HEDGEHOG He ambles along like a walking pin cushion, Stops & curls up like a chestnut burr. He's not worried because he's so little. Nobody is going to slap him around. — Chu Chen Po (9th century). Translated from the Chinese by Kenneth Rexroth

November 7

LUIS ANDRES EDO
Militant historian of the Spanish anarcho-syndicalist movement.

Alternate Saint (2003-4):

TENSKATAWA
Mystical Shawnee prophet,
twin brother of Tecumseh,
forged a pan-Indian united front against US aggression.

FESTIVAL OF STOLEN FIRE.



FEAST OF FREE PAMPHLETEERS
http://roswell.fortunecity.com/angelic/96/probcaus.htm
http://ezone.org/ez/e2/articles/digaman.html

1687 -- Antiquarian William Stukeley lives, Hollbeach, Lincolnshire. Principal among his 20-odd works on the antiquities of England are those about Stonehenge & various reputed Druid remains.


1811 -- US: Battle of Tippecanoe. Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader William Henry Harrison, governor of Indiana, defeats an Indian group; the fame for this feat later helps him gain the US presidency.


1837 -- US: Abolitionist newspaperman Elijah P. Lovejoy murdered by an armed mob, Alton, Illinois.
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A pro-slavery mob slays him while he defends his press. He lost three other presses to mob attacks, but he refused to surrender this one, which was contributed by the Ohio Anti-Slavery Society. For this he gets shot five times in today's attack.

Lovejoy moved to Alton from St. Louis where, after denouncing a lynching & burning of a black man, a mob tore down his office. In a speech four days ago, he said "I have sworn eternal opposition to slavery &, by the blessings of God, I will never turn back. I can die at my post but I cannot desert it." . The Ohio Anti-Slavery Society provided financial support for the repair of his press, & he continued printing abolitionist writings, despite threats on his life. When the mob returned a third time, Lovejoy stood in the way. Although he was killed & his printing press destroyed, his death helped to motivate the movement in America for the abolition of slavery.

1867 -- Physicist Marie Curie lives.


1874 -- US: Republican Party elephant first appears, (in Harper's Weekly).


1879 -- Ukraine: Leon Trotsky, Russian Bolshevik who will lose out to Uncle Joe Stalin, lives, Yankova.
http://www.corpse.org/archives/issue_5/critical_urgencies/elias.htm



1879 -- France: Benoît Broutchoux lives (1879-1944). French anarchist, adherent of neo-Malthusian ideas & "free love" advocate.

Broutchoux collaborated with Sébastien Faure. His son Germinal was killed by the police in 1931. Broutchoux & Charles Malato spoke at the massive gathering at
Louise Michel's final graveside ceremony.

October 2nd 1993, Lille, France: Meeting & discussion organized by F.A. Group "Humeurs noires," CNT, Centre Culturel Libertaire following the 2nd edition of the comics "Benoit Broutchoux."

Centre culturel libertaire Benoit Broutchoux, Groupe May Picqueray 1-2, rue Denis-du-Peage 59800 Lille.

http://www.spunk.org/texts/places/france/sp001865.html
http://www.ephemanar.net/juin02.html

1880 -- France: Arrivée de anarchiste Louise Michel à Londres.


1885 -- France:

Benoît Malon constitue la Société d'économie sociale

1889 -- Author Mark Aleksandrovich Aldanov lives.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Aldanov.html



1891 -- Spain: Santiago Salvador Franch tosses two bombs into the audience at Teatre Liceu opera house during a performance of the opera William Tell, killing 22 people. The bombing was initially blamed on the anarquista José Codina, then on Mariano Cerezuela (both executed on May 21, 1894) & finally attributed to Salvador.

The violence of the anarchists did not always land at the feet of tyrants...

