Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 19:48:32 -0500 (EST)
From: danceswithcarp <dcombs-AT-bloomington.in.us>
Subject: Daily Isotope: 4/29 MAYA  DEREN 




Web Version: http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/0429.htm

APRIL 29

MAYA DEREN
Visionary filmmaker, convert to Haitian voudoun.

FEAST OF THE SECRET MASTERS.


1429 - Joan of Arc leads Orleans, France, to victory over English.

1667 - John Arbuthnot lives, near Bervie, Kincardineshire.
Scottish physician/writer, close friend of Jonathan Swift. His
*History of John Bull* popularizes Bull as the prototypical
Englishman.

1724 - Pedro Ant=F3nio Correia Gar=E7=E3olives (1724-1772), Lisbon.
Portuguese Neoclassical poet.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/garcao.htm

1858 - France: *Justice* by P-J Proudhon -- philosopher,
economist, sociologist -- appears.

                                "Property is theft!"

Plays pitcher for the
http://www.clark.net/pub/cosmic/98aar.html#proudhon >
Armageddonia Anarchists; not as good as BleedMeister's Nummer One

Son, but has a wicked slider.
http://www.cpm.ll.ehime-u.ac.jp/akamacHomePage/akamac_E-text_Links/Proudhon=2Ehtml

http://tigerden.com/~berios/libertarians.html
http://burn.ucsd.edu/~anow/ppl/rev/proudhon/
http://www.radio4all.org/anarchy/pierre.html

1885 - Women admitted to exams at Oxford University for the first time.

1894 - A Capitol Crime?: Jacob Coxey's protest Army of the Poor
reaches Washington D.C. Led a group of 500 unemployed workers
from the Midwest & arrested for trespassing on Capitol grounds.
*JACOB COXEY 1999 SAINT (April 16)*
Leader of "Coxey's Army" of hoboes, arrested for strolling on the

White House lawn. http://www.scry.com/ayer/AM_BIOS/4419760.htm

When they busted all the unions,
You can't make no living wage.
And this working poor arrangement,
Gonna turn to public rage.
And then get ready . . .
We're gonna bring back Coxey's Army
And take his message to the street.

 ---Eddie Starr, *The  Return of Coxey's Army*, from the CD *War
Zone, Union Jax.*
http://www.igc.apc.org/wbai-labor/kensbook/zone.html

1895 - Joseph Conrad's first novel, *Almayer's Folly* is
published.  http://www.bibliomania.com/Fiction/conrad/index.html

1895 - Warships sent to Nicaragua to "protect" U.S. interests.

1896 - Séverin Ferandel (1896-1978) lives, in Basses-Alpes.
Travel agency interpreter, anarchist militant, syndicalist, ran a
radical bookstore, aided Spanish refugees, etc. while living in
France & Mexico. See *Daily Bleed* Gallery page
http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/sinners/FerandelSeverin.htm

1899 - Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (1899-1974), bandleader,
lives to *Take the "A" Train*.
http://www.nwu.edu/jazz/artists/ellington.duke/
http://www.dnsmith.com/ellington/
http://www.worldbook.com/fun/aajourny/html/bh066.html
http://www.ilinks.net/~holmesr/duke.htm

1899 - US: Their demand that only union men be employed refused,
members of the Western Federation of Miners (WFM) dynamited the
$250,000 mill of the Bunker Hill Company at Wardner, Idaho,
destroying it completely.

Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President McKinley responded
by sending in black soldiers from Brownsville, Texas with orders
to round up thousands of miners & confine them in specially built
"bullpens." 1899 - 1901 saw U.S. Army troops occupying the Coeur
d'Alene mining region in Idaho.

1912 - Terence De Vere White lives. Irish author of more than two
dozen books, literary editor of the *Irish Times* & a leading
figure in the cultural life of Dublin for over 30 years.

1913 - The all-purpose zipper is patented by Gideon Sundback.
Every motel has some.

1915 - Women's International League for Peace & Freedom founded,
The Hague.

1916 - Irish nationalists surrender to British in Dublin.

1917 - Visionary filmmaker, ethnologist Maya Deren lives, Kiev,
Ukraine.

