Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 17:23:21 -0500 (EST)
From: danceswithcarp <dcombs-AT-bloomington.in.us>
Subject: Saturday's Daily NotSoLate: 2/6 JOHN HENRY MACKAY 




Subject: Saturday's Daily NotSoLate: 2/6 JOHN HENRY MACKAY

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Come when the rains
Have glazed the snow and clothed the trees with ice,
While slant sun of February pour
Into the bowers a flood of light.

     * William Cullen Bryant, "A Winter Place"


FEBRUARY 6

JOHN HENRY MACKAY
 German-Scottish libertarian anarchist, gay novelist.

MID-WINTER'S DAY

NEW ZEALAND DAY. British rule established, 1840.

FEAST OF SAINT VAAST, patron saint of children who are slow to walk.

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PROTEST TO FREE LEONARD PELTIER.


1478 - England: Thomas More, author of *Eutopia*, lives.

1564 - Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) lives. Elizabethan
poet, dramatist, & William Shakespeare's predecessor in
English drama, whose reputation in his lifetime wasn't as good
as Shakespeare's. Marlowe was killed on June 1, 1593, in a
tavern broil, but Raymond Chandler would resurrect him Los
Angeles (*The Big Sleep; The Long Goodbye*, etc.) for other
barbecues.  http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/marlowe.htm

1694 - Brazil: Destruction of the Mocambo de Macacos in the
last expedition of the Quilombo de Palmares.

We poets hate hate & make war on war.
                                                    * Pablo Neruda
http://spin.com.mx/~hvelarde/Uruguay/Galeano/memoria/16940206.htm

1756 - American politician, duelist Aaron Burr lives.

1778 - Hot Seat?: In Zacynthus, Venetian republic (now
Z=E1kinthos, Greece), Italian poet & novelist Ugo Foscolo,
lives. His work earns him a chair of Italian rhetoric at the
University of Padua which is abolished the following year by Napoleon.

1793 - One of the most influential dramatists of the Italian
theatre, Carlo Goldoni dies in Paris, France. A prolific
writer, his most important works are *I pettegolezzi delle
donne* (Women's Gossip), *La locandiera* (Mine Hostess), & *Il
ventaglio* (The Fan).
http://sunsite.dsi.unimi.it/liberliber/biblioteca/biografie/goldoni/index.html

1832 - US ship destroys Sumatran village in retaliation for piracy.

1833 - José Mar=EDa de Pereda, Spanish writer acknowledged
leader of the modern regional novelists, lives, near
Santander. Wrote *Sotileza* (1884), considered one of the
finest Spanish novels of the 19th century -- a novel of
customs, an epic of the Santander fisherfolk, exemplified by
the haughty, enigmatic fisherwoman Sotileza.
http://akilonia.cib.csic.es/~jmari/
http://www.at.embnet.org/~pereda/

1857 - Fyodor Dostoevsky's first marriage, to Marya
Dmitrievna, in Siberia. She dies of consumption in seven
years.  http://www.maths.nott.ac.uk/personal/pad/Dostoevsky2/

1864 - Gay individualist anarchist novelist/poet John Henry
Mackay lives. As noted in the Encyclopedia Britannica, he is
instrumental in making prominent the writings of Max Stirner's
anarchism.

See our Saints Page,
http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/saints/stjohnmackay.htm
http://www.etext.org/Politics/Spunk/library/intro/sp001636.html

1872 - Luigi Bertoni (1872-1947) lives, Milan, Italy. Swiss
anarchist, typographer, & an untiring participant in the
newspaper "Il Risveglio" (the "anarchist alarm clock" of
Geneva) founded in July 1900. Fought on the Huesca front with
Italian comrades during the Spanish Revolution.

1876 - Lewis Carroll asks his publisher to print the title of
his narrative poem "The Hunting of the Snark" on the dust
jacket.  http://www.lewiscarroll.org/carroll.html
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/lcarroll.htm

1908 - Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader General Edward
Lansdale (CIA/Vietnam, etc) -- the original "Ugly American" --
starts getting ugly.

"Mr Cooper drank 15 bottles of hydrogen beer in order to
maximize the size of the flames he could belch during the
contest. He catapulted balls of fire across the room that
Godzilla would be proud of, but this was not enough to win him
first prize since the judgement is made on the quality of the
flames & that of the singing, & after 15 bottles of lager he
was badly out of tune."
http://www.tiac.net/users/cri/hydrogen.html

1909 - US: Act of Congress makes it illegal to sell alcohol to
natives of Alaska.

1910 - Philadelphia shirtwaist makers voted to accept
arbitration offer & end strike as Triangle Shirtwaist strike
winds down; see Sept 27, February 15. Very fine page at:
http://www.assumption.edu/HTML/Academic/history/Hi113net/TriangleTofC

1918 - Women over 30 allowed to vote in England.

1919 - Seattle General Strike begins, 10am. Shipyard strike of
32,000 workers sparks General Strike as workers take control
of the city for a week. Crime drops dramatically. Began in
response to government sanctioned wage cuts. Sees the
formation of a workers, soldiers & sailors council. Succumbs
to bureaucratic labor union intervention as the latter
scramble to seize control.

It is this sort of 'wildcat' activism which leads the
Postmaster General, in the 30s, to refer to the US as being
comprised of these "47 states & the Soviet of Washington".

Harvey O'Connor's sympathetic "Revolution in Seattle" is the
best book on this event.

