Our Daily Bleed...
Our Daily Bleed...
I’ve come this far to freedom
& I won’t turn back.
I’m changing to the highway
From my old dirt track.
I’m coming & I’m going
& I’m stretching & I’m growing
& I’ll reap what I’ve been sowing
Or my skin’s not black;
I’ve prayed & slaved & waited
& I’ve sung my song.
You’ve slashed me & you’ve treed me
And you’ve everything but freed me,
But in time you’ll know you need me
& it won’t be long.— a student in the Mississippi Freedom Schools, 1964
CHANEY, GOODMAN, SCHWERNER
MIDSUMMER'S EVE: Everyone into the woods at night; stay up all night, sing, dance, make love, worship the sun god in fire symbols, greet the rising sun.
Fairies speak in human tongues on this night; the flower of happiness blooms. Gather flowers & boughs. Large wheels bound with straw are set burning & rolled down hills, etc.
Brittany: PARDON OF THE FIRE. The pagan FEAST OF THE SUN, celebrated until a soldier displayed the finger of John the Baptist in the 16th century. Bonfires & romancing continues, & a "dragon" still lights fires.
England: ANCIENT DRUIDIC MIDSUMMER BALL.
New Orleans: Major Annual VOODOO CEREMONIES, since 1820, with ceremonies since the 1850's held at Lake Pontchartrain.
FESTIVAL OF THE PURPLE VOID.
http://www.deep-purple.com/rosas/links.html
286 -- Heads or Tales?: Decapitation of St. Alban, said to be first Christian martyr in Britain. And they can never take that away.
1415 -- Bohemian reformer/martyr Jan Hus wrote in a letter: 'It is difficult to...esteem it all joy in various temptations. It is easy to talk about...but difficult to fulfill it.'
1626 -- A large Codfish, split open at a Cambridge market, is found to contain a copy of John Frith's book of religious treatises, as horrified onlookers exclaim, "Cod damn!".The ancient mariner walks along
The rough edge of the beach.
He puffs his pipe & looks around
And hears a horrid screech.
His pipe falls from his salty lips,
His old eyes open wide,
His ancient heart gives up the fight --
Pain in chest & side.
He clutches at his breast & then
Falls down upon his knees.
He falls upon his back, in sand,
And to the sky he pleads.
The codfish which had made the sound
Crawls swiftly to the man.
With lips pressed 'gainst the mariner's ear
The codfish wails again.
The salty dog dies instantly,
The codfish groans with glee.
It turns its tail & shuffles off,
Back to its home, the sea. Moral: A fish in slime makes grime.
1668 -- Philosopher Giambattista Vico lives.
1683 -- Penn Pals? William Penn signs friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape Indians in Pennsylvania; only treaty "not sworn to, nor broken".
1784 -- First US balloon flight: 13 year old Edward Warren gets it up.
1848 -- France: Paris Uprising. Hot on the heels of Prague, Paris burns in what is known as the "June Days"' workers' uprising. Lasts until the 26th.
1871 -- Marc Pierrot lives (1871-1950), in Nevers, France. Doctor of medicine, anarchist propagandist. See the Anarchist Encyclopedia page,
http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/sinners/PierrotMarc.htm
1876 -- Author Irvin S. Cobb lives.
1888 -- US: Clallam Indian chief Chitsamakkan buried at Port Townsend, Washington.
1889 -- Anna Akhmatova lives (1889-1966), Bolshoy Fontan, near Odessa, Ukraine. One of the greatest Russian poets, member of the Acmeist group. Akhmatova entered a period of silence when her ex-husband, poet Nikolay Gumilyov, was executed. Publishing again in 1940, she was expelled from the Union of Soviet Writers in 1946; in the 1950s her poems eulogizing Joseph Stalin appeared -- designed to gain the freedom for her son, who was exiled to Siberia. After Stalin's death Akhmatova was slowly rehabilitated. http://www.rit.edu/~exb1874/mine/akhmatova/akhmatova_ind.html
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/aakhma.htm
1894 -- Alfred Kinsey entomologist/sexologist author lives.
