Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 07:40:08 -0800
Subject: [fyi] Daily Step Through the Hole: 1/15 MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.


                  Oh, my son, if only I could
                  with a plough of frost
                  scratch furrows in the night
                  that holds my throat so tight
                  do you know what I would do? First
                  I'd plant white roses.

                  ^× Ernesto Diaz Rodriguez,
                       from his Cuban prison cell
                       http://www.fiu.edu/~fcf/beauty.jail.html

Daily Bleed web page, updated, 56 entries in full,
spilling off small monitors,
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0115.htm

Excerpts:

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
Civil rights martyr, Gandhian pacifist, anti-war activist.
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FEAST OF THE ABBOT OF UNREASON.

US: HAT DAY.

FEAST OF THE ASS: In the European Middle Ages,
maidens ride asses to church, priest bray & sing hymns
with heehaw choruses.
http://streams.com/starchild/wesley/ass.html

FEAST OF ISADORE, patron saint of labourers -
slack off, since it's also the birthday of Paul Lafargue,
Karl Marx's wayward son-in-law & author of
The Right to be Lazy [1842].
          ___________________

1752 -- Tobias Smollee anonymously publishes "Habakkuk
Hibling," pamphlet charging Henry Fielding with plagiarism.

1797 -- England: First top hat worn in London - James
Hetherington is fined £50 for wearing it & causing a
breach of the peace, it being found that he

     "appeared on the public highway wearing a tall structure
      of shining lustre & calculated to disturb timid people".

1771 -- US: "Bloody Act" passes North Carolina assembly,
making rioters guilty of treason.

1809 -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon lives, France. Famous
philosopher, economist, sociologist, often referred to as
the 'father of modern anarchism'. Project Gutenberg
(& other sites) has online texts of The Philosophy of Misery
(written in response to Marx's attack on him, The Poverty of
Philosophy) & What is Property.

                                   "Property is theft!"

                                   "Anarchy is order."

http://burn.ucsd.edu/~anow/ppl/rev/proudhon/
http://www.cpm.ll.ehime-u.ac.jp/akamacHomePage/akamac_E-text_Links/Proudhon.html

http://perso.club-internet.fr/ytak/janvier3.html#15
http://staff-www.uni-marburg.de/~multimed/theorie/klassik/owen/biographie.html

http://www.uqac.uquebec.ca/zone30/Classiques_des_sciences_sociales/livres/Proudhon/proudhon.html

http://www.wcnet.org/~paupers/subversions/
http://www.tattoomuseum.com/left/gallery/proudhon.shtml

1815 -- Lady Byron took their one-month-old daughter
Augusta Ada from Lord Byron's London apartments &
went to stay with her family. Byron never saw his wife
or child again.

1829 -- Honore de Balzac signs a contract with
publisher for "Les Chouans", the first work to appear
under his own name.

1842 -- Author Paul Lafargue (Marx's son-in-law) lives.
Wrote "The Right to Be Lazy" in 1893 while in prison.
Translated & published by Charles Kerr publishing
co-op in Chicago, 1907.

      "Let us be lazy in everything,
      except in loving & drinking,
      except in being lazy."

                                      ^× Lessing

http://reflect.cat.org.au/dwu/lafargue-part1.html

1881 -- Pierre Monatte (1881-1960) lives. A central figure
of French anarcho-syndicalist movement. Influenced by Emile
Pouget, friends with Albert Camus, he fought the Stalinist &
reformist positions in the trade unions.

   Camus' biographer Herbert Lottman comments
   on his association with numerous anarchists,
   with Monatte, with Giovanna Berneri of Volontà,
   Jean Paul Samson who published Témoins, Maurice
   Joyeux of Le Libertaire & Le Monde Libertaire, &
   with Spanish anarchist exiles producing Solidaridad
   Obrera...

   In his political isolation he had recourse to "the men
   & women of political movements with which he could
   still sympathize, those of the far-out left, who on their own
   chosen terrain were often as lonely as he was."

                         ^× noted by Colin Ward
http://www.nothingness.org/sociala/sa19/19ward2.html

1891 -- Russian poet Osip Mandelstam (Mandel'shtam)
(1891-1938), memorialized in his widow Nadezhda's
Hope Against Hope, lives, in Warsaw. Victim of Uncle
Joe Stalin's Gulag.

