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Out of burlap sacks, out of bearing butter,
Out of black bean & wet slate bread,
Out of the acids of rage, the candor of tar,
Out of creosote, gasoline, drive shafts, wooden dollies,
They Lion grow.

JUNE 5
RALPH RUMNEY

British painter, writer, co-founder of the Situationist International.

Chicago: SALVATION ARMY DOUGHNUT DAY.

(Who Needs Donuts When You've Got Love?)

FESTIVAL OF POPULAR DELUSIONS.

-8498 -- [B.C.] Traditional date of the destruction of Atlantis.
[Source: Robert Braunwart]
[Hereafter attributed with symbol: ]

-8239 -- [BC] -- Presumed origin of Mayan Era of Creation.

754 -- St. Boniface slain by Druids for chopping down sacred tree; translation: Pagans off Christian missionary Saint Boniface for whacking the sacred tree.

754 -- Death of Abul'-Abbas, Caliph of Baghdad.

1455 -- France: One Priest & You're Out?: Poet Francois Villon kills a priest in a brawl, is banished from Paris.
"One thing about the music for sure, it rocks with the rhythms of dance. The lyrics say the same thing that poet singers in the student hangouts in the Paris Latin Quarter say today ... Villon is the very archetype, the poet laureate of 500 years of the counterculture. So clearly does he speak for a way of life that his name has become a common noun & adjective in European languages."

— Kenneth Rexroth, Subversive Aspects of Popular Songs

http://www.franceweb.fr/poesie/villon2.htm

1480 -- William Caxton prints "The Cronicles of England," Westminster.

1510 -- Michelangelo is commissioned to make 15 statues of saints for the Duomo of Siena, Italy.

1625 -- Ambrogio Spinola takes Breda from the Dutch after a 9-month siege. A famous painting by Velasquez depicts the surrender of Breda.

1637 -- New World: 600 Pequot Indians killed by colonists at Mystic, Connecticut.

1783 -- Joseph & Jacques Montgolfier, in the first hot air balloon flight, went to 1,500 feet for about 10 minutes.

1826 -- US: David Douglas completes botanical studies at Kettle Falls (Wash.)

1832 -- France: The poor of Paris, with their romantic allies, revolt against the new monarchy, June 5-6. Society of the Friends of the People raise the red flag, declaring "Liberty or Death."

1851 -- First installment of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is published, in "National Era."

1855 -- A book rate is established by the British post office.

1870 -- During this month Mikhail Bakunin breaks relations with Sergei Nechaev. anarchist; alt Mihail Aleksandroviç Bakunin; Michael Bakunin

1871 -- Italy: Michele Angiolillo lives, Foggia. Typographer, anarchist, proponent of "Propaganda by the Deed." Worked with "Ciencia Social" in Spain in 1895. Returned to France, expelled to Belgium, went to London, where he became friends with Malatasta. Again in Spain, he met the free-thinker José Nakens. On August 8, 1897 he shot & killed the infamous reactionary, Antonio Cánovas del Castillo, who was responsible for the torture & the executions of five anarchists in Montjuich Prison (Barcelona). Tried on August 14/15, he was executed August 20, 1897, garrotted at Vergara Prison.
"That smile of his, full of light, life & dawn, expired there on the horrifying garrotte:
GERMINAL!"
[Details / context]

1873 -- Spain: Proclamation of the first Republic.
After the fall of King Amédée of Savoy (caused partly by the anarchist agitation of the workmen & rural poor in Andalusia), the Catalan federalist Pi i Margall, author & translator of the works of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, becomes President. He proposes a decentralized federalist system, separation of church & state, & redistribution of the land favorable to the peasants in the rural communities, but the Monarchist reaction brutally moves against his revolutionary aspirations.

Andalusia & several cities in the southeast establish a libertarian federalism, but with the resignation of Pi y Margall, the Carlist reaction resumes power. The town of Carthagène resists for during several months.

"(...) our principle is the absolute sovereignty of the individual; our final goal is the total destruction power & its replacement by the contract; our means is decentralization & the continuing transformation of the existing powers."

