This is a mistake. Berdichev is a city in Ucraine, but you cannot say it was Polish Ucraine; until 1795 the Polish Crown was in a common state with Lithuania, called The Republic of Two Nations. Ucrainians shouldn't be considered Polish nor Russian, they are a different nation.

— Bleedster P.

In the preface to The Nigger of the Narcissus he defines his task as a writer: "To make you hear, to make you feel — it is, before all, to make you see. That — & no more, & it is everything."

Gropper studied under Robert Henri & George Bellows.

He is considered one of the most significant American artists of his generation. Contributed to several other newspapers & magazines including "The New Yorker," "Vanity Fair," "New York Post," & the "New Masses."

Gropper visited Russia in 1927 with writers Theodore Dreiser & Sinclair Lewis. He covered the United Nations charter conference in San Francisco for "Freiheit" & the "New Masses," associated with the Ash-Can Group of social realist artists. A socialist, he had his cartoons published in radical journals such as the "Liberator," the "Revolutionary Age" & the "New Masses."

On May 6, 1953, Senator Joseph McCarthy called the artist to testify before his Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. Gropper became entangled in the Committee's inquiry into the State Department's Information Service.

Gropper allowed the State Department to distribute prints of his painting celebrating American Folklore. Senator Tail-Gunner considered the picture "subversive," & questioned why copies were kept by US embassies abroad. To avoid self-"incrimination," Gropper plead the Fifth (another source says he refused to appear).

Tail-Gunner believed the picture featuring the likenesses of folk characters such as Paul Bunyan & Rip Van Winkle revealed valuable secrets to communists. In a good mood (drunk again?), apparently, he did not machine gun Gropper.

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More successful are Emma's three lectures to the Arbeiter Ring: 600 attend her Dec. 12 lecture in Yiddish on Gorki. In addition, she lectures twice at Hygeia Hall, on modern education on Dec. 3 & on the dictatorships of Bolshevik Russia & Fascist Italy on Dec. 5.

Among her visitors are her brother Morris, her sister Lena, & Lena's children, Saxe Commins & Stella Ballantine.

1927 -- US: Blind Willie Johnson records "Dark Was the Night (Cold Was the Ground)," a haunting impression of the "lining out" of a hymn & church 'moaners' in prayer. In the coming Depression years, Johnson enjoys a brief vogue on records.

"Dark Was The Night (Cold Was The Ground)" Blind Willie Johnson, 12/3/27

This haunting impression of the 'lining out' of a hymn & church 'moaners' in prayer is the distillation, filtered through generations of African-American experience, of a hymn penned in 1792 by English cleric Thomas Haweis as "Gethsemane." Johnson was the greatest of the 'guitar evangelists' who enjoyed a brief vogue on record before the Depression. His work was widely influential & enduring: Roebuck "Pops" Staples still performs Johnson's "Nobody's Fault But Mine." (For more of Johnson's music, see The Complete Recordings of Blind Willie Johnson, Columbia/Legacy C2K 52835.) — Mark Humphrey, "The Great Depression: American Music in the '30s" http://www.geocities.com/lil_miss_iss/Depression/coolstuff.html http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/library/mirror/Depressionmusic2.html http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,301462,00.html

1930 -- Film maker Jean-Luc Godard lives.


1931 -- US: Unemployment in American reaches 13.5 million — almost 1/3 of the American work force.

In Los Angeles alone, shelters give asylum to over 200,000 persons. Many choose instead to hit the road — another 200,000 become freight car migrants on the Missouri Pacific Line.

Severe drought hits the midwestern & southern plains. As the crops die, the 'black blizzards" begin. Dust from the over-plowed & over-grazed land begins to blow.

"This old town should have burned down in 1931
When the rain refused to come
Air filled up our bellies
And dust filled up our lungs,
We thought our time had come."

— Janis Ian & Jon Vezner

"Nobody is actually starving. The hobos, for example, are better fed than they have ever been. One hobo in New York got ten meals in one day."

— Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President Herbert Hoover

Source: [Vanessa Collection]
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/depression/artgallery.htm

1939 -- US: Convicted "trunk murderess" Winnie Ruth Judd escapes from Arizona State Insane Hospital for the second time. Recaptured 12 days later, having trudged barefoot 200 miles across the desert.
http://jeff.scott.tripod.com/judd.html




1945 -- France: Augustin Hamon (1862-1945) dies. French sociologist & an anarchist who later became a socialist.



