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Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 08:45:51 -0700
From: David Brown <recall-AT-eskimo.com>
Subject: Daily Bleed: 4/22  NICOLA SACCO


Web version, 53 entries, in full,
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0422.htm

Excerpts:

APRIL 22 --  NICOLA SACCO
Italian-American anarchist executed with partner
Bartolomeo Vanzetti, wrote stunning letters from prison.

FESTIVAL OF FABULOUS ANDROGYNES.


1348 -- Edward III, King of England, retrieves the Garter
of the Countess of Salisbury, & remarks "Shame be to him
who thinks evil of it," thus beginning the Order of the
Garter & Sororities.

1707 -- Henry Fielding lives (1707-1754). British writer,
playwright, journalist, founder of the English
Realistic school in literature with Samuel Richardson.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/hfieldin.htm

1724 -- Immanuel Kant lives (1724-1804), Königsberg.
German philosopher/professor.

Kant's habits were so regular people used to check their
watches when as walked past their houses -- the only
time his schedule changed was while reading Rousseau's
Emile, & he forgot his walk.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ikant.htm

1870 -- Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Russian
Soviet Marxist Vladimir Lenin, Patron Saint of the
Fremont district in Seattle, Washington, lives.
This statue -- rescued from Eastern Europe, after
"falling" over -- now stands  just a few blocks from
BleedMeister Auntie Dave's house, in Gus Hellthaler's
backyard:
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/lenin.jpg

1873 -- Ellen Glasgow lives, Richmond. Pulitzer Prize-
winning novelist whose realistic depiction of life in
Virginia steered Southern literature away from
sentimentality & nostalgia.

1873 -- France: Luigi Lucheni lives. An adherent of
"propaganda by the deed," he killed the impératrice
Elisabeth of Austria.
http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/sinners/LucheniLuigi.htm

1893 -- Nicolo Sacco lives. Italian-American anarchist
accused of robbery & murder. His friend & associate,
Bartolomeo Vanzetti, strapped into the electric chair,
said,

"I wish to tell you that I am an innocent man. I never
committed any crime but sometimes some sin.
I wish to forgive some people for what they are
now doing to me."

They both spoke nobly at the end, left a great heritage of
love, devotion, faith, & courage, believing the time
would come that no human being should be humiliated
or be made abject.

Vanzetti further noted that for him, as for both, if it had
not been for "these thing" he might have lived out his
life talking at street corners to scorning men, died
unmarked, unknown, a failure:

           "Now, we are not a failure.

           This is our career & our triumph.

Never in our full life could we hope to do such work
for tolerance, for justice, for man's understanding of
man as now we do by accident. Our words--our lives--
our pains--nothing! The taking of our lives--lives of a
good shoemaker & a poor fish peddler--all!

        That last moment belongs to us --
        that agony is our triumph."

http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/oj/porterf.htm
http://home.earthlink.net/~dwgsht/sacco.html

1898 -- Adrien Perrissaguet (1898-1972) lives, Limoges.
Founder of "L'association des fédéralistes anarchistes"
& the weekly magazine "The Libertarian Voice" & "Combat
syndicaliste". An activist in the Sacco & Vanzetti
committee, he also fought in the Spanish Revolution of
1936 & was a member of the French Resistance during WWII.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/sinners/PerrissaguetAdrien.htm

1899 -- Kate Chopin publishes The Awakening, early
feminist novel.

1911 -- US: Emma Goldman speaks in Salt Lake City,
Utah, April 22-26.

1915 -- First modern military use of poison gas: Germany
uses chlorine gas during WWI at the Franco-Belgian border.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/special_report/1998/10/98/world_war_i/newsid_197000/197437.stm

1922 -- Ah, Um: Pork Pie Hat Chef great Charles Mingus
lives, Beneath the Underdog, Nogales, Arizona.
http://www.mingusmingusmingus.com/mingusbio.html
http://www.duke.edu/~swn/

1922 -- India: Bengal Trade Union Conference convenes,
one of the country's first.

1930 -- Jeppe Aakjaer dies in Jenle. Wrote of harsh
conditions endured by farm laborers but is best known
for poetry, especially the collection Fri felt (Free
Fields, 1905) & Rugens sange (Songs of the Rye, 1906).

1932 -- Germany: Emma Goldman arrives back in Berlin,
where she learns that CBS has canceled her planned radio
broadcast, fearing that it will be interpreted as an effort
on her part to reenter the "Land of the Free". Can't have that.

1943 -- US: First UAW-CIO contract at NAA.

1944 -- US: Sit-in by 200 blacks results in
desegregation of restaurants in Washington, D.C.

1952 -- US: First atmospheric bomb test --
Yucca (YUKK -- Kah) Flat, Nevada.

