Cuban Regional Congress

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1915 -- US: 20 rioting striking workers shot by factory guards at Roosevelt, New Jersey.



1915 -- Neon Tube sign patented by George Claude.




1915 -- England: During World War I, Britain suffers its first casualties from an air attack when two German Zeppelins drop bombs on Great Yarmouth & King's Lynn on the eastern coast, killing two Britons & injuring three.



1915 -- US: William Sanger arrested in The Land of Free Speech for circulating a copy of Margaret Sanger's pamphlet "Family Limitation."

1915 -- US: World famous labor organizer & songster Joe Hill is arrested in Salt Lick City, Utah.

Joe Hill is convicted on trumped up murder charges & executed 21 months later despite worldwide protests & two attempts to intervene by Beloved & Respected Comrade Liberal President Woodrow Wilson. In a letter to Big Bill Haywood shortly before his death he penned the famous words,

"Don't mourn — organize!"

On this same day, 20 rioting strikers are shot by factory guards at Roosevelt, New Jersey.

[Sources]

1915 -- Isadora Duncan dance "Dionysion" premiers at the NY Met.


1916 -- Brion Gysin (1916-1986) arrives, Here to Go.
BRION GYSIN
Innovative painter, inventor of cut-up writing technique.

The cut-up method brings to writers the collage, which has been used by painters for fifty years. & used by the moving & still camera. In fact all street shots from movie or still cameras are by the unpredictable factors of passersby & juxtaposition cut-ups. & photographers will tell you that often their best shots are accidents . . . writers will tell you the same.

— William S. Burroughs, THE CUT-UP METHOD OF BRION GYSIN, from The Third Mind

Burroughs' extensive use of cut-ups made the method highly controversial in the literary world. There was talk to the effect that Brion was a bad influence, a keef-crazed, razor-wielding, dada-spouting anarchist whose high-art theorizing was corrupting an authentic American voice. In time, cut-ups became enshrined as an alternative strategy for dealing with words, studied & employed by poets & novelists & even playing a part in pop music, as a lyric-writing aid or inspiration for, among others, David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Mick Jagger & Keith Richards.

Vivísimas Pinceladas

1920 -- US: InDOLElent?: Led by the Filipino Federation of Labor, 3,000 Filipino workers on the plantations of Oahu, Hawaii, go on strike. Their ranks swell to 8,300 as Japanese workers organized by the Japanese Federation of Labor join in.
[Details / context]


1920 -- English-language premiere of Tolstoy play "The Power of Darkness," in NY.

"How deeply Tolstoy felt the grave problems of his time, how closely related he was to the people, he demonstrated in various works, but in none so strikingly as in "The Power of Darkness."

— Emma Goldman, The Social Significance of the Modern Drama

http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/goldman/socsig/tolstoy.html

1921 -- Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) lives. American mystery writer, whose works have been especially successful in Europe.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/highsm.htm


1927 -- Carlota, ill-fated Empress of Mexico, put on the throne with her husband Maximilian by the French Emperor Napoleon III in 1864, dies in a palace in her native Belgium, 60 years after being deposed. Bette Davis played the ill-one in the movie Juarez.


1929 -- Trotksyite Leon Trotsky goes into exile from Stalinist Soviet Union.
Source: Autonomedia Calendar


1931 -- Libya: Le truppe italiane di aggressione e occupazione della Libia si impadroniscono dell'oasi di Cufra.
[Source: Crimini e Misfatti]


1932 -- George Mann MacBeth lives, Shotts, Lanarkshire, Scotland. Poet whose verses encompass moving personal elegies, highly contrived poetic jokes, dream fantasies, & macabre satires. Published his first poetry collection, A Form of Words in 1954.


1932 -- Spain: Armed miners' uprising in Barcelona region in response to anarchist uprisings in Catalonia. "Libertarian communism" declared, including the abolition of money & property, followed by general strikes & armed uprisings throughout Spain over the next five days.

This mining town I live in is a sad & lonely place
Where pity & starvation is pictured on every face!

Some coal operators might tell you the hungry blues are not there.
They're the worst kind of blues this poor woman ever had.

— Aunt Molly Jackson, mother, American miner's wife, songster, "Ragged Hungry Blues"

http://struggle.ws/spain/pam_intro.html
http://athena.english.vt.edu/~appalach/writersM/protestsongs.html
(if not working, try the webarchive):
http://web.archive.org/web/20061124092919/http://athena.english.vt.edu/~appalach/writersM/protestsongs.html

1936 -- England: Emma Goldman lectures to the Southend Labour League of Youth on "Youth in Revolt."



1939 -- US: Capitalism in Action? Ernest Hausen of Wisconsin sets chicken-plucking record-4.4 seconds.


1939 -- Italy: La Camera dei deputati viene sostituita dalla Camera dei fasci e delle corporazioni. Cade l'ultimo velo che si frapponeva alla identificazione tra stato e partito.
[Source: Crimini e Misfatti]


1939 -- William Faulkner novel The Wild Palms is published.



