Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 17:17:50 -0500 (EST)
From: danceswithcarp <dcombs-AT-bloomington.in.us>
Subject: Daily Bleed: 4/14 RACHEL CARSON 





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APRIL 14

RACHEL CARSON
American  proto-ecologist, author of *Silent Spring.*

DREAMS OF REASON FEAST DAY, dedicated to discarded scientific
theory & science fiction futures.

MEME APPRECIATION DAY.

Laos: NEW YEAR (416)


74 - According to Jewish historian Josephus, 967 Jewish
zealots committed mass suicide within the fortress of Masada
on this last night before the walls were breached by the
attacking Roman Tenth Legion. (Two women & five children
survived by hiding in a cistern, & were later released
unharmed by the Romans.)

1291 - A body of Templars make a night raid on the Moslem camp
at the Siege of Acre. They are all killed.

1611 - "Telescope" named at a banquet given by Federico Cesi,
Duke of Acquasparta
http://homepage.interaccess.com/~purcellm/articles/scope.htm

1629 - Christiaan Huygens, astronomer (discovered Saturn's rings)
lives.

1756 - US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Pennsylvania
Governor Morris' declaration of war on the Delaware Indians
states "for the scalp of every male Indian enemy, the sum of
130 pieces of eight."

1775 - First abolition society in the U.S. organized in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1788 - US: Doctor's Riot. Five killed as a mob stormed Doctors
Hospital in New York, where Columbia University doctors &
students were dissecting human corpses, many stolen from local
graveyards.

1822 - Sir Walter Scott entertains George IV when the king
visits Edinburgh. He gave Scott a precious glass goblet, which
he put in his coat -- & later sat down & crushed it.
http://scotten.pdeab.se/waltscot.htm

1828 - First publication of Noah Webster's *American
Dictionary of the English Language*, 22 years in preparation.
It introduces "Americanisms" -- 12,000 words  never before in
any dictionary.

1834 - France: In Lyon, where the Insurrection of the Silk
workers began the 9th of April, the army gradually begins
retaking the city, attacking, for the third time, the Croix
Rousse district, & massacring many workers. ("Sanglante
semaine" -- The "Bloody Week")

1845 - Louis Genet lives, Ain, France. Textile worker, member
of the Vienna anarchist group "Les Indignés". At the side of
Louise Michel in the riot of May 1, 1882. A defendant in the
"Trial of the 66" in Lyon (January 1883), Louis Genet was sent
to prison for 15 months & because of continuing activism was
card-indexed by the gendarmerie as a "dangerous antimilitarist."
http://perso.club-internet.fr/ytak/avril2.html#14

1865 - Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President Lincoln is
shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater in Washington, DC.
The same day, Secretary of State Seward was attacked with a
Bowie knife, & severely wounded, by Lewis Paine, a co-
conspirator of Booth. Lincoln died the next day.

1874 - Josiah Warren dies, Boston Massachusetts. Author of
*True Civilization* & *Equitable Commerce*.  Founded several
*equity* stores, based on the idea of exchanging goods for an
equivalent amount of labor & the principle that cost should be
the limit of price. Established three utopian colonies; the
most successful (1851*c.1860) was Modern Times (now
Brentwood), Long Island, N.Y. See William Bailie,  *Josiah
Warren: The First American Anarchist* (1906). See also James
J. Martin's bibliographical essay in his
http://alumni.umbc.edu/~akoont1/tmh/matsbibl.html>*Men
Against the State: The Expositors of Individualist Anarchism
in America, 1827-1908*.
http://cedar.evansville.edu/~ck6/bstud/warren.html
http://www.pitzer.edu/~dward/Anarchist_Archives/bright/warren/warren.html

1881 - Jean Biso (1881-1966) lives, in Bastia, Corsica.
Anarcho-syndicalist, Secretary of the Syndicat des Correcteurs
in Paris, participant in support groups for Sacco & Vanzetti,
Spanish Revolution of 1936.

1889 - Historian Arnold Toynbee lives, London. Wrote on Greek
history & civilization.

1894 - First commercial screening of a motion picture, New
York City, using Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope.

1897 - Horace McCoy lives (1897-1955). "Hard-boiled" American
mystery writer & Hollywood scriptwriter. Contributor to "Black
Mask" along with Raymond Chandler, James M. Cain, Dashiell
Hammett, et al. His best known novel is  the 1930s Depression
drama  *They Shoot Horses, Don't They*, filmed & directed by
Sydney Pollack. Also wrote *Kiss Tomorrow Goodby; Corruption city*.
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/MM/fmcbc.html
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/hmccoy.htm

1910 - Beloved & Respected Comrade leader President Taft
begins tradition of throwing out baseball on opening day. Time
to visit a very sick boy, "Mudball" Taylor, who lives just across
the lake from us:
http://www.webflier.com/mudball/mudball1.htm

1915 - James Hutton Brew "Pioneer of West African Journalism,"
dies.

1930 - Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, betrayed by Stalinist
purges, commits suicide.

Of grandfatherly gentleness I'm devoid,
There's not a single grey hair in my soul!
Thundering the world with the might of my voice,
I go by -- handsome,
twenty-two-year-old.

    ---Vladimir Mayakovsky, "Cloud in Trousers," 1915

"Agitprop
sticks
in my teeth too,
and I'd rather
compose
romances for you--
more profit in it
and more charm.
But I
subdued
myself,
setting my heel
on the throat
of my own song."

                ---"At the Top of My Voice," 1930
http://www.mayakovsky.com/index.html
http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~sbowen/314spring/quincy/

1930 - US: Police arrest over 100 Chicano farm workers for
their union activities in Imperial Valley, California. Eight
will be convicted of so-called "criminal syndicalism."

