April 5, Allan Kaprow, Marcelo Salinas, Emma Goldman, Gabriel-Constant Martin, Elisée Reclus, Gang of Matese, Carlo Cafiero, Pietro Cesaré Ceccarelli, Sergei Stepniak, LORD BUCKLEY, Alexander Atabekian, John Cage, Richard Kostelanetz, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, What Happened on this day, in recovered history April 5

" . . . what/is virtue

but the lack of strong temptation;

better to leave us with our lie of being good."

— Stephen Dobyns, "Bleeder"
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/dobyns.htm

APRIL 5
CEM KARACA
Turkish folk & protest singer, street activist.

GO FOR BROKE DAY.

Zurich: SIX RINGINGS FESTIVAL: Boog (Old Man Winter), a giant snowman stuffed with explosives, is jeered, taunted, & then blown up. Much feasting & revelry.

Tibet: SUNNING OF THE BUDDHA. Lamas bring Buddha statues out of temples of abstract tranquility to enjoy the sun.

http://www.bopsecrets.org/recent/buddhists.htm

*PEACE, HUMOR & ENLIGHTENMENT BE UNTO YOU*

1208 -- Quetzalcoatl, Toltec king, priest, astronomer & culture-hero, dies; he reduced Mayan calendar & appendices to a system of signs & ideographs which fitted all languages equally. Just like your Daily Bleed, except just the opposite & all chopped up like confetti.

1531 -- Really Steamed?: Richard Roose boiled to death for trying to poison an archbishop.

1588 -- Thomas Hobbes philosopher, lives, England.

1765 -- British poet Edward Young dies. His THE COMPLAINT or NIGHT THOUGHTS is one of the hallmarks of the Graveyard School of Poetry.

1794 -- French political satirist who wrote dramas & helped create the Republican calendar, Fabre d'Eglantine, dies in Paris.

1795 -- Switzerland: Peace between France & Prussia signed, Basil.

1799 -- US: First record of a meteor falling in the New World, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

1800 -- US: Luminous flying ship spotted over Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Looks like last year. Not even Martians can get the dates right?

1815 -- Java: Tambora volcano violently erupts on the island of Sumbawa. The area within a 200-mile radius is plunged into darkness for three days by dust & ash, which fell as far as 900 miles away a week later. Approximately 10-12,000 people were killed in the initial explosion, & another 70-80,000 may have died as a result of a famine caused by extensive ashfall on farming & grazing lands on the islands of Sumbawa & Lombox.

1828 -- Toulotte's novel The Dominican is confiscated after being condemned.

1837 -- Algernon Swinburne lives, London, England.
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James Joyce Ulysses (chapter 9, paragraph 52):
Khaki Hamlets don't hesitate to shoot. The bloodboltered shambles in act five is a forecast of the concentration camp sung by Mr Swinburne

James Joyce Ulysses (chapter 10, paragraph 512):
They drove his wits astray, he said, by visions of hell. He will never capture the Attic note. The note of Swinburne, of all poets, the white death & the ruddy birth. That is his tragedy. He can never be a poet. The joy of creation.

Jack London The Sea Wolf (chapter 26, paragraph 23):
As he had read pessimism into Omar, so now he read triumph, stinging triumph & exultation, into Swinburne's lines. & he read rightly, & he read well.

F. Scott Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise (book 2, chapter 3, paragraph 76):
[...] that would take the place of the great, deep love that was never so near, yet never so much of a dream. One poem they read over & over; Swinburne's "Triumph of Time," & four lines of it rang in his memory afterward on warm nights when he saw the fireflies among dusky tree...

F. Scott Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise (book 1, chapter 2, paragraph 301):
"Hadn't you better get some dope on yourself, Amory?" Amory subsided resignedly & drooped into a contemplation of the scenery. Swinburne seemed to fit in somehow.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algernon_Charles_Swinburne

1839 -- France: Gabriel-Constant Martin lives, Entrevaux (the Low-Alps). Teacher, elected a member of the Paris Commune, First International, Blanquist, anarchist. Martin wrote for Sébastien Faure's paper, "Le journal du peuple" until his death, July 9, 1906. See the Anarchist Encyclopedia,
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/gallery/galleryindex.htm#MartinConstant

1856 -- US: Black educator Booker T. Washington lives.

1859 -- Charles Darwin sends the 1st three chapters of The Origin of Species to his publisher.

