Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 01:36:22 -0700
From: David Brown <recall-AT-eskimo.com>
Subject: Daily Rub: 5/14 EDMUND HUSSERL


Web version, 56 entries in full:
http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/0514.htm

Excerpts:

A motley flush passed lightly over the marble man; raising
Korotkov's hand delicately, he drew him toward a little table,
reiterating, "I'm very glad, too. But here's the rub, imagine it
-- I don't even have a place where you can sit down. We're being
kept in a pen in spite of our significance.

--- Mikhail Bulgakov, “Diaboliad” p30

MAY 14

EDMUND HUSSERL
Great phenomenological philosopher, prophet of the coming crisis
in Western civilization.

UNDERGROUND AMERICA DAY.

INDEPENDENCE DAY:  Paraguay.


1080 - Massacre of Bishop Walcher of Lorraine & his retinue.

1265 - Italian poet Dante Alighieri lives (1265-1321). Best known
for the epic poem “Commedia”. When a splendid edition was
published in 1555, the adjective divine was applied to the poem's
title, & thus the work became “La divina commedia.”. Exact date
of birth seems to vary, possibly tomorrow or May 29th based on
other sources.

        "The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who,
         in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality."

http://www.nd.edu/~italnet/Dante/
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/dante.htm

1686 - Gabriel Fahrenheit, physicist: developed measure of
temperature, lives.

1771 - Industrialist utopianist Robert Owen lives, Wales.

1802 - Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President Thomas
Jefferson launches Meriwether Lewis & William Clark on an
expedition across the Great Plains, over the Rockies & to the
Pacific Ocean. Their guide was Sacajawea, an American Indian
woman.

The good relationships with the Indians that Lewis & Clark
encounter are due in large part to the only woman on the
expedition, Sacajawea, a Shoshone & wife of one of their guides,
Toussaint Charbonneau. In addition to her role as interpreter &
guide, Sacajawea does do all the expedition's laundry & cooking.
The men also count on her for their medical care because of her
herb knowledge.

In Idaho, Lewis & Clark name a river for her, the "Sah-ca-ger-we-
ah or Bird Woman's River, after our interpreter the Snake woman."

The river is now known as the Snake River.

At the close of the journey, Charbonneau is paid for his
services. Sacajawea receives nothing.

1812 - Luddites involved in Loughborough Market riot.

“If our world survives, the next great challenge to watch out for
will come -- you heard it here first -- when the curves of
research & development in artificial intelligence, molecular
biology & robotics all converge. Oboy. It will be amazing &
unpredictable, & even the biggest of brass, let us devoutly hope,
are going to be caught flat-footed. It is certainly
something for all good Luddites to look forward to if, God
willing, we should live so long. Meantime, as Americans, we can
take comfort, however minimal & cold, from Lord Byron's
mischievously improvised song, in which he, like other observers
of the time, saw clear identification between the first Luddites
& our own revolutionary origins. It begins:

   As the Liberty lads o'er the sea
   Bought their freedom, and cheaply, with blood,
   So we, boys, we
   Will die fighting, or live free,
   And down with all kings but King Ludd!

        ---Thomas Pynchon , “Is It O.K. to Be a Luddite?”
        http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/reflect/luddite.html

Bob Black, see:
 ftp://etext.archive.umich.edu/pub/Politics/Spunk/texts/writers/black/sp000156.txt

>The Abolition of Work

ftp://etext.archive.umich.edu/pub/Politics/Spunk/texts/writers/black/sp001647.html

>Technophilia, an Infantile Disorder

John Zerzan, see
http://www.spunk.org/library/writers/zerzan/sp001184.txt
>Technology
http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/zertime.html >Time & Its
Discontents
 http://www.subsitu.com/kr/fpjz.htm  >Future Primitive
 http://www.subsitu.com/kr/futurep.htm  >On the
Transition (postscript to Future Primitive)

1849 - Ireland: Black Rain.

1856 - Who's Running This Joint?: Beloved & Respected Comrade
Leader President Franklin Pierce unofficially "recognized" the
government of American adventurer William Walker, who had set
himself up as the proslavery dictator of Nicaragua. Walker was
later deposed after he interfered with Cornelius Vanderbilt's
transportation network.

1856 - Daily Bleed Competitor?: The editor of the San Francisco
Daily Evening Bulletin was assassinated by a rival newspaper
owner. A vigilante group seized the assassin from the sheriff, &
tried, convicted, & executed him.

1856 - Packin' Heat?: Camels first imported in Texass for use as
pack animals.

1874 - Academic Goals?: McGill University & Harvard meet at
Cambridge, Massachusetts, for the first college football game to
charge admission. Making it worthwhile for ticket buyers, this
was also the first time that a goalpost was used at both ends of
the playing field.  http://www.tmtm.com/sides/andyt.html

1878 - Trademarked name "Vaseline" -- for a brand of petroleum
jelly -- is registered this day by Robert A. Chesebrough.

