1930 -- US: Police arrest over 100 Chicano farm workers for their union activities in Imperial Valley, California. Eight will be convicted of so-called "criminal syndicalism."

By 1933, California farm laborers see a five-year wage cut from 35 cents to 14 cents an hour. In response, they support strikes led by unions such as La Union de Trabajadores del Valle Imperial. Their militancy contradicts the stereotype of Mexican passivity.

In one of the most powerful strikes, 12,000 laborers in the San Joaquin Valley fight price cuts for picked cotton. To bust the union, growers evict strikers & dump their belongings on the road. Local police, meanwhile, arrest strike leaders & picketers. But in the end the strikers win a 15-cent wage hike.

[Sources]

1931 -- Spain: A Republic is proclaimed. Alfonso XIII crosses paths on his way out of Spain with hundreds of returning exiles, among them the anarchists Buenaventura Durruti & Francisco Ascaso.

[Details / context]

A colleague of Durruti & Ascaso, Juan García Oliver, recalled in 1937 (by then a minister of the Republic) the years of struggle when many anarchist militants such as ‘Sugar Baby’ Salvador Segui perished.

Juan GARCÍA OLIVER, (Archive footage): Our anarchist group was formed in 1923. The gangs of gunmen from the employer-sponsored Sindicato Libre were all but masters of the city & the police were conniving in the destruction of our organisations & our personnel. We came together & set up an anarchist group, an action group to take on the gunmen, the bosses & the government.

And we achieved our aim. We beat them.

Helenio MOLINA: I must have been about 10 years old & the whole of Barcelona seemed to be hawking Tierra y Libertad! Tierra y Libertad! Organ of the Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI)! ... [its] print run soared from 4,000, when my father took it over, up to 20,000 by 1934–5.

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

1931 -- Italy: Il IV Congresso del partito comunista d'Italia, seguendo quanto già deciso dalla CGdL nel Congrsso di Lione del 1929, invita i suoi membri a lavorare all'interno delle organizzazioni fasciste per utilizzarle ai propri fini. La cosa non sarebbe nè immaginabile nè possibile se i fini delle organizzazioni fasciste e di quelle comuniste non fossero, in molti casi, identici.
[Source: Crimini e Misfatti]



1935 -- US: A windstorm moves from the Dakotas into the southern plains, lifting powdery soil into a 1,000-foot-high cloud — a blizzard of black dust & muddy rain hundreds of miles wide.

With winds of 60 miles per hour, the storm moves quickly, engulfing whole towns in total darkness by early afternoon. Motorists are stranded on highways; farmers can't find their way home; families cower in houses, watching the dust pack so thickly against windows it seems they are being entombed.

In 1935 alone, the winds took an estimated 850 million tons of topsoil. By the time the drought ends in 1940, the Dust Bowl states lost one-third of their population.

http://www.usd.edu/anth/epa/dust.html

1935 -- Canada: Emma Goldman speaks twice in Toronto, on "Youth in Revolt," to a branch of the Arbeiter Ring.



1937 -- Germany: Bruderhof, a collectivist traditional Christian peace church, raided by the Gestapo in Frankfurt.



1937 -- Spain: Friends of Durruti Group," (former anarchists in the Durruti Column) issues a Manifesto opposing commemoration of the anniversary of the Republic, arguing it is merely a pretext for reinforcing bourgeois institutions & the counterrevolution.

http://www.spunk.org/texts/places/spain/sp001780/chap5.html
http://www.chisholm-poster.com/...

1939 -- John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath is published.


1961 -- Old Tom, a cat left behind by his family when they moved 75 miles, shows up a year later.



1964 -- US: American ecology writer Rachel Carson falls silent, Silver Spring, Maryland.

Daily Bleed Patron Saint.
American proto-ecologist, author of Silent Spring.

"The beauty of the living world I was trying to save has always been uppermost in my mind — that, & anger at the senseless, brutish things that were being done . . . ."

http://www.rachelcarson.org/

1964 -- ¶ Beatster Jack Kerouac gives Northport library an interview, later published in the magazine Athanor.



1965 -- Russia's first motel built in Moscow.


1966 -- Swiss pharmaceutical firm Sandoz discontinues production of LSD. Owsley smiles.


