See Daily Bleed Saints Gallery page, http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/saints/StBlakeWilliam.htm


1817 -- French grammarian, encyclopedist, lexicographer Pierre Larousse lives.


1845 -- George Saintsbury lives, Southampton, Hampshire. English literary historian & critic of the early 20th century. Wonderfully eccentric in his views; gifted with a perfect ear; author of History of English Prosody (in three thick volumes); Historical Manual of English Prosody; A History of English Prose Rhythm; A Short History of English Literature; History of French Literature; Notes on a Cellar-book (a noted oenophile), & known as "The Leviathan" because he seems to have read everything.


1850 -- US: First National Women's Rights convention, Worcester, Mass.



1874 -- Germany: Otto Rühle lives (1874-1943), Großvoigtsberg bei Freiberg in Sachsen. Left council communist of the Spartacist League (anti-Leninist; it included Liebknecht, Luxemburg, Mehring, et al.; much in common with libertarian communism & most strains of anarchism,)

& what does this wonderful standard design look like ?

"The revolution is a party affair. The State is a party affair. Dictatorship is a party affair. Socialism is a party affair."

& moreover:

"The party is discipline. The party is iron discipline. The party is the power of the leaders. The party is the most rigorous centralism. The party is militarism. The party is iron militarism, absolute, the most rigorous."

Translated concretely this design means:

Up above the leaders, down below the masses.

Above: authority, bureaucracy, personality cult, dictatorship of the leaders, power to the headquarters.

Below: blind obedience, subordination, stand to attention.

— Otto Rühle, "Moscow & Us," Die Aktion, 18 September 1920.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_R%C3%BChle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_communism

"Andre Lorulot, a leading French individualist before the First World War, was then a leading freethinker for half a century."

— Nicolas Walter, "Anarchism & Religion"

"Pessimism is for man as winter is with nature. Yet the worst cold never prevented spring from returning, nor the summer to mature the harvests, & most abundant always will be those of strong men & free spirits... " — Marcel Body, Un piano en bouleau de Carélie

1899 -- Emily Kimbrough lives, Muncie, Indiana. Wrote, with Cornelia Otis Skinner, Our Hearts Were Young & Gay.


1902 -- Kristmann Guomundsson lives. Icelandic writer, published over 30 novels. Best-known for books of romantic fiction, several written in Norwegian. With Gunnar Gunnarsson (1901-1983) & Halldór Killian Laxness (1902-) among the first internationally known Icelandic authors.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/kristman.htm


1903 -- US: First attempt to test anti-anarchist immigration act: At an event at Murray Hill Lyceum, where Emma Goldman is scheduled to speak, English anarchist John Turner is arrested & charged with promoting anarchism & violating alien labor laws. Turner was "detained" on Ellis Island until his deportation, with the words "Let freedom ring" burning in his ears.
(Turner was eventually booted out of the country for his anarchist views.)
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1906 -- Jonathan Latimer lives.

American hard-boiled mystery writer, noted for his Bill Crane series, described as an "alcoholic private detective," but who represents more accurately the "screwball-comedy" school of the 1930s mystery fiction.

Latimer wrote also screenplays, notably Dashiell Hammett's The Glass Key.

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/latimer.htm
http://www.thrillingdetective.com/eyes.html



1909 -- US: Emma Goldman marches in a parade of 600 anarchists & socialists in New York City to protest Francisco Ferrer's execution (on October 13th, in Spain).


1914 -- US: Emma Goldman returns to Chicago for a series of propaganda & modern drama lectures (October 23-November 15), delivered in both English & Yiddish.

General topics include war, women & culture. Emma's's series on European dramatists is expanded. She describes the audience of her Chicago Press Club luncheon lecture on "The Relationship of Anarchism to Literature" as "500 hard-faced men."

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Part of an orchestrated crackdown on the best revolutionary syndicalist militants during this period, marked by targeted arrests & murders.

http://www.manelaisa.com/texto/Articulos/PagArticulos9.htm
http://www.kehuelga.org/biblioteca/eco/03calle.htm

"I can still see the reproachful look he [Trotsky] gave Rivera when the latter maintained (which was hardly extravagant) that drawing had been in decline since the cave period..."

