Daily Bleed
1894 -- Marius Monfray dies in Lyons. French anarchist & trade unionist. In
November 1886, he was given eight days in prison for organizing an illegal
lottery (in support for Bordat during the "Trial of the 66"). "Vive
l'anarchie!" was his response -- one that got him two years of prison time
for "contempt of court".
1898 -- Black postmaster lynched, his wife & 3 daughters shot, Lake City,
South Carolina.
1928 -- Ku Klux Klan announces that, as of today, it would discard its masks
& change its name to the "Knights of the Green Forest."
1930 -- Italy: Camillo Berneri sentenced to six months in prison.
The situation became more complicated when Carlo Rosselli & Emilio Dolci
managed to escape from Italian prisons & reach Paris.
A series of bombs exploded in Nice & in bars in Cannes. The responsibility
lay with the fascist régime, who expected the anarchists to be blamed,
forcing the French government to repatriate them.
In the meantime, Camillo Berneri had been preparing an 'attentat' on Alfredo
Rocco &endash;the man behind the infamous Rocco Penal Code &endash; during
his Brussels visit. Menapace arranged it so that Berneri would be arrested
in Belgium, in possession of a pistol & some photographs of the Minister of
Justice, Rocco. So, he was captured & Menapace returned to Rome. In court on
22nd February 1930, Berneri's friends were acquitted, but he himself was
sentenced to six months in prison, while Menapace was sentenced 'in
absentia' to two years, since it was accepted that he instigated the whole
thing.
Once back on the other side of the Franco-Belgian border, Berneri went
through a second trial for the same events & was sentenced to a year & two
months. He was given amnesty on 14th July 1931 & expelled from the country,
but, as he had already been declared undesirable ('persona non grata') in
the surrounding countries, Berneri was again able to stay in Paris.
http://www.municipio.re.it/manifestazioni/berneri/dopo.htm
http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/spain/berneri.html
1943 -- Germany: Sophie Scholl, a 22-year-old activist at Munich University,
is executed after being convicted of urging students to rise up & overthrow
the Nazi government.
1965 -- Sam Lovejoy cuts down weather tower for proposed nuclear plant,
Montague, Massachusetts. First act of civil disobedience against nuclear
power in US.
1966 -- US: Barry Bondhus dumps 10 pounds of his own shit on draft files.
1969 -- AFL-CIO Executive Council, meeting in Bal Harbour, Florida,
dismisses the concept of "black capitalism" as "apartheid, antidemocratic
nonsense."
1969 -- W. H. Auden, reviewing a biography of Alexander Pope, in The New
Yorker writes: "As I get older, & the times get gloomier & more difficult,
it is to poets like Horace & Pope that I find myself more & more turning for
the kind of refreshment I require."
1983 -- Four years after the Three-Mile-Island nuclear power plant meltdown,
the Salem-One reactor in Massachusetts almost causes another disaster when
its automatic-shutdown system fails.
The circuit breakers are supposed to trigger control rods that shut down the
reactor. They were designed to be oiled every six months, but an
investigation reveals they have been lubricated only once in the past seven
years -- & the wrong lubricant was used
1989 -- UK physicist Stephen Hawking calls Star Wars a "deliberate fraud".
More at http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/0222.htm
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