October 12

1808 -- France: Victor Considerant lives (1808-1893). French socialist who sought to develop & implement the theses of Fourier, in particular on the idea of the phalanstery.

1830 -- US: Moses Harman lives (1830-1910), Pendleton County, Virginia. Publisher/editor of the Kansas anarchist paper, "Lucifer, the Light-Bearer" (1886-1907).

1837 -- Canada: Patriots declare solidarity with the Chartists of Britain.

1844 -- Novelist George Washington Cable lives, New Orleans. Notable for his depiction of Creole life.

1845 -- Source=Robert Braunwart US: First Industrial Congress of US (first US national labor congress) meets, NYC.

1863 -- US: Death of Lazarus, dog & faithful companion to Norton I, Emperor of the United States & Protector of Mexico, in October, exact day unknown. 1870 -- Joshua Norton I, "Dei Gratia" Emperor of the US, He Forecloses on a Bank. 1873 -- Switzerland: The famed Russian revolutionary, Mikhail Bakunin retires from the struggle & resigns from the anarchist Jura Federation.

1875 -- British occultist Aleister Crowley lives. Writer & occult figure, popularly known as "the Great Beast" or by the media "The Wickedest Man in the World," because of his fascination with sex, magic & degradation, drug-taking & hedonism.

1879 -- Jura Federation Congress is held. Kropotkin's anarchist communist ideas are being formulated & presented to the various Jurassic sections today. By the congress of 1880 these displace Bakunin's in the federation & eventually within the growing international movement. 1896 -- Emma Goldman, anarchist feministUS: Johann Most, German-American anarchist, & Emma Goldman's former mentor, denounces her at an event in New York when she solicits funds for the commemoration of the execution of the Haymarket Martyrs. 1898 -- US: Fourteen killed, 25 wounded in violence resulting when Virden, Illinois mine owners attempt to break a labor strike by importing 200 nonunion black workers. 1902 -- US: Fourteen miners killed, 22 wounded by scabherders at Pana, Illinois.

1913 -- Francisco Ferrer Memorial meeting held in New York City. Emma Goldman is one of the speakers. The memorial meetings have been held every year in Spain since his murder by the government.

1915 -- Edith Cavell, British nurse, executed by German firing squad, Brussels, Belgium.

1920 -- Italy: Armando Borghi, general secretary of the Unione Sindicale Italiana (USI) & militant anarchist, arrested in Milan by some order dating from July 20, but which had not been executed before.

1936 -- Spain: A Generalidad decree dissolves the (revolutionary) Local Committees. These are shortly to be replaced by new, Popular Front-style town councils. http://www.spunk.org/texts/places/spain/sp001780/chap1.html

1961 -- Japan: Inejiro Asanuma, socialist pioneer of the Japanese labor movement, assassinated, sparking mass demonstrations in Tokyo.

1992 -- Nicaragua: Continental Congress of Indigenous Peoples meets in Managua.

1992 -- Rallies, protests & arrests throughout the Western Hemisphere mark the 500th anniversary of the beginning of the European invasion of the Americas & genocide of its native peoples.

1995 -- East Timor: Indonesian troops are ordered to "restore order" after major protest riots & demonstrations in the capital of Dili. http://www.geocities.com/kk_abacus/asiaocean.html http://www.anarchy.no/easttimo.html

2000 -- Peru: Teachers fight with Peruvian police in front the building of Congress, in Lima. Protesters demand Fujimori's resignation.