1871 -- France: Élisée Reclus, serving in the National Guard, now in open revolt, during the Paris Commune, is taken prisoner. On the 16th of November he is sentenced to transportation for life; but, largely at the instance of influential deputations from England, the famed geographer & anarchist had his sentence commuted in January 1872 to perpetual banishment.
Source: Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th edition, page 957-8.
http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/library/index.html#Anarchism

1877 -- Italy: Debut of the anarchist "Gang of Matese."
Carlo Cafiero, Errico Malatesta, Pietro Cesaré Ceccarelli & the Russian militant Sergei Stepniak are among the 26 dubbed the "Gang of Matese" (la “banda” del Matese) by the government after the town of Letino declares a social revolution & libertarian communism three days hence.

Le forze armate soffocano una insurrezione nel Matese (Campania) guidata da Carlo Cafiero ed Errico Malatesta, a cui avevano aderito anche i parroci dei paesi di Letino e Gallo.
[Source: Crimini e Misfatti]
[Details / context]

1880 -- México: US fights the second Battle of San Andreas Mountains (-Apr. 7) in what is now New Mexico.
http://www.coax.net/people/lwf/WF_AABTL.HTM

1887 -- US: Anne Sullivan teaches the word "water" to Helen Keller.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAkeller.htm
http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/keller-helen/
http://www.afb.org/section.aspx?FolderID=1&SectionID;=1
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1888 -- Émile Eudes dies.
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It is Émile Eudes, a French Blanquist, who proposes the name of "Commune of Paris" to the incipient revolutionary structure during the Paris Uprising of 1871, which is adopted; Former pharmacy student, a member of the Military Commission during the Paris Commune; 1871, Blanqui's party organized in London as La Commune Révolutionnaire, under Émile Eudes; 1880, 28 mai.- Début de la parution du journal Ni Dieu, ni Maître (Auguste Blanqui, Émile Eudes, Édouard Vaillant).

[Sources]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile_Eudes

1889 -- Italy: Court of Rome sentences the socialist/anarchist Andrea Costa to three years in prison for "ribellione alla polizia di stato."
http://www.polyarchy.org/basta/crimini/tre.html

1889 -- Start of Sherlock Holmes story "Adventure of the Copper Beeches" (BG).

1894 -- US: 11 strikers are killed in a riot at Connellsville, Pa.

1894 -- Start of the Sherlock Holmes story "Adventure of the Empty House" (BG).

1895 -- England: That anarchist degenerate Oscar Wilde is arrested for homosexuality.

1895 -- Start of the Sherlock Holmes story "Adventure of the 3 Students" (BG).

1897 -- Spain: Benevento anarchist uprising.

1904 -- Argentina: The (daily) Protesta begins publishing, which for so many years weathers all storms.
Protesta was preceded by El Perseguido (1890-1897), the first of the rapidly developing active & numerous anarchist publications, & the La Protesta Humana (begun June 13, 1897), followed by the daily Protesta

[Source: Max Nettlau, Errico Malatesta: The Biography of an Anarchist.]

1906 -- US: Hipster, flipster musician Lord Buckley lives, Stockton, California.
Daily Bleed Patron Saint, 2004: LORD BUCKLEY
His Royal Hipness, the original mind-bubbler.

1910 -- France: Kissing is banned on French railways for causing too many delays.
Source: [Calendar Riots]

1911 -- US: 80,000 march in 5th Avenue funeral for Triangle Shirtwaist victims, NY.
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/

1914 -- US: Emma Goldman lectures on "The Conflict of the Sexes" in Chicago; attended by at least 1,000 people.

1915 -- During this month, writing from exile in Europe, Margaret Sanger criticizes Emma Goldman for failing to provide adequate support & coverage of Sanger's legal battles. Emma calls her charge "very unfair" & assures her that her magazine, Mother Earth, will stand by her.
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Margaret Sanger participated in the Patterson Textile Strike of 1913 which she wrote about in Hippolyte Havel's Revolutionary Almanac". She also contributed articles to Havel's "Revolt," Emma Goldman's "Mother Earth," Alexander Berkman's The Blast & The Modern School magazine.

Also during this month the Organizing Junta of the Partido Liberal Mexicano, including the Magón brothers (see Ricardo Flores Magón), appeals to the readers of Mother Earth for solidarity with the Mexican revolutionary movement.

Emma also poses for a portrait by the artist Robert Henri.