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1893 -- Spain: Felice Orsini tosses two bombs into a Barcelona opera house to avenge the execution of Pauli Pallas (who killed a civil guard during an rebellion September 24, 1893). 20 dead & several casualties. A state of siege is declared in the city & hundreds of anarquistas arrested & tortured by the army.
http://struggle.ws/spain/pam_intro.html


1894 -- Spurned by his girl friend, poet Robert Frost, 20, wanders through the Great Dismal Swamp in Virginia, where he has gone to think black thoughts.
http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/00/pwillen1/lit/indexa.htm


1901 -- Cecília Meireles lives, Rio de Janeiro, Guanabara. Brazilian journalist, teacher & poet, perhaps the best of her time writing in Portuguese. Taught, among other places, at the University of Texass. Initiated the first children's library in Brazil in 1934, & wrote several children's books.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/meireles.htm


1903 -- A request from Columbia that she be allowed to land troops in Panama to protect her own territorial integrity is denied by the commanders of US warships in the area. To protect US "interests," as you no doubt suspected.


1907 -- México: Dynamite explodes on a locomotive, kills engineer Jesus Garcia.


1908 -- US: Omaha chief of police prevents Emma Goldman from lecturing in the hall of her choice, where she hoped to lecture between the 7th-13th (we Americans proudly call this free speech); crowds gather to hear Emma at other sites in the city.

Emma has just concluded speaking in cities throughout Missouri: Springfield, Liberal, & Kansas City.

Her lectures in Des Moines, Iowa, on the 15th are successful, but lectures in Minneapolis & St. Paul poorly attended. Between the 24th-30th, she appears in Winnipeg, Canada for lectures & a debate with socialist J. D. Houston.

1912 -- US: Ernest Riebe's "Mr. Block," IWW labor comic strip, makes it's first appearance.

Riebe & his "Block Supply Co." at P. O. Box 156, Minneapolis, are long gone, but his comic art is still making people laugh — & think.

One of the best-loved features in the Wobbly press, & his comic book was a hot seller for years. Joe Hill wrote a "Mr. Block" song, & Riebe brought out two more Mr. Block comic books, a Mr. Block play, & Mr. Block postcards. Other IWW artists introduced Block into their own cartoons.

Like all labor cartoonists, Riebe is largely overlooked in the various surveys of US comics issued by the big multinational publishers. Increasingly, scholars recognize Riebe as an important figure & some call him the first "underground" comic book artist.

Throughout the 1980s, Riebe's work was prominently featured in Carlos Cortez's cross-country Wobbly Art Show. Historians Joyce Kornbluh, Dave Roediger & Sal Salerno have reproduced Mr. Block cartoons in their pathbreaking studies of the Wobbly counterculture.

http://picturebook.nothingness.org/pbook/mrblock/display_contents/1
http://www.iww.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Workers_of_the_World

1913 -- Algeria: Albert Camus lives, Mondovi. Wrote The Stranger, The Myth of Sisyphus, gets Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. In 1959, started the review "Freedom," in support of conscientious objectors.

ALBERT CAMUS
French Existentialist, Bleed Saint 1998, 2008-2009.

Wrote for numerous libertarian publications. Camus' relationship to anarchism considered at:
http://batr.org/solitary/102203.html

See also
http://www.spunk.org/texts/misc/sp000205.txt
http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/00/pwillen1/lit/indexa.htm
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1957/

"L'histoire d'aujourd'hui nous force à dire que la révolte est l'une des dimensions essentielles de l'homme."

http://www.tameri.com/csw/
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/acamus.htm

1914 -- US: First issue of The New Republic published.


1915 -- Switzerland: Création d’un Comité d’action international pacifiste; les opposants à la guerre, parmi lesquels Alphonse Merrheim et Albert Bourderon.
[Source: Le Libertaire]


1915 -- México: Emiliano Zapata finally issues a proposed labor law. It includes an 8-hour day, prohibition of work for children under age14, worker cooperatives to run factories abandoned by owners, & a fixed minimum wage. But "it failed to respond to some of the most important demands [of the] Mexican labor movement," & exposes Zapata's lack of understanding of his urban counterparts.
Source: http://struggle.ws/mexico/history/anarchism_1910.html



1917 -- Russia: The Bolshevik coup leaves the Communist Party as the new landlord-occupant of the Winter Palace. They dig the digs, move in for the long haul, & bring the hopes of the Russian Revolution to a screeching halt with what in effect is a counter-revolution. Party, bureaucracy, capitalism & hierarchical authority are the operative concepts.

http://www.spunk.org/texts/places/russia/sp001861/bolintro.html

1918 -- US: Billy Graham invades earth.


