Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 17:40:09 -0500 (EST)
From: danceswithcarp <dcombs-AT-bloomington.in.us>
Subject: Daily Demons: 2/4 BIG BILL HAYWOOD 




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Demons and wonders
winds and tides
Already the sea has withdrawn far away
And you
Like seaweed softly caressed by the wind
On a sandy bed you stir as you dream
Demons and wonders
Winds and tides
Already the sea has withdrawn far away
But in your half-open eyes
Two little waves stayed behind
Demons and wonders
Winds and tides
Two little waves to drown me.

 * Jacques Prévert "Quicksand"


FEBRUARY 4

BIG BILL HAYWOOD
Wobbly tough guy. Labor leader with an attitude. Always
advocated violence against oppression. Convicted of sedition
in 1917, sentenced to 20 years hard labor, he jumped bail to
Moscow, the so-called  workers' paradise, where he died
penniless & alone.

TORTURE ABOLITION DAY.


1712 - US: South Carolina slave traders unable to take Chief
Hancock's Tuscarora fort.

1740 - Carl Michael Bellman (1740-1795) lives. Swedish poet-
musician, whose songs have remained very popular in
Scandinavia. Gained fame for his drinking songs & biblical
parodies, which circulated by word of mouth, & in handwritten
copies & printed sheets.
http://www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg/authors/bellman.html

1805 - William Harrison Ainsworth, author of 39 popular
historical romances, lives, Lancashire, England.

1818 - At Leigh Hunt's, he, Keats, & Shelley vie in composing
sonnets on the subject of the Nile. Hunt's is deemed best: "It
flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands, / Like some
grave mighty thought threading a dream, / And times and
things, as in that vision, seem / Keeping along it their eternal
stands..."

1819 - Monarchy for the People!
Emperor Norton I, true ruler of these United States, lives...& well he
lives!

He ate without paying at whatever restaurant, lunchroom, or
saloon took his fancy.
Created his own money, which was honored all over Frisco Bay.
First Emperor of the US & Protector of All Mexico, left an
estate comprising a two-&-a-half dollar gold piece, three
dollars in silver, a franc piece of 1828, & 1,098,235 shares
of stock in a worthless gold mine & a large  -- if supine -- army:

We are but the Emperor's Imperial Guard!

His principle philosophical clarion call, "Principia" is
gospel & therefore unquestionable truth.

See Herbert Asbury's "The Barbary Coast."
The Emperor called for a world of leisure & creativity, a
country of the mind without borders, in which all were engaged
in their most creative work. Waiters & busboys presented
lectures & philosophers cleaned tables. ("I could argue all
day about the significance of facing east in religious
rituals, but a clean table is a clean table.") Scientists &
engineers conferred & drew up plans for great civic projects,
mile-high buildings, gigantic ocean-going balloons propelled
by bicyclists, a network of tubes beneath the city to speed
postal deliveries. The plans themselves were considered to be
great works of art, & exhibitions drew great throngs.

He had two dogs, Lazarus and Bummer. Probable source of the
word 'bummer' adopted in the 60s & still in usage today...as in:

"Did a dog die?" "Yea. Bummer."
http://www.zpub.com/sf/history/nort.html
http://jubal.westnet.com/hyperdiscordia/emperor_norton.html

1822 - Emancipated US Blacks settle in Liberia, West Africa.

1842 - Georg Brandes (1842-1927) lives. Danish critic &
scholar, who had great influence on the Scandinavian
literature from 1870s through the turn of the century.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/brandes.htm

1856 - Paul Napoleon Roinard lives, Maritime Seine. Wrongfully
ignored libertarian poet. Broke with his family & went to
Prias where he met artists such as Auguste Rodin. Published
his first poems *Nos plaies* (Our wounds, 1886) lampooning
bourgeois society. Formed the group "La butte," with friends,
which had some influence on libertarian literature. In 1891,
with Zo d' Axa, he started the individualist anarchist "L'en
Dehors". Collaborated in "La Plume" & "La Phalange",& directed
the review "Septentrionale". Paled around with poets & artists
of the time, such as Mallarmé, Verlaine, Laurent Tailhade. His
prinicpal works are *La mort du R=EAve; La légende Rouge; Le
donneur d'illusions; Les miroirs*.

Un peuple a-t-il jamais profité d'une guerre?
           Drapeaux...
S'ils changent leur couleur, elle ne change gu=E8re,
Tous sont rouges du sang qu'on a versé pour eux.
       Guerre =E0 la guerre!

                                in "Les patries".

1861 - Delegates from six southern states meet in Montgomery,
Alabama to form the Confederate States of America.

1869 - Wobbly "Big Bill Haywood" lives, in Salt Lake City,
Utah -- where all good Mormons try to emulate him. Industrial
Workers of the World (IWW) honcho.
See Melvin Dubofsky's "Big Bill Haywood" (Vol 1) or his own
autobiography. Butte, Montana remembers him; short "Nation"
article: http://www2.pok.ibm.com/nation/na35514.htm
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Arena/1756/
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/haywood/haywood.htm
http://iww.org/

1894 - Adolphe Sax, inventor of the saxophone, dies in poverty.

