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| − | '''October 17''' is the [[17]]<sup>th</sup> day of [[October]].
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| − | [[1760]] -- [[Henri Saint Simon]], [[France|French]] [[utopia]]n theorist, lives.
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| − | [[1866]] -- [[France]]: [[Edmond Marpaux]] lives. Member of the
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| − | "[[Ligue des Antipatriotes]]". Convicted to [[life in prison]] for
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| − | [[murder|killing]] a [[police]]man despite his denials of doing it. Marpaux
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| − | was killed during a [[prison uprising]].
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| − | [[1883]] -- Anti-authoritarian educator [[A.S. Neill]] lives.
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| − | Establishes his school, [[Summerhill]], with [[Lyme Regis]], in [[England]]. Proponent of [[child]]ren sharing
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| − | in running schools, Neill told of this anarchist
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| − | experiment in numerous [[book]]s.
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| − | [[1888]] -- [[France]]: French anarchist [[Maurice Halle]] lives.
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| − | [[1889]] -- [[Chernyshevsky]], [[Russia]]n radical critic, dies.
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| − | He helped lay the basis for [[revolutionary populism]]. Wrote What is to be Done?,
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| − | a political novel that influenced two generations of
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| − | Russian intelligentsia, including many anarchists such as
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| − | [[Emma Goldman]]. It served as the manifesto of the 19th
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| − | Century Russian [[Political Nihilism|Nihilists]].
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| − | :http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSchernyshevsky.htm
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| − | [[1892]] -- [[David Edelstadt]] ([[1866]]-1892), American
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| − | Yiddish anarchist & [[poetry|poet]], [[death|dies]].
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| − | :http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/EdelstadtDavid.htm
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| − | [[1908]] -- [[United States of America|US]]: [[Emma Goldman]] begins national lecture tour while
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| − | the country is immersed in [[president]]ial [[campaign]]ing; hopes to
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| − | wind up her tour on the West Coast & depart for [[Australia]]
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| − | in the new year.
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| − | :http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/10ref.htm#17/1908
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| − | [[1909]] -- [[United States of America|US]]: [[Emma Goldman]] is the chief speaker at a [[New York City|NY
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| − | City]] mass meeting called to protest the [[October 13]] execution of
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| − | [[Francisco Ferrer]], founder of the [[Modern School movement]]
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| − | in [[Spain]]. On the [[October 23|23rd]] Emma also marches in a parade of 600
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| − | anarchists & socialists in New York City to protest Ferrer's
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| − | execution. She is still, during this period, engaged in a
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| − | free-speech battle in [[Philadelphia]] where [[police]] refused to
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| − | let her speak in [[September]].
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| − | [[1920]] -- [[John Reed]], [[United States of America|US]] radical [[journalism|journalist]], dies
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| − | in [[Moscow]] at age 32. Chronicled [[Mexican revolution|Mexican]] & [[Soviet revolution]]s. Wrote [[Ten Days That Shook the World]].
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| − | [[1920]] -- [[Italy]]: The [[Unione Anarchica]] offices at [[Bologna]] are raided.
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| − | [[Errico Malatesta]], anarchist militant/writer, is arrested (along with 80
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| − | others), held responsible, along with [[Armando Borghi]] & [[Corrado Quaglino]], the local editor of "[[Umanita Nova]]," & [[Virgilia d'Andrea]],
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| − | for the worker occupations of the factories in [[Milan]] during the
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| − | summer & especially [[September]].
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| − | :http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/BorghiArmando.htm
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| − | :http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/MalatestaErrico.htm
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| − | [[1936]] -- [[Spain]]: In [[Perdiguera]] (Aragon), the [[International Group of the Durruti Column]], composed of 250 anarchists, engage in a
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| − | battle against the [[fascism|fascists]].
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| − | :http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/10ref.htm#17/1936
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| − | [[1939]] -- [[Warren Billings]], labor activist, released from
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| − | Folsom Prison.
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| − | [[1943]] -- [[France]]: [[André Respaut]] arrested & tortured before
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| − | being sent to [[Buchenwald]], where he was known for his courage
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| − | & generosity — saving several deportees from death.
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| − | :http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/RespautAndre.htm
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| − | [[1949]] -- [[Spain]]: Six [[antifascism|antifascist]] guerillas, militants of the [[CNT]],
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| − | including [[José Sabater Llopart]], are trapped & killed in [[Barcelona]].
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| − | [[1954]] -- Composer/anarchist John Cage's "[[34' 46.776]]"
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| − | premiers, [[Donaueschingen]].
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| − | [[1957]] -- [[France|French]]-[[Algeria]]n author [[Albert Camus]] awarded
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| − | [[Nobel Prize]] for [[literature]]. Camus wrote for many years for
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| − | the anarchist & left wing press in France.
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| − | :http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/10ref.htm#17/1957
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| − | [[1960]] -- [[Thierry Maricourt]] lives. Poet, novelist, anarchist,
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| − | with numerous reference works to his credit.
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| − | [[1966]] -- Anarchist collective, "[[The Diggers]]," holds
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| − | its first free street feed in Frisco.
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| − | [[2005]] -- [[Ba Jin]] (aka Pa Chin [pseud. of Li Feigan]) dies.
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| − | [[China|Chinese]] novelist, discovered anarchism with the reading
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| − | of [[Peter Kropotkin]] & [[Emma Goldman]] & created his pseudonym
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| − | Ba (from Bakunin ) & Jin (from Kropotkin). Cruelly
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| − | persecuted by the [[Maoism|Chinese communists]], a contender for
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| − | the [[2001]] [[Nobel Prize]]. In [[1966]] he was again in disgrace,
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| − | his writings condemned as seditious & he branded,
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| − | ==External link==
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| − | * http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/1017.htm
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| − | [[Category:Days of year]]
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| − | [[Category:Days in October|17]]
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| − | [[fr:17 octobre]]
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