Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 16:02:12 -0500 (EST)
From: danceswithcarp <dcombs-AT-bloomington.in.us>
Subject: Daily Contraband: 4/28 JULES BONNOT 





APRIL 28

JULES BONNOT
Anarchist bank robber, inventor of the getaway car

Charles, Louisiana: CONTRABAND DAYS PIRATE FESTIVAL honors
Lafitte.

"In many parts of the Caribbean, flying the "Jolly Roger" flag
was the equivalent of a happy face: it meant the pirate ship
was willing to take prisoners. The appearance of a red flag,
however, signified no prisoners, & the pirates would slaughter
crew & passengers to a man. Bear in mind that the flags had
different meanings [or none] at different time periods & in
different regions."
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/pirates/maina.html


1635 - Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Virginia (US)
Governor John Harvey accused of treason & removed from office.

1789 - Fletcher Christian led a group of mutineers against
Captain William Bligh aboard HMS Bounty in history's most
famous mutiny. Recounted by Charles Nordhoff & James Norman
Hall in a trilogy; the first book being *Mutiny on the Bounty*
(1932).

1818 - US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President Monroe
proclaims naval disarmament on Great Lakes & Lake Champlain.

1861 - Henry Bauer lives, Grentel, Germany. German-American
anarchist. Bauer emigrated to the US in 1890, where he worked
as a carpenter in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He became involved
with the anarchist movement there following the events
following the Haymarket bombing in Chicago (where anarchists
were framed). In 1893 Henry Bauer was arrested & sent to
prison for five years for distributing leaflets during the
Homestead Strike, where Alexander Berkman had attempted to
assassinate Henry Frick.
http://longman.awl.com/garraty/glossary_h.htm
html.http://iberia.vassar.edu/1896/strikes.html
http://www.fred.net/nhhs/html2/dbq1.htm

Sing ho, for we know you, Carnegie;
God help us and save us, we know you too well;
You're crushing our wives and you're starving our babies;
In our homes you have driven the shadow of hell.
Then bow, bow down to Carnegie,
Ye men who are slaves to his veriest whim;
If he lowers your wages cheer, vassals, then cheer.  Ye
Are nothing but chattels and slaves under him.

---- 2nd verse, "A Man Named Carnegie," anonymous, California, 7 July 1892

1868 - US: Fort Laramie Treaty signed.

1874 - Austrian philosopher Karl Krauss lives, Jicin, Bohemia,
Austria-Hungary. *KARL KRAUSS 1998 SAINT*
Great Austrian satirist, language theorist, social rebel.

O escritor vienense Karl Krauss (1874-1936) é autor de uma
frase campe=E3 sobre o assunto: "Uma mulher =E0s vezes é um
substituto bastante razo=E1vel para a masturba=E7=E3o. =C9 preciso,
evidentemente, um bocado de imagina=E7=E3o".
http://www2.uol.com.br/playboy/revista/edicao0398/dehomem.html

1882 - L. Onerva (1882 - 1972) lives. Finnish poet who
published also prose, drama, essays, & translated French
literature (Voltaire, Honoré de Balzac, Anatole France, Paul
Bourget, Fran=E7ois Mauriac, Henri Barbusse).
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/lonerva.htm

1898 - Italy: In Anc=F4ne, a trial of the anarchists accused of
criminal conspiracy against "the public safety of people &
property" has been going on since the 21st. It follows the
failure of a General Strike in mid-January against price
increases for bread. The defendants are represented by the
anarchist lawyers Francisco Saviero Merlino, Pietro Gori &
Errico Ferri. Errico Malatesta will be sent to prison for seven
months.
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1884/ana-links.htm
http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/ws/errico48.htm

1902 - Johan Borgen lives (1902-1979). Important 20th-century
Norwegian author. Wrote the trilogy *Lillelord, De Morke
Kilder, Vi Har Ham Na* -- all translated into English as
*Lillelord*.  http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/borgen.htm

1908 - Wear Your Best Suit?: The farm of Bella Poulsdalter
Sorenson Gunness of LaPorte, Indiana set afire. Evidence
subsequently found in her hayloft indicates she murdered 16 to
28 persons, most suitors lured by her "Lonely Hearts" ads.