Howard Zinn excerpt:
http://iww.org:80/labor/history/strike.html#iww
http://www.iww.org/seattle/history.html
http://www.dnai.com/~figgins/generalstrike/index.html
http://www.washington.edu/uwired/outreach/cspn/curcan/main.html

1932 - French filmmaker Francois Truffaut lives.

1933 - Highest recorded sea wave (not tsunami), 110 feet, in
Pacific hurricane. First documented occurrence of people doing
the wave on CNN.

1935 - Who Owns You?: The game of "Monopoly" invented.

1938 - Algeria: Han Ryner (1895-1938) dies. French teacher,
anticlericalist, pacifist, anarchist, philosopher (called a
"contemporary Socrates"). See http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/1207.htm 7 December &
http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/0107.htm 7 January 1895.

1939 - Spain: 130,000 refugees cross the border, fleeing Franco's
Fascists.

1943 - US government requires the 110,000 Japanese-Americans
imprisoned in internment camps to answer loyalty surveys.
Question 27 asks draft-age men: "Are you willing to serve in
the US armed forces on combat duty, wherever ordered?"

22% of the 21,000 second-generation respondents will answer
"no" or give no response.  Known as Nisei [nih-say], these
U.S.-born Japanese-Americans are not expressing disloyalty but
their protest against the internment.

In January 1944, the Selective Service began reclassifying to
1-A the Nisei men who answered "yes" to the question & issuing
draft notices.

After more than 300 Nisei refuse to be inducted, authorities
arrest & indict Frank Emi & six others for conspiracy to
violate the Selective Service Act.  The seven are found guilty
& sentenced to four years at Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary in Kansas.

1947 - Three shots fired at Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader
Hubert Humphrey, the Mayor of Minneapolis, as he returned home
after a political meeting. All three bullets missed their
mark, & no trace was ever found of the would-be assassin.

1951 - Commuter train plunges through a temporary overpass in
Woodbridge, New Jersey, at the cost of 85 lives.

1956 - Autherine Lucy, the first black student to enter the
University of Alabama, is suspended after three days of riots
due to her presence. It is not clear why the University, in
its vast academic wisdom, did not elect to suspend the rioters.

1961 - US: The jail-in movement begins when students in Rock
Hill, South Carolina are arrested & demand jail time rather than fines.

1971 - Moon: Commander of Apollo 14 astronaut Alan Shepard,
takes a six-iron he stashed in his spacecraft & swung at three
golf balls on the surface of the moon. Publicly NASA is
delighted; privately they are teed. Shepard said later that
the first ball landed in a small crater, referring to it as a
rather unique hole-in-one.

1972 - Over 500,000 irate letters arrive at CBS-TV, when word
leaks out the network would air an edited-for-TV version of
the X-rated movie, The Demand.

1973 - US: 200 American Indian Movement protesters clash with
police for three days in Custer, South Dakota, over the murder
of Wesley Bad Heart; 37 arrested.

1975 - Hél=E8ne Patou (1902-1975) dies. French writer, militant
anarchist & néo-Malthusian. See  http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/0203=2Ehtm 2 February 1902.

1976 - Canada: Native American activist Leonard Peltier is
captured &, on the basis of fictitious affidavits generated by
the FBI, is later extradited to the US. Federal prosecutors
later admit they don't have a clue who committed the crime
they convicted Peltier for. The FBI is often fondly referred
to, because of its criminal conduct in cases like this, as the
Federal Bureau of Fabrication.

February 6 of each year has become THE INTERNATIONAL DAY IN
SOLIDARITY WITH LEONARD PELTIER. Protest gatherings to
publicize Peltier's plight & help gain his release are held
around the world, from a few individuals in small towns, to
thousands on the Internet registering their protest with
elected officials & the White House.
http://members.aol.com/TurquoisWm/JusticeforLeonardPeltier.html

1978 - Homeless Bums?: record snowfall of 27.1 inches over 32
hours began which brings the city of Boston to a standstill.
The entire city closes, National Guard on alert, as the storm
continued, eventually causing 29 deaths & rendering 10,000
people homeless.

1985 - England: Peace camp evicted by army at CIA base, Molesworth.

1990 - Billy Idol breaks several bones in a serious motorcycle
accident. He had been scheduled to have a major role in Oliver
Stone's "The Doors" but because of the accident he had to give
it up. Friends dismissed his prediction "something bad gonna
happen," as another idol threat.

1999 - INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PROTEST TO FREE LEONARD PELTIER
on the 23 anniversary of his arrest.

Supporters of Native American Political Prisoner Leonard
Peltier hold protests & starting hunger strikes in an effort
to pressure the Clinton Administration to keep its 1992
campaign promise.

These protests happen all over the world including Amsterdam,
Brussels, London, Washington DC, San Diego, Tacoma & Rapid
City, South Dakota.

Contacts, resources:
http://members.aol.com/TurquoisWm/JusticeforLeonardPeltier.html
http://members.xoom.com/freepeltier/index.html
http://indy4.fdl.cc.mn.us/~isk/stories/peltier.html


"Many say that millions would die if the present techno-global
fealty to work & the commodity were scrapped. But this
overlooks many potentialities. For example, consider the vast
numbers of people who would be freed from manipulative,
parasitic, destructive pursuits for those of creativity,
health & liberty."

                                    * John Zerzan

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