A-Infos (en) Daily Bleed: 7/14 Luddites, Durruti, Guthrie, Sacco & Vanzetti, Goldman, Mayoux, Nicolas Walter (excerpts)

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1789 - Storming of the Bastille heralds the French Revolution. (. . .)
1798 - Federalist-sponsored Sedition Act (. . .)

1811 - Luddites break machines at Sunnon-in-Ashuano.

            "Life was better before sliced bread" (. . .)

1877 - General strike halted the movement of U.S. railroads (. . .)

1881 - Billy "The Kid" Bonney shot & killed (. . .)

1896 - Spanish anarchist leader Buenaventura Durruti lives,

        "We have always lived in slums & holes in the wall." (. . .)

1912 - Woody Guthrie, peoples' songwriter, lives, Oklahoma (. . .)

1916 - Tristan Tzara delivers the first Manifesto of Dada inZürich.

"At a surrealist rally in the 1920s Tristan Tzara the man from
nowhere proposed to create a poem on the spot by pulling words
out of a hat. A riot ensued wrecked the theater. Andre Breton
expelled Tristan Tzara from the movement & grounded the cut- ups
on the Freudian couch

--- William S. Burroughs (. . .)

1916 - Federal authorities, mid-July, demand removal of the
office of the anarchist journal "Mother Earth" from its location (. . .)

1921 - Sacco & Vanzetti declared guilty by a jury (. . .)

1932 - International Peace Garden established (. . .)

1935 - 7,000 "Peace Pledgers" rally in Albert Hall, London,
Britain.

1937 - Emma Goldman, on or about this day, writes the
introduction to a new commemorative edition of Alexander
Berkman's “ABC of Anarchism” (. . .) views "Fury Over Spain,"(. . .)
considers organizing a public showing of the film to raise funds
for Mujeres Libres.

1969 - US: Berkeley; park activists storm People's Park.

1975 - Jehan Mayoux dies. Teacher, pacifist, antimilitarist,
anarchist. (. . .)

1983 - Earth First! & the Oregon Natural Resources Council
granted preliminary injunction against building of the Bald
Mountain Road, after over 40 arrests.

1983 - French freeze movement launched in meetings at Larzac.

1986 - Jorge Luis Borges dies (. . .)

1991 - England: Nicolas Walter delivers talk on "Anarchism &
Religion" (. . .)

1998 - Australia:  118 people arrested at the site of the
Jabiluka uranium mine (. . .)

1998 - US: Free radio supporters rally in Eugene & Portland (. . .)


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This song is almost always sung as a patriotic song, which is why
the last three stanzas are usually deleted (. . .)

This Land is Your Land (in D)
Woody Guthrie (. . .)
--
Dave Brown
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