1918 -- Germany: Kiel Mutiny, following the imprisonment of 600 sailors, sparks a general uprising. The provisional government declared by Independent Social Democrats will be overtaken by the Bavarian Raterepublik — the Workers', Soldiers', & Farmers' Councils — within five months.

"Red Bavaria" Revolution. Workers revolt. The Bavarian monarchy is overthrown & a Republic is declared by the Socialist Kurt Eisner, who becomes its president.

Eisner proposes a ministry position to the anarchist Erich Mühsam. Mühsam refuses, preferring to fight along with Gustav Landauer, Ernst Toller, Ret Marut (now best known as the novelist B. Traven), & others, for the development of Workers' Councils & self-managed co-operatives.

Landauer:

Denn in der Poesie sind Worte und Begriffe das Instrument, das uns zur Musik führt, -zum Rhythmus, zum Unsagbaren, das in uns einschwingt und uns mitschwingen läßt.

Ernst Toller, playwright, became chairman of the Central Council of the farmer & soldier, & leader of a Red Army.

The Munich Soviet (or "Council Republic") of 1919 exhibited certain features of the TAZ, even though — like most revolutions — its stated goals were not exactly "temporary." Gustav Landauer's participation as Minister of Culture along with Silvio Gesell as Minister of Economics & other anti-authoritarian & extreme libertarian socialists such as the poet/playwrights Erich Mühsam & Ernst Toller, & Ret Marut (B. Traven), gave the Soviet a distinct anarchist flavor. Landauer, who had spent years of isolation working on his grand synthesis of Nietzsche, Proudhon, Kropotkin, Stirner, Meister Eckhardt, the radical mystics, & the Romantic volk-philosophers, knew from the start that the Soviet was doomed; he hoped only that it would last long enough to be understood.

— Peter Lamborn Wilson

1919 -- US: "Palmer's Reign of Terror" begins: 3,000 anarchists imprisoned without bail, Ellis Island in NY harbor, in a "Freedom-loving" nation (just don't try to practice it!).



1920 -- Russia: Emma Goldman attends the third anniversary of the October Revolution in Petrograd, in her estimation "more like the funeral than the birth of the Revolution."

Also during this month, following the Red Army's murder of Nestor Makhno's commanders in the Crimea while negotiating under a white flag, Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Leon Trotsky orders an attack on Makhno's headquarters; Makhno manages to escape, eventually reaching Paris where he lives in exile. Trotsky orders the arrest & imprisonment of Russian anarchist Voline.

Sowing what he one day shall reap, "The Red Butcher" creates a fine legacy.

1921 -- Dancer Isadora Duncan, sympathetic to the Soviets, attempts to meet with Emma Goldman.



1921 -- Italy: Fondazione del Partito Nazionale Fascista durante il Congresso fascista a Roma (-11 November). Segretario del partito viene eletto Michele Bianchi, ex sindacalista rivoluzionario.
Source: [Crimini e Misfatti]



1925 --

Luís Andrés Edo, anarcho-syndicalist lives. Anarquista who fought the repressions of Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Franco's Spain. An untiring militant & author of two books (2002 & 2006). http://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/xd26cp http://www.independent.co.uk/...fought-the-repressions-of-francos-spain-1652625.html In Spanish: http://www.polemica.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=147 http://www.alasbarricadas.org/forums/viewtopic.php...

1933 -- India: Gandhi begins tour for Harijan uplift.


1933 -- US: Blue Moon UpRising? Pennsylvania voters overturn blue law.

1936 --

"This war we wage is to squash the enemy in front of us. But the enemy is also he who opposes the Revolution's conquests."

— Buenaventura Durruti,
Radio speech, November 7, 1936

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/DurrutiColumnEarly.htm
http://picturebook.nothingness.org/pbook/1936/display_contents/2/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5_A_8hI3GY

1936 -- Francisco Pérez Mateo, an artist, dies. Active on the Republican side during the first months of the war, Pérez Mateo was known primarily as a sculptor, a fact which makes this poster an oddity among his work.

Pérez Mateo belonged to some of the leading artists' associations of the time, such as the Sociedad de Artistas Ibéricos, & was included in an exhibition by this group in Paris in 1936.

