----------------Re: [b] FW: [BI] Alyce Cresap Date:  Thu, 08 May 2003 19:54:01 -0400 From:  "Deanna Ramsay"  To:  biblio@bibliophilegroup.com

Alyce was suffering from lung cancer. She had a reaction to mildew in books a few years ago, which caused permanent damage to her lungs, and has been fighting off a number of respiratory problems for the past year. The cancer wasn't diagnosed until very recently, & by then it was much too advanced to do anything about. Alyce declined any sort of treatment other than palliative care. Her sister, & then later her son Jeff came to stay with her. She's been remarkably brave about the entire thing. I'm quite sure I could never have faced my own mortality with as much grace & fortitude.I'm going to miss her.best,Deanna> I am sorry to hear about Alyce. She has been a virtual companion of> ours on Bibliophile for many years, & I feel that the list will be> missing her contributions to our forum. Grace & fortitude, with a droll sense of humor to thevery end. I hope that somewhere tonight family & friends are celebrating Alyce's life, for what better life to celebrate than that of a booklover. & I hope they know how much she will be missed here in Bilbiotenango..Regards,BonnieWhen you have a moment & want to reminisce about Alyce, go here:http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=alyce+cresapIt's kind of comforting that even after we're gone, we'll leave a 'cached'memory of our activities behind.AND, she'd have you know that it's not Alyce; it's alyce.I had the privilege of hanging around with alyce on an alternative list,BiblioMANIA (now, beekslayers) for seven years. The list has politicalovertones, & we all speak our minds & slap each other around andlove each other even though we're all assholes. alyce led the pack. Sheknew when to scream injustice, when to punch someone in the nose, andwhen to settle back & watch the idiotic game.A lot of things happen over seven years. I just want to say that it wasmy pleasure to know alyce & that I hope some of her rubbed off on me.She's a beautiful soul, & she'll live on forever through those who shebumped elbows with, & - I'll betcha - her influence will resoundthrough our trade as long as any of us can look up & smile, or laughat ourselves, or give a gentle nudge in one direction or other when it'smost needed.Godspeed alyce cresap.Don JerniganThe Ink Company I will remember her always as being the only Bibliotenangan who quickly came forth to claim membership in my imaginary 8 & 4 Club, dedicated to those of us who wereactive when the Post Office Book Rate was 8 cents the first pound & 4 cents for each additional. We mourn her loss while celebrating her life.~Wynn LoewenthalModern First Editions Sun, 11 May 2003 21:05:21 -0400 From:  David Palmquist  To:  I was sorry to hear of Alyce's death & was afraid it would be sooner rather than later. I second all the recollections as to her wit, her wonderful balanced view of the world & her fierce sense of justice.I actually had the good fortune to meet her. We both live and, of course, sell books in Columbia County, NY, in the Hudson River Valley. Having "met" on the Bibliophile list we had some wonderful e-mail exchanges. She was a wonderful & funny correspondent. For instance, she said she never went to Wal-Mart & never to the malls in Albany. She would drive that far only to pick up friends at the airport. We talked about where we kept our books. Her house was full of books, she said. I mentioned having a barn (barn in Kinderhook, thus, Kinderbarn Books). She wrote back, "I'd kill for a barn."I had a feeling we'd eventually meet. One beautiful Saturday morning about 7 or 8 years ago I was heading for the tag sale books at the local Cooperative Extension. A tallish, thin woman with long white hair holding a number of plants was also heading for the books. She made a bee-line for the best books, as it happened, while I rummaged through junk. I finally asked if she was a collector & she offered that she sold books on the Internet. It hit me & I asked, "Are you Alyce?" Yes! Turns out she always went to the Humane Society tag sale but first bought her seedling plants. (What discipline! I'd first go for the books, even skip lunch!!)We talked some more. I had my hands on a clock book & she immediately offered the name of a dealer who might buy it. She suggested I look through what books she had in her car, a newer van brimming with books, & make an offer on whatever I wanted. I helped bring the books & plants to her car, although she really didn't need the assist.I would describe her to you as somewhat shy which may surprise you. Her inner strength came out in her writing & e-mails. I could sense that she valued her privacy & independence.A couple of years later we met at a Germantown Library book sale. She navigated slowly around the tables. Despite her ailments you should know that she participated actively as an officer in the Germantown town library, & as I recall was responsible for a good part of the fund raising & accounting. The library was then housed in a small building but poised to build & move into a much larger & more serviceable structure.Alyce was as generous in person as she was with advice & humor in her e-mails. Recently, unable to travel as much & move books, she referred a friend to me who had just sold her house & needed someone to purchase & clear out 1,000 books. Could I do it, & do it by the next evening? Of course I would, it was for her friend.Alyce loved books & the people who buy, read & sell books. All of us in the virtual community were her friends & neighbors, & we are very much richer for having known her.David PalmquistKINDERBARN BOOKSKinderhook, NYquist@albany.net



