Our Daily Bleed...
The river I have under my tongue,
Unimaginable water, my little boat,
And curtains lowered, let's speak.— Paul Eluard 1895-1952, "The River"
NICK DRAKE
Incomparable British pop-folk & protest composer/balladeer.
http://www.algonet.se/~iguana/DRAKE/NDlinks.html
BUY NOTHING DAY.
Suriname: INDEPENDENCE DAY (1975).
England: CATHERNING DAY: traditionally, young women make merry today.
FESTIVAL OF SHADOW ECONOMIES.
1500 -- Spain: Columbus returns after his third voyage to the New World, in chains. Too little, too late.
[Source: Robert Braunwart] [Hereafter noted with symbol:
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1562 -- Lope de Vega lives. Prolific playwright, pioneer of Spanish drama, author of as many as 1800 plays & several hundred shorter dramatic pieces, of which about 500 of his productions have been printed. Vega's own life was as dramatic as his plays: many love affairs brought him both notoriety & problems with the law, resulting in prison terms & exile.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/lopevega.htm
1715 -- First English patent granted to an American, for processing porn.
1783 -- US: Nearly three months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris ending the American War for Independence, the last British soldiers evacuate New York City, their last military position. Following the withdrawal of the last British soldier, American General George Washington enters the city in triumph.
1817 -- Author John Bigelow lives.
1853 -- John Gibson Lockhart, lawyer, novelist (Peter's Letters to his Kinfolk, a clever portrait of Edinburgh society), & critic (Memoirs of the Life of Scott, for many years the standard work), dies & is buried at Dryburgh Abbey at Sir Walter Scott's feet.
1857 -- American adventurer William Walker launched a new invasion of a Central American country. The invasion failed. Deposed as dictator of Nicaragua, Walker was returned, a prisoner, to New York.
1867 -- Alfred Nobel invents dynamite. Later, feeling bad, he invents Nobles.
BleedsterScott notes:
Noble used to test the efficacy of various formulations of nitroglycerin by placing a drop on an anvil & hitting it with a sledgehammer. While testing a particularly virulent batch his brother was killed. Alfred went into seclusion for several years.
His grief over this incident & press depictions of him as a merchant of death led him to create the Nobel Prize.
1880 -- Leonard Woolf lives, London. Political writer who marries Virginia Stephen in 1912, & together they start Hogarth Press in 1917.
library.vicu.utoronto.ca/exhibitions/bloomsbury/index.htm
http://www.walrus.com/~gibralto/acorn/germ/Bloomsbury.html
1883 --
Guy de Maupassant story "La Ficelle" (A Piece of String) is published. 1884 --
Jean Lébédeff lives (1884-1970). Illustrator, anarchiste. His book illustrations of Kropotkin, Ferrer, etc., are well-known. He was included in the 2003 Erich Mühsam exhibition in Germany, which included original art also by Augusts Herbin, George Grosz, Klaus Böttger, Karl George Deer & Herweg Zens. See Jean Lébédeff, Les Paris,imaginaires (Plasma, 1979).http://www.ephemanar.net/novembre25.html
1889 -- Resat Nuri Güntekin lives. A prolific Turkish novelist, short-story writer, journalist, & playwright, his best-known work is the novel Cahkusu (1922), a picaresque tale combining romance with realistic description of Anatolia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Re%C5%9Fat_Nuri_G%C3%BCntekin
1897 -- Spain: The "Carta Autonómica" is approved, conceding political & administrative autonomy to Puerto Rico. Allows the island to retain its representation in the Spanish Cortes, & provides for a bicameral legislature. This legislature consisted of a Council of Administration with eight elected & seven appointed members, & a Chamber of Representatives with one member for every 25,000 inhabitants.
1904 -- France: Jehan Mayoux lives, Charente. Teacher, pacifist, antimilitarist, anarchist, poet.
Mayoux refused mobilization in 1939, costing him his teaching papers & five years in prison. He escaped but was recaptured by the Germans & sent to a camp in the Ukraine. Reinstated as a teacher after the war, & he became a friend of Surrealist poet Benjamin Péret.