— Pi y Margall, in The Reación & the Revolución (1854)

http://www.spunk.org/library/writers/rocker/sp001495/rocker_as6.html

1873 -- Larin-Kyösti, aka Karl Gustaf Larson, (1873-1948) lives. Finnish writer, who gained fame with his ballads & humorous folk song alike poems.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/larinkyo.htm

1878 -- México: Revolutionist Francisco "Pancho" Villa lives, San Juan del Rio, Durango. On this same day, in 1978, México issues 100th anniversary Pancho Villa stamp series.
PANCHO VILLA
Daily Bleed Saint, 2003: Inspired hero of the Mexican Revolution, or "social bandit," depending on your point of view.
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1878 -- Karl Eduard Nobiling (1848-1878) dies. Doctor of philosophy, anarchist. A month after Maximilian Hoëdel tries to kill King Guillaume I in Berlin, Germany, Nobiling takes his turn, & having failed, turns his gun upon himself.
It is Paul Brousse (see Jan 23, 1844) who coins the phrase "propaganda by the deed" to describe Nobiling's attempt, which quickly enters the anarchist lexicon. Just as most such acts serve to strengthen the state, German Chancellor Bismarck benefits by adopting repressive laws to destroy any opposition movements.

1884 -- Ivy Compton-Burnett lives. British writer who developed a distinct form of novel — set almost entirely in dialogue.
http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/ivy/

1884 -- US: Gabriel Dumont & Michel Dumas travel to Montana & meet with Louis Riel.
Bleedster Pat Murtagh, who provided dates & background relating to Riel & Dumont, finds Dumont more competent & intelligent, & a more sympathetic character than Riel ("at least he hadn't overdosed on Jesus.")
http://www.telusplanet.net/public/dgarneau/metis.htm
http://www.metismuseum.com/main.php

1885 -- US: Anti-foreign, anti-Roman Catholic Know-Nothing Party's first convention.

1886 -- Poet Rubén Darío embarks from Nicaragua for Chile.
"...And the Muse divines the meaning of the hieroglyphics. The strange life of a vanished people emerges from the mist of time."
http://www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/Dario.html
http://www.militarychess.com/poets.asp

1893 -- Italy: Ad Ancona tiene una conferenza dal titolo “Obbiezioni all’anarchia” dichiarando che il vero socialismo non può che corrispondere al comunismo anarchico. / 1893 (5 june) Ancona conference declares that socialism lead to anarchist communism.
Also during this year 1893 (agosto) Partecipa al congresso socialista di Zurigo e ne viene espulso assieme ad Amilcare Cipriani. 1893 Fonda la rivista “La Lotta Sociale” che fu ben presto costretta a sospendere le pubblicazioni a causa dei continui sequestri ordinati dalle autorità. / 1893 (August) Pietro Gori Participates in the socialist conference in Zurigo & is expelled along with Amilcare Cipriani. “La Lotta Sociale” is soon forced to suspend publication because of continuous seizures by authorities.

[Source: Chronology by Franco Bertolucci]

1898 -- Federico García Lorca lives, Fuentevaquero, Granada. Andalusian poet/dramatist/artist. Murdered by Franco's fascists in 1936. Accused of subversive activity, but evidence today suggests a hate crime because of his homosexuality. His writings remained censored until Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Franco died in 1975. Despite this, García Lorca became one of the most widely read writers in the world.
Gacela of the Dark Death

I want to sleep the dream of the apples,

to withdraw from the tumult of cemeteries,

I want to sleep the dream of that child

who wanted to cut his heart on the high seas.

I don't want to hear again that the dead do not lose their blood,

that the putrid mouth goes on asking for water.

I don't want to learn of the tortures of the grass,

nor of the moon with a serpent's mouth

that labors before dawn.

I want to sleep awhile,

awhile, a minute, a century;

but all must know that i have not died;

that there is a stable of gold in my lips;

that i am the small friend of the West wing;

that i am the intense shadow of my tears.

Cover me at dawn with a veil.

because dawn will throw fistfuls of ants at me.

and wet with hard water my shoes

so that the pincers of the scorpion slide.

