A-Infos (en) Daily Bleed: 7/20 Armondo Borghi, Drew Ali, Francisco Ascaso, Albert Meltzer (excerpts)

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1874 - Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader General Custer & first
official exploring expedition enters Black Hills with 110 wagons
& 1,000 men, in direct violation of treaty of 1868  (. . .)

1920 - Italy: Arrest papers issued in Milan for Armondo Borghi,
the general secretary of the Unione Sindicale Italiana.(. . .)

1925 - Algerian psychiatrist & revolutionist Frantz Fanon lives (. . .)

1929 - Moorish Orthodox leader Noble Drew Ali dies, in Chicago (. . .)
The Moorish Orthodox Catechism, then, consists of no rules or
dogmas, but only of adherence to the "Five Pillars" of
Moorish Science as listed by Noble Drew:
LOVE TRUTH  PEACE FREEDOM JUSTICE
to which we add a sixth, "Beauty".
This bud opens into the red rose,
(. . .)

1934 - US: 67 strikers wounded in Minneapolis truckers' strike.

1936 - Spain: In Barcelona, following the fascist uprising by
Franco & the military against the Republic yesterday, the workers
of the CNT & POUM counterattacked (. . .)
anarchist Francisco Ascaso is killed (. . .)

1948 - US indicts 12 Communist Party leaders, charging them with
advocating overthrow of government.(. . .)

1951 - Mattachine Society, early gay rights organization,
formally organizes in California.

1956 - All-Vietnamese election to reunite the country, scheduled
for today by the Geneva agreements, fails to take place. (. . .)

1956 - Relationships between U.S. government & Siletz tribe are
terminated, leaving no recognized Indian tribes in western Oregon.

1964 - Brooklyn Negro uprising two days after riots in Harlem

1970 - US: National Chicano Moratorium Committee march & rally
draw 5,000 people in Houston, Texass.

1971 - FDA confesses the Bon Vivant plant which  produced the
botulism-ridden can of vichyssoise (. . .)

1971 - First labor contract in the history of the federal
government signed (. . .)

"I mock thee not, though I by thee am mockéd.
Thou call'st me madman, but I call thee blockhead"

                    ---William Blake

1979 - Native American political prisoner Leonard Peltier escapes
Lompoc federal penitentiary, California (. . .)

1979 - Neil Mitchell becomes first Catholic conscientious
objector jailed in South Africa (. . .)

1996 - British anarchist Albert Meltzer's ashes scattered (. . .)

1997 - Launch of the USS Seawolf, flagship for a new series of
attack submarines of the same name, is accompanied by protests &
25 arrests. Groton, Conn.

anti-copyrite 1999
---
Dave Brown
Entries excerpted / abbreviated from today's Daily Bleed...
("History mom & pop forgot to tell you!").

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