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T he river I have under my tongue, — Paul Eluard, "The River" |
DECEMBER 14
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ERRICO MALATESTA |
Illustration by Flavio Costantini |
HALCYON DAYS begin, a two-week-long celebration when the fabled bird calms the wind & waves.
A time of calm & tranquility.
1136 -- Harald IV "Gylle Krist," king of Norway, murdered. His younger brother prince of Hark of Forth "Kringle Kist" claimed innocence, with the lame alibi: "I was going house to house in my red underwear, dropping down the chimney & leaving presents under the tree." He was ripped apart & fed to reindeer by the angry mob for witchcraft. "Whom could possibly ever believe such crappola?" cackled some old hag.
1287 -- Zuider Zee seawall collapses with loss of 50,000 lives. Some claim this was a taste of God's wrath, for having too many fingers, in too many dykes.
1503 -- Nostradamus, crackpot, lives, France. Predicts Franco will cause civil war in Spain & the Austrian "Hister" will lead Germany in a great war against many nations.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/nostrada.htm
1640 -- Aphra Behn, the first Englishwoman to earn her living as a writer, is baptized at St. Michael's Church in Harbledown, near Canterbury, Kent. When she becomes a spy for Charles II's government, payment is so slow that she is put in debtor's prison, where she writes many of her earthy social comedies.
http://www.sappho.com/poetry/a_behn.html
1656 -- Artificial pearls first manufactured by M. Jacquin in Paris, made of gypsum pellets covered with fish scales.
1685 -- William Wycherley's "The Plain Dealer" is produced at court.
1763 -- New World: 57 whites enter Conestoga Indian settlement, & in violation of a treaty made between the tribe & William Penn — to last "as long as the sun should shine, or the waters run in the rivers" — shot, stabbed, & hatcheted the three men, two women & one young boy they found there (more on 27 December).Analytical-minded precursors of Natural Scientists, Economists & Anthropologists, Christ-bearer & his accomplices find things, objects, which they automatically categorize as obstacles or as potential instruments.
— Fredy Perlman, Against His-story, Against Leviathan!
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/PerlmanFredy.htm
1791 -- Playwright, poet, literary historian, & critic who brought the Danish Romantic movement to an end, Johan Heiberg lives, Copenhagen. His work establishes a new era of topical, sophisticated, & satirical literature.
1799 -- US: George "hemp dude" Washington wigs out at 67, of acute laryngitis at his estate, Mount Vernon, Virginia.
1825 -- Decembrist conspiracy in Russia.
1837 -- Canada: British forces crush rebellion.
1837 -- Canada: Gabriel Dumont (1837-1906) lives, Red River (during this month; exact day unknown). Métis leader, guerrilla fighter, marksman, prominent figure in Saskatchewan during the 1885 Northwest rebellion.Daily Bleed Saint 2008
Great Canadian Metis general, autonomist leader.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Dumont
http://www.telusplanet.net/public/dgarneau/metis.htm
1845 -- André Bastelica lives (1845-1884). French printer & anarchist adherent of Mikhail Bakunin, castigated by Marx for "preaching total abstention from politics."[Details / context]
1851 -- France: Victor Hugo leaves Paris surreptitiously, following Louis Napoleon's coup d'etat.
1852 -- Daniel DeLeon lives, Curacao, West Indies. One of the American founders of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), socialist scholar & labor organizer.
http://www.marxists.org/archive/deleon/
http://www.iww.org/
1853 -- Italy: Theorist/militant/writer Errico Malatesta lives, Santa Maria Capua Vetere, Kingdom of Naples. Important militant figure of Italian & international anarchism.
1864 -- England:
http://www.ephemanar.net/decembre29.html#cantwell
1895 -- Italy: Francesco Barbieri lives, Briattica.An antifascist & anarchist militant, Barbieri successively fled to Argentina, Brazil, France, Switzerland & Spain, in his fight against the fascists. During the Spanish Revolution in 1936 he joined the Italian column fighting in Huesca.
While hospitalized in Barcelona in May 1937 Barbieri is arrested by cops under command of the Communists & his body is found full of bullet holes the next day, along with that of Camillo Berneri.
1895 -- Paul Éluard lives Saint Denis. French writer/surrealist/poet ("Capital of Pain").Paul Eluard I have seen stomped by cops & mechanics on a piano & among broken bulbs, thirty to one against this somersault of the stars.
