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October 15

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October 15 is the 15th day of October. It is also known as the mushroom day and national grouch day.

Events

1582 — Spain: Saint Teresa of Ávila died on the night from October 4 to October 15. that is, exactly when Spain and the Catholic world switched to the Gregorian calendar.

1814 — Mihail Lermontov, Russian author, lives. Exiled twice to the Caucasus region because of his libertarian verses.

1842 — During this month Mikhail Bakunin's "Reaction in Germany" is published. [1]

1884 — Stephen Mac Say lives. French anarchist militant, professor, bee-keeper. Founded, with his life-long partner Marie-Adele Anciaux, the libertarian school at Sébastien Faure's colony "La ruche". [2]

1896 — France: Célestin Freinet lives. Pedagogist, founder of the Coopérative de l'Enseignement Laïc (C.E.L), and author of The French Modern School. Influenced the Spanish artist Ramón Acin, who founded a school based on the ideas of Ferrer & Freinet. His partner Elise, also a militant educator, carried on his work following his death. [3] [4] [5]

1902 — France: André Prudhommeaux lives. Early communist, then an anarchist, he founded a Paris bookshop specializing in social history — & the scene of many lively debates.

1902 — Spain: Amparo Poch y Gascon lives (1902-1968). Spanish anarchist feminist, propagandist for sexual freedom.

1904 — Italy: Oreste Lucchesi dies. In prison since 1895 for assassinating the editor of "Il Telegrafo," whose articles resulted in the repression & arrest of numerous anarchists.

1907 — US: Mid-October, the anarchist Emma Goldman evades US immigration authorities by entering New York via Montreal.

1911 — US: Emma Goldman begins a series of Sunday afternoon and evening lectures in Yiddish & English to residents of New York City's Lower East Side.

1915 — US: Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) free speech fight in Fresno in de Land of de Free.

1920 — Italy: Errico Malatesta, anarchist militant/writer, arrested. He is held responsible, as is Armando Borghi, for workers' factory occupations in Milan during the summer. [6]

1920 — Russia: Les makhnovistes & les bolcheviques signent un accord de collaboration contre les troupes du général Wrangel. Soon the treacherous Bolsheviks will turn on the makhnovistes.

1920 — Spain: Ernest Queraltó, "El pintor" (The painter), dies. An old member of the band of Köenning. [7]

1926 — Harley-Semiotic?: French biker-philosopher Michel Foucault lives [8]

1926 — Japan: Nakahama Tetsu executed for anti-government acts, including a plan to assassinate Prince Hirohito. Member of the Girochin Sha. [9]

1926 — Canada: Emma Goldman arrives by ship, to lecture; proximity rekindles her hope for readmission to the US, where she grew up, but has been banished from the "Land of the Free."

1933 — US: Liberal Mabel Carver Crouch, during this month, begins working furiously for Emma Goldman's readmission to the "Land of the Free". [10]

1957 — Guy Debord's "Remarques sur le concept d'art expérimental" (Remarks on the Concept of Experimental Art), a critique of the text "Pour un concept d'expérimentation musicale" (Toward a Concept of Musical Experimentation) by Walter Olmo of the Situationist International's Italian Section.

1959 — US: Robert Crumb's "Fritz the Cat" comic strip premiers.

1966 — Artists' Liberation Front Free Fair in Frisco's Golden Gate Park Panhandle. Takes place in the Mission District & was one of the first (if not first) free outdoor rock performance in the Bay Area. [11]

1969 — France: "Operations Within the French Section after October 1969," internal document unanimously adopted at a meeting of the French section of the Situationist International.

2007 — Aotearoa: 300+ police rade houses, arresting 17 members of The Tino Rangatiratanga, peace and environmental movements. [Source: A-