Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 07:20:06 -0700
Subject: Daily Bleed: 4/21 RADEN ADJENG KARTINI


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APRIL 21

RADEN ADJENG KARTINI
Javanese princess who rebelled against aristocratic
customs & started education for girls in Indonesia.

FESTIVAL OF SACRED GROVES.

Ancient Roman: PARILA, honoring Pales, Protector
of flocks & herds.


1142 -- French theologian/philosopher, Peter Abelard,
dies in Burgundy. Best known in literature
for his poetry & celebrated affair with Héloïse.

1519 -- Cortes lands at Veracruz, Mexico. Through
sheer bloodthirstiness (& the aid of European
diseases) a few hundred Spaniards manage to conquer,
loot, & enslave the millions of people in
the Aztec empire. In the name of King & Christianity,
anything is possible.

1812 -- England: Luddites. Food riot at Tintwistle &
machinery destroyed at Rhodes' woollen cloth mill.

1816 -- Charlotte Brontë lives (1816-1855). Novelist,
notably Jane Eyre, sister of Anne Bronte & Emily Bronte,
who described love more frankly than common in
Victorian England.

1834 -- 30,000 march for freedom of trade unionists
transported to Australia from Tolpuddle, Britain.

1838 -- John Muir, early western
naturalist/conservationist, lives.
http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/writings/

1863 -- Texass won its independence with the defeat of
the Mexican Army at San Jacinto.

     "It wasn't a shark attack, but a shark accident. More
     than likely he ran into the swimmer's leg & got it
     caught in his mouth."

     --- Town spokesman Joe Rubio, explaining away
     rumors that a woman had been attacked by a shark
     while swimming off South Padre Island, Texass

1879 -- Javanese feminist Raden Adjeng Kartini lives.
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/SSEAL/SoutheastAsia/seaindon.html

1882 -- US Congress passes the Chinese Exclusion Act,
which makes it unlawful for Chinese laborers to enter
the United States for the next 10 years & denies
naturalized citizenship to the Chinese already here.
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~felsing/cstuff/history.html

1894 -- George Bernard Shaw's Arms & the Man opens
to the unanimous cheers of the audience,  with the sole
exception of one who boos. Shaw bowed to his
detractor:

            "I quite agree with you, sir,
            but what can two do against so many?"
1910 -- Mark Twain dies, Redding Connecticut, upon the
reappearance of Halley's Comet, which had last shone
the year he was born.

     "I thoroughly disapprove of duels. I consider them
      unwise & I know they are  dangerous. Also, sinful.
      If a man should challenge me now I would go to that
      man & take him kindly & forgivingly by the hand &
      lead him to a quiet retired spot & kill him."

            http://marktwain.miningco.com/

1913 -- Andre Soudy, French anarchist, member of the
Bonnot Gang, executed. Also Raymond Callemin, another
member, who had started the individualist paper
"L'anarchie" with Victor Serge.
http://alumni.umbc.edu/~akoont1/tmh/marsden.html
http://www.chez.com/durru/bonnot/bonnot.htm

1918 --

        "As `Cholly Kokonino' would put it ~

         The Whoest of the Whos were There.
         The Dimless Dames of Coconino,
         the Merry Wives in Full Galaxy,
         The Representatives of
         the "Desierto Pintado's" Social Apex.

         Drifting now to a Lower Social Level,
         We find `Krazy Kat' Propelled by
         a Great Sense, and urge of Kuriosity<
         on his Way to the Enchanted Mesa,
         on Whose Topside, `Joe Stork'
         The Bird of Destiny, Makes his Home."

            --- George Herriman, April 21, 1918

Jack Kerouac, who called Krazy:

"an immediate progenitor of the Beat Generation & its
roots could be traced back to the glee of America, the
honesty of America, its wild, self-believing
individuality", also noted Krazy's gender is not male or
female, but both.

Who are Krazy & Ignatz?:
http://krazy.phys.washington.edu/krazy+ignatz/k+i.html
http://www.wolfe.net/~sputnik/kat/krazykat.html
http://www.krazy.com/

1921 -- US: Police fire on striking miners in Butte,
Montana.

1945 -- Death of peace artist Käthe Kollwitz, in
Germany, notable for innovative technique & prints
conveying social justice themes.

  I do not want to die . . . until I have faithfully made the
  most of my talent & cultivated the seed that was placed
  in me until the last small twig has grown.

                    ---Käthe Kollwitz
                    http://www.kollwitz.de/
                    Kathe Kollwitz on the Internet,

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/kollwitz_kathe.htm

1948 -- American naturalist Aldo Leopold dies.

          "When we see the land as a community to which we
          belong, we may begin to use it with love & respect."

1951 -- Giuseppe Pasotti (1888-1951) dies. Italian
anarcho-syndicalist & member of the Italian
League of Human Rights.
http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/sinners/PasottiGuiseppe.htm

1962 -- US: Century 21 Exposition opens in Seattle,
Washington. Residents take needling. Some endure
needless needlings over dirty needles.

360 degree view from the Observation Deck at 518 feet
at the Space Needle.
http://www.imsa.edu/~mozart/fun/needle.html

1967 -- Greece: CIA-assisted right-wing coup deposes
elected civilian government, military junta
takes over.

1968 -- Armando Borghi (1882-1968) dies. Important
Italian anarchist figure, propagandist. Friend of
Malatesta's, secretary of the large Unione Anarchica
Italiana (UAI) as well as the head of the Italian
Syndicalist Union (USI) in Bologna.
See the Anarchist Encyclopedia page,
http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/sinners/BorghiArmando.htm

1972 -- US: Protesters in El Paso, Texass, pelt Beloved
& Respected  Comrade Leader General Westmoreland,
who is always winning in Vietnam, with tomatoes.

1972 -- Canada: Alberta Indians end six month sit-in at
Indian Affairs office in Edmonton.

1975 -- Last South Vietnam president, Nguyen Van
Thieu, resigns after 10 years. Becomes a traveling
wrestling referee, just so he can point & scream
"THIEU REVERSAL."
http://www.bev.net/computer/htmlhelp/vietnam.html

1980 -- Anti-American Label?: Frank Zappa's record
label refuses to release his single entitled
"I Wanna Be Drafted".
http://www.embofleb.org/military.htm
http://users.cybercity.dk/~bcc6117/

1998 -- Jean-Francois Lyotard, post-modern French
philosopher, a revolutionary before the pressures of a
career & the ebbing of post-1968 hopes turned him
into a darling of the sociologists.

Member of Socialisme ou Barbarie group, alongside
Cornelius Castoriadis (aka Pierre Chaulieu & Paul
Cardan) & Lefort. Lyotard contributed many important
articles to its magazine. He joined Lefort in breaking
away from S ou B in 1963 to form Pouvoir Ouvrier
(Workers Power). He joined the March 22nd Movement.
http://burn.ucsd.edu/~acf/org/issue49/senez.html


  Make no laws whatever concerning speech & speech
  will be free; so soon as you make a declaration on
  paper that speech shall be free, you will have a
  hundred lawyers proving that "freedom does not mean
  abuse, nor liberty license"; & they will refine & define
  freedom out of  existence.

  Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's
  determination to use it, & we shall have no need of
  paper declarations. On the other hand, so long as the
  people do not care to exercise their freedom, those
  who wish to tyrannize will do so...

                 — Voltairine de Cleyre,
                      Anarchism & American Traditions


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