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In 1933 he participated in the first Exhibition of Revolutionary Art in Madrid, which also included works by other artists in this exhibition (Monleón, Renau & Rodríguez Luna). A member of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE), at the outbreak of the war he enlisted in the communist Fifth Regiment, one of famous combat units in the Republican army. Fighting as a lieutenant, Pérez Mateo was wounded in the defense of Madrid on November 6, 1936, & died today in the trenches.

An exhibit in his honor was included in the Spanish Pavilion in the International Exhibition in Paris, where Picasso's Guernica was also shown. An echo of Pérez Mateo's knowledge of avant-garde art may be seen in this scene: the manner in which the composition rests at its base on a right angle is reminiscent of a compositional device used often by cubist painters.

http://libraries.ucsd.edu/locations/mscl/collections/southworth-spanish-civil-war-collection.html

1936 -- Spain: Increasingly aware of her inability to speak Spanish hindering her work in Spain, Emma Goldman plans to shift to publicity work & fund raising in Great Britain or the United States, where she could make a greater contribution.

The threat of Nationalist forces to Madrid prompts the government to relocate to Valencia, including four anarchists ('pajaros carpinteros'),who have accepted major ministry posts just days ago. While recognizing the paramount need to fight the fascists, Emma Goldman is troubled by the CNT-FAI's direction, especially its decision to join the government & effectively align itself with pro-Soviet forces. In her correspondence with close friends, she is highly critical of the collaborative direction of the CNT [Confederacion Nacional del Trabajo], but publicly remains supportive.

1936 -- Spain: The International Brigades intervene on the Madrid front.

http://www.filmscouts.com/File=ken-loach...Cannes%20Film%20Festival
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_and_Freedom
http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/3365/year/1995.html


1938 -- Ethel Mannin, novelist & anarchist, successfully assumes Emma Goldman's role as S.I.A. (Solidarid Internacional Antifascista) representative in London; raises significantly more financial support for the SIA than Goldman had. Emma advises Gudell that the next propaganda campaign undertaken by the CNT-FAI should be aimed at the release of the political prisoners in Spain.

I am purely evil;
Hear the thrum
of my evil engine;
Evilly I come.
The stars are thick as flowers
In the meadows of July;
A fine night for murder
Winging through the sky.

— Ethel Mannin, 'Song of the Bomber'

Irish novelist & author Ethel Mannin (1900-1985) was born in London. Though her parents were British, she became known as an Irish writer. She was a prolific novelist who also wrote biographies, travel books, books for children, & autobiographies. Married to Reginald Reynolds.

"Dig into the novels of Ethel Mannin & you will find anarchism, the Spanish Revolution, Emma Goldman, women’s lib., the colonial struggle, the Arab guerrillas, all dealt with: her factual works include Women & the Revolution & many others."

— Albert Meltzer

http://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/mpg58h

1938 -- Charles Malato dies. See entry above, 1879, for Benoît Broutchoux. Malato, a French revolutionary & propagandist, was a close friend of the Spanish anarquista educator Francisco Ferrer. He was one of four anarchists (Pedro Vallina, an English anarchist named Harvey & another named Caussanel) falsely arrested in 1905 for a tossing a bomb into a processsion headed by the French President & the King of Spain.
http://libcom.org/history/michel-louise-1830-1905

1940 -- US: Tacoma Narrows Bridge, nicknamed "Galloping Gertie," collapses in moderate wind four months after opening.



1943 -- Songster Joni Mitchell lives.
http://www.jonimitchell.com/


1945 -- England: Cecil Wilson, pacifist parliamentarian, dies.


1959 -- US: The Taft-Hartley Act is invoked by the Supreme Court to break a steel strike.
[Sources]

1960 -- Charles d'Avray, (1878-1960) dies. Poète et chansonnier anarchiste; à Sèvres décédé le 7 Novembre 1960 à Paris XXe, il est enterré au cimetière du Père-Lachaise.