3500 -- Mother Jones (1830-1930)Mother Jones was one of the most forceful & picturesque figures of the American labor movement. Born around1830 she lived well into her nineties & was widely known & respected among labor groups all over the UnitedStates. In her early life, after losing her husband & children to an epidemic, & then losing everything again inthe Chicago fire, she found in the labor movement an outlet for her inherent sympathy, love & daring. She neverhad the time or the education to study the philosophy of the various movements that have inspired many devotedidealists. She worked especially with the miners of West Virginia & Colorado, but also with Steel Workers & groups inmany other industries. She was a born crusader & organizer. She led a march of child textile-mill workers from city to city that wasinstrumental in reforming the child labor laws. Mother Jones was an individualist. Her own emotions & ideas were so strong that she sometimes came in conflict with othersfighting for the same cause, such as John Mitchell of the mine workers. Without education or scholarship, Mother Jones had thepower of moving masses of men by her strong, living speech & action. She had likewise a total disregard for her personal safety,and was jailed countless times. She wrote her autobiography with some help at the age of 95. Charles Kerr published it with an introduction by Clarence Darrow. It isprobably the most emotionally riveting piece of labor history ever written. (by RM Baseman) http://tigerden.com/~berios/libertarians.html


3509 -- The veteran Dan Chatterton, who had participated in the Chartist agitations of 1848, produced his own Anarchist paper Chatterton’s Commune-the Atheist Communistic Scorcher. This ran for 42 issues from 1884, produced in conditions of extreme poverty. http://burn.ucsd.edu/~acf/org/issue42/acbrit.html
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3509 -- When he is therefore attacked by what seemed to be youthful exuberance as inthe Porvenir anarquista of Barcelona (end of 1891) there is little harm done.Other attacks are of no account, because malignity rivals in them withauthoritarian intolerance, though they called themselves individualist. I allude tothe publications beginning in Paris, 1887, & culminating in London about 1892or 1893 & wound up by a curious trial for libel some fifteen years later. When the anarchist movement was hunted down by the persecutions of 1893 & 1894, it received a great impulse as early as in 1895 by the sudden & rapid development of French syndicalism. 

News of this reached London about the middle of 1895 & Malatesta had probably discussed the subject before with Emile Pouget who left for Paris in May. There was a meeting held in the rooms of Alfred Marsh, the editor of "Freedom," in Camden Town, N. W., Malatesta being present when these new developments & the International Socialist Workers' & Trade Union Congress of 1896 (London) were discussed; other meetings followed through the year. A last attempt was made in 1896 to maintain the solidarity of socialist & labor organizations of all shades of socialist & anarchist opinon the principle of the Bologna, Geneva & Berne Congresses of 1873 & 1876 -- by meeting the social democratic organizations in friendly discussion. For this purpose delegates from syndicates arrived in numbers & were seconded by the French Allemanists, Domela Nieuwenhuis & Cornelissen of the Dutch Party, the German independents & anarchists with G. Landauer, by Keir Hardie, Tom Mann & many others. http://www.pitzer.edu/~dward/Anarchist_Archives/malatesta/nettlau/nettlauonmalatesta.html


3509 -- When the trial (April 21-27, 1898) was just concluding, the intense, bread riots at Bari & Foggia (April 27, 28) took place --- a desperate echo of Leiter's corner in wheat at Chicago --- events which inspired the late Frank Norris' unfinished "Epic of the Wheat" --- & this movement spread from south to north & reached Milan on May 7. The South of Spain, the country about Murcia, was also on fire (burning of the octrois). The bearing of the grain & coal supply, food & transport on revolutionary outbreaks was more fully understood from that time.

The repression following these acts of despair of starving people reacted upon Malatesta who, instead of being liberated August 17 (at the end of seven months), remained in prison & was transported to the islands, first to Ustica, then to Lampedusa.

When some socialists & republicans proposed to nominate him as a candidate at local elections, he refused (letter published in the "Avanti," Rome, January 21, 1899); he did the same when Merlino, writing to the "Italia nuova," Rome, May 22, 1900, appealed to the anarchists to send Malatesta to the chamber of deputies as their spokesman & to obtain in this way, as he imagined, political elbow room. Malatesta writes to Jean Grave ("Temps nouveaux," June 9, 1900): . . . . "I consider as an unmerited outrage the simple supposition that I might wish to enter the parliamentary career."

