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Tomorrow is Saint Valentine's Day,
All in the morning betime,
& I a maid at your window,
To be your Valentine.— William Shakespeare, Ophelia in Hamlet
"CORKY" TRINIDAD
Philippine American editorial political cartoonist.
Northumberland, England: BLESSING THE SALMON NETS.
Ancient Rome: PARENTALIA, a week-long festival for deceased relatives begins, all temples closed, weddings prohibited.
1633 -- Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for trial before Inquisition for professing belief that earth revolves around the Sun."It's ironic that demagogues seem to know better how to control aggressive instincts than do behavior scientists."
— Dr. Niko Tinbergen, who noted that rats subjected to constant attack & defeat collapse & die for no obvious reasons.
1635 -- New World: First public school in what will become the US (the Boston Latin School) is founded.
1641 -- New World: Iroquois Confederacy begins war against Canada.
1692 -- Scotland: Massacre of Glencoe, initiated by the English, when the Campbells slaughter their hosts, the MacDonalds. Considered the beginning of the destruction of the Highlanders, 38 men were murdered & another 40 women & children died of exposure after their homes were burned.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/scottishhistory/union/trails_union_glencoe.shtml
1728 -- New World: Puritan fundamentalist preacher Cotton Mather dies. Finally!
1769 -- Ivan Krylov (1769-1844) lives. Writer of fables which satirizes social types in the guise of beast. Produced 203 fables in nine books. They are still an integral part of Russian primary & secondary education."The weak against the strong. Is always in the wrong."
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/krylov.htm
1777 -- Another Sade Chapter in History?: de Sade arrested without charge, imprisoned in Vincennes fortress.The Sade entry came from the biographical introduction to the Evergreen Press English publication of his works. I actually think the bio is not very reliable (it's quite romanticized), but the dates are probably right. I have no reason to disbelieve this.
— Bleedster Robert Braunwart
1837 -- US: Flour Riot in New York City, early American riot of the poor against property.6,000 New Yorkers attending a "bread, meat, rent, & fuel" meeting in Chatham Square assault local flour merchants who, they claim, are hoarding flour in order to drive up the price. They drive the police & Hizzoner to cover & storm a flour warehouse,
Inspires the Flour Power movement in 1960s.
1866 -- US: Jesse James holds up his first bank, Liberty, Missouri.
1882 -- US: Knights of Labor founder Uriah Stephens (b.1821) dies.Daily Bleed Saint 2004-5; 2007-2011
American Knights of Labor founder, union strategist.
1883 -- Anti-Semite, proto-fascist German composer Richard Wagner dies.
1884 -- Italy: In Florence, the state police seizes, for the third time, the newspaper of the anarchist communists "La Questione Sociale", arresting its editor, Pilade Cecchi, who is eventually sent to prison for 21 months. / A Firenze, la polizia di stato sequestra, per la terza volta, il giornale dei comunisti anarchici 'La questione sociale', arrestando il suo redattore, Pilade Cecchi, che verrà condannato a quattro anni di carcere.
Source: [Crimini e Misfatti][Details / context]
1891 -- American heartland painter Grant Wood lives, Anamosa, Iowa.Daily Bleed Saint 2001-2006
Witty painter of corn, hogs & Heartland Americans.
http://www.cgfaonlineartmuseum.com/w/w-4.htm
1898 --US: Emma Goldman is scheduled to speak to the Philosophical Society in Brooklyn.
"Je me considère comme un anarchiste non violent, car l'anarchie n'est pas nécessairement violente, celui qui s'en réclame étant un homme qui refuse tout ce qu'on veut lui faire entrer de force dans la tête ; il est également contre ceux qui veulent se servir de lui au lieu de lui laisser sa liberté de penser."
