Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 08:24:56 -0800
From: "Dave, Recollection Books" <recall-AT-eskimo.com>
Subject: Daily Bleed: 11/15 HANNAH HOCH


Daily Bleed in full,
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/1115.htm

Excerpts,

NOVEMBER 15 -- HANNAH HOCH
Dada's "Cut with the kitchen knife" collage prodigy.

Austria: ST. LEOPOLD'S DAY marks the beginning of
new wine  season with drinking & festivities.

      FESTIVAL OF TOTAL SUBMISSION.

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE INDIAN.
Declared by World Council  of Indigenous Peoples.



1598 -- Yours is Mine?: Juan de Onate declares possession
of Hopi land (northern Arizona) in name of Spanish crown.
400 years later, the Hopi have still never signed a treaty with
any non-Indian nation.

     "The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively
well off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of
people living in the greatest misery without almost noticing
them."

                         – Gunnar Myrdal

1887 -- Georgia O'Keefe, painter, lives, Sun Prairie, Wisconsin.

1895 -- Antoni Slonimski, Polish poet, translator, &
newspaper columnist  best known for his devotion to
pacifism & social justice, lives. Wrote thousands of poems,
several plays, novels & translations of William
Shakespeare's works.
http://the-tech.mit.edu:80/Shakespeare/works.html

1917 -- Bolsheviks take Moscow, Russian Revolution ends.

1926 -- Italy: During this month Mussolini issues the "laws of
exceptions", instituting special "tribunals of state defense",
with many anarchists arrested & deported.
http://www.pagesz.net/~stevek/europe/lecture9.html

1936 -- Today 1,800 militiamen from the best of Durruti's
anarchist column enter into combat at University City
(Madrid).

1936 -- Wolf Biermann lives. German poet/songster.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/9962/wolfbiermann.html
http://www.ub.fu-berlin.de/~goerdten/wbiermann.html

              It’s not that Joan Baez or the Beatles or Bob Dylan
              have thousands of imitators. Wolf Biermann in East
              Berlin, Barbara in Paris, Fred Akerström & Cornelis
              Vreeswijk in Sweden, Ryoko Moriyama in Japan —
              it’s all the same universe of discourse, because it’s
              all the same audience listening to the same
              spokesmen speaking against the same evil & for the
              same good...

              --- Kenneth Rexroth,
              Subversive Aspects of Popular Songs
http://archiv.informatik.fh-augsburg.de/informatik/projekte/brecht/vip_buch/biermann.htm

1967 -- Beloved Comrade Leader General William C.
Westmoreland, Commander of U.S. forces in South
Vietnam, declares he has "never been more
encouraged in my four years in Vietnam." Two months
later, the massive Tet Offensive was launched by the
Communists.
http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/

1969 -- Janis Joplin, accused of vulgar & indecent language
in Tampa, Florida.

         Janis Joplin is arrested charges of using "vulgar
         and indecent language" at her concert. According
         to witnesses, the incident started when a
         policeman with a bullhorn ordered people in the
         audience to sit down & Joplin responded, "Don't
         fuck with those people!

1969 -- Over 500,00 people march on Washington to protest
war in Viet Nam while Beloved Comrade Leader President
"Tricky" Dick Nixon watches Purdue-Ohio State football
game on TV. Ohio State wins, US loses.


Anti-Vietnam War protesters rally in front of the White
House to conclude the March Against Death which began
two days ago in darkness & near-freezing temperatures
near the gates of Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
1,200 protesters crossed the Arlington Memorial Bridge
every hour & then walked four miles to the White
House. Each marcher carried a candle & a placard that named
a soldier killed in Vietnam.

Recitation of U.S. deaths in Vietnam War takes 36 hours
in front of White House, Washington D.C.

1978 -- Radical anthropologist & feminist rebel Margaret
Mead dies,
http://www.greatwomen.org/mead.htm

1988 --

   "The Secret Service is under orders that if Bush is shot,
   to shoot Quayle."

                                             --- Senator John Kerry

2000 --

WASHINGTON D.C. - Following an emergency meeting
 Wednesday morning, Congress unanimously voted to excise
 Florida from the United States of America.

  The move was a reaction to the confusion and irregularities in
  the state's voting numbers that have totally disrupted the 2000
  Presidential election.

  "We're all pretty much sick of Florida," said representative
   Barney Frank.
http://www.infoshop.org/graphics/bigprick.jpg


                     "Puritanism: the haunting fear
                       that somebody, somewhere,
                      might be having a good time."

                                                 – H.L. Mencken


---anti-Haunting 2000-3000, more or less