1946 -- US: Dancing in the Rain? Oakland General Strike begins 7am, inclement weather: 100,000 walk off jobs for six days.

Bars were allowed to stay open, but they could serve only beer & had to put their juke boxes out on the sidewalk to play at full volume & no charge.

'Pistol Packin' Mama, Lay That Pistol Down,'

the number one hit, echoed off all the buildings. That first 24-hour period of the 54-hour strike had a carnival spirit. A mass of couples danced in the streets. Entire urban areas were shut down as in the Oakland General Strike... The participants were making history, knew it, & were having fun.

In the months that followed, the populist Oakland Voters League brought together progressive factions in the city to elect four out of five labor candidates to the city council.

Three million workers struck in the first half of 1946; workers' insurgency went beyond contending unions, reformists & vanguards. About 21% of the workforce, some 6 million workers participated in the tumultuous series of strikes & general strikes between 1945-46...

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1947 -- Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, opens today at New York's Ethel Barrymore Theater & runs for 855 performances. Jessica Tandy, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, & Karl Malden star.



1948 -- High Seas: Chinese refugee ship "Kiangya" explodes in East China Sea, killing 1,100.

1948 -- US: Trick or Treat? "Pumpkin Papers" come to light. Dick M Nixon was inspired while reading his favorite novel, Little jack Horner sat in a corner...he stuck in his thumb &...!"

IMIB "... a Swiss architect, Max Bill, has undertaken to restructure the Bauhaus where Klee & Kandinsky taught. He wishes to make an academy without painting, without research into the imagination, fantasy, signs, symbols — all he wants is technical instruction. In the name of experimental artists I intend to create an International Movement For An Imaginist Bauhaus." — Letter from Asger Jorn to Enrico Baj This movement was Founded in Alba, Piedmont, Italy by Asger Jorn, Giuseppe Pinot-Gallizio, & Piero Simondo in September 1955. * July 28, 1957 The IMIB fused with the Lettrist International & the London Psychogeographical Association to form the Situationist International. Baj was excluded from this process. Sergio Dangelo & Elena Verrone were also involved in this movement. See Notes on the Formation of an Imaginist Bauhaus — Asger Jorn 1957 & Wikipedia http://www.cddc.vt.edu/sionline/chronology/chronology.html | [Situationist Resources]

"I would've been a fisherman, but I can't, because I'm a fucking genius!"

http://www.well.com/user/earl/Ible-bay.html

1969 -- France: Lucien Haussard (1893-1969) dies. Militant, anarchist advocate & free thinker. Joined Marc Pierrot's review, "Plus Loin", which he managed from 1931 until arrested & interned in 1939. Involved in the S.I.A. (Solidarité Internationale Antifasciste) & in providing false documents to Spanish antifascists.
http://ytak.club.fr/decembre1.html


1970 -- England: Spanish Embassy in London is machine gunned, following international protests against the trial of the Basque nationalists, the Burgos Six. This is not reported in the media. It is claimed at a later trial that the same gun had been used in the August 1967 attack on the US Embassy & is offered as proof of a "Christie link" [the anarchist Stuart Christie] though he was in a Spanish jail until September 1967 for his plan to assassinate the fascist Franco.
Part of large series of guerrilla actions & bombings this year, usually attributed to The Angry Brigade.
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1971 -- Bangladesh: War breaks out.



1971 -- The Montreaux Casino burns to the ground during a show by Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention. The incident is immortalized by Deep Purple in their song "Smoke on the Water."




1976 -- Pig Out?: A 40-foot long inflatable pig being photographed for the cover Pink Floyd's "Animals" breaks loose from the guide wires & takes off from the Battersea Power Station outside London. It heads east, attaining a height of 18,000 feet before coming down in Kent. Perhaps inspired by Artaud's comment,

"All writing is pig shit"

1976 -- Jamaica: Seven gunman spray bullets into Bob Marley's house in Kingston, where he & the Wailers are rehearsing. The shots hit Marley, his wife Rita, a friend & Wailer manager Don Taylor. None are severely hurt. The shooters are never caught, the show goes on, & they perform two nights later.