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En 1950 dans Histoire du Mouvement Anarchiste en France, Jean Maitron, grand historien du mouvement ouvrier français, écrivait:

Charles d'Avray se rallia à l'Anarchisme au moment de l'Affaire Dreyfus et décida de se servir de la chanson "afin de mieux faire connaître l'Idéal anarchiste." Après deux années de tâtonnements, il estime que la conférence agrémentée de chansons est la meilleure forme de propagande. Il se met au travail et en un an compose 80 chansons, paroles et musique. Les affiches qui annoncent son passage portent en exergue : "Avec le passé détruisont le présent pour devancer l'avenir." Chacune de ces "conférences chantées" comporte d'ailleurs trois type de chansons:

celles qui se proposent comme but de "détruire le passé"
: Les Géants sur l'Eglise, Les Favorites sur les courtisanes,
Les Monstres sur la noblesse, Des Pyramides aux Invalides
sur Napoléon Ier, Bazaine sur Napoléon III, etc...;

celles qui sont dirigées contre la IIIe République : Ne
votez plus, Bas Biribi, Magistrature, Militarisme,
Procréation consciente, Monsieur Schneider et Cie, etc... ;

celles enfin qui exaltent la société libertaire de demain :
Amour et Volonté, L'Homme libre, Le Premier Mai, Le
Triomphe de l'Anarchie, etc...

Chaque chanson est relié à la suivante par une courte argumentation du poète-conférencier qui fait ensuite appel à la contradiction, Jusqu'à la guerre de 1914, Charles d'Avray poursuivit sa propagande... qu'il continue encore aujourd'hui dans le cabaret qu'il a ouvert "Au bouquet de Montmartre".

Page 447, Histoire du mouvement anarchiste en France (1880-1914) de Jean Maitron (2ème Edition, Editions Sudel 1955 - Réédité par Maspero en 1983).

http://www.teaser.fr/~cperrin/cda/chdavray.htm
http://www.morgane.org/biblio3.htm#chansons
See also Ken Knabb's informative piece,
http://www.bopsecrets.org/recent/brassens.htm

1962 -- Former American First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt dies.


1967 -- US: Carl Stokes (Cleveland) & Richard Hatcher (Gary, In.) elected first black mayors of major US cities.


1967 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader General Hershey, striking a blow for freedom, announces draft crackdown on deferred college students who are active in anti-war demos.



1968 -- The Doors are banned in Phoenix after Jim Morrison tells the audience to stand up. Local authorities, a bunch of stand-up guys, were wary of Morrison's intentions because he had recently mooned an audience.

Author Tom Robbins (Another Roadside Attraction) covering a Doors concert for Seattle's underground "Helix," described them as "Edgar Allan Poe drowning in his birdbath." (Among other things.)
http://www.doors.com/



1969 --

"A determined revolutionary doesn't require authorization from a central committee before offing a pig. As a matter of fact, when the need arises, the true revolutionary will off the central committee..."

— Eldridge Cleaver (from "The Berkeley Tribe," Nov. 7, '69)

1971 --

Joseph Spivak (1882-1971) dies, NY City. Lifelong anarchist who emigrated to the US & during WWI was active in nation-wide anti-militarist campaigns with Emma Goldman & Alexander Berkman. Spivak helped found the Libertarian Book Club, publishing English translations of Voline's The Unknown Revolution (1954-1955), The Ego & Its Own by Max Stirner (1963), etc. An activist to the end, Spivak participated in a conference on "the co-operative movement" just a few weeks before his death at age 90.

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

1972 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Mob figure & anti-Castroite Meyer Lansky, 71, arrested Miami.


1972 -- US: 7th Circuit Court of Appeals reverses convictions of last five of the Chicago Seven.
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/Chicago7/chicago7.html



1972 -- US: Congress finally (after 9 attempts) passes War Powers legislation, over Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Nixon's veto; limits a President's power to commit armed forces to hostilities abroad without Congressional approval.


1972 -- US: Supreme Court decision indicates how far state power will go to protect the spectacle of union strikes: Four California Teamsters are ordered reinstated with five years' back pay as a unanimous Supreme Court rules it is "unfair labor practice for an employer to fire a worker solely for taking part in a strike."

— John Zerzan, "Organized Labor versus 'The Revolt Against Work'"

http://libcom.org/library/organized-labor-versus-revolt-against-work-john-zerzan



1974 -- Rolling Stone reports Ted Nugent has won the National Squirrel-Shooting Archery Contest by picking off a squirrel at 150 yards. Nugent also wiped out 27 more of the small mammals with a handgun during the three day event.

"& so shall we burst forth from the land, with revenge as our companion!"