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1904 -- Ba Jin (aka Pa Chin [pseud. of Li Feigan]) lives (1904-2005). Chinese novelist, discovered anarchism with the reading of Peter Kropotkin & Emma Goldman & created his pseudonym Ba (from Bakunin ) & Jin (from Kropotkin). Cruelly persecuted, but finally, in the decade of Deng Xiao-ping's reforms, he was elected honorary chairman of Chinese Writers' Association. Elected a contender for the 2001 Nobel Prize.
Ba Jin was constantly harrassed by the Communists, & in 1949, was forced by them to rewrite his stories, removing or replacing all anarchist references with Communist ones.
& in 1966 he was again in disgrace, branded,
& his writings were condemned as seditious.
"A great poisonous weed"
1910 -- France: Jules Durand (1880-1926), anarchist & revolutionary trade unionist, is sentenced to death in Le Havre, a victim of corrupt witnesses & smears by the local press.
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His case is retried in 1918 & he is fully exonerated. Unfortunately, he is now insane from being kept subdued in a strait jacket for 40 days....
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1910 --
Leonid N. Andreyev play "Anathema" opens in Yiddish, NY. 
1911 -- México: Tierra y Libertad demonstration, which includes the anarquista Emiliano Zapata. Zapata lanza el Plan de Ayala (still considered the most radical reform program in Mexican history).
"It is better to die on your feet
than to live on your knees."
1911 --
China: Revolutionaries bomb Nanking. 1912 -- Francis Durbridge lives. English tv, radio, & mystery writer whose best known series character is Paul Temple & his wife Steve.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/durbrid.htm
1912 -- Italy: The Unione Sindacale Italiana (USI) anarcho-syndicalist union, meeting since the 23rd, formally founded, in Modena. Within a year it has nearly 100,000 members.
In Italian, French, Spanish, English:
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/4737/
1912 -- George Bernard Shaw play "Androcles & the Lion" premiers, Berlin.
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/goldman/socsig/shawintro.html
1913 -- Physician/writer Lewis Thomas (The Lives of a Cell) lives, Flushing, New York.
1914 -- Thomas Hardy play "The Dynasts" opens in London.
1917 -- Germany: Peace demonstrations in Berlin, Halle, Leipzig, Mannheim, Stettin & elsewhere.
1918 --
Russia: Second All-Russian Conference of Anarcho-syndicalists meets in Moscow (November 25-December 1).
Source: http://www.anarchosyndicalism.net/archive/text/bolsheviks
1919 -- US: Amid a strike for union recognition by 395,000 steelworkers (ultimately unsuccessful), approximately 250 "anarchists," "communists," & "labor agitators" were deported to Russia yesterday, marking the onset of the so-called "Red Scare."
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Goldman/Guide/chronology2040.html
The United States:
"a country where truth is tarred & feathered, lynched, imprisoned, clubbed, & expatriated as undesirable...— George Bernard Shaw (1925)
1919 -- US: Department of Labor orders antiwar activist & anarchist Alexander Berkman's deportation to Russia. Emma Goldman's deportation order follows on Nov. 29. Their lawyer Weinberger meets in Washington, D.C., with immigration officials, including Anthony Caminetti & Assistant Secretary of Labor Louis F. Post.
1921 -- Novelist & radical Nathanael West flunks out of Tufts, where he got in by falsifying his high school transcripts. Befriended many struggling writers & artists as a hotel clerk. Wrote Day of the Locust.
As a young lad in the Navy, BleedMeister marks his interest in literature to finding a copy of Miss Lonelihearts buried in a locker (we later discovered it was the "ships' library"). This was in the olden days, when the Rolling Stones only had one album....[I'm a king bee baby, buzzin round your hive...]
http://www.literarytraveler.com/literary_articles/nathanael_west.aspx
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/nwest.htm
1922 -- Ex-libertarian socialist & syndicalist Benito Mussolini made dictator of Italy.
