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Kings do not touch doors.
They do not know that happiness: to push before them with kindness or rudeness one of these
... The happiness of grabbing by the porcelain knot of its belly one of these huge single
With a friendly hand he holds it a while longer before pushing it back decidedly thus shutting — Francis Ponge, "the pleasures of the door"
great familiar panels, to turn around towards it to put it back in place -- to hold it in one's arms.
obstacles; this quick grappling by which, for a moment, progress is hindered, as the eye opens
& the entire body fits into its new environment.
himself in — of which, he, by the click of the powerful & well-oiled spring, is pleasantly assured.
SCOTT JOPLIN
Fused African & European music into "ragtime."
USE EVEN IF SEAL IS BROKEN DAY.
INTERNATIONAL PROTEST AGAINST WAR TOYS DAY.
FESTIVAL OF SILENCE.
1434 -- England: Cold Day In Hell? Thames River freezes.
1632 -- Philosopher Baruch Spinoza lives, Amsterdam, Netherlands, to Portuguese-Jewish parents.
BARUCH SPINOZA SAINT 1997
Excommunicated Jewish philosopher of the One.
1656 -- New World: Maidstone (East Hampton, Long Island, now New York) restricts the natives, ruling against renting them land, or allowing wigwams to be set up in town without permission. They are not allowed to travel through town on the Sabbath. Rent control, bass-ackward pre-capitalist days, apparently.
1713 -- Laurence Sterne lives. Wrote The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy; Clonmel; County Tipperary.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Sterne
1759 -- Tobias Smollett is convicted of having libeled an admiral in "The Critical Review". Claims, "He was less than admirable."
1775 -- New World: The Continental Congress of America issues an order to bar negroes from the army.
1793 -- France: The French revolutionary calendar first becomes operative.
[Source: Calendar Riots]
1805 -- US: To make the crucial decision of where to spend the winter, Lewis & Clark put the matter to a vote. Significantly, in addition to the
others, Clark's slave, York, was allowed to vote — nearly 60 years before slaves were emancipated & enfranchised. Sacagawea, the Indian woman, voted too — more than a century before either women or Indians were granted the full rights of citizenship. The majority decided to cross to the south side of the Columbia, near modern-day Astoria, Oregon, to build winter quarters.
1807 -- Thayendanegea, a.k.a. Joseph Brant, dies. Brant led Mohawk Indians who fought against the Americans in the Revolutionary War. He was buried at a church near present-day Brantford, Ontario, but in 1879 his body was stolen by a doctor & his medical students.
1826 -- Carlo Collodi lives. Italian author/journalist, best known as the creator of Pinoccio, the childlike puppet whose nose grew when it lied. Politics as usual.
1838 -- Prosper Olivier (aka Henry) Lissagaray lives. Author of Histoire de la Commune de 1871.
http://marxists.anu.edu.au/history/france/archive/lissagaray/prologue.htm
http://www.chez.com/durru/lmichel/lacommune.htm#Plan de la commune
http://www.iisg.nl/archives/gias/l/10779984.html
http://www.library.northwestern.edu/spec/siege/docs/par00433.html
1859 -- Evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin's Origin of the Species is published.
"& when I am back in the jungle, it is with relief that I sink back into my natural timelessness.
I become one with the beasts & the trees, & I can laze away weeks or months with no thoughts beyond now."— Greystoke, from Extracts from the Memoirs of Lord Greystoke, edited by Philip Jose Farmer
1860 -- US: The Arkansian of Fayetteville, Arkansas reports: At Council Bluffs, Iowa, the alarming discovery has just been made that Frank Bates, a young, dashing, popular lady-fascinating dry-goods clerk, is — a girl.
1868 -- Ragtime composer Scott Joplin lives, Texarkana, Texass. http://www.lsjunction.com/facts/crush.htm
http://www.scottjoplin.org/
1869 -- Woman's Suffrage Association organized.
1871 -- US: National Rifle Association (NRA) & Charleton Heston are incorporated.
1874 -- Birth of Frederick Libby, founder of National Council for the Prevention of War.
1875 -- US: Labor honcho Samuel Gompers is a charter member & first president of Cigar Makers International Union (CMIU) Local 144.
http://www.history.umd.edu/Gompers/newtime1.html
1875 -- Albert Joseph (aka Libertad) lives. Founded the individualist Parisian magazine "L’Anarchie". See 12 November 1908.
1885 -- US: Anna Louise Strong lives, Seattle, Washington (?) commie, labor activist, author. (or 22nd? two labor calendars cite today)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/centennial/march/photo/strong.html
1888 -- Dale Carnegie is positive he lives. Oh, sure....
