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Latest revision as of 14:35, 3 December 2010

November 21 is the 21st day in November.

Events[edit]

1855 — Author/anarchist Leo Tolstoy & Ivan Turgenev meet, beginning an often tempestuous friendship. [1]

1855 — France: Emile Gravelle lives, Douai. Militant anarchist & naturalist. Collaborated with Henri Zisly & Henri Beylie. [2]

1870 — Alexander Berkman lives, Vilna, Russia. Wrote one of the classics of prison literature, Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist. [3]

1880 — France: after six & a half years in exile, Louise Michel began her long journey home. Today, Louise speaks at her first public meeting in Paris. Her speeches were inspirational & effective.

1894 — Spain: In Barcelona, Santiago Salvador Franch is executed. [4]

1897 — Mollie Steimer lives. Russian-American- Jewish-Mexican anarchist & labor agitator. Her militant activities got her deported from both the US in 1921 & Russia (1923). Escaped a Nazi internment camp. [5]

1897 — US: Emma Goldman, continues her heavy lecture campaign throughout the midwest.

1921 — US: At Allaire's Restaurant in New York City 175 people attend a ceremonial fundraising dinner to say farewell to Mollie Steimer, Hyman Lachowsky, Samuel Lipman, & Jacob Abrams. The four, members of the anarchist Frayhayt group, are being kicked out of the Land of the Free for publishing leaflets in 1918 opposing the American invasion of Russia that year. See Fighting Faiths: The Abrams Case, the Supreme Court & Free Speech, by Richard Polenberg

1921 — US: Columbine Massacre (the one you never heard about); IWW picketing miners massacred in Columbine, Colorado.

1922 — US: Ricardo Flores Magón, Mexican anarchist, author, dies at Leavenworth Penitentiary. Possibly murdered by prison guards. His remains were returned to Mexico, where they rest at the Rotunda of Illustrious Men in Mexico City & he has a city named after him. [6] [7]

1935 — England: In June of this year Emma Goldman began mobilizing anarchist writers & editors of the movement's press — for example, Rudolf Rocker, Max Nettlau, & Albert de Jong — to publish articles to mark Alexander Berkman's 65th birthday today. [8]

1954 — Chicago: Late this month [exact date unknown — ed.] The anarchist Catholic Dorothy Day notes: [9]

1959 — France: Guy Debord, questioned by the police tribunal about his participation in the Declaration on the Right to Insubordination in the Algerian War, has it recorded in his deposition that by the fact of having signed the declaration alone, he assumes complete responsibility for publication & distribution...

1965 — Musician, singer, actress Bjork Gudmundsdottir lives, Reykjavik, Iceland.

1967 — US: Want a Lift?: Exorcism of the Pentagon, Washington, DC march: 50,000. 250 arrested including author/socialist Norman Mailer.

2001 — Mexican judge frees 6 paramilitaries convicted of the 1997 massacre 45 Indigenous at Acteal, Chiapas.

2007 — Spain: Jose Manuel Ferreira Quintas dies in his prison cell.

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