Henri Cartier-Bresson, John Cage, Ricardo Flores Magón, Alfred Levitt, Hayden Carruth, Solidaridad Obrera, Paul Roussenq, Rosario Dulcet, André Arru, Francesco Ghezzi, Antonio I. Villarreal, Librado Rivera, Jeronimo Santo Caserio, Andrea Costa, Emma Goldman, Juan Sarabia, Radio Libertaire...

Our Daily Bleed...

"You have only to speak for once — they will melt like the dust:
you have only to spit in their faces — they will go
howling like devils to swindle somebody else
but if you choose to obey, we shall not blame you
for every lesson is new. We will make room for you
in the cold hall where every cause is just.
Perhaps you'll go with us to frosty windows
putting the same choice as the years go round
or sit debating 'When will they disobey?'
wrapped in our coats against the impartial cold."
All this I think the buried me would say,
clutching their white ribs & their rusted helmets
nationless bones, under the still ground.

— Alex Comfort (1920-2000), excerpt, The Soldiers
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/ComfortAlex.htm

AUGUST 3
SUSAN FERNANDEZ
Filipino protest singer, feminist activist

FEAST OF CALIGO, Mother of Chaos.

Independence Day - Republic of Niger.

England: BELL-BELT DAY in Congleton, Cheshire: drunken excesses were announced by midnight runners wearing belts of bells. In 1601, money destined for the church was hijacked to buy a replacement town bear:

"Congleton rare, Congleton rare,
Sold the Bible to pay for a bear."

1492 -- Columbus sets sail from Palos, Spain for the "Indies" to plague the rest of the world with avaricious mercantilism.
Would imperial Chinese or Turks have been less lethal had they "discovered America''? All three empires regarded aliens as less than human & therefore as legitimate prey. The Chinese considered others barbarians; the Muslims & Catholics considered others unbelievers. The term unbeliever is not as brutal as the term barbarian, since an unbeliever ceases to be legitimate prey until she or he is made over by the civilizer.

— Fredy Perlman, The Continuing Appeal of Nationalism

1546 -- Etienne Dolet, printer, is hanged & burnt for blasphemy, sedition & heresy. About time they got an arm on that printer crowd...
See also 1896 below.
http://www.ephemanar.net/aout03.html

1640 -- Francisco de Rojas Zorilla play "Abre el ojo" (Keep Your Eyes Open) opens, Toledo.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/zrojas.htm

1750 -- US: First American teaching methods book, Schul-Ordnung, is completed.

1811 -- Going Nowhere Fast? Elisha Graves Otis, inventor of the elevator, lives.
"Every job has it's ups & downs."

1821 -- US: Knights of Labor founder Uriah Stephens lives (d.1882), Cape May, New Jersey.
Today's Daily Bleed Saint 2004-5; also Feb. 12, 2007
American Knights of Labor founder, union strategist.

1832 --

Edward Wilmot Blyden lives, Saint Thomas, West Indies.
Migrates to Liberia & becomes an established author of the pamphlets A Voice from Bleeding Africa, in which he attacks slavery, & A Vindication of the African Race. Throughout his life, he was an advocate of African-Americans' returning to their ancestral homes.

1849 -- Roma: Government is placed in the hands of the pope's commissioners. They begin the work of reaction.

1851 -- Lopez & Crittendon Expedition leaves New Orleans, its mission an unauthorized attempt to free Cuba from Spain (see 21 August).

1855 -- China: US forces land near Hong Kong to fight pirates (-Aug. 5).

1861 -- Last installment of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations is published.

1863 -- Governor Seymour asks Lincoln to suspend draft in New York.

1879 -- Italy: In today's issue of "La Plebe" Andrea Costa una lettera "Ai miei amici di Romagna," critica l'impostazione insurrezionalista e settaria data alla attività dell'Internazionale in Italia. In pratica si distacca dagli anarchici.
http://www.kore.it/images/origini/1871-1891.htm
http://www.kore.it/images/origini/470-1876_small.jpg

1882 -- US: Congress bans the immigration of "lunatics, idiots, & people likely to become a public charge." Clearly a failed attempt at Congressional self-regulation.

