Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 10:33:33 -0800
Subject: Daily Bleed: 1/10 FRANCISCO FERRER


                    The perfume
                    of flowers! A haw

                    drops such odour
                    it stops me

                    in the wall
                    of its fall. Love

                    Arrests

                    Lime-trees
                    saturate

                    the night. We walk
                    in it

                    On a path jonquils
                    fill

                    the air. Love

      --- Charles Olson, "The Perfume/Of Flowers!..."

Daily Bleed in full, web page, at
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0110.htm

excerpts:

JANUARY 10 -- FRANCISCO FERRER
Spanish revolutionist, theorist, anarchist educator, martyr.

NEW YEAR'S DAY: For the Amerindian Iroquois who
celebrate with a 'Feast of Dreams'.

FOREIGN AGENTS' DAY.


1743 -- Poet/playwright Richard Savage arrested in Bristol for a
debt of 8 pounds, owed to a coffee-house.

1859 -- Spanish educator, anarchist, Francisco Ferrer lives, Alello,
Spain. Murdered in a ditch by Spanish police.
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/2419/spain_ferrer.html
http://www.pitzer.edu/~dward/Anarchist_Archives/goldman/aando/ferrer.html

1860 -- US: Pemberton Mill in Lawrence, Massachusetts, suddenly
collapses, trapping 900  workers, mostly Irish women.

1880 -- American Emperor Norton I, its greatest
leader ever, is buried today at Masonic Cemetery
in Frisco. The funeral cortege was two miles long,
10,000-30,000 people turned out to pay homage &
celebrate.

1880 -- Tintin & his dog Snowy, characters created
by the Belgian cartoonist Hergé (Georges Remi),
appear for the first time in Vingtième Siècle.

1887 -- Poet Robinson Jeffers lives

               Jeffers called for a poetry of
               'dangerous images' which would
               'reclaim substance & sense, &
               psychological reality.'
               http://www.jeffers.org/

1904 -- US: Bookbinders Union, No. 147, founded.

1914 -- US: Labor organizer/folk singer Joe Hill, coiner
of the phrase "pie in the sky" allegedly kills two men
during a grocery store hold-up.

1919 -- Germany: Arrest of the author, publisher,
anarchist Erich Muhsam [Muehsam] & 11 other radicals.
See the Anarchist Encyclopedia page,
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/sinners/MuhsamErich.htm

1920 -- Democracy in Action in the Land of the Free?: By a vote
of 328-6, the House of Representatives refuse to seat Victor
Berger, duly elected Representative from Wisconsin, because he
was a Socialist who vigorously opposed U.S. participation in
World War I. In America we call this "Freedom".

1929 -- Mexico: Julio Antonio Mella is assassinated by
order of Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Cuban dictator
Gerardo Machado.

   Mella, an expatriate student, has been a marked man ever
   since his fiery speeches rocked Havana's students.

   Mella denounced the dictatorship & mocked the decrepitude
   of the Cuban University, a factory of professionals with the
   mentality of a colonial convent.

  One night Mella is strolling arm in arm with his companion,
  photographer Tina Modotti, when the murderers shoot him
  down.

   Tina returns home & sees Mella's empty shoes waiting for
   her under the bed.

   Until a few hours ago, this woman was so happy she was
   jealous of herself.

http://www.patriagrande.net/uruguay/eduardo.galeano/memoria.del.fuego/19290110.htm

1957 -- Gabriela Mistral, the first Latin-American woman to win
the Nobel Prize for Literature (1945), dies in Hempstead, NY.

1961 -- Ace of Spades? The creator of the hard-boiled detective
Sam Spade, Dashiell Hammett, dies after a long battle with
cancer & with the rightwing witchhunters & HUAC.

Daily Bleed Saint, Dec 12.
http://mysterynet.com/hammett/
http://www.thrillingdetective.com/eyes.html

1961 -- US: First black students enroll at University of
 Georgia (or yesterday?), Athens, Georgia, leading to white
 riots tomorrow.

    By the year 2001 the wise educators of the
    University have improved things vastly. In a
    state with an African American population of
    20%, the esteemed University now boasts a
    whopping 6% African American enrollment.

1970 -- Charles Olson  dies, New York, N.Y.
http://www.levity.com/corduroy/olson.htm

                          The question, the fear he raises up
                                       himself against
                              (against the same each act is
                                proffered, under the eyes
                                            am I?)

                        ^× from "In Cold Hell, in Thicket"

                    http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/authors/olson/

1976 -- Howlin' Wolf singer/guitarist, dies following brain
surgery at 65. Smokestack...Evil...That Spoonful...


                                       __________

                           "...one way all men are born equal is
                           in being born at least a little bit
                           crazy, some being born more equal
                           than others."

                                      ^× Norman Maclean


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