1974 -- China: Huge wall poster, critical of the regime, is posted on Peking Road in Canton. Entitled "Concerning Socialist Democracy & Legal System: Dedicated to Chairman Mao & the fourth National People's Congress," it was written by a group of ex-Red Guards under the collective pseudonym of Li I-che.

Bibliography on Chinese anarchism at /Anarchist_Archives/worldwidemovements/chinabiblio.html

Shifu; Soul Of Chinese Anarchism by Edward S. Krebs, of possible interest,
http://www.jaysleftist.info/directory/subjects/anarchy.htm

1976 -- Italy: 3,000 gate-crash Milan movie theatres. Four movie houses are invaded as part of the ongoing "self-reduction movement," protesting higher ticket prices. Theatres agree to reduce prices, but later, because it is felt they are still too high, more demonstrations occur.


1978 -- US: Nation's first nuclear-free zone established in Missoula, Montana.


1978 -- In New York, The New Yorker correspondent for some 50 years, Janet Flanner (Genêt) dies. Her first novel, The Cubical City, appeared in 1926, but she is best remembered for her writing in The New Yorker.

1983 -- US: "The New York Times" reports a city plan to improve the lives of South Bronx residents by pasting vinyl decals — featuring cheery images of curtains, shades, shutters & plants — on the boarded-up windows of abandoned tenements. Says a housing official,

Collage by SaintMeister James Koehnline

1988 -- John Fogerty wins his self-plagiarism court battle with Fantasy Records. The label claimed Fogerty copied his song, "Run Through The Jungle" when writing "The Old Man Down The Road."


1990 -- Indian-born English author Lawrence Durrell, best known for The Alexandria Quartet, dies in Sommières, France.

It is the duty of every patriot to hate his country creatively. — Lawrence Durrell

Worked as a jazz pianist in a London nightclub. In the 1930s he went to Paris, where he started his career as a writer & associated with such authors as Henry Miller, who became his mentor.

Bleedster S. notes, "Born in India, lived there only 4 years, spent the rest of his life moving around, lived in England, France, Greece, Egypt, Yugoslavia, & Argentia. Spent the last 33 years of his life in various places in France, mostly near the Mediterranean. He didn't like being called "English" either — had vague pretenses to being Irish, but carried an English passport."

For much greater detail, see Ian MacNiven, Lawrence Durrell (1998).

1990 -- In Montreal, Quebec, Hugh MacLennan, dies. His work includes Two Solitudes (1945), The Watch That Ends the Night (1959), & Voices in Time (1980).
http://www.harrypalmergallery.ab.ca/galcompio/maclennan.html


1990 -- PAT?: National Football League withdraws plans to hold the 1993 Super Bowl in Phoenix due to Arizona's refusal to honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday.



1991 -- US: Safety in Numbers?: Actor Paul Reubens, a.k.a. Pee Wee Herman, pleads no contest to charges of indecent exposure. He had been arrested in Sarasota, Florida for exposing himself in a theatre — i.e., practicing safe sex with someone he loved.



1991 -- Should've Pee-Wee-ed? Magic Johnson announces he has HIV virus & retires from Lakers.


1991 -- Demonstration against conscription & war, Ada, Vojvodina, Yugoslavia.


1994 -- South Korea lifts 50-year ban on direct trade & investment in North Korea.


1998 -- US: Hizzoner Willie Brown "pied" in Frisco, California.

2000 -- US: Despite wasting a record 3+ billion dollars urging the American electorate to vote, only a minority of eligible Americans can be bought. Many among the vast majority are convinced none of the candidates could possibly represent them or are worthy of their vote.

We must discover new frontiers... People have been standing for centuries before a worm-eaten door, making pinholes in it with increasing ease. The time has come to kick it down, for it is only on the other side that everything begins. — Raoul Vaneigem

http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/library/anarchistQuotesVoting.htm

2004 -- France: Sébastien Briat dies, crushed by a train of radioactive waste bound for Germany. Antinuclear militant & a 21-year-old trade unionist, Sébastien helped found a student section of the trade union CNT-Education de Nancy.
http://www.ephemanar.net/novembre07.html#briat


2010 -- Residents of Cap d'Agde, Europe's largest nudist colony, criticize foreign nudists & express unhappiness at "an explosion of libertarianism" they claim is turning the resort into the "European capital of debauchery" & an "open-air brothel".


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