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/simenon.htm
http://www.988.com/authors/simenon_georges.php
(The following article no longer online in 2003; I have archived, & may post online at the Stan Iverson Memorial Archives at a later date — ed.); meanwhile in 2004 I have found an archived link:
http://web.archive.org/ ... ecrivain/auteurs/simenon.html
Simenon's three-dimensional quality is used to even better effect in "The Green Thermos," the story of Chave, a high-minded anarchist, who risks arrest & possible death to prevent his hot-headed accomplices from blowing up a factory...
Another distraction from provincial life: getting drunk once a week with a group of young writers & painters who called themselves La Caque (The Keg). Believers in alcohol, anarchism & their own genius, they idealized the poet of criminals, François Villon. In a disreputable section of town, professional criminals hung out in cafes — but only Simenon among the group felt impelled to move from the abstract to the real, sitting by himself & watching them at close quarters. When he followed them through the streets they became suspicious...
— Gavin Lambert, , "Night Vision — Georges Simenon", in The Dangerous Edge
(from yet again another bang-up site by Steve Trussell):
http://www.trussel.com/f_maig.htm
1907 -- England: English suffragettes storm British Parliament & 60 women are arrested.
Source: ’Scope’
1917 -- Russia: Strikes & meetings held in Petrograd factories: beginning of the Russian Revolution.
"[U]nless Socialists are prepared openly & avowedly to profess that the satisfaction of the needs of each individual must be their very first aim; unless they have prepared public opinion to establish itself firmly at this standpoint, the people in their next attempt to free themselves will once more suffer a defeat."
http://www.spunk.org/texts/places/russia/sp001861/bolintro.html"Vladimir Ilyich [Lenin], your concrete actions are completely unworthy of the ideas you pretend to hold."
— Peter Kropotkin
1921 -- Russia: Peter Kropotkin's funeral held in Moscow — the last public anarchist gathering & the last non-state-sponsored mass assembly in Russia for 70 years — as Lenin, Trotsky & the Bolsheviks begin their crackdown to secure their power over the working class. On passing Butyrki jail, incarcerated political prisoners strike up an anarchist hymn to the dead.Under pressure of the libertarians, anarchist prisoners are allowed to attend Kropotkin's funeral. A crowd estimated at 30-100,000 follows the coffin to the cemetery. Black flags are deployed, & banners proclaiming:
"Where there is authority, there is no freedom"
http://www.blackrosebooks.net/kropot.htm
"The anarchists ask to be released from the prison of socialism"
20+ photos from the funeral, no longer online from a Portuguese site, archived here:
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/Kropotkin/agrorede.orgFuneral/pk.html' ...begin a crackdown...'?
Umm...Shouldn't that read begin a NEW crackdown?
According to G Maximoff the red fascists had already cracked down, killing anarchists since April 12, 1918 in Petrograd. In May 1918 there was a pitched battle in Moscow & in Sept 1918 the RED TERROR began. The first crackdown might be considered the shooting of ' rioters' in the streets round Jan/Feb 1918. The death penalty was also reintroduced around then & the constituent assembly dissolved.— Bleedster Professor Rat, 2006
1921 -- Russia: Emma Goldman, among others, delivers a public remembrance at Kropotkin's funeral in Moscow.Soviet leaders release only a handful of anarchist political prisoners following an appeal to allow all incarcerated anarchists to attend the ceremony.
In mid-February Emma receives permission to visit anarchist prisoners at Butyrki prison; among others, she sees Fanya & Aaron Baron (both eventually executed) & Voline.
Goldman & Berkman return to Petrograd & she prepares articles about Kropotkin's death for the Nation & the Manchester Guardian; rejects offer to write about Soviet Russia for the New York World.
1932 -- Denmark: Emma Goldman lectures at Copenhagen University on "Dictatorship, a World Menace" to an audience of 1,000 after lectures scheduled there earlier in the month are canceled for fear of Communist demonstrations.
1934 -- Spain: Anarchosyndicalist CNT calls for the socialist UGT to clearly & publicly state its revolutionary objectives. It meets with no reply, leaving the CNT, in effect, to be used as cannon-fodder to help produce another government that would attack the CNT.
