkish, with a few in English & Kurdish.
http://wesiak.kilu.de/kk_abacus/ht/kurd.html



1992 -- Spain: María Bruguera (1915-1992) dies. Member of Mujeres Libres, anarchist, antifascist fighter.

http://www.mujerpalabra.net/conoce_a/pages/maria_index.htm
http://www.nodo50.org/insurgentes/textos/mulher/05mariabruguera.htm



1996 -- US: In Boulder, Colorado, JonBenet Ramsey, a six-year-old girl, is found murdered in the basement of her home, several hours after her parents called the police to say she had been kidnapped.

Over 1,500 children are murdered in the US in 1996, but none of these murders attracts media attention as much as the case of JonBenet. In the year 2006 her case is still being worked over in the mainstream media.

1996 -- South Korea: The largest series of strikes & walkouts in South Korean history, involving hundreds of thousands of workers, takes place to protest new labor legislation allowing companies to lay off & fire workers more easily & to avoid paying overtime in a more flexible work system.


1997 -- Cornelius Castoriadis (1922-1997) dies. Aka Pierre Chaulieu or Paul Cardan.

Social critic & editor of the journal Socialism or Barbarism (1949-1967). Castoriadis was an activist in the extreme left of the Trotskyist movement before moving to France, where he formed the Socialism or Barbarism group in 1948 with Lefort & Lyotard.

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Cornelius Castoriadis (aka Pierre Chaulieu & Paul Cardan) ... The former specialist of ultraleftist politics [Cornelius Castoriadis, aka Cardan] is awestruck at discovering, along with structuralism & social psychology, an ethnological ideology completely new to him: the fact that the Zuni Indians did not have any history appears to him as a luminous explanation for his own inability to act in our history.

"Now, the SI ," Situationist International 1964

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1999 -- Curtis Mayfield dies. Combined pop music & social issues, civil rights, etc, to prod & push. No place like America today:

Don't you know – if you want a good life
Best look into yourself
'Cause the world is cold – & everybody's bold
And there's no one else
Time makes you suffer – when seasons change

http://curtismayfield.cjb.net/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Mayfield

2000 -- US: Tech Worker Guns Down 7 Co-Workers in Wakefield, Massachusetts. Our fellow Internet workers went to work & were murdered. Cheryl Troy Craig Wood Janice Hagerty Jennifer Bragg-Capobianco Louis Javelle Paul Marceau Rose Manfredi

A heavily armed employee, armed with a loaded AK-47 assault rifle, a shotgun & a semiautomatic handgun gunned down seven co-workers at a troubled Internet consulting firm.

The shooting was the latest in a string of shootings in recent years in US workplaces, schools & churches.

Similarly, one in Honolulu in November 1999, also left seven dead. Others included July 1999 shootings that left nine dead at two Atlanta brokerages, August 1999 shootings that left three people dead at two office buildings in Pelham, Alabama, & in Garden Grove, California, that same month when a man opened fire in an auto parts store killing two people.

http://www.vpc.org/studies/wgun001226.htm

2004 -- High Seas: Massive 9.0 earthquake near Indonesia triggers deadly Tsunami, killing thousands & leaving nearly 1 million homeless along Asian, Indian & African coastal areas.


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"If ever time should come, when vain & aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin."

       — Samuel Adams, Beer Brewer

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