I was walking on white paper.
However far I went, there
I remained, between the print,
— Shinkichi Takahashi
Daily Bleed, web page updated, 105 entries, a few pitchers & some links;
it's a monster:
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0101.htmBleedMeister starts the year off
(im)properly,
ZeroWork:
JANUARY 1
OUSMANE SEMBÉNE
African film director extraordinaire,
novelist, cultural genius.
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NEW YEAR'S holiday in 165 nations. Presumably the others
are stuck reliving the past.
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1800 -- Scotland: Socialist planner Robert Owen assumes
control of mills at New Lanark. On Owen, see Kenneth
Rexroth's chapter in Communalism.
http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/communalism6.htm1812 -- England: Luddite property attacks on the Notts / Derbyshire border.
1889 -- Nietzsche has a nervous breakdown seeing a horse
whipped by a cab driver.
"...this time however I come as the victorious Dionysus,
who will turn the world into a holiday...
Not that I have much time..."
— Nietzsche (from his last "insane" letter to Cosima Wagner)
1879 -- US: Hobo King & whorehouse doctor, anarchist, & one-time
lover of Emma Goldman, Ben Reitman, lives.
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Goldman/Cur ... cture.html1881 -- France: Paris Commune leader Louis-Auguste Blanqui (1805-1881)
dies, Paris. A huge crowd attends his funeral. Among delegates & labor
figures, anarchist Louise Michel pays a lively homage to him.
1895 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader J. Edgar Hoover,
"Mr FBI" & one of the world's most famous cross-dressing blackmailers,
lives.
"All my humor is based on
destruction & despair. If the
whole world were tranquil, without
disease & violence, I'd be
standing in the breadline —
right back of J. Edgar Hoover."
— Lenny Bruce
1895 -- England: Rudolf Rocker arrives in London. German militant
who became deeply involved in the Federation of Jewish Anarchists,
a movement larger than the native British anarchist movement.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Ency ... Rudolf.htm1898 -- Brazil: First Rio Grande do Sul State Congress, January 1-2.
This congress brings together delgates from 10 associations, a
periodical & an anarchist group. It is the first formal meeting
of workers to take up social ideas in Brazil.
1900 -- England: Emma Goldman attends a Russian New Year party
in London where she meets notable Russian revolutionary exiles,
including L.B. Goldenberg & V.N. Cherkezov.
During the month Emma travels to Glasgow, Dundee, & Edinburgh,
Scotland to lecture. On Jan. 21 in Dundee she lectures on
"Authority versus Liberty" & "The Aim of Humanity." In Edinburgh,
she meets anarchist Thomas Bell.
1900 -- Japan: Daijiro Furuta lives Japanese anarchist, member of
the Guillotine Society (Girochin Sha), an anarchist terrorist group.
Captured on September 10, 1924 in Tôkyô, tried on September 10, 1925
& condemned to death. Refusing to appeal his sentence, he was hanged
on October 15, 1925.
http://www.encyclopedie-marxiste.com/bi ... furata.htm1901 -- US: Socialist pol, novelist, orator, social reformer &
Atlantean crackpot Ignatius Donnelly dies at 69, Minneapolis.
1911 -- England: The murder of Leon Beron, a slum landlord,
precipitating "The Sidney Street Siege" which occurs on
January 3 (three anarchists suspected of killing three shoot it
out with over a thousand troops), & becomes the most notorious
murder trial of the day. The case also drags in a callous self-promoting
publicity hound, Home Secretary Winston Churchill, amidst allegations
of spying & sinister implications involving the "siege" & also the
Houndsditch Murders.
Two anarchists in the Sidney Street house died when the house
caught fire & a fire brigade demanding to be allowed to put out
the fire was ordered not to by Churchill.
The fire engulfed the ground floor, the ceiling & upper floors
collapsed. Scores of guns were trained on the front door, which
never opened. At last, the police lines dissolved, the fire brigade
was unleashed, & the Home Secretary went home. The charred
bodies of Svaars & Joseph were recovered.
According to Martin Gilbert's biography, Churchill's secretary Charles
Masterman was horrified that he personally attended the "siege."
When Churchill got back to the Home Office, Masterman sternly
accosted him: "What have you been doing, Winston?" Churchill was
still so invigorated by the excitement that he forgot his usually well-disguised
lisp:
"Now Charleth, don't he croth; it wath such fun!"
1912 -- US: Paul Orleneff, actor, producer & friend of Emma Goldman,
returns to the United States for a brief series of dramatic performances.
1918 -- US: Prior to imprisonment by the end of the month, Emma
Goldman delivers her last public lectures in Chicago, Detroit, &
Rochester (in Yiddish & English).
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/01ref.htm#01/19181919 -- Spain: Sara Berenguer lives. Poet, anarquista,
member of Mujeres Libres.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/01ref.htm#01/19191920 -- US: America's first "Red Scare" begins. Overnight 2,700 people
arrested without being charged with any explicit crime. A. Mitchell Palmer,
Wilson's Attorney General, & a man with Presidential ambitions of his own,
ultimately arrests some 6,000 people on suspicion of "communism." Those
who are not American citizens are deported as "undesirable aliens."
"Like a prairie-fire, the blaze of revolution was sweeping over
every American institution of law & order a year ago. It was eating
its way into the homes of the American workman, its sharp tongue of
revolutionary heat were licking the altars of churches, leaping into
the belfry of the school bell, crawling into the sacred corners of
American homes, seeking to replace marriage vows with libertine laws . . ."