1916 -- US: Emma Goldman's courtroom hearing on her birth control violation takes place amid ruckus between police & her supporters.
[ed. note: this date from the Chronology at the EG Papers Project appears to be in error; [Details] ]

1917 -- Writer Robert Bloch, lives. Also writes as Collier Young.
American crime & suspense writer, who famous for stories about psychopaths. Best known is Psycho, a stunning film by Alfred Hitchcock (1960). Also wrote humorous fantasy, science fiction, short stories, screenplays & radio plays.
Bloch was asked that tired old question: why he wrote horror fiction. Bloch, who always had a quick wit, thought for a moment & replied,

"I have the heart of a small boy... & I keep it in a drawer at home."
He wrote a fan letter to H.P. Lovecraft at the age of 16. Lovecraft encouraged the boy to begin writing fiction & to submit his stories to Weird Tales. Thus began a 60-year writing career that is one of the most distinguished in the horror & mystery field.

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/rbloch.htm
http://mgpfeff.home.sprynet.com/bloch.html
http://web.tiscali.it/andrebalza/

1919 -- Poland: The army executes 35 Jews for distributing relief packages (post-WWI).

1920 -- Ireland: One hundred & twenty police stations & 22 tax offices are torched to commemorate the insurrectionists of the Easter Rising. See also 1966 below.
Source: 'Calendar Riots'

1921 -- Russia: Early this month Emma Goldman & Alexander Berkman return to Moscow determined to cut off all relations with the Bolshevik government.
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Also during the month, they plan to request permission to leave the country; prepared to exit secretly if necessary. Agrees to appeal to anarchists in the US for funds to support the Kropotkin Museum. Emma accompanies Louise Bryant to meet Stanislavsky, "the father of the modern Russian theater."

See Emma Goldman's My Disillusionment in Russia — Ch 28.

The Armenian medical doctor Alexander Atabekian was one of the veteran anarchists who founded the Museum; arrested in the 30s & presumably died in a Stalinist labor camp in 1940. Vera Figner was director of the Museum until she was herself banished by the Communists on Feb. 3, 1930.

Peter Kropotkin, see
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/KropotkinPeter.htm

1924 -- F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes "How We Live on $36,000 a Year" in the Saturday Evening Post to help defray the expenses of high living.
http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/index.html

1926 -- Precious metal?: H.L. Mencken arrested in front of hundreds of cheering spectators in Boston, for selling a banned issue of the American Mercury. magazine
http://web.archive.org/web/20090605091517/http://www.io.com/~gibbonsb/mencken.html
http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/sf/1964.htm#H.L.%20Mencken

1926 -- First issue of Hugo Gernsback's magazine "Amazing Stories" is published.

1930 -- France: Antoine Cyvoct dies. Lyons anarchiste militant.
Cyvoct was wrongly suspected of & spent many years in prison, then worked then worked in the bookstore business, & gave talks on prison conditions.

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1930 -- India: Gandhi's march to the sea begins.

1936 -- US: Tupelo, Mississippi virtually annihilated by a tornado, 216 die.

1942 --

Robert Musil

Austrian novelist Robert Musil dies, Geneva, Switzerland.
Daily Bleed Patron Saint, March 18 2004, ROBERT MUSIL
Mystic novelist of existential "man without qualities."
http://www.robertmusil.net/

1943 -- England: Peter Miller (1943-1999), labor activist, militant anarchist, dies of cancer. Trotskyite until he met Albert Meltzer. Involved with Anarchist Black Cross (ABC), Leicester Secular Society; wrote for Black Flag, Freedom, Cienfuegos Press Anarchist Review, Anarchy Magazine & editor, in the 1970s, of the anarchist cultural zine Z Review.
http://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/1893gb

1944 -- US: Merce Cunningham & John Cage dances "Spontaneous Earth" & "Triple Paced" premier, NYC.
To me, Cage was essentially a thirties lefty, who was more interesting than others who came out of that period because he made some original perceptions not only about art but especially about the place of politics in art, & then the possible role of art for politics, all the while remaining true to the sentiment of that time. In my sense of Cage, Zen & chance & everything else came afterwards; they are merely icing on this essentially anarchist cake.

— Richard Kostelanetz

http://www.sterneck.net/john-cage/kostelanetz/index.php
http://www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/cage.php
http://www.mercecunningham.org/
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bright/cage/biography.html

1951 -- US: Julius & Ethel Rosenberg are sentenced to death as atomic spies, NY.

1951 -- Turkey: Rock protest singer, activist Cem Karaca lives, Istanbul.
Daily Bleed Patron Saint 2005-2006
Turkish protest singer, counterculture totem, social rebel.

