QUOTE OF THE DAY
History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity.
- - Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), Pro Publio Sestio
RHINO HERE:
A special Rhino's Blog today, highlighting the work of a Seattle based book store called, Recollection Used Books. The folks at Recollection have been compiling notes on the history of the world from their perspectives, date by date, year round. Their perspective being a left leaning, Emma Goldman loving, worker & labor respecting, imperialism hating, rock 'n' roll drenched & psychedelically influenced collective. That description is The Rhino's impression, having never met any of those responsible, but being a long time fan, relying on their archives as a primary source of information for Rhino's Blog's, "Know Your History" section.
More about Recollection Books At: http://www.recollectionbooks.com/intro.html
It should be noted that The Rhino doesn't agree with all the views expressed in those archives which seem to have been compiled by a loosely knit group of people with a variety of interests. In using the resource, I've borrowed what interested me, doing my best to check sources. But several times, the oft sardonic attitudes have slipped thru & gotten the Rhino in some hot cyber-water with his readers.
None the less, I hereby express my gratitude for their efforts & excerpt below, a few entries for the dates January 9, 10 & 11.
Recollection Used Books's Daily Bleed
A wake-up call better than boiled coffee!
A calendar of events your mom & pop forgot to tell you about...
The Daily Bleed is Available on the web at:
http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/calmast.htm
The Daily Bleed is updated everyday & appears daily(!) on the biblioManiac at:
http://www.abebooks.com/home/boojum/
KNOW YOUR HISTORY - Tidings Of Antiquity From "The Daily Bleed"
JANUARY 9th
1789 -- US: Treaty with the Wyandot, Delaware, Ottowa, Potawatomi, & Sauk is the first in the new U.S. to recognize Native Americans as independent "nations."
1942 -- A U.S. government press release says 40 percent more Native Americans have enlisted to fight in WWII than have been drafted. Altogether, 25,000 Indians served in the U.S. armed forces, including 800 women. In the Philippines, a Choctaw scout escaped from the Japanese at the battle of Corregidor, & lead underground guerrilla forces until the war ended. The Oneidas, Chippewas & Comanches blocked Japanese decoding of military information by dispatching messages in their tribal languages. Navajo Code Talkers were instrumental in the landing at Guadalcanal, where they sent & received reports from field commanders.
1964 -- Panama: Relations with US suspended after riots over American control of the Canal (see 18 December). US troops kill 23 protesters in Panama Canal Zone, target practice for "protecting US interests". Twenty-three boys are pumped full of lead trying to hoist the flag of Panama on Panamanian soil. Another flag flies over the slit across Panama. The Canal Zone, a North American Colony, is both a business & military base.
The School of the Americas' (aka, 'School of Assassins') courses are financed with the tolls ships pay. Pentagon officers teach anticommunist surgery to Latin American military men who will soon occupy presidencies, ministries, commands, & embassies.
"They are the leaders of the future," says Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Robert McNamara, US secretary of defense.
These military men will cut off the hands of anyone who dares commit agrarian reform or nationalization, & tear out the tongues of the impudent or the inquisitive. http://www.soaw.org/
1980 -- Saudi Arabia: 63 Islamic fundamentalists are executed for their part in the occupation of the Mecca's Great Mosque, historically the focus of Muslim worship. In November of 1979, armed fundamentalist rebels occupied the holy place, calling for the overthrow of the Saudi government. The government responded by sending troops to suppress the uprising, & after two weeks of fighting the siege ended, leaving 27 Saudi soldiers & over 100 rebels dead. In January of 1980, 63 more fundamentalist rebels were publicly beheaded.
The Great Mosque, or Haram, is located at the center of Mecca, the holiest city of Islam & the birthplace of Muhammad, the founder of then religion. Inside the religious structure is the Kaaba, an enormous cubic stone covered with black cloth that is said to have been built by Adam, & rebuilt by Abraham & the descendants of Noah.
JANUARY 10th
1776 -- Thomas Paine, American revolutionist, issues (anonymously) "Common Sense."
1870 -- US: Against unanimous opposition of his cabinet, Beloved & Respected President Grant proposes to Congress that the Dominican Republic be annexed to protect US interests. Must be the rum.
1914 -- US: Labor organizer/folk singer Joe Hill, coiner of the phrase "pie in the sky" allegedly kills two men during a grocery store hold-up; he will be executed for the crime amid much controversy regards his being framed, Salt Lake City, Utah.