1903 -- H. C. Branner lives. Leading Danish novelist of the post-World War II period. Also wrote plays, radio dramas & short stories.
1903 -- Frank Fraser Darling lives, England. Naturalist, worked in Edinburgh & the Highlands. Wrote the definitive "Natural History of the Highlands & Islands (1947) .
1910 -- Jean Anouilh lives (1910-1987). French playwright, achieved fame with his plays within the play & bringing poetry & imagination to the stage. Adopted some of Sartre´s existentialist views. Influenced by the theater of Louis Jouvet & Jean Giraudoux. Wrote The Ermine; Traveller Without Luggage; Thieve´s Carnivals; The Lark; Becket, or The Honour of God . http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/anouilh.htm
1915 -- Arnold Bennett meets Andre Gide, whom he pronounces "intellectually more than ever like an orchid."
1916 -- Cabaret Voltaire shut down by public demand. Opened Feb 15th. In the same narrow alley, Spiegelgasse 14, where the Cabarat Voltaire played, lived a certain Mister Uljanow aka Lenin. The authorities were much more suspicious about the chaotic dadaists than of the reserved Russian scholar ...
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/dada/hennings.html
http://www.peak.org/~dadaist/
http://www.mital-u.ch/Dada/cabvolte.html
1917 -- Babe Ruth punches an umpire after getting the "Yer outta here, Bub!" in a baseball game between Boston & Washington. Ruth, pitching, had thrown four pitches, all called balls. Ruth stomped off the pitcher's mound to the plate & tongue lashed Brick Owens with a volley of cuss words. Ernie Shore replaces him & retires all 26 he faces for a perfect game. Only relief pitcher to do so.
1925 -- British warship fires on Hong Kong harbor strikers.
1926 -- Langston Hughes's article "The Negro Artist & the Racial Mountain," appears in Nation magazine. In it, Hughes expresses African-Americans' bold new confidence to create a new art during the Harlem Renaissance. "We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express out individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame."
1931 -- Canada: A plane piloted by Ruth Nichols, flying from New York in an attempt to become the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, crashes at St. John, New Brunswick.
1936 -- spain quotes http://www.afmltd.demon.co.uk/meltzer/articles/utopia.html
1937 -- Following the Communist suppression of the anarchists & the P.O.U.M., in which he served during the Spanish Civil War & Revolution, George Orwell flees Spain with his wife.The end of the war on April 1, 1939, did not end the killings. Franco systematically slaughtered some 200,000 of his opponents ... in a carnage of genocidal proportions that was meant to physically uproot the living source of the revolution...[I]t was a vindictive counterrevolution that had its only parallel, given the population & size of Spain, in Stalin's one-sided civil war against the Soviet people.
http://www.teleport.com/~jwehling/StalinBarcelona.html
http://www.spunk.org/library/writers/bookchin/sp001642/fifty.html
http://www.premier.net/~slash/orwell/
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/8195/blasts/pointblank/spanishrevolution.htm
http://www.resort.com/~prime8/Orwell/
1947 -- Senate overrides Beloved & Respected comrade leader President Truman's veto of the anti-worker Taft-Hartley Act. The Act greatly weakened the power of U.S. labor unions in collective bargaining.A compendium of restraints on unions, the law bans mass picketing & union-only shops. It also allows employer interference with employee attempts to join unions. Another Taft-Hartley clause compels union officers to sign oaths that they are not Communists.The American Federation of Labor & the Congress of Industrial Organizations angrily denounce the act until they realize that certain leaders will gain power under the law. To share in the benefits, union leaders purge their ranks of Communists & other militants. Unions who refuse to remove radicals will be subject to a joint attack by the government & the AFL-CIO.
