Daily Bleed: Gil Wolman, Ricardo & Jesus Flores Magón, Simão Rodovich, Emma Goldman, Nicolas Thomassin, Andre Colomer, Joe Hill, Joseph Labadie, R.D. Laing, Victoriano Abarca, Nicolas Lazarevitch & Alexis Maslov; On this day, October 7 OCTOBER 7

GIL J. WOLMAN
French lettrist & situationist theorist.

Alternate Saint,

JOE HILL

Wobbly martyr of American Zerowork movement.

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NEW YEARS DAY: in the ancient Sumerian calendar; celebrated with a festival to the Goddesses Ishatar & Astarte.

Libya: EXPULSION OF FASCIST SETTLERS DAY.

Nottinghamshire, England: 700-year old, 3-day GOOSE FAIR opens.

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-3761 -- [BCE] -- Epoch (starting point) for Jewish chronology.
Source: [Calendar Riots]


1571 -- Future novelist Miguel de Cervantes is wounded three times while fighting in the naval Battle of Lepanto.
http://www.malaspina.org/cervantesm.htm


1719 -- Pirated installment of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe appears, the first novel to be serialized.
http://www.incompetech.com/authors/defoe/


1737 -- India: 40 foot waves sink 20,000 small craft & kill 300,000, Bengal.



1849 -- Edgar Allan Poe dies in Baltimore at age 40, saying "Lord, help my poor soul."

‘Quoth the Raven,“Nevermore”’

http://www.poemuseum.org/


1849 -- James Whitcomb Riley, poet, lives. "My work did itself. I'm only the willer bark through which the whistle comes."

1864 -- France: Victor Barrucand lives, à Poitiers. Poète, musicien, journaliste et écrivain; d'abord militant anarchiste puis fédéraliste et enfin humaniste bourgeois, défenseur des droits des musulmans algériens.
Victor Barrucand drawing by Félix Vallotton
http://www.ephemanar.net/octobre07.html#barrucand
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/misc/@fotos.htm




1879 -- Sweden: Joe Hill lives! in Gàule. Labor martyr executed by state of Utah, the famous Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) labor songster/organizer. Workman, popular singer, poet, anarchist trade union militant.

I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night
Alive as you & me
Says I, 'But Joe, you're ten years dead,'
'I never died,' says he.


"Joe Hill ain't dead,' he says to me.
'Joe Hill ain't never died,
Where workingmen are out on strike
Joe Hill is at their side.'"

— From the song, "Joe Hill," by Alfred Hayes & Earl Robinson

Inspired many attempts to portray Hill's life in different media over the years: biographies, novels, songs, plays, & movies have been written. "I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night" is a folk song of enduring quality & has even spun off similar songs.

Joe Hill became a martyr upon his execution. Efforts by Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President Woodrow Wilson, the government of Sweden, & many prominent Americans to get him a new trial failed. On the eve of his execution, Hill telegraphed Big Bill Haywood, head of the IWW:

"Don't waste any time mourning. Organize."



[Details / context]

"With regard to intellectual creation the revolution must from the very beginning establish & assure an anarchist regime of individual liberty."

— Leon Trotsky & André Breton

"At last the Soviet government, with an iron broom, has rid Russia of Anarchism."

— Leon Trotsky
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/trotsky.htm

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Heir apparent to Lenin's throne, Trotsky lost the power struggle when Stalin outsmarted him. Exiled & later assassinated by one of Uncle Joe's agents. Known as the "Red Butcher" for his orders to kill Mahknovist anarchists in the Ukraine & the Kronstadt sailors in 1917 & others.
http://struggle.ws/russia/mett.html

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The Makhnovists rejected the Bolshevik corruption of the Soviets & instead proposed "the free & completely independent soviet system of working people without authorities & their arbitrary laws."

— Peter Arshinov, History of the Makhnovist Movement
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/MakhnoNestor.htm

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Source: [Robert Braunwart] [Hereafter attributed with symbol: ]

Nicolas Thomassin supported Jean Baptiste Clement for legislative election in 1884, lost his job & became a news vendor for "Le père Peinard" & "La révolte." He founded the anarchist groups "Les sans Patrie" & "Les deshérités de Nouzon" in 1891 — which resulted in police harassment & numerous arrests. In 1916, Thomassin was still listed as a subscriber to "Cubilot ," published by the libertarian colony of Aiglemont.

