Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 08:02:52 -0700
Subject: Daily Bleed: 4/20 JOAN MIRO 


Web Earthmover: http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/0420.htm

text excerpts:

APRIL 20

JOAN MIRO
Great Catalan painter, sculptor, prolific printmaker, bon-vivant.

FESTIVAL OF FABULOUS WILDWOMEN.


121 - Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD) lives. Roman Emperor,
Stoic, author of  “Meditations of Writings to Himself” in
twelve books. First printing appeared in English in 1634.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/aurelius.htm

1534 - Execution of Elizabeth Barton, the "Nun of Kent"

1777 - Anti-American Ingrates: New York adopts new
constitution as an independent state.

1841 - First detective story, Poe's “"Murders in the Rue
Morgue"“) published.

1857 - Herman Bang lives, the island of Als.
Novelist/playwright/short story writer/memoirist. Denmark's
most important literary Impressionist.

1859 - First volume of Charles Dickens' “A Tale of Two Cities”
appears.

1887 - Oscar Wilde writes:

  "Every great man nowadays has his  disciples, & it is usually
  Judas who writes the biography."
  http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/ws98/ws53_wilde.html

1893 - Catalan artist Joan Miró lives, born in the family
apartment at 4 Passatge del Crèdit, Barcelona, Spain.

           'Miró: A single line, a definition inspired
           by the Catalan landscape.'

          --- Abridged Dictionary of Surrealism (1938).

See “Daily Bleed” Saint's Gallery page,
http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/saints/StMiro.htm

1912 - Gothic novelist Bram Stoker dies. None achieves the
popularity of  his “Dracula”.

1914 - US: Ludlow Massacre of Striking miners & families by
National Guard.

In an attempt to persuade strikers at Colorado's Ludlow Mine
Field to return to work, company "guards," engaged by John D.
Rockefeller, Jr. & other mine operators attacked a union tent
camp with machine guns, then set it afire. Five men, two women
& 12 children died as a result.

The “Cleveland Leader”, echoing the sentiments of much of the
US press, wrote,

    "The charred bodies of two dozen women & children show that
    Rockfeller knows how to win!"

John D. Rockefeller's company "guards" machine-gun & set fire
to a union tent camp during a strike at Colorado's Ludlow Mine
Field. In all, 26 people die in what  is known as the Ludlow Massacre.

1948 - Labor leader Walter Reuther is shot & seriously wounded
by would-be assassins.

1953 - Members of Communist Party USA forced to register as
"foreign agents."

1959 - Cary Grant's LSD interview.

1962 - New Orleans Citizens Co gives free 1-way ride to blacks
to move North.

1966 - Six US pacifists, including Barbara Deming & 82-year-
old A.J. Muste, deported for anti-war protests, Saigon, South Vietnam.

1967 - US planes bomb Haiphong for first time during the
Vietnam War.
http://www.bev.net/computer/htmlhelp/vietnam.html

1967 - Aldino Felicani (1891-1967) dies. Italian-American
anarchist, typographer, editor, & publisher of many papers.
Friend & supporter of Vanzetti. Published, until his death,
the paper "Counter-Current."
http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/sinners/FelicaniAldino.htm

1969 - People's Park planted, Berkeley, California -- a
resistance to the encroachment of the authorities into
"peoples' space".
http://www.dnai.com/~hi_there/history.html

1970 - The New York Times reports Catholic & Protestant youth
groups have adopted the Yellow Submarine as a religious
symbol.

1972 - US: A rally of 2,000 University of Washington students
against renewed bombing of Hanoi votes to strike & to support
a Vietnamese student, Nguyen Thai Binh, resisting possible
deportation for anti-war activity.
Nguyen is killed on July 2 while attempting to hijack an
airliner to Hanoi.

1976 - William Sansom, British novelist of London life, dies
there. Wrote “ The Body; A Bed of Roses; The Loving Eye”.

1977 - Supreme Court rules "Live Free or Die" may be covered
on New Hampshire license plates.

1982 - Poet/playwright Archibald MacLeish dies in Boston.

1983 - Korean Airlines flight 007 shot down by Soviets in
Russian airspace. They claim it is a spy plane. It is loaded
with civilians, & many say spy gear. Everyone aboard dies.

1985 - US: Some 250,000 march in Washington to protest US
policy in Central America.

1992 - Vienna, Austria: Women in Black demonstrate in
solidarity with their Serbian sisters.

1998 - Octavio Paz dies in Mexico City. Mexico's greatest
poet, writer, critic, & winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize for
Literature, Paz, a prolific writer, best known for the book-
length essay “The Labyrinth of Solitude” & the poem "Sun
Stone."


       At some point we must draw a line
       across the ground of our home & our being,
       drive a spear into the land, & say to the bulldozers,
       earthmovers, government & corporations,
       "thus far & no farther."

                                                    ---Edward Abbey


-- Auntie-ThusFar 2001

"Free thought, necessarily involving freedom of speech
& press, I may  tersely define thus: no opinion a law --
no opinion a crime."

       ---Alexander Berkman