Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 16:36:45 -0500 (EST)
From: danceswithcarp <dcombs-AT-bloomington.in.us>
Subject: Daily Bleed: 4/16 JACOB COXEY




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APRIL 16

JACOB COXEY
Leader of "Coxey's Army" of hoboes, who marched on Washington
in Protest in 1894.  Arrested for walking on the White House
lawn.

LIBERATING THE RAINBOW LOST IN WHITE LIGHT FESTIVAL.


1291 - Rudolph Hapsburg purchases the rights to govern
Lucerne, Switzerland.

1550 - In a Royal Order of Charles V of Spain, the question
"What is an Indian?" was posed; exploration of America was
suspended until the matter was settled.

1681 - Province of New Jersey is sold for $25,000.

1689 - Aphra Behn, novelist, spy, playwright, dies, London,
England, age 48. Wrote
http://www.en.utexas.edu/~benjamin/316kfall/316ktexts/oroonoko.html
> *Oroonoko* . The first Englishwoman to live by her pen.
http://www.sappho.com/poetry/a_behn.htm

1746 - Defeat of the Roman Catholic pretender to the British
throne, "Bonnie Prince Charlie" also ends publication of Henry
Fielding's anti-papist weekly *The True Patriot*.
http://history.hanover.edu/early/fielding.htm

1746 - Scotland: Massacre of Scots by English army, Culloden.

1818 - US Senate ratifies Rush-Bagot ammendment (unarmed
US-Canada border).

1825 - Henry Fuseli, Romantic painter dies.
http://www.tate.org.uk/coll/oppehtm/fuselih.htm
http://www.oir.ucf.edu/wm/paint/auth/fuseli/

1828 - Spanish painter Francisco Goya dies.
http://www.blunet.it/galleria/goya1.htm

1844 - French novelist/urbane critic Anatole France lives
(1844-1924), Paris. Awarded the Nobel Prize in 1921.

"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well
as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, & to
steal bread."

His skepticism appears in his early works, & later hostility
toward bourgeois values led him to support French Communist
Party (His father was a bookseller -- which explains much.) In
the 1920s his writings were put on the *Index of Forbidden
Books* of the Roman Catholic Church, which, of course, ensures
they will be read by yet a larger audience. France
participated in the Dreyfuss case (1896) with other writers,
foremost being Emile Zola with his famous article *J'Accuse.*
http://www.chez.com/robysavia/france.html
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/afrance.htm

1854 - "Army of the poor" leader Jacob Coxey lives, Masillon,
Ohio.
Coxey's Army, 1894.
Jacob S. Coxey of Masillon, Ohio, a well-to-do businessman who
was a Populist & quite untypical of his class in other ways,
proposed a plan of federal work relief on public roads to be
financed by an issue of Treasury notes -- thus ending the
depression of 1893 by means of monetary inflation & work
relief for the unemployed.
When Congress refused to pass this bill, Coxey stated, "We
will send a petition to Washington with boots on."
Thus Coxey's Army marched peacefully from Ohio to Washington,
D.C. where they were cheered by crowds, but Coxey & his
lieutenants were arrested by police & about 50 people were beaten
or trampled.

1854 - Laurent Tailhade lives (1854-1919), Tarbes. French
poet, writer, anarchist polemist, opium addict (*La noire
idole*), translator (*Satyricon de Pétrone*).

Laurent Tailhade's first poems were published in 1880, but he
was best known for his polemical writings, as he moved from
anticlericalism to anarchism. His aesthetics & a provocative
defense of Valliant's attack in 1893 earned him the enmity of
the middle class press & their mocking when he lost an eye
during the anarchist bombing of the Foyot restaurant (where he
happened to be by chance.) Tailhade was involved in the
support of Dreyfus, & wrote for "Libertaire," & on October 10,
1901, following an article appearing in this journal during
the Tsar's visit to France, he was sent to prison for a year.
In 1905, following a serious misunderstanding, he broke with
the anarchists & former friends, putting himself in the
service of  nationalist jingoism.