1887 -- English wartime poet, Rupert Brooke, lives. His poem "The Soldier," in the sonnet sequence 1914 & Other Poems, confers immediate fame.
A poet of promise who died young in World War I. Instrumental in founding, along with George Marsh, the periodical Georgian Poetry.

His death caused him to be represented as the hero of the first phase of the war & a symbol of all the gifted youth destroyed by the conflict.

However, Brooke's heroic, dreamy & patriotic view, went out of public fashion as the appalling carnage of the trenches was fully understood.

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/32.html
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/rbrooke.htm

1894 -- The Italian Jeronimo Santo Caserio (1873-1894) is condemned to die by a Rhône court for stabbing & killing Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader French President Sadi Carnot (on June 24th, to avenge the execution of Auguste Valliant).
The courthouse is encircled by the army &, in a climate of anti-anarchist hysteria & anti-Italian feelings, no lawyer will agree to defend Caserio, who is executed on August 16, 1894.

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L'interrogatorio di Sante Caserio

Santo Geronimo Caserio (Sante Jeronimo) goes on trial for stabbing & killing Sadi Carnot. Entra la corte, esamina il Geronimo Sante Caserio e
gli domanda se si era pentito.

"Cinque minuti mi avessero dato
un altro presidente avrei ammazzato."

"Lo conoscete voi questo pugnale?" "Sí che lo conosco, ci ha il manico arrotondo,
nel cuore di Carnot l'ho penetrato a fondo."

"Li conoscete voi i vostri compagni?" "Sí che li conosco, io son dell'anarchia, Caserio fa il fornaio, e non la spia."

The interrogation of
Sante Caserio

The court enters, they examine Caserio,
& they ask him whether he had repented.

"Five minutes had they given me
I would have killed another president."

"Do you know this dagger?"
"I sure know it, it has a round handle,
into Carnot's heart I thrust it deeply."

"Do you know your comrades?"
"I sure know them, I belong to anarchy,
Caserio is a baker, not a spy."

L'interrogatorio di Sante Caserio, is from
Anarchist, libertarian & rebel songs page
http://www.quid.fr/2000/Q024030.htm
Graphic is from Flavio Costantini
http://www.ephemanar.net/aout02.html
http://www.anarca-bolo.ch/a-rivista/275/60.htm

1894 -- Ukraine: During this month Alfred Levitt lives (1894-2000), Belarus [Can't find exact date — ed.]. Artist, anarchist, philosopher & adventurer. Moved to the US with his family in 1911. Friends & colleagues included the likes of Jack London, Marcel Duchamp & Emma Goldman. Produced hundreds of paintings. Influenced by American artist & teacher Robert Henri, & he modeled nude at the Ferrer Modern School so he could hear Henri's lectures for free. He grew fond of cubism after studying under modernist artist Hans Hofmann. Levitt was part of a group of artists, including Milton Avery & Mark Rothko, who painted together & adapted cubism to US themes & helped Americanize modernism.
http://raforum.info/article.php3?id_article=2191
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/FerrerFrancisco/levitt.html

1894 -- US: The Pullman strike is called off by the railway union after US troops intervene.
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1896 -- France: At the statue of Etienne Dolet (see 1546 above), in Maubert Place in Paris, a crowd of over 20,000 from all the socialist & radical groupings of Paris gathers, extolling & reasserting Dolet's anticlericalism & atheism.
This annual gathering of free thinkers clashes with the authorities who, over the years, try to prohibit them. During the German occupation, the statue of Etienne Dolet (as that of Chevalier De La Barre) is unbolted & melted down.

http://www.ephemanar.net/aout03.html

1900 -- Ernie Pyle, WW II correspondent, lives.

1906 -- US: Twelve unidentified black soldiers make a shooting sortie into Brownsville, Texass, killing one citizen. Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President Teddy Roosevelt, stating that since no one would confess, all would have to suffer, gave dishonorable discharges to every black at the Brownsville camp, including three Medal-of-Honor winners.

1907 -- Spain: Solidaridad Obrera (Workers Solidarity), founded; two months later the organization begins publishing a newspaper of the same name.
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In June metallurgical workers, typesetters, bakers, painters, & store clerks gathered to lay plans for a municipal federation. Although the new organization grew slowly, it managed to take hold among workers outside the city. A year later it expands into a regional federation, embracing 112 labor syndicates throughout Catalonia with a membership of 25,000 workers.

