Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 11:28:55 -0700 From: "David Brown, Recollection" <recall-AT-eskimo.com> Subject: Daily Bleed: 8/8 EMILIANO ZAPATA --------------BA321DFBAF6BB39D138F3113 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 --------------BA321DFBAF6BB39D138F3113
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