Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:41:08 -0500 (EST)
From: danceswithcarp <dcombs-AT-bloomington.in.us>
Subject: Daily Bleed: 2/18 AUDRE LORDE 




http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/0218.htm

Then came days of regret upholstered in grey silk. I twisted
my ring frantically around my finger. I drank too much coffee.
I was a bag of nerves & Mother, driven by the craziest
illusions, prowled around me like a crow in the festooned
vines. She was hoping I'd leave. I didn't care to leave her
alone. With my head on her knees, I'd listen to time falling,
drop by drop, into the sink..

 * Joyce Mansour,  "Infinitely . . . on the Grass"
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~whit0580/igloo/surrealist/mansour.html


FEBRUARY 18

AUDRE LORDE
Lesbian poet, gay emancipationist, jubilator.

Gambia: NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE DAY.


1546 - Reformation leader Martin Luther dies.

1574 - Zeeland falls to Dutch rebels. The losers vow to move,
"to a New Zeeland!"  http://www.cleangreen.co.nz/gallery.htm
http://www.zorb.com/what_the.htm

1678 - John Bunyan's *The Pilgrim's Progress* is published.
Begun while he was in prison for preaching without a license.
http://history.hanover.edu/early/bunyanj.htm

1688 - Pennsylvania Quakers make first formal protest against slavery.

1780 - Kristijonas Donelaitis, Lithuanian poet, dies,
Tolmingkehmen (now Chistyye Prudy).
http://www.efn.org/~valdas/donelaitis.html

1847 - Jean Baguet lives (aka Jean Bayet). French anarchist
exiled to Switzerland to avoid arrest following demonstrations
at Montceau-the-Mines in August 1882. Sentenced in absentia to
five years prison at the "Trial of the 66," January 1883.
http://perso.club-internet.fr/ytak/fevrier3.html#18

1849 - Alexander Kielland (1849 - 1906) lives. Norwegian
novelist, considered one of "the four great ones" of the 19th
century along with Henrik Ibsen, Bj=F8rnstjerne Bj=F8rnson, &
Jonas Lie.   http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/kiella.htm

1856 - American (Know-Nothing) Party abolishes secrecy, then denies it.

1859 - Yiddish novelist Sholem Aleichem lives.

1859 - Dan Sickles is first man in the U.S. to use the
`Temporary Insanity' plea.

1861 - US: Arapaho & Cheyenne cede most of eastern Colorado --
land guaranteed to them "forever" in an 1851 treaty.

1867 - Nonviolent resistance to Austrian oppression results in
separate constitution, Hungary.

1873 - The American Way: House of Representatives reports on
Credit Mobilers scandal. Reveals government allotted far more
money (welfare) than needed to subsidize the building of the
Union Pacific Railroad. Credit Mobiler Corporation was then
set up to build the railroad, & stock in it was gratefully
sold, at a fraction of its true value, to the congressmen &
government officials responsible for providing the excess grants.

1883 - Cretan poet/novelist/thinker Nikos Kazantzakis lives,
Heraklion, Crete. Jubilator of raki, song & dance. Best known
for *Zorba the Greek*. See also
http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/1202.htm >2 December
1885, also given as his date of birth by some sources.
http://www.knossos.gr/~hmuseum/kazantzakis/index1.html

1884 - Moscow police seize all copies of anarchist Leo
Tolstoy's *What I Believe In * at the printers.
http://photocollect.com/under400/tolstoi.html

1887 - Juan Peiro Belis (1887-1942) lives, Barcelona. Spanish
anarcho-syndicalist theorist & militant in the CNT. Assiduous
collaborator of the confederal & libertarian press with his
many reviews & newspapers.

November 4, 1936, appointed Minister of Industry in the
government of Caballero Largo. His participation, of short
duration, was heresy to libertarian principles. Even if
justified in a state of war, it will not prevent defeat, nor
the treason of the Stalinist participants. Peiro took refuge
in France in 1939, but was extradited by Pétain & was shot
when he refused to collaborate with the Franco government, in
Valencia, July 24, 1942. (His son, José Peiro, devote a book
to him; see 26 December 17.)

1894 - Andres Segovia, guitar guy, lives in the Andalusian
city of Linares, Spain & is reared in Granada.
http://members.tripod.com/~cumpiano/segovia_bio.html

1896 - André Breton (1896-1966) lives, Tinchebray, Orne,
France. Poet, essayist, critic, editor, communist, surrealist,
promoter. One of the founders of Surrealist movement with Paul
Eluard, Josef Agnon, Luis Bunuel, Dali, Aragon, Jean Cocteau,
et al. In 1916 he met Jacques Vaché, a legendary predecessor
of dadaism. His first publications were influenced by Rimbaud.
When Tristan Tzara came to Paris from Z=FCrich in 1916, Breton
joined the Paris DaDa movement together with his friends Paul
Eluard & Phillipe Soupault.

Artaud: Does Surrealism still hold the same importance in the
organization & disorganization of our lives?

Breton: It is all mud, almost entirely composed of flowers.
http://www.creative.net/~alang/lit/surreal/writers.sht#Breton
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/abreton.htm
http://www.peak.org/~dadaist/English/Nav/breton.html
http://members.xoom.com/icono/artaud/bretaud.html

1908 - U.S. bars Japanese immigration.

