Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 08:36:58 -0800
Subject: [fyi]Daily Bleed: 1/19 LYSANDER SPOONER


Daily Bleed, web page in full glorious color & mostly updated:
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0119.htm

excerpts,

JANUARY 19 --  LYSANDER SPOONER.
American utopianist, radical, individualist anarchist.
Member of the First International.

ARTIST AS OUTLAW DAY.

TENDERNESS TOWARD EXISTENCE DAY.


1764 -- English radical John Wilkes expelled from the House
of Commons for libel. Byron paints a comic portrait of him
in The Vision of Judgement.

1808 -- Utopian, individualist anarchist Lysander Spooner
lives. Massachusetts abolitionist & anti-monopolist.
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bright/Spooner/index.html
http://www.lysanderspooner.org/

               1809 -- Edgar Allan Poe lives,
               Boston, where his itinerant
               actor-parents are performing. He is
               orphaned three years later.
               http://www.poedecoder.com/Qrisse/
               http://bau2.uibk.ac.at/sg/poe/poe.html

1812 -- Quaking Oats? Luddites torch Oatlands Mill in
Yorkshire, England.

1839 -- Artist Paul Cézanne lives.

   In "Manhattan", Woody Allen's despondent character
   Isaac is listing reasons to live.

   One of them is Cézanne's pears.

   Cézanne's still-lifes (the French call them natures mortes)
   are food for eye & the soul.

1865 -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon dies. Early French anarchist
 philosopher/economist, author of What is Property?

                            His famous  answer?

                              "Property is theft!"

                http://www.radio4all.org/anarchy/pierre.html

               Why do anarchists drink herbal tea?

                     According to Chef Pierre-Joseph,

                          "Proper-Tea is theft!"

      [So sorry. With the editor's apologies. Way very sorry]

1889 -- Sophie Taeuber-Arp lives, Davos, Switzerland.
 Started an independent artistic career in 1916, which leads
 her to contacts with the Dadaists in Zürich. Married Hans
 Arp in 1921 (who gave up art for chess).

1908 -- US: Fire burns down building housing office,
printing plant, book stock at Benjamin  Tucker's Unique
Bookshop (a hotbed of individualist anarchism). Along
with books, Tucker, also published the journal
Liberty (1891-1907).

   BENJAMIN TUCKER
   American individualist anarchist, publisher, journalist.
   His philosophical conceptions combined those of
   Proudhon with those of Herbert Spencer.

http://flag.blackened.net/daver/anarchism/tucker/
http://www.lib.umich.edu/spec-coll/tucker.htm
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bright/bright.html

1912 -- Armand Robin (1912-1961) lives, Plouguernével,
Brittany. French translator, writer/poet, anarchist. See
Daily Bleed Gallery page at
http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/sinners/ArmandRobin.htm

1916 -- Brion Gysin (1916-1986) arrives, Here to Go.

                              BRION GYSIN
                              Innovative painter, inventor
                              cut-up writing
                              technique.

1920 -- InDOLElent?: Led by the Filipino Federation of Labor,
3,000 Filipino workers on the plantations of Oahu, Hawaii,
go on strike. Their ranks swell to 8,300 when Japanese
workers organized by the Japanese Federation of Labor
join the strike.

1921 -- Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) lives. American
mystery writer, whose works have been especially successful
in Europe.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/highsm.htm

1932 -- Spain: Armed miners' uprising in
Barcelona region in response to anarchist
uprisings in Catalonia. "Libertarian
communism" declared, including the
abolition of money & property, followed by
general strikes & armed uprisings
throughout Spain over the next five days.

   This mining town I live in is a sad & lonely place
   Where pity & starvation is pictured on every face!

   Some coal operators might tell you the hungry
   blues are not there.
   They're the worst kind of blues this poor woman
   ever had.

   ^× Aunt Molly Jackson, mother, miner's wife,
        songster, "Ragged Hungry Blues"
http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/spain/pam_intro.html
http://athena.english.vt.edu/~appalach/writersM/protestsongs.html

1932 -- George Mann MacBeth lives, Shotts,
Lanarkshire, Scotland. Poet whose verses encompass
moving personal elegies, highly contrived poetic jokes,
dream fantasies, & macabre satires. Published his first poetry
collection, A Form of Words in 1954.

1939 -- US: Capitalism in Action? Ernest Hausen of
Wisconsin sets chicken-plucking record-4.4 seconds.

1941 -- Paul Reclus (son of Elie, nephew of famed geographer
& anarchist Élisée) dies, Montpellier, France. Anarchist
militant, engineer & professor. Signed the infamous
Manifeste de seize, favoring support for the allies
during WWI.
 http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/sinners/manifesto16.htm
 http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bright/reclus/reclus.html

1943 -- Janis Joplin of Big Brother & the Holding
Company lives.

                           JANIS JOPLIN:

   ^ÓFreedom^Òs just another word for nothin^Ò left to lose.^Ô

    "Don't Compromise Yourself -- It's All You Got!"

                    http://www.bbhc.com/BigBrother.htm


1966 --US: Democracy in Action?

                                      Georgia State
                                      House of
                                      Representatives
                                      refuses to seat
                                      black State
                                      Representative
                                      Julian Bond
                                      because of his
                                      opposition to the
                                      war in Vietnam;
                                      he is not admitted
                                      until January 1967.

1970 -- US: The first organizing meeting of
the Seattle Liberation Front (SLF) is
convened by Michael Lerner, a professor at
the University of Washington.

   The group consists primarily of collectives
   with colorful names such as the "Zapata
   Collective", the "Hydra Collective," etc.
   AuntieDave is a member of one of them
   ("For the Time Being").

1971 -- US: Indian fishing rights organizer Hank Adams is shot
 in the  stomach by white vigilantes Tacoma, Washington. Police
never pursued the  case.

  "The Indian was a child & a dangerous child," wrote
  a Washington state Supreme Court justice in 1916. His
  words would have warmed even Ayn Rand's icy heart:

             "Neither Rome nor Britain ever dealt more
             liberally with their subject races than we with these
             savage tribes, whom it was generally tempting
             & always easy to destroy."

             http://kohary.simplenet.com/env/bill_020799.html
             See "The Covert War Against Native Americans"
             by Ward Churchill,
                http://www.dickshovel.com/covertwar.html

1983 -- Bolivia: Klaus Barbie, the Nazi Gestapo chief in
Lyons, France, during the German occupation, arrested on
charges of crimes committed against humanity four decades
earlier. As chief of Nazi Germany's secret police in occupied
France, Barbie sent thousands of French Jews & French
Resistance members to their deaths in concentration camps,
while torturing, abusing, or executing many others.

     Barbie works for the US after the war,
     & which helps him escape to South America.

                         ...The man in the river

                         wears a white shirt, dark pants & sprawls
                         as if sleeping while water riffles his hair.
                         This is a photograph from the coup or golpe,

                         meaning also hit or shock -- just one death
                         from thirty thousand...

                         ---Stephen Dobyns, "Paco"

                    http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/dobyns.htm

1999 -- Greece: Vasilis Evangelidis, teacher & anarchist,
announces a hunger strike to protest his imprisonment
in solidarity with the student protest  movement, occupations
& demonstrations across the country.

      "When the struggles go beyond passivity, compromise &
      trade-unionism, then the system reveals its real face:
      terrorism, violence, repression."

---anti-copyRite 3000 & thereabouts.