1966 -- US: 75 demonstrate against the Vietnam War outside NY Stock Exchange.


1968 -- West Germany: 4,000 anti-Vietnam War student protesters battle police in West Berlin. Also the peak of demonstrations in West Berlin against Axel Springer & his publishing empire, after assassination attempt on Rudi Dutschke ("Red Rudy").


1968 -- US: (Easter Sunday) Love-in at Malibu Canyon in California.


1971 -- US: $675,000,000,000,000 suit is bought against General Motors for polluting the country.


1979 -- Germany: St. Petri church in Hamburg is occupied during this month by atomic energy opponents. Ten protestant pastors among them are reprimanded by the the church administration. [Exact date not given. — ed.]


1981 -- Gwyn Thomas, Welsh novelist/playwright, dies. His first novel was The Dark Philosophers (1946), about four unemployed Welsh miners, reminded critics of Chaucer, Rabelais, & Damon Runyon.


1983 -- Gyula Illyes dies in Budapest. Poet, novelist, dramatist, & dissident — a leading literary figure in Hungary.


1986 -- French philosopher/feminist Simone de Beauvoir dies.



1986 -- Libya: US aircraft attacks five "terrorist" locations, killing numerous civilians, in Tripoli & Benghazi, & assassinating the daughter of Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Qaddafi.
The Reagan troika took a poll before, & found that 66% of Americans approved of killing babies.
Pretext is a terrorist act in Germany flimsily attributed to a Libyan-trained group which today remains in dispute (including possible CIA involvement).
http://free.freespeech.org/americanstateterrorism/ http://www.junkfunnel.com/terror.html




1988 -- France: Goodbye Daniel Guérin. Dies, age 84 years. One of France's best known revolutionary activists & thinkers, author of books such as Fascism & Big Business; 100 Years of Labor in the USA; Anarchism; Ni Dieu, ni Maître: anthologie du mouvement libertaire (1965).

Within France Guerin was a well known libertarian communist, not only for his prolific writings, but also as a long standing trade union militant of the CGT; as a veteran anti-imperialist who supported the victims of French aggression in Indo-China, Algeria & the Kanaks of New Caledonia; as a fighter for gay rights (he was bisexual) in the 'Homosexual Front for Revolutionary Action.'

In French, see the listing in Ephéméride anarchiste: http://ytak.club.fr/mai3.html#19

1988 -- Denmark declares its ports nuclear-free.


1992 -- Serbia: Solidarity action with 83 refusing military service Stara Moravica, Vojvodina.


1994 -- Iraq: Two US fighter jets shoot down two US helicopters.


1995 -- US: Native American Leonard Peters & sheriff's deputy Bob Davis are killed in a shootout during a police ambush near Covelo, California. Native American Bear Lincoln is later acquitted of murder charges in the deaths in a racially charged trial.


1996 -- Manuel "Manny" Greenhill (1916-1996) dies. Folk music manager. Spent several years as a union activist, before establishing Folklore Productions in 1958.

Josh White, his guitar teacher from union days, was the first artist Manny presented in formal concert. Others featured in those days included Pete Seeger, Odetta & Theodore Bikel. Later he went on to work with Flatt & Scruggs, Mahalia Jackson, Bob Dylan, Lightnin' Hopkins, & perhaps most crucially, Joan Baez, who became his first managerial client. He found that he enjoyed guiding her career, & by the mid-Sixties his roster included Doc Watson, Reverend Gary Davis, & Jesse "Lone Cat" Fuller, among many others. http://www.folkloreproductions.com/HTML/manuel.html http://www.dickalba.demon.co.uk/happy/03_mar/

1997 -- Launch of separate two-month marches of the unemployed in nearly a dozen European countries, to converge on a European Union meeting in June.


2000 -- US: Microradio movement news accounts on the struggle to free the airwaves: NAB Protest in Washington DC (video) IndyMedia - DC
[Source: Pirate Radio Kisok]


3000 --

Technology is "the knack of so arranging a world that we need not experience it."

      — attributed to Max Frisch, dramatist; source unknown.

"Things are in the saddle & ride mankind."

      — Ralph Waldo Emerson

4500 -- http://www.allhatnocattle.net/september_7_Bush_Cowboy.htm

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