For i want to sleep the dream of the apples,

to learn a lament that will cleanse me of the earth;

for i want to live with that dark child

who wanted to cut his heart on the high seas.

1900 -- American author Stephen Crane, 28, dies in Badenweiler, Germany, of tuberculosis, compounded by malarial fever caught while he was covering the Spanish-American War in Cuba.

In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial. Who, squatting upon the ground, held his heart in his hands, & ate of it.

I said, "Is it good, friend?"

"It is bitter - bitter," he answered;

"But I like it, because it is bitter, & because it is my heart."

— Stephen Crane

1906 -- México: Leaders of the copper miners' strike at Cananea, Sonora, are arrested.
[Details / context]

1911 -- US: Ricardo Flores Magón's followers in Los Angeles announce the formation of the Republic of Baja California (Mexico).

1912 -- Cuba: US marines invade Oriente & La Habana (-Aug. 5).

1917 -- US: 10 million men begin registering for draft in WW I.

1919 -- Richard Scarry lives, Boston. American artist/writer, world's best-selling children's book author. Wrote or illustrated over 300 books.
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/scarry.htm
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/rscarry.htm

1919 -- US: 67 anarchists are arrested & face deportation in the wake of a bomb explosion marking the beginning of the famous "Palmer raids." (See June 2).

1919 -- Shanghai: Merchants & workers in Shanghai strike to support students.

1920 -- Italy: 5 - 6 Giugno. Per liberare la città di Valona dagli occupanti italiani, gli albanesi operano un attacco senza alcun risultato. Anche una rivolta scoppiata all'interno della città non produce cambiamenti. Al contrario, nuove truppe italiane di occupazione saranno inviate a Valona in funzione repressiva.
[Source: Crimini e Misfatti]
http://www.usiait.it/img/anni20/storia.htm

1925 -- Chile: More blood is shed by the mine owners in La Coruna (Nitrate mine encampment) — on this occasion more than 500 rebels are tortured in Iqueque.
By 1925 there were 214 syndicates in Chile boasting the active participation of more than 200,000 people. (It is also the first year a Chilean delegation of the IWW is able to participate in an IWA Congress.)

http://recollectionbooks.com/anow/world/la/chile/
http://flag.blackened.net/blackflag/213/213chile.htm

1926 -- Nicaragua: US troops are withdrawn after one month, only to return August 27th.

1928 -- US: Western Washington College library is dedicated, Bellingham, Washington.

1933 -- US: Congress ratifies a law removing the US from the gold standard.

1933 -- Germany: Arturo Toscanini protests Jewish persecution by refusing to conduct in Germany.

1934 -- Christopher Morley convenes the first meeting of the Baker Street Irregulars at 144 East 45th Street in New York; eight Irregulars regularly attend.

1934 -- Artist Ralph Rumney lives (1934-2002). Rumney was a founding member of the Situationist International, & the first to be expelled by Guy Debord.
[Details / context]
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/rumney_ralph.html
http://www.chez.com/debordiana/reviews.htm

1938 -- Greater NY Chapter of the Science Fiction League holds its first meeting.

1939 -- Burma: Elijah Beardsworth, world quick shaving champion, dies. What is meant by the phrase "close shave."

1939 -- Margaret Drabble, author, lives.

1939 -- Dard Hunter museum of papermaking opens at MIT.

1940 -- US: First automobile drives across the Lake Washington Floating Bridge.

1941 -- Author Spalding Gray lives.

1946 -- US: Japanese-language newspaper "Hokubei Hochi" begins publishing, Seattle, Washington.

1948 -- Brecht play "Herr Puntila und sein Knecht Matti" premiers, Zurich.

1949 -- Thriller author Ken Follett lives.

1951 -- Japan: The Japanese Anarchist Federation reconstituted this month, but the organisation now under this name is largely composed of those sympathetic to syndicalism.
Simultaneously, the anarchist communists set up the Japan Anarchist Club (Nihon Anakisuto Kurabu), with the Japanese anarchist movement again divided as between 1928 & 1934.
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To a large extent this was a re-run of history & some principal figures involved were the same. Hatta Shûzô died in 1934, but Iwasa Sakutarô was still very much the key personality among the anarchist communists, while Sanshirô Ishikawa again supported the syndicalists. The Anarchist Federation limped on until 1968.

