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Subject: Daily Bleed: 6/15 KATHE KOLLWITZ
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 20:44:33 -0700


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JUNE 15

KATHE KOLLWITZ
German socialist graphic artist, criical humanitarian. Captured
the fundamental problems of war, not resolved into victors &
vanquished -- only into the living & the dead.
http://www.kollwitz.de/

LANTERN FESTIVAL: The dead revisit homes.

ST. VITUS DAY: Traditional day of revels for welcoming Spring in
old Europe.

FESTIVAL OF NEON DECADENCE.


923 - Robert I, Usurper of the French Crown, killed in battle
with the real King, Charles "The Simple".

1215 - British King John & contentious noblemen sign Magna Carta,
at Runnymede.

1300 - A-Priori?: Dante Alighieri becomes Prior of Florence.
Despite his lack of prior experience.
http://www.crs4.it/~riccardo/DivinaCommedia/DivinaCommedia.html

1381 - Radical poll tax protestor Wat Tyler executed,
Smithfields, London.
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/2278/

1520 - Pope threatens to toss Luther out of Catholic Church.

1560 - Will Sommers, "Poor Man's Friend," court jester to Henry VIII,
buried.

1605 - Thomas Randolph lives. Poet, dramatist, friend of Ben
Jonson.  http://history.hanover.edu/early/randolph.htm

1752 - First American Hot Rodder?: American inventor,
revolutionist Ben Franklin flies a kite in a thunder storm. Gets
very wet. Proves lightning is composed of electricity. He
subsequently invented the lightning rod.
http://www.gilbertzone.com/beginner/beginner.html

1784 - In discussing the advisability of finishing every book one
begins, Dr. Johnson remarks to Boswell: "You may as well resolve
that whatever men you happen to get acquainted with, you are to
keep them for life."

1785 - 2 French balloonists die in world's first fatal aviation
accident.

1844 - Thomas Campbell dies. Scottish poet who first said,
supposedly inspired by a view of Edinburgh,

"'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view."

1878 - First attempt at motion pictures (using 12 cameras, each
taking 1 picture) done to see if all 4 of a horse's hooves leave
the ground at the same time.

1889 - Mihail Eminescu, Romanian poet, dies in Bucharest, after a
long period of mental disorders.
http://www.info.polymtl.ca/tavi/poezii/emines00.html

1896 - Tsunami strikes Shinto festival on beach at Sanriku Japan.
27,000 die, 9,000 injured, with 13,000 houses destroyed.
http://www.geophys.washington.edu/tsunami/welcome.html

1896 - Gérard Duvergé lives. Libertarian teacher, anarchist &
antifascist resistor. Became an anarchist in 1935, writing for
the anarchist press, & joining a group in Agen in 1936. Also
joined "la libre pensée" & the "Ligue Internationale des
Combattants de la Paix". Duverge found his ideal best realized
within the framework of  the Fédération des oeuvres la=EFques,
organizing youth camps with his companion Henriette.

During WWII Duvergé became involved with the underground
resistance. He was arrested January 28, 1943 & he died the next
day after being tortured by the Gestapo.

" L'enfant n'est pas la propriété des parents. Ceux-ci n'ont pas
le droit de le plier aux exigences de leur égoisme, de leur
propre servitude. Leur r=F4le consiste =E0 lui procurer la
subsistance qu'il ne peut se procurer lui-m=EAme et =E0 le protéger
contre la société."

---Gérard Duvergé, bulletin of the SNI, June 1936

1898 - US Congress passes Newland's Resolution to annex Hawai'i.

1902 - Justin Clark of Corsicana, Texass baseball minor-league
team hits 8 home runs in 1 game.

1904 - Fire destroys the steamer General Slocum in New York
Harbor, a disaster with a loss of 1,031 lives. The General Slocum
Disaster,  http://www.lihistory.com/7/hs743a.htm
http://www.firehouse.com/magazine/american/disasters.html

1911 - Dutch government adopts anti-gay law, provoking
establishment of Dutch chapter of German gay rights group
Scientific Humanitarian Committee.

1912 - Anarchist-feminist Emma Goldman travels to Spokane,
Colville, Wash., & Butte, Montana, to lecture.

