Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 11:07:14 -0700
Subject: Daily Bleed: 4/19 MAGGIE KUHN 


Web version: http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/0419.htm

I woke up with a spot of blood
over my eye. A scratch
halfway across my forehead.
But I'm sleeping alone these days.

Why on earth would a man raise
his hand
against himself, even in sleep?
It's this & similar questions
I'm trying to answer this morning.
As I study my face in the window.

             — Raymond Carver, "The Scratch"


APRIL 19

MAGGIE KUHN
Founder of Gray Panthers, radical activists for the aged.

SNAKES RETURN TO IRELAND DAY.

WORLD WEEK FOR LABORATORY ANIMALS.
Protest the torture & killing of animals during
"scientific experiments."

FESTIVAL OF FABULOUS WILDMEN.


1824 - British romantic poet Lord Byron, dies, 36, of malarial
fever contracted in a rainstorm in Missolonghi, Greece, where
he was drilling troops seeking liberation from the Turkish
Empire. His heart & lungs are buried in Greece, his body in England.

What is the end of fame? 'Tis but to fill
A certain portion of uncertain paper:
Some liken it to climbing up a hill,
Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapor;
For this men write, speak, preach, & heroes kill,
And bards burn what they call their "midnight taper,"
To have, when the original is dust,
A name, a wretched picture, & worse bust.

---from “Don Juan”, Canto 1, stanza 217

1851 - US: Kalapuyan Atfalate cede lands to U.S. in exchange
for a small reservation at Wapato Lake, Oregon.

1854 - Charles Angrand (1854-1926) lives, Normandy. French
Impressionist, Pointillist painter & anarchist illustrator.
Influenced by Van Gogh, associated with Seurat, Cross, Luce &
Signac & other libertarian illustrators & Jean Grave's "Les
temps nouveaux". See “Daily Bleed” Gallery page,
http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/sinners/CharlesAngrand.htm

1861 - The US Civil War claims its first fatalities: four
Union soldiers were stoned to death by a Baltimore mob.

1877 - Ole Evinrude, inventor of the outboard marine engine, lives.

1900 - Richard Hughes (Fiction as Truth) lives (1900-1976).
British playwright, poet, short story writer, & novelist, born
in Wales, director of the National Theatre of Wales from 1924
to 36.  His play, “Danger” was possibly the first written
especially for radio. Wrote “A High Wind in Jamaica”.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/rhughes.htm

1912 - Joséphine Coueille, known as Andree Prevotel, lives,
Gers. French anarchist & anarcho-syndicalist, free thinker.
http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/sinners/PrevotelAndree.htm

1919 - Mutiny of the Sailors in the Black Sea (19 to 21
April). Several French warships around Sébastopol (brought in
to aid in stopping the advances of the Red Army) are subject
to mutiny. Begins with the sailors on the battleship "France,"
& spreads. A delegation, made up partly of anarchist sailors,
demands suspension of the war against Russia, the return of
the ships to France, & no disciplining for their actions. In
Sébastopol, French officers massacre participants in a
demonstration to prevent them from fraternizing with the
mutineers. Despite the promises of the officers, the mutineers
(such as Alphonse Sauveur Cannone; see 15 February) are
treacherously arrested & receive from 10 to 20 years of prison.

1933 - Silver Spoon? Beloved & Respected comrade Leader
President Franklin D. Roosevelt takes the US off the gold standard.

1939 - Anti-American Ingrates: Connecticut finally approves
the “Bill of Rights” (only 148 years late).

1943 - Poland: 50,000 Jews remaining begin the Warsaw Ghetto
Uprising: thousands of Jews rise in armed struggle against
Nazi deportations to extermination camps.

On May 10th, some 75 survivors escape through the city's sewers.

1945 - Louis-Ferdinand Céline is in deep doo-doo: faces arrest
for collaborating with fascist Vichy government, France.

      "Round up the usual suspects ........"
http://www.mi.aau.dk/~nhe/celine.html
http://users.aol.com/casabla101/images.html

1948 - Costa Rica abolishes its army.

1952 - England: 35 Operation Gandhi supporters picket
Aldermaston AWRE, a spy base.

1968 - Sexy Sadie, what have you done? You made a fool of everyone.

1971 - US: Several hundred Vietnam Veterans Against the War
begin an encampment on Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C. Laumch
"Operation Dewey Canyon III (April 19-23).

1974 - Fernand Planche (1900-1974) dies. French
writer/activist of "Anarchist Synthesis" (establishing links
between all the various tendencies).

 Imprisoned the winter 1939-1940 for
inciting soldiers to desert, then interned in Germany as a
"subversive element." Helped rebuild the libertarian movement
after the war. Wrote  "Durolle au pays des couteliers,"
a biography of Louise Michel, &, with Jean Delphy, a biography
of Kropotkin.
http://perso.club-internet.fr/ytak/fevrier2.html#12

1978 - US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader California
Governor Jerry Brown refuses a request to extradite American
Indian Movement (AIM) leader Dennis Banks to South Dakota
to stand trial.

1980 - Psycho "Lifeboat" Al Hitchcock dies in Califonia at
80. Newspaper goes down with him.

1982 - U.S. re-bans travel to Cuba.

1993 - Tax Dollars at Whork: Whacko Federal agents attack
whacko Branch Davidian compound near Whaco, Texass,
shooting or incinerating over 80 women, men, & children.

1995 - Bombing of Federal Building in Oklahoma City kills 168,
setting off hunt for "Arab terrorists" & Muslims. Results in
new laws suspending due process for non-US citizens.


       "We are all giants, raised by pygmies, & trained to walk
       with a perpetual mental crouch."

                                            — Robert Anton Wilson


-- Auntie-PerpetualCrouch 2001