Radical "leaders" were disconcerted by the emergence of this new rival for working-class support. After an exchange of suspicious cordialities, they began to move against the union, intending to either dominate or destroy it.

See Murray Bookchin's The Spanish Anarchists,
http://struggle.ws/spain/tragic_book.html

1908 -- US: A site plan for the town of Allensworth, Calif., is filed with the Tulare County recorder. The town is founded by African-American Allen Allensworth "in order to enable black people to live on an equity [basis] with whites & to encourage industry & thrift in the race."

1910 --

Ricardo Flores Magón, Antonio I. Villarreal & Librado Rivera are freed from the Florence, Arizona, jail where they were serving an 18 month sentence for alleged "violation" of the neutrality laws.

The three Mexican anarchists immediately went to Los Angeles where they were met at the railway station by hundreds of P.L.M. sympathizers. At the end of August Praxedis left San Antonio, where he had been working in the railway workshops, & joined Ricardo Flores Magon & in September publication of "Regeneración" was resumed with Praxedis as a member of the editorial board.

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Postcard in Latvian (or possibly Lithuanian) of MEXICAN REVOLUTIONARIES JUAN SARABIA RICARDO FLORES MAGON LIBRADO RIVERA ANTONIO I. VILLEREAL
Translation: Mexican Revolutionaries Sentenced on 16 May (the last three) to 18 months in prison, Tombstone, Arizona; the first was kept in prison for a year without trial, released by agreement.
They were all prosecuted for "neutrality border violations."

http://www.myspace.com/124487664/blog
http://www.struggle.ws/anarchists/guerrero.html

1913 -- US: Four die in the so-called "Wheatland riots" when police fire into a crowd of California farmworkers trying to organize for better working conditions. Two labor leaders, one not even present on this day, are later convicted of murder for encouraging workers to organize, which, by the legal logic of the time, apparently forced officials to shoot & kill.
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Conditions on the Durst farms are abominable — with no water in the fields, the workers suffer from dysentery, malaria & typhoid fever.

During an Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) strike at the Durst hops farms in Wheatland, California, armed county officials fired on a union meeting. An ensuing gun fight left four dead, including the district attorney & sheriff.

Four union officials were arrested. Richard Ford & Herman Suhr were convicted of murder & sentenced to life at California's Folsom penitentiary. Eugene Debs, in a letter to James P. Cannon, called the persecution of Ford & Suhr a disgrace to the courts of California (1/26/1926). From his letter it appears Ford was later acquitted on appeal.

[ Suggestions for further reading ]

1913 -- Spain: Rally in Sabadell, during textile strike. Rosario Dulcet, a young textile worker who has just moved here & has a hand in the strike, addresses the crowd. Dulcet (1890-1977) becomes one of the most celebrated female propagandists on behalf of the anarchist & syndicalist ideal during the pre-civil war years. From 1919 on she was a very well-known figure in Barcelona circles & participated in countless CNT rallies.
http://www.christiebooks.com/PDFs/Encyclopedia1.pdf

1914 -- US: Emma Goldman reports that her lectures in Seattle, July 26-August 3, are "flat & uninteresting."

1915 -- Thomas Mann publishes "Thoughts on the War" in "Frankfurter Zeitung."

1918 -- Russia: Large-scale Allied invasion to overthrow the Bolsheviks begins at Vladivostok. (See also 4 September, 7 April 1919). Few Americans are aware — even today — the US was involved in these early invasions of Russia, & American textbooks rarely touch upon them.
http://web.archive.org/...is.rhodes.edu/modus/97/1.html
http://www.kolchak.org/History/Siberia/russian_intervention.htm

1918 -- Russia: Ministers of the Siberian Government are arrested by supporters of Mikhailov, the finance Minister, when they arrive in Omsk. They are told to resign their posts. Two agree. The third, Novoselov, refuses & is hacked to death.
http://www.spunk.org/texts/places/russia/sp001861/bolintro.html

1920 -- British mystery novelist P. D. James (Innocent Blood) lives, in Oxford.
http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth193

1921 -- US: Due to a technicality, eight Chicago White Sox accused in the Black Sox baseball scandal are acquitted; however Landis throws a slider, tossing them out of baseball.
http://www.blackbetsy.com/shoeless.html

1921 -- Hayden Carruth lives. American poet & anarchist, Carruth has published 23 books of poetry in addition to other works.
http://recollectionbooks.com/links.html#HaydenCarruth

1922 -- "The Wolf," the world's first radio play, presented.