*Pages choisies. Vers et proses.* Albert Messein, Paris 1912.
2<SUP>ème</SUP> édition. In-12°
broché, 311 pp.
*Lettres familières.* Nouvelle série. Librairie
Ollendorf, Paris, sans date. In-12° broché, 194pp.
*Petits mémoires de la vie* Editions G. Crès et
Cie, "Mémoires d'Ecrivains et d'Artistes"
Paris 1922. In-12° broché, 268 pp.
http://perso.club-internet.fr/ytak/avril3.html#16

La Luminosa Torre
Texto de Andre Breton (1896-1963), en LE LIBERTAIRE del 11-1-1952

Fue en el negro espejo del anarquismo que el surrealismo se
reconocio por primera vez, mucho antes de definirse a si mismo
y cuando apenas era asociacion libre entre individuos,
despreciando espontaneamente y en bloque las opresiones
sociales y morales de su tiempo.

Entre las fuentes de inspiracion donde abrevamos, en esa
posguerra de 1914, y cuya fuerza de convergencia era a toda
prueba, figuraba el final de la Balada de Solness, de Laurent
Tailhade:

Golpea nuestros corazones
en desbandada, en harapos
=A1Anarquia! =A1Oh, portadora de luz!
=A1Expulsa la noche! =A1Aniquila los gusanos!
Y levanta al cielo, aunque sea
con nuestros tumulos
=A1La luminosa torre que sobre el mar domine!
http://ibw.com.ni/~dlabs/anarquismo/surrealismoya.html
http://www.easynett.com/oi/anarchy.html

1862 - US: Slavery abolished in District of Columbus.

1866 - Nitroglycerine at the Wells Fargo & Co. office
explodes.

1867 - Wilbur Wright, of aeroplane fame, lives.

1871 - England: Demonstration in support of the Paris Commune.

1871 - John Millington Synge, dramatist lives, near Dublin.
http://athena.english.vt.edu/~marvin/syngeweb/cover.html

1871 - Ivan Turgenev arrested & jailed for publishing an
obituary banned by the St. Petersburg censorship committee.

1871 - England: Demonstration in Hyde Park in London, in
support of the Paris Commune.

1874 - Democracy in Action?: 200 men led by Beloved &
Respected Comrade Leader Elijah Baxter, the elected Governor
of Arkansas, surrounds the State House, seized 24 hours
earlier by defeated candidate Joseph Brooks & his supporters.
Two weeks later, a pitched battle between the two camps kills
or wounds 25.

1889 - Charlie Chaplin, tramp lives.
http://www.cs.monash.edu.au/~pringle/silent/chaplin/filmography.html

http://wso.williams.edu/~ktaylor/gerstein/chaplin/intro.html

1902 - Philippines: Surrender of the last resistance to US
intervention. Apparently the US occupying forces left a few
resisters alive despite a policy of genocide.

1903 - Mexico: The buildings of the anarchist newspaper "El
hijo del Ahuizote" are seized by the police for the second
time. The staff, Ricardo & Enrique Flores Magon & Librado
Rivera are arrested for  having "ridiculed public
authorities."  http://perso.club-internet.fr/ytak/avril3.html#16

1904 - Samuel Smiles dies in London. Best known for the didactic
http://www.cdrom.com/pub/gutenberg/etext97/selfh10.txt >*Self-
Help*. http://www.st-and.ac.uk/~jfec/ge/smiles.html

1922 - Kingsley Amis lives (1922-1995), London. Novelist,
poet, critic, & teacher, father of writer Martin Amis,
generally grouped among the "angry young men" in the 1950s,
though he denied the affiliation. A man of outrageous wit &
genius, with a reputation as "supreme clubman, boozer &
blimp." A radical as a young man, later a conservative critic
of contemporary life.  http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/amis.htm

1922 - US: First sermon preached from an airplane. Ranks up
there with dropping cows from an airplane.

1930 - José Carlos Maria=E1tegui, political leader/essayist &
first Peruvian intellectual to apply the Marxist model of
historical materialism to Peruvian problems, dies in Lima.

1934 - US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader LA County
Supervisor Roger W. Jessup calls for deporting some 7,000
indigent Filipinos on the welfare rolls.

In a year, Congress responds to such exclusionist demands by
passing the Repatriation Act. The law offered Filipinos
transportation to the Philippines at federal expense if they
forfeit their right to re-enter the United States.
Originally allowed into the US as cheap labor, Filipino farm
workers are no longer needed because of Mexican labor & no
longer wanted because of their union militancy. But the law
will repatriate fewer than 2,200 Filipinos.

1943 - Second synthesis of LSD leads to accident & Swiss
Chemist Albert Hoffman recorded his experiences -- its
psychedelic effect. On the 19th he will purposely take a strong
dosage.

