Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 00:49:02 -0800
From: "Dave, Recollection Books" <recall-AT-eskimo.com>
Subject: Daily Bleed: 11/14 HYPATIA


Daily Bleed, in full,
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/1114.htm

Excerpts,

                    If you think you can grasp me, think again;
                    my story flows in more than one direction
                    a delta springing from the river bed
                    with its five fingers spread.

                       – Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)





        --
                                         NOVEMBER 14

HYPATIA
  First known notable woman mathematician,
  murdered in Alexandria, Egypt by christians
  in anti-pagan pogrom.



Inuit ASKING FESTIVAL.
On the first day young people blacken their faces &
make the rounds collecting food for the next day's feast.
At the feast men & women ask each other for coveted
possessions, which are turned over. After a large
percentage of village property has changed hands,
everyone dances.

 From the Indians we learned a toughness
& a strength; & we gained

A freedom: by taking theirs: but a real freedom: born

 From the wild and open land our grandfathers
heroically stole.

But we took a wound at Indian hands: apart our
soul scabbed over:

                                          --- Thomas McGrath



1900 -- American composer, teacher, author, conductor
Aaron Copland lives, Brooklyn, New York.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/nov14.html

1903 -- US: National Women's Trade Union League
formed, Boston.
http://www.uwm.edu/Library/arch/findaids/mss026.htm
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/Kheel/guides/womenwork.html

1909 -- Argentina: Simon Radowitzky, legendary
"martir de Ushuaia", a young Polish anarchist, kills
police chief Ramon Falcon who had ruthlessly
suppressed a renters strike & the workers' May Day
celebrations, with a bomb, in Buenos Aires.
http://www.cigmigracion.com/casano.htm
http://www.geocities.com./Athens/3646/
http://www.radio4all.org/redblack/books/polish_anarchism.htm

1909 -- Joseph R McCarthy (Sen-R-WI), anti-communist
lunatic, lives.
http://www.gropper.com/grop_8.jpg

1914 -- Saki, master of the short story ("The Open Window"),
is killed in action in World War I.
 http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/saki.htm

1943 -- During World War II, President Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, & all of
America's top military brass, narrowly escape disaster
aboard the U.S. battleship Iowa, when a live torpedo
is accidentally fired at them from a U.S. destroyer.
Torpedoman Lawton Dawson is subsequently
court-martialed. The destroyer William D. Porter
eventually  reenters service, & is often hailed when
she enters port or joins other naval ships with the greeting

                                     "Don't shoot ! ! !
                                  We're Republicans"

1969 -- 3,500 march in Seattle against the Vietnam War.

1972 -- US: Filipino activist Bob Santos leads a
multiracial march demanding more federal housing
aid in Seattle.

                  There are lots more people in the House. I
           don't know how many exactly--I never counted
                     but at least a couple hundred.

---Conservative think-tank Darling & future American
President Dano Quayle, attempting to explain the
difference between the House & the Senate

1988 -- " No longer did the programming include, at
regular intervals, footage of violent criminals going
through revolving doors, recitations of the
horrors that might be visited on peace-loving Americans
if a card-carrying member of the ACLU becomes
President or bursts of talk about Boston Harbor &
"Taxachusetts".

        George Bush is not even President yet, & the United
        States was already a kinder & gentler place, because
        the Bush campaign was over."

                            ---The New Yorker

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/vote_sat.jpg

1993 -- CIA role in Haitian drug trade disclosed. U.S.
media yawns; U.S. government declines to investigate
itself.
                   we're gonna have a war on drugs
                           a war on drugs
               we outta have a war on war you suckers
we outta have a war on this senseless condominium
                           new car helllll
                         Burn down the malls
                         Burn down the malls
                         Burn down the malls
                                  etc.

    – Mojo Nixon, "Frenzy/Get Out of My Way" (1985)
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/1232/Nixon.html

                         "Before you kill
                         something make sure you
                         have something better to
                         replace it with;
                         something better than
                         political opportunist
                         slamming hate horse shit
                         in the public park."

                         -- Charles Bukowski




---anti-HorseShit 2000-3000