Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 07:06:38 -0800
From: "Dave, Recollection Books" <recall-AT-eskimo.com>
Subject: Daily Bleed: 11/20 BUENAVENTURA DURRUTI 


Daily Bleed in full,
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/1120.htm

excerpts:

                     The thing that I saw in your face
                                 No power can disinherit,
                                  No bomb that ever burst
                                 Shatters the crystal spirit.

  – George Orwell, poem written for
     Unknown Italian militiaman in Spain, 1936

NOVEMBER 20--BUENAVENTURA DURRUTI
Anarchist theorist & warrior,
prominent in Cuban & Mexican struggles,
& the Spanish Revolution 1936, bookstore owner
(Durruti Column -- not the same as the rock group, sorry).
200,000-500,000 attend his funeral.
http://tigerden.com/~berios/durruti.html
http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/spaindx.html

Mexico: REVOLUTION DAY.

WRITING ON THE WALL DAY.

1695 -- Honduras: Zumbí, head of the Quilombo
de Palmares, assassinated.

Palmares no longer breathes.

High red stones & grottos sit open like wounds.

Zumbi fails to note the day begins cast in an enemy light --
nor sees that the birds,  scared, flee in flocks. He does not
know a traitor has arrived. He sees only his friend Antonio
Soares, & rises & embraces him. Soares sinks a dagger
into his back several times.

Soldiers nail his head to the tip of a lance & take it to
Recife, where it can rot & the slaves will know Zumbí
was not immortal.

 A century had seen more than 40 invasions of this free
ample space in colonial America repulsed. The wind has
taken the ashes of the black bastions of Macacos &
Subupira, Dambrabanga & Obenga, Tabocas & Arotirene.

Palmares' century is reduced to nothing with the stabbing of
Zumbí. Night falls & nothing remains under cold stars.
¿But the dreamers remain?.

The dream knows that while on this earth a man is owner
of another man, its ghost will walk. Cojeando will walk,
because of Zumbí; it will walk above time & below
time & in the territories of Brazil cojeando will fight in
these forests of palms.

The heads of the incessant black rebellions
will be called Zumbí.
http://spin.com.mx/~hvelarde/uruguay/eduardo.galeano/memoria.del.fuego/16951120.htm

816 -- The term `scab' is used for the first time, at the
Albany Typographical Society.

              After god had finished the rattlesnake, the toad,
              the vampire, He had some awful substance left
              with which he made the SCAB....

              A SCAB is a two-legged animal with a
              cork-screw soul, a water logged
              brain, a combination backbone of jelly
              & glue....

              When a SCAB comes down the street, men turn
              their backs, angels weep in heaven, & the Devil
              shuts the gates of Hell to keep him out....

              Judas Iscariot was a gentleman compared to
              a SCAB. For betraying his master, he had
              character enough to hang himself.
              A SCAB has not.

             — Jack London (not wanting to mince words)


1896 -- Rose Pesotta lives. Labor activist, the only
woman on the General  Executive Board of the
International Ladies' Garment Workers (ILGWU), from
1933-1944, but returned to organizing, her real passion.
http://www.pitzer.edu/~dward/Anarchist_Archives/bright/pesotta/pesotta.htm

1910 -- Down for the Count?: Russian anarchist, novelist
Leo Tolstoy dies
http://www.ecn.org/freedom/Raven/haiti.html
http://flag.blackened.net/daver/anarchism/

1912 -- Arturo Giovannitti sits in the Salem Jail. He is
considered the "black sheep" of the Giovannitti family
by many (he's in the can, so it must be true). Arturo was
one of the great IWW  poets.
http://www.eclipse.net/~basket42/arturo.html

1923 -- South African novelist Nadine Gordimer
(A World of Strangers) lives, Springs in the Transvaal.
Received Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991. Main themes
are exile, loneliness & strong political opposition to racial
segregation. A founding member of Congress of South African
Writers. http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/gordimer.htm

1936 -- Buenaventura Durruti y Domingo, the famous
Spanish anarchist, shot in the lung  yesterday, dies.
http://tigerden.com/~berios/durruti.html
http://www.pitzer.edu/~dward/Anarchist_Archives/bright/bright.html

1977 -- Louis Mercier Vega dies. Anarcho-syndicalist,
propagandist, libertarian thinker who joined the
movement at 16.
http://www.multimania.com/lanarcho/vg22-3.htm
http://palissy.humana.univ-nantes.fr/labos/cht/biblio/mots/mot46.htm
http://www.jungewelt.de/1998/04-07/013.htm

1995 -- Stick This?: Native Hawai'ian activist John Marsh
is acquitted in Honolulu of tax evasion charges, using the
defense that since the U.S. illegally colonized Hawai'i in
1898, the islanders' descendants are not legally subject
to U.S. taxation.

2000 -- US: <strike>Florida....</strike>  Republic of Chad....
http://jupiter.spaceports.com/~anokpunx/anokart/events.jpg


The Spectacle scours proletarian history for symbols of
revolt & resistance in order to derail them of all meaning
& power. Only then can they be sold back to us as
wholesome food.

It is a mark of our own alienation from our own
history -- the history of people fighting to win back their
own lives -- that we do not find it absurd, or even
offensive, that groups of multinational record company
musicians call themselves such names as `The
Communards' or `The Durruti Column' [sic]. No matter
how `radical' their songs, or `innovative' their music, we
should roll them in manure for their pretentiousness."

--- quote cited at Durruti Column web site (the band,
that is). For the rock group Durruti Column, discography,
links, etc.: http://www.ultranet.com/~rps/durutti-column/

---anti-awful substance