Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 09:18:56 -0700
Subject: Daily Bleed: 4/28 JULES BONNOT


Web page in full, http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/0428.htm

Text excerpts,

APRIL 28

JULES BONNOT
Anarchist bank robber, inventor of the getaway car

International: WORKERS' MEMORIAL DAY.

Charles, Louisiana:
CONTRABAND DAYS PIRATE FESTIVAL
honors Lafitte.

"In many parts of the Caribbean, flying the "Jolly Roger" flag
was the equivalent of a happy face: it meant the pirate ship
was willing to take prisoners. The appearance of a red flag,
however, signified no prisoners, & the pirates would slaughter
crew & passengers to a man. Bear in mind that the flags had
different meanings [or none] at different time periods & in
different regions."
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/pirates/maina.html


1789 - Fletcher Christian led a group of mutineers against
Captain William Bligh aboard HMS Bounty in history's most
famous mutiny. Recounted by Charles Nordhoff & James Norman
Hall in a trilogy; the first book being “Mutiny on the Bounty”
(1932).

1861 - Henry Bauer lives, Grentel, Germany.
German-American anarchist. In 1893 Bauer was arrested
& sent to prison for five years for distributing leaflets during the
Homestead Strike, where Alexander Berkman had attempted to
assassinate Henry Frick.
http://longman.awl.com/garraty/glossary_h.htm
html.http://iberia.vassar.edu/1896/strikes.html
http://www.fred.net/nhhs/html2/dbq1.htm

Sing ho, for we know you, Carnegie;
God help us and save us, we know you too well;
You're crushing our wives and you're starving our babies;
In our homes you have driven the shadow of hell.
Then bow, bow down to Carnegie,
Ye men who are slaves to his veriest whim;
If he lowers your wages cheer, vassals, then cheer.  Ye
Are nothing but chattels and slaves under him.

   ---- 2nd verse, "A Man Named Carnegie,"
   anonymous, California, 7 July 1892

1874 - Austrian philosopher Karl Krauss lives, Jicin, Bohemia,
Austria-Hungary. “KARL KRAUSS 1998 SAINT”
Great Austrian satirist, language theorist, social rebel.
http://www2.uol.com.br/playboy/revista/edicao0398/dehomem.html

1898 - Italy: In Ancône, a trial of the anarchists accused of
criminal conspiracy against "the public safety of people &
property" has been going on since the 21st. It follows the
failure of a General Strike in mid-January against price
increases for bread. The defendants are represented by the
anarchist lawyers Francisco Saviero Merlino, Pietro Gori &
Errico Ferri. Errico Malatesta will be sent to prison for seven
months.
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1884/ana-links.htm
http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/ws/errico48.htm

1902 - Johan Borgen lives (1902-1979). Important 20th-century
Norwegian author. Wrote the trilogy “Lillelord, De Morke
Kilder, Vi Har Ham Na” -- all translated into English as
“Lillelord”.  http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/borgen.htm

1912 - Jules Bonnot, French illegalist gang leader, killed in
police shootout.

Les banques criaient "Misérables!"
Quand s'éloignait le bruit du puissant moteur
Comment rattrapper les coupables
Qui fuyaient à toute allure à trente-cinq à l'heure
Sur les routes de France, hirondelles et gendarmes
Etaient à leurs trousses, étaient nuit et jour en alarme
En casquette à visière, les bandits en auto
C'était la bande à Bonnot

         — Joe Dassin, La bande à Bonnot

http://www.math.umn.edu/~foursov/chansons/dassin/bande.html
See Richard Parry, “ The Bonnot Gang” (London: Rebel Press).
CLAVE, GODARD.
http://www.chez.com/durru/bonnot/bonnot.htm

1912 - José Pellicer-Gandia lives, Valencia, Spain. Anarchist
militant & syndicalist, fighter in the "Iron Column". Wounded
fighting the Communist attempts to assassinate militiaman of
the CNT. After the defeat of the Republicans Pellicer was
arrested & jailed with Juan Peiro before being condemned &
executed by the fascist military tribunal May 26, 1942.
http://perso.club-internet.fr/ytak/juin2.html#pellicer

1914 - US: 181 workers die in coal mine collapse disaster at
Eccles, West Virginia.

1919 - US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Seattle mayor
Hanson gets a bomb in the mail. He declares the government
should "buck up & hand or incarcerate for life all the
anarchists." This was one of 36 bombs which turn up in the
mails across the nation.

1924 - US: 119 workers die in Benwood, West Virginia coal mine
disaster.

1925 - T. S. Eliot takes a job at Faber & Faber, freeing him
from a dreary bank job.