1941 -- France: Paul Reclus (son of Elie, nephew of Élisée) dies.
Anarchist militant, engineer & professor.
[Details / context]




1943 -- Janis Joplin of Big Brother & the Holding Company lives.

JANIS JOPLIN:

“Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose.”

"Don't Compromise Yourself — It's All You Got!"

http://www.bbhc.com/BigBrother.htm

1944 -- England: BroomCraft? Helen Duncan becomes the last person to be charged under the 1735 Witchcraft Act — for spying. She gets nine months.
[Source: Calendar Riots]



1947 -- Switzerland: Luigi Bertoni (1872-1947) dies in Geneva. Swiss anarchist, typographer, & an untiring publisher of the bilingual newspaper "Le Reveil anarchiste" (The Anarchist Alarm Clock) which he founded in July 1900 & edited until his death. In 1936 he & Italian libertarian camerati went to fight in Spain on the Huesca front.
http://struggle.ws/spain/pam_intro.html


1952 -- US: DC-4 carrying troops home from Korea crashes into the Pacific, killing 36. Three men also perish when a B-17, sent to search for survivors, slammed into Tyler Peak in Washington's Olympic National Park.


1959 -- Cuba: During this month the anarchist movement is supressed by Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Fidel Castro.

Cuban anarcho-syndicalists are purged from the unions & the papers "El Libertario" & "Solidaridad Gastronómica" are shut down. For the Cuban libertarian movement the repression is dejavue-all-over-again, forcing it once again into an underground existence, its members forced to choose between escaping into exile or the prospect of being tossed into prison. Surprisingly, for those previously jailed by the reactionary regime, the "revolutionary" prison cells seem oddly familiar. [Source: Manel Aisa]

1960 -- US: 59 arrested at Chattanooga, Tennessee civil rights sit-in.


1961 -- Beginning date of Damon Galgut novel A Sinless Season.


1965 -- US: Cheating scandal revealed at the Air Force academy, forcing 105 cadets to resign.

1966 -- US: Democracy in Action? Georgia State House of Representatives refuses to seat black State Representative Julian Bond because of his opposition to the war in Vietnam; he is not admitted until January 1967.

1968 -- US: Native American Lower Elwha band, after decades of struggle, is allotted reservation land on Olympic Peninsula in Washington State.

The so-called "Palach Week" on the 20th anniversary of Palach's death was a series of anticommunist demonstrations in Prague between 15 & 21 January 1989, suppressed by the police, which preceded the fall of Czech communism 11 months later.

The group consists primarily of collectives with colorful names such as the "Zapata Collective", the "Hydra Collective," etc. BleedMeister is a member of one of them ("For the Time Being").

The SLF also spearheaded sponsorship of the Sky River Rock Festival & Lighter Than Air Fair. BleedMeister was in attendance, rumored to have partaken of an illegal substance (Hey, a guy's gotta eat!).

Professor Michael Lerner is described on an LEIU card as a "Marxist scholar, political activist, leader with Seattle Liberation Front, present at many demonstrations, in Seattle." Duh...go figure...

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/special/centennial/october/outrage.html

1970 -- US: UCLA fires philosophy instructor Angela Davis for being a Communist.


1971 -- US: At the Charles Manson murder trial, the Beatles' "Helter Skelter" is played. At the scene of one of his family's gruesome murders, Manson had written the words "helter skelter" on a mirror.



1971 -- US: Indian fishing rights organizer Hank Adams is shot in the stomach by white vigilantes Tacoma, Washington. Police never pursued the case.

Hank Adams, Assinboine-Sioux Indian, worked for the National Indian Youth Council & the National Congress of American Indians, & as national director (1968- ) of the Survival of American Indians Association (SAIA). Involved in Indian fishing rights, especially in Washington state, & other Indian causes, & participant in the Trail of Broken Treaties caravan (1972) & the occupation at Wounded Knee (S.D.) in 1973.

http://diglib.princeton.edu/ead/eadBrowse.xq?browseType=default

"The Indian was a child & a dangerous child," wrote a Washington state Supreme Court justice in 1916. "Neither Rome nor Britain ever dealt more liberally with their subject races than we with these savage tribes, whom it was generally tempting & always easy to destroy." http://www.kohary.com/env/bill_020799.html See "The Covert War Against Native Americans" by Ward Churchill, http://www.dickshovel.com/covertwar.html

1973 -- US: Yuba City, California labor contractor Juan V. Corona found guilty of murdering 25 itinerant farm workers he employed during 1970 - 1971.



1975 -- Painter & radical Thomas Hart Benton dies.
http://www.nbmaa.org/main.html


1976 -- Spain: Government drafts 70,000 railroad workers to crush strike.


1976 -- Australia: Duff Prediction No1: John Nash, an Australian, predicted that Adelaide would be destroyed by an earthquake & tidal wave today. Thousands left their homes, but nothing happened. Nash moved to Warwick, Queensland, which he predicted, would be the safest place in Australia; within days, it was engulfed by the worst floods in living memory.


1977 -- India: Show & Tell? World's largest crowd — 12.7 million — for Indian religious festival.