— A Wave of Dreams, Louis Aragon
A founder of Surrealism with Louis Aragon, André Breton among others, one of the important lyrical poets of the 20th century. Éluard rejected later Surrealism & joined the Communist Party in 1942. Many of his works reflect the major events of the century, such as the World Wars, the Resistance, & the political & social ideals of the 20th-century. His later work, after the Spanish Civil War, focused on the rejection of tyranny, suffering, brotherhood, & a search for happiness.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Eluard
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/eluard.htm
1898 -- US: The December 14, 1898 edition of "Discontent" (edited by Olivar A. Verity) notes "there were 51 colonists living at Home City [ Home Colony, Wa. ] & there were 15 homes. A 14x16 house made of rough board stood up & down could be purchased for the price of $20. The association 27 & a half acres deeded & 64 acres under contract to be deeded when paid for by incoming members, & 120 acres tax titles, but not yet deeded."
"Discontent: Mother of Progress" was the second in a sequence of publications edited by members of the anarchist colony at Home, Washington, near Tacoma.
The May 22, 1901 issue notes "80 people living at Home City; 23 men, 22 women & 36 children-girls over 15 year 4, & boys 3."
On March 23, 1902 it cites "94 colonists living at Home City; 28 men, 25 women, & 41 children-girls over 15 years 4, & boys 5."http://depts.washington.edu/labhist/laborpress/Discontent.shtml
http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/library/vipers.htm
1900 -- German physicist Max Planck publishes his groundbreaking study of the effect of radiation on a "blackbody" substance, & the quantum theory of modern physics lives.
Through physical experiments, Planck demonstrates that energy, in certain situations, can exhibit characteristics of physical matter. According to theories of classical physics, energy is solely a continuous wave-like phenomenon, independent of the characteristics of physical matter. The new theory holds that radiant energy is made up of particle-like components, known as "quantum." Planck's quantum theory helps to resolve previously unexplainable natural phenomenon such as the behavior of heat in solids & the nature of the light absorption on an atomic level.
1901 -- US: Giuseppe Ciancabilla's L'Aurora published at West Hoboken & Yohoghany, Pa., discontinues publication today; local persecution drove him to San Francisco, where he publishes "La Protesta Umana" (beginning February 1902) until his death in 1904.
1908 --US: After being booted from the city of Seattle yesterday, Emma Goldman protests actions of the police authorities in Everett, Washington, who prevent her from speaking on the claim that vigilantes will harm her.
The attempted exercise in free speech remains a farce until she reaches Canada. Emma & Dr. Ben Reitman are arrested in Bellingham, Washington in anticipation of her scheduled lecture.
On the 15th Emma is released from jail & placed on board a train bound for Canada. Following lectures in Vancouver, she lectures in Portland & conducts two debates — one with Democrat John Barnhill, the other with socialist Walter Thomas Mills.
Seattle Radical Timeline
1911 -- Musical Dadaist Spike Jones lives, Long Beach, California.
1911 -- Norwegian party led by Polish/Norwegian Roald Amundsen is first to reach the South Pole.
http://astro.uchicago.edu/cara/vtour/pole/poles/
1913 -- US: During this month AFL convention passes a one-cent per capita assessment to aid the organization of women workers.
http://www.history.umd.edu/Gompers/chron3.htm
1914 --
Chile: Antonio Ramón Ramón attempts to kill Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Roberto Silva Renard, the General who directed the slaughter of 3,000+ unarmed women, children & workers in the Santa Maria School Massacre during a strike in Iquique in 1907.
Pido venganza para el valiente
que la metralla pulverizó
pido venganza para el doliente
huérfano y triste que allí quedóPido venganza por la que vino
de los obreros el pecho a abrir
pido venganza por el pampino
allá en Iquique supo morir— Francisco Pezoa: “Canto a la Pampa”
Antonio Ramón Ramón, an immigrant Andalusian anarquista, became an avenger for all workers, among them his murdered stepbrother, Manuel de Vaca, who was machine-gunned at the Santa Maria School.
1916 -- Author Shirley Jackson lives.... presumably in a creepy mansion up a hill.
1917 -- US: Peace activist/suffragist/socialist Kate Richards O'Hare jailed five years for a speech denouncing World War I, & occupies a neighboring jail cell with Emma Goldman.O'Hare was one of a number of prisoners Eugene Debs cited in his "Canton Speech" — for which he in turn would be imprisoned.