1913 - U.S. troops finally end the Moro Uprising in the
Philippines (?by exterminating 600 men, women & children in an
assault on the same crater where an entire community was
similarly liquidated on 8 March 1906.?)
". . . To Protect American Interests . . ."
http://www.ultinet.net/~fancie/imperial.htm
http://www.boondocksnet.com/moro/
http://www2.army.mil/cmh-pg/reference/picmp.htm

1916 - First & only edition of the magazine *Cabaret Voltaire* is
published, containing work by <
http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/saints/sthugoball.htm >Hugo
Ball (Daily Bleed Saint), Kandinsky, <
http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/sinners/ArpJean.htm > Jean
(Hans) Arp, Modigliani, & the first printing of the word Dada.

*DaDa is beautiful like the night, who cradles the young day in
her arms." ---Hans Arp

"DADA speaks with you, it is everything, it envelopes everything,
it belongs to every religion, can be neither victory or defeat,
it lives in space and not in time." ---Francis Picabia

"Dada is the sun, Dada is the egg. Dada is the Police of the
Police." ---<
http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/saints/StHuelsenbeckRichard.h
tm >Richard Huelsenbeck
http://www.peak.org/~dadaist/

1917 - Emma Goldman & Alexander Berkman arrested & charged with
conspiring to "induce persons not to register" for World War I
military service. Both were sent to prison, then deported &
banned from the land of the free.

A group circulated a <
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Goldman/Curricula/AntiMilitarism/manifesto.html >
manifesto to over 100,000 people; today the
anarchists Goldman & Berkman are arrested by U.S. Marshal Thomas
McCarthy, charged with conspiracy to obstruct the draft. Found
guilty, the judge sentenced them to two years in prison &
recommended deportation once they had served their sentence.

President Wilson signed an Espionage Act, setting penalties of up
to 20 years imprisonment & fines of up to $10,000 for persons
aiding the enemy, interfering with the draft, or encouraging
disloyalty of military members; also declares nonmailable all
written material advocating treason, insurrection, or forcible
resistance to the law.
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Goldman/Writings/Accounts/NYT61617.html

1918 - Jules Durand, French anarchist & revolutionary trade
unionist, sentenced to death in 25 November 1910 (victim of
corrupt witnesses & vilification by the local press for a crime
he did not commit), is declared innocent in a new trial.
Unfortunately, by this time, he has gone insane from being
forcibly subdued in a strait jacket for 40 days, & his last years
are spent in an asylum. See 20 February 1926. One may now stroll
down Boulevard Jules Durand in Paris.
http://users.skynet.be/AL/LIBRAIRIE/increva/vol2/incre2.htm

1927 - Hugo Pratt lives. Italian artist, cartoonist, whose
graphic novels have been translated into several languages. Best
known character is existentialist adventurer Captain Corto
Maltese, whose world travels follows him from his youth to the
1930s, when he disappears during the Spanish Revolution.
Fictional characters intermingle with real historical persons
http://stp.ling.uu.se/~erikt/comics/welcome.html
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/MPortos/gab_eng.htm
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/3611/hugo_f.htm
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/hugoprat.htm

1934 - Hitler & Mussolini meet for the first time, Venice, Italy.

"While public school history courses in the United States stress
the horrors of the German Nazi murder of 6 million Jews & Josef
Stalin's pogroms against racial minorities & political dissidents
in the Soviet Union, the facts that the U.S. Army's solution to
the 'Indian Problem' was the prototype for the Nazi 'Final
Solution' to the 'Jewish Problem' & that the North American
Indian Reservation was the model for the 20th century gulag &
concentration camp, are conveniently overlooked."

---Jonathan Ott
http://burn.ucsd.edu/heart13.htm
http://www.pagesz.net/~stevek/europe/lecture9.html

1940 - France surrenders to Hitler.
http://burn.ucsd.edu/heart13.htm

1942 - Vera Nikolaevna Figner dies in Moscow at age 90.

As a leader of the People's Will movement, Figner organized
resistance within the Russian army & navy &, in 1880, Figner
plotted to blow up Tsar Alexander II's train. Her plot failed.
After the tsar was assassinated in 1881, Figner & other movement
leaders were arrested. Her death sentence was never carried out,
but she spent more than 20 years in solitary confinement, where
she wrote her memoirs, *How the Clock of Life Stopped*.

After release from prison in 1904, Figner was exiled to Siberia.
Ten years later, when the Bolsheviks gained power, she became a
national heroine.

1943 - Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) founded in Chicago.

1950 - Cold War hysteria: U.S. Senate opens investigation of
3,500 alleged "sex perverts" (homosexuals) in the federal
government. Wait til they get an Internet account.

1950 - General strike against apartheid in South Africa.

