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Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 13:11:41 -0700
From: "David Brown, Recollection" <recall-AT-eskimo.com>
Subject: Daily Bleed: 8/11 FESTIVAL OF HAPPY FEET




Image & link burdened web page:
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0811.htm


        Rough, Bad-landing comments, unrested travellers.
        pisst-off, unrequited smokers, possible flat tire,
        maybe broken wheel, trashed toilet...

               — Ed Dorn, excerpt,
                    The Denver Landing — 11 Aug 1993

AUGUST 11 --  CONLON NANCARROW
Polytemporal player-piano composer, Lincoln brigadier.

Lost Colonies, High on a Hill, Carolinas:
Day after "Wild Bill"  Koehnline's Birthday; father of SaintMeister;
the only Daily Bleed recipient with an Art Gallery named after him
& his peculiar tastes.

                        We have nothing that is ours except time,
                        which even those without a roof can enjoy.

                        — Baltasar Gracián, Oráculo manual y Arte de
prudencia

                        Unless de roof fall in...

                        — Auntie Dave

 FESTIVAL OF HAPPY FEET.


1471 -- Hazards?: Republic of Novgorod becomes subject to the
Dukes of Moscow. Changes  name to Notgood?

Bleedster Piero writes from Poland:

This was rather a tragedy. According to the order of Ivan IV the
Terrible, all the people that lived in Novgorod were killed, burned,
drown in the river, thousands of people, including women, kids and
elders - few were sold as slaves to other regions of Russia. The city
was burned, building destroyed and the land was ploughed - not anyone
to remember in Russia about the republic of Novgorod, the Athens of
the North, where authority was strongly based on direct democracy and
republican. The Moscow Russia was to be one man ruled, tsarist
country.

1797 -- England: A secret Home Office report suspects Wordsworth
& Coleridge of being enemy agents because of their strange behaviour —
wandering the countryside with camp stools & making detailed
observations of the landscape.

1833 -- Agnostic iconoclast Robert Ingersoll lives, Dresden, New York.

            ROBERT INGERSOLL
            19th-century American agnostic, free-thinker. Daily Bleed
Saint 1998
            http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/robert_ingersoll/

            http://www.SecularHumanism.org/ingersoll

1880 -- Aleksandr Grin lives, Slobodskoy, Russia. Soviet prose
writer notable for romantic short stories of adventure & mystery.
Among the most exotic of all Russian literature, fantastic &
whimsical. His work was condemned as antisocial, bourgeois,
& decadent by the communists.

1882 -- Voline, Russian revolutionary & anarchist historian, lives.


     Arrested January 14, 1919, Trotsky had ordered his execution.
     Voline escaped death only by sheer accident: the Red Trade
     Union International was meeting in 1921 just as anarchists in
     the
     Taganka prison went on hunger strike, causing a scandal at the

     Congress, & forcing the Bolsheviks to release them all (on
     condition
     they leave Russia — the first political prisoners deported
     from the
     vaunted Red Fatherland of the Proletariat).

http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_archives/bright/voline/index.html
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/3998/Russia.html
http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/2163/bolintro.html

1892 -- Hugh MacDiarmid lives, Langholm, Dumfriesshire. Preeminent
Scottish poet of the  first half of the 20th century...

1894 -- Federal troops drive some 1,200 jobless workers from the
nation's
capital across the Potomac River.


     Led by an unemployed activist, Charles "Hobo" Kelley, the
     group came from western states & camped in Washington D.C.
     beginning in early July.

     The "soldiers" in Kelley's Hobo Army include a young
     journalist
     named Jack London & also William Haywood...

1897 -- Poet Louise Bogan lives, Livermore Falls, Minnesota.
http://shrike.depaul.edu/~cfosterl/lb.html

1936 -- American author André Dubus lives.

1945 -- Striking Mexican filmworkers bar distribution of US films.
http://www.cat.org.au/spectacular/specmed9.jpg

1952 -- Philip Morrison, a Cornell Professor of Physics, expresses
doubts about atomic warfare & then faces a Congressional
anticommunist investigating committee for doing so.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/commieCleanser2.jpg
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/morrison.html

1964 -- Spain: Stuart Christie & Carballo Blanco arrested in Madrid.

 Protests at Christie's imprisonment leads to machine-gunning of
US Embassy  by First of May Group.

Christie, along with Albeert Meltzer was instrumental in re-starting
the Anarchist Black Cross.

See the Anarchist Encyclopedia pages,
 http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/gallery/galleryindex.htm#ABC
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/sinners/ChristieStuart.htm

http://au.spunk.org/library/writers/meltzer/sp001591/app1.html
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bright/meltzer/meltzer.html

1965 -- US: Watts Riots begin in LA when a white
            policeman stops Marquette Frye, a black driver, for
            drunkenness. By 16 August, when the riots end, 34 are
            dead, 800 wounded, 3,000 arrests & $200 million worth of
            property destroyed.

       The greatest horror, as one observer noted, was,

                “These rioters don’t have any leaders.”

http://www.slip.net/~knabb/SI/10.Watts.htm
http://www.usc.edu/isd/archives/ethnicstudies/watts.html

1970 -- United Farm Workers leader Cesar Chavez begins a hunger
strike to protest union harassment by Teamsters union officials.

1984 -- During a radio voice test Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader
Acting Prez Ronnie Reagun joking:

                                   "I have signed legislation
                                   that would outlaw Russia
                                   forever. We begin
                                   bombing in 5 minutes."


2000 -- US: The North American Anarchist Conference, from
August 11-17 2000, in Los Angeles, upstages Democratic Convention
& the whacko Pat Buchanan-Ross Perot party of brotherly love.
http://naac.8m.com/


---anti-FiveMinuteBombings 2001

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