OCTOBER 3

WOODY GUTHRIE

"This Land is Your Land, This Land is My Land."

American folk singer, composer, rebel free spirit.

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VIRUS APPRECIATION DAY.

TAGGER'S DAY.

FEAST OF FREE SPIRITS.

 

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1533 -- Duh?! The earth is destroyed, according to the astrological calculations of Michael Stifel. Daily Bleedsters concur with said calculations.
Source: [Robert Braunwart][Hereafter attributed with symbol: ]


1554 -- Author Fulke Greville Brooke lives.


1719 -- England: The "Daily Post" is started, with author Daniel Defoe as editor.
http://www.incompetech.com/authors/defoe/


1790 -- US: Cherokee chief John Ross, lives, near Lookout Mountain in Tennessee. In 1838 Ross was forced to lead his people across the Mississippi River to what is now Oklahoma. More than 4,000 Cherokee people died on the forced march west, which became known as the "Trail of Tears."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ross_(Cherokee_chief)


1800 -- George Bancroft lives, Worcester, Massachusetts. He's known for his 10-volume History of the United States, published between 1834 & 1874, the first comprehensive study of American history.


1800 -- Poet William Wordsworth meets the Leech Gatherer. "How is it that you live, & what is it you do?"




1802 -- George Ripley lives.
http://web.archive.org/...cmdl.noaa.gov/hotitems/cmdlripley.html


1838 -- US: Chief Blackhawk, Native American leader, dies.


1849 -- US: Voting Kills? During electioneering in Baltimore, Edgar Allan Poe is kept drunk by a gang of political hacks who have him vote repeatedly at the polls; in four days he is dead (See 7 October).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe


1866 -- US: 250 die as the steamer "Evening Star," en route from New York City to New Orleans, founders at sea.


1867 -- Pierre Bonnard lives (1867-1947).

Neither a Socialist nor a poet nor an artsy-craftsy person, but an interesting person & painter nevertheless. His favorite room in the house was the bathroom. Artwork of Pierre Bonnard can be found in 18 online exhibits, with links from Artcyclopedia.

— Wild Bill Koehnline

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/bonnard_pierre.html

1871 -- Stijin Streuvels lives, Heule, near Courtrai. Belgian novelist/short-story writer whose works are masterpieces of Flemish prose. His created world presents nature as an ever-present force described with a visionary power resembling Vincent van Gogh.


1873 -- US: Modoc's Old Sconchin, Boston Charley, Black Jim & Captain Jack are hanged for murder. All remaining Modoc Indians are sent to Oklahoma to live on Shawnee land. In 1909 they are allowed to return, & a small number of them opt to return to Oregon & live on Klamath land.

Back in October of 1864, 710 Klamath, 339 Modoc & 22 Snake (Paiute) Indians sign a treaty with the government agreeing to live on a new reservation on Klamath land. The Modoc & Snake Indians sign reluctantly, as they are to lose all their ancestral lands.

On April 11, 1873, Captain Jack & his Modocs lure General Canby & others to their encampment to discuss peaceful surrender. The truth is that the Modocs had lost all faith in the US negotiators & were hearing rumors about the whites planning to kill them. The Modocs surprise & kill General Canby, the only US General killed during an Indian War, & also kill Reverend Eleasar Thomas who was part of Canby's peace commission.

Source: Thanks to daver @flag.blackened.net who typed & provided this.

1881 -- Louis Bara lives, Denain. French anarchiste, antimilitarist who does prison time for his outspokenness. Collaborator in the antimilitarist newspaper "The Social War ."

http://www.ephemanar.net/octobre03.html


1886 -- Author Alain-Fournier (Henri Alban Fournier) lives.

1889 -- Germany: Carl von Ossietzky lives, Hamburg. Pacifist & winner of the Nobel Peace Prize while in a Nazi concentration camp.