1926 - Harper Lee lives, Monroeville, Alabama. Famous for
Pulitzer prize winning race relations novel “To Kill A
Mockingbird”. An international bestseller adapted to the
screen in 1962.  She modeled the boy Dill after her childhood
next-door neighbor, author Truman Capote.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/harperle.htm

1942 - "WW II" titled so, as result of Gallup Poll. Also
nightly "dim-out" begins along the East Coast, as a result of
Gallup Poll.

1945 - Italian fascist strongman Benito Mussolini hung by
partisans, begging the question: Was he hung well?
http://www.pagesz.net/~stevek/europe/lecture9.html

1947 - Thor Heyerdahl & "Kon-Tiki" sail from Peru to Polynesia.

1950 - Marita Golden, journalist/novelist, lives, Washington,
D.C. Of her writing, she states: "I write essentially to
complete myself & to give my vision a significance that the
world generally seeks to deny."

1953 - Iran: After engineering the overthrow of the
democratically elected government, the CIA installs the Shah
of Iran, beginning a 25-year dictatorship in that country.

1958 - Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Vice Prez Dick Nixon
begins goodwill tour of Latin America. Gets a "rocky" reception.

1960 - Alan Haber & SLID/SDS host first conference on Human
Rights at the University of Michigan; James Farmer & Michael
Harrington speak.

1961 - US: Over 2,000 defy mandatory civil defense drill, New
York City.

1965 - 20,000 Marines invade Dominican Republic to support
military junta/dictatorship; Beloved & Respected Comrade
Leader President Johnson sends US troops to prevent the
ascension of democratically elected president Juan Bosch. The
troops are not withdrawn until next year.

         We're the cops of the world, boys;
         We're the cops of the world.

                                  -- Phil Ochs
http://www.patriagrande.net/uruguay/eduardo.galeano/memoria.del.fuego/19650428.htm

1967 - US: Muhammad Ali refuses induction, during the Vietnam
War, into the army & is stripped of his boxing title:

   "No Viet Cong ever called me nigger."

The World Boxing Association withdraws Muhammad Ali's
recognition as heavyweight champion because of his refusal to
serve in the U.S. military. On June 20th, a federal court
convicts Ali for violating the Selective Service Act, handing
him a fine & a five-year prison sentence. In 1971, the Supreme
Court unanimously overturns the conviction. Ali regained his
title in 1974, defeating George Foreman in Zaire.

1968 - After six months at the off-Broadway New York
Shakespeare Festival Theater, “Hair” moves to the Biltmore.
The first rock-musical to play on the Great White Way, with
1,729 performances on Broadway. Made into a movie in 1979.

1968 - Rush To Judgement?: India: A lawsuit begun in 1205 was
resolved today, settled in favor of Mr. Thorat.

1970 - US: Occupational Safety & Health Act (OSHA) enacted.

1977 - First rally by Mothers of the Disappeared at Plaza de
Mayo, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

1978 - US: At Rocky Flats nuclear weapons facility, near
Denver, over 5,000 protest & 284 arrested for blocking
railroad tracks entering the plant. Daniel Ellsberg called
Rocky Flats the Auschwitz of our time.
http://www.san.beck.org/WP30-Anti-Nuclear.html
http://www.hcn.org/category_index/dir/Nuclear.html
http://www.sfo.com/~rherried/nhistory.html
http://www.alternatives.com/libs/envnukep.htm

1984 - New Zealand educator, author/poet Sylvia Ashton-Warner
dies in Tauranga.

1987 - Benjamin Linder, an American volunteer engineer from
Seattle, Washington is murdered by U.S.-sponsored Contras
(characterized by then-Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader
Pres. Reagan as "the moral equivalent of our founding
fathers") while working on a hydroelectric project in rural
Nicaragua.

1988 - Suck It Up?: Gaping 20 feet long hole opens in the
fuselage of an Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 jet during a flight
from Hilo to Honolulu. Lands safely, but the escaping air
swept a stewardess to her death & resulted in 95 injuries
suffered by passengers.

1989 -- First Workers Memorial Day, international day of
remembrance for those who have been injured or died
on the job & to renew the fight for safe workplaces,
drawing attention to the plight of the 335,000 workers
worldwide who die & millions injured every year as a
result of their work.

         "Mourn the dead & fight like
         hell for the living".

1991 - Death of Igal Roodenko, World War II conscientious
objector/pacifist activist, New York City.
          "I have to love everyone --
          thank God I don't have to like everyone."
          http://www.nonviolence.org/wrl/

1998 - Denmark: Mass strike. Some 400,000 Danish workers
launched an indefinite strike yesterday. On the third day of
the strike of 500,000 private sector workers. The fear of the
employers is quite clear & the stock exchange falls.
http://www.infoshop.org/news2/denmark98_1.html


          "The most violent element in society is ignorance."

                                                 — Emma Goldman


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