Difference between revisions of "December 19"

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December 19 is the 19^th day in December.

Events[edit]

1862 -- Nicolas Stoinoff lives. "Patriarch" of Bulgarian anarchism, antimilitarist, journalist, teacher, author. Stoinoff never ceased denouncing the odious crimes of the Soviet occupation during his 101 years.

1878 -- US: Despite mass protests, Ezra Heywood gets two years hard labor for advocating free love / sexual emancipation as part of women's rights.

1894 -- Senya Flechin lives (1894-1981), Russia.

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/FlechinSenya.htm

1915 -- France: Edith Piaff lives (1915-1963). French singer, cultural rebel, who entertained POW's while refusing to sing for Nazis during WWII. Edith encouraged a number of anarchist songsters like Leo Ferre & François-Henri Jolivet.

1917 -- US: During this month anarchist & feminist poet Louise Olivereau is convicted for antiwar activities & sent to a Colorado prison.

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/12ref.htm#19/1917

1919 -- Spain: Pépita Carpeña lives (1919-2005), Barcelona. Militant anarcho-syndicalist & feminist. Combatant during the Spanish Revolution, member of the CNT, "Jeunesses Libertaires" (JJLL) & "Mujeres Libres." Escaped Barcelona on January 25, 1939, interned in France. Involved with CIRA de Marseille during the 80s & 90s. Wrote De toda la vida, & appeared in two films, Richard Prost's Un autre futurDe toda la vida. Pépita died three years after the death of her companion Juan Martinez Vita (Moreno).

1940 -- Songster Phil Ochs lives El Paso, Texass ("Joe Hill", "War is Over"). His music didn't sell, most famous for songs protesting a war everyone wants to forget. A folk singer, a "protest" singer, a freedom rider, a suicide. His boyish voice challenged the history of his time, or tried to.

1946 -- Reenactment of Boston Tea Party in Boston. (Fashionably late?) Glorifies the destruction of property by terrorists — who inspire "Eugene anarchists" during WTO protests in Seattle 1999. See Jesse Walker's "The Broken Blue Line: How to start a riot",

http://reason.com/0002/fe.jw.blue.shtml

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/wto.htm

1966 -- Pierre Mualdes (1885-1966) dies. French anarchist.

1969 -- Italy: Is the Reichstag Burning?, tract by Gianfranco Sanguinetti & signed 'Friends of the International,' published.

http://www.notbored.org/reichstag.html

http://www.cddc.vt.edu/sionline/chronology/chronology.html

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/sources.htm#Situationists

1977 -- France: In Paris, an attack destroys Fauchon, a luxury food store. The newspaper "Front libertaire" headline: "Yes, Fauchon "was" a worker grocer".

1982 -- US: Dwight Macdonald, social critic & combative journalist & anarchist, dies.

1990 -- Austin Train dies in a bomb blast at his own trial.

1994 -- Zapatista rebels in Southeastern Mexico slip through army siege & briefly occupy 38 towns in Chiapas state, crippling Wall Street investments in Mexican bond market.

http://www.zapata.com/

http://www.thing.net/~rdom/zapsTactical/zaps.html

http://www.nonviolentways.org/mapas.html

External link[edit]

• http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/1219.htm