In Berlin upon the 4th of May
19 hundred & 38
The Gestapo with its treatment
Signed his death certificate

Five-six-two his prison number
Listen, child, I beg you please
Keep in mind, always remember,
He got the Nobel Prize for Peace

In the struggle against injustice
He fought hard & he fought long
Child — remember Ossietsky
Peace won't come by words alone

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1935/

1890 -- US: Emma Goldman lectures in Elizabeth, N.J., & Baltimore. Her two talks in Baltimore are before the International Workingmen's Association & the Workingmen's Educational Society. She reaches both German & Eastern European Jewish immigrant communities, many of whom participate in a conference of Yiddish anarchist organizations in December.




1895 -- Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage is published in book form. See our links page: http://recollectionbooks.com/links.html#Authors



1896 -- England: British socialist, designer, printer, author, William Morris dies, Kelmscott house. Wrote the utopian novel News From Nowhere.

 

Daily Bleed Saint, 2000-2008
Patron Saint of socialist Arts & Crafts Movement.

http://www.morrissociety.org/

Work of William Morris is found in eight online exhibits with links from Artcyclopedia:

Museums & Art Galleries: William Morris Gallery, London; Tate Gallery, London; Musée d’Orsay, Paris; Image Archives: Carol Gerten’s Fine Art; WebMagick; William Morris Society of Canada; Other Web Sites: Essay: Operating Under the Influence of William Morris; William Morris Society Home Page.

— Wild Bill Koehnline
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/morris_william.html

1897 -- France: Louis Aragon lives, Paris. Poet, novelist, & essayist, active in the DaDa movement, a founder of Surrealism with Paul Éluard, André Breton, Luis Buñuel among others. Also a political activist & spokesman for communism.

In 1919 he founded with Breton & Philippe Soupault the review Littérature. His first collection of poems, Feu de joie, appeared in 1920, & was followed by Le Mouvement perpétuel (1925), & the novel Le Paysan de Paris (1926).

Like many radical intellectuals in the 1920s, he joined the Communist Party, & in 1930 visited the Soviet Union. His political commitment resulted in a break with the Surrealists. His novels in the 1930s & 1940s, as Le Monde réel & Les Communistes, showed influence of Socialist Realism, but in the 1950s Aragon attacked Stalinism.

During the Spanish Civil War Aragon fought against the Nationalists, & when the Nazis occupied France in WW II he was a member of Resistance movement.

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

Drunkenness sped my run through the martyred oaks
Which bled prophetically while day
Light fell mute over the blue trucks
I remember so many things
So many evenings rooms walks rages
So many stops in worthless places
Where in spite of everything the spirit of mystery rose up
Like the cry of a blind child in a remote train depot

— excerpt from "poem to shout in the ruins"

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

1897 -- France: Émile Pouget's journal Le Père Peinard" (Cool Daddy) summarizes the end of the Congress of Toulouse in these terms:

"...C'est surtout quand le "boycottage" et le "sabotage" sont venus sur le tapis que l'entente s'est faite franchement et carrément. Au lieu de perdre son temps et ses forces à nous foutre en bisbille, on foncerait tous en coeur contre les capitalos et les gouvernants. Et, nom de dieu, ça ne traînerait pas. On aurait vivement fait d'écheniller le vieux monde."

http://durru.chez.com/pouget/pouget.htm

1899 -- Dirt Under the Rug?: Motor-driven vacuum cleaner is patented.



1900 -- Thomas Wolfe, author, lives. Asheville, North Carolina.

"At that instant he saw, in one blaze of light, an image of unutterable conviction, the reason why the artist works & lives & has his being — the reward he seeks — the only reward he really cares about, without which there is nothing. It is to snare the spirits of mankind in nets of magic, to make his life prevail through his creation, to wreak the vision of his life, the rude & painful substance of his own experience, into the congruence of blazing & enchanted images that are themselves the core of life, the essential pattern whence all other things proceed, the kernel of eternity."

— Of Time & the River, page 550

1901 -- Nietzsche’s sister Cosima, a raving anti-Semite, publishes the fabricated book Will to Power, based on a draft project he had tossed out in 1888.

"...this time however I come as the victorious Dionysus, who will turn the world into a holiday...Not that I have much time..."

— Nietzsche (from his last "insane" letter to Cosima Wagner)

1904 -- German SW Africa: An insurrection of Hereros & Hottentots begins.