1898 --
| International Anti-Anarchist Conference, prompted by the assassination of the Empress of Austria, is convened by Italian government officials in Rome; attended by 54 delegates representing 21 countries, including police chiefs from several European countries & major cities. Conference marks the development of strategic international surveillance of & exchange of information about anarchist activities. |
1908 -- Harry Kemelman lives. Mystery writer, famous for his "Rabbi" books about wise rabbi David Small, who solves murder cases, while revealing at the same time ethical problems & ethnic relations in America.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/kemelman.htm
1909 --
US: 20,000 NYC women's garment workers strike for a union contract. 
1910 -- Jean Meckert, aka Jean (or John) Amila, (1910-1995) lives. Libertarian novelist & antimilitarist.
ean Meckert's first novel Les coups (1941) is noticed by Andre Gide & Raymond Queneau.
In 1950, at the request of Marcel Duhamel, Meckert began writing detective novels under the name John Amila, a score of which appear in the 'Noir Series.' Notable are La lune d'Omaha; Noces de soufre; Pitié pour les rats (1964), Le boucher des Hurlus (1982).
His 1971 novel La vierge et le taureau denounced military misdeeds in the South Pacific (atomic & bacteriological experiments). Meckert's books are all stamped with the antimilitarist & anarchist spirit.
" I do not know if I am an anarchist, but I know the ideas. My father was an anarchist..."
— "le monde libertaire," December 3, 1987
http://www.sdm.qc.ca/txtdoc/pol/adu/AMILAJEAN.html
http://www.humanite.presse.fr/journal/1997/1997-03/1997-03-11/1997-03-11-038.html
http://planet.tvi.edu/rswigger/BIAuthorsPolled.html
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_noir
Bibliography: http://www.sdm.qc.ca/txtdoc/pol/adu/AMILAJEAN.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Amila
Switzerland: Congrés extraordinari of the Segona the International, November 24 & 25th, in Basel. Hi goes to assistir Emilio Corrals i Antoni Fabra i Ribas
1913 -- US: General Boyd, a black man, is lynched for being found in a girl's room in Walton County, Georgia.
1916 -- Spain: Concha Liaño lives. Anarchist, member of Mujeres Libres, companion in arms with Soledad Estorach Esterri.
She entered the movement through an excursion group called "Sun & Life," whose activities alternated between hiking & reading. She was in Plaza de la Generalidad on July 19, 1936, waiting for Companys to distribute arms to the people.
In retrospect, she asked herself if all the struggles, the sacrifices, the deaths & the exile were all worth it & answers affirmatively:
"We taught the world a lesson. Insofar as we were able, we set an example of the possibility of living without government, because there was no government, yet the collectives were working & everything was functioning. Everything was operating by mutual agreement."
See Living Utopia (Vivir la utopia), a film by Juan Gamero (Spain, 1997; Spanish with English subtitles). ).
http://raforum.apinc.org/article.php3?id_article=84&lang=en
http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/ws99/ws57_mujeres.html
http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jul/ainfos00466.html
1919 -- The Oscar Mayer Company reopens a meat-packing plant on Madison's east side.The company searched for skilled workers in a recruiting frenzy that included a sweep of Milwaukee's Polish saloons during the Cudahy packing-plant strike.
The Oscar Mayer plant had been operated by the Farmers' Cooperative Packing Company, which formed under a strongly worded state law encouraging cooperatives. Prior to the cooperative's opening two years ago, in 1917, Madison-area farmers had no choice but to sell their pigs & cattle to the Chicago beer trusts. Response to the cooperative was enthusiastic — 5,000 area farmers bought nearly 600,000 dollars of stock in the new enterprise. The nation had only two other farm-owned cooperative packing plants, both in Wisconsin. But faced with mounting wages & operating losses, & no real prospect of new capital, the cooperative was forced to sell the plant to the Chicago firm, Oscar F. Mayer & Brother.
1921 -- US: Mollie Steimer, after doing 18 months of a 15-year sentence for handing out leaflets, & three other radicals (Jacob Abrams, Samuel Lipman, & Hyman Lachowsky) were shipped off to Soviet Russia. Victims of the Red Scare in America, they were soon victims of the Red Terror in Russia ("Proletarian Democracy")On August 23, 1918, Mollie & others in her group were arrested for distributing leaflets "the land of the free" opposing the landing of American troops in Soviet Russia.The Abrams case, as it became known, is now a landmark in the repression of civil liberties in the US. It is cited in all standard histories as one of the most flagrant violations of constitutional rights during the Red Scare hysteria (pre-2002).
