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Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 11:20:09 -0700
From: David Brown <recall-AT-eskimo.com>
Subject: Daily Bleed: 5/13 HELEN NEARING


Web thing: http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/0513.htm

excerpts:

MAY 13

HELEN NEARING
Back-to-the-land dropout advocate, race activist.
http://www.tilburyhouse.com/nearing.htm

Ancient Anatolian festival of PURULLIYAS commemorates legend of
conquest of dragon Illuyankas by the Weather God controlling
rainfall over the dragon of drought & flood. Connected with
European folk customs linking Rogation Day, Ascension & St.
George's Day.

LEPRECHAUN DAY.

KIRTLAND'S WARBLER DAY.


1501 - Amerigo Vespucci departs Lisbon on the voyage that gets
the New World named after him.

1665 - A statute is enacted in Rhode Island, offering freemanship
with no specifically Christian requirements, thus effectively
enfranchising Jews.

1794 - Whiskey Rebellion begins in western Pennsylvania.
Tax collector tarred & feathered during rebellion.
Robert Benchley, when told drinking & smoking are "slow poison":

"So? Who's in a hurry?"
http://www.ideasign.com/chiliast/pdocs/whisky.htm

1828 - The absurdly high "Tariff of Abominations," to the
surprise & horror of the Jackson supporters who framed it as a
political ruse, is passed by Congress, & subsequently wreaks
havoc with the nation's economy.

1840 - Alphonse Daudet lives (1840-1897), Nîimes. French writer,
remembered for stories of southern France. Wrote ^ÓLetters from My

Mill^Ô & ^ÓThe Prodigious Adventures of Tartarin of Tarascon^Ô.
Lived his last years in prosperity & fame but suffered
consequences of venereal disease.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/daudet.htm

1842 - Popular British opera creator Sir Arthur Sullivan lives.

1842 - Anti-American?: A "People's Government," organized by
reformer Thomas Dorr, attempts to seize power in Rhode Island by
capturing the arsenal at Providence, but is repulsed when the
incumbent regime calls out the militia.

1846 - U.S. Congress declares war on Mexico. With victory the US
annexes Mexico's northern half, including much of what is now
California, Arizona, New Mexico, & Texas, to satisfy Southern
political pressure to add new slave-owning states.

1886 - US: NY State commission named to report on humane &
practical methods of execution. Some believe NY City police's
present-day  tendency towards summary execution has
possibilities.

1888 - Brazil, which imported more African slaves than any other
Western Hemisphere country (including the U.S.), abolishes
slavery.

1893 - Crackpot, flagpole-sitting champion Alvin "Shipwreck"
Kelly lives.

1893 - Western Federation of Miners (WFM) organized.

1906 - Willa Cather becomes an editor for muckraking ^ÓMcClure's
Magazine^Ô.  http://icg.fas.harvard.edu/~cather/

1907 - Daphne du Maurier lives (1907-1989). English
novelist/playwright best known for her novel ^ÓRebecca^Ô (1938),
filmed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1940. She describes writing a book
as "a purge; at the end of it one is empty . . . like a dry shell
on the beach, waiting for the tide to come in again."
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/dumaurie.htm

1931 - A Wild & Crazy Guy: Jim Jones, Kool Aid Reverend,  lives.
Jonestown's images persist: 914 suicides & murder victims swollen
& stacked like lengths of wood; a metal vat on a platform with
purple, cyanide-laced Kool-Aid at its bottom.

1937 - Roger Zelazny (aka Harrison Denmark) (1937-1995) lives. A
prominent American "new wave" science fiction writer along with
P.K. Dick, Samuel Delany, Thomas Disch, Ursula K. LeGuin & Harlan
Ellison. His abiding interest in magic, myths & dreams appear in
early books such as This Immortal, Lord of Light, The Dream
Master, & The Doors of His Face, which are among his best.

 "I had been . . . crossing & recrossing the line between sanity
& madness so many times that I had all but rubbed it out."

--Corwin, Prince of Amber, in The Guns of Avalon, by Roger
Zelazny
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/zelazny.htm

1950 - 'Tis Wonderful, "Tis Marvelous?: Steveland Morris Hardaway
lives, prematurely. Too much oxygen in the incubator left him
permanently blind. Not a handicap to Steveland's musical talents
as a singer, songwriter & multi-instrumentalist. At the tender
age of ten, Little Stevie Wonder -- as he was called by Berry
Gordy at Motown -- was discovered singing & playing the
harmonica.

1954 - Natives of Marshall Islands plead for an end to H-Bomb
testing. Probably all commie-dupes.

1957 - Wasson's mushroom article appears in ^ÓLife^Ô magazine.

1958 - Rockin Good Time?: Beloved & Respected Comrade
Leader Dick M Nixon's motorcade greeted with rocks & bottles,
Caracas, Venezuela. Hundreds of anti-US demonstrators hurl
melon-size rocks at his limo.

Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President Eisenhower
immediately orders four companies of Marines & paratroopers to
Caribbean bases to back White House demands that Venezuela
guarantee Nixon's safety.  The Trickster & the King trade "too
stoned" on the road tales.

1960 - Students hold "sit-in" against "red-hunting". Protests
against HUAC turn into violent stand-off with cops. Includes
Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Abbie Hoffman. San Francisco
police attack students protesting a local hearing of the House
Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC).

^ÓMany writers continued their Hollywood careers under pseudonyms,
or "fronts," sometimes with comic results. Alfred Levitt, for
example, screenwriter of The Boy with Green Hair (1948), relates
how a story conference got off on the wrong foot when he was
addressed by four different names."
http://www.moderntimes.com/palace/blacklist.htm
http://www.weeklywire.com/ww/11-17-97/boston_books_2.html
http://www.chireader.com/movies/archives/0896/08096a.html

1961 - On Stand-by?: Police watch while counter-protesters beat
pro-Castro "Fair Play for Cuba" demonstrators in downtown
Seattle.

1967 - Blacks riot in San Francisco's Playland by the Pacific,
while the Diggers host a "love feast" in Haight-Ashbury.

1968 - France '68: The Sorbonne is occupied by students &
others in the May upheaval. This is the first in the series of
occupations which last throughout the month & into June. Today
discontent with the government spreads into the labor force &
workers began joining in the protest with a series of strikes &
factory occupations.

PARIS POLICE opened fire when students attacked a police van
which had knocked down several of them in the Place Deufert-
Rochereau. Negotiations between the North Vietnamese had begun.
Both sides seemed prepared for a long stay. Essex University
virtually declared itself independent. A meeting of 1,000, both
staff and students, voted to set up a 'free university'. Students
from the French Academy in London demonstrated in sympathy with
their compatriots. Force was used to evict 40 Gypsy families at
Forest Road, Redbridge near London. Their caravans were forced
open with crowbars & they were pulled out.

The strike by French students & workers leads to General Strike
by 10 million workers.

1970 - Houston, Texass: Listener-sponsored radio station KPFT's
transmitter is blown up by person(s) unknown.

1974 - Over 50 people are hurt when youths start hurling bottles
outside a Jackson 5 concert at RFK Stadium in Washington D.C. 43
are arrested.

1977 - Mohawk end three-year occupation of Ganienkeh "Land of
Flint" in Adirondack Mountains, in exchange for 5,700 acres
elsewhere in New York.

1981 - In St. Peter's Square, Rome, Turkish terrorist Mehmet Ali
Agca, 23, shot & seriously wounded Pope John Paul II in an
assassination attempt.

TV viewers jam the switchboards of stations across America to
complain that their soap operas & game shows have been preempted
by coverage of the shooting of Pope John Paul II.

1985 - A long-running confrontation between Philadelphia police &
a radical black cult called MOVE comes to a head when mayor
Wilson Goode orders its headquarters bombed. The resulting blaze
destroys 61 homes, killing 11. Says one resident, "MOVE in its
wildest day never perpetrated anything on our block like what
Wilson Goode did."

               The mayor defends his strategy as
               "perfect, except for the fire."


1989 - Tasmanian Devils?: Greens gain balance of power in House
of Assembly, Tasmania.

1990 - Robert Jospin (1899-1990) dies. French socialist & also a
pacifist & one-time libertarian. A speaker of talent, deeply
affected by WWI, he gave many speeches as secretary of the Ligue
Internationale des combattants de la paix. Jospin was arrested in
1942 for helping the Resistance.

The libertarian scenario writer Bernard Baissat,  devoted a film to
him just before his death. Robert Jospin was also the father of
the current politician Lionel Jospin.
http://perso.club-internet.fr/ytak/mai2.html#13

1991 - Apple releases Macintosh System 7.0.  Beloved & Respected
Comrade Leader Chairman Bill Gates said "That's it, I quit!"

Now you too can pie Bill, get a Pie Bill Screensaver, play the
game, watch the movie, etc, at the Pie Bill Gates Web Ring:
http://www.fortunecity.com/underworld/dukenukem/204/index.html

1992 - Ecuador's government grants 148 native communities legal
title to more than three million acres (slightly less than the
size of the state of Washington) in the Amazon Basin.

1993 - Eight African-American protesters are indicted in
Chattanooga, Tennessee, for participating in a demonstration at
the unveiling of a memorial for Chattanooga police. The
demonstration was in protest of the failure of a local grand jury
to bring charges against a policeman who choked to death an
African-American motorist, Larry Powell.


Hackers?:

                 "There are a thousand hacking
                 at the branches of evil to one who
                 is striking at the root."

                    --- Henry David Thoreau, ^ÓWalden^Ô


Auntie-BranchesOfEvil 2001



   

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