1936 --Italy: Temistocle Monticelli (b.1869) dies. Anarchist militant & antimilitarist, member of "Comité de défense libertaire," arrested during WWI, as secretary of the underground Comitato di Azione Internazionalista Anarchica (CAIA).
1937 -- Scotland: In Glasgow, Emma Goldman meets with local anarchists at the home of Frank Leech, secretary of the Anti-Parliamentary Communist Federation.
1945 -- Germany: Over 130,000 killed in Allied firebombing of Dresden. Remains little-known event even today, as the allies downplay this slaughter of innocents & devote propaganda to the German atrocities.In a three-day period, 3,400 tons of explosives & incendiaries were dropped, reducing six square miles of the city to rubble & killing 135,000. Many Allied officials were outraged — Germany was clearly on the verge of collapse, & Dresden was not a German war production city. Dresden had been famous for its artwork & historic buildings until it became the victim of the single most destructive air raid of World War II.
http://www.natvan.com/free-speech/fs953d.html
http://www.codoh.com/incon/inconabr.htmlThe soldier — Kurt Vonnegut Jr. — tried for many years to put into words what he had experienced during that horrific event.
"I thought it would be easy for me to write about the destruction of Dresden, since all I would have to do would be to report what I had seen," Vonnegut noted.
It took him more than 20 years, however, to produce Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade, A Duty-Dance With Death.
"I cannot remember a time when I was not aware of the Holocaust. As a small boy, no more than 6 or 7 years old, I would write ``Hitler'' on the bottom of my shoe — so I could wipe out his name as I walked."
— American son of a Holocaust survivor
1946 -- The blinding of Isaac Woodard (or Woodward).
They beat me about the head & face & left a bloody trail
All down along the sidewalk to the iron door of the jail;
He knocked me down upon the ground & he poked me in the eyes;
When I woke up next morning, I found my eyes were blind.They drug me to the courtroom, & I could not see the judge;
He fined me fifty dollars for raising all the fuss;
The doctor finally got there but it took him two whole days;
He handed me some drops & salve & told me to treat myself.It's now you've heard my story, there's one thing I can't see,
How you could treat a human like they have treated me;
I thought I fought on the islands to get rid of their kind;
But I can see the fight lots plainer now that I am blind.— Woody Guthrie, THE BLINDING OF ISAAC WOODARD
(WOODY GUTHRIE/tune: "THE GREAT DUST STORM") (Aug 16, 1946)"This one I made up so's you wouldn't be forgetting what happened
to this famous Negro soldier less than three hours after he got his
Honorable Discharge down in Atlanta....See the Stan Iverson Memorial Archive,
http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/library/blindingIsaac.htm
1953 -- US: Major-league baseball owners warned by Senator Edwin Johnson against televising their games nationwide — that broadcasting these games to a national audience would be a threat to the survival of minor-league baseball.
source: ’history channel’
1960 -- France becomes the fourth nuclear power.
1964 --Arthur Upfield lives. Australian writer, best known for his detective fiction featuring Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte ('Bony') of the Queensland Police Force, a half-caste Aborigine. Upfield incorporated Aboriginal culture, based upon his experiences in the outback, into his detective novels. Inspired Tony Hillerman's Navaho detective series.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_W._Upfield
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boney_%28TV_series%29
1966 -- Bad boys, The Rolling Stones appear on The Ed Sullivan Show.
1966 -- Vietnam: Photographer Gordon Baxter takes the photos that are the major basis of his book, 13/13: Vietnam: Search & Destroy. A photographic essay, haunting photoss throughout this rather simplistic pro-American Vietnam War book. A ‘personal account of an action on the 13th day of February 1966. We crossed a river &, at the foot of a mountain, we took a little village. We suffered twelve wounded & one KIA.’
1967 -- US: National Student Association reveals it has "secretly & indirectly" received more than $3 million from the CIA over a 15-year period. NSA President Eugene Grove denies any of the money was used for intelligence work. Duh."The highest ambition of the integrated spectacle is still to turn secret agents into revolutionaries, & revolutionaries into secret agents."