1922 -- Italy: Fascists seize control of the Milano city government (-Aug. 4).

1924 -- Leon Uris, novelist (Exodus; Trinity), lives, Baltimore, Maryland.
Following on the heels of Leon Uris' novel Mila 18, Joseph Heller was advised to change the numerical title of his soon-to-be-published first novel so as not to confuse readers. He substituted the number 22, & hence we call a paradoxical situation a Catch-22 rather than a Catch-18.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/uris.htm

1924 -- Joseph Conrad, 66, dies suddenly of a heart attack in Bishopsbourne, near Canterbury. His tombstone reflects his wife's uncertain grasp of the Polish language as his name is misspelled. Conrad was 66 years, eight months old when he died: exactly two-thirds of a century, to the very day. His epitaph comes from Spenser's "Faerie Queene".
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"Sleepe after toyle, port after stormie seas,
Ease after warre death after life, does greatly please."

Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent … [constructs] anarchism as a form of fraudulent self-deception symptomatic of a widespread social degeneracy in British society. The...novel's ambivalent engagement with Nietzsche, showing how through a dialogue with Nietzschean intertexts anarchism is constructed as a form of religious fanaticism that is connected with the dangers of both foreign imperialism & the lower classes.

http://www.bibliomania.com/0/0/15/
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/jconrad.htm

1924 -- Italy: Mussolini forbids opposition meetings.

1927 -- US: In the Sacco & Vanzetti case, Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Gov. Fuller announces he will not intervene to stop the scheduled executions.
http://infoshop.org/page/Sacco-Vanzetti

1931 -- US: Chicago eviction riots leave three dead; 60,000 march for anti-eviction laws.

1937 -- American poet Diane Wakoski lives.

1938 -- Italy: Racist legislation against the Jews introduced. Bottai prohibits the registration of 'Hebrew stranieri' in the Italian schools.
[Source: Crimini e Misfatti]

1939 -- US: Joe Sprinz catches a baseball dropped over 1000 feet — lost four teeth. Didna have 1/2-a-brain to start with.

1939 -- Jean Genet's "Ondine" premiers in Paris.

1941 -- Germany: Bishop Galens preaches against Nazi murders, Munster.

1942 -- Russia: Francesco Ghezzi (1893-1942), Italian anarcho-syndicalist, dies.
A victim of the Stalin's Great Purge, Ghezzi perished in the Siberian Vorkuta concentration camp. He had been hospitalized, beaten, tortured, now a mere skeleton, dying. First arrested in 1929, during Stalin's consolidation of power. An international campaign for his release got him out of prison, but he was not allowed to leave Russia. He was arrested again in 1937 (at the same time fellow Italian Otello Gaggi disappears in the Gulag).

[ More on the arrests ]
http://www.ephemanar.net/aout03.html

1943 -- Italy: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader US Gen. Patton slaps a private & calls him a coward; he is later forced to apologize by Gen. Eisenhower.

1943 -- André Arru, an anarchiste organizer in the French underground during WWII, is arrested.

The walls were stained with blood — the blood of fleas squashed on a daily basis...
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We were ... moved to the political wing with the Gaullists & communists...& when the National Liberation Movement orchestrated a breakout in March 1944, the communists refused to open our cell on the grounds that "we were not patriots." On the night of 24-25 April 1944, the Franc Tireurs et Partisans (FTP) resistance group organized an escape with assistance from inside the prison. This time we were included.

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1944 -- Poland: Nazis at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp gasses 4,000 gypsies.
http://www.remember.org/jacobs/
http://www.holocaust-trc.org/sinti.htm

1945 -- US: Two young black women are raped by uniformed police officers, Memphis, Tennessee.

