Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 10:11:52 -0800
Subject: Daily Bleed: 1/9 KAREL CAPEK, Robot builder


               I cut myself into sixteen equal pieces
               keep thirteen & feed the other three
               to the dogs, who have also grown
               tired of U. S. Commodities, white cans
               black letters translated into Spanish.

                          ^× Sherman Alexie, "13/16"

Daily Bleed in full, web page updated,
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0109.htm

Excerpts:

JANUARY 9--   KAREL CAPEK
Czech playwright, master of the "robot"/worker allegory.

PLAY GOD DAY.

Panama: MARTYR'S DAY.

1859 -- American feminist Carrie Chapman Catt lives.
Pacifist & suffragist, co-founder of Women's Peace Party
in 1915 & League of Women Voters
http://hersalon.com/herstory/catt.htm
               http://www.northnet.org/stlawrenceaauw/catt.htm
               http://www.catt.org/

1880 -- Headline in the "San Francisco Morning Call":

                    ^ÓNorton the First, by
                    the grace of God Emperor of
                    the United States &
                    Protector of Mexico,
                    departed this life.^Ô

               http://www.zpub.com/sf/history/nort.html

1883 -- France: Lyon, 68 anarchists are on trial. These include
Peter Kropotkin, Emile Gautier, Bordat & Bernard. They wrote
a document called "The Manifesto of the Anarchists". In it they
describe what anarchy is, & what anarchists want: "We claim
bread for all, knowledge for all, work for all, independence &
justice for all." for such perfidy they will get their bread in
prison, some for four years.
http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/ws98/ws55_louise.html

1890 -- Karel Capek, internationally renowned Czech novelist,
short-story writer, playwright, essayist, lives. Much of his
early work is written with his brother Josef, a painter/illustrator.
Wrote R.U.R., War with the Newts

The satiric novel War with the Newts (1936) which ridicules
Nazi-Germany & fascism in general also conveys Capek's ideas
that technology can become a threat to mankind & that
unabashed capitalism also poses a serious danger.
http://www.newmediafactory.com/portfolio/newtwatch/index.html
http://hem2.passagen.se/finwe/capek.htm
http://hem2.passagen.se/finwe/capek.htm
http://www.santafe.edu/~shalizi/notebooks/capek.html
http://www.wirednews.com/wired/archive/people/karel_capek/
http://www.radio.cz/hrbitov/capeng.html
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~gmcmilla/capek.html

1905 -- Popular French anarchist Louise Michel dies. A leader
in the Paris Commune & co-founder of the Women's Battalion.
Founded the journal "Le libertaire" with Sebastian Faure. Her
funeral was a huge occasion, with red flags & 2,000 mourners.
Memorial services  were held for her throughout France, & in London.
http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/ws98/ws55_louise.html
http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/talks/paris.html
http://tigerden.com/~berios/libertarians.html

1905 -- Russia: "Bloody Sunday;" revolution breaks out in St.
Petersburg, Russia.

1907 -- US: Yet another case against Emma Goldman, to prevent
her from exercising free speech rights, this one from her arrest Oct.
30, 1906, is dismissed by the New York City grand jury. Police
enthusiasm
is not to be dampened, however, as they continue to suppress meetings
where she appears.

1908 -- Simone de Beauvoir, French philosopher, lives. Feminist,
existentialist, & author of The Second Sex.
http://www.connect.net/ron/beauvoir.html
               http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/beauvoir.htm

1909 -- US: First issue of "LaFollette's Weekly" appears, predecessor
to "The Progressive."
http://www.progressive.org/
http://gi.grolier.com/presidents/ea/side/lafoll.html

1913 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President
"The Trickster" Richard Milhous Nixon, America's "First Quitter", lives.

                    "America can't stand pat!"

1915 -- Author & petty thief Herbert Huncke lives.