Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 11:30:48 -0800
From: "Dave, Recollection Books" <recall-AT-eskimo.com>
Subject: Daily Bleed: 11/25 EMMY HENNINGS


Daily Bleed, in full,
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/1125.htm

Excerpts:

            The river I have under my tongue,
            Unimaginable water, my little boat,
            And curtains lowered, let's speak.

                  – Paul Eluard 1895-1952, "The River"

NOVEMBER 25 --  EMMY HENNINGS
 Dada performer, key figure in Zurich's Cabaret Voltaire
 http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/dada/hennings.html

Suriname: INDEPENDENCE DAY (1975).


1715 -- First English patent granted to an American,
for processing porn.

1867 -- Alfred Nobel invents dynamite. Later, feeling
bad, he invents Nobles.
http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/images/bomb.jpg

1880 -- Leonard Woolf lives, London. Political writer
who marries Virginia  Stephen in 1912, & together they
start Hogarth Press in 1917.
http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/exhibits/hogarth/

1904 -- Jehan Mayoux lives, Charente, France.
Teacher, pacifist, antimilitarist, anarchist, poet.

1904 -- Ba Jin (Pa Chin [Li Feigan]) lives. Chinese
novelist, discovered anarchism with the reading of
Peter Kropotkin & Emma Goldman & created his
pseudonym Pa (from Bakunin) & Chin (from Kropotkin).
Cruelly persecuted, and finally, in the decade of Deng
Xiao-ping's reforms, he was elected honorary chairman
of Chinese Writers' Association.

Recently elected a contender for the 2001 Nobel Prize.

Best known novel is Family (Anchor Books, 1972).
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bright/bajin/bajinarchive.html

http://www.wooster.edu/chinese/Chinese/courses/chinese_youth/writer/ba_jin.html

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200005/12/eng20000512_40721.html

1911 -- Mexico: Tierra y libertad demonstration, includes the
anarchist Emiliano Zapata

     "It is better to die on your feet
     than to live on your knees."

                   — Emiliano Zapata
http://www.tigerden.com/~berios/libertarians.html
http://www.indians.org/welker/zapata.htm
http://spin.com.mx/~hvelarde/Uruguay/Galeano/memoria/19111125.htm

1919 -- US: Amid a strike for union recognition by
395,000 steelworkers (ultimately unsuccessful),
approximately 250 "anarchists," "communists," & "labor
agitators" were deported to Russia  yesterday, marking
the onset of the so-called "Red Scare."

     The United States:

     "a country where truth is tarred & feathered, lynched,
     imprisoned, clubbed, & expatriated as undesirable...

         — George Bernard Shaw (1925)

1919 -- US Department of Labor orders antiwar activist
& anarchist Alexander Berkman's deportation to Russia.
Emma Goldman's deportation order follows on Nov.
29. Their lawyer Weinberger meets in Washington
with immigration officials, including Anthony Caminetti
& Assistant Secretary of Labor Louis F. Post.

1921 -- Novelist Nathanael West flunks out of Tufts...
http://www.geocities.com/cosmicbaseball/nwest8.html
http://www.literarytraveler.com/spring/west/nwest.htm
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/nwest.htm

1947 -- The Hollywood Ten is blacklisted.
                       Ginger Roger's  mother
                                                 testified her
                                                 daughter had
                                                 been asked to
                                                 say in a film,

                                                 "Share &
                                                 share alike,
                                                 that's
                                                 democracy."

                                                 Roger's
                                                 reveals this
                                                 is (quote):

                                                 "definitely
                                                 Communist
                                                 propaganda."
http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/images/commie2.jpg

1949 -- Bill "Mr. Bojangles" Robinson finally
touches down, Los Angeles.

BILL ROBINSON 1997 & 1999 Jubilee Saint
"Mr. Bojangles." Roustabout, tap dancer par excellence.

             Capo 2nd Fret (or not)

             C B/C Am C/G F G

              HE SAID I DANCE NOW
              AT EVERY CHANCE IN HONKY TONKS
              FOR DRINKS AND TIPS

              BUT MOST THE TIME I SPEND
              BEHIND THESE COUNTRY BARS
              FOR I DRINKS A BIT

              HE SHOOK HIS HEAD
              AND AS HE SHOOK HIS HEAD
              I HEARD SOMEONE ASK PLEASE

                                  chorus;

                                  Am G Am G Am G C

                                  MISTER BOJANGLES
                                  MISTER BOJANGLES
                                  MISTER BOJANGES DANCE

                                  --- Jerry Jeff Walker

http://www.reelclassics.com/Actors/Bojangles/bojangles.htm
http://www.kathleenacademy.com/funzone/bojangls.html
 http://www.bojanglesmuseum.com/00CHP01.htm
 http://www.library.swt.edu/swwc/archives/music/walker.html
 http://www.jerryjeff.com/

1957 -- Radical Mexican muralist Diego Rivera dies
 http://www.DiegoRivera.com/diego_home_eng.html
 http://www.diamondial.org/rivera/

1968 -- American socialist, novelist, politician, Upton
Sinclair dies. Dragon's Teeth (1942), which
dealt with Germany's descent into Nazism,
1930 to 1934, won him the Pulitzer Pize for
fiction in 1943.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/sinclair.htm

Edmund Wilson, says: "Practically alone among the
American writers of his generation,[Sinclair] put to
the American public the fundamental questions raised
by capitalism in such a way that they could not escape
them."
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jupton.htm
 http://www.albion.edu/fac/engl/Diedrick/sinclair.htm

1970 -- Infertile?: Right-wing gay Japanese novelist
Yukio Mishima, 45, dies by his own hand hours after
finishing his tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility.

2000 -- US:

                Florida...
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/disfunction_1.jpg


---anti-tarred & feathered, 2000, also before, also after...