"I perceived an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures,
extraordinary shapes with intense kaleidoscopic play of colors."
But Hoffman didn't know about breakfast cereal. According to
one researcher large doses of bran cereal may produce the same
types of experiences.
You see, he explains, LSD is produced by ergot a common fungal
infestation of wheat & may in some cases survive food
processing. Therefore, under such conditions a high bran diet
could result in a consumption of 100 micrograms of LSD -- more
than enough to produce an effect on an inexperienced user.
http://www.halcyon.com/colinp/leary-2.htm

1947 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, tall guy, jazz collector, lives.

1947 - Massive explosion & fire kills 500 in Texass City,
Texass.  http://ghg.ecn.purdue.edu/

1951 - Gustave Henri Jossot lives (1866-1951), Dijon. French
painter, illustrator & caricaturist who targeted the
mainstream institutions of family, army, justice, churches,
schools, etc. Jossot, deeply libertarian, refused to be
labeled an anarchist. Depressed for years, he gave up
caricatures in 1907, moved to Tunisia in 1911, converted to
Islam in 1913 for a short period before denouncing religion &
agitating again, for the rights of Moslem women, etc. Jossot
confined his artistic endeavors to painting landscapes &
Tunisian everyday life.
http://perso.club-internet.fr/ytak/avril3.html#jossot

1965 - Bob Dylan's "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" is released.

1965 - Bad Odour?: England: Vigil at church sequestered by the
military, Foulness, Essex.

1966 - US: 4,400 march NYC.

1966 - US: G. Gordon Liddy & the FBI raid Millbrook & bust
Timothy Leary for possession of marijuana.

1967 - Greece: Government bans Marathon Peace March. Held
yearly since 1963, when 300,000 first turned out.

1967 - US: Negro uprising, Cleveland, Ohio.

1968 - Novelist/playwright Edna Ferber, hailed as the greatest
woman novelist of her day, dies in New York.

1971 * US: Vietnam Veterans Against the War throw their medals
& canes on White House Lawn at demonstration, Washington DC.

1971 - US: Internal Revenue Service (IRS) estimates over 2,000
people openly refused to pay part or all of their income tax
in protest over the war in Vietnam.

1973 - US bombs Laos, April 16-17, in an extension of the Vietnam
War.

1983 - Sweden: Bridge blocked to stop boat loaded with guns for
export.

1985 - U.S. Supreme Court upholds rights of Navajo Nation to
tax businesses on the reservation without obtaining federal
approval.

1986 - First American "test-tube" baby born, Cleveland, Ohio.

1987 - U.S. Patent Office announces genetically engineered
animals can be patented; when was seed patent law?

1994 - *The Invisible Man*, Ralph Ellison, dies in New York,
never completing his second novel. Published two collections
of essays, *Shadow & Act* (1964) & *Going to the Territory*
(1986). African American who also lectured & taught on black
culture, folklore, & creative writing.
http://weiss.che.utexas.edu/~duongm/ellison.html

"I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who
haunted Edgar Allan
Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a
man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids--and I
might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible,
understand, because people refuse to see me."

1998 - Bill Not Bored has another day in court, at 100 Centre
Street, Part F, at 9:30am, NY City.
Bill Not Bored (a.k.a. Bill Brown, publisher of the
situationist fanzine NOT BORED!) was arrested by the NYPD for
allegedly spray-painting graffiti denouncing outrageous
pedestrian barricades that Mayor Giuliani & Police
Commissioner Safir installed at every intersection along 49th
& 50th Streets between Fifth & Lexington Avenues in Manhattan.
Bill Not Bored faced felony criminal mischief charges, despite
the fact that writing graffiti is a Class A Misdemeanor under
New York State Penal Law.
http://mediafilter.org/shadow/S43/S43pedestrian.html


*The professed concern for freedom of the press in the West is
not very persuasive in the light of ... the actual performance
of the media in serving the powerful & privileged as an agency
of manipulation, indoctrination, & control.

 A "democratic communications policy," in contrast, would seek
to develop means of expression &  interaction that reflect the
interests & concerns of the general population, & to encourage
their self-education & their individual & collective action.*


 *  Noam Chomsky, *Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in
Democratic Societies*
http://www.worldmedia.com/archive/ni/ni.html

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