Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 11:36:48 -0800
From: "David Brown, Recollection" <recall-AT-eskimo.com>
Subject: Daily Territorio: 3/24 WILHELM REICH


Web Bleechers: http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0324.htm

Let me tell you something about meditation. At the absolute
center, is the vortex we are spun from like clay, there is a
shaping hand which is neither Godlike nor peaceful as you
imagine.

    ^× Forrest Gander, "The Violence Of The Egg"

WILHELM REICH
Way beyond Freud & Jung, the SexPol dynamo.

Ancient Rome: DAY OF BLOOD, part of the FESTIVAL
OF ATTIS (Hilaria). Priests gash themselves with knives
in frenzied dancing to wild music, an offering to the
resurrected Attis.


1580 - First bombs (grenades) thrown, in Holland.

1635 - French engraver/illustrator Jacques Callot dies.

1638 - Deep Ecology?: Rhode Island purchased from the
Indians for 40 fathoms of beads. Reds in deed.

1661 - Willi Leddra executed in New England for being a
Quaker.

1788 - Commie Ingrates?: People of Rhode Island, in a
special referendum, reject the new United States
Constitution by a 10-to-1 margin. Reds in deed.

1829 - Professional crackpot George Francis Train lives.

1834 - Utopian William Morris (1834-1896) lives,
England. ^ÓDaily bleed^Ô Saint, 3 October 3, 1998.
Poet/artist/socialist/designer/printer whose designs
generated the Arts & Crafts Movement in the later half
of the 19th century. Associated with the Pre-Raphaelite
Brotherhood & a close friend of the painter-poet Dante
Gabriel Rossetti & his sister poet Christina Rossetti.
Best known for ^ÓNews From Nowhere^Ô (1890).

1869 - Émile Fabre lives, Metz, France. French playwright,
administrator of the Comédie-Française (1915-36),  who
wrote his first play at the age of 13.

1874 - Escapologist Harry Houdini lives, Budapest, Hungary.
http://classes.colgate.edu/GNED339/houdini.jpg

1878 - Charles Benoit lives, in Rouen. French revolutionary
socialist, then an anarchist. Assisted Jean Grave with his
paper "Les temps nouveaux".
http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/sinners/AndreGirard.htm

1882 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow dies, Cambridge,
Massachusetts. The first American honored with a bust in
Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey.

1883 - First telephone connection between NYC & Chicago.

1894 - Emile Digeon (1822-1894) dies. French revolutionary
socialist journalist, libertarian free thinker, anarchist
journalist, responsible for the "Commune of Narbonne,"
declared in 1871 when Paris rose up. Again in Narbonne, in
1883, Emile Digeon is presented during the election
campaigns as "an anarchist candidate"(!)
http://www.le.ac.uk/hi/bon/resources/FRENCH_HIST/Abstracts/Abs172.html

1897 - SexPol revolutionary Wilhelm Reich lives,
Dobrzynica,Galicia. Reich wrote ^ÓThe Mass Psychology
of Fascism, Sex-Pol Essays,  Function of the Orgasm^Ô, etc.

1905 - Jules Verne, father of modern science fiction,
journeys no further, dies, Amiens, France.
http://www.math.technion.ac.il/~rl/JulesVerne/

1918 - Canada: Women win the right to vote, years before
the US grants similar rights.

1919 - Poet/painter/beat/publisher/anarchist & founder of
City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco Lawrence Ferlinghetti
lives, Yonkers, New York.

Ferlinghetti opened a bookshop called the City Lights
Pocket Book Shop. He described City Lights "as a place
you could go in, sit down, & read books without being
pestered to buy something." The store became a home
for the Beat Generation of poets & writers, & Ferlinghetti
also turned it into a publishing house -- the first to publish
Allen Ginsberg's poem ^ÓHowl^Ô. City Lights published it in
1957 & Ferlinghetti was immediately arrested on obscenity
charges. He won the trial & went on to publish William S.
Burroughs, Jack Kerouac & Paul Bowles. He wrote a pair
of novels, two volumes of plays & over
10 books of poetry.
http://www.arengario.it/immagini/archive/controcu/beats/ferlpoli.jpg
http://www.charm.net/~brooklyn/People/LawrenceFerlinghetti.html

1919 - Spain: "La Canadienne" strike in Barcelona had ended
8 February; but in the face of the refusal of the army to
release a score of still imprisoned militants, they strike
again today in a beautiful show of solidarity.

The government had imprisoned 3000 strikers of the
anarchist union, the CNT, & declared martial law in its
attempt to crush the workers.

1926 - Italian playwright, manager-director-actor-mime
Dario Fo lives, Leggiuno-Sangiamo, Italy.

In 1997, the Nobel committee awarded Dario Fo the
Literature Prize, noting he "emulates the jesters of
the Middle Ages in scourging authority & upholding
the dignity of the downtrodden."

Dario Fo´s career started in small cabarets, theatres. In
1959 he founded the Compagnia Dario Fo --  Franca
Rame, producing satirical dramas such as ^ÓArchangels
Don´t Play Pinnball^Ô & ^ÓHe Had Two Pistols with
White & Black Eyes. ^Ó

In 1968 Dario founded the acting group Nuova Scena,
which had ties to the Italian Communist Party, but his
satirical views aroused much criticism from the
Communist Press -- like earlier from the Catholic
Church.