1910 - First night air flight, Claude Grahame-White, England.

1912 - Jules Bonnot, French illegalist gang leader, killed in
police shootout.

Les banques criaient "Misérables!"
Quand s'éloignait le bruit du puissant moteur
Comment rattrapper les coupables
Qui fuyaient =E0 toute allure =E0 trente-cinq =E0 l'heure
Sur les routes de France, hirondelles et gendarmes
Etaient =E0 leurs trousses, étaient nuit et jour en alarme
En casquette =E0 visi=E8re, les bandits en auto
C'était la bande =E0 Bonnot

         * Joe Dassin, La bande =E0 Bonnot

http://www.math.umn.edu/~foursov/chansons/dassin/bande.html
See Richard Parry, * The Bonnot Gang* (London: Rebel Press).
CLAVE, GODARD. * Viel Blut f=FCr teures Geld: Das kurze, aber
dramatische Leben des Jules Bonnot und seiner Komplizen.*  Aus
dem Franz. von Manfred Showa. Berlin: Karin Kramer Verlag, 1990.
44 p.: tout en ill., bibl.
http://www.chez.com/durru/bonnot/bonnot.htm
http://perso.club-internet.fr/ytak/avril4.html#28

1912 - José Pellicer-Gandia lives, Valencia, Spain. Anarchist
militant & syndicalist, fighter in the "Iron Column". Wounded
fighting the Communist attempts to assassinate militiaman of
the CNT. After the defeat of the Republicans Pellicer was
arrested & jailed with Juan Peiro before being condemned &
executed by the fascist military tribunal May 26, 1942.
http://perso.club-internet.fr/ytak/juin2.html#pellicer

1914 - US: 181 workers die in coal mine collapse disaster at
Eccles, West Virginia.

1919 - US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Seattle mayor
Hanson gets a bomb in the mail. He declares the government
should "buck up & hand or incarcerate for life all the
anarchists." This was one of 36 bombs which turn up in the
mails across the nation.

1924 - US: 119 workers die in Benwood, West Virginia coal mine
disaster.
http://www.GeoCities.com/Heartland/Meadows/1099/art.htm

1925 - T. S. Eliot takes a job at Faber & Faber, freeing him
from a dreary bank job.

1926 - Harper Lee lives, Monroeville, Alabama. Famous for
Pulitzer prize winning race relations novel *To Kill A
Mockingbird*. An international bestseller adapted to the
screen in 1962.  She modeled the boy Dill after her childhood
next-door neighbor, author Truman Capote.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/harperle.htm

1942 - "WW II" titled so, as result of Gallup Poll. Also
nightly "dim-out" begins along the East Coast, as a result of
Gallup Poll.

1945 - Italian fascist strongman Benito Mussolini hung by
partisans, begging the question: Was he hung well?

If it is admitted that the nineteenth century has been the
century of Socialism, Liberalism and Democracy, it does not
follow that the twentieth must also be the century of
Liberalism, Socialism and Democracy. Political doctrines pass;
peoples remain. It is to be expected that this century may be
that of authority, a century of the  "Right," a Fascist
century. If the nineteenth was the century of the individual
it may be expected that this one may be the century of
"collectivism" and therefore the century of the State.

---Benito Mussolini, The Doctrine of Fascism, 1932
 http://www.pagesz.net/~stevek/europe/lecture9.html

1947 - Thor Heyerdahl & "Kon-Tiki" sail from Peru to Polynesia.

1950 - Marita Golden, journalist/novelist, lives, Washington,
D.C. Of her writing, she states: "I write essentially to
complete myself & to give my vision a significance that the
world generally seeks to deny."

1953 - Iran: After engineering the overthrow of the
democratically elected government, the CIA installs the Shah
of Iran, beginning a 25-year dictatorship in that country.

1958 - Fourth attempt to launch a Vanguard satellite fails as
third stage of the rocket did not ignite.

1958 - Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Vice Prez Dick Nixon
begins goodwill tour of Latin America. Gets a "rocky" reception.