1909 -- US: Lois Waisbrooker (1826-1909) dies. American sex radical, anarchist, spiritualist, freethinker, free love advocate & feminist.
http://wiki.feministsf.net/index.php?title=Lois_Waisbrooker


1912 -- Nicaragua: US Marines begin bombarding Coyotepe & Barranca hills. The US government & it's corporations love terrorizing countries south of the border, & they will be back...


1913 -- US: Federal Income Tax signed into law (at 1%).


1915 -- World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) founded.



1916 -- Veterinarian/author James M. Herriott (All Things Bright & Beautiful) lives, Sunderland, Scotland.

Dr. Equi is convicted of sedition (like countless others opposing American involvement in one of Europe's bloodiest wars) under a newly amended Espionage Act.

The law "forbade criticism of the US government, the constitution, the military, the flag, navy or uniform."

At her trial A Special Agent of the Dept. of Justice, called her "an anarchist, a degenerate, & an abortionist."

Of prime interest to the Department of Justice (sic) were efforts made by Equi's friends to secure a pardon on her behalf. J. Edgar Hoover noted Equi was "associated with Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Anita Whitney & Emma Goldman...& was a professional abortionist."

[Details / context]

1920 -- Italy: The re-opening of the Modern School at Clivio, later closed by a government official (See "Umanita Nova," Feb. 17, 1921).


1922 -- Rebecca L. Felton, a Democrat, becomes the first female senator in US history. It does not become a trend.

Appointed to the Senate by Governor Thomas W. Hardwick of Georgia to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Thomas E. Watson. In 1932, Hattie Ophelia Caraway becomes the first female senator to be freely elected, a year after she was appointed to fill the vacancy left by the death of her husband, Senator Thaddeus H. Caraway, a Democrat from Georgia

1922 -- US: Just the Fax, Ma'am? First facsimile photo sent over city telephone lines, Washington, DC.


1925 -- Gore Vidal, gay author/actor (Roma, Celluloid Closet, etc.), screenwriter, lives, West Point, New York. Wrote three detective novels under the name of Edgar Box, which didn't gain any success, from critics or readers. His attack on sexual norms brought him into conflict with such macho writers as his socialist pal Norman Mailer. Also a critic of the American National Security State, the media-induced United States of Amnesia...
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/vidal.htm
http://www.pitt.edu/~kloman/harry.html



1926 -- US: Samuel H. Day, Jr. lives (1926-2001), Media, Pennsylvania. Journalist, civil libertarian & opponent of nuclear weapons who led a leftist magazine in a landmark First Amendment court battle over the publication of an article on the hydrogen bomb.

Sam Day was managing editor of "The Progressive" in 1979 when it printed "The H-Bomb Secret: How We Got It, Why We're Telling It." The US government tried to halt its publication, which ultimately resulted in a victory for free speech advocates & journalists.

From 1956 to 1974, Day worked at several Idaho newspapers, including the weekly "Intermountain Observer" in Boise, where BleedMeisterAuntieDave & Bleedster Gus Hellthaler, as Midwest Field Secretaries & reporters for the US Student Press Association (USSPA)/College Press Service (CPS), met him & were marvelously hosted. We both wrote impressions of Boise for his paper, which was considered a fine crusading, muckraking newspaper.

After the "Observer" folded in 1973, Day became managing editor of the "Bulletin of Atomic Scientists," then on to the "Progressive."

Day, a Korean vet, went to prison innumerable times for his advocacy of international peace, & in 2000 wrote in an article published in newspapers across the country on Memorial Day weekend that,

"if it is right to honor those who served in the cause of war, then it is equally right to honor those who served in the cause of resistance to war." He died at age 74, a self-proclaimed "Old Codger for Peace." A very nice tribute page at: http://no-nukes.org/samday/

1932 -- US: All 164 students of the Kincaid High School in Illinois walk out on strike after they discover that the school is being heated with coal from a company employing scab labor.
Source: [Calendar Riots]


1932 -- Times New Roman typeface appears in the "Times" for the first time.


