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Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 11:28:55 -0700
From: "David Brown, Recollection" <recall-AT-eskimo.com>
Subject: Daily Bleed: 8/8 EMILIANO ZAPATA



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Daily Bleed: in full, web page,
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0808.htm

Excerpts:

AUGUST 8  EMILIANO ZAPATA
"Tierra y Libertad!"
Hero of two Mexican Revolutions.

US: SNEAK SOME ZUCCHINI ONTO YOUR NEIGHBORS'
PORCH NIGHT. Every kid knows why.


1809 -- Ueda Akinari, dies in Kyoto. Writer & poet
best known for tales of the supernatural.

1865 -- Matthew A. Henson lives, Charles City, Maryland.
African American explorer & first man to
 reach the North Pole.

1879 -- Mexican revolutionary hero, anarchist Emiliano
 Zapata lives! John Steinbeck scripts the film version.


     "Zapata will continue to live as long as people believe that
     they have a right to their land & a right to govern themselves

     according to their deeply held beliefs & cultural values."

http://www.indigenouspeople.org/natlit/zapata.htm

1884 -- Sara Teasdale, poet, lives, St. Louis, Missouri.

1893 -- Emiliano Zapata's 13th birthday.

Of the group that joined Zapata, best-known was Antonio
Diaz Soto y Gama. A fiery orator, he was strongly
influenced by anarchist Peter Kropotkin's creed of the
good peasant.

 http://www.vozpublica.com/vozp57/entreb.htm
 http://www.mexconnect.com/mex_/history/ezapata1.html
 http://www.thing.net/~rdom/zapsTactical/zaps.html

1896 -- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings lives

1897 -- Anarchist Michel Angiolillo assassinates
Antonio Canovas del Castillo...

1903 -- Cripple Creek, Colorado miners' strike begins.
http://www.cripple-creek.co.us/read.html

1907 -- Saxophonist Benny Carter lives

1910 -- Janko Polic Kamov, Croatian futurist author, dies

1912 -- Ross Winn, Texass-born anarchist, dies.
Revived the Alarm, founded by Albert Parsons...
http://members.aol.com/wellslake/bullet11.htm#Winn

1920 -- Workers throughout Britain stage demonstrations
against planned intervention in Russia; trade union
leaders threaten a General Strike...
For a glossy spin, see:
http://www.kolchak.org/History/Siberia/aef.htm

1937 -- In Paris, Emma Goldman is troubled by the violent
opposition among her closest  anarchist comrades to the
CNT-FAI's unwillingness to confront the Communists' assault
on its opponents on the Left

1947 -- Over objections of Tlingit Indians, the U.S. government
agrees to timber sale from Tongass National Forest ...

1957 -- American Bandstand with Dick Clark (27) starts on
national television.


     Dear Auntie Dave,

     Isn't it true that there have actually been four
     "Dick Clarks", sort of like there have been five
     or six "Lassies"?

                  ---Flames, August 5, 1999

1963 -- Great Train Robbery in England,
œ2.6 million ($7.3 million).

1970 -- Singer Bessie Smith finally gets a
marker for her grave in Philadelphia

1973 -- Vilhelm Moberg (1898-1973) dies

1979 -- Novelist Nicholas Monsarrat, dies

1996 -- Author & petty thief Herbert
Huncke (1915-1996) dies...
http://www.charm.net/~brooklyn/People/HerbertHuncke.html

1998 -- England: Animal Liberation Front (ALF) frees 6,000 minks.

1999 -- Evelyn Shrifte dies, age 98. One of the first women to head
a book company, president of  the once radical Vanguard Press.


       Little bubbling brook,
       what did that carnation say to you?
       It says our chief didn't die.
       that Zapata's on his way to you.

           ---corrido mexicano
http://www.indigenouspeople.org/natlit/chiapas/latuff/vive.gif

---anti-copyRite 2001




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