1899 - Revolt against the non-imperialist benevolent US
occupation forces begins in the Philippines. The Islands
became a U.S. colony as a result of the Spanish-American War,
ostensibly fought to free Cuba from foreign control (sic).
Explained the Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader president of
the Philippine Commission:

"We propose to stay there indefinitely in working out this
good that we propose to do them."

1900 - Jacques Prevert (1900-1977) lives. Poet, surrealist,
libertarian. Worshiped freedom & glorified the spirit of
rebellion & revolt. Participated with the surrealists, but
refused to join the Communist Party with Andre Breton, whom he
made fun of in "Mort d'un monsieur". Also a talented screen
writer, whose credits include *The Children of Paradise*.
http://www.creative.net/~alang/lit/surreal/writers.sht
http://www.sura.org/~patois/poesie/index.html
http://www.cooke.net/~soleil/prevert.html
http://perso.club-internet.fr/ytak/avril2.html#11

1904 - MacKinlay Kantor, novelist (*Andersonville*) lives,
Webster City, Iowa.

1913 - "Front of the Bus" Rosa Parks civil rights activist
lives, Tuskegee, Alabama.

In 1943, Parks became one of the NAACP's first women members.
She also joined the Montgomery Voters League to encourage
black registration. In her most famous act of resistance, on
December 1st, 1955, Parks refused to surrender her seat to a
white passenger in a city bus, sparking the successful
Montgomery bus boycott. Her activism made it impossible for
her to find work in Montgomery. She moved to Detroit &
continued the struggle.

1913 - First removable automobile wheel is used.

1921 - Betty Friedan (*The Feminine Mystique*, 1963) lives,
Peoria, Illinois. Founder of National Organization for Women
(NOW).  http://worcester.lm.com/women/history/history.html

1929 - John Giola dances the Charleston for 22 hours, 30
minutes in New York City.

1930 - First tieless, soundless, shockless streetcar tracks, New
Orleans.

1956 - US: White student riot at University of Alabama against
court-ordered admission of first Negro student.

1957 - Writer, painter, book illustrator, Miguel Covarrubias
dies. Page in Spanish/English:
http://biblio.pue.udlap.mx/nopframes/servicios/Porfirio_Diaz/miguel.html

1957 -Hey, You Maroons!: Joseph Hardaway, creator of Bugs
Bunny, dies at 66. That's all folks!

1957 - First electric portable typewriter goes on sale.

1966 - Bill Graham's first non-benefit show. Also, about this
time, author Ken Kesey disappears (to Mexico).

1968 - The inspirational genius of the Beat writers, Prankster
Neal Cassady, pulls his last prank -- collapses & dies along
railroad tracks, San Miguel De Allende, Mexico.
http://www.charm.net/~brooklyn/People/NealCassady.html

1970 - US: Riot in Isla Vista protesting Chicago 7 guilty
verdicts, ended in Bank of America bombing, according to Todd
Gitlin; but we show 25 February, after the sentences are
handed down on the 19th.

1974 - Patty Hearst, 19-year-old granddaughter of publisher
Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader William Randolph Hearst,
kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA). One member,
Vietnam veteran Joe Remiro, remains in prison today.
http://www.eb.com/cgi-bin/g?pt=1&sort=relevance&DBase=Articles&hits=10&keywords=Army+AND+Liberation+AND+Symbionese+

1976 - Crime Pays: Senate subcommittee reveals Lockheed
Aircraft Corporation made payments abroad of $22 million in
bribes to sell planes. Lockheed admits payments in Japan,
Turkey, Italy & Holland.

1976 - Violent earthquake strikes Guatemala City, Guatemala,
killing 24,000 people, injuring 50,000. The quake rendered as
much as one-sixth of the country's population homeless.
Thousands more killed by aftershocks in the following days.

1982 - Indoor distance record for a paper airplane (47m),
Tacoma, Washington.
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/1817/

1983 - Karen Carpenter dies of heart failure brought on by
anorexia nervosa. She teamed up with her brother Richard to
form The Carpenters. Karen was 32 years old.

1985 - New Zealand: Visit by U.S.S. Buchanan refused.

1987 - Gay pianist, fashion victim Liberace dies.

1987 - Stars & Stripes beats Australia's Kookaburra 3, sweeps
America's Cup; fewest in a period since introduction of 24
second shot-clock in 1954.

1990 - Colombian government recognizes native rights to half
its forest, 69,000 square miles (slightly larger than area of
state of Washington in Amazon Basin, home to 55,000 indigenous tribal
peoples

1996 - Former Milli-Vanilli member Rob Pilatus is hospitalized
when a man hits him over the head with a baseball bat in
Hollywood. Pilatus was attempting to steal the man's car.

1996 - Chechnya: Start of week of marches for peace by
thousands, Grozny.

1998 - Brussels: International Pie Brigade commandos, created
by No=EBl Godin, delivers a pie to Bill Gates (Seattle boy makes
good: "the richest man of the world") to the cries of:

"Entartons, entartons le polluant pognon!"

Godin, the "entartor" of celebrities (alias Gloupier), is also
the author of * "Anthologie de la subversion carabinée*
(1988).  http://www.gloupgloup.com/mfs.htm

FootsieNote: Norton I was spotted hanging out in the Haight-
Ashbury during the '60s, which inspired a whole new
psychedelic art movement.
http://yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au/~acb/norton/


"When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint.
When you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a
communist."

---Archbishop Helder Camara, Brazilian liberation theologist

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