Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2000 11:34:47 -0800 From: "Dave, Recollection Books" <recall-AT-eskimo.com> Subject: Daily bleed: 12/9 EMMETT KELLY Daily Bleed, full recount, http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/1209.htm Excerpts, "The person who borrowed my Martin Beck thriller, read it in a sauna which melted the glue off the spine so the pages drifted to the floor, stapled them together & returned the book, thinking I wouldn't notice." – Michael Ondaatje, Elimination Dance http://members.nbci.com/kam1892/ DECEMBER 9--EMMETT KELLY Best of the hobo clowns. Patron saint of the Big Top. Patzcuaro, Mexico: FIESTA OF THE MOTHER OF HEALTH. Fishermens' Fiesta, with much dancing, clowning & fireworks. 1608 -- British "Paradise Lost": epic writer John Milton lives, Bread Street, Cheapside, London. The "Prince of Poets" also wrote First Defense of the English People, justifying the execution of Charles I. 1640 -- Settler Hugh Bewitt is banished from colony of Massachusetts when he declares himself to be free of original sin. 1842 -- Prince Peter Kropotkin, important geographer & anarchist, lives Moscow, Russia. The Encyclopedia Britannica (for which he wrote the "anarchy" definition for the famed 11th edition) describes himself: "Although he achieved renown in a number of different fields, ranging from geography & zoology to sociology & history, he shunned material success for the life of a revolutionist." http://www.geocities.com/biologybooks/rkropotk.htm http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_archives/kropotkin/Kropotkinarchive.html 1854 -- Alfred Tennyson's The Charge of the Light Brigade published six weeks after the Battle of Balaclava. 1893 -- France: Auguste Vaillant throws a small bomb into the Chamber of Deputies. A symbolic gesture, meant to wound rather than kill, Vaillant is condemned to death, & guillotined February 5, 1894. The deputies use the event to suppress the anarchists & their press. See the Daily Bleed's Encyclopedia of Sinners, http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/sinners/AugusteVaillant.htm 1896 -- France: First performance (dress rehearsal) of Ubu Roi, subversive play by Alfred Jarry. Sets off a riot. http://hamp.hampshire.edu/~ngzF92/jarrypub/commence.html 1898 -- Emmett Kelly, circus clown (Weary Willie) lives. 1899 -- England: "Grand Meeting & Concert for the Benefit of the Agitation in Favour of the Political Victims in Italy" staged in London. Among a cast of international anarchist speakers are Emma Goldman, Louise Michel, & Peter Kropotkin. 1905 -- Dalton Trumbo, writer (Johnny Got His Gun), film director, one of the blacklisted "Hollywood Ten," lives. Johnny Got His Gun published two days after the beginning of WWII. Won an American Booksellers Award for 1939 "What you ask is against regulations." http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/LostPoets/Casualties-note.html http://www.moderntimes.com/palace/blacklist.htm http://www.weeklywire.com/ww/11-17-97/boston_books_2.html http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/july-dec97/blacklist_10-24.html http://www.chireader.com/movies/archives/0896/08096a.html HOLLYWOOD BLACKLIST, by Dan Georgakas (ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE AMERICAN LEFT): http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/blacklist.html http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAtrumbo.htm http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/trumbo.htm 1909 -- Great Sioux leader Red Cloud dies, Pine Ridge, South Dakota. RED CLOUD 1997 SAINT Great Native American leader, Sioux warrior. 1949 -- Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader, the Honorable Representative J. Parnell Thomas, former chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), sentenced to 6 to 18 months in federal prison. http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/learn-from-blacklist.html 1953 -- General Electric announces all Communist employees will be fired. General Electric president Charles Wilson said: "The problems of the U.S. can be summed up in two words: Russia abroad, labor at home." Accordingly, Congress passed the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947, which denied unions the right to organize unless their leaders took an oath swearing they weren't communists. http://chicagotribune.com/leisure/features/article/0,2669,SAV-0002080084,FF.html If you had Westinghouse appliances or something like that in your household you were almost a traitor. I guess the bad word for that time in the fifties was a “communist.” " http://libris.gonzaga.edu:1080/img/0359/trnscrpt.html 1955 -- Marianne Moore, hired by the Ford to name the car eventually called "Edsel", suggests Utopian Turtletop. Ford sends her a dozen roses. http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~slatin/20c_poetry/projects/lives/mm.html http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/6168/ 1961 -- England: Committee of 100, including Bertrand Russell, hold demonstrations at various U.S. air & nuclear bases. http://www.mcmaster.ca/russdocs/russell.htm http://www.zpub.com/notes/aan-read.html 1981 US: Black Philadelphia journalist & activist Mumia Abu-Jamal is arrested & charged with the killing of a Philadelphia policeman. "If Mumia Abu-Jamal has nothing important to say, why are so many powerful people trying to shut him up?" --- John Edgar Wideman, author, Philadelphia Fire See Terry Bisson's Newsday article: http://www.sff.net/people/tbisson/MUMIA.html & http://www.mumia.org/ "There are many trials . . . in which the victim was already condemned to death before the trial took place, & it took place only to cover up the real meaning: the accused was to be put to death . . . the trial is just a mask for murder." ---Katherine Anne Porter, The Never-Ending Wrong Among the irregularities: Evidence disappears, witnesses are intimidated by police, police officers change their testimony to fit the official line, & the prosecutor will eventually be the judge considering Mumia's appeal of his death sentence. Phillie's Police Guild mounts an unprecedented media campaign to assure his execution. http://mojo.calyx.net/~refuse/mumia/index.html 1983 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader & Well-Fed Attorney General Edwin Meese says people go to soup kitchens "...because the food is free & that's easier than paying for it...I think that they have money." Of the 26 million people served through Second Harvest, the national food banking network: 62% are women 37% are children under age 18 39% of households have at least one adult who is working Nearly 60% have no car More than 24% have no facilities for cooking, such as a stove or oven Over a third had to choose between food & rent 1991 -- Maurice Joyeux, outstanding figure of French anarchism, dies. Radio federation Libertarian, the libertarian world, etc on the Web: http://federation-anarchiste.org http://perso.club-internet.fr/ytak/janvier4.html#29 1994 -- Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders resigns after her masturbation comments are criticized by jerk offs. May is "National Masturbation Month," & May 7 is "National Masturbation Day." Some pundits suggest we all form a circle & celebrate this seminal event. http://www.proaxis.com/~solo/showoff.htm "Humour is the essential ingredient of a democratic society" http://www.retroweb.com/prisoner.html#maxims ---anti-Melted the Glue Off the Spine, 2000
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