1949 -- US: First 12 women graduate from Harvard Medical School.
1951 -- Most expensive hailstorm in U.S. history strikes 200-mile stretch of Kansas, causing about $1.5 million in damage to crops & another $14 million in property damage.
1953 -- International Socialist Parliamentary Group founded in the Common Assembly of the European Coal & Steel Community, Strasbourg.
1955 -- NY folk/calypso singer Harry Belafonte first appears on television. http://www.kennedy-center.org/honors/years/belafon.html
1956 -- Gamal Abdel Nasser elected president of Egypt, as the voters decide to Gamal their lives away.
(His last words were "what is this shit...")Vehemently anti-militarist & pacifist, an extremely gifted writer & jazz musician, & author of the song "Le déserteur" (a classic French chanson).
Boris Vian was born at Ville d'Avray in 1920. He was trained as a civil engineer, receiving his diploma in 1942. He was also a jazz trumpeter, film actor, cabaret singer, translator, record company executive & Transcendent Satrap of the College de Pataphysique. Vian wrote novels, plays, songs, scenarios & one short opera. His writing career began with a satirical erotic novel Jirai cracher sur vos tombes (1947), which was seized by the police on moral grounds. In 1959, while watching a film version of this novel of which he did not approve, he suffered a fatal heart attack."War is a social phenomenon of capital interest because all those who engage in it may earn a pure & complete objectification & thus reach the corpse state ... but war does not provide a solution because often one is not killed."He strongly disapproved of the film's treatment of his work, having battled with the film company for years & having all his own film treatments of the book rejected by the producers. Having forgotten to take his medicine that morning, & very agitated, the experience literally killed him.
In 1946 he completed the manuscript of L'Ecume des jours, & later that year, in 15 days between the fifth & the 20th of August, he wrote the entire manuscript of J'irai cracher sur vos tombes, which sold in excess of half a million copies.
Vian made his antimitilitarism (& his scorn for existentialism) quite plain when he wrote:
In the middle 1950s, during the Algerian crisis, he wrote popular songs including "Le Déserteur". Also by Boris Vian, L'Ecume des jours; L'Herbe rouge; L'Arrache-coeur.
http://www.toadshow.com.au/rob/vian/vian.htm
http://www.cad.polito.it/~squiller/Heroes/BorisVian.html
1963 -- Nicaragua: Sandinista Colonel Santos Lopez attacks & occupies the towns of Raiti & Walaquistán on the Coco river.There is no moment but the fall of the sun. The day is day & the night, night, but the dusk is hour of agony & frightful solitude; & the Sandinistas are not nothing still, or almost nothing.See Memoria del fuego page, in Spanish,
http://spin.com.mx/~hvelarde/Uruguay/Galeano/memoria/19630623.htm
1964 -- US: Freedom Riders Chaney, Goodman & Schwerner murdered, by KKK near Philadelphia, Mississippi,Civil rights volunteers Michael Schwerner (24), Andrew Goodman (20), & James Chaney (21) were allegedly arrested for speeding, held for six hours, then released, but their car was found burned. On 4 August their bodies are discovered by the FBI buried in a dam. Contrary to Hollywood fantasy, the FBI does not immediately step in to champion racial justice. African-American Mississippian Chaney & Jewish New Yorkers Schwerner & Goodman -- are reportedly arrested for speeding in Neshoba County, Mississippi. This followed their inspection of an African American church that mysteriously burned down. Local white authorities report the trio was released after their arrest.Searchers found the burned hulk of their station wagon but not the young men. After the FBI begins work on the case, some white Mississippi leaders publicly suggest the disappearance is a hoax.
On August 4th, the FBI, on a tip, goes to a farm near Philadelphia. Buried in an earthen dam are the bullet-ridden bodies of the missing men. The Neshoba county sheriff & one of his deputies are among 21 arrested in December for the murder, but all win release on a technicality.