In Moscow, Mollie met Senya Fleshin, who became her lifelong companion. Both Mollie & Senya were imprisoned in 1922 for aiding "criminal elements" & were deported in 1923.
1922 -- Italy: La Camera grants to Mussolini a majority of full powers in economic & political matter until 31 December of 1923. It is an act of suicide by the Parliament.
[Source: Crimini e Misfatti]
1923 -- Philippe Daudet, French anarchist, son of Léon Daudet (leader of fascist "Ligue de l'Action Française"), dies under mysterious circumstances (assassinated).
Saint-Pol-Roux, Raymond Roussel, Philippe Daudet, Germaine Berton, Saint-John Perse, Pablo Picasso, Giorgio di Chirico, Pierre Reverdy, Jacques Vachè, Leon-Paul Fargue, Sigmund Freud, your portraits hang on dream's bedroom walls, you are the presidents of the Republic of Dream.— Louis Aragon, A WAVE OF DREAMS
1925 -- Mystery writer, rightwing bozo, yachtsman, continued apologist for "Tail Gunner" Joe McCarthy & his 50s witch hunt, William F. Buckley, Jr., lives, New York City.
1926 -- American poet Paul Blackburn lives.
1927 -- US: On Thanksgiving Day, California troops battle 1,200 inmates when Folsom prisoners revolt. One prisoner is shot in the ensuing uprising & five others are later hanged.
1938 -- Playing chicken? National Semi-Pro Basketball Congress authorizes yellow basketball.
1943 -- Robin Williamson lives... Be Glad for Song Has No Ending. Songster, founder of the Incredible String Band. Songwriter who has developed the Celtic heritage with its tradition of wrought language & inspired utterance into unique sung poetry.
http://www.dirtylinen.com/feature/33williamson.html
http://www.dirtylinen.com/feature/32isb.html
http://www.robotwisdom.com/jorn/isb.html
1947 -- John Steinbeck's novel The Pearl is published.
1947 -- US: B Movie?: House of Representatives cites "Hollywood Ten" for contempt of Congress. Chairman J. Parnell is later convicted in 1949 for "padding" his payrolls & pocketing the money. Politics as usual.
The US government is "crawling with commies..." The Hollywood Ten, a group who refused to testify before the 1947 U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities about alleged communist involvement. They are blacklisted, some sent to prison. http://www.weeklywire.com/ww/11-17-97/boston_books_2.html
http://www.chicagoreader.com/movies/archives/0896/08096a.html
http://www.moderntimes.com/palace/blacklist.htm
What is it . . . which delivers the leaders of a
great nation into such an excess of hysteria that
they fear & actually assert their power to
prohibit the utterance of any word which may be
spoken in opposition to their purposes?— Dalton Trumbo,
Time of the Toad
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/navasky-social-costs.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_blacklist
1947 -- US:Strike that?22-month Chicago newspaper printers' anti-Taft-Hartley strike begins.
1948 -- Spider Robinson, lives, Canada, sci-fi author.
1952 -- Agatha Christie's "Mousetrap" opens in London (still running).
1953 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Joe McCarthy declares Truman administration "crawling with communists."
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/home.html
1953 --"One of the most enlightened & perspicacious spirits of the German [anarchist] movement."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Baginski
http://www.geocities.com/syndikalist2002/baginski.htm?200510
1961 -- United Nations adopts bans on nuclear arms over US protests. US loves weapons of mass destruction [American made].
1962 -- James J. Kilroy, tank inspector (Kilroy was here!), dies at 60.
1963 -- US: Millions of TV watchers see Jack Ruby, the operator of a local striptease club, stick a revolver into Lee Harvey Oswald's side, & shoot him dead (All In the Family?) First live TV killing. When the assassin is assassinated, it is de facto a conspiracy.
1963 -- US: LBJ signs national security memorandum stating US goal in Vietnam is helping the Saigon government to a military "victory". This last week of November JFK plans withdrawal/withdraws 1000 of 17,000 advisers in Vietnam, quietly opens a dialogue with Castro's Cuba, & pursues detente with the USSR (Hayden).
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bright/dolgoff/cubanrevolution/toc.html
1965 --
1966 -- US: 400 die of respiratory failure & heart attack in killer New York City smog.
1966 --Germany: Strasbourg Student Union (AFGES) press conference is held.
Today the Strasbourg county court sequesters the offices & management of the AFGES, relating to the outrage & scandal surrounding the brochure On the Poverty of Student Life, edited by members of the Situationist International (principally by Mustapha Khayati) & the students of Strasbourg which appeared on the 22nd.