1923 -- US: Four years after the end of World War I, Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President Warren G. Harding orders American occupation troops stationed in Germany to return home. In 1917, after several years of bloody stalemate along the Western Front, the entrance of America's well-supplied forces into World War I was a major turning point in the bloodbath. When it ended in November of 1918, over two million American soldiers had served on the battlefields of Western Europe, & over 50,000 of these men lost their lives.
1940 -- US: Brethren, Mennonites & Friends send message to Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President Frank Roosevelt asking for alternative service in event of war.
1957 -- US: Bombings of four Montgomery, Alabama, churches & two Negro leaders' homes. On the same day, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC, originally with another name) is founded. Martin Luther King, Jr. becomes its president, Atlanta, Georgia.
1968 -- Vietnam: The 10,000th US airplane is lost over Vietnam. What a wonderful waste of tax money; beats feeding & sheltering the poor & all those welfare cheats, or frittering it on education. [Source: WholeWorld is Watching]
1998 -- India: Over 20,000 villagers from the Narmada Valley of central India occupy the partially built site of the new, World Bank-funded Maheshwar Dam.
JANUARY 11
1804 -- The Sussex Examiner reports English poet & anarchist mystic William Blake was tried on charges of sedition for having insulted one of the King's soldiers & having said "Damn the king & damn his soldiers." Daily Bleed Saint.
1885 -- Alice Paul, first peace picketer at the White House, lives.
1903 -- South African novelist Alan Paton (Cry, the Beloved Country) lives, Pietermaritzburg. Founder & president of the Liberal Party (1953-68), which opposed apartheid & offered a non-racial alternative. The party was outlawed in 1968. http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/apaton.htm
1906 -- Albert Hofmann, chemist, lives, Switzerland. He inspires the slogan "Better Living Through Chemistry".
1908 -- South Africa: A prominent young lawyer, Mohandas Gandhi, is jailed for the first time, for refusing to register as an Asian. Johannesburg.
1912 -- US: Beginning of IWW-organized (Industrial Workers of the World) "Bread & Roses" textile strike of 32,000 women & children at Lawrence, Massachusetts. The first to walk out were a group of Polish women who, upon collecting their pay, exclaimed that they had been cheated & promptly abandoned their looms. The Lawrence Textile Strike of 1912 lasts 10 weeks & includes 32,000 textile workers, most of them unskilled, foreign-born, & many women. It begins after the legislature cuts maximum working hours for women & children from 56 to 54 hours per week, & the employers cut their pay along with the hours. The workers called in the IWW for help.
The name "Bread & Roses" comes from the title of a poem written by James Oppenheim in 1912 about the textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Ten thousand women and children marched against brutal working conditions, long hours and insufficient wages. The strike also inspired a massive "pageant" to publicize the strike, since newspapers like the NY Times refused to report on it, or simply sided with the owners against these ungrateful nasty strikers, many of whom were ignorant immigrants.
1964 -- Small Print?: U.S. Surgeon General declares cigarettes to be a "health hazard" in a report linking cigarette smoking & lung cancer.
1975 -- CIA (terrorists par excellence) assassinates two Puerto Rican independence activists, Luis Chavonnier & Eddie Ramos, also killing a six-year-old child & injuring 10 others.
1981 -- El Salvador: The Farabundo Marti Front for National Liberation launches a general offensive. In two days the guerrillas' political arm will call for a General Strike. By January 15th, about half the shops in the capital city, San Salvador, will be closed & 20,000 government workers walk out. On January 17th, the US invokes special executive powers to send 10 million dollars of military assistance to the Salvadoran regime. The aid package includes three military "advisor" teams.
On February 7th, the rebels call for a dialogue with the U.S. government to find a way to end the violence. The Reagan administration responds, but increases military aid to the Salvadoran government. When the guerrilla offensive runs out of steam, the rebels flee the cities. Having failed to overthrow the government, & having seen many of their civilian sympathizers liquidated by death squads, the guerrillas focus on a full-scale rural insurgency in the northern mountains.
"To make labor increasingly obedient & cheap... the poor countries need legions of executioners, torturers, inquisitors, jailers, & informers... "
- Eduardo Galeano, (Century of the Wind, p271)
1999 -- "It's like you're living in Vietnam. Something has got to give before I have a nervous breakdown."
- Katie Bell Oliver, a grandmother in Craven County, NC, who's attempting to raise four grandchildren on welfare. Oliver receives $272 per month for the three youngest children & a tiny disability check for the oldest; the family lives well below the federal poverty line. (Reported in the Washington Post Weekly, 1/11/99)
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