Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 10:38:32 -0700
From: "David Brown, Recollection" <recall-AT-eskimo.com>
Subject: Daily Insurrection: 6/17 EMILIANO AGUINALDO




Web upheaval: http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/0617.htm

Text excerpts:

The day recounts itself backwards.
At the bus-stop this morning
I was thinking how simple it sometimes actually is
just to set things in motion

--Peter Didsbury, “The Seventeenth of June “

JUNE 17

EMILIANO AGUINALDO
Leader of insurrectionary forces for Philippine liberation

Milwaukee: HOMEBREWERS BEER COMPETITION.

Iceland: REPUBLIC DAY. (Where the beer is always on ice)

PIRATE RADIO DAY.
See MoocsterJesseWalker's <a
href=http://www.curtin.edu.au/curtin/dept/6nr/cbaa/1781.html>Rebe
l Radio article; <a
href=http://mediafilter.org/shadow/S44/s44radio.html>Steal This
Radio is of interest; <a
href=http://burn.ucsd.edu/~mai/microwatt.html> & Mid-Atlantic
InfoShop, an excellent jump-off point with many links.


1808 - Henrik Wergeland lives. Norway´s national poet, symbol of
independence who opposed pro-Danish "intelligentsija". Lectured,
distributed books, founded journals, established lending
libraries. Defender of the rights of Jews to settle in Norway, as
typified in his poem “The Jew. “
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/wergelan.htm

1838 - US: Cherokee Indians begin Trail of Tears -- 1,200 mile
forced march to Oklahoma. (Or May 23rd?)


     Gold was discovered on
     their territory  4000 Cherokees die when 17,000 of them are
     forced west by President Jackson's Indian Removal bill, the
     culmination of his efforts to exterminate them. Jackson was
     also
     a notorious land speculator, slave trader & bribe-artist.
     evacuation was carried out, during the winter of 1838-9, by
     federal troops commanded by General Winfield Scott.  Along the

     way, 10% of the tribe was wiped out by disease, fatigue, &
     exposure.

     http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/trailtea.htm

1867 - Henry Lawson lives, Grenfell, Australia. Wrote short
stories & ballad-like verse. Noted for realistic portrayals of
bush life, based on his wanderings.
http://winsoft.net.au/~gps/home_page.html

1871 - Black American writer James Weldon Johnson lives.

1876 - Encampment of Lakota & Cheyenne led by Crazy Horse
attacked by, & subsequently routes, U.S. army soldiers. Rosebud,
South Dakota.

1876 - Italy:  Bologna trial ends, after three months' duration.
Endless months of preliminary arrest had been followed by a
series of monster trials, (Florence, Perguia, Leghorn, Massa
Carrara, etc).  But the Marches & the Abruzzi (Aquila) prisoners
were tried with the Bolognese & Romagnols in the largest of all
trials, that of Bologna - March 15 to June 17, 1876 -- where
Costa was the leading spirit.
http://www.pitzer.edu/~dward/Anarchist_Archives/malatesta/nettlau/nettlauonmalatesta.html

http://burn.ucsd.edu/~anow/ppl/rev/malatesta/bio.html

1882 - Igor Stravinsky, composer, lives,  Oranienbaum, Russia.

1895 - George MacLeod, pastor, pacifist & founder of Iona
Community in Scotland, lives.

1903 - Mary Harris "Mother" Jones leads a rally in Philadelphia
to focus public attention on children mutilated in the state's
textile mills.


     Mother Jones was called to assist a strike by 75,000 textile
     workers in Kensington, Pennsylvania. The strikers include
     10,000
     small children, who Jones says (quote) "came into Union
     Headquarters, some with their hands off, some with the thumb
     missing, some with their little fingers off at the knuckle."

     Mother Jones confronts reporters who say they cannot publish
     the
     facts because the millowners have stock in the papers. Jones
     also
     will take an army of the children on a march to New York City.

     Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President Theodore
     Roosevelt
     refuses to see her or answer her letters, but the marchers
     receive national attention &, despite a defeat in Kensington,
     Pennsylvania legislators pass a child-labor law, setting 14 as

     the earliest age a child can work in a factory.

1907 -- US: Equality Colony in Washington State
(name changed to Freeland) closes.

1911 - James Cameron, inspired foreign correspondent, lives.
His first job as a journalist is in Dundee. Also visited & wrote
on Vietnam War.

1913 - US: Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) sitdown strike
at Studebaker auto plant.
http://iww.org/labor/

1914 - John Hersey lives, Tientsin, China. Wrote “Hiroshima; The
Wall.”  http://jhhs.dist214.k12.il.us/

1917 - Gwendolyn Brooks lives, Topeka, Kansas. Poet/novelist &
the first black to win a Pulitzer Prize, in 1950 for “Annie
Allen. “  http://members.aol.com/bonvibre/rmp0a.html

1923 - Kurt Wilckens (1886-1923) dies after being murdered in his
prison cell yesterday by a rightwing guard.
German anarchist, member of the Industrial Workers of the World
(IWW), pacifist, responsible for the attack on Varela (known as
the "Killer of Patagonia"). A miner by trade, Wilckens worked in
Arizona, where he led a strike in 1916. He was then interned in a
US camp for German prisoners, but escaped & made his way to
Argentina. See “Daily Bleed”,
< http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/0127.htm > January 27,
1923. In French see Ephéméride anarchiste,
http://perso.club-internet.fr/ytak/juin3.html#17

1929 - Harry & Caresse Crosby publish The Black Sun Press edition
of the "Tales Told of Shem & Shaun" section of James Joyce's
“Finnegans Wake” (a work in progress). The printer discovers the
final page has but two lines & begs Caresse for more, but she
says she could never approach Joyce with such a request. The next
day the printer had eight more lines: "He had been wanting to add
more, but was too frightened of you, Madame, to do so."

