Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 09:58:16 -0700
From: "David Brown, Recollection" <recall-AT-eskimo.com>
Subject: Daily Bleed: 6/19 JOHN HEARTFIELD




Web: http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/0619.htm

excerpts:

JUNE 19

JOHN HEARTFIELD
German anti-fascist collage artist, propagandist.

Berkshire, England: Election of the "MORRIS MAYOR".

     Residents elect a Morris dancer who is carried through
     town on a flower-trimmed rocking chair, preceded by an
     ox-head on a long pole, with stops at every tavern to
     refill the Mayor's chalice.

Brazil: BEGGARS' BANQUETS.

FESTIVAL OF THE COMING ICE AGE.


1623 - Blaise Pascal lives. French mathematician, physicist,
theologian, inventor of first digital calculator, barometer,
hydraulic press, & the syringe.

1754 - Benjamin Franklin introduces Albany Plan of Union, based
on the Iroquois Confederacy. Plan was rejected, but its essential
elements adopted a quarter century later as the U.S. Constitution
http://www.anatomy.su.oz.au/danny/anthropology/anthro-l/archive/july-1996/0039.html

1816 - Staying up all night to tell ghost stories with his wife &
Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley suddenly becomes hysterical & runs
shrieking from the room.
http://library.utoronto.ca/www/utel/rp/authors/shelley.html

1865 - Slaves declared free in state of Texas. Celebrated each
year in Texas, mostly by people of color, as the holiday "Juneteenth."

1867 - México: Emperor Maximilianos shot.

1880 - W. A. Dwiggins, designer of a number of typefaces --
including Electra -- lives, Martinsville, Ohio.

1891 - Anti-fascist collage artist Helmut Herzfeld (John
Heartfield) lives, Berlin.
http://burn.ucsd.edu/heart.htm
http://www.dhm.de/lemo/html/biografien/HeartfieldJohn/

1893 - Lizzie Borden acquitted of murdering her parents.

1898 - Shell Game?: Guam is shelled by the U.S.S. Charleston.


     The Island's Spanish governor, unaware his country
     is now at war with the US, apologizes that a lack of
     ammunition renders him unable to return the salute.

1902 - US Congress provides allotments on Spokane reservation, in
Washington State, freeing up "surplus" land for sale to white farmers.

1902 - USA: Paterson, New Jersey labor strike.

1909 - Osamu Dazai lives (1909-1948). Japanese novelist, literary
voice of his generation after WWII. Joined the communist movement
briefly. Friends with writer Masuji Ibuse. The tone of his
postwar works reflect emotional crisis & suicidal thoughts. In
1948 Dazai drowned himself & left behind the unfinished novel
“Goodbye”.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/dazai.htm

1910 - USA: Father's Day celebrated for first time, Spokane,
Washington.
http://www.usatoday.com/life/health/women/fertil/lhwfe004.htm
http://www.thespermbankofca.org/

1912 - Alleged eight-hour work-day adopted for US government workers.

1926 - Peacemakers Pilgrimage ends in Hyde Park, London.

1934 - “A Cool Million” by Nathanael West is published.
http://www.mtsu.edu/~dlavery/westind.htm

1937 - James Barrie, novelist/dramatist, dies.

1938 - Canada: Bloody Sunday: Police battle unemployed workers at
post office in Vancouver, brutally ejecting them. Michael John
Thompson Rare Books thinks NATO is out to get him.

1945 - Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese politician, Nobel Peace Prize
recipient, lives.

1945 - Tobias Wolff, US writer (“This Boy's Life”), lives.

1947 - Salman Rushdie lives. Anglo-Indian novelist, who connects
in his works tales from various genres - fantasy, mythology,
religion, oral tradition. Described as a magic realist like such
authors as Peter Carey, Angela Carter, E.L. Doctorow, John
Fowles, Mark Helprin or Emma Tennant.


     Condemned to death by Iranian Ayatollah
     Ruhollah Khomeini on February 14, 1989 after
     publishing “Satanic Verses”. This "fatwa" has
     not been cancelled. Continues to write, but keeps
     a low profile to avoid assassins.

http://www.levity.com/corduroy/rushdie.htm
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/rushdie.htm

1952 - Swede Sausage guitarist/songwriter, bodyman
& bucker of hay lives, Spo.
http://www.swede.com/

1953 - Black community begins bus boycott in Baton Rouge,
Louisiana --  two & a half years before the more famous
Montgomery, Alabama protest.