— A. Mitchell Palmer
1923 -- Senegal: Ousmane Sembéne lives (-2007), Ziguinchor.
Senegalese labor union activist, writer & film director (often called the
"Father of African film"), best-known for his historical-political works
with strong social comment.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ousmane.htmhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ousmane_Semb%C3%A8ne 1924 -- Canada: IWW Lumber Workers IU120 strikes the British
Columbia lumber owners, calling for an 8 hour day with blankets supplied,
minimum wage of $4 per day, release of all class war prisoners, no
discrimination against IWW members & no censuring of IWW literature.
1928 -- George Orwell leaves the Indian Imperial Police.
"When I see an actual flesh & blood worker in conflict
with his natural enemy, the police[man], I do not have
to say which side I am on."
— George Orwell
1932 -- US: The year begins with a deep sense of foreboding
& fear as the American economy begins grinding to a standstill.
"What the country needs is good, big laugh."
— Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader
President Herbert Hoover
In Detroit it becomes a common occurrence for
unemployed men to smash shop windows at night
& loot stores. Two families who resist eviction by
shooting & killing a landlord are later acquitted of
murder by sympathetic judges.
Zoom forward to 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2010...
1932 -- US: "The Nation" magazine includes Emma Goldman's
Living My Life among its list of most notable books of 1931.
1942 -- Country Joe McDonald lives.
"Gimmie an F...
Give me a U....
Give me a C...."
He & his 60s band of Fish stopped the war in Vietnam.
Zoom forward to 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2010...
Iraq, Korea, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan...
ad infinitum....
1942 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader "Uncle Joe" Stalin
proclaimed "Time" magazine's "Man of the Year." Will Ayn Rand &
Tail-Gunner Joe McCarthy accuse "Time" of being communist?
"I have here in my hand," McCarthy states, "the names of 205 men
that were known to the Secretary of State as being members
of the Communist party & who nevertheless are still working
& shaping the policy of the state department."
Some years later, he confides the paper was actually an old laundry list.
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/home.html1945 -- Fritz Brupbacher dies. A Swiss physician, studied medicine
& psychiatry. Wrote Marx et Bakounine, Bakounine ou le démon de
la révolte, & the autobiography 60 Years of Heresy, as well as
numerous pamphlets.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/gall ... Brupbacher1958 -- NEVERENRUH! Keine Experimente! (Stay Calm! No
Experiments!), the first manifesto of the Situationist International's
German section, signed by Asger Jorn & Hans Platschek, Munich.
Also during this month, the French section issues two tracts:
"Nouveau théâtre d'opération dans la culture" (A New Cultural
Theater of Operations) & "Aux producteurs de l'art moderne"
(To the Producers of Modern Art).
The former schematized the programme of the SI, while the latter
invited artists, "tired of repeating outmoded ideas," to organize
new modes for the transformation of the environment.
http://members.chello.nl/j.seegers1/doc ... 958-1.html http://www.stewarthomesociety.org/ass/sione.htm1959 -- France: Libertarian socialist Michel Onfray lives to eat butter.
"L'autorité m'est insupportable, la dépendance invivable,
la soumission impossible."
After suffering a heart attack at age 28 & being advised to
change his diet, he replied that he "preferred to die eating
butter than to economize [his] existence with margarine."
The episode led him to write his first book, Le Ventre des
philosophes (The Stomach of the Philosophers).
http://ww3.wpunj.edu/newpol/issue40/Ireland40.htm 1962 -- In the Modern Almanac published in 1962, author
Harry Golden presents his plan for world peace:
"STOP MAKING CARBON PAPER!"
1968 -- US: Yippies founded & announces plans to conduct
demonstrations the following summer at Democratic convention
in Chicago. Whoever called these anarchists "yuppies" in yesterday's
Bleed will be beheaded at midnight.
1984 -- Augustin Souchy (1892-1984), German anarchist pacifist, dies.
Influenced, while young, by reading of Gustav Landauer. After the
war, in 1920, he went to Russia for a labor congress, where he met
& stayed with Peter Kropotkin. In 1922, Souchy became one of the
three secretaries of the new A.I.T. With the seizure of power by Hitler,
fled from Germany, & in 1936 participated in the Spanish Revolution.
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0828.htm#souchy1994 -- México: EZLN insurgency begins, same day as the Chiapas
uprising in 1929.
Rising of the Indians of Chiapas to the cry of "¡Ya Basta!" (Enough!).
They refuse the world politico-economic demands, imposed by the US
& its neoliberalism insolates (so-called "free market" racketeers.)
While the movement is not specifically anarchist, it remains the a
most beautiful example of resistance at the end of this century.
Their demands are simple:
Nothing for us, everything for everybody.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/01ref.htm#01/19942000 -- France: Arthur Lehning dies, 100 years old. Anarchiste &
anti-militarist, an essayist & the sole editor of the avant-garde
journal "i 10." Important figure at the International Institute of Social History.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/01ref.htm#01/20002006 -- México: Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos ("Delgado Zero")
jumps on a black motorcycle to tour all 31 Mexican states.
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"As soon as the generals & the politicos can predict
the motions of your mind, lose it. Leave it as a sign
to mark the false trail, the way you didn't go. Be
like the fox who makes more tracks than
necessary, some in the wrong direction. Practice
resurrection."
— Wendell Berry, Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front
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