Beware that policeman,
He'll want to see your pass,
He'll say it's not in order,
That day may be your last!
* Beverly Naidoo,  Journey to Jo'burg
http://www.dnai.com/~figgins/generalstrike/index.html
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/history.html

1953 - Ana Castillo lives. Chicana poet.
http://www.library.ucsb.edu/speccoll/cema/castillo.html

1954 - Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Tail Joe McCarthy
declares physicist Robert Oppenheimer a security risk.

"I have here in my hand," he states, "the names of 205 men that
were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the
Communist party & who nevertheless are still working & shaping
the policy of the state department."
Some years later, he confided the paper was actually an old laundry
list.
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/navasky-main.html
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/mccarthy-bio.html

1955 - 3 Ignores & You're Out?: 28 arrested for ignoring
compulsory civil defense drills, New York.

1962 - Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) meeting prepares
the "Port Huron Statement," a manifesto which helps inspire much
of the US 1960's student protest movement.

1963 - "Bob's" face & "999" miraculously appear on a tortilla
being prepared by a woman in Plano, Texass.
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Vault/4482/

1963 - Rev. Mance Jackson leads 1,000 from Mt. Zion Baptist
Church to Westlake Mall in Seattle's first civil rights march.

More than 700 people attended a "freedom march" protesting racial
discrimination in Seattle. The marchers, many of whom were white,
walked in silence but carried signs. The Rev. Mance Jackson
announced that the Bon Marché promised 30 new jobs for African
Americans in its downtown & Northgate stores.
http://www.seattletimes.com/mlk/movement/PT/Seattle_marchers_1963.html

1966 - End of three days of Dutch Provo rioting, Amsterdam,
Holland.  http://www.pdxnorml.org/HT_provos_0190.html
http://www.lonelyplanet.com.au/dest/eur/ams2.htm

1966 - Heads Up?: The Beatles album, "Yesterday & Today" is
released by Capitol in the controversial "butcher" sleeve, with
the Beatles smiling amongst a group of decapitated baby dolls.
The original photo quickly became a problem for Capitol, so it
was pulled & replaced by a more conventional cover.

1967 - Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Acting Governor Ronnie
Reagan signs liberalized California abortion bill.

"Facts are stupid things."  ---Ronnie Reagan, 1988 (misquote of
John Adams: 'Facts are stubborn things.')

1967 - CATCH THE WIND 2:38 From the Joan Baez box set Rare, Live
& Classic recorded today.

1968 - Violent demonstrations Tokyo & Osaka, hundreds injured.

1968 - John Lennon & Yoko Ono plant an acorn at Conventry
Cathedral. Reporters insinuate: "They've gone nuts."

1968 - ''One truly amazing aspect of May '68 was the way the
protest encircled the globe..." After May, " On June 1, protests
spread to Denmark and Buenos Aires. The next day the Yugoslav
insurrection began. In Brazil, 16,000 students went on strike on
June 6, followed by a large protest march in Geneva for
democratization of the university. Even in Turkey,  20,000
students occupied the universities in Ankara and other  cities.
The chronology just keeps going as occupations,  protests,
scandals & barricades continued throughout the summer in Tokyo,
Osaka, Zurich, Rio, Rome, Montevideo,  Bangkok, Dusseldorf,
Mexico City, Saigon, Cochabamba, La Paz, South Africa, Indonesia,
Chicago, Venice, Montreal,  Auckland. 'What,' people seemed to be
asking, 'if the entire world were transformed into a Latin Quarter?'"

---Len Bracken, Guy Debord, Revolutionary
http://www.neravt.com/left/may1968.htm

1970 - Supreme Court rules any individual may object to military
service on ethical & moral grounds -- & need not base their moral
beliefs on an organized religion -- if such convictions "are
deeply felt", giving more responsibility to local draft boards.

1971 - U.S. government obtains a four-day prior injunction to
prevent the New York Times from printing the Pentagon Papers (see 13
June).

1978 - Supreme Court rules TVA may not complete Tellico Dam
(based on the endangered Snail Darter).

1982 - 450 occupy uranium mine for three days in anti-nuclear
protest, Honeymoon, South Australia.

1986 - Pravda announces high-level Chernobyl staff fired for
stupidity.   http://webnuc.nuce.psu.edu/~chernoby/

1996 - In response to an underpublicized nuclear accident the
previous month, six people are arrested at a protest demanding
the shutdown of the Point Beach nuclear power plant near
Manitowoc, Wisconsin.


"Men fight & lose the battle, & the thing they fought for comes
about in spite of their defeat; & when it comes, turns out to be
not what they meant; & other men have to fight for what they
meant under another name."

---William Morris
http://www.globaldialog.com/~thefko/tom/gi_morris.html


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