Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 07:45:44 -0800 From: "David Brown, Recollection" <recall-AT-eskimo.com> Subject: Daily Bleed: 11/15 HOT HANNAH / ELISEE RECLUS Daily Bleed in full, http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/1115.htm Excerpts, "Better stop short than fill to the brim. Oversharpen the blade, & the edge will soon blunt. Amass a store of gold & jade, & no one can protect it. Claim wealth & titles, & disaster will follow. Retire when the work is done. This is the way of heaven." – Tao Te Ching by Lao Tsu NOVEMBER 15 -- HANNAH HOCH Dada's "Cut with the kitchen knife" collage prodigy. Austria: ST. LEOPOLD'S DAY marks the beginning of new wine season with drinking & festivities. FESTIVAL OF TOTAL SUBMISSION. & if one were, in fact, planning a rebellion or protest, the legitimate Cover of anonymous assembly provided by carnival might suggest itself as a likely venue." James C Scott, Hidden Transcripts: Domination & the Arts of Resistance INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE INDIAN. Declared by World Council of Indigenous Peoples. 1598 -- Yours is Mine?: Juan de Onate declares possession of Hopi land (northern Arizona) in name of Spanish crown. 400 years later, the Hopi have still never signed a treaty with any non-Indian nation. "The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery without almost noticing them." – Gunnar Myrdal 1862 -- Gerhardt Hauptmann lives. German dramatist, poet, novelist. Gets 1912 Nobel Prize for Literature. "He did not speak in his own guise, but let life itself talk." – Thomas Mann http://mvmhp64.ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de/tmg/tmpage.html http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/hauptman.htm 1887 -- Georgia O'Keefe, painter, lives. 1887 -- Marianne Moore, poet & Yankee baseball fan, lives. Her often-quoted advice was that poets should present imaginary gardens with real toads in them. 1895 -- Antoni Slonimski, Polish poet, translator, & newspaper columnist best known for his devotion to pacifism & social justice, lives. Wrote thousands of poems, several plays, novels & translations of William Shakespeare's works. http://the-tech.mit.edu:80/Shakespeare/works.html 1917 -- Bolsheviks take Moscow, Russian Revolution dead-ends, capitalism wins. 1926 -- Italy: During this month Mussolini issues the "laws of exceptions", instituting special "tribunals of state defense", with many anarchists arrested & deported. 1934 -- American poet Ted Berrigan (1934-1983) lives. 1936 -- Today 1,800 militiamen from the best of Durruti's anarchist column enter into combat at University City (Madrid). On the Durruti Column, see the Anarchist Encyclopedia page, www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/sinners/DurrutiColumnEarly.htm For Spanish Revolution posters, see the Stan Iverson Archives collection, http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/images/Images/Spain1936/ 1936 -- Wolf Biermann lives. German poet/songster. http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/9962/wolfbiermann.html http://www.ub.fu-berlin.de/~goerdten/wbiermann.html It’s not that Joan Baez or the Beatles or Bob Dylan have thousands of imitators. Wolf Biermann in East Berlin, Barbara in Paris, Fred Akerström & Cornelis Vreeswijk in Sweden, Ryoko Moriyama in Japan — it’s all the same universe of discourse, because it’s all the same audience listening to the same spokesmen speaking against the same evil & for the same good... --- Kenneth Rexroth, Subversive Aspects of Popular Songs http://archiv.informatik.fh-augsburg.de/informatik/projekte/brecht/vip_buch/biermann.htm 1967 -- Beloved Comrade Leader General William C. Westmoreland, Commander of U.S. forces in South Vietnam, declares he has "never been more encouraged in my four years in Vietnam." Two months later, the massive Tet Offensive was launched by the Communists. http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/ 1969 -- Janis Joplin, accused of vulgar & indecent language in Tampa, Florida. Janis Joplin is arrested charges of using "vulgar and indecent language" at her concert. According to witnesses, the incident started when a policeman with a bullhorn ordered people in the audience to sit down & Joplin responded, "Don't fuck with those people! 1969 -- Over 500,00 people march on Washington to protest war in Viet Nam while Beloved Comrade Leader President "Tricky" Dick Nixon watches Purdue-Ohio State football game on TV. Ohio State wins, US loses. Anti-Vietnam War protesters rally in front of the White House to conclude the March Against Death which began two days ago in darkness & near-freezing temperatures near the gates of Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. 1,200 protesters crossed the Arlington Memorial Bridge every hour & then walked four miles to the White House. Each marcher carried a candle & a placard that named a soldier killed in Vietnam. Recitation of U.S. deaths in Vietnam War takes 36 hours in front of White House, Washington D.C. 1978 -- Radical anthropologist & feminist rebel Margaret Mead dies, http://www.greatwomen.org/mead.htm 1988 -- "The Secret Service is under orders that if Bush is shot, to shoot Quayle." --- Senator John Kerry 2000 -- WASHINGTON D.C. - Following an emergency meeting Wednesday morning, Congress unanimously voted to excise Florida from the United States of America. The move was a reaction to the confusion and irregularities in the state's voting numbers that have totally disrupted the 2000 Presidential election. "We're all pretty much sick of Florida," said representative Barney Frank. http://www.infoshop.org/graphics/bigprick.jpg Today's al;ternate Saint, ELISEE RECLUS 1997 SAINT Anarchist geographer, Parisian communard. Wrote Nouvelle géographie universelle, which crowned him the father of modern geography. "Choosing new masters is no solution at all. It is we anarchists, enemies of Christianity, who have to remind a whole society which claims to be Christian of these words of the man whom they have made a God: 'Call no man Master, Master! ..." http://www.hellenisme.org/hellas/ma/tem_fr02.htm http://www.nothingness.org/sociala/sa22/22revclark.html http://melior.univ-montp3.fr/ra_forum/en/clark_j/reclus_geography/reclus.geography.index.html http://www.clark.net/pub/cosmic/98aar.html#reclus _______________________ "Puritanism: the haunting fear that somebody, somewhere, might be having a good time." – H.L. Mencken ---anti-Haunting 2000-3000, more or less
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