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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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