1948 -- US: Whittaker Chambers, "Time" magazine editor, first appears before HUAC & accuses former State Department official Alger Hiss of being a communist spy. Meanwhile Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Attorney General Tom Clark asks the FBI to begin its Emergency Detention Program.

1949 -- US: United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 893 wins labor strike at Vought.

1949 --
Paul Roussenq (1885-1949) dies, Bayonne, France. Best known as the "anarchist convict."
Roussenq became radicalized as a youth with his reading of libertarian newspapers & Élisée Reclus. His unending, uninterrupted years in prison began at age 16, when he was arrested for vagrancy & sent to jail for three months.

Three months becomes three years, 10 years, 20 years...

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Worse still, in 1903, he threw a crouton (a piece of dried bread) at a prosecutor, & this dastardly terrorist act landed him in a disciplinary battalion in Biribi in Africa for five years.

Over there, under this marvelous Algerian sun... & the blows, still with the blows & always with the blows. The rebel rebelled again of course... insulting his "superiors," earning 3,779 days in the dungeons & yet another 20 years more...

Prematurely aging & in poor health, today Roussenq takes his life.

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1950 --

Vietnam:
A US Military Assistance advisery Group (MAAG) of 35 men arrives in Saigon. By the end of the year, the US is bearing half of the cost of France's war effort in Vietnam.

During this year the US, recognizing Boa Dai's regime (he had abdicated after a general uprising led by the Viet Minh in 1945) as legitimate, began subsidizing the French in Vietnam; the Chinese Communists, having won their civil war in 1949, begin to supply weapons to the Viet Minh.

http://servercc.oakton.edu/~wittman/chronol.htm

1950 -- Korea: US troops fall back at the Naktong River line; first US Marine Corps air operation in support of South Korea, Chinju; US army knowingly kills hundreds of civilian refugees when Maj. Gen. Hobart Gay gives an order to demolish a bridge containing refugees over the Naktong River, Waegwan.

1950 -- US: The Red & the Black? Government cancels the passport of African American singer Paul Robeson.
[...] with liberty & justice for all
— Final line from the "The Pledge of Allegiance," force-fed school children during the 20th Century.
Originally written by Francis Bellamy, a Christian Socialist & brother of Edward Bellamy (author of the American socialist utopian novels, Looking Backward (1888) & Equality (1897). He considered placing the word, 'equality,' in his Pledge, but knew that the state superintendents of education on his committee were against equality for women & African Americans.
http://history.vineyard.net/pledge.htm

1954 -- Colette, 80, dies in Paris. Denied a Catholic burial for having twice married outside the Church, she is given a formal funeral by the government & lies in state like a military hero.
http://www.colette.org/
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/colette.htm

1954 -- US: National Security Council calls the Geneva accords a "disaster," & orders aid for South Vietnam.

1955 -- Samuel Beckett play "Waiting for Godot" opens in London.

1956 -- Philippines: Susan Fernandez Magno lives (d.2009). Singer, activist & academic known for her protest music, especially at the height of the authoritarian regime of Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Ferdinand Marcos.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Fernandez
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj9ysaIV3f0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trvv3z5oBEg

1959 -- Portuguese Guinea: Officials kill 50 striking port workers in Bissau.

1961 -- John Cage conducts the premiere of his "Atlas Eclipticalis," Montreal; A mixture of experimental music & the visual arts entitled the "International Week of Today's Music" opens.

1964 -- Vietnam: South Vietnam stages two more PT-boat attacks on North Vietnam.

1965 -- US: First American report of US war crimes in Vietnam is broadcast, by CBS TV.

1966 --

Not the Goy Next Door

US: Lenny Bruce dies from a morphine overdose.

"I'm sorry if I'm not very funny tonight, but I'm not a comedian, I'm Lenny Bruce."

When you can't say 'fuck',
you can't say
'fuck the government.'
http://web.archive.org/...lenny/sounds.htm
http://www.lennybruceofficial.com/audio-and-video-clips/
http://web.archive.org/...~darklady/lenny.html
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2391

1967 -- US: Hey! Hey! LBJ announces an increase of 45,000 to 50,000 US soldiers in Vietnam. He sees a light.