1935 -- Ethiopia: Italy invades, prompting League of Nations sanctions against Italy, & leading to World War II.
[Details / context]


1936 --

"We make war & revolution at the same time. The militiaman has to know that he fights for the conquest of the land, the factories, culture ... the pick & the shovel are as valuable as the gun." — Buenaventura Durruti, anarchist, interview October 3, 1936 http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/DurrutiColumnEarly.htm

1936 -- J.R.R. Tolkien sends the manuscript of The Hobbit to his publisher.
http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/library/Moorcock.htm
http://corporatemofo.com/politics_and_other_bullshit/michael_moorcock_on_politics_p.html

1937 -- Dominican Republic: Trujillo, determined to expand his influence over all of Hispaniola, orders the indiscriminate butchery by the Dominican army of an estimated 15,000 to 20,000 Haitians on the Dominican side of the Massacre River. The US government loves Trujillo.
http://reference.allrefer.com/country-guide-study/haiti/haiti24.html


1941 -- Ernest Evans lives, Philadelphia, Pa. Using the name "Chubby Checker" after the renowned Fats Domino, his best-known recording is the 1960's "The Twist," sparking the biggest dance craze since the Charleston of the 1920s.


1941 --

Taggers' Day! — the aerosol is patented.

Graffiti forever... neon, dayglo, etc.

Source: [Calendar Riots]


1941 -- In an interview Gandhi incites all subject peoples of the British Empire to passive resistance.


1944 -- Spain: Spanish guerrilleros, previously fighting the Nazis in France, make their first incursions into Spain, striking in Navarre.

Some 3,000 guerrillas (including many anarquistas) mount two main attacks across the Pyrenees in 1944 against the Allied-supported fascists.

[Details / context]

1945 -- US: Going to the Dogs? Seven-state Greyhound bus labor strike.


1945 -- A 10-year-old Elvis Presley makes his first public appearance in a talent show at the Mississippi-Alabama Dairy Show singing "Old Shep." Got 2nd place & five dollars — after shamelessly milking the crowd.


1945 -- Italy: Sono arrestati a Palermo Andrea Finocchiaro Aprile e Antonino Varvaro, capi del Movimento per l'indipendenza della Sicilia (MIS). Verranno entrambi confinati sull'isola di Ponza (Latina). I metodi repressivi del potere statale non cambiano perchè uno dei compiti principali dello stato è la repressione più o meno brutale del dissenso.
Source: [Crimini e Misfatti]


1952 -- Australia: Out Back?: First British nuclear bomb test, Monte Bello.

1954 -- Blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan lives.
http://www.willmot.com/SRV/
http://www.concentric.net/~instep/
http://www.angelfire.com/blues/srvloverspage/index.html

1954 -- France: Really, Really High? Mushroom-shaped UFOs are reported in Chereng & Armentieres.



1955 -- US: FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover charges Communists, using "pseudo-liberals" as their mouthpieces, have launched a "campaign of vituperation" to "deprive law enforcement of the use of the time-tested & valued confidential informant."

A Famous Stoolie: Ronald Reagan, right-winger & eventual President of the US, had his own informant number.

Famous wannabe "individualist," so-called antistatist Ayn Rand supports the US witchhunt & delivers the longest testimony before HUAC, revealing sinister Communist propaganda in American films arguing some show Russian children smiling.

Blacklist: http://web.archive.org/...moderntimes.com/blacklist/

blak’list n., v., list-ed, -list-ing

n. a list of persons who are under suspicion, disfavor, or censure, or who are not to be hired, served, or otherwise accepted.

Unlike her fellow infiltrators, Matt ("I Posed as a Communist for the F.B.I.") Cvetic & Herb (I Led Three Lives) Philbrick, both of whom also testified for the government, Angela Calomiris was not able to parlay this moment in the spotlight into a full-time career as an American watchdog against Communism. But in 1950 Lippincott did publish her story as Red Masquerade: Undercover for the F.B.I.

Harvey Matusow, a professional ex-communist anticommunist witness, said: I was not a leader in the Communist Party. I was a communist flunky ...