H. G. Wells was torn between two visions...one of salvation & one of doom. He was so obsessed with the future he invented a time machine to take him there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._G._Wells_Society

Francesc Capistrón "Xiquet," president of the Sindicato de Vaqueros, & Victoriano Abarca of the Barcelona Sindicato del Metal de la CNT, are cut down by pistoleros del Libre (goon squads supported by big business & the Catholic Church). Also today cenetista Pedro Antonio Carranza is arrested & held for nearly three months before learning he is in jail for "injurias a la Guardia Civil" (insulting the hated Civil Guard).

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/sources.htm#BarcelonaCronica

"Humanity is estranged from its authentic possibilities."

— R.D. Laing, introduction to Politics of Experience

"In the context of our present pervasive madness, sanity, freedom, all our frames of reference are ambiguous & equivocal."

http://www.reocities.com/Athens/Olympus/5214/laing.html

1929 -- France: French lettrist & situationist theorist Gil J Wolman lives.

"Making petrified conditions dance by singing them their own tune . . . . .
Don't call us, do it yourself!"

B  U  R  E  A  U       O  F       P U  B  L  I  C       S  E  C R  E  T  S

http://www.bopsecrets.org/index.shtml
http://www.nothingness.org/SI/index.html http://www.notbored.org/films.html
http://www.notbored.org/wolman.html
http://www.notbored.org/contents.html
http://www.notbored.org/anticoncept.html


1929 -- William Faulkner novel The Sound & the Fury is published.


1931 -- South African Bishop Desmond Tutu lives. Receives Nobel Peace Prize for his work to dismantle apartheid.

Involved with the review "L'action d'art," an organizer with the CGTU, involved in "Libertaire" & "La revue anarchiste." Broke with anarchism to become a "true Communist."

[Details / context]

In 1958 Baraka founded Totem Press. In Harlem he established the Black Arts Repertory Theatre. Co-editor with Beat poet Diane Di Prima of Floating Bear. His poems reflect an interest in music, & he wrote Black Music (1968), Blues People & The Music: Reflections on Jazz & Blues (1987). After 1974 his political ideology had him advocating the overthrow of capitalist system, black or white.

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/BeatGen.html

Achieved his greatest success with novels based upon historical events, including The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith (1972), based on a revolt of Aborigines in 1900, & Schindler's List (1982), about a German industrialist who saved the Jews assigned to work in his factory during WWII. Both were made into films.

RADCLYFFE HALL
Lesbian novelist of new identities & new realities; Daily Bleed Saint 1998.

"Six poets at the Six Gallery. Kenneth Rexroth, M.C. Remarkable collection of angels all gathered at once in the same spot. Wine, music, dancing girls, serious poetry, free satori. Small collection for wine & postcards. Charming event."

— from postcard printed by Allen Ginsberg to publicize 1955 Six Gallery Reading

Much legend surrounds this event, which took place on October 7, 1955, though the date is sometimes given as October 13

... show details

http://www.litkicks.com/Poems/Howl.html

36. GINSBERG, Allen. Howl for Carl Solomon. Mimeographed sheets, 17 pages, 8 1/2 x 11 inches, stapled (original staple removed). (San Francisco: Privately printed, 1956). $37,500.00

First edition of Ginsberg's epochal poem, the most famous & influential poem of our time. One of only 25 mimeographed copies according to Morgan

A1. Dowden p. 7 (giving the number of copies as 50 & erroneously dating the "pamphlet" 1955, in addition to misspelling Marthe Rexroth's first name).

The first printing of Howl was mimeographed by Marthe Rexroth, using the version typed by Robert Creeley, for Kenneth Rexroth's poetry class at San Francisco State College in May 1956. The mimeo includes the title-page, with quotation from Walt Whitman, the dedication to Kerouac, Burroughs, Cassady & Lucien Carr, in addition to 15 numbered pages of poetry, including "Howl," "A Supermarket in California," "Sunflower Sutra" & "America," all unexpurgated. "Howl" is dated at the end of the poem on p.9 "San Francisco 1955-1956"; (the next three poems are dated Berkeley 1955 & the last poem is undated).

