A-Infos (en) Daily Bleed: 1/22 Coeurderoy, Michel, Bloody Sunday (excerpts)

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1825 - Ernest Coeurderoy lives, in Avallon (Yonne). Intern,
writer, anarchistic Socialist forced into exile because of his
radical positions. Wrote numerous books based on his
experiences: “Jours d'exil; De la révolution dans l'homme et
dans la société; Hurrah! Ou la révolution par les Cosaques”.
Other announced books were never published, as he committed
suicide (25?) October 1862.
http://perso.club-internet.fr/ytak/janvier4.html#22

1855 - US: At Dayton, in Oregon Territory, the few remaining
Kalapuya bands in Willamette Valley cede the rest of their lands.

1858 - British Fabian socialist socialite Beatrice Webb lives.

1871 - France: For the first time, anarchist Louise Michel,
armed with a rifle, takes a shot against the Breton mobiles of
Trochu in front of the Town hall.

1879 - Zululand: British troops massacred at Isandhlwana.

1879 - Francis Picabia, surrealist, lives.

Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than
an animal disguised as a god.
http://www.virgin.fr/html/us/smart/musee/dada_2.html

"La plus belle invention
 de l'homme est le bicarbonate de soude"
Francis Picabia
http://www.saem-ales.fr/culture/PicabiaSymbole.french.html

1888 - France: Attempt to kill Louise Michel, in Paris,
results in her being wounded. She testified for her attacker,
arguing for his acquittal.  http://perso.club-
internet.fr/ytak/janvier4.html#22

1903 - US gets a 99-year lease & sovereignty over the Panama
Canal after engineering a coup in favor of US takeover.

1905 - Bloody Sunday, massacre of demonstrators in St.
Petersburg, Russia: government troops open fire on 100,000
workers, women & children, who came to petition the Tzar for
improved working & living conditions. Leaves more than 1,000
demonstrators dead & 3,000 wounded. It is the beginning of the
first Russian revolution. Tomorrow, the anarchist Voline forms
part of the first Soviet, created to assist the victims of repression.

As Teufelsdrockh suggested, what would man be -- what would
any man be -- without his clothes? As soon as one stops &
thinks over that proposition, one realizes that without his
clothes a man would be nothing at all; that the clothes do not
merely make the man, the clothes are the man; that without
them he is a cipher, a vacancy, a nobody, a nothing.

—  Mark Twain, “The Czar's Soliloquy”, "North American Review" (March
1905).
http://marktwain.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa042997.htm

1905 - France: Burial of Louise Michel. A procession of over
100,000 people accompany her coffin to the Levallois cemetery
where she is buried. The Lepine prefect, who tried to follow
the procession, was driven off by the anarchists. Benoît
Broutchoux & Charles Malato spoke at the massive gathering in
the final graveside ceremony.

1912 - US troops begin occupation of Tientsin, China, "to
protect American interests."

1932 - 500 New York City tenants battle police to prevent evictions.

1960 - Cuba: Labor Law no. 696 issued, establishing labor
control offices. All workers -- employed & unemployed -- are
required to register under threat of punishment.
http://www.cs.utah.edu/~galt/cuba.html

1967 - 200 killed by Somoza's National Guard during protest
against state violence, Managua, Nicaragua.

1968 - B-52 crashes near Thule, Greenland, scattering
radioactive fragments of four hydrogen bombs over the terrain.

1971 - John Lennon & Yoko Ono record "Power to the People"
which goes on to reach number 11 on the charts.

1973 - Roe v. Wade legal -abortion decision reached by U.S. Supreme
court.

Every sperm is sacred,
every sperm is great.
And if a sperm gets wasted,
god gets quite irate.

           -- Monty Python's “The Meaning of Life”

1973 - World Council of Churches announces South African divestment.

1991 - El Salvador: Fifteen villagers massacred by U.S.-
supported government troops, El Zapote.

1991 - US: 14 ACT-UP AIDS activists arrested while
simultaneously disrupting CBS, NBC & PBS evening news
broadcasts with "Fight AIDS, not Arabs" banners.
Members burst onto the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather & the
Public Broadcasting System's MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour.

At CBS's studios, as title graphics cover the screen
during the first seconds of the live show, Rather's regular
voice-over is accompanied by a boisterous chorus, "Fight AIDS,
not Arabs!" The cameras switch to the anchor's startled face,
but gay novelist John Wier darts into the frame and screams
the slogan again.

CBS technicians jump to tackle Wier, but three other ACT UP
commentators join him. Staring straight ahead, Rather says,
(quote) "We're going to go to a commercial now." The shouting
continues, & the veteran newscaster more urgently suggests a
break in the action. This chaos is followed not by a
commercial, but several seconds of black-screened silence.
Then Rather appears again to restart the show, calling his ACT
UP guests "rude." A few blocks away at PBS, the News Hour
suffers a similar terrorist action as seven loud ACT UP
members sit down in front of the cameras & chain themselves to
chairs & equipment during the live show.

1995 - Over 2,000 demonstrators in Moscow protest Chechen war.

1996 - US: 15 arrested at Rep. Norm Dicks' office in Tacoma,
Washington for protesting clear-cut logging under the salvage logging
rider.


    "And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside
    the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."


— Anais Nin


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