1967 -- US: Welfare Cutback?: Senate voted, 92-5, to censure Beloved & Respected comrade Leader Senator Thomas Dodd of Connecticut for "conduct contrary to the accepted morals" -- using campaign & testimonial funds for his own personal benefit.
1967 -- US: Police battle with 10,000 anti-war protesters greeting President at a Los Angeles speech.
1969 -- US: Cook Inlet, Alaska, suffers its second massive oil spill in one year.
1970 -- On the 11th day of protests against a new U.S.-Japan defense treaty, more than 750,000 Japanese take to the streets in numerous cities.
1970 -- Checkmate?: Twist King Chubby Checker & 3 others arrested in Niagara Falls after marijuana & unidentified drug capsules are found in his car. Charges are dropped; they'd been set-up for the big falls. http://www.seattlehempfest.com/
1970 -- USA: 100 women invade Conference on "Profit Possibilities in Childcare".
1971 -- Louis Lecoin (1888-1971) dies. French antimilitarist, pacifist, anarchist.--- Louis Lecoin
See the Anarchist Encyclopedia page,
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/sinners/LecoinLouis/LecoinLouis.htm
1972 -- Life magazine publishes photos of South Vietnamese children running from napalm.
1972 -- New Zealand yacht Grant Davidson, attempting to enter nuclear test site, rammed by French Navy, Mururoa, South Pacific.
1972 -- From the Dick & Bob Best of the Watergate Party Tapes: The infamous smoking gun tape that destroys Dick M Nixon. He blamed his downfall on "eager beavers".Nixon: "Play it tough. That's the way they play it & that's the way we are going to play it..... the president believes that it is going to open the whole Bay of Pigs thing again ... & that they should call the FBI in & (unintelligible) don't go any further in this case, period!"
http://www.parascope.com/articles/0297/nixon.htm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/watergate/front.htm
1972 -- http://www.nara.gov/education/teaching/watergate/watergat.html
1973 -- International Court of Justice grants injunction, requested by Australia & New Zealand governments, against French nuclear testing in the South Pacific.
1973 -- Writ in Stone?: The last person drafted into the U.S. Armed Forces prior to the expiration of the Selective Service Act was Dwight Eliott Stone.
1974 -- First extraterrestrial message deliberately sent from Earth into space. No reply; instead a busy signal.
1975 -- John Joseph Akar dies, Kingston, Jamaica. Actor, journalist, wrote the music for Sierra Leone's national anthem.
1983 -- 19-year old Lisa Collins attempts suicide by jumping off the Tacoma Narrows Bridge; instead of the span's 50th suicide, she is the first to survive the plunge, Tacoma, Washington.
1984 -- Bad Kitty?: 2,000 protest against arrival of nuclear warship USS Kittyhawk in Fremantle, Australia.
1990 -- Fly in the Ointment?: Fly-fisher Norman Maclean dies. Firefighter, fly-fisher, scholar, storyteller. Author A River Runs Through It. Spent his last 14 year researching the Mann Gulch fire.
If a storyteller thinks enough of storytelling to regard it as a calling, unlike a historian he cannot turn from the sufferings of his characters. A storyteller, unlike the historian, must follow compassion wherever it leads him. He must be able to accompany his characters, even into smoke & fire, & bear witness to what they thought & felt even when they themselves no longer knew.
http://www.moshplant.com/prob/prob01/ring.html
1995 -- CBS News anchor, Dan Rather, joins R.E.M. onstage during a soundcheck to perform "What's The Frequency, Kenneth?" referring to a bizarre incident years before when Rather was beaten up by thugs demanding the answer to the question. Asked to join the tour, Dan demurred; "I'd rather not".
http://www.spyman.com/freq.htm
http://www.birdhouse.org/words/sandman/kenneth.html
3500 --"When will I learn? The answers to life's problems aren't at the bottom of a bottle — they're on TV!"— Homer Simpson.
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