        I make my pictures for what Hollywood spends on lipstick.
                 ----Maya Deren

Maya did things in the Forties that other women didn't do.
Somehow we never got the idea that a woman could be a film
director. It's very difficult to conceive that something can be
done if it hasn't been done before. It always requires an
innovator, a heretic. & Maya was a heretic.

                              ---Hella Hammid

1919 - Germany: From April 29 to May 2, Munich: Government forces
crush in blood the Republic of the Councils of Bavaria.
Resistance  results in many hard-fought street battles. Many
resistors are summarily executed, leaving more than 700 dead.
http://perso.club-internet.fr/ytak/avril1.html#baviere

1933 - Constantine Cavafy, poet, dies in Alexandria, Egypt, at
70.  http://users.hol.gr/~barbanis/cavafy/
http://www.tsolak.u-net.com/ev/siir/cavafy.html

1945 - Poet Ezra Pound turned over to the American Army by
Italian partisans as a traitor.

Ezra Pound made pro-fascist radio statements in Italy during
WWII. Imprisoned in Genoa, then transferred to solitary
confinement in an outdoor wire cage near Pisa before
incarcerating him in a nut house. Meanwhile, back on the ranch,
the US government was rehabbing Nazi's (read "anti-communist" --
especially secret police, spies, scientists & bureaucrats) in
Europe & helping war criminals escape prosecution & hide in South
America & the US.
http://www.lit.kobe-u.ac.jp/%7Ehishika/pound.htm

1945 - US troops liberate concentration camp victims, Dachau.

1951 - Viennese philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein dies, Cambridge,
England.

1959 - EnCore?: US: CORE lunch counter sit-in in Miami.

1961 - England. 826 arrested in nuclear disarmament
demonstration, London.

1962 - Day-Glo Decor?: A Mexico City boy named Henry Espinola
dies of radiation poisoning. In March Henry found seven pellets
of radioactive cobalt in the street, brought them home, & kept
them in a cookie jar as a decoration.

Henry's mother dies on July 19. Three days later, authorities
discover the pellets & remove them from the house. Henry's sister
died on August 18 & his grandmother on October 15. Only his
father, who visited just on weekends, survived.
http://www.accutek.com/~moistner/

1965 - An earthquake measuring 6.5 on the Richter Scale shakes
Seattle, Washington, killing five & causing over $15 million in
damage.

1968 - US: Rev. Ralph Abernathy succeeds Martin Luther King, Jr.
as President of Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC).

1970 - US: National Guard shoots seven students at Ohio State
University.

1970 - U.S. invades Cambodia.

1973 - Over 15,000 attending a rock concert by Elvin Bishop,
Canned Heat, Buddy Miles & Fleetwood Mac are routed from a
baseball stadium in Stockton, California, by police firing tear-
gas canisters. More than 80 people, including 28 cops are hurt &
50 arrests are made.

1975 - US Forces flee Vietnam. Last American planes leave.

1976 - After playing Memphis on a southern tour, Bruce
Springsteen jumps the fence at Graceland to see idol Elvis
Presley. Vainly mentions his simultaneous appearances on the
covers of Time & Newsweek to security -- but, unimpressed guards
give him the boot.

1978 - England: 10,000 demonstrate against nuclear power plant
expansion, Windscale, Cumbria.

1980 - Film & TV thriller master Alfred Hitchcock dies, Los
Angeles.  http://www.primenet.com/~mwc/cameohitch.html

1983 - US: Harold Washington sworn in as Chicago's first black
mayor.

1992 - US: Despite a videotape documenting the episode, an
innocent verdict is returned in the savage police beating of
African American Rodney King leads to the worst rioting in Los
Angeles history, with 53 deaths & hundreds of injuries.
http://process.org/Process_Books/Hate/RKing.html

1996 - South Korea: Three men are arrested for protesting a
nuclear power plant under construction, in violation of the
country's Law Of Atomic Energy, which strictly limits the scope
of permitted action in opposition to state nuclear policy.


The world that we have made as a result of the level of thinking
that we have done so far, has created problems we cannot solve at
the level of thinking at which we created them.

                                                            ---
Albert Einstein


Auntie-Decor 1999
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