[Matusow, a paid right-wing informant & aide to McCarthy, later admitted lying & being pressured by Assistant US Attorney Roy Cohn to do so.]

http://www.ibiblio.org/mal/MO/matusow/falsewitness.html

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Ex-Communists such as Budd Schulberg & Elia Kazan felt there was a Communist conspiracy & that it was proper, if not patriotic, to expose it. Didn't hurt their careers either, incidentally...

http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/blacklist.html

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1955 -- US: TV's "Captain Kangaroo" premieres; Good Morning, Captain!



1955 -- US: TV's "Mickey Mouse Club" premieres.

1957 -- Poland: Riots break out in Warsaw after a popular periodical is shut down.



1958 -- Freedom fighter extraordinaire Vivian McPeak lives!

http://www.hempfest.org/

1961 -- Walkin' on Water?: Frisco to Moscow Walk For Peace reaches Moscow's Red Square.


1961 -- Russia: The Committee for Nonviolent Action demonstrates against nuclear weapons in Moskva, having walked across the US & Europe.


1962 -- Port to Starboard?: US closes ports to ships carrying cargo to Cuba. Having initiated or sponsored terrorism against people throughout Latin American over most of this century in its God-given Right to Almighty Profits, the US government & its secret agencies embark on a 30-year lawless campaign of sabotage & terrorism against Cuba, including efforts to assassinate Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Fidel Castro.



1965 -- Cuba: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Che Guevara bags his government job.

http://web.archive.org/...eduardo.galeano/memoria.del.fuego/19651003.htm
http://libcom.org/history/guevara-ernesto-che-1928-1967

1965 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President LBJ signs Public Law 89-236, amendments to the Immigration & Nationality Act. For the first time the US considers Asians equal to Europeans in immigration matters. Great numbers of Asians eventually enter the US under this provision.



1967 -- Folk singer Woody Guthrie dies of Huntington's Chorea in New York City. He was 52. (See 14 July).

As I went walking, I saw a sign there On the sign it said NO TRESPASSING But on the other side it didn't say nothing That side was made for you & me! http://www.woodyguthrie.org/

1967 -- Radical folk singer/songwriter Woody Guthrie, 55, dies in New York. Guthrie had spent the last decade of his life in the hospital, suffering from Huntington's disease.

"I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing. Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too slim or too ugly or too this or too that. Songs that run you down or poke fun at you on account of your bad luck or hard travelling.

I am out to fight those songs to my very last breath of air & my last drop of blood..."

Guthrie left behind three wives, eight children (including songster Arlo Guthrie) & about 1,000 songs. He transformed the folk ballad into a vehicle for social protest & observation. He paved the way for Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen & a host of other folk & rock songwriters who have been moved by conscience to share experiences & voice opinions in a forthright manner. Wrote such revered classics as "This Land Is Your Land," "So Long, It's Been Good to Know You," "Grand Coulee Dam," "I Ain't Got No Home" & "Dust Bowl Refugees."

1967 --

"Cause sometimes you hear'em when the night times comes creeping
& you fear that they might catch you a-sleeping
& you jump from yer bed, from yer last chapter of dreamin'
& you can't remember for the best of yer thinking
If that was you in the dream that was screaming
& you know that it's something special you're needin'
& you know that there's no drug that'll do for the healin'
& no liquor in the land to stop yer brain from bleeding...

— Bob Dylan, "Last Thoughts On Woody Guthrie"

http://www.reocities.com/SunsetStrip/Alley/8361/guthrie.html
See John Cohen photos (in the artists section) at http://www.deborahbellphotographs.com/

1968 -- US: Yippie Jerry Rubin arrives at HUAC's inquiry into August uprisings with a toy M-16 & a red, blue & yellow cape — resembling a Viet Cong flag.

They threatened to put LSD into the city water supply...

...to organize a march of 20,000 naked hippies, levitate the Pentagon, & raid the Chicago office of the National Biscuit Company to provide bread & cookies for the poor. The fact that putting LSD into a reservoir wouldn't work, that 20,000 naked hippies never materialized, that their levitation powers were severely limited, & that there was no Chicago office of the biscuit company mattered little. They were media terrorists...

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Jerry Rubin: Pitcher for the 1998 Psychedelphia Woodstockings http://www.cosmicbaseball.com/97pwr.html

Remember, don't trust anyone over 60!