On May 18, 1956, having been told by Rexroth that Eberhart was "writing an article on S.F. Poetry & asked for a copy of my MSS," Ginsberg wrote a long analytical letter about Howl to Eberhart which provided the critical basis for Eberhart's enthusiastic article on the San Francisco Poetry Renaissance, "West Coast Rhythms," published in the "New York Times."

— Barry Miles, Howl, facsimile edition (Harper & Row, 1986), Appendix I.

On-stage, the poets were seated in a semicircle behind the podium. Kenneth Rexroth, dressed in a bow tie & a cutaway pinstripe suit, opened the evening with a few brief introductory remarks. Taking notice of the mixture of literary & political interests represented by those in attendance as well as by those on-stage, Rexroth compared the climate of San Francisco to that of Barcelona at the time of the Spanish anarchists, where culture survived despite an oppressive national political environment.

Also in attendance was Will Petersen

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

http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/ginsberg-fbi.html

http://www.litkicks.com

http://www.cosmicbaseball.com/playplat.html

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/BeatGen.html

http://www.thing.net/~grist/l&d;/mcclure/mcclure.htm

http://www.litkicks.com/People/KennethRexroth.html

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/RexrothKenneth.htm

http://www.connectotel.com/marcus/beatchr1.html

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1957 -- England: Fire in the Windscale plutonium production reactor north of Liverpool, spread radioactive material throughout the countryside.

A radioactive cloud was released, the public was told it would go out to sea, but temperature inversion caused the cloud to cover a good part of Britain. Possibly one of closest events to a 'china syndrome' ever. In 1983, the government said 39 people probably died of cancer as a result. All the facts may yet be undisclosed.

1958 -- Spencer Tracy movie "The Old Man & the Sea" premiers.


1959 -- Outer Space: Far side of Moon seen for first time, compliments of USSR's Luna 3.



1960 -- France: Hands off Alexander Trocchi, English-language tract protesting Alexander Trocchi's arrest in the US, signed by Guy Debord, Jacqueline de Jong & Asger Jorn, Paris.
[Situationist Resources]


1961 --

São Paulo, Brazil October 7-8, 1961

Gathering of exiled Spanish libertarians & Brazilian anarchists, at the Centro de Cultura Social. Spanish exiles include members of the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) & the FFLL. Source: [Movimento Anarquista no Brasil]

Encontro dos Libertários Espanhóis Exilados; Rubino de Oliveira, 85, 7 e 8 de outubro de 1961. Estiveram presentes anarquistas brasileiros e exilados da CNT e da FFLL.



1963 -- US: Government awards $750,000 to Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation as payment for land previously stolen.


1964 -- US: LBJ adviser Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Walter Jenkins is arrested for sex in a Washington DC YMCA men's room.


1964 -- Canada: FLQ members Gabriel Hudon & Raymond Villeneuve are sentenced to 12 years each for terrorism, Georges Schoeters gets 10, Quebec.


1965 -- Charles Linster does 6,006 consecutive push-ups. Auntie Dave, that sexist pig, in an unguarded moment, reveals in an interview with himself, that he prefers pin-ups to push-ups.



1966 -- Jim Kweskin Jug Band, Big Brother, & Electric Train at the Avalon Ballroom in Frisco, California.
http://www.trussel.com/f_mel.htm
http://www.taco.com/roots/jugband.html
http://www.trussel.com/lyman/jugband.htm

1967 -- Japan: Nationwide demonstrations & riots begin against Viet Nam War & government policies.



1969 -- US: Haymarket statue (memorial to cops slain who fired on workers in 1886) in Chicago bombed. (or yesterday?)

"Every anarchist hole was entered & the assassins in some instances were dragged from their beds."

http://recollectionbooks.com/anow/history/haymarket.html
http://www.chipublib.org/cplbooksmovies/cplarchive/timeline/index.php

1969 -- US: PAT? Black football players at the University of Wyoming are kicked off the team for protesting against them Mormons from Utah state's segregated Brigham Young University.


1970 -- Australia: Draft Resistor's Union underground network becomes operational.


1970 -- BOAC Air terminal at Victoria, booby trap hand grenade found.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/gallery/galleryindex.htm#AngryBrigade


1974 -- US: Willie? Washington, D.C. police stop the car of Representative Wilbur Mills, chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee, at the Tidal Basin, finding him "intoxicated, scratched, & bleeding." While questioning him, Annabel Battistella, a stripper who known as "Fanne Fox, the Argentine Firecracker," jumps out of his car & leaps into the water.