The Anarchist Club long outlived its syndicalist rival, publishing the journal "Museifushugi Undô" (Anarchist Movement) until March 1980.

http://www.af-north.org/afed/ace/japchap3.html

1956 -- Elvis Presley's second appearance on Milton Berle's "Texaco Star Theatre" The TV critics panned him, saying his performance looked "like the mating dance of an aborigine."
http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/images/Images/toxico.jpg

1958 -- Golden Rule crew sentenced to 60 days for sailing into Pacific A-bomb test site.

1961 -- US: Justice For All? Supreme Court orders US Communist Party to register with the Justice Department, as a foreign-dominated organization (the Party refuses Nov. 17). Some people are more Free than other Free People in the Land of the Free.

1963 -- John Profumo,
British
Secretary of War,
resigns his post following revelations
he had sex
with a prostitute
who also had a thing
with a Soviet
Naval
officer.

You can have your Marilyn, your Carolyn, your Jacqueline.
Grace Kelly never meant that much to me —
Just give me:
  Christine Keeler & Mandy Rice-Davies,
  You're the gals for me. (I'll give you secrets.)
  & you're the gals for me.
Oh, you get good defense from Robert McNamara —
Defends us all day long;
But when Lord Profumo takes off his mascara
You know he can't go wrong.
— Phil Ochs

http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~trent/ochs/lyrics/christine-keeler.html
http://www.troutmag.clara.net/vultp.html
http://www.cubeit.com/ctimes/news/199901/news0331.html

1965 -- Eleanor Farjeon, English children's writer of magical but unsentimental tales, dies in Hampstead. First comes to public attention at 16 as librettist of an opera by her brother Harry, produced by the Royal Academy of Music. Among her works are such favorites as Martin Pippin in the Apple-Orchard (1921), & The Little Bookroom (1955).

1965 -- Nam June Paik's "Creep Into the Vagina of a Living Whale" premiers.

1967 -- Israel attacks Egypt & Syria, the Six- Day War, resulting in its illegal occupation of the Sinai Peninsula, West Bank, Gaza Strip & Golan Heights.

1967 -- US: Forty Chicanos stage an armed raid on Tierra Armarilla, New Mexico. The group claims 2,500 square miles of territory in New Mexico, which they say Spain granted their ancestors.
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Reies López Tijerina's followers conduct an armed courthouse raid to make a citizen's arrest of District Attorney Alfonso Sanchez. A jailer & state police officer are wounded, & the National Guard is called in to arrest 40 Alianza members at a nearby campground. Tijerina escapes, & a nationwide manhunt begins.

Last October, the Alianza took its first action by occupying Echo Amphitheater, part of a national forest & a piece of an old land grant. They set up a government & declared the area a free & autonomous state. The group's leader, Lopez Tijerina, was convicted of two counts of assault stemming from the Echo incident & sentenced to two years in prison.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reies_Tijerina

1967 -- Early June, Alpert goes to India for three months; the Diggers attend & boggle the SDS meeting in Michigan; Steve Durkee founds Lama (Foundation) 115 acres New Mexico.

1968 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Senator & presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy assassinated in Los Angeles after winning the California Democratic party this evening; dies tomorrow.
A former staff member for Beloved & Respected Comrade Red-baiter Senator Joseph McCarthy during the 50s Witch Hunts, recasted as a populist in his quest for the White House. Sirhan Bishara Sirhan is convicted of the murder.

1969 -- US: Inmate soldiers — the majority either imprisoned for going AWOL, draft-resistors & conscientious objectors, many being held without trial — riot at the military penal stockade at Fort Dix over barbarsous conditions & the tortures being inflicted on them by the US military state. See Joan Crowell's Fort Dix Stockade (1974), published to publicize horrendous events which the mainstream American media, such as the "NY Times", refused to report (big surprise).
[Source: Calendar Riots]

1970 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Dick m Nixon tells the heads of FBI, CIA, NSA & DIA he's not getting .enough intelligence on domestic dissidents.