1952 -- US: No Blacklist?: Howard Hughes temporarily closes down MGM studios. His explanation: The authors of all 11 stories on the current shooting schedule were suspected Communist sympathizers.

1955 -- US: Farmers Home Administration offers loan guarantees for home fallout shelters.

1956 -- US: Columnist Victor Riesel, a crusader against labor racketeers, blinded in New York City when a hired assailant throws sulfuric acid in his face.

1957 -- Beatster Jack Kerouac leaves Tangier, for Paris; goes to the Louvre Museum; travels to England. & late this month returns to New York.
Kerouac came to Tangiers to see William Burroughs & stayed in a room above him, February-March, where he typed Burroughs' Naked Lunch manuscript. (Kerouac came up with the title which Burroughs originally called Word Hoard.) In March Allen Ginsberg & Peter Orlovsky showed up to visit them.

1958 -- Castro declares war on dictatorial & corrupt Batista regime. As the US turns against him he moves into the Communist fold & sets up his own dictatorship.
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bright/dolgoff/cubanrevolution/toc.html

1959 -- Cuba: Censorship of the media, prohibition of strikes & other labor & anarchist activities in Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Fidel Castro's regime.
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1962 -- US: Billie Sol Estes indicted for selling millions of dollars' worth of chattel mortgages on nonexistent fertilizer tanks.

1965 -- US: Alpert & Metzner at Vanguard Theater, Greenwich Village, NYC.

1966 -- Ireland: To commemorate 50 years since the Easter Rising, the Horatio Nelson Monument in Dublin is blown up. See also 1920 above.
[Source: Calendar Riots]

1967 -- US: Food's Good, But Don't Drink the Punch?
Grayline Tours starts touring Haight-Ashbury hippie scene.

1968 -- US: Frisco Mayor Alioto issues a proclamation condemning the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Thousands of people gathered at Civic Center in memory of the civil rights leader. City flags lowered to half staff.

1968 -- US: Martin Luther King's assassination provokes riots in Seattle.

1969 -- US: A weekend of antiwar demonstrations begins in all major; anti-war marches in 50 cities attract an estimated 150,000 Vietnam War protesters.

1969 -- Vatican: Pope Paul VI abolishes the galero (red hat) & red shoes of cardinals. Now they won't be mistaken for prostitutes.

1972 -- Outer Space: Pioneer 11 launched. Where did it go?

1972 -- US: Harrisburg 7 trial ends in a mistrial after 11 weeks (this was for plotting to kidnap Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Kissinger & blow up heating vents); only Phil Berrigan & Sister Elizabeth McAllister declared guilty — of smuggling letters in & out of prison!.

1974 -- Luxemburg: Founding of the Confederation of Socialist Parties of the European Community.

1974 -- Head Up His...? Henri LaMothe dives 40 feet into 12-1/2 inches of water. Foot in mouth, etc.

1976 -- China: Tien an men Square incident, popular demonstration of criticism of the Chinese regime in power in defiance of banning such criticism.

1976 -- US: Germ Warfare? Billionaire Howard Hughes dies. Lover of bugs, germs & the great outdoors. Despite living in plastic bags for over 30 years, the germs finally get him. War is hell.

1976 -- US: The FBI reveals its criminal COINTELPRO activities to disrupt black groups.

1977 -- US: 11 alien bodies are allegedly recovered from a UFO, southern Ohio. Politicians all, surely.

1978 --

US: Marcelo Salinas dies, Miami Florida. Anarquista, author, exiled from Cuba. / Nació en Batabanó (Cuba) en 1889. Adquirió una gran fama como escritor y fue Premio Nacional de Literatura. Headed Estudios (Havana, 1950) A principios de los 60, tras la toma de poder por Castro quedó apartado forzosamente de la vida social en Santiago de las Vegas, desde donde finalmente partió hacia el exilio.
http://www.alasbarricadas.org/ateneovirtual/index.php?title=Marcelo_Salinas&rcid;=2716
http://www.alasbarricadas.org/ateneovirtual/index.php?title=Estudios_%28Cuba%29&rcid;=2718

1981 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Ronnie Reagan is declared a Public Moron, Berkeley, California. Imbecile, cretin, they all work well. Then there are the voters who love him.

1982 -- Ireland: Nuclear free zone declared by Dublin City Council.

