Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 16:12:08 -0500 (EST)
From: danceswithcarp <dcombs-AT-bloomington.in.us>
Subject: Daily Rattle: 4/24 HERACLITUS 





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APRIL 24

HERACLITUS
Early Greek philosopher of Constant Becoming.

Magnum, Oklahoma: RATTLESNAKE DAY.

Alton, Illinois: NATIVE SUN DAY.


1617 - Assassination of Concino Concini, the Marechal d'Ancre.

1620 - John Graunt, statistician, founded the science of
demography, lives.

1731 - Daniel Defoe dies. English novelist, pamphleteer,
journalist, author of *Robinson Crusoe*. Along with Samuel
Richardson, considered founder of the English novel. An
intelligence agent for the Tories, then the Whigs, in his days
regarded as an unscrupulous, diabolical journalist.
http://www.chile-hotels.com/dandefoe.htm
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/defoe.htm

1800 - US: Library of Congress established.

1815 - Anthony Trollope lives (1815-1882), London. Writer of
some 40 novels realistically portraying the Victorian world,
psychological & sharply satirical; also short stories, travel
books & essays.
http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/hypertext/landow/victorian/trollope/trollopeov.html

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/trollope.htm

1825 - R.M. Ballantyne (1825-1894) lives. Scottish writer for
boys, noted for the adventure story *The Coral Island* (1858).
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ballant.htm

1845 - Carl Spitteler lives(1845-1924). Swiss poet, winner of
the 1919 Nobel Prize. http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/spittele.htm

1853 - Jean-Baptiste Thuriot (or Thuriault), lives. French
worker, considered by authorities to be the "Grand Master" of
anarchism in the Ni=E8vre department. See *Daily Bleed* Gallery
page,
http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/sinners/ThuriotJean-Baptiste.htm

1871 - France: Communards burn City Hall (Hotel de Ville) &
many other buildings in their retreat, in revenge before their
defeat.

1878 - Marie Mayoux (nee Gouranchat) lives (1878-1969); known
as Joséphine Bourgon. French teacher, militant revolutionary,
pacifist & libertarian trade unionist. See *Daily Bleed*
Gallery page,
http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/sinners/MayouxMarie.htm

1883 - Jaroslav Ha*ek lives, Prague. Czech novelist, humorist,
story writer, & journalist. Early in his career an active
anarchist who published widely in Czech political journals.
During WWI Hasek served at various times in Czech, Russian &
Austrian armies, captured on the Russian front, becoming a
prisoner of war.
Wrote a four-volume novel, *The Good Soldier Schweik*,
acclaimed as one of the greatest satires in world literature.
Ha*ek died before the whole book was completed. Also wrote
*Shouts in May* (1903).
http://burn.ucsd.edu/~anow/ppl/wri/index.html

1884 - Pierre Le Meillour lives (1884-1954), in Morbihan.
French anarchist & anti-militarist. See *Daily Bleed* Gallery
page,
http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/sinners/LeMeillourPierre.htm

1898 - Spain declares war on US, rejecting ultimatum to
withdraw from Cuba (see 11 April). Remember Maine?

1905 - Poet/novelist Robert Penn Warren lives (1905-1989),
Guthrie, Kentucky. First US poet laureate, wrote the Pulitzer
Prize-winning *All the Kings Men*.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/warren.htm

1908 - Mr & Mrs Jacob Murdock become the first to travel
across the US by car; they leave LA in a Packard & arrive in
NYC in 32 days, 5 hours, 25 minutes.

1908 - George Oppen lives, New Rochelle, New York. Major
proponent of objectivism, publishing with his wife An
"Objectivist" Anthology with work by Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot,
& William Carlos Williams.

1916 - Irish Easter Rebellion for Irish independence from
England. Led by Silk Weavers' Union, Irish Transport & General
Workers' Union.

1923 - Bulgaria: In Sliven, the anarchists Nicolai Dragnev,
the brothers Panayot & Ilia Kratounkov are shot by soldiers
under the pretext of "attempting to escape". They are the
final victims of the
<http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/0326.htm> tragedy of
Yambol, of March 26, when the army opened fire into a crowd
attending an anarchist meeting, leaving 30 dead. Nicolai
Dragnev was an important figure in the Bulgarian anarchist
movement, a propagandist & esteemed popular speaker. As it
happened, he was not at the meeting of March 26, & so failed
to hide during the repression following the massacre. That
failure cost him his life.
http://perso.club-internet.fr/ytak/avril4.html#24
http://perso.club-internet.fr/ytak/mars4.html#bulgares

1929 - Caroline Remy, known as Severine, dies. French
libertarian, feminist, pacifist, journalist of the League of
Humans Right. See *Daily Bleed* Gallery page,
http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/sinners/SeverineCarolineRemy.htm

1942 - Irish writer Brendan Behan sentenced to 14 years
imprisonment for shooting at police during an IRA march.
http://www3.sk.sympatico.ca/frasm/behan.htm

1947 - American prairie novelist Willa Cather dies, New York
City. http://icg.fas.harvard.edu/~cather/

1954 - Birth of Mumia Abu-Jamal, presently a political
prisoner & death row activist. Award-winning
journalist/author, his insightful commentaries & essays have
earned him international recognition -- & also the ire of many
officials, who have vowed to silence him at all costs.