1960 - Alan Haber & SLID/SDS host first conference on Human
Rights at the University of Michigan; James Farmer & Michael
Harrington speak.

1961 - US: Over 2,000 defy mandatory civil defense drill, New
York City.

1965 - 20,000 Marines invade Dominican Republic to support
military junta/dictatorship; Beloved & Respected Comrade
Leader President Johnson sends US troops to prevent the
ascension of democratically elected president Juan Bosch. The
troops are not withdrawn until next year.

We're the cops of the world, boys;
We're the cops of the world.

                -- Phil Ochs
http://spin.com.mx/~hvelarde/Uruguay/eduardo.galeano/memoria.del.fuego/19650428.htm

1967 - US: Muhammad Ali refuses induction, during the Vietnam
War, into the army & is stripped of his boxing title:

   "No Viet Cong ever called me nigger."

The World Boxing Association withdraws Muhammad Ali's
recognition as heavyweight champion because of his refusal to
serve in the U.S. military. On June 20th, a federal court
convicts Ali for violating the Selective Service Act, handing
him a fine & a five-year prison sentence. In 1971, the Supreme
Court unanimously overturns the conviction. Ali regained his
title in 1974, defeating George Foreman in Zaire.

1968 - After six months at the off-Broadway New York
Shakespeare Festival Theater, *Hair* moves to the Biltmore.
The first rock-musical to play on the Great White Way, with
1,729 performances on Broadway. Made into a movie in 1979.

1968 - Rush To Judgement?: India: A lawsuit begun in 1205 was
resolved today, settled in favor of Mr. Thorat.

1970 - US: Occupational Safety & Health Act (OSHA) enacted.

1977 - First rally by Mothers of the Disappeared at Plaza de
Mayo, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

1977 - Baader-Meinhof Red Brigade terrorists get life
sentences, Germany.

1978 - US: At Rocky Flats nuclear weapons facility, near
Denver, over 5,000 protest & 284 arrested for blocking
railroad tracks entering the plant. Daniel Ellsberg called
Rocky Flats the Auschwitz of our time.
http://www.san.beck.org/WP30-Anti-Nuclear.html
http://www.hcn.org/category_index/dir/Nuclear.html
http://www.sfo.com/~rherried/nhistory.html
http://www.alternatives.com/libs/envnukep.htm

1984 - New Zealand educator, author/poet Sylvia Ashton-Warner
dies in Tauranga.

1987 - Benjamin Linder, an American volunteer engineer from
Seattle, Washington is murdered by U.S.-sponsored Contras
(characterized by then-Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader
Pres. Reagan as "the moral equivalent of our founding
fathers") while working on a hydroelectric project in rural
Nicaragua.  http://www.idiom.com/~detta/ben/ben.html

1988 - Suck It Up?: Gaping 20 feet long hole opens in the
fuselage of an Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 jet during a flight
from Hilo to Honolulu. Lands safely, but the escaping air
swept a stewardess to her death & resulted in 95 injuries
suffered by passengers.

1988 - Darci Pierce, who kidnapped a pregnant woman & killed
her doing a cesarean with a car key to steal her baby (which
she tried to pass off as her own) sentenced to 30 years for
murder, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

1989 - South Africa: 170 conscientious objectors have left the
country in 4 years; Mobil Oil leaves due to end of tax credits.

1991 - Death of Igal Roodenko, World War II conscientious
objector/pacifist activist, New York City.
"I have to love everyone -- thank God I don't have to like
everyone."
http://www.nonviolence.org/wrl/
http://www.aztlanhoy.com/9902fw01.htm

1996 - Germany: Sixty-one arrested for dismantling railroad
tracks leading out of Gundremmingen nuclear power station,
Bavaria.

1998 - Denmark: Mass strike. Some 400,000 Danish workers
launched an indefinite strike yesterday. On the third day of
the strike of 500,000 private sector workers. The fear of the
employers is quite clear & the stock exchange falls.
http://www.tao.ca/ainfos/A-Infos98/denmark_may98.html


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 * Emma Goldman


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