Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 11:20:07 -0800
Subject: Daily Bleed: FEDERICA MONTSENY


                         "Those are my principles.

                          If you don't like them

                          I have others."

                                             ^× Groucho Marx(ist)


Daily Bleed web page updated & 65 entries in full,
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/today.htm

excerpts:

               JANUARY 14
       FEDERICA MONTSENY
Renowned Spanish feminist, radical educator.

Suffolk, England: CAKES & ALE DAY, food to the poor.

All Souls College, Oxford: MALLARD DAY, celebrating the
discovery of an unusually large & tasty duck on this day in
1437.

Hindu World: PONGOL OF THE COWS. Sacred animals are
sprinkled with water, saffron, flowers & leaves of sacred
plants; their horns are painted, garlands hung about their
necks. With drums & cymbals they are driven through town
with much festivity.

FEAST OF ST. FELIX. Or Felix the Cat?


1850 -- While held in the Königstein fortress, Russian
anarchist Michael Bakunin is today condemned to death.

1850 --
                        Pierre Loti, whose themes
                        anticipate some of the
                        central preoccupations of
                        French literature between the
                        world wars, lives

1858 -- France: Italian Nationalists led by Felice Orsini
bowls three bombs under Napoleon III's carriage
^Ö but only slightly wounding the Beloved & Respected
Comrade Leaders Empress Eugenie.

            As she stepped completely uninjured from the wreckage,
            the Empress was heard to comment,

           ^Ñ C^Òest le metier^Ò ^Ö ^ÑIt^Òs all part of the job^Ò.

1866 -- US: Art Young, "Masses" cartoonist, lives.
Daily Bleed Saint December 29.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/ARTyoung.htm

1892 -- Martin Niemoeller (1892-1984), pacifist
pastor, lives, Germany.

                In Germany they came first for the Communists,
                & I didn't speak up because I wasn't a
                Communist.

                Then they came for the Jews, & I didn't speak
                up because I wasn't a Jew.

                Then they came for the trade unionists, & I
                didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade
                unionist.

                Then they came for the Catholics, & I didn't
                speak up because I was a Protestant.

                Then they came for me, & by that time no one
                was left to speak up.

                  ^× Martin Niemoeller, German Lutheran Pastor

1896 -- John Dos Passos, lefty novelist/capitalist realist (the
U.S.A. trilogy), & later Cold War warrior, lives, Chicago.
An integral part of the Lost Generation crowd in Paris in the
20s. His increasing fascism estranged him from most of his
associates, including Hemingway.

1898 -- Reverend Charles L Dodgson, better known as
Lewis Carroll, dies at 66.

1914 -- US: IWW (Industrial Workers of the World)-Suhr
Trial begins, Marysville, California.

1918 -- US: Emma Goldman fined & sentenced
to 2 years prison for obstruction of justice (opposing the
draft). She will soon be deported from the Land of the Free.
http://home4.swipnet.se/~w-40997/emma.htm

1921 -- Murray Bookchin, American anarchist, lives. Prolific
author, philosopher, advocate of Libertarian Municipalism,
head of the Institute for Social Ecology.
http://www.social-ecology.org/harbinger/vol2no1/bookchin.html

1925 -- Self-Criticism?: Novelist/playwright Yukio
Mishima (Kimitake Hiraoka) lives, Tokyo, Japan, into a
samurai family. Right-wing gay novelist who put the
finishing touches to his The Sea of Fertility tetralogy,
committing suicide a few hours later.

1927 -- US: Henry Ford's Old Fashioned Dance
Orchestra records "Hungarian Varsovienne",
reflecting the immigrant population of Ford's plants.

             "A man checks 'is brains & 'is freedom
             at the door when he goes to work at Ford's."

                              ^× anonymous worker,
                                   as related to Edmund Wilson

1938 -- England: Author/novelist  Ethel Mannin & Emma
Goldman speak on "The Betrayal of the Spanish People"
at a CNT-FAI program in London; the audience turns
against the Communists when they attempt to break up
the meeting.

1957 -- Humphrey Bogart, (Whiskey Straight) dies at 57,
at 2:30 in the morning. Bogart, arguably America's most
famous film actor, had cancer of the esophagus.
News programs treated his funeral as a national event.
http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/0123b.htm#1899

1966 -- March on Atlanta to protest ouster of Julian Bond,
            African American pacifist, from Georgia House of
            Representatives, after his endorsement of SNCC
            statement critical of US involvement in Vietnam;
            Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke.

                Injustice anywhere is a
                threat to justice
                everywhere.

                          ^× Martin Luther King Jr.

1967 -- US: Gathering of the Tribes for the First Human
Be-In (first hippie "be-in") at Golden Gate Park in Frisco,
California. Probably 20,000 come to play, though Emmett
Grogan says as many as 300,000 in Ringolevio. Familiar
names include Michael McClure, Gary Snyder, & Lenore
Kandel. Among the performers are The Grateful Dead &
The Jefferson Airplane. Speakers also include Jerry Rubin,
Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti & Timothy Leary.

1970 -- Spain: Government drafts 55,000 postal workers
to crush strike.

1970 -- US: Anarchist/pacifist Ammon Hennacy dies.

Best known for his work in operating the "Joe Hill
Hospitality House" for transients in Salt Lick City,
Utah. Hennacy was a self-described
"Christian-anarchist-pacifist" who never paid taxes
or went to war.

See the Anarchist Encyclopdia,
http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/sinners/HennacyAmmon.htm

1976 -- Spain: Wildcat strike wave spreads across the
nation to Barcelona, resulting in the formation of workers'
general assemblies & defiance of the unions & government.

                ^ÓEach of them [parties, unions, groupuscles] organizes
                repression against those who are not organized, or who
are
                not organized according to their particular methods. The

                difference between these organizations is measured by
the
                amount of repression they are prepared to exercise.^Ô

                ^× Jacques Camatte, Against Domestication

                http://www.geocities.com/~johngray/agdom.htm
                http://www.slip.net/~knabb/PS/joyrev3.htm#Wildcats and
sitdowns
                http://www.geocities.com/cordobakaf/elephantaut.html
                http://www.efn.org/~jamesd/Contributions.html

                See also the text, "A Manuscript Found in Vitoria,"
                by Los Incontrolados from Wildcat Spain
                Encounters Democracy,
                http://www.notbored.org/vitoria.html

1977 -- Amorous novelist Anais Nin dies.

1989 -- 1,000 Muslims burn Salmon Rushdies' Satanic
Verses in Bradford England.

1990 -- The Simpsons live. Homer makes one of the great
parental statements to Lisa, when she says he does not
understand something:

       "Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand."

1991 -- US: An estimated 30,000-60,000 rally at Seattle
Central Community College (where Auntie  Dave was once
editor of the student paper, & the school tried twice to remove him)
in a vigil & opposition to pending U.S. invasion of Kuwait & Iraq.

1994 -- Spanish anarchist, feminist, educator Federica Montseny
(1905-1994) dies.
http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/berneri/in_government.html
http://perso.club-internet.fr/ytak/novembre1.html#CNT


                            ________________

                    "The white man knows how to make everything,
                     but he does not know how to distribute it."

                                                   ^× Sitting Bull


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