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 --- anti-CopyRite 2000-3000, more or less... "Better than Boiled Coffee!" Use'em or lose'em
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