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December 19 is the 19th day in December.
Events
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.
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.
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",
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
