March 22

March 22 is the 22^nd day in March.

Events

1519 - Mexico: Cortez brings a sample of Western Civilization to the New World in the name of his King & Catholic faith: looting, killing, subjugating, raping & massacres in his "March of Death."

1812 - US: Modern Times founder Stephen Pearl Andrews lives. Lawyer, anarchist, free-love advocate. [1]

1832 - Goethe dies, age 82, in Weimar; his last words: "More Light!" Poet/playwright/novelist/philosopher.

1842 - US: Anarchist/publisher/abolitionist Josiah Warren opens his 2nd Time Store in New Harmony. Warren founded several "equity" stores, three Utopian colonies, & wrote "True Civilization". See Kenneth Rexroth's chapter on Josiah Warren in "Communalism" [2]

1905 - France: Trial of Alexander Marius Jacob concludes at Amiens. Marius Jacob was an anarchist, burglar, & member of "Les travailleurs de la nuit" (Workers of the Night) gang, credited with 150 burglings. Marius Jacob & Felix Bour received life in prison, 14 people got sentences ranging from 5 to 20 years, while another seven were freed.

1911 -- Bienvenido N. Santos (1911-1996) lives. "One of the giants of Filipino American literature."

1947 - Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President Truman, a liberal, issues an order calling for strict check-ups into the loyalty of all prospective Federal employees. The order results in the creation of the "Attorney General's List" of subversive organizations.

1961 -- Ettore Bonometti (1872-1961), the great jailhouse songster & Italian anarchist militant, dies in Brescia. [3]

1968 -- France: Student occupy the school at Nanterre & the March 22nd Movement emerges — an organization with no hierarchy & no ideological program. Includes members of various groups & also unorganized students. Cohn-Bendit & the Situationists wanted central coordinated worker/student-councils, who act together but preserve their autonomy. The Sorbonne was transformed from an institutionalized bureaucracy to 'a volcano of revolutionary ideas.' Day & night in every lecture hall were passionate discussions. The spirit of the Paris Commune is back ...

1969 -- Miguel Garcia released from prison in Spain.

1972 - Furry Freak Brothers?: 13-member National Commission on Marijuana & Drug Abuse recommends legalization of marijuana. [4]

1983 - US: Midnight Special?: 16 arrested in four-day cross-country demonstration against shipments of nuclear warheads by train.

1987 -- Eugen Relgis (1895-1987), Roumanian poet, antimilitarist & prolific anarchist author, dies, Montevideo (Uruguay). [5]

1990 -- England: Death of Geoffrey Ostergaard (1926-1990), gentle anarchist/pacifist. Wrote on workers' control, & also similarities of Sarvodaya in India & anarchism. Senior lecturer in government at Birmingham University

2001 -- England: Tom Robinson & Lee Griffiths: THE DOGS BOLLOCKS TOUR 2001 UK. [6]

2003 -- Iraq: An American soldier raises an American flag above the Iraqi flag, a symbolic sign of occupation. Meanwhile hundreds of thousands continue daily protests against the Bush administration and it's occupation of Iraq.

External link

• http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0322.htm