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Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 16:04:28 -0500 (EST)
From: danceswithcarp <dcombs-AT-bloomington.in.us>
Subject: Thursday Daily Bleed: 3/11 RALPH ELLISON 




What fearful power, what awesome divinity is repetition! It is
the pull of the void that drags us deeper down the ever
widening gullet of a whirlpool.

                                         * Robert Musil


MARCH 11

RALPH ELLISON
Black American novelist of under-class, under-race.

Hindu: FEAST OF GUARI, celebrated by married women with widows
taking no part.

Elsewhere in India, a DAY FOR THE WORSHIP OF TOOLS.

DEBUNKING DAY


1302 - Romeo marries Juliet. About time.

1544 - Torquato Tasso (1544-1595) lives. Greatest Italian poet
of the late Renaissance, best
remembered for his masterpiece *Jerusalem Delivered* (1575).
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ttasso.htm

1726 - Mme d'=C9pinay lives, Valenciennes. Friend of Diderot,
Rousseau, Voltaire. Best known for * Conversations of Emily* &
three volume *Memoirs & Correspondence*.

1811 - England: Luddites attack machines designed to replace
them in the weaving of wool.
http://www.imagesmith.com/imagesmith/luddites/history.html

1812 - Luddites suffer first defeat at Rawkolds Mill, Great
Britain.
http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/a/f/afd108/neo-ludd.htm

1818 - Mary Shelley publishes her Frankenstein novel.

The story of Frankenstein started on summer in 1816 when she
joined with Percy Shelley & Claire Clairmont near Geneva Lord
Byron. She took a challenge set by Byron & Shelley to write
the most frightening ghost story. The idea came to her in a
dream.

The first edition of the book had an unsigned preface by Percy
Shelley. Many thought it was his novel, not believing a 19-
year-old woman could write such horror. Published in 1818, it
became a huge success.
http://iq.orst.edu/phil302/wollstonecraft.html
http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~mgros/brooks/imgyou.html
http://www.awa.com/library/omnimedia/frank.html

1833 - U.S. troops intervene in Nicaragua.

1847 - Johnny "Appleseed" Chapman dies.

1857 - Spanish war poet Manuel José Quintana, dies in Madrid.
Wrote classical odes marked by patriotism & liberalism,
including the two-volume *Vidas de espa=F1oles célebres *("Lives
of Famous Spaniards").

1892 - France: Ravachol takes retribution for the Clichy
defendants, bombing the homes of the presiding judge (Mar. 11,
1892) & the prosecutor (Mar. 27, 1892).  Police in Clichy had
attacked a six-man anarchist labor rally. The workers defended
themselves with guns & ended up with long terms at hard labor.
http://burn.ucsd.edu/~mai/TEXT/mirbeau_ravachol.html

1907 - Bulgarian Premier Nicolas Petkov slain by anarchist.

1911 - Alba de Céspedes lives. Italian author/poet &
pioneering feminist, best known for her diary novel *Quaderno
proibito* (1952). A journalist in the 1930s, imprisoned twice
by the Mussolini regime. In 1944 she founded literary magazine
*Mercurio*, publishing works from  modern Italian writers,
including http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/1128.htm Alberto
Moravia, Eugenio Montale & Elio Vittorini.
http://www.pagesz.net/~stevek/europe/lecture9.html
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/decespe.htm

1914 - Novelist Ralph Waldo Ellison lives, Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma.  http://rs6.loc.gov/wpaintro/intro12.html

1921 - Russia: The paper Izvestia n=B09 of the Provisional
Revolutionary Committee of the Sailors, Workers & Soldiers of
Kronstadt, notes:
*We sent out a call to all the workers of Russia to fight for
freely elected Soviets. Our cry was heard. Already, the
revolutionary sailors, workers & soldiers of Petrograd are
coming to lend us a strong hand."
 http://www.cs.utah.edu/~galt/bolmytkron.html

1926 - England: George Lansbury proposes in Parliament
abolition of Royal Navy.

1930 - Gandhi's Salt March begins.

1935 - Shark Bait?: The trial of prolific child murderer &
incorrigible sexual deviate Albert Fish begins for murdering &
eating 10-yr. old Grace Budd; he will be convicted & executed,
White Plains, New York.

1950 - Cuba: Beginning of the third national libertarian
congress "to reorganize the libertarian labor movement & adopt
concrete practical measures, enabling its militants to
reorient themselves & to play a decisive part in the
regeneration of the Cuban labor movement."

1950 - American Airlines maintenance workers win nationwide
strike, gaining first severance pay clause in industry &
limits on subcontracting.

1953 - An American B-47 accidentally drops a nuclear bomb on
South Carolina, the bomb doesn't go off due to 6 safety catches.

1954 - US Army charges Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader
Senator Tail Gunner Joseph McCarthy & his counsel, Roy Cohn,
with using threats in trying to get preferred treatment for
Private G. David Schine. Robert Kennedy has left his staff by
this time. McCarthy & Cohn's witch hunting days are about to end.


