Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 06:30:23 -0700
Subject: Daily Bleed: 6/15 KATHE KOLLWITZ


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Excerpts from today's Bleed:

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

1954 -- Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Tail Gun 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.

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.

1966 -- End of three days of Dutch Provo rioting, Amsterdam, Holland.

"Facts are stupid things."

          ---Ronnie Reagan, 1988