1955 -- Pennies From Heaven?: Congress orders
all US coins bear motto "In God We Trust"

1956 -- Rebecca West writes of her profession in the
New York Herald Tribune:

         "Journalism -- an ability to meet the challenge
         of filling the space."

1963 -- (F)Redism: Secretary of State Rusk states that
South Vietnam, under Diem, was "steadily moving
toward a constitutional system resting upon popular
consent."

   Six months later, South Vietnamese generals,
   charging Diem had "trampled on the people's rights,"
   seized power in a coup "encouraged" by the U.S.
   http://www.bev.net/computer/htmlhelp/vietnam.html

1968 -- Tlatelolco treaty for denuclearizing Latin
America comes into force.

1969 -- US: City College of NY closed after black &
Puerto Rican students lock selves inside asking
higher minority enrollment.

1970 -- First Earth Day observed. Millions of US citizens
participate in anti-pollution demonstrations & events.
Corporate sponsorships to hide their real practices
were notably absent.

  "We really wanted to join in the first Earth Day.
  It meant we got to get out of school. We spent maybe
  20 minutes picking up trash near the High School &
  since then absolutely nothing. People see earth day
  events sound/photo bits on the news & delude
  themselves that "something" is getting done."

1970 -- US sends war ships to Caribbean island of
Trinidad to "protect American citizens" during
unrest against the U.S.-backed government.

1972 -- US: 50,000 in New York City & 30,000 in
San Francisco march against the war in
Vietnam/Southeast Asia.
http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Resources/Primary.html

1978 -- Bob Marley & the Wailers perform at the One
Love Peace Concert in Jamaica. It was Marley's first
public appearance in Jamaica since being wounded in an
assassination attempt a year & a half earlier.
http://www.bobmarley.com/life/

1985 -- US: Hundreds arrested at White House
demonstration against U.S. policy in Central America.

1990 -- Day the Earth Stood Still?: The people of
Guilford County, North Carolina get their
priorities in order:

       They postpone the celebration
       of Earth Day 1990 from this date to April 28th
       so as not to interfere with the Kmart Greater
       Greensboro Open Golf Tournament.

1992 -- Yugoslavia: 60,000 attend anti-war rock concert,
Belgrade, Serbia.

1993 -- US: Holocaust Museum dedicated, Washington,
D.C. Rightwing-think tanks, who know there was no
Holocaust, seethe.

1995 -- Gray Panther Maggie Kuhn dies, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.

1995 -- Hey, NATO?: San Francisco police, in an
equitable swap, trade computers for handguns.

2000 -- US: Seattle songster Baby Gramps plays
San Francisco's Atlas Cafe.

"He’s entertained everywhere from the streets &
medicine shows to Bob Dylan's dressing room. In this
day & age, seeing the Seattle based
singer-songwriter-guitarist who calls himself Baby
Gramps is the closest you’ll ever get to experiencing
Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music in
person. He sings in a voice that is somewhere
between Cliff "Ukulele Ike" Edwards’s & Blind Willie
Johnson’s, & his style evokes long dead pickers such
as Charlie Patton & Riley Puckett. He plays with metal
finger-picks on a battered National Steel that at last
count had four useable frets left on it & an old clamp
wrench holding one of the tuning pegs on. With a
long, flowing beard & mannerisms that recall early
Popeye, Baby Gramps is something of a national
treasure, the final repository of an entire era of
pop culture. Gramps draws from thousands of
Paleozoic jazz, blues, hillbilly, & pop tunes. He is
a genuine eccentric talent, an old-time songster
& an incredible entertainer."

                            --Time Out

With a repertoire that blends challenging Dylan covers
such as "Love Minus Zero/No Limit" with cartoon like
anthems like "A Heart Warming Medley of Worm Songs,"
Gramps tends to coerce an audiences mind to wander
toward unexpected territory. Notorious for word play
such songs as "Palindromes," "Anagrams," & "Aptonyms".

http://www.pauserecord.com/events/Baby_Gramps_400.html
http://www.hypnotic-clambake.com/Gramps.html
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/archive/042800/musicreva_042800.html


                The trial of Jesus of Nazareth, the trial &
                rehabilitation of  Joan of Arc, any one of the
                witchcraft trials in Salem during 1691, the
                Moscow trials of 1937 during which Stalin
                destroyed all of the founders of the 1924 Soviet
                Revolution, the Sacco-Vanzetti trial of 1920
                through 1927--there are many trials such as
                these 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.

                These are trials in which the judge, the counsel,
                the jury, & the witnesses are the criminals, not
                the accused. For any believer in capital
                punishment, the fear of an honest mistake on
                the part of all concerned is cited as the main
                argument against the final terrible decision to
                carry out the death sentence.

                There is the frightful possibility in all such
                trials as these that the judgment has already
                been pronounced & the trial is just a mask
                for murder.

                               --- Katherine Anne Porter,
                               The Never-Ending Wrong

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