1976 -- US: Eternal Damnation?: Teton Dam in Idaho bursts causing $1 billion damage, 14 deaths.

1977 -- Shock rocker & perennial Presidential candidate Alice Cooper's pet boa constrictor is bitten by a rat it was trying to eat & died. Cooper held a public audition to replace the snake, which was featured in his act.
"If a bad actor can be President, why not a great rock star?"

I'm your top prime cut of meat, I'm your choice.
I wanna be elected!
I'm your yankee doodle dandy in a gold Rolls Royce.
I wanna be elected!
Kids want a savior, don't need a fake.
I wanna be elected!
We're all gonna rock to the rules that I make!
I wanna be elected, elected, elected!
http://members.aol.com/BHayes3357/page1alice.html
http://members.tripod.com/rokk/cooper.html

1977 -- First personal computer, the Apple II, goes on sale.

1978 -- China: Sources in Hong Kong say China has recently released 110,000 prisoners.

1979 -- Nicaragua: yesterday's FSLN call for a General Strike brings commerce to a halt.

1981 -- Author Jack Abbott (In the Belly of the Beast) is released from prison n Utah, through the efforts of socialist/author Norman Mailer.

1983 -- USA: Anti-herbicide activists burn logging equipment in Oregon state.
"You Spray, You Pay. You Kill, We Will."

1985 -- US: David Stockman observes that if the Securities & Exchange Commission had jurisdiction over the way the executive & legislative branches of government have handled the deficit, "many of us would be in jail."

1985 -- US: Rubbing Salt in the Wound? US: Senate votes to ask Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Reagan to stay within SALT II treaty limits.

1989 -- Uzbeck youths Fergona Valley attack Misketi Turks, June 5-10.

1990 -- Iran: Booked to Die? Government demands that author Salman Rushdie be handed over to British Muslims.

1991 -- Lesbian priest Elizabeth Carl ordained in Episcopal Church.

1992 -- Yugoslavia: Serbs begin a relentless bombardment of Sarajevo.

1993 -- Germany: Thousands march to protest neo-Nazi violence.

1994 -- US: 20,000 lesbians & gay men attend Gay Day at Disney, Orlando, Florida.

1996 -- ¶ Jan Kerouac, author & daughter of Beatster Jack Kerouac, dies.

2004 -- US: Against all odds, The Search for Reagan's Brain continues...
http://.../siml/library/reagan.htm
http://kirktoons.com/

2004 -- Netherlands: Police in The Hague violently break up an attempt by 350 anti-fascists to block a demonstration by a ragbag of fascist Nederlandse Volks Unie (Dutch People’s Union). The violence by the Burly-Chested Wunderkind is ‘deliberate & unprovoked’.
Source: http://www.searchlightmagazine.com/

2005 -- France: Pépita Carpeña (1919-2005) dies, Marseille.
Militant Spanish anarcho-syndicalist & feminist. Combatant during the Spanish Revolution, member of the CNT, "Jeunesses Libertaires" (JJLL) & "Mujeres Libres."
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Pépita escaped Barcelona on January 25, 1939, & was interned in France. Involved with CIRA de Marseille during the 1980s & 90s, she is the author of De toda la vida, & appeared in two films, Richard Prost's "Un autre futur", & Lisa Berger & Carol Mazer's "De toda la vida".

Pépita died three years after the death of her companion Juan Martinez Vita (Moreno).

http://ytak.club.fr/decembre19.html#carpena
http://www.anarkismo.net/newswire.php?story_id=672
http://raforum.info/article.php3?id_article=2955&lang=en
http://libcom.org/history/carpena-pepita-1919-2005
http://www.usiait.it/spagna36/mujeres.htm

3000 --

      Out of the gray hills
Of industrial barns, out of rain, out of bus ride,
West Virginia to Kiss My Ass, out of buried aunties,
Mothers hardening like pounded stumps, out of stumps,
Out of the bones' need to sharpen & the muscles' to stretch,
They Lion grow.

— Philip Levine, excerpt, "They Feed They Lion"
http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/poems/levine/they_feed_they_lion.php

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