1958 - USA: H-bomb falls on Mars Bluff, South Carolina; the
nuclear device does not detonate, but does leave a crater 35
feet deep. Didn't they just do this a couple years ago?

1959 - "Raisin in the Sun," first Broadway play by a black
woman, opens.

1963 - André Georges Roulot (1885-1963) dies. Individualist
anarchist & free thinker.

Wrote for "L'anarchie" & "Libertad" & joined the Saint Germain
en Laye libertarian colony with Emilie Lamotte, his partner
then (1906). In 1907 his booklet, "L'idole, patrie et
conséquence," landed him in prison for 15 months for inciting
disobediance in the army. Creates, December 1, 1911, the
review "L'idée libre" & contributes to  Sebastien Faure's
*Anarchist Encyclopaedia*. Sympathetic to the Bolsheviks in
the 20s, he moved away from anarchism, focussing on
anticlericalism, & the Federation of Free Thinkers of which he
became president in 1958.

1965 - Almost 100 civil-rights activists picket the White
House, demanding support for equal rights in Alabama.

The protest culminates as a dozen picketers march into the
presidential mansion & begin a sit-in. After six hours, police
arrest the demonstrators.
Today's sit-in is one of several massive protests across the
country against police & mob actions in Selma, Alabama. Just
this year in the city, more than a thousand protesters have
gone to jail, state police have beaten to death an African
American youth, white hoodlums have killed a Boston minister,
the Ku Klux Klan has murdered a Detroit housewife, & state
trooper attacks have sent more than 50 peaceful marchers to
the hospital.
 http://www.hatchoo.com/whitehouse/

1966 - US: Timothy Leary sentenced in Texass to 30 years for
trying to cross into Mexico as a tourist with a small amount
of marijuana; Leary appeals & gives press interviews.
Meanwhile, bout this day,

-Get this? Time sez there's an acid epidemic.
-SF Examiner front page: bust of 25 "beatniks" from 408 Ashbury.
-President of GM apologizes to Senate subcommittee for
investigating Nader's private life + car safety protests.
Should have apologized to Nader.

1968 - "Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay" earns Otis Redding his
only gold record -- three months after his death.

1968 - Polish students battle Communist police in Warsaw. From
8-9 March Warsaw has seen student uprisings; today they are
joined by workers uprising.

1971 - Puerto Rico: uprising University of Puerto Rico.

1972 - Run-on Sentence?: A sentence of 384, 912 years was
demanded against postman Gabriel Grandos for failing to
deliver 42,768 letters.

1973 - FBI agent fatally shot at occupation of Wounded Knee by
Oglala Sioux where the formation of independent Oglala Sioux
Nation is proclaimed at Wounded Knee, South Dakota.

"That women & children were casualties was unfortunate but
unavoidable, & most must have been [killed] from Indian
bullets...The Indians at Wounded Knee brought their own
destruction as surely as any people ever did. Their attack on
the troops was as treacherous as any in the history of Indian
warfare, & that they were under a strange religious
hallucination is only an explanation not an excuse."

--- excerpts from an official investigation of Wounded Knee
initiated at the behest of Congress, written by General E. D.
Scott.

1976 - Cesar Chavez ends 23-day fast for US farm workers.

1979 - Ireland: In anti-tax demonstrations 50,000 people march
through Dublin, most of calling for a general strike. An
estimated 150,000 or more people march through Dublin on 20
March & other protests occur in 30 towns throughout the
country, including a march by 40,000 workers in Cork.
http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/siptu/f6_tax_march.html
http://www.dnai.com/~figgins/generalstrike/index.html
http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/ireland_history.html

1985 - A Commie Conspiracy: Mikhail Gorbachev takes office.
Beginning of the end of the USA:
"Gorbachev's rise to power & the policies he implemented that
led to the end of Russian Communism & the breakup of the
Soviet Union must have been a lie, a fantastic Russian fairy
tale the West all too recklessly wanted to believe...

Furthermore, by breaking-up the Soviet Union, dismantling the
Soviet military & pursuing nuclear disarmament & world peace,
Moscow has instilled a false sense of security in the West
that is opening the way for Russia to succesfully launch a
surprise third world war against the West. All in all, through
Mikhail Gorbachev's lies, the way is opened for a global war
of mass destruction after which Russia can enslave the
world...  Of course, the leader of the New World Order that
will be established after the radioactive dust settles will be
the person who deceptively brought about the global chaos &
insanity in the first place: Mikhail Gorbachev."

1986 - 1 million days since traditional foundation of Rome,
4/21/753 BC.   http://www.romeinsight.com/

1988 - Beginning of 10 days of direct actions at Nevada Test
Site which result in over 2,200 arrests, the largest number of
arrests at a political protest outside Washington, D.C. in
U.S. history. The event is almost completely ignored by
mainstream media.

1991 - US: In LA a citizen videos officer friendly cops
beating on other citizens.


    An intelligent man cannot become anything seriously, & it is
    only the fool who becomes anything.

                    --- Fyodor Dostoyevsky


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