1971 -- US: 200 march in Seattle to demand release of federal surplus food supplies to feed the hungry.
In 1998 it is reported that Seattle's homeless — despite a robust economy — has doubled during the past year. Significantly, 20% (a huge increase over the same period) of these people are now called the "working" homeless — people with jobs who cannot find affordable housing.

1971 -- England: The "Oz" magazine obscenity trial ends in London with the jailing of Richard Neville & his codefendants.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Neville_(writer)

1972 -- US: Federal Communications Commission (FCC) upholds a political candidate's right to broadcast paid commercials with racist content if such broadcast presents no danger of violence or incitement to violence.

1972 -- England: British government declares a state of emergency to allow troops to replace striking longshoremen; Britain's 42,000 striking dock workers go back to work.

1977 -- US: One man killed, seven injured when a bomb explodes at NY City's Mobil Oil building. The FALN, a Puerto Rican independence movement, claims responsibility.

1979 -- US: Fastest jai-alai shot (188 mph), Jose Arieto at Newport Jai Alai, Rhode Island.

1979 -- Juan Rulfo play "Pedro Paramo" opens, Mexico.

1980 -- Bolivia: 500 miners are massacred at Caracoles.

1981 -- US: Coffee, Tea or Jobless?: Federal air traffic controllers began an illegal nationwide strike after their union (PATCO) rejects the government's final offer for a new contract. Most of the 13,000 striking controllers defied the back-to-work order, & were dismissed by Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Acting President Ronnie Reagan, a stalwart union man & FBI snitch (complete with his own informant number), on August 5.

1982 -- US: In order to convey the Administration's crackdown on Israel over its attacks on Beirut, the White House points out the difference between a February 1981 photo showing acting Reagan sitting next to Israeli Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir & laughing, & today's photo, in which Reagan frowns at him from across a table. Later, the President goes to Iowa & poses with a boar.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/PerlmanFredy/antisemitism.htm

1983 -- Carolyn Jones actress, dies at 54 of cancer.

1983 -- US: The Joker's On Him? John Sain of South Bend, Indiana, builds a 12 ft. 10 in. house of cards. Wife sues for divorce, gets real house.

1986 -- US: Florence Reece dies. Active in Harlan County, Kentucky coal strikes & author of the famed labor song "Which Side Are You On?"
They say in Harlan Co.
There are no neutrals there
You'll either be a Union man
Or a thug for J.H. Blair.

Which side are you on?
Which side are you on?

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The song was written in 1931 during a strike by the United Mine Workers of America. During this strike, the sheriff, J.H. Blair, led his gang of thugs on a violent rampage, beating & murdering union leaders. They found themselves at the Reece's home, looking for her husband Sam, where Florence was alone with the children. The men ransacked the house to no avail. While Florence waited inside for her husband, she wrote the song on an old wall calendar.

Which side are you on?
Which side are you on?

About 1940, Pete Seeger, an "eager young college dropout wanting to learn union songs," learned the song from Tillman Cadle, a coal miner. In 1941 it was recorded by the Almanac Singers & made the song famous. It continues to be sung at gatherings for labor workers & many other social causes throughout the world.

One writer notes, "Florence symbolizes that ordinary people out of their own life experiences can capture in simple words & feelings the idea of struggle."

http://www.reocities.com/Nashville/3448/whichsid.html http://web.archive.org/...songs/whichsid.html
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/04ref.htm#12/1900
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Reece
http://web.archive.org/...athena.english.vt.edu/~appalach/writersM/protestsongs.html#reece
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Seeger
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1986 -- Canada: Eight women arrested in Motherpeace action, U.S.-Canada war test site, Vancouver, B.C.

1986 -- Pilot / author Beryl Markham (1902-1986) dies of pneumonia.
[ Excerpts from West With the Night ]

1987 -- US: The Iran-contra hearings come to an end. The award for most unusual closing statement goes to Idaho senator James McClure, who cites a passage from Butterflies are Free concerning diarrhea.

1987 -- France: Radio Libertaire is licensed in France following a six-year fight with the Socialist government.
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Radio Libertaire, in Paris, which fought since its creation (1981) against the socialist government to defend freedom of expression on the radio waves, is finally authorized by the C.N.C.L (National Commission of Audio-visual Communication) to legally broadcast on 89.4 MHz, with a power of 4kW — but this is not yet the end of their problems with the government.

