Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2000 04:37:22 -0700
From: "Dave, Recollection Books" <recall-AT-eskimo.com>
Subject: Daily Bleed: 9/8 JOSE OROZCO


Daily Bleed, quite full of it:
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0908.htm

Excerpts:

JOSE OROZCO
Pataphysician, forerunner of surrealists, did a nice
painting of Zapata.

1837 -- Poet Joaquin Miller lives

              Red knives are flashing everywhere,
              And here and there the yellow flood
              Is purpled with warm smoking blood....

1873 -- Surrealist poet & playwright Alfred Jarry
(Ubu Roi) lives

1878 -- Charles Henri Jean, aka d'Avray, lives.
Počte et chansonnier anarchiste

1883 -- Sitting Bull, main chief of the Sioux tribes,
delivers a speech insulting & making fools of
US authorities to great applause.

1901 -- Francisco Ferrer, Spanish anarchist educator
& bane of the ruling powers, opens the libertarian
Escuela Moderna

1909 -- Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
strikers at the Pressed Steel Car Plant in McKees
Rock, Pennsylvania, force
management to improve shop conditions

1911 -- Spain: Opening of the founding congress
of the Confederacion Nacional del Trabajo (CNT).

1916 -- Death of Walter Roberts, first of 73
British WWI conscientious objectors (COs) to die
as a result of their prison treatment.

1941 -- Workers strike against diversion of milk
to military use by the Nazis, Norway.

1965 -- Strike of Filipino & Mexican farmworkers
against grape growers in Delano, California

1971 -- US: Beginning of the Attica Prison revolt.

"A guy who rigs aluminum prices can get himself
introduced by Georgie Jessel at $100 dollars a plate
but stealing a can of beer can get you iced."

            — Ishmael Reed,
YELLOW BACK RADIO BROKE-DOWN


                  ...if you see everyone
                  before they see you, they
                  won't see you.

                  & then you'll find that
                  somebody beat you.

                 ---William S. Burroughs

---anti-copyRite 2000