1983 -- El Salvador: Two members of a christian community in San Ramon are abducted, tortured & shot by the national police. In September, death squads bomb the Jesuit residence in San Salvador.
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Since 1981, 17 priests, nuns & religious workers have been killed. Why the carnage?
Religious commitment among many Central America clergy has taken the form of a new doctrinal outlook known as Liberation Theology, which stresses that the Catholic church's primary mission is to serve the poor rather than the wealthy & powerful cliques favored & supported by the US government/corporations. Priests & lay people have fanned out into the countryside & cities, preaching that the people's poverty is not God's will but the result of historical patterns of oppression that can be overcome only with action.

1985 -- Many radio stations worldwide simultaneously play "We Are the World."

1986 -- Record for a throw-&-return boomerang toss is set 397 ft. (121m).
(Always wear eye protection when throwing crooked sticks!!)

1992 -- US: Over 500,000 march in Washington, DC to support women's reproductive rights & equality.

1992 -- Bosnia: Nonviolent demonstration against war, Parliament building, Sarajevo.

1994 -- Black Is...Black Ain't: Marlon Riggs dies.

Marlon Riggs (1957-1994), Fearless queer American filmmaker, black activist, AIDS martyr; Patron SAINT 1998 & 2004, 24 February
http://www.colorado.edu/journals/standards/V5N1/marlonintro.html
http://www.colorado.edu/journals/standards/V5N1/riggs_release.html
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/RiggsInterview.html

1994 --

Nirvana lead singer & defacto head of the grunge generation, Kurt Cobain commits suicide by putting a shotgun to his head & pulling the trigger at his Seattle home. He was 27.

The accompanying photo here is in obvious bad taste.
http://www.angelfire.com/co/Kurtrulz4life/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Cobain

1994 -- Perú: Army begins an offensive of murder & rape against "suspected" rebels.

1996 -- US: Twelve arrested during protest at weapons manufacturing plant of Lockheed-Martin in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania.

1996 -- US: 54 arrested in Good Friday protest at Livermore Nuclear Weapons Laboratory, Livermore, California.

1997 -- The climatic conclusion of one generation arrives when Beat poet Allen Ginsberg suddenly ceases to Howl.
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"I really would just love to get an apartment, stop working & live with Peter & write poems," was Ginsberg's reply.

"So why don't you do that?" asked the doctor.

"What happens if I get old or something?"

"You're a nice person. There's always people who will like you."

I have the

secret, I carry

Subversive Salami in My

ragged briefcase

Garlic, Poverty

a will to Heaven

— Allen Ginsberg

http://www.yourpain.com/shiva/poetry/howl2.html
http://www.litkicks.com/People/AllenGinsberg.html
http://ezone.org/ez/e2/articles/digaman.html

1999 -- US: Microradio movement news accounts on the struggle to free the airwaves: "Activists mapping campaign for pubcasting independence" Current
[Source: Pirate Radio Kiosk]

2002 -- Layne Staley, frontman for Alice in Chains, is unshackled. Seattle musician, died of a mix of heroin & cocaine. The lethal combination goes by the name "speedball" in drug circles. The same ingredients contributed to the deaths of comedian John Belushi in 1982 & actor River Phoenix in 1993.
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1486206/remembering-layne-staley.jhtml

2003 -- Honduras: 86 rebel inmates die in a jail riot in northern Honduras; most are executed by guards, cops & soldiers.

2006 -- Allan Kaprow (b.1927) unhappens, Encitas, California. "Happenings" event creator. American painter, assemblagist & pioneer in establishing the concepts of performance art. He helped to develop the "Environment" & "Happening" in the late 1950s & 1960s, as well as their theory. Fluxus, Performance art, & Installation art was, in turn, influenced by his work.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Kaprow

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2010 -- US: Twenty-nine coal miners die in the Upper Big Branch Mine explosion — the worst US mining disaster in 40 years. A "catastrophe waiting to happen," the mine was cited for more than 1,300 safety violations from 2005 through 2010, with 50 citations in the 30 days leading up to the deadly West Virginia coal mine disaster.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massey_Energy#Upper_Big_Branch_mine_disaster
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/4/7/massey_energy_mine_cited_for_1
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2010/04/06/90370/massey-deadly-mine/

3000 --

"So I said good-bye to government, & I gave my reason; That a really good religion, is a form of treason."

— Kurt Vonnegut, anarchist, Cat's Cradle

Protestors: We Say No to Global Treason!

3000 --

http://struggle.ws/wsm/news/2001/koyoto_apr.html

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