"Prisons are, by nature, political institutions erected to
serve political interests of those in power. They are
instruments designed to protect, not the people, but the
status quo, & its historical usage's against Africans,
Indians, workers & radicals certainly supports that notion.

'Law' is similarly but a political expression & as such,
usually a tool against the poor, the powerless & the
unpopular. Rich men don't come to prison; & when they break
laws they leave room for loopholes."

---Mumia Abu-Jamal, March 1998

*There are many trials . . . in which the victim was already
condemned to death before the trial took place, & it took
place only to cover up the real meaning: the accused was to be
put to death . . . the trial is just a mask for murder."

---Katherine Anne Porter, *The Never-Ending Wrong*
http://www.pacifica.org/pacifica/democracy/mumia/
http://mojo.calyx.net/~refuse/mumia/index.html

1956 - April 26-July 21, 1954 Geneva Conference on Indochina
results in Geneva Accords partitioning Vietnam at the 17th
Parallel & provides for unifying elections in two years.

1962 - Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President Kennedy
authorizes high-altitude testing of nuclear weapons, to
determine whether missile-borne warheads can be used to black
out military communications. Dr. James Van Allen hailed the
new tests as a "magnificent experiment" that would add to
humankind's knowledge of the universe.

1965 - Dominican Republic: Populist insurrection; the peace-
loving US will use this as a pretext to invade in a few days.
http://spin.com.mx/~hvelarde/Uruguay/Galeano/memoria/19650424.htm

1969 - Paul McCartney says "there is no truth to the rumors he
is dead, well ... except maybe musically."

1970 - Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane is invited to a White
House party by Tricia Nixon, daughter of the President. Slick
shows up with "escort" Abbie Hoffman. He is on trial for
conspiring to riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention
& is turned away at the gate. Slick leaves as well without
having met Ms. Nixon or introducing her to tea laced with LSD
-- as Slick suggested she would.

1971 - US: Largest ever (over 1,000,000) demonstrations
opposing US war in Southeast Asia. 500,000 people gather in
Washington D.C., 150,000 march at a simultaneous rally in San
Francisco.

Half a million people converge on Washington, D.C., to protest
the Vietnam War. This morning's traffic bringing demonstrators
is backed for 20 miles into Maryland. The all-day procession
starts at the ellipse then fills Pennsylvania Avenue from one
end to the other with marchers. The rally at the Capitol will
last five hours.

This evening, homeward-bound demonstrators stall their cars on
the New Jersey Turnpike, halting traffic for four hours.
Abandoning their vehicles, they dance in the northbound lanes
& start a bonfire in the southbound lanes. State police arrest
more than 100 people.

1976 - Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels appears on
the show & offers the Beatles "a certified check for three
thousand dollars" to reunite & sing three songs. "You divide
it up any way you want," he said, "If you want to give Ringo
less, it's up to you."

1980 - US military operation to save 52 hostages in Iran
fails. Eight Americans die, five wounded in an ill-fated
attempt to rescue hostages at the US embassy in Teheran. The
hostages were subsequently split up to deter another similar
attempt.

I ran You ran We all ran From Iran

---a tee-shirt

1983 - International demonstrations against the plight of
laboratory animals.

1989 - Tens of thousands of students strike in Beijing China.

1993 - Oliver Tambo, leader of African National Congress,
dies. http://www.anc.org.za/people/tambo_or.html


His voice was deep, with the accents of the South wrapped
around each word, sweet & sticky like molasses.

His words often tickled his sons, & they tossed them among
themselves like prizes found in the depths of Crackerjack
boxes, words that were wondrous in their newness, their
rarity, their difference from all others heard.

"Boys! Cut out that tusslin', heah me?" & the boys would stop
their rasslin', their bellies near bursting with
swallowed, swollen, laughter, the word vibrating, sotto voce,
barely heard, in their throats.

"Tusslin'?!?"

"Tusslin' - -tusslin'-- tusslin' - - tusslin'!"

"Tusslin'!"

For days -- for weeks, these silly little boys had a new toy,
& with this one word, could reduce the others to teary-eyed
fits of fall-on-the-floor laughter.

"Tusslin'!"

---Mumia Abu-Jamal, *Father Hunger*


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