1891 - Mihail Bulgakov lives. Russian journalist, playwright,
novelist, & short-story writer, whose major work, a Gogolesque
fantasy, The Master & Margarita, was published posthumously in
the Soviet Union in 1966-67 in a censored form.
His works enjoyed great popularity, but criticism of the Soviet
system left him rarely published by 1930. Also wrote The White
Guard, The Heart of a Dog, & biographies of Pushkin & Ivan the
Terrible.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/bulgakov.htm

1900 - Nature writer Hal Borland lives, Sterling, Colorado.

1912 - August Strindberg dies. Wrote bold & concentrated dramatic
works combining naturalism with his own conception of
psychology.
 Emma Goldman on Strindberg,
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/goldman/socsig/socsigtoc.html

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/strindbe.htm

1919 - Lytton Strachey meets T.S. Eliot,  finding the poet
"rather ill & rather American .... But by no means to be
sniffed at."
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/9824/

1928 - Journalist Dorothy Thompson marries Sinclair Lewis in a
civil ceremony in London.
http://www2.clever.net/quistory/qih/thompson.htm

1930 - Wladyslaw Orkan, dies in Krokó. Polish writer, describes
the exploitation of the poor by wealthy farmers.

1932 -- "We Want Beer" marches are held in cities all over
America, with 15,000 unionized workers
demonstrating in Detroit.

1937 - Duke Ellington & his band records the classic, "Caravan",
for Brunswick Records.

1940 - Death of feminist anarchist Emma Goldman (1869-1940) while
in Toronto, Canada raising money for anti-Franco forces in Spain.
Outspoken birth control advocate & champion of
women's rights. Wrote “My Disillusionment in Russia; Living My
Life; Anarchism & Other Essays; The Place of the Individual in
Society”. See also “Vision on Fire: Emma Goldman” edited by David
Porter. Left fielder for the 1998 Armageddonia Anarchists
baseball team.

     "If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution."

After growing up in the US, then deported by the government
during the Red Scare years, she has been banned from the country
(called the "land of the free" by some), since 1931, except for a
brief visit in 1934. Anti-anarchist laws are still used to
prevent certain people from entering the US with their tainted
foreign ideas. Her death finally allowed her a visa back into the
US, where she was buried in Waldheim Cemetery, next to the
Haymarket Martyrs in Chicago.

Goldman:
http://sunsite.Berkeley.EDU/Goldman/ >The Emma Goldman Papers
http://www.pitzer.edu:80/~dward/Anarchist_Archives/goldman/goldmanindivsoc.html

>The Place of the Individual in Society, by Emma Goldman
ftp://etext.archive.umich.edu/pub/Politics/Spunk/texts/writers/goldman/sp000064.txt

>Patriotism: A Menace to Liberty, by Emma Goldman
ftp://etext.archive.umich.edu/pub/Politics/Spunk/texts/writers/goldman/sp000063.txt

>Minorities versus Majorities, by Emma Goldman
http://www.pitzer.edu:80/~dward/Anarchist_Archives/goldman/livingmylife.html

>excerpt from Living My Life, by Emma Goldman
http://home4.swipnet.se/~w-40997/emma.htm

Karl Shapiro's early poem, "Death of Emma Goldman," described
that passionate anarchist, "dark conscience of the family" (her
own and humanity's), with gentle appreciation. At the same time, it
reviled
the people who, after her death, called her  immoral because she never
married her lover, Alexander Berkman:

         Triumphant at the final breath,
         Their senile God, their cops,
         All the authorities and friends pro tem
         Passing her pillow, keeping her concerned.
         But the cowardly obit was already written:
         Morning would know she was a common slut.

          --- Karl Shapiro, "Death of Emma Goldman,"
          from Person, Place, & Thing (1942)

1941 - US: First groups of WWII conscientious objectors (COs)
ordered to report to camp at Patapsco, Maryland.

1942 - Bottoms Up?: Famed actor, John Barrymore, rehearses a
sketch with Rudy Vallee for a scene that refers to the actor's
possible death from excessive drinking. Two weeks later, to the
day, he died from complications brought about by -- surprise --
overdrinking.

1943 - Jack Bruce, "Get down to basics",  lives, Lanarkshire,
Scotland.

1954 - In Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (Kansas), U.S.
Supreme Court rules "separate but equal" public education
unconstitutional.

1956 - “Anglo-Saxon Attitudes” by Angus Wilson is published.

1961 - US: Bus with the first group of Freedom Riders is bombed &
burned in Alabama. Segregationists attack & burn the "Freedom
Rider" Greyhound bus near Anniston. (Bob Dylan writes "Ballad of
Emmett Till.")