1916 - US: The anarchist brothers Enrique & Ricardo Flora
Magon arrested at their Community Farm near Los Angeles,
California. Enrique is beat by the police & hospitalized. The
Magon brothers are charged with mailing articles inciting
"murder, arson & treason," & go on trial May 21.

1918 - Germans invade Russia which is all but defenseless as
virtually the entire army has deserted.
http://www.barnsdle.demon.co.uk/russ/datesr.html
http://www.cs.utah.edu/~galt/kuprise.html
http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/2163/bolintro.html

1930 - The planet Pluto is discovered.

1930 - The Milkman Cometh?: There is no stopping progress: Cow
flown & milked, milk sealed in paper containers & parachuted.
http://www.cowswithguns.com/homepage.
http://www.peta-online.org/
http://www.uslink.net/~nienaber/flipper.html

1931 - African American editor/novelist Toni Morrison lives,
Lorain, Ohio. Noble prize winner, best known for *Song of Solomon*.
http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~mmaynard/Morrison/home.html
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/tmorris.htm
http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/morrison.htm

1933 - Yoko Ono, author (*Grapefruit*)/performance
artist/composer, lives.

1934 - Audre Lorde lives, New York City. African-American
poet/essayist/autobiographer, passionate writer on lesbian
feminism & racial issues. Author of the highly praised poetry
in *The Black Unicorn * (1978).

In her book, *Black Women Writers*, Lorde says, (quote) "The
question of social protest & art is inseparable. . . . Art for
art's sake doesn't exist for me."

Her poetry speaks powerfully against racial & sexual
oppression, as well as her erotic poems breaking the silence
on lesbian love (quote):

"Within a woman's capacity for feeling, our ability to love,
to touch the erotic, lies so much of our power, our ability to posit, to
vision."
http://www.lambda.net/~maximum/lorde.html

1942 - Dog-Eared?: Payson Terhune dies. Author of numerous
novels in which dogs are central to the books.

1959 - Jacques Doubinsky (1889-1959) dies. As a young Russian
labor radical he joined the Ukrainian peasant uprising in
1918, fighting with the insurrectionary Makhnovist army.

When betrayed & crushed by their one-time Bolshevik allies,
Doubinsky went to Bulgaria, active with the anarchists.
Arrested & tortured after the coup d'etat of 1923, he escaped
to France & met up with Voline. With his companion Rosa, he
directed the Jewish anarchist library "L'autodidacte".
Following WWII & Voline's death, he formed the "Friends of
Voline", publishing Voline's book *The Unknown Revolution*
(1947) (translated by Fredy Perlman & a group in Chicago;
published by Black & Red in Detroit, Free Life Editions in NY
& Black Rose Books in Canada.) Doubinsky was also involved
with the Jewish anarchist "La libre Pensée" in Paris &
assisting Bulgarian refugees.
http://perso.club-internet.fr/ytak/fevrier3.html#18

1961 - England: 20,000 -- including 89-year old Bertrand
Russell -- march against nuclear weapons & 5,000 stage a sit-
down at Ministry of Defense in the Committee of 100's first
public demonstration, London. The desperado Russell is jailed for 7
days.

1965 - US: Civil rights worker Jimmie Lee Jackson is beaten &
shot by state police in Marion, Alabama. He dies eight days later.

1969 - US: Feb 18-19 Howard University building is seized &
boycott starts. This follows on the heels of a law school
protest on the 12th. Things are beginning to heat up on
campuses all over the US

1970 - Federal jury finds the "Chicago 7" innocent of
conspiring to incite riots during the 1968 Democratic National
Convention. However, 5 were convicted of crossing state lines
with intent to incite riots. See also 24 September 1969.

*When I appear in the Chicago courtroom... I want to be tried
for having a good time & not for being serious. I'm not angry
over Vietnam & racism & imperialism. Naturally, I'm against
all that shit but I'm really pissed cause my friends are in
prison for dope & cops stop me on the street cause I have long
hair. I'm guilty of a conspiracy, all right. Guilty of
creating liberated land in which we can do whatever the fuck
we decide. Guilty of helping to bring the WOODSTOCK NATION to
the whole earth. Guilty of trying to overthrow the
motherfuckin senile government of the U.S. of A."

* Abbie Hoffman
http://www.teleport.com/~danw/stew/chicago.htm
http://www.city-net.com/abbottandcostellofc/index.html
http://shell2.ba.best.com/~malcolm/SR/chapters/05-
Burning_The_Bank_of_Amerika.txt

1972 - California Supreme Court ends death penalty, finds
capital punishment "cruel & unusual." Notable criminals whose
lives were spared by the ban on executions are Charles Manson
& Sirhan Sirhan.

1975 - West Germany: Water cannons & batons disperse occupiers
of nuclear power site, Wyhl.

1979 - A Snow Job?: First time in living memory, snow falls on
the Sahara desert (in southern Nigeria).

1985 - Feb 18-21 South African police kill 18 demonstrators at
Crossroads near Capetown, injure 200.  Before the month is
out, they will kill another 69 on 25th anniversary of the
Sharpeville massacre (1960). Also, some 1900 people are
arrested in the US demonstrating against South African
apartheid in last several months.

1995 - Bob Stinson, a founding member of The Replacements dies
in Minneapolis of complications from drug & alcohol abuse. The
band had no problem finding a replacement.

1997 - Turkey: Political prisoner Osman Murat Ulke is one of
12 activists charged with "alienating the people from the military."


"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it
hitched to everything else in the universe."

                    * John Muir, 1869

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