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"When you see an epidemic like this cropping up all over the country — the same kind of people saying the same kinds of things — you begin to get the picture that it is a national subversive activity ...

[SDS & other new left activists] should be rounded up & put in a detention camp."

— Richard G. Kleindienst, U.S. Deputy Attorney General 1969

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http://www.moderntimes.com/blacklist/
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/Chicago7/chicago7.html
http://www.weeklywire.com/ww/11-17-97/boston_books_2.html
http://www.chicagoreader.com/movies/archives/0896/08096a.html
http://www.bbhq.com/sixties2.php?caller=sixties

1968 -- US: University of Washington ROTC building torched by anti-war protesters in Seattle. BleedMeister Auntie-Dave was at home in bed, he swears .........

1968 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Vice-presidential candidate "Iron Ass" Curtis LeMay, on the American Independent Party ticket with Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader George Wallace, says let's use nuclear weapons in Vietnam.

LeMay was a belligerent Cold Warrior now best-known as the trigger-happy General Jack D. Ripper (in the film «Dr. Strangelove»; two of the trigger-happy generals are based on him). ‘Iron Ass’ LeMay, the architect of the US Strategic Air Command, regarding North Vietnam argues,

"We should stop swatting flies
& go after the manure pile."

His fly-shit party wins nearly 10 million votes.

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Nuclear war would certainly set back cable.

— Ted Turner

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1968 -- US: George Wallace, who has been running an independent campaign for the presidency which has met significant support in the South & the Midwest, names retired Air Force Chief of Staff Curtis E. LeMay to be his running mate.

At the press conference, the general is asked about his position on the use of nuclear weapons, & responds:

"I think most military men think it's just another weapon in the arsenal... I think there are many times when it would be most efficient to use nuclear weapons. ... I don't believe the world would end if we exploded a nuclear weapon."

[Source: WholeWorld is Watching]

1969 -- Three plays by science fiction author Joanna Russ — "The Inner Circles," "Window Dressing" & "She-Wolf" — are presented, NY.


1969 -- First date in the Penelope Ashe novel Naked Came the Stranger.


1970 -- Former Cream bassist Jack Bruce joins ex-Miles Davis sidemen John McLaughlin, Larry Young & Tony Williams to form one of the first jazz-rock fusion groups, Lifetime.



1970 -- US: Large Strike Zone? Baseball umpires call their first strike. Strike one & you're out?

The 1922 World Series between the NY Yankees & NY Giants was the first ever broadcast on national radio... [Details / context]

1971 -- Cybill Shepherd/Timothy Bottoms movie "The Last Picture Show" opens (based on the novel by used bookseller Larry McMurtry).


1972 -- US: Government reveals that the bomb tonnage dropped on Vietnam to date is 3.7 times the tonnage dropped by all Allied planes worldwide in WW II.


1978 -- Artist Christo covers 5 km of footpaths in Kansas City's Loose Park with nylon.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/sinners/Christo.htm


1981 -- Ireland: A hunger strike by Irish nationalists at the Maze Prison in Belfast, in Northern Ireland, is called off after seven months & 10 deaths.

Imprisoned Irish Republic Army leader Bobby Sands initiated the protest on March 1. [Details / context]

1983 -- Nicaragua: Contra terrorists attack oil facilities at Benjamin Zeledon; meanwhile a Contra DC-3, donated by the CIA is shot down, Matagalpa.

Q: "Mr. President, have you approved of covert activity to destabilize the present government of Nicaragua?"

A: "Well no, we're supporting them, the — oh, wait a minute, wait a minute, I'm sorry, I was thinking of El Salvador because of the previous, when you said Nicaragua. Here again, this is something upon which the national security interests, I just — I will not comment."

— Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Acting President Ronnie Reagan (press conference, Washington, February 13th 1983)

"Throughout the world, on any given day, a man, woman or child is likely to be displaced, tortured, killed or "disappeared," at the hands of governments or armed political groups. More often than not, the United States shares the blame."