He preferred to make his escape from the island of Lampedusa, proceeding with three others during a tempest in a bark to Malta & thence to London (May, 1899).

http://www.pitzer.edu/~dward/Anarchist_Archives/malatesta/nettlau/nettlauonmalatesta.html

3510 -- anarchist archive A short History of Polish Anarchism An anarchist movement of Narodnik ( Russian anti-capitalist democratic activists of the late 19th century) & Anarchist ideas from Russia and Western Europe came into existence at the turn of the 1th century. The ideas were by no means uniform, from the uncopromising & controversial Nieczajew [nechaev?], gallant Bakunin, anarcho-communist prince Kropotkin or Leo Tolstoy, promoter of a pacifist christian negation of statehood.

The first & most significant anarchistic group in the pre-independence Poland originated in 1903 in Bialystok & consisted in an enormous part of Jewish people. In the next years some similar centres came into being in Nieznow, Warsaw,Lodz, Siedlce, Czestochowa, Kielce & a couple of other towns.What particularly intensified activity in all centres was news from the Russian Revoluution, Bloody Sunday in St Petersburg. These groups took part in terrorist activity as well as propoganda actions such as attempts on police officers' & factory owners' lives. There were also bank robberies to gain funds. Nowadays the majority of us anarchists entirely reject such methods but to understand the motivation to act in this way it is important to realise the level of cruelty & despotism of the tsar's authority. For example in Warsaw, on Governer general Saklow's order, 16 young anarchists, (about 18 years old) were murdered by the authorities & their bodies thrown into the Vistula. Shots at demonstrating workers were not uncommon either. At the same time material popularising the ideas of anarcho-syndicalism c http://members.xoom.com/blakflag/214/214Pol.txt


4002 -- SAM DOLGOFF http://www.clark.net/pub/cosmic/98aar.html



4009 -- Julian Beck Living Theatre Judith Malina "The Living Theater" by John Tytell (Grove Press, 1995), about Judith Malina & Julian Beck's life & theatergroup.Bissinger, Karl. Papers.Accession Number: D-189. 1 linear foot.Biography: Energetic anarchist/pacifist, photographer, & lifelong friend of Julian Beck andJudith Malina, co-founders of The Living Theatre.Description: Correspondence, ephemera, photographs, posters, & programs pertaining toLiving Theatre productions.Inclusive dates: 1955-1973. The Brig. A film by Jonas Mekas & Adolfas Mekas. Filmed performance of the play by Kenneth H. Brown. Originally released in 1964 by White Line Company as a motion picture. 65 min. Video/C 2987  The Connection.(1961) Filmed version of a play with the same title by Jack Gelber. Based on the Living Theatre production created in 1961, as directed by Judith Malina and designed by Julian Beck. Film version of the play The Connection, by Jack Gelber. The play is about drug addicts waiting for a heroin dealer to bring the drug necessary for them to make their "connection." To help pass the time, four jazz musicians among the addicts start to play. The film was shot in a drug addict's apartment in New York City. 105 min. Video/C 999:893  Emergency.  In 1968 the experimental film troupe, Living Theatre, returned to America with a repertory of four new productions developed during their years of self-imposed exile in Europe. Their triumphant tour was in tune with the revolutionary aspirations of the late sixties, documented in this extraordinary film. 29 min. Video/C 2988  Paradise Now. An experimental film in which lines between political action, psychotherapy, tribal ritual & experimental theater are blurred to create a tale of social & esthetic breakthrough. 105 min. Video/C 2986  Signals Through the Flames. Documentary on the Living Theater. 97 min. Video/C 1438 http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/pomo2.html#livingtheatre


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9003 -- Oscar Wilde; NOTES FOR ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRY

Vera, or the Nihilist (written 1880), combines details from the lives of Vera Figner, author of memoirs, who spent 22 years in Schlusselberg Fortress for her activities as an anarchist, & Vera Zasulich, who shot & wounded Gen. Trepov, City Prefect of St Petersburg, & went on to advocate the assassination of the Tsar; Wilde intended Sarah Bernhardt [recte Mrs. Bernard Beere] to play the part; in 1882, Bernhardt was playing in Fedora by Sardou, with a similar theme. (Q. source; corrig. supplied by D. C. Rose, Goldsmiths Coll., London; 27.07.01.)

http://www.pgil-eirdata.org/html/pgil_datasets/authors/w/Wilde,O/notes.htm

Wit, dandy, literary anarchist, self-publicist, & homosexual martyr, Oscar Wilde achieved fame & notoriety at a time when mass culture and communication promoted the 'new' in every area of British life. This edition, part of Oxford's new Authors in Context series, examines the rich interplay between Wilde's society & his writings & shows the remarkable recontextualizing of Wilde & his work in film, stage, & the media in the century following his death.

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http://flag.blackened.net/daver/anarchism/oskar.html
http://struggle.ws/revolt/ws98/ws53_wilde.html

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