By 1933, California farm laborers see a five-year wage cut
from 35 cents to 14 cents an hour. In response, they support
strikes led by unions such as La Union de Trabajadores del
Valle Imperial. Their militancy contradicts the stereotype of
Mexican passivity.

In one of the most powerful strikes, 12,000 laborers in the
San Joaquin Valley fight price cuts for picked cotton. To bust
the union, growers evict strikers & dump their belongings on
the road. Local police, meanwhile, arrest strike leaders &
picketers. But in the end the strikers win a 15-cent wage hike.

1931 - Spain: A Republic is proclaimed. Alfonso XIII crosses
paths on his way out of Spain with hundreds of  returning
exiles, among them the anarchists Buenaventura Durruti &
Francisco Ascaso.

1935 - A windstorm moves from the Dakotas into the southern
plains, lifting powdery soil into a 1,000-foot-high cloud -- a
blizzard of black dust & muddy rain hundreds of miles wide.

With winds of 60 miles per hour, the storm moves quickly,
engulfing whole towns in total darkness by early afternoon.
Motorists are stranded on highways; farmers can't find their
way home; families cower in houses, watching the dust pack so
thickly against windows it seems they are being entombed.

In 1935 alone, the winds took an estimated 850 million tons of
topsoil. By the time the drought ends in 1940, the Dust Bowl
states lost one-third of their population.
http://ceps.nasm.edu:1995/dust.html

1937 - Germany: Bruderhof, a collectivist traditional
Christian peace church, raided by the Gestapo in Frankfurt.

1937 - Spain: "Friends of Durruti Group," (former anarchists
in the Durruti Column) issues a Manifesto opposing
commemoration of the anniversary of the Republic, arguing it
is merely a pretext for reinforcing bourgeois institutions &
the counterrevolution.
http://www.spunk.org/texts/places/spain/sp001780/chap5.html&docid=37182110

1939 - John Steinbeck's *Grapes of Wrath* is published.

1961 - Old Tom, a cat left behind by his family when they
moved 75 miles, shows up a year later.

1964 - American ecology writer Rachel Carson dies, Silver
Springs, Maryland.

"The beauty of the living world I was trying to save has
always been uppermost in my mind -- that, & anger at the
senseless, brutish things that were being done . . . ."
http://www.cwru.edu/affil/wwwethics/carson/main.html

1965 - Russia's first motel built in Moscow.

1966 - Swiss pharmaceutical firm Sandoz discontinues
production of LSD. Osley smiles.

1966 - US: 75 demonstrate against the Vietnam War outside NY
Stock Exchange.

1968 - West Germany: 4,000 anti-Vietnam War student protesters
battle police in West Berlin. Also the peak of demonstrations
in West Berlin against Axel Springer & his publishing empire,
after assassination attempt on Rudi Dutschke ("Red Rudy").

1968 - US: (Easter Sunday) Love-in at Malibu Canyon in
California.

1971 - US: $675,000,000,000,000 suit is bought against General
Motors for polluting the country.

1981 - Gwyn Thomas, Welsh novelist/playwright, dies. His first
novel was *The Dark Philosophers* (1946), about four
unemployed Welsh miners, reminded critics of Chaucer,
Rabelais, & Damon Runyon.

1983 - Gyula Illyes dies in Budapest. Poet, novelist,
dramatist, & dissident -- a leading literary figure in Hungary.

1986 - French philosopher/feminist Simone de Beauvoir dies.

1986 - US aircraft attacks five "terrorist" locations in
Libya, killing numerous civilians, in Tripoli & Benghazi, &
assassinating the daughter of  Beloved & Respected Comrade
Leader Qaddafi. The Reagan troika took a poll before, & found
that 66% of Americans approved of killing babies. Pretext is a
terrorist act in Germany attributed flimsily to a Libyan-
trained group which today remains in dispute (including
possible CIA involvement).
http://www.peg.apc.org/~nexus/terror.html

1988 - Goodbye Daniel Guerin. Dies, age 84 years. One of
France's best known revolutionary activists & thinkers, author
of books such as *Fascism & Big Business; 100 Years of Labor
in the USA; Anarchism; Ni Dieu, ni Ma=EEtre: anthologie du
mouvement libertaire (1965)*.

Within France Guerin was a well known libertarian communist,
not only for his prolific writings, but also as a long
standing trade union militant of the CGT; as a veteran anti-
imperialist who supported the victims of French aggression in
Indo-China, Algeria & the Kanaks of New Caledonia; as a
fighter for gay rights (he was bisexual) in the 'Homosexual
Front for Revolutionary Action'.
http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/ws88_89/ws29_guerin.html
In French, see the listing in Ephéméride anarchiste:
http://perso.club-internet.fr/ytak/mai3.html#19
http://www.pitzer.edu/~dward/Anarchist_Archives/bright/guerin/

1988 - Denmark declares its ports nuclear-free.

1992 - Serbia: Solidarity action with 83 refusing military
service Stara Moravica, Vojvodina.

1994 - Two U.S. fighter jets shoot down two U.S. helicopters over
Iraq.

1995 - US: Native American Leonard Peters & sheriff's deputy
Bob Davis are killed in a shootout during a police ambush near
Covelo, California. Native American Bear Lincoln is later
acquitted of murder charges in the deaths in a racially charged
trial

1997 - Launch of separate two-month marches of the unemployed
in nearly a dozen European countries, to converge on a
European Union meeting in June.


Technology is "the knack of so arranging a world that we need not
experience it."

        ---attributed to Max Frisch, dramatist; source unknown.

"Things are in the saddle & ride mankind."

        ---Ralph Waldo Emerson

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