See Élisabeth Claude, et al, La plus rebelle des radios... c'est Radio Libertaire, 1981-1998 ("Le Monde Libertaire" (Paris); "Alternative Libertaire" (Bruxelles))

Radio Libertaire online: http://rl.federation-anarchiste.org/
http://www.ephemanar.net/aout03.html
http://www.increvablesanarchistes.org/articles/1981_2000/RL_histoir87.htm

1988 -- South Africa: 143 resisters publicly refuse military call-up.
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/history.html

1992 -- Germany: Dismantling of non-nuclear weapons begins, fulfilling a 1990 treaty.

1992 -- Central African Republic: Prodemocracy protests shut down the capital, Bangui.

1995 -- US: INS frees 60 Thai slaves in a garment factory, El Monte, Calif. Another gross example of sleaze-bag government bureaucrats meddling with the wonderful Free Market mechanism.

1997 -- China: A Chinese newspaper reports 225,000 in reeducation-through-labor camps.

1997 -- The island of Anjouan declares independence from the Comoros.

1999 -- Abd-al Wahhab al-Bayyati, Iraqi writer who revolutionized Arabic poetry, dies, age 73. Lived in Jordan, quitting his diplomatic post in Madrid after Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990.
Daily Bleed Patron Saint, 2009-2010 ABD-AL WAHHAB AL-BAYYATI
Urbane Iraqi left communist writer, exile; he revolutionized
modern Arabic poetry.
The dictator hides his disgraced face in the mud.
Now he is having a taste of his own medicine,
& the pillars of deception have collapsed,
his picture is now underfoot,
trampled by history’s worn shoes...

from Bayyati’s poem, "The Dragon" (with commentary).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abd_al-Wahhab_Al-Bayyati

2000 -- Colombia: 24-hour national labor strike. Light tanks, troops & anti-riot police guard key entry routes into Bogota at the start of strike by 700,000 state workers against government austerity measures.

2000 -- Indonesia: Ex-dictator Suharto is charged with stealing $570 million.

2000 -- México: Armed paramilitaries burn six homes of alleged Zapatista supporters, Paraiso, Chis.

2002 -- US: New world record for simultaneous breastfeeding, Bezerkeley, California.
1,135 moms breast-feed their babies together.
Obviously inspired by The Fugs' raucous good ol' time tune, "Boobs A Lot."
http://web.archive.org/...jacobreviews/fugs.html
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/Kupferberg/Fugs_1st_Album.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPVgKoruWdA

2004 -- France: Famed photographer & anarchist Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) dies, Chanteloup. Member of the photographer-owned outfit (Magnum) founded by Robert Capa & others. Like Capa he photographed during the Spanish Revolution (1937), his "Victoire de la vie" documenting the hospitalized. On May 1, 2000, he provided a photo collection, "Vers un autre futur, un regard libertaire" (Towards another future, a libertarian glance) sponsored by the anarcho-syndicalist French CNT. Cartier-Bresson notes: "L'anarchie c'est une éthique avant tout. Une éthique d'homme libre. Relisez Bakounine."
Henri Cartier-Bresson, Daily Bleed Saint August 22
Anarchist photographer.

"Dans un monde qui s'écroule sous le poids de la rentabilité, envahi par les sirènes ravageuses de la Techno-science, la voracité du pouvoir, par la mondialisation -nouvel esclavage- au delà de tout celà, l'Amitié, l'Amour existent."
http://www.ephemanar.net/aout22.html#cartierbresson

2010 -- US: FBI threatens Wikimedia Foundation, insisting it remove the FBI seal from websites. Wikimedia declines.
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/FBI_asks_Wikimedia_Foundation_to_remove_seal_from_websites,_Wikimedia_declines

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Industrial contests take on all the attitudes & psychology of war, & both parties do many things that they should never dream of doing in times of peace. Whatever may be said, the fact is that all strikes & all resistance to strikes take on the psychology of warfare, & all parties in interest must be judged from that standpoint. — Clarence Darrow

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L'interrogatorio di Sante Caserio

The interrogation of Sante Caserio

The interrogation of
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