In 1970 Fo started Colletivo Teatrale La Comune.
Among Fo´s most famous works are ^ÓAccidental
Death of an Anarchist^Ô & ^ÓWe
Can^Òt Pay? We Won^Òt Pay!^Ô
http://thanatos.aspide.it/freeweb/Cucca/fo.htm
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/dariofo.htm

1955 - Tennessee Williams' play ^ÓCat on a Hot Tin Roof^Ô
opens at the Morosco Theater in New York.

1956 - Italy: Danilo Dolci & 22 others are tried in a
Sicily court for the nonviolent direct action of attempting
to repair an old road without proper government
authorization. "The Sicilian Gandhi," twice a nominee
for the Nobel Peace Prize.
http://www.clubi.ie/shalom/lectio/danilodolci.html
http://www.dfg-vk.de/english/book31.htm

1962 - England: 1,172 arrested in sit-down against nuclear
weapons, Parliament Square.

1965 - US: First Vietnam teach-in, University of Michigan.
(Organized by SDS?) 500 participants were expected, but
3,000 showed up for an all-nighter.

1969 - Lennox Raphael's play ^ÓChe^Ô is busted for obscenity
two days after opening at the Free Store Theatre in Manhattan.

1973 - Lou Reed is bitten on his fanny by a fan at a
concert in Buffalo, New York.

1974 - US: Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW)
founded.

1977 - Argentina: Yet another government can only
stammer the speech of death: Rodolfo Walsh writes an
open letter to the Military junta regards its infamous
crimes; a day later, the dictatorship assassinates him.
The naked word is scandalous where fear rules, the
naked word dangerous where the great
dance of disguises is danced.
http://www.patriagrande.net/uruguay/eduardo.galeano/memoria.del.fuego/19770324.htm

1980 - El Salvador: Archbishop Oscar Romero assassinated
during mass, San Salvador, by US-supported rightist goon
squads. Archbishop Romero has exhorted the police &
soldiers to disobey orders to kill innocent people, refuses
to be silenced by those in power. The town has interrupted,
with ovations, his homilies condemning the terrorism of the
State.

Those in power deliver the only ovation they know -- a hail
of bullets.
http://www.patriagrande.net/uruguay/eduardo.galeano/memoria.del.fuego/19800324.htm

http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~lcush/IWwebsitestuff/IW.internationalism/IW.internat-2.html

1989 - Exxon Valdez oil spill disaster, Prince William
Sound, Alaska. Exxon has successfully avoided paying most
cleanup costs through numerous court battles. Destroys
thousands of square miles of pristine wildlife habitat in the
largest oil spill in US history. Exxon Corp. spends the next
several years spending millions avoiding lawsuits, creating
new PR spins, & obstructing cleanup efforts.


        Baseball Canto
       Lawrence Ferlinghetti


Watching baseball, sitting in the sun, eating popcorn,
reading Ezra Pound,
and wishing that Juan Marichal would hit a hole right
through the

Anglo-Saxon tradition in the first Canto
and demolish the barbarian invaders.
When the San Francisco Giants take the field
and everybody stands up for the National Anthem,
with some Irish tenor's voice piped over the loudspeakers,
with all the players struck dead in their places
and the white umpires like Irish cops in their black suits
and
little
black caps pressed over their hearts,
Standing straight and still like at some funeral of a
blarney
bartender,
and all facing east,
as if expecting some Great White Hope or the Founding
Fathers to
appear on the horizon like 1066 or 1776.

But Willie Mays appears instead,
in the bottom of the first,
and a roar goes up as he clouts the first one into the sun
and
takes
off, like a footrunner from Thebes.
The ball is lost in the sun and maidens wail after him
as he keeps running through the Anglo-Saxon epic.
And Tito Fuentes comes up looking like a bullfighter
in his tight pants and small pointy shoes.
And the right field bleechers go mad with Chicanos and
blacks
and Brooklyn beer-drinkers,
"Tito! Sock it to him, sweet Tito!"
And sweet Tito puts his foot in the bucket
and smacks one that don't come back at all,
and flees around the bases
like he's escaping from the United Fruit Company.
As the gringo dollar beats out the pound.
And sweet Tito beats it out like he's beating out usury,
not to mention fascism and anti-semitism.
And Juan Marichal comes up,
and the Chicano bleechers go loco again,
as Juan belts the first ball out of sight,
and rounds first and keeps going
and rounds second and rounds third,
and keeps going and hits paydirt
to the roars of the grungy populace.
As some nut presses the backstage panic button
for the tape-recorded National Anthem again,
to save the situation.

But it don't stop nobody this time,
in their revolution round the loaded white bases,
in this last of the great Anglo-Saxon epics,
in the territorio libre of Baseball.

Audio .au format | Length: 2.5 min. || Size: 1,700K || Hear
It:

http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/Multimedia/baseball_7.au

& please don't forget to visit this very sick little boy,
who lives just across Lake Washington from us, Mudball Taylor:
http://mudball.com/


Auntie-Epics 2001
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no opinion a crime."

       ---Alexander Berkman