Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 10:45:11 -0700
From: "David Brown, Recollection" <recall-AT-eskimo.com>
Subject: Daily Bleed: 8/10 CHITTA DAS




Daily Bleed, full web page, 56 entries:
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0810.htm

Short & tall:

                               I dig for my death
                  in this thousand-watt dungheap.
                 There isn’t even enough clean air.
    To die in.
                 O blood-bearded destroyer!

        — Kenneth Patchen, excerpt, Irkalla's White Caves

AUGUST 10 -- CHITTA DAS
Leader in the struggle for Indian independence from Britain.

Canada: PRISON JUSTICE DAY.


1680 -- Pueblo Revolt. Pope (San Juan tribe) attacks
New Mexican capital of Santa Fe

After more than a decade of preparation, pueblo
Amerindians all over the Spanish colony of Neuvo
Mexico rise in revolt, drive out the Spaniards, kill
21 missionary priests, & burn Santa Fe. They are
assisted by mestizo workers from the barrio of
Analco & succeed in liberating the territory from
foreign rule for twelve years.

1784 -- Spectacle becomes festival as disappointed onlookers
riot after the aristocrat De Moret's balloon flight ends in fire.

1815 -- Handsome Lake dies. Famous last words:
"I'm completely drained."

1862 -- "Battle of Nueces". A massacre actually, in Texass.

1877 -- U.S. Army troops under a Colonel Gibbon attack
a sleeping Nez Perce encampment at Big Hole, Idaho,
killing over 50 women & children.

1878 -- Alfred Döblin lives. German Expressionist novelist
& essayist whose best-known work is Berlin Alexanderplatz.

1881 -- Witter Bynner lives, Brooklyn, New York. Poet

1893 -- Chinese are deported from San Francisco under the Exclusion Act.

1904 -- Dorothy B. Hughes lives. American mystery writer/critic.

1905 -- NY: New York Tribune reports that a strike at
Federman's bakery on the Lower East Side led to violence
when Federman used scab labor to keep producing, &,

"Policemen smashed heads left & right with their nightsticks after
two of their number had been roughly dealt with by the mob..."

The city has become a battlefield in the sweatshops & elswhere.

Poet Edwin Markham
wrote in Cosmopolitan magazine in 1907,

"In unaired rooms, mothers & fathers sew by day & by night.
Those in the home sweatshop must work cheaper than those in the
factory sweatshops... & the children are called in from play to drive
& drudge beside their elders....

Is it not a cruel civilization that allows little hearts & little
shoulders
to strain under these grown-up responsibiblities, while in the same
city,
a pet cur is jeweled & pampered & aired on a fine lady's velvet lap on
the beautiful boulevards?"

See Howard Zinn, The Twentieth Century:
A People's History, pp35-36

1909 -- Leo Fender, inventor of the electric guitar, liiiives.
Died tragically in a fender bender.

1912 -- Virginia Stephen, 30, marries Leonard Woolf...

1914 -- Australian syndicalist Industrial Workers of the World
(Wobblies) greets the outbreak of war with a front page special:

                                  "War is hell!

                      Send the Capitalists to hell & wars are
                                    impossible ...

                   If the politicians of Australia want war, let
                 them take their own carcasses to the front line
                            ... if they want blood,

                LET THEM CUT THEIR OWN THROATS"

1923 -- US: Carlo Tresca, Italian-American anarchist,
suddenly arrested.

The charge was that he  had printed an article,
three months before, attacking the Italian monarchy
& the the Fascists.

No such crime, of course, is known to American law,
but Tresca was nevertheless arrested.


     "So far, indeed, but eight persons in all the United States
     have gone to Tresca's aid. Four are Italian-American
     politicians. One is a Liberal pastor. Two are old and
     battle-scarred libertarians, already marked with the
     scars of a hundred defeats. The eighth is La Sanger, the
     birth control agitator, herself an experienced goat of the
     New Jurisprudence. No one else will take any interest
     in the case."

                                                — H. L. Mencken


http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/sinners/TrescaCarlo.htm
                http://www.freedomsnest.com/fn/mencken_free.html
                http://www.pagesz.net/~stevek/europe/lecture9.html

1934 -- Anarchist conference at Stelton, N.J., August 10-11.

1937 -- Spain: The Council of Aragon is forcibly
disbanded by the Republican government.
http://www.spunk.org/texts/places/spain/sp001780/chap1.html
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/5602/scwar4.html

1948 -- Gay rights activist Harry Hay organizes
what later becomes the Mattachine SocietY

1948 -- Emmy Hennings dies, Sorengo-Lugano, Italy.
Writer/performer  associated with the Dada movement.
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/dada/hennings.html
http://www.mital-u.ch/Dada/index.html

1954 -- US: Workers at the Studebaker auto plant in South Bend, IN,
agreed to take pay cuts of from $12 to $20 weekly in an attempt to
help the faltering automaker. Didn't help.

1968 -- Eight GIs killed by US strafing error in Vietnam.

         " Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the
            public mind."

            — Gen. William C. Westmoreland

1975 -- Canada: Prison Justice Day (PJD) originates in
Millhaven penitentiary today when prisoners there commemorate
the first anniversary of the death of Eddie Nalon,
who committed suicide while in solitary confinement.
http://www.jpp.org/fulltext-v3/v3n12-h.html
 http://btp.tao.ca/

1981 -- Got Newts?: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Acting Prez
Ronnie Reagun approves work order for the neutron bomb.

1988 -- Post Haste?: U.S. government offers apologies & reparations
to Japanese- American citizens interned during World War II.


      In your hands, the cities, in my world, the marching
     Of nobler feet than walk down a road
     Deep with the corpses of every sane & beautiful thing.

                   ---Kenneth Patchen, excerpt
     HAVE YOU KILLED FOR YOUR MAN TODAY?


---anti-NoblerFeet 2001 or thereabouts

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