Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 10:10:04 -0700
From: "Dave, Recollection Books" <recall-AT-eskimo.com>
Subject: Daily Bleed: 8/20 FREDY PERLMAN


Daily Bleed, web page in full:
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0820.htm

Text snippets:

AUGUST 20 -- FREDY PERLMAN
Co-founder of Black & Red Printing Co-Op in Detroit;
writer, translator, printer, publisher, critic,
patron saint of underground presses.

"There is no death," an old Indian once said, "only a change of worlds."

Now he has crossed over & rests in a garden
conversing with stone spirits.
And we carry him with us through all our days, like a small & lustrous
stone.

             ---From the Fifth Estate, Vol. 20 #2 Indian Summer 1985


1860 -- National Labor Union formed.

1878 -- American novelist Upton Sinclair lives.

1890 -- Crackpot fantasist H. P. Lovecraft lives

                     "The world is indeed comic, but the joke
                                       is on mankind."

1898 -- Fourteen weeks after beginning a walkout, the
Amalgamated Woodworkers Union of Oshkosh, Wisconsin,
halts its strike.

1898 -- Vilhelm Moberg lives

1904 -- Colorado: Miners seize town of Cripple Creek & deport officials.

1909 -- Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) free-speech fight,
Fresno, California.

1913 -- The Chinese anarchist journal, "The Voice of the Cock Crowing
in the Dark," begins publication.

1934 -- Fredy Perlman, lives (1934-1985), Brno, Czechoslovakia.
Printer, organizer, scholar, dramatist, musician, gardener, translator,
social theorist, novelist & anti-authoritarian activist.

     "This is the place to jump, the
     place to dance! This is the
     wilderness! Was there ever any  other?"

http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/sinners/PerlmanFredy.htm

1940 -- Mexico: The "Red Butcher" of Kronstadt, "snowball" in
               Orwell's Animal Farm, gets picked for heaven...

1944 -- During an uprising by the Resistance in Toulouse,
André Malraux takes command of the St. Michel prison

1969 -- Got Clap?: Frank Zappa disbands the Mothers of Invention right
after an eight day tour in Canada. Zappa says he's "tired of playing for

people who clap for all the wrong reasons."

1981 -- Crow Indians barricade Hwy. 313 near Hardin, Montana,
to protest non-Indian fishing on
Bighorn River in Crow Reservation.

1981 -- Tenth & last hunger striker dies, Belfast.

He does not exist in the world as an active agent who
transforms it, but as a helpless,
impotent spectator; he may call this state of powerless
admiration "happiness," & since labor is painful, he may
desire to be "happy," namely inactive, all his life (a condition
similar to being born dead).

 The commodities, the spectacles, consume him; he uses up
living energy in passive admiration; he is consumed by things.

In this sense, the more he has, the less he is.

                  — Fredy Perlman, The Reproduction of Daily Life