Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 17:42:31 -0500 (EST)
From: danceswithcarp <dcombs-AT-bloomington.in.us>
Subject: Daily Bleed: 4/8 GAUTAMA SIDDHARTHA 





Web version: http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/0408.htm

APRIL 8

GAUTAMA SIDDHARTHA
The Buddha.

Thailand & Japan: BUDDHA'S BIRTHDAY.

Children's holiday; dancing & the release of captive animals.

ALL IS OURS DAY.


563 - [BC] Buddha lives.

1341 - Petrarch crowned poet laureate, steps of capital in Rome.

1614 - Death of Domenikos Theotokopoulos, known as "El Greco,"
painter  http://mexplaza.udg.mx/wm/paint/auth/greco/

1695 - Johann Christian Gunther lives. Briefly studied
medicine at Wittenberg; then, disinherited by his father in
1719, who opposed his poetical ambitions, he will compose his
greatest work, *Leonorenlieder*, a confessional poem in which
he pleads to his father for mercy.

1712 - New York city slave revolt suppressed, 21 are executed.

1819 - Walter Scott begins dictating *The Bride of Lammermoor*
as gallstones make the act of writing impossible.
http://scotten.pdeab.se/waltscot.htm

1826 - Secretary of State Henry Clay &  Senator John Randolph,
who accused Clay of striking a "corrupt bargain" to steal the
1824 Presidential election from Andrew Jackson, fight a duel
in Virginia.  Like most politicians, they both missed.

1864 - 13th Amendment passes, abolishing slavery in the US.
Does not include wage slavery.

1871 - Robert Louis Stevenson, 21, walks with his father &
tells him he is abandoning a career in engineering for writing.
http://www.bibliomania.com/Fiction/stevensn/index.html

1872 - Colville Indian reservation created east of Columbia
River; after white farmers pressure the government, a second
reservation, on less arable land, is designated instead.

1873 - Alfred Jarry lives. French author of *Ubu Roi*,  a
forerunner of the Theatre of Absurd. Also wrote stories,
novels, & poems. Died of alcoholism & tuberculosis. See 10
December & 1 November.
http://hamp.hampshire.edu/~ngzF92/jarrypub/commence.html

1877 - Italy: In the township of Letino (Matese) the "Gang of
Matese" had the city clerk an official notice before giving a
speech, burning land deeds, & heading off to liberate another
town:

"We the undersigned declare to have occupied, arms in hand,
the municipal building of Letino in the name of the social
revolution."
---Carlo Cafiero, Errico Malatesta, Pietro Cesaré Ceccarelli

Gathered at the village, the crowd listens to the words of
Cafiero, perched on a cross where flies a large red & black
flag. Cafiero explains the principles of  libertarian
communism, the land deeds are burned, as well as the files of
monarchy & the State. Matese, unfortunately, is soon besieged
by 12,000 infantrymen, who capture almost all the
internationalists. The 26 accused, are tried in 1878, & will be
acquitted.

See Max Nettlau's  *Errico Malatesta, The Biography of an
Anarchist: A Condensed Sketch*, published by the Jewish
Anarchist Federation, New York City. 1924, online at
http://www.pitzer.edu/~dward/Anarchist_Archives/malatesta/nettlau/nettlauonmalatesta.html

See, in Italian, Terracciano, Nicola, *Il moto
internazionalista sul Matese del 1877* (Centro Studi Libertari)

1885 - Yes, we have no ripe bananas?: Troops invade Panama to
"protect US interests."

1898 - Yip Harburg, American lyricist, lives. Wrote "Somewhere
Over the Rainbow".

1898 - Maurice Bowra lives, Kiukiang, China. Among his Greek
translations is Pindar's *Pythian Odes*.

1902 - Eruption of Guatemalan volcano Santa Maria leaves 1,000
dead.

1913 - Woodrow Wilson became the first US President since
George Washington to appear before Congress.

1928 - The final chapter of Faulkner's * The Sound & the Fury*
begins:

"The day dawned bleak & chill, a moving wall of grey light out
of the north-east which, instead of dissolving into moisture,
seemed to disintegrate into minute & venomous particles... She
wore a stiff black straw hat perched upon her turban, & a
maroon velvet cape with a border of  mangy & anonymous fur
above a dress of purple silk, & she stood in the door for a
while with her myriad & sunken face lifted to the weather, &
one gaunt hand flat-soled as the belly of a fish...."
http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~egjbp/faulkner/faulkner.html

1929 - Ironic French folksinger Jacques Brel lives.

1937 - Canada: United Auto Workers (UAW) strike at General
Motors plant in Oshawa, Ontario, for recognition.

1938 - Big Band leader Joseph "King" Oliver dies.
http://www.technoir.net/jazz/kingo.html

1939 - Trina Schart Hyman, author & illustrator, lives.

1942 - Andre Girard (known as Max Buhr) (1860-1942) dies.
Anarchist militant & trade unionist. See the *Daily Bleed* page,
http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/sinners/AndreGirard.htm

1946 - League of Nations assembles for last time, passing a
motion declaring themselves to be, shall we say, out of their
league?

1950 - J. D. Salinger's  best known short story, "For Esmé --
With Love & Squalor" appears in *The New Yorker. *
http://www.levity.com/corduroy/salinger.htm

1950 - Spain: José Lluis Facerias, anti-fascist, anarchist
guerilla, blows up the Lonja police station in Barcelona.