— André Breton, Radio Interview with André Parinaud, 1952
http://www.corpse.org/archives/issue_5/critical_urgencies/elias.htm

See Heroes & Martyrs: Emma Goldman, Sacco & Vanzetti, & the Revolutionary Struggle, an audio CD by Howard Zinn
Sacco & Vanzetti Timeline
http://infoshop.org/page/Sacco-Vanzetti
http://www.torremaggiore.com/saccoevanzetti/storia.html


1927 -- Surrealist poet Philip Lamantia lives (d.2005), Frisco, California.

Expelled from a junior high school for “intellectual delinquency,” Lamantia discovered Surrealism as a teenager. Immediately drawn to this movement, he began to write poetry & left California for NY to meet Andre Breton, who recognized his talent & began publishing his poems. Lamantia's work appeared in Breton's VVV, as well as Charles Henri Ford's View & other experimental journals.

Married to Nancy Peters, a surrealist poet & co-owner, with Lawrence Ferlinghetti, of City Lights Books publishers.

http://www.litkicks.com/PhilipLamantia/
http://www.citylights.com/
http://www.rooknet.com/beatpage/writers/lamantia.html
http://info.interactivist.net/node/4259

"The years between 50 & 70 are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things & yet are not decrepit enough to turn them down."

http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/9824/

Saint of the Sinuous Sensuous.

Josephine Baker rummaged for coal behind Union Station & for food behind Soulard Market in St. Louis. At age 13 she waitressed at the Chauffeurs' Club on Pine Street & danced with a minstrel band.

In 1925 she went to Paris with the Revue Negre. Baker starred in the Folies-Bergere the next season & became one of France's best-loved entertainers. During WWII, she was a heroine of the Resistance, earning the Legion d'Honneur.

A French citizen, she remained an activist for civil rights in the US. On her death in 1975, Baker was given an unprecedented state funeral in Paris.

http://www.stlouiswalkoffame.org/

250,000 people, many students, workers & soldiers, demonstrate in Budapest in support of the insurrection in Poland, demanding reforms in Hungary. Security police fire into the unarmed demonstrators, killing several. The first Budapest councils form.

The anomaly is the proletariat rising up against the "dictatorship of the proletariat." Some wiseacres argue this is impossible, the proletariat cannot rise up against itself. The Russians & remaining Hungarian party hacks find themselves in the odd position of being counter-revolutionaries & are only able to regain power with the intervention of Russian tanks & soldiers.

Unfortunately the US government, Radio Free America, CIA & others have long been telling Hungarians that if they rose up & threw off their communist-style capitalist shackles for their capitalist ones, they would be helped by the "free" West. Instead they were left helpless in the cauldron.

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Organized by Jeff Dietrich & Kent Hoffman from the Ammon Hennancy House (a Catholic Worker House in Los Angeles; Catholic Worker Houses were inspired by christian anarchists, such as Dorothy Day, Peter Maurin & Ammon Hennacy). With grassroots organizing, & resistance despite jail time, the Arms Bazaar was forced to flee to Europe, where it met similar resistance & protests.

[Source: Jeff Dietrich, Reluctant Resister (Greensboro: Unicorn Press, 1983).

US Marines have been there since 1958, when 5,000 were sent to as a "peace-keeping" force to "protect" the elected government from threatened overthrow); In February, former actor & FBI informant Ronald Reagan removes all Marines from Lebanon.

Despite terrifying rumors his replacement will be Orrin Hatch, Robert Bork is rejected by the largest Senate margin ever, 58-42. Says one observer of Bork's failure to win over undecided senators,

...upon hearing that we (a group of white people) were against the installation of cameras in front of their homes — they were willing, even eager to speak on camera. One of these residents, a man named Preston, told us that his son was murdered by the police a year ago & near the very place at which the SCP performed. http://www.notbored.org/ap.html

"A Criminal is a person with predatory instincts without sufficient capital to form a corporation."

— Clarence Darrow

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