Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 12:25:10 -0700 From: "David Brown, Recollection" <recall-AT-eskimo.com> Subject: Daily Bleed: 8/14 CLIFFORD ODETS Daily Bleed in full, http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0814.htm Excerpts: August 14 we kept the faith while the four directions of the world decayed into real estate... & buy as much as we can of the little mementos of the history we threw away --- Troy Skeels, excerpts, The Song of the Tourist 1040 -- Macbeth murders Duncan. 1765 -- Stamp Act riots begin in Boston. 1815 -- US: Peace Society founded in NY. 1850 -- US: Squatters' riots in California. Source: 'Calendar Riots' 1867 -- British novelist/playwright John Galsworthy lives 1888 -- Black Rain at Cape of Good Hope. 1901 -- Mercedes Comaposada Guillen lives (1901-1994), Barcelona, Spain. Militant & anarchist teacher. Co-founder "Mujeres Libres". Mercedes Comaposada took refuge in Paris with her companion, sculptor Baltasar Lobo, following defeat of the revolution, where they gained the protection of Pablo Picasso from French authorities hostile to all Spanish refugees. 1908 -- Illinois declares martial law following Springfield race riot. 1909 -- Violinist Hezekiah "Stuff" Smith lives. Dizzy Gillespie has given Stuff Smith credit for showing him that an artist could engage in art & entertain at the same time. 1912 -- Got Interest?: U.S. Marines sent to Nicaragua, which was in default of loans to the U.S. & Europe. 1923 -- Felix the Cat debuts in a Sunday comic strip. 1943 -- Bad Dude? Alfred Corn, formerly mild-mannered, meditative American poet now stuck in NYC, lives. "BleedMeister -- Just found your Website on birthdays of notable people . . . Not so sure I'm all that mild-mannered . . . Since 1965 have lived in New York City, where no mild-mannered individual would survive for long." --- Alfred Corn The trivia, the nickel-and-dime of memory Is hardest to accept, burning a hole In decorum's pocket . . . 1947 -- India achieves independence from British rule after years of Gandhian resistance. 1951 -- Spain: José Luis Facerias is assassinated by the police in Barcelona. 1956 -- Social & ideological reformer of the theater, Bertolt Brecht dies in East Berlin. What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank? 1963 -- Broken by McCarthyism, left playwright Clifford Odets dies 1966 -- London's Catholic Herald calls John Lennon's apology for his remark about the Beatles being more popular than Lenny Bruce, probably true. If you can't say "Fuck," you can't say, "Fuck the government." --- Lenny Bruce 1980 -- After 2 months of labor turmoil, 16,000 Polish workers seize the Lenin Shipyard http://www.polishculture.org.uk/archive_exhib_2.html 1994 -- Alice Childress, dies 2000 -- US: Democratic Convention, Los Angeles, Ca., 14th-17th. "The twentieth century has been characterised by three developments of great political importance: > the growth of democracy; the growth of corporate power; > and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of > protecting corporate power against democracy." --- Alex Carey (from "Taking the Risk Out of Democracy) "There are many young activists in black T-shirts with badges honouring everything from the anarchist band, Crass, to the Industrial Workers of the World, better known as the Wobblies. Jay Brophry, an LA engineer who broadcasts on the illegal anarchist station, Radio Clandestino, said "We are in a historical period when the nation state is being overwhelmed by the corporate state. Decisions are being made by the WTO, who no one elected." "Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell." --- Edward Abbey, anarchist, novelist, Earth First!er, reminding us that "corporate-sponsored" environmental activities is a rather bad joke. ---anti-copyRite 2001 & thereabouts more or less
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