 Harry once sent a telegram to Boston:


     PLEASE SELL 10,000 WORTH OF STOCK.

     WE HAVE DECIDED TO LEAD A MAD
     & EXTRAVAGANT LIFE.

http://www.pagan.net/~tomhb/crosby/index.html
http://www.moorhead.msus.edu/~chenault/joyce.htm

1939 - Gives Good Head?: Winner of the Dubious Lifetime
Achievement Award: Eugene Weldman is the last guy ever
guillotined in France.

1947 - Scribner's editor Maxwell Perkins dies, Stamford,
Connecticut. He advises: "editors are extremely fallible people,
all of them. Don't put too much trust in them."

1953 - Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas stays executions
of spies Julius &  Ethel Rosenberg scheduled for tomorrow --
their 14th anniversary. A temporary reprieve.
http://www.oppapers.com/history/rosenber.txt
http://www.nd.edu/~astrouni/zhiwriter/97/97032012.htm

1953 - East Berlin, East Germany: Workers Uprising, strike for
democracy; oppose Russian imperialism; USSR invades "to restore
law & order."

The play was Günter Grass's "The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising".


     His play is based on one historical event, the
     workers' uprising in East Berlin in June, 1953. There,
     during the bleakest of conditions, with Walter Ulbricht,
     the Communist party leader, calling for ever-increased
     productivity, the workers briefly, & ineffectually, revolted.
     They marched down the streets shouting slogans; they
     threatened a general strike.

1954 - US-CIA supplies & directs forces in overthrow of democracy
in Guatemala, destroying the constitutionally elected government
of Jacabo Arbenz Guzman & murdering many of his supporters.
Decades of government-sponsored genocide against Guatemalan
Indians follow.

                        Oh the companies keep a sharp eye
                        And pay their respects to the army
                        To watch for the hot-blooded leaders
                        And be prepared for the junta to
                        crush them like flies.

                        So heavy the price that they pay
                        As daily the fruit it is stolen...

                               — Phil Ochs, "United Fruit"
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/guatemala.html
<a href=http://www.thegrid.net/clear/ciaworldtour.htm>CIA
Incursions Throughout the World
<a href=http://www.cia.com.au/serendipity/cia/assassin.html>CIA
Had Hit List
http://www.patriagrande.net/uruguay/eduardo.galeano/memoria.del.fuego/19540617.htm

1955 - Disneyland opens, Anaheim, California. Looks like the rest
of California.

1960 - First convention of Students for a Democratic Society
(SDS), New York City.

1962 - Author William Faulkner thrown from a horse. He dies a few
weeks later (July 6) of a coronary occlusion.

1963 - Supreme Court rules, 8-1, that laws requiring the
recitation of the Lord's Prayer or Bible verses in public schools
are unconstitutional.

1966 - 19-year-old Guy Cleveland is the second person killed at
Disneyland after he is struck by a train & dragged 30 feet trying
to sneak into the park on the monorail track, Anaheim California.

1967 - Red China explodes H-bomb, joining club of nuclear-terror
states.  http://babtech.com/duke3d.html

1967 - Moby Grape releases 5 singles simultaneously. Critics
dismiss them as "sour grapes."

1972 - CREEP(y) break-in Watergate complex, Washington DC. Five
clowns, in this their  fourth attempt to get into Democratic
Party headquarters, are rudely arrested. This badly bungled
burglary (BBB) was the beginning of the end for the dreaded
Tricky Dick 'I Am Not a Crook'  Nixon gang.

Casualties & Convictions Resulting from Watergate

     one presidential resignation
     one vice-presidential resignation
     40 government officials indicted or jailed
     H.R. Haldeman & John Erlichman (White House staff) resigned 30

     April 1973, subsequently jailed
     John Dean (White House legal counsel) sacked 30 April 1973,
     subsequently jailed
     John Mitchell, Attorney General & Chairman of the Committee to

     Re-elect the President (CREEP) jailed
     Howard Hunt & G. Gordon Liddy (ex-White House staff), planned
     the
     Watergate break-in, both jailed
     Charles Colson, special counsel to the President jailed
     James McCord (Security Director of CREEP) jailed

There's much more, but this gives you the general drift...
http://www.parascope.com/articles/0297/nixon2.htm

1977 - EPA approves Seabrook.

1977 - International Indian Treaty Council announces its
intention to provide Soviet Union with a list of U.S. human
rights abuses against its indigenous peoples.

1982 - US: National Marine Fisheries Service, after 14 month SAM-
SCAM investigation of illegal fish sales on the Columbia River --
using wire taps, body microphones, aerial reconnaissance
photography & river patrols, & zeroing in on the 147-mile stretch
between the Bonneville & McNary Dams where only Indians fish
under the 1974 Boldt decision based on the 1855 treaty, raids
camp of, & arrests  David SoHappy, 50, Howard Jim, 65, & 73 other
Indians.

1982 - Low-Wattage?: Interior Secretary James Watt warns the
Israeli ambassador that if "liberals of the Jewish community"
oppose his plans for off-shore drilling, "they will weaken our
ability to be a good friend of Israel."

1997 - Washington state voters narrowly approve public financing
of a new football stadium for billionaire Paul Allen's Seahawks,
in the first U.S. election ever directly financed by an
individual for the direct financial benefit of that individual;
Allen paid the state for election costs.



     "He who joyfully marches to music in rank & file has already
     earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by
     mistake,
     since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice."

                                                 ---Albert Einstein

--- Auntie-Marches (to a Different Drum), 2002
& every year prior & thereafter, more or less, including pre-history
too...

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