1922 -- US: Marcus Garvey electrifies a crowd at Liberty Hall in NY city as he states the goals & principles of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA):
"We represent peace, harmony, love, human sympathy, human rights & human justice...we are marshaling the four hundred million Negroes of the world to fight for the emancipation of the race & for the redemption of the country of our fathers."
1924 -- Mauri Sariola lives. Wrote also as Esko Laukko. Prolific Finnish mystery writer, who gained international fame with his inspector Susikoski stories.
http://www.dlc.fi/~sariola/
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/msariola.htm
1941 -- Annie Mae Bullock is born in Nutbush, Tennessee. Meets Ike Turner in the early 1950's at a Saint Louis club. In 1959, form the Ike & Tina Turner Revue. Breaks with him & goes on to a more successful solo career, with multiplatinum album "Private Dancer" & five Grammy awards.
1946 -- US: Supreme Court awards $1.3 million to the Siletz, Alsea, Yaquina & Neschesne tribes for illegally taken Oregon lands. (United States v. Alcea Band of Tillamooks, 329 U.S. 40 (1946))
1947 -- US: The Hollywood Ten is blacklisted.
| Until "TailGunner" McCarthy's investigation of the Army, no probe wins such headlines as congress' attempt to show Hollywood heretics are infusing "un-American ideas" (& you know what they are) into films. 19 were subpoenaed for the Hollywood session, but Parnell Thomas postponed nine, including Humphrey Bogart, John Huston & Lauren Bacall, fearing they would truthfully answer questions regarding their political affiliations. | Ginger Roger's mother testified her daughter had been asked to say in a film, |  |
http://www.weeklywire.com/ww/11-17-97/boston_books_2.html
http://www.chicagoreader.com/movies/archives/0896/08096a.html
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/july-dec97/blacklist_10-24.html
http://www.moderntimes.com/blacklist/
1949 -- Bill "Mr. Bojangles" Robinson finally touches down, Los Angeles.BILL ROBINSON 1997 & 1999 Jubilee Saint
"Mr. Bojangles." Roustabout, tap dancer par excellence.http://www.reelclassics.com/Actors/Bojangles/bojangles.htm
Capo 2nd Fret (or not)
C B/C Am C/G F G
HE SAID I DANCE NOW
AT EVERY CHANCE IN HONKY TONKS
FOR DRINKS & TIPSBUT MOST THE TIME I SPEND
BEHIND THESE COUNTRY BARS
FOR I DRINKS A BITHE SHOOK HIS HEAD
& AS HE SHOOK HIS HEAD
I HEARD SOMEONE ASK PLEASEchorus;
Am G Am G Am G C
MISTER BOJANGLES
MISTER BOJANGLES
MISTER BOJANGES DANCE— Jerry Jeff Walker
http://www.kathleenacademy.com/funzone/bojangls.html
http://www.jerryjeff.com/
http://www.guitarsite.com/database/Tablature/rec/2843/wwwboard/messages/8.shtml
1949 -- US: St. Louis chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) presses a sit-in campaign designed to end segregation in downtown St. Louis facilities.
1952 -- Kenya: Mau Mau revolt.
Source: 'Calendar Riots'
1956 -- Belgium: At its foundation in Brussels, the Alliance Ouvriere Anarchiste (AOA) adopts the "circled-A" symbol.@ Circle-AThe origin of the "circled-A" as an anarchist symbol is less clear.
Many think that it started in the 1970s punk movement, but it goes back to a much earlier period...
US: Wars Go Better With Coke? Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Lt. Col. Oliver North fired by the Reagan White House for being too.....Ollie. Can't spell Nuremberg? Bill Clinton takes heart: Ollie was never actually imprisoned for lying to Congress.
Today, Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader US Attorney General Meese reveals Oliver North's covert operation to divert profits from illegal Iranian arms sales to Nicaraguan contras; Lt. Col. Oliver North resigns from the National Security Council; North's secretary Fawn Hall steals documents from sealed NSC offices in the White House by hiding them inside her skirt; national security adviser Adm. Poindexter resigns (I'll be back!); CIA agent Alan Fiers tells Congress he knew nothing about the diversion of Iran arms money to the contras (a lie).