1977 -- US: On his last full day in office, Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Jerry Ford pardons "Tokyo Rose," convicted during WWII for making Japanese propaganda broadcasts to US troops. Iva Toguri D'Aquino, an American citizen of Japanese descent, had been convicted of treason.

In an attempt to demoralize American listeners by making them homesick, Radio Tokyo broadcast dance music & nostalgic reminiscences about everyday American life... [Details / context]

1978 -- British government cancels arms sale to El Salvador.


1982 -- England: Newbury Council votes to evict women's peace camp, Greenham Common.


1983 -- Bolivia: Klaus Barbie, the Nazi Gestapo chief in Lyons, France, during the WWII German occupation, is arrested on charges of crimes committed against humanity four decades earlier.

As chief of Nazi Germany's secret police in occupied France, Barbie sent thousands of French Jews & French Resistance members to their deaths in concentration camps, while torturing, abusing, or executing many others.

Following the war, Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Barbie worked as a US agent in Germany for two years, & in 1949 was smuggled to Bolivia, where he assumed the name of "Klaus Altmann" & continued his work as a US agent.

In addition to his work for the Americans, he increasingly performed services for Bolivia's various military regimes, especially that of Hugo "El Petiso" Banzer, who came to power in 1971 & became one of the country's most oppressive leaders. Barbie performed a similar type of work for Banzer as he had for the Nazis, torturing & interrogating political opponents, & dispatching many of these political prisoners to special internment camps where many were executed or died from mistreatment.

...The man in the river

wears a white shirt, dark pants & sprawls
as if sleeping while water riffles his hair.
This is a photograph from the coup or golpe,

meaning also hit or shock — just one death
from thirty thousand...

— Stephen Dobyns, "Pacos"

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/dobyns.htm

1986 -- US: Bruce Springsteen makes an unannounced appearance at a benefit for laid-off workers, Asbury Park, NJ.


1989 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President Reagan pardons Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader George Steinbrenner for illegal funds for Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Nixon.


1990 -- US: Self-Indictment? Attorney General Dick Thornburgh says the US will "not tolerate wrongdoing that violates American criminal law anywhere in the world."


1991 -- Italy: 100,000 anti-Gulf War demonstrators march in Roma.



1993 -- Singer Tom Waits allowed to keep $2.5 million that a judge awarded him in 1990 after he sued Frito-Lay for using a sound alike in a commercial. The Supreme Court refused to change the amount.
http://www.levity.com/corduroy/waits.htm
http://www.tomwaits.com/
http://www.anti.com/artists/view/1


1994 -- The Animals, The Band, Duane Eddy, The Grateful Dead, Elton John, John Lennon, Bob Marley & Rod Stewart inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.


1994 -- US: "Shoes for Guns" firearm buy-back effort begins in Chicago. Program is denounced by the National Rifle Association (NRA).




1998 -- Legendary rockabilly pioneer, Carl Perkins, dies in Nashville from complications following a recent series of strokes. Perkins' songwriting & guitar work influenced Elvis Presley & The Beatles, among many. He wrote & recorded "Blue Suede Shoes" in 1956 & his version sold two million copies before Elvis.'

http://www.rockabillyhall.com/CarlPerkins.html

1998 -- Zimbabwe: Police use tear gas on protesters; 21 are killed (-Jan. 22).


1999 -- Greece: Vasilis Evangelidis, teacher & anarchist, announces a hunger strike to protest his imprisonment & in solidarity with the student protest movement, occupations & demonstrations across the country.

"When the struggles go beyond passivity, compromise & trade-unionism, then the system reveals its real face:

terrorism,
violence,
repression."

This afternoon another big demonstration takes place in Athens, accompanied by minor clashes.

Dem lousy anarchist goodfernuthin Layabouts play "Fuckalot" at the Magic Bag, Motor City Michigan. Lyrics:

There's a certain way to view the world, as enemy with flag unfurled A combat zone where heathen spirit always, must be fought & the folks who see the world this way have made it what it is today A hate-filled place & all because they've never learned to say You've got to - laugh enough, if you want to stay alive You've got to -laugh a lot, if the world is to survive Then you got to - laugh some more, if you want your love to thrive Last thing that you want to do is be like one of them (MP3 - Live version! - See the lyrics - sing along! Magic Stick CD Release Party) http://goodfelloweb.com/layabouts/Songs/fa.html

2006 -- A Library in Every Cave?: Bin Laden Book Club (BLBC) founded, serious rival to Oprah's Book Club.

The Club's first "Book Choice of the Year" is William Blum's Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower (claiming it offers the path to peace). While the Bush Cabal's Alphabet Soup Reading Group (BCASRG), FBI, NSA, CIA, NCIS, USCG, etc, et tu, ibid., op.cit., vide, et al, cf., avidly rush to buy copies (America's dwindling libraries lacking), they gag on bin Laden's Reading Program (BLRP) further recommendation that America apologize to victims of American wars & promise never to interfere in other nations. ("Don't Cave in to Terror!")

At least one yo-yo has republished the materials from the American State Terrorism website (censored from over five ISPs & counting!), http://911review.org/Wiki/AmericanStateTerrorism.shtml

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