— GUY DEBORD, 1988
"A few years back, a man high up in the CIA named Ray Cline was asked if the CIA, by its surveillance of protest organizations in the United States, was violating the free speech provision of the First Amendment. He smiled & said: 'It's only an amendment.'"
— Howard Zinn, The Zinn Reader pp412-13.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Student_Association
1968 -- US: Five soldiers arrested at pray-in for peace, Fort Jackson, South Carolina.
1968 -- France: A pro-North Vietnam demonstration takes place.
[Sources]
1968 --
"C’n’est pas un singe, c’est un porc..."
Polish War Song
See René Viénet, Enragés et situationnistes dans le mouvement des occupations. [Éditions Gallimard, 1968]
http://debordiana.chez.com/francais/enrages.htm
http://www.cddc.vt.edu/sionline/chronology/chronology.html | [Situationist Resources]
1969 -- US: 33 arrested at administration building sit-in, University of Massachusetts.
1970 -- US: Women takeover station WCBN in Boston.
1970 -- India: Man-eating tiger is reported to have killed 48, 80 km from New Delhi.
’Scope’
1971 -- No Hope?: Having struck three spectators with his first two golf shots at the Bob Hope Classic, Beloved & Respected Corrupted Leader Effete Duffer US Vice-President Spiro T. Agnew throws down his club & quits. None too soon.
1972 -- Led Zeppelin forced to cancel Singapore concert when officials won't let them off the plane because of their long hair.
1974 -- Author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn expelled from the Soviet Union.
1978 -- Australia: Early in the morning, a bomb explodes in front of the 42-story Hilton Hotel in Sydney, location of a conference of leaders of Asian & Pacific Commonwealth countries.Placed in a trash can, the bomb kills two garbage collectors & a bystander, but injures none of the conference delegates. According to press speculation, the bombing is directed at the Indian Prime Minister by a fanatical Buddhist sect, Ananad Marg, whose members believe their leader, convicted of murdering defectors from his group, is the incarnation of god.
’ Webster's Encyclopedia of Australia 1999’
1979 -- US: The Hood Canal Floating Bridge suddenly became just the Hood Canal Bridge during a violent wind storm.
1981 -- US: Death Sentence? Longest sentence published by the NY Times — 1286 words.
source: ’Scope’
1982 -- Grave Matter?: Lynyrd Skynyrd singer Ronnie Van Zant's 300 pound gravestone stolen from his resting place.
1982 -- South Africa: 15,000 black & white attend funeral of Neill Aggett — trade union organizer — to protest & commemorate his death.
http://www.anc.org.za/show.php?include=docs/misc/2010/umzabalazo.html
1982 -- Zeng Jinlian Hunan, who grew to 8'1" (tallest woman), dies at 17, China.
source: ’Scope’
1985 -- South Africa: Police arrest 13 — nearly all the leaders of the United Democratic Front (main opposition group).
http://www.anc.org.za/show.php?include=docs/misc/2010/umzabalazo.html
1989 -- El Salvador: The American trained & funded army attacks Encuentros hospital, rapes, kills patients. Semper Fei.
source: ’Scope’
1991 -- Iraq: During the Persian Gulf War, approximately 400 Iraqi civilians, mostly women & children, are killed during a US laser-guided missile attack on a fortified bunker in the center of Baghdad, identified by US officials as a military installation. Iraqi officials say it is a bomb shelter.Economic boycott imposed this year by the US leads to the deaths of 1,500 children under the age of 5 — every month from 1991 through 1999 — according to the UN.
The US media, fixated on military acts & being "patriotic," flexes its practiced knees.
http://www.chomsky.info/articles/199105--.htm
source: ’history channel’
1995 -- Chase Manhattan Bank distances itself from a newsletter produced by its Emerging Markets Group calling on México to "eliminate the Zapatista" rebels in Mexico, according to the NY Times. Authored by Riordan Roett, director of Latin American Studies at the John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, analysts pointed to the uprising in Chiapas as a major element in the flight of foreign investors that weakened the Mexican peso.Mexican security forces began a large-scale takeover of former rebel areas on February 9 (New York Times, Feb. 21 1995, A13), less than a month after the memo was published. Mexican security forces engaged in widespread violation of the human rights (continues to this day.)