1975 -- No Joint?: John Lennon wins his lengthy 3-year fight to stay in the US when the US Court of Appeals in NY rules that his 1968 arrest in Britain for possession of marijuana was contrary to US ideas of due process & is invalid as a means of banishing him from America. (or 1974?)
http://hempfest.org/


1979 -- US: 2,500 anti-nuke demonstrators attempt to occupy two nuclear plants under construction at Seabrook, New Hampshire.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkFtCmG9pcQ


1984 -- Philippines: More Shoes Than Imelda?: 20,000 march against Marcos dictatorship, Manila.

In 1986 Imelda Marcos revealed the reason there were so many shoes (thousands) in her closets:

"Everybody kept their shoes there.

The maids ... everybody."

1985 -- US: People for Ethical Treatment of Animals erects giant rabbit banner near the Capitol to protest testing of cosmetics on rabbits.


1987 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Religious Whacko Pat Robertson acknowledges a Wall Street Journal report that he's been less than candid about his wedding date, & that his first child was born only 10 weeks after his marriage. Complains the candidate, "I have never had this kind of precision demanded of me before."


1989 -- US: Housing Now! march in Washington D.C. draws 200,000.

There are lots more people in the House. I don't know how many exactly — I never counted but at least a couple hundred.

— future American President Dano Quayle, explaining the difference between the House & the Senate.

1989 -- England: Anarchist Book Fair, London.


1990 -- US: Justice Department reports US prison population doubled in the last 10 years. Worst in the Western World, last we heard, over 3% of the population in jail or in the corrections system. By 2006 it has reputedly added 16,000 to its secret prisons around the globe.


1990 -- Palestine: Israeli security forces raid Gaza City mosque & steal Islamic writings.


1991 -- US: Reagan official Elliott Abrams pleads guilty to Iran-contra crimes.


1991 -- US: Jackson Browne, James Taylor & Bruce Cockburn headline a NY concert to protest the James Bay Two hydroelectric project in northern Quebec.



1993 -- Guatemala: A mass grave of 150 women & children murdered by the US-supported & trained Guatemalan army is opened.

US government documents released in 1999 describe in chilling detail, often in cold bureaucratic language, how American advisers & their Cold War obsession spurred on the killings & hid the horrible secrets.

In the 1980s, the Guatemalan army escalated its slaughter of political dissidents & their suspected supporters to unprecedented levels.
http://www.consortiumnews.com/1999/052699b.html

For the full documents, see the National Security Archive’s Web site at
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/latin_america/guatemala.html

1993 -- US: Demonstration & book burning are held to protest the donation of two gay-themed books to 42 Kansas City, Mo. high schools.


1995 -- China: Painting "Chairman Mao Goes to Anyuan" is auctioned for $662,810. Who needs Andy Warhol?



1998 -- Russia: Hundreds of thousands of Russians demonstrate against Beloved & Respected Comrade Boris Yeltsin.


1999 -- Novelist Carlos Fuentes receives the Belisario Dominguez award from the Mexican Senate.


2001 -- US: Missles unleased on Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden & the ruling Taliban.



2002 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader George Dubya says Iraq "possesses & produces chemical & biological weapons,", in Cincinnati. This was not a lie, only a slip of the tongue, having meant the US, not Iraq.


2002 -- Palestine: An Israeli missile kills 10 Palestinians in a crowd, Gaza Strip.


2010 -- Peruvian-Spanish writer Mario Vargas Llosa wins the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature.




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"The world at once present & absent which the spectacle makes visible is the world of the commodity dominating all that is lived.

The world of the commodity is thus shown for what it is, because its movement is identical to the estrangement of men among themselves & in relation to their global product."

— Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle
http://www.nothingness.org/SI/debord.html

3510 -- Photo of 1010 Montgomery Street apartment in San Francisco, where Ginsberg wrote 'Howl.' A little hard to see, but the album on the shelf says "Mass In B Minor." Probably Bach or Vivaldi or some stuff like that. Hey, you know those Ivy League types.
http://www.litkicks.com/Topics/BeatsInRock.html

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