1979 -- Eleven Who fans are trampled to death in stampede to get into Cincinnati's Riverfront Coliseum. Results: The mayor of Providence, Rhode Island cancels the Who's upcoming concert there, law suits are filed by families of the dead & festival seating itself is universally blamed for the tragedy. (Except Walter Cronkite, who on tonight's "CBS Evening News," paragon of objectivity & factual reporting, blames it on "a drug-crazed mob of kids").


1980 -- US: Nuns With Guns?: Yesterday three U.S. Maryknoll nuns & a lay missionary were raped & murdered & buried in a field in El Salvador by US-trained troops. The Reagan administration goes into immediate denial & coverup. Alexander Haig suggests the nuns provoked the incident, running a roadblock in Marxist jeeps, & were shot trying to flee. The FBI & CIA report this is a total fabrication. 18 years later relatives & friends are still trying to get the truth.


1982 -- Beginning date of Tom Clancy novel The Hunt for Red October.


1984 -- India: Business As Usual? Union Carbide pesticide leak in Bhopal, sending a cloud of poisonous methyl isocyanate gas aloft. Up to 10,000 deaths, some 50,000 injuries. Devastating after effects for years to follow. U.S. blocks extradition of Union Carbide officials facing criminal prosecution in India. Executive privilege?

The Bhopal Disaster: In the early morning of December 3, 1984 a Union Carbide pesticide producing plant leaked a highly toxic cloud of methyl isocyanate onto the densely populated region of Bhopal, central India. Of the 800,000 people living in Bhopal at the time, 2,000 died immediately, 300,000 were injured & as many as 8,000 have died since.

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

1989 -- Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader George Bush & Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Mikhail Gorbachev end summit in Malta, with a toast of malta liquor.


1990 -- US: Marine Jeff Paterson begins court martial after refusing to board a plane bound to Saudi Arabia to fight media war in Gulf.


1993 -- Lewis Thomas, physician author (Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony, 1983) dies in New York. Best known for his collections of essays, meditations & reflections on the larger truths invoked by the study of biology.



1997 -- US: Abe Bluestein, a lifelong anarchist, dies, age 88. Fought to embody libertarian principles all his life. Like many anarchists born in the early 20th century, Abe came from a radical, immigrant family. His Russian parents were active in the anarchist group in the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union & part of the Modern School of Stelton, NJ.

1999 -- US: WTO Day Four: World Trade Organization delegates meet as the core off-limits area is reduced from a 50 block area of downtown Seattle to 25 blocks.

The "civil emergency" declared on the 1st, & a curfew, remain in effect. Over 600 protesters have now been arrested & most denied access to lawyers or phones as shoppers continue to flee to the malls. Because of lawsuits filed by the ACLU, a judge has ruled protesters must be granted access to lawyers within 8-hours or released. Another lawsuit challenging police civil rights violations in singling out protesters & denying them access to the downtown area result in police banning all shoppers from the area as well. Many businesses have closed, & yesterday the Pike Place Market was closed down. Some small business owners believe the loss of business will put them out of business permanently. However, they have the comfort of knowing that the streets of Seattle are safe for (Global)corporate America & WTO delegates — if not for Seattle citizens.

Meanwhile, the Electrohippies WTO Virtual Sit-in begins today...

See our "No WTO" resource page, with graphics by the Daily Bleed's CollageMeister James Koehnline

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/wto.htm
http://www.fraw.org.uk/ehippies/index.shtml
http://www.zmag.org/wto-seattle.htm

1999 -- US: Seattle Police Chief Assistant Ed Joiner says he reviewed all the WTO video & media, & no one was bloodied.
http://infoshop.org/page/No2WTO



2000 -- US:

Florida...anarchy rains & reigns...

2000 -- Gwendolyn Brooks, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, dies at 83. Her candidly written poetry often delved into poverty, racism & drugs.


2002 -- US: Dummy Up? An antimissile missile, in a test delayed by weather, scores a hit on a dummy warhead; now, as long as the weather is clear & the enemy puts homing beacons on its warheads (no dummy he/she), we are probably safe (no dummy us).


2004 -- 150th anniversary of the Eureka Rebellion is celebrated. Joe Toscano's commentary on the Eureka Rebellion story,
http://www.takver.com/history/eureka.htm



2005 -- The Netherlands: The 7th Annual Dutch Anarchist Bookfair at De Kargadoor, Oudegracht 36, Utrecht. Many organisations, bookshops & groups from the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany & England will be present.
http://www.kargadoor.nl

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