Roett also suggested the Mexican government might not find it convenient to honor the results of upcoming elections.
http://www.glovesoff.org/web_archives/counterpunch_chasememo.html
"The uprising has boosted the price of the Mexican Indian blood," said the man known as Subcommander Marcos, who leads the Zapatista National Liberation Army in Chiapas. "Not long ago, it was valued less than two chickens, now it is the condition for the largest loan of ignominy in history," he said (referring to a $40 billion loan proposed by Clinton).http://www.reocities.com/CapitolHill/Congress/7727/badlink.htm
1997 -- México: Ricardo Mestre (1906-1997) dies, just shy of his 91st birthday, in México City.
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Bio/hist.note: Ricardo Mestre Ventura. Catalonian anarco-sindicalista; construction worker; CNT & the FAI member; a founder of the Federación Ibérica de Juventudes Libertarias (FIJL); exile in México City after the Revolution of 1936; cofounder of the Unión Distribuidora de Ediciones.
“Anarchy is an art, a beautiful pink elephant; consequently, the anarchist is an artist, capable of taming his impatience, annihilating his fears & overcome his ambitions.”
Mestre maintained broad working friendships in & outside the anarchist movement, which included Octavio Paz & Gabriel Zaid. Mestre sold books & material for painters, & founded the Editions Minerva imprint, publishing important movement texts like those of Rudolf Rocker.
http://www.libertad.org.mx/fundador.htm
http://www.jornada.unam.mx/1998/03/01/sem-mestre.html______________________________________
1998 -- US: Ace Hayes, 58, dies. Editor & guiding light of the "Portland Free Press," warrior for justice.
http://www.ainfos.ca/98/feb/ainfos00304.html
http://www.redshift.com/~damason/lhreport/articles/acetrib.html
http://www.namebase.org/pixels.html
2000 -- US: "When the Layabouts play, people dance."Dem anarchist lousy goodfernuthin Layabouts "Rock Against the WTO/World Trade Organization!," Sunday nite, St Andrews Hall, Motor City Michigan.
It snowed that day. The place was pretty dead but not St. Andrews. (He Rocks!) Songlist: Don't talk, Police Reaction, I'm Tired, Cadillac, Rant, Falling off the Face, Work to be Done, Monkey Doo, Pachamama, School Boys, & so it Goes, Thin Ice, Fuckalot...
http://goodfelloweb.com/layabouts/Pictures/st_andrews021300.htmlThe Layabouts (Detroit): B-Movie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPUPWkOO1Ok
2008 -- US: Stand & be Counted?: Four Florida cops suspended for tossing a quadriplegic out of his wheelchair. Surveillance footage shows Brian Sterner tossed out of his wheelchair after he was brought to jail over a traffic violation. Sterner says the officers grew angry at him after he told them he could not obey their orders to stand up.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7248752.stm
2008 -- US: Don't Fence Me In? Bush White House rejects a Russian & Chinese proposal to ban weapons in space, opposing any attempt “to prohibit or limit access to or use of space.”
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/2/13/headlines#6
2009 -- US: Phillipine-born editorial political cartoonist & comics illustrator, Francisco Flores Trinidad, Jr. dies. Best known by his pen name "Corky", one of many journalists who fled the Philippines during the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corky_Trinidad
3000 --
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way. There's a pressure on us all the time to go on to something that seems new because there are new words attached to it. But I want to take words as ordinary as bread. Or life. Or death. Cliches. I want to have my nose rubbed in cliches.
— Doris Lessing, The Four-Gated City
3500 --
http://cartoliste.ficedl.info/spip.php?mot1058⟨=fr
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