"Then they rolled his body down a gulf amidst a bloody red rain
And they threw him in the waters wide to cease his screaming
pain.
The reason that they killed him there, and I'm sure it ain't no
lie,
Was just for the fun of killin' him and to watch him slowly die..."

        ---Bob Dylan, Ballad of Emmett Till.

1966 - The Kingsmen's "Louie Louie" on pop charts since '63,
enters the Hot 100 for the ninth & last time with a re-released
version. Incites controversy over its unintelligible, but assumed
obscene lyrics.

 "Smash your left hand down about right here three times, then
 twice up in this area, then three times right about here . . .
 that's "Louie Louie."

1968 - Paris '68: Sorbonne students occupy & open the University
to the population, inviting "the workers to come & discuss with
them the problems of the University". All demonstrators who were
arrested have been released. Between May 13-30 similar events &
demonstrations are inspired, bringing daily life in the modern
industrial countries & authority itself into question -- in
Madrid, Rome, Berlin, NY, & Czechoslovakia (during "Prague
Spring").

    "Be realistic. Demand the Impossible!"

    "Beneath the paving stones, the beach!"

A slogan on the wall of the University of Paris at the Sorbonne
expressed the mood: "Thanks to teachers & examinations,
careerism begins at age six."

There is a story told about how at 4 in the morning on the "night
of the barricades," several students phoned up George Séguy, head
of the General Trade Union Confederation (CGT), led by the PCF, &
told him:

   "We can't hold out. We need the proletarians to come &
   help us."

   "One does not mobilize the working class at this time
   of night," Séguy reportedly replied.

1968 - France '68: Workplace occupations start. A significant
aspect of the May Upheaval. By the end of this month over
10,000,000 workers are involved in occupations. In Nantes, the
workmen of South-Aviation, begin the first occupations of
factories.  See the “Anarchist Encyclopedia”,
http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/sinners/Paris6814th.htm >
Paris '68, May 14th.

1969 - Last Chevrolet Corvair is produced. This car launched
Ralph Nader into the spotlight with his expose, “Unsafe at Any
Speed.”

1969 - US: Police build fence around People's Park in Berkeley,
California, tonight.

                         NOT PEOPLE'S PARK
                         PEOPLE'S PLANET, CAN THEY
                         FENCE THAT ONE IN, BULLDOZE IT
                         4 A.M.?

                         --- Diane di Prima, Revolutionary Letter #38

1974 - Only Group Riding Their Hearst Before the Funeral?:
Symbionese Liberation Army destroyed in shoot-out, 6 killed.

"Death to the fascist insect that preys upon the working masses."

1976 - Former Yardbirds lead singer/co-founder Renaissance Keith
Relf, 33, is electrocuted in his West London home. Found
alongside a plugged-in electric guitar by his eight year old son.

1980 - Some 600 Salvadoran refugees are killed attempting to
cross the Sumpul River from El Salvador to Honduras by government
troops from both countries.

1984 - US returns Waadah & Tatoosh Islands, off the Olympic
Peninsula, to the Makah Nation.

1987 - Closet Commie?: Former Reagan National Security Advisor
Robert McFarlane is asked why he failed to protest foolhardy
administration policy. "If I'd done that," he explains, "Bill
Casey, Jeane Kirkpatrick & Cap Weinberger would have said I was
some kind of Commie."  http://members.tripod.com/~RUDOLFABEL/

1994 - The South Will Rise Again?: Georgia & Abkhazia agree to a
cease-fire.

1995 -- England: First London RTS street party - met at the Rainbow
Centre (a squatted church at Kentish Town) & partied in Camden.
http://www.gn.apc.org/rts/imlib.htm

1999 -- US: Seattle Spoonster, Artis the Spoonman, plays The Moore
Theater with KVHW.

               All my friends are Indians
               All my friends are brown & red, Spoonman
               All my friends are skeletons
               They beat the rhythm with their bones, Spoonman

               Feel the rhythm with your hands
               Steal the rhythm while you can, Spoonman

                    --- Soundgarden

http://www.sgi.net/soundgarden/songs/9703/
http://www.brysdyes.com/concerts99/kvh/kvhw.htm
http://www.dead.net/cavenweb/hulogosi/artis.html

2000 -- Karl Shapiro, American poet, professor & Pulitzer Prize-winner
in 1945, dies. He was 86.

           "I am an atheist who says his prayers. I am an anarchist, &
                     a full professor at that. I take the loyalty oath."

                         --- Karl Shapiro, "The Bourgeois Poet"

(See also the poem above, 1940, on the "Death of Emma Goldman")


        "Fighting against the government is like fanning the
         flames of a dying fire"


                               --- John Cage


--- Auntie-Fire 2001