1952 - US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President Truman
orders US Army to seize the nation's steel mills to avert a
strike. The act was ruled to be illegal by the Supreme Court
on 2 June.  (See 27 August.)

1953 - First major 3-d movie (*"Man in the Dark*")  premiers.

1956 - Six recruits at Paris Island Marine Base drown when
their drill instructor, Staff Sergeant Matthew McKeon,
disciplined them for "minor disorderliness" by marching them
into a tidal swamp. He taught 'em good.

1960 - Folksinger Odetta at Carnegie Hall.

1966 - Pole Cats?: Last poll tax outlawed by US Federal courts.

1967 - US: Nashville Black uprising, April 8-10th, following
Carmichael's speech at Fisk University; (Tennessee House of
Representatives calls for Carmichael's deportation from the
state?)

1973 - Spanish painter & communist Pablo Picasso dies,
Mougins, Alpes-Maritimes, France.

"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may
learn how to do it."

1973 - A Harris Poll reports 51% in U.S. support the American
Indian Movement (AIM) protestors occupying Wounded Knee, South
Dakota; 21% support the federal government.

1974 - Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits 715th home run, beats Babe
Ruth's record. His run at the record got him much hate mail &
numerous death threats by whites.

Henry Aaron drives a 1-&-0 fastball from LA Dodgers' left-
hander Al Downing over Atlanta Stadium's left-center-field
fence, just to the right of the 385-foot marker. His 715th
career home run, Aaron's hit breaks Babe Ruth's Major League
record, which has stood for nearly 40 years.

Detractors have downplayed this inevitable event, often with
racist overtones, saying the modern baseball is livelier than
in Ruth's day & that Aaron has played more games. Aaron's
defenders counter that modern hitters also must contend with
more night games & the slider -- a breaking pitch introduced
after Ruth retired.
 http://www.cwws.net/~schubert/stats.htm

1976 - Folk singer Phil Ochs hangs himself in Queens, New York.
It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward
is the act of struggle itself, not what you win. Even though
you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you
must make that attempt.  That's morality, that's religion.
That's art. That's life.

"I knew Kate well & I traveled with her a good bit. I found it
unsatisfactory mainly because there were people on the stage
that weren't really associated with her life & nobody was
singing her songs. When Cloud called me about the possibility
of doing this, I described to him Phil Och's night. Well, Phil
Och's sister, Sunny, three times a year rents a big hall, gets
four or five well known folk singers & they do a show. Every
singer does three songs, two of their own & one of Phil's. That's
her way of making sure Phil Och's songs are still sung
& made available to audiences."

        ---U. Utah Phillips
         http://www.kdvs.org/spring97/utah.htm

1978 - Gaston Leval  (pseudonym for Robert Pillar) dies. Son
of a French Communard, anarchist syndicalist, combatant &
historian of the Spanish Revolution of 1936. See *Daily Bleed*
Gallery page,
http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/sinners/LevalGaston.htm

1984 - CinemaScope?: With a nod to Orwell, desperately trying
to crawl his way back from a political oblivion unpresidented
in American history, Dick "The Trickster" Nixon avows:

"It's the media's responsibility to examine the President with
a microscope . . . but when they use a proctoscope, it's going to
far."

1986 - The Motion Picture Association of America rules that
all movies that refer to illegal drugs will be given nothing
below a PG-13 rating.

1993 - Women in Black demonstrate in solidarity with their
Serbian sisters, Lund, Sweden.

1993 - World Court orders Serbs to cease genocide in Bosnia.
Why just Bosnia you ask?

1993 - Germany: "Libertarian Days" April 8-12th, held for the
second time at the University of Frankfort, including the
"Libertarian Book Fair".

1994 - Nirvana lead singer and defacto head of the grunge
generation, Kurt Cobain commits suicide by putting a shotgun
to his head and pulling the trigger at his Seattle home. He
was 27.   http://www.angelfire.com/co/Kurtrulz4life/index.html
http://www.xworld.com/cobain/askcobain.html

1995 - 1,000 Jobs With Justice Washington state activists in
Bellingham, Tacoma, Olympia, Seattle & Yakima rally against
the Republican "Contract With America."


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"Free thought, necessarily involving freedom of speech & press, I
may tersely define thus: no opinion a law -- no opinion a crime."

       ---Alexander Berkman

(and if you made it this far down, Freddie added this)

Changes

Phil Ochs

Sit by my side, come as close as the air
Share in a memory of gray
Wander in my words, dream about the pictures
That I play of changes

Green leaves of summer turn red in the fall
To brown and to yellow they fade
And then they have to die, trapped within
The circle time parade of changes

Scenes of my young years were warm in my mind
Visions of shadows that shine
'Til one day I returned and found they were the
Victims of the vines of changes

The world's spinning madly, it drifts in the dark
Swings through a hollow of haze
A race around the stars, a journey through
The universe ablaze with changes

Moments of magic will glow in the night
All fears of the forest are gone
But when the morning breaks they're swept away by
Golden drops of dawn, of changes

Passions will part to a strange melody
As fires will sometimes burn cold
Like petals in the wind, we're puppets to the silver
Strings of souls, of changes

Your tears will be trembling, now we're somewhere else
One last cup of wine we will pour
And I'll kiss you one more time, and leave you on
The rolling river shores of changes

So sit by my side, come as close as the air
Share in a memory of gray
Wander in my words, dream about the pictures
That I play of changes