Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 07:28:59 -0700
From: "David Brown, Recollection" <recall-AT-eskimo.com>
Subject: Daily Bleed: 8/28 C. WRIGHT MILLS


Daily Bleed, quite full, thank you, 47 large entries,
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0828.htm

A few text excerpts,

AUGUST 28 --   C. WRIGHT MILLS
Intellectual rebel, champion of the Cuban revolution,
patron saint of the Students for a Democratic Society.

FESTIVAL OF NEON REVOLUTION.

1749 -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe lives.

Just as every cop is a criminal
         And all the sinners Saints
         As I end this tale
         Just call me Lucifer

Pleased to meet you
        Hope you guess my name, um yeah
        But what's puzzling you
        Is the nature of my game...

____

"Goethe, certified public accountant of Weimar,
could not understand that the manners of the peasant &
the chivalrous etiquette of the aristocrat were only the
devices of a truce with chaos -- not social
disorder, but the chaos before Time, over which the
Spirit brooded.

My mother used to say, "A snob is a person who mimics
the manners of the class above him.""

                                 --- Kenneth Rexroth
_____

1828 -- Leo Tolstoy, author & anarchist pacifist,
according to the Russian calendar in
use at this time, lives...

1882 -- Praxedis Gilberto Guerrero lives,
Los Altos de Ibarra, Guanajuanto. Mexican anarchist.

1892 -- Augustin Souchy, German anarchist
pacifist, lives.

1918 -- Big Bill Haywood (Daily Bleed Saint) & 14
other IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) labor
activists sentenced   to 20 years prison & fined,
for draft obstruction.

1919 -- Seattle mayor demands "hang or incarcerate
all anarchists for life."

1929 -- The editing of Look Homeward, Angel
is completed, a job that reminds
Thomas Wolfe of putting corsets on an elephant.

1933 -- Filipino Labor Union leads 6,000 California
lettuce workers out on strike

1955 -- African-American teenager Emmett Till is
brutally murdered after speaking "inappropriately"
to a white woman...

        The reason that they killed him there,
               & I'm sure it ain't no lie,
               Was just for the fun of killin' him
               & watch him slowly die.

    ---Bob Dylan

1961 -- Fifth Situationist International conference.

1968 -- Chicago FBI agents report "GINSBERG
chanted unintelligible poems in Grant Park. . .
(the "unintelligible  poems" were William Blake's
"The Grey Monk." )

1968 -- Meanwhile, between Aug. 26 through 29,
thousands of protesters gather in Grant & Lincoln parks
to demonstrate against the Vietnam War.

Chorus:
      & it's one, two, three
What are we fighting for ?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn,
     Next stop is Vietnam.
& it's five, six, seven,
  Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no time to wonder why,
  Whoopee! we're all gonna die!

Abbie Hoffman is arrested while having breakfast for having
the word "Fuck" on his forehead.

1970 -- SKY RIVER ROCK FESTIVAL AND
LIGHTER THAN AIR FAIR - III
Washougal, Washington

And they made munitions in piles
And there wasn't a war to be found
And of course there were plenty of nice kind
       people
Who conjured one out of the ground
"Off you go, dear boy, to the front!
For they threaten your native sod
March, for your mothers and sisters,
For your King and for your God!"

     ...War Song by Bertolt Brecht translated into
        English by Christopher Isherwood


anti-ForeHead 2001