(Publicly announced in late October as 'the most scandalous brochure of the century,' in Le retour de la colonne Durruti (Return of the Durruti Column), a détourned comic by André Bertrand, plastered on the walls of Strasbourg.)
http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/11.scandal.htm
[Situationist Resources]
1968 -- d.a. levy (1942-1968) dies, Cleveland, Ohio. Poet.
By mid-1968, levy had published over 55 books & nearly 30 issues of magazines. In October of that year, he was invited to spend a month as poet-in-residence at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He then returned to Cleveland, in early November. His behavior had become increasingly disturbing: He sat in his apartment, holding a rifle, & asked
"How symbolic would it be if I blew my brains out?"
He burned manuscripts of all his poetry, 300 copies of Tibetan Stroboscope (a collection of concrete poetry), & several original collages, gave away most of his belongings, quarreled with his wife & threw her out, visited friends he hadn't seen in years "to shake hands one last time", & told people he was "leaving Cleveland. I'm leaving the world".
Finally, this evening, at about 11:30 pm, levy sat alone in his apartment, put a .22 caliber rifle between his eyes, & pulled the trigger. He was 26.
http://www.litkicks.com/BeatPages/page.jsp?what=DALevy
http://www.thing.net/~grist/lnd/dalevyc.htm
1969 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Lt William L Calley, charged with massacre of over 100 civilians in My Lai, Vietnam in March 1968, ordered to stand trial by court martial. Eventually found guilty & does a short stint of house arrest. Future Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Secreatry of State Colin Powell was in charge of the coverup, but the army can't cover up the coverup any longer.
1971 -- US: Crime Pays: USA: D.B. Cooper jumped from jet in Washington State with $200,000 ransom. Never found. (Owes way over $300,000 in taxes now, but can't be prosecuted).
A passenger listed as "D.B. Cooper" hijacks a plane to Seattle, collects ransom & then parachutes out of the plane somewhere over Southwestern Washington, never to be seen again & becoming an instant folk hero.After D. B. Cooper hijacked the commercial jet
& parachuted 30,000 feet into the Cascades
where he & his newly acquired money disappearedwe can only assume he lived
because his death would kill the mystery
Our only certainty: D. B. Cooper is not Sasquatch.— Alexie Sherman, excerpt, "The Sasquatch Poems," The Summer of Black Widows
1972 -- US: Circuit Court rules that a Bureau of Indian Affairs 99-year lease of Tesuque Pueblo land to a housing developer outside Santa Fe, New Mexico, violates federal law.
1979 -- US: Federal government admits troops in Vietnam were exposed to the toxic Agent Orange.
http://members.tripod.com/~Firebase_Freedom/agento.html
1983 -- US: "Plowshares 7" activists damage cruise missile, Griffiths Air Force Base, near Syracuse, New York.
1986 -- US: Fifteen activists, including renowned anti-war protester Abbie Hoffman, are arrested for occupying a University of Massachusetts building, in Amherst, as part of a protest against CIA recruitment on campus. Following a trial detailing CIA crimes, all were acquitted of charges.http://www.popmatters.com/film/reviews/s/steal-this-movie.html
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/Chicago7/hoffmanA.html
http://www.slate.com/?id=88471
1989 -- Czechoslovakia: Communist Party resigns, admitting, "the party's over." Duh.
1990 -- US: Six Marine reservists refuse to report for Persian Gulf duty.
1992 -- Philippines: After the Philippine Senate refusal to renew contracts for US military bases, American armed forces formally withdraw.
1993 -- End of world, according to Ukrainian sect White Brotherhood.
1996 -- Mashonaland defeat Matabeleland to win the Logan Cricket Cup.
1998 -- US: A federal judge rules a Virginia library constitutionally can not block Internet pornography from library computers. Library card renewals shoot up sharply?
2000 -- US:Florida...
Remember Elian Gonzalez?
Chad & Jeremy ! ?
http://members.aol.com/bocad/cj.htmWith their Elian hullabaloo
& those crazy old folks tooBlame Florida!
Blame Florida!
2001 --
http://www.adbusters.org/metas/eco/bnd/http://web.peacelink.it/boycott/
9001 --
We have no great war. No great depression. Our great war is a spiritual war, & our great depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires & movie gods & rock stars.
But we won't.
We're slowly learning that fact. & we're very, very pissed off."
— Fight Club
[Details / context]
9001 --
"Anarchist Day book, anarchist almanac, anarchist daybook, anarchist chronology"
anti-CopyRite 1997-3000, more or less
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