— Amnesty International, in an annual report on US military aid & human rights.

http://web.archive.org/...wakeupmag.co.uk/articles/cia5.htm
http://www.scribd.com/doc/34173189/The-CIA-An-Expose-of-the-Agency-s-History-and-Covert-Operations http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/New_World_Order/Theater_Good_Evil_Galeano.html
http://www.jubileesouth.org/news/EpklpEZlEpHsUOtpuU.shtml

1985 -- US: Radical illustrator Hugo Gellert speaks at "Masses" exhibition at Whitney Museum, New York.

http://newdeal.feri.org/gellert/wechsler.htm
http://www.graphicwitness.org/contemp/gellert1.htm


1986 -- US: Congress requires schools to inspect for asbestos hazards.


1986 -- Muslim kidnappers of Terry Anderson (American journalist taken hostage March 16, 1985) release a videotape in which he accuses the Reagan administration of blocking his release. Anderson is not released by his pro-Iranian kidnappers until 1991. See "The Search For Reagan's Brain" page in the Stan Iverson Archive, http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/library/reagan.htm#TerryAnderson


1989 -- Panama: US-backed coup attempt against Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Noriega fails.


1990 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President declares martial law, all Trainites are arrested.

Brunner’s affirmation of Austin Train’s political calling as the critical negation of the existing order is framed by his vision of an America with

No future whatsoever except imminent self-destruction.

http://tal.forum2.org/sheep


1990 -- US: A Florida record store owner is found guilty of distributing obscene material: 2 Live Crew's "As Nasty As They Wanna Be" LP.


1990 -- Humpty Dumpty?: Eleven months after East Germany opens its borders to the West & dismantles the infamous Berlin Wall, East & West Germany become a united & sovereign state for the first time since Germany's defeat in WWII, burying 45 years of Cold War division. Nearly a million people gather at the Reichstag in Berlin, & at midnight a replica of the Liberty Bell, a gift from the US, is rung, officially proclaiming reunification.

Germany is a 'Vaterland' once again.

Control over the police forces is handed over to West Berlin. The first riot police attacks by West Berlin cops in East Berlin take place. Some Germans, like Nobel author Gunther Grass, believe the two Germanies should have remained separate.

Over the past year West Berlin rent prices skyrocket as more people become homeless, while in East Berlin thousands of living spaces are empty, with no clear idea of who owns them.

Increasing numbers of youths move into empty buildings & apartments. The Squatters' Council formed in the spring, representing more than 120 squatted buildings.

[More on the squatters, details / context]

1990 -- Burma: Buddhist sects opposing the military government are outlawed.


1991 -- Haiti: General Strike is called against the military government, Puerto Principe.


1992 -- US: Let 'er Rip? Sinead O'Connor rips up a photo of Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Pope on "Saturday Night Live."


1995 -- US: O.J. Simpson, former football star, is acquitted of the 1994 murder of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, & Ronald Goldman, in Los Angeles, California.

The lengthy, televised trial is a sensational media circus.

[More football & media dining, details / context]

1996 -- Germany: During this month several housing squats are evicted: the front of Kinzigstrasse 9, Kreutziger Strasse 21, & parts of the Kreutziger Strasse 11, 12, & 13. A new squat in the Pfarrstrasse is immediately evicted.
http://www.ainfos.ca/A-Infos97/3/0489.html
http://www.notbored.org/squatworld.html
http://theanarchistlibrary.org/HTML/Colin_Ward__The_hidden_history_of_housing.html http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/10ref.htm#03/1990

1997 -- Paraguay: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President Juan Wasmosy arrests front-running presidential candidate Gen. Lino Oviedo for accusations against the president.


1997 -- Colombia: Right-wing terrorists assassinate 11 soldiers & judicial officials.


2000 -- US: Olympia, Washington: Leonard Peltier Clemency March & Rally at the State Capital.
http://www.leonardpeltier.net/


2001 --

US:

The Senate approves an agreement normalizing trade between the United States & Vietnam.

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

2002 -- US: An evening of conscience, sponsored by Not In Our Name.
http://www.nion.us/

http://www.nefac.net/

2214 -- 214 [After Ford] -- Hypnopaedia first used on common folk.
http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/library/RejectingTechnology.htm



3000 --

"It is not enough to succeed.
Others must fail."

— Gore Vidal

9001 --

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