Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 20:40:53 -0500 (EST)
From: danceswithcarp <dcombs-AT-bloomington.in.us>
Subject: Daily Under the Bridge: 5/9 JOHN BROWN 




Subject: Daily Under the Bridge: 5/9 JOHN BROWN

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My father makes counterfeit money
My mother makes synthetic gin
My sister makes love for a dollar
My god how the money rolls in.

My brother's a young missionary
Who saves young people from sin.
He'll save you a blonde for ten dollars
My god how the money rolls in . . .

* Vance Randolph, *"Unprintable" Ozark Folksongs & Folklore*.  Edited with an introduction by Gershon Legman

MAY 9

JOHN BROWN
Radical abolitionist. "His truth goes marchin' in."

France: JOAN OF ARC PROCESSIONS.

ASTRONOMY DAY. Look up tonight


1432 - Charges of Witchcraft dismissed against Margery Jourdemain, John
Virley, & John Ashwell, in England. They're executed for littering
instead.

1785 - Joseph Bramah receives British patent for beer pump handles.

1800 - John Brown, anti-slavery freedom fighter, who attempted a guerilla
war in the very heart of the south, lives, Torrington, Connecticut.

There's a flutter in the Southland, a tremor in the air;
For the rice-plains are invaded, the cotton fields laid bare;
And the cry of "Help" and "Treason" rings aloud from tongue and pen
John Brown has crossed the border with a host of fifteen men.

*A Plea for Captain John Brown* by Henry David Thoreau,
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Articles_Gen/Plea_Captain_Brown.html

http://muse.jhu.edu/demo/reviews_in_american_history/23.4cain.html

1860 - "Peter Pan" creator Sir James Barrie lives, Scotland. When his
*Auld Licht Idylls* appeared he wrote: "For several days after my first
book was published I carried it about in my pocket, & took surreptitious
peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded."
http://www.txdirect.net/users/tinker/barrie.html

1883 - Philosopher José Ortega y Gasset lives, Madrid, Spain.  Wrote *The
Revolt of the Masses*, characterizing 20th-century society as dominated by
masses of mediocre & indistinguishable individuals. His ideas converged
with other 'mass society' theorists such as Karl Mannheim, Erich Fromm &
Hannah Arendt. In exile during the Spanish Revolution, refusing to support
either side or hold academic office under Franco. 
http://www.sci.fi/~phinnweb/links/philosophy.html

1897 - U.S. cruiser ordered to Honduras to "protect U.S. interests".

1898 - Marcel Wullens lives (1898-1928), Esquelbecq. French militant
anarchist & syndicalist who participated, with his brother Maurice, in the
review "Les humbles," the journal "L'insurgé," & helped found "La
révolution prolétarienne" (without his brother Maurice, a novelist, who
broke with the anarchists in favor of the Bolsheviks, & later became an
organizer, with Andre Breton & Leon Trotsky, of the
http://www.argyro.net/~revsur/encyclo/fiari.htm >F.I.A.R.I. ).  Wullens
died of tuberculosis.  http://perso.club-internet.fr/ytak/mai2.html#9

1904 - Communications theorist Gregory Bateson lives, Grantchester, Britain=2E

1918 - *Eminent Victorians* by Lytton Strachey is published.

1918 - Russia: Bolshevik troops open fire on workers protesting food
shortages in the town of Kolpino.

1921 - American poet Mona Van Duyn lives. Named Poet Laureate in 1992.

1921 - Radical priest & anti-war activist Daniel Berrigan lives. Loves to
burn draft records. J. Edgar Hoover & his FBI guys have the same affinity
for Berrigan as for Martin Luther King, Jr., trying to smear & destroy
him.  http://www.sojourners.com/soj9511/951121.html

1922 - Italy: Milan trial begins for the anarchists responsible for an
attack on the Theater Diana. Giuseppe Mariani & Giuseppe Boldrini get life
sentences, & Ettore Aguggini is only released after many years.

1927 - Debut of Felix the Cat in daily comic strip.

Felix the Cat is God.
http://wso.williams.edu/~ktaylor/gerstein/felix/
http://www.flash.net/~plaza/felix/

1933 - First Nazi-inspired mass public book-burning, Germany.

1934 - US: West Coast Longshore strike; lasts until July 30th.

1944 - By unanimous vote, the eyes have it!: The first eye bank opens, New
York City.

1954 - Rebounding extraordinaire "The Big O" lives.

1960 - FDA approves first oral contraceptive pill in U.S.

1962 - Beatles sign their first contract with EMI Pstlophone, after being
turned down at Decca with the infamous "Guitar bands are on the way out."

1963 - U.S. Air Force launches 400 million tiny copper needles into earth
orbit, despite protests they might play havoc with radio & optical
astronomical observations.

1967 - Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) stripped of his heavyweight boxing
title after being indicted for refusing to accept induction into the army.

1968 - Paris, France. http://www.tao.ca/~freedom/1968/index.html

1969 - *New York Times* reveals the United States has been secretly
bombing Cambodia -- officially a noncombatant, neutral country.

1970 - Five days after the Kent State killings, 100,000 march in
Washington, D.C. against Vietnam War. About 600 Canadian protesters deface
the Peace Arch at the U.S.-Canadian border at Blaine, Washington.

1970 - FCC chairman Newton Minow decries, "If you were turn in one channel
& watch it from sign-on to sign-off, what you would find is a vast
electronic wasteland."  http://ecentric.simplenet.com/prisoner.htm

1971 - Nguyen Thi Co immolates herself in protest of Vietnam War.

1971 - Resistance to militarization of Larzac begins with march from
Millau to La Cavalerie, France.

1972 - Some 2,000 anti-war protesters march from the University of
Washington, near Recollection Books present location, to Seattle's Federal
Court House, where they make camp.

1973 - End of American Indian Movement occupation of Wounded Knee, South
Dakota. Protesters, U.S. sign agreement in which the government agrees to
examine Lakota treaty rights; due to to government inaction, surprisingly,
the treaty never takes effect.

1974 - Impeachment hearings against Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader
Richard "Tricky Dick" m Nixon begin.

"The American people deserve to know whether or not their President is a
crook."

1977 - James Jones dies. Wrote *From Here to Eternity*. Sounds like a lot
of writing.

"I also learned that in spite of all the training you get & precautions
you take to keep yourself alive, its largely a matter of luck that decided
whether or not you get killed. It doesn't make any difference who you are,
how tough you are, how nice a guy you might be, or how much you may know,
if you happen to be at a certain spot at a certain time, you get it.

---James Jones, letter to his brother, Jeff Jones, from Guadalcanal,
January 28, 1943 http://rking.vinu.edu/j.htm

1980 - Russia: Auto workers in Gorky strike to protest food shortages.

1990 - US Secret Service announces 28 new hacker raids under Operation Sun
Devil.

1993 - Network for deserters & conscientious objectors (COs) from former
Yugoslavia established, Salzburg, Austria.


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

---Anatole France

Auntie-Majestic 1999
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