                Perhaps my whisper was already born
                before my lips.

            http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/mandelst.htm

1909 -- US: Great Boston Molasses Flood leaves 21 dead
(many drowning), 150 injured.

1916 -- US: Alexander Berkman announces publication of
the first issue of his San Francisco-based anarchist journal
The Blast.

1918 -- France: In Paris the group of musicians called Les Six
give their first concert.

1919 -- Rosa Luxemburg & Karl Liebnecht, libertarian
socialists, are murdered by police.

1929 -- US: American Civil Rights activist Martin Luther
King, Jr. lives, Atlanta, Georgia

1929 -- US: Congress passes the Kellogg-Briand Peace
Pact, signed by 62 nations outlawing war. Yup.

1939 -- Agustin Gomez Arcos (1939-1998) lives.
Spanish anarchist, gay dramatist/novelist. Wrote many
novels about pro-Franco Spain: L'agneau carnivore
(1975), Maria Republica (1976), Ana non (1977),
L'enfant pain (1983), Un oiseau brûlé vif (1984).

                       Often in winter the end of the
                     day is like the final metaphor in
                         a poem celebrating death:

                            there is no way out.

     ^× Agustin Gomez-Arcos, A Bird Burned Alive, 1988

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/sinners/Gomez-ArcosAgustin.htm

1949 -- Black Dahlia murder victim found in Los Angeles
(basis of the James Ellroy novel).
http://www.twbooks.co.uk/authors/jellroy.html

1950 -- Samuel Putnam, the expatriate American writer
who wrote a memoir called Paris Was Our Mistress, dies.

1959 -- In Portland, Oregon, Mel Lyman notes:

             I have a disease. It burns my insides out...

                     ^× Diary of a Young artist

             http://www.trussel.com/lyman/mirror.htm

1970 -- Nicaraguan poet Leonel Rugama shoots his last bullet
& dies resisting a battalion of US-puppet Somoza's troops
(in America we do not call our friends terrorists).

          Leonel Rugama was 20 years old.
          Of friends, he preferred chess players.
          Of chess players, those who lose because of the
          girl happening by.

          Of those that pass by, the one who remains.
          Of those who stay, the one who has yet to come.
          Of heroes, he preferred those who don't say they are dying for
their
          mother country.
          Of countries, the one born of his death.

http://www.patriagrande.net/nicaragua/leonel.rugama/index.html
http://www.peace-action.org/soafs.html

1991 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade
Leader President Bush restores $42.5 million in
military aid to El Salvador. We Americans are nothing
if not generous to other peoples...

   15 children under 14 who had been detained charged
   with terrorism are found decapitated. 13,500 civilians
   murdered or disappeared in eight months...

   The army no longer bothers to use prisons.

   Every morning at dawn, they lined up, these relatives,
   friends, & lovers of the disappeared of El Salvador.
   They came looking for or offering news; they had no
   other place to ask about the lost or bear witness.

   The door of the Human Rights Commission was
   always open;
   or one could simply step through the hole
   the last bomb had opened in its wall.

1999 -- Greece: Demonstrations in nearly every city
against the "2525/97 Act". Clashes broke out.
In Athens, 14 are arrested.

    Two, Arban Belala, a 17-year old student-emigrant
    from Albania & Vasilis Evangelidis, a 30-year old
    anarchist & unemployed teacher, face serious charges.

   Demonstrations, clashes & arrests continue through
   the month.


          ___________________________

                "To be governed is to be watched over,
                inspected, spied on, directed, legislated,
                regimented, closed in, indoctrinated, preached at,
                controlled, assessed, evaluated, censored,
                commanded; all by creatures that have neither
                the right, nor wisdom, nor virtue... To be
                governed means that at every move, operation,
                or transaction one is noted, registered, entered
                in a census, taxed, stamped, priced, assessed,
                patented, licensed, authorized, recommended,
                admonished, prevented, reformed, set right,
                corrected. Government means to be subjected
                to tribute, trained, ransomed, exploited,
                monopolized, extorted, pressured, mystified,
                robbed; all in the name of public utility & the
                general good. Then, at the first sign of
                resistance or word of complaint, one is
                repressed, fined, despised, vexed, pursued,
                hustled, beaten up, garroted, imprisoned, shot,
                machine-gunned, judged, sentenced, deported,
                sacrificed, sold, betrayed, & to cap all,
                ridiculed, mocked, outraged & dishonored. That
                is government, that is its justice & its morality!"

                                        ^× P-J Proudhon

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