1953 - Despite widespread international protest & compelling
evidence of their innocence,  Julius & Ethel Rosenberg
electrocuted for alleged sale of atomic secrets to Russians,
Sing-Sing Prison, Ossining, NY. The first native-born Americans
to die for committing espionage in peacetime.
http://www.hatchoo.com/deathrow/

1961 - US Supreme Court struck down a provision in Maryland's
constitution requiring state office holders to believe in God.
http://www.roanoke.com/god/

1963 - Valentina Tereshkova, first woman in space returns to
Earth. Claims zero-g sex is "socialism at it's purest, with no
one on top."  http://www.planetarymysteries.com/spacewalk.html

1964 - Carol Doda dances in a Rudi Gernreich topless bathing suit
in The Condor nightclub, North Beach, San Francisco.

1964 - 200 college students leave Oxford, Ohio to join 1,000
total civil rights volunteers as part of Civil Rights "Freedom
Summer" to register Negro voters.

1965 - Australia: Hundreds respond to newspaper advertisement
placed by 144 draft resisters.

1967 - Muhammad Ali convicted for refusing induction in US Army.

1967 - Paul McCartney admits on TV that he took LSD.

1968 - Brazil: Violent protests in Rio de Janeiro against
alienating culture, confrontations with police result in 22 injuries.

1968 - US: Over 50,000 demonstrators participate in the Poor
People's Campaign Solidarity Day March in Washington, D.C.

1970 - Two banks bombed in Berkeley.

1981 - Heaviest known orange 5.5 lbs (2.5 kg) exhibited,
Nelspruit, South Africa.


     "If I see three oranges I have to juggle.
     And if I see two towers, I have to walk".

     ---Philippe Petit

http://www.juggling.org/books/alvarez/part7.html
http://www.urachhaus.com/uh/wz/wz27209.html

1981 - Senya Fleshin (alternate spellings, Fléchine, Fleshine)
dies in Cuernavaca, Mexico, a few months after the death of his
lifelong companion Mollie Steimer.


     Fleshin was forced into exile
     by the Russian Bolsheviks after numerous arrests &
     imprisonment by the Cheka. Pictured (left) with Voline
     & Mollie Steimer in 1927. Fleshin was active in Paris
     anarchist group with
     http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/sinners/SchwartzbardSamuel.htm

     >Samuel Schwartzbard, Alexander Berkman, Voline,
     Nestor Makhno, Jacques Doubinsky, et al.
     See the memorial volume edited by
     http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/sinners/AbeBluestein.htm >

     Abe Bluestein, Fighters for Anarchism: Mollie Steimer
     & Senya Fleshin ([New York]: Libertarian Publications Group,
     1983).

     The documentary film, “Anarchism in America” (1982)
     weaves together archival footage--including  Mollie Steimer

1982 - 1,000 landowners occupy key islands in protest against
French nuclear tests, Kwajalein Atoll, South Pacific.

1982 - John Cheever (The Wapshot Chronicle) dies, age 70, in
Ossining, New York.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/cheever.htm

1985 - El Salvador: Contingent of armed gunmen opens fire on an
outdoor restaurant in a posh district of San Salvador known as
the Zona Rosa. 13 killed, including four US Marines & two US
businessmen. A radio broadcast of June 24, Radio Venceremos, says,


     "If U.S. Army members & CIA agents died in San
     Salvador, it was because they came to attack our people.
     No one had summoned them; they died as a result of the
     interventionist policy carried out by President Reagan, whose
     intervention grows day by day. Reagan
     will have to assume full responsibility for his deeds."

http://www.weberman.com/

1987 - US Supreme Court rules school teaching evolution need not
teach creation.

1988 - Haitian civilian government overthrown by U.S.-backed
military coup.

1998 - Much Older & Wiser Now?: Baby Zeno makes the Big Time,
Brussels, Belgium. Oh, how time flies. Youngest subscriber to the
Daily Bleed.
http://www.xs4all.be/~erbu/familie-web/zeno.html


The Rosenbergs...


     Most horrifying of the FBI's role is portrayed
     in their final questioning of Julius just before
     his execution when they asked,

     "Was your wife cognizant of your activities?"

     Ethel was about to be executed as a full-fledged
     partner in Julius' crime. They doubt her participation
     now, only minutes before her execution?

     Many saw the trial as a mockery & an attempt to scare
     Americans sympathetic to the Communist Party. During
     the trial the need to connect communism with the charge
     of espionage was done excessively, the prosecutors using
     primitive bias as substitute proof for motive. President
     Eisenhower argued:

     "The executions were necessary to refute the known
     convictions of Communist leaders all over the world
     that free governments ... are notoriously weak & fearful
     & that consequently subversion & other kinds of activity
     can be conducted against them with no real fear of
     dire punishment."

http://www.cyber-quest.com/home/zager/rosenberg.html

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