"The other day they sentenced Kate Richards O'Hare to the penitentiary for five years. Think of sentencing a woman to the penitentiary simply for talking. [Laughter.]
The United States, under plutocratic rule, is the only country that would send a woman to prison for five years for exercising the right of free speech. [Applause.]
If this be treason, let them make the most of it. [Applause.]
"http://douglassarchives.org/debs_a78.htm
http://press.umsystem.edu/otherbooks/millersm.htm
1917 --
1918 -- Ireland: Constance Markievicz becomes the first woman MP when she is elected as Sinn Fein member for St Patrick's, Dublin. However, she is unable to take her seat because she is banged up in Holloway Prison.
Source: [Calendar Riots]
1923 -- Alexandre Steinlen dies. French artist & contributor to the anarchist magazine "Temps Nouveaux," along with Aristide Delannoy, Maximilien Luce, Theo van Rysselberghe, Camille Pissarro, Paul Signac, Van Dongen, George Willaume, etc.
'March 18'. Cover illustration by Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen (alternately, often spelled as Steinlein), from "Le Chambard Socialiste", March 17, 1894. March 18, the start of the Paris Commune of 1871 is commemorated. Next to Marianne on the first row are an agricultural worker, an industrial worker & an artist.
Nice collection art works & a detailed timeline, see the International Institute of Social History web site,
1928 --
1937 -- Spain: Republican offensive begins at Teruel.
[Spanish Revolution, sources]
1941 -- Rock critic, Restockings feminist Ellen Willis lives, NYC. A self-described anti-authoritarian democratic socialist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Willis
1948 --Rock critic, proto-punk writer Lester Bangs lives.
LESTER BANGS
Proponent of Propaganda by Deed,
musical vanguardist,
crazed knight of proto-punk.
"One day I walked in & bought the second Fugs album, took it home & was astounded, came back & asked the clerk what the first Fugs album sounded like. "Oh, just a little more primitive," she smiled, a bit sarcastically I thought. I couldn't imagine at the time how anything could possibly be more primitive than the second Fugs album (when I heard The Fugs First Album, of course, I found out). When I played "Virgin Forest" on that second album for my nephew, he had a word for the Fugs: "These people are sick," he said.
No, they weren't. They were poets, with a bedrock-primitive folkie guitarswatter or two thrown in to round out the hairmoon pie. Ed Sanders & Tuli Kupferberg had enjoyed quite respectable careers as beatniks on the Lower East Side for several years before forming the band with Ken Weaver, Peter Stampfel, Steve Weber & several others who shifted from album to album. So don't ever make the Seventies mistake of thinking they did this stuff just to get famous. They did it to EXPRESS THEMSELVES (let us recall that the cover of the later Fugs Four, Rounders Score was painted by a chimp)!
1953 -- In the American state of Florida, where she had become enchanted by the flat landscape & finally found her voice, author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings dies in St. Augustine.
1957 -- US: Dave Beck, General President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, convicted of embezzling from his own union.
1963 -- Dinah Washington, 39, dies of an overdose of sleeping pills in Detroit. She started as a church pianist before singing jazz with Lionel Hampton's band. From the late '40s & into the '60s, she sung a wide variety of stuff from blues to country to pop, in a rich elegant voice.
1965 -- England: Albert Belden dies, pacifist pastor.
1970 -- Poland: Strikes begin in Gdansk, spread to Gdynia, Szczecin, other industrial centers. Widespread factory occupations/resistance.Riots topple the Communistgovernment, but a new military regime takes power in its place. This movement lasts until February 1971 when it is recuperated by the reformed government.Gdansk remains a center of protest against the government & in the 1980s strikes here & in other cities lead to the formation of SolidarnoϾ, an organization of unions that toppled the Communist government in the 1980s, & Lech Walesa emerges as worker's leader. Other regimes in the Communist Bloc are also soon overthrown as a result.
alt sp; Solidarity, Solidarnosc http://www.solidarnosc.org.pl/
1971 -- US: Frisco's Golden Gate Bridge lights are out all night from power failure. What? Wer all the politicians out all night?
http://www.buttsacrossamerica.com/buttshot_pages/golden_gate_bridge.html
1971 -- US: Detective Frank Serpico tells Knapp Commission of widespread police corruption in NY.
1972 -- US: In the holiday spirit, Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President Nixon authorizes the Christmas bombing of Hanoi.
1973 -- United Nations affirms status of Puerto Rico as a US colony & recognizes its right to independence.
1980 -- At Yoko Ono's request, at 2 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, John Lennon fans around the world mourn him with 10 minutes of silent prayer. In NY over 100,000 people converge in Central Park in tribute & in Liverpool, a crowd of 30,000 gathers outside of St. George's Hall on Lime Street."I always was a rebel...but on the other hand, I wanted to be loved & accepted... & not just be a loudmouth, lunatic, poet, musician. But I cannot be what I am not."
http://web.archive.org/...geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Cabaret/1573/Page0002.html
1984 -- Italy: Viene arrestato il presidente dell'Italstat, Ettore Bernabei, per aver corrotto uomini politici (i cosiddetti fondi neri dell'IRI). Nulla di nuovo sotto il sole.
Source: [Crimini e Misfatti]
1985 -- US: The wonderfully surnamed Wilma Mankiller is sworn in as Chief of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, becoming the first woman (& one of the most outspoken leaders) to head a major US tribe in recent history.
1985 -- Mobilization for Animals declares "World Week for Companion Animals" to highlight the plight of homeless animals.
1986 --
1988 -- US agrees to talk to Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO).
1989 -- Andrej Sacharov, Soviet dissident, physicist, dies.
1990 -- US: Right to Die lawsuit permits Nancy Cruzan to have her feeding tube removed, she dies 12 days later.
1990 -- Cuba: Black Panther supporter Paris becomes the first western rap artist to perform in a socialist country. Before playing to the packed house at the Karl Marx auditorium in Havana, he & exiled Black Liberation Army activist Assata Shakuur speak of the need to contain capitalism & develop Third World unity.
Source: [Calendar Riots]
1992 -- Poland: 300,000 coal workers strike against "Solidarity" government.
1994 -- 30 years after shocking Newport Folk Festival by plugging his guitar in, Bob Dylan, religion-hopper, appears on MTV unplugged.
"I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now."
http://www.reocities.com/SoHo/2615/
1994 -- After eight years, United States finally agrees to honor New Zealand's ban on nuclear weapons in its territory.
1995 -- Turkey: Local Human Rights Watch suppressed.
http://www.reocities.com/kk_abacus/ht/kurd.html
1995 -- AIDS patient Jeff Getty receives baboon bone marrow transplant. With a strange Darwinian twist, the "religious right" goes absolutely apeshit.
http://www.zoozone.com/
2002 -- Norway: Two-day celebration begins for 25th Anniversary of the Anarchist Federation of Norway / Anarkistføderasjonen i Norge AFIN (1977- 2002). The International Anarchist Congress The 7th Anarchist Biennial - Medio-Seminar on Anarchismin, Oslo.
2003 -- Italy:
http://artic.ac-besancon.fr/histoire_geographie/HGFTP/Autres/Utopies/anitadat.doc
2005 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President George W. Bush says the decision to invade Iraq in 2003 was the result of faulty intelligence, but maintains his decision was still justified. Good news for the 30,000 innocent civilians killed in Bush's War.
2006 -- Ahmet Ertegün dies. Turkish-American founder of Atlantic Records, jazz-lover, songwriter, founder NY Cosmos soccer team. Atlantic's first success came in rhythm & blues, with such artists as Joe Turner, Ruth Brown, The Clovers, The Drifters, & Ray Charles. Regarding Charles, Ertegün is quoted as saying "First time I saw Ray I told him, 'You are the fucking end, you know.'"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmet_Ertegun
2008 -- Iraq: AReallyBigShew? Al-Baghdadia TV journalist Muntadhar al Zaidi is subdued after throwing both his shoes at Beloved & (dis)Respected Comrade Leader President George W. Bush during his farewell speech.
2009 -- Antonio Maria Costa, head of the UN Office on Drugs & Crime, claims some banks were rescued during the recent global financial crisis by billions of dollars that originated from the illegal drug trade.
2010 -- US: TurboCharged? India’s UN envoy Hardeep Puri is detained for frisking after refusing remove his turban for Security forces at Houston Airport, Texass. Puri was suspected of hiding nuclear missiles, intending to launch a surprise attack on Ushuaia.
3001 --OVERWORK
n. A dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.
— Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
3500 --"Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true."
— Honore de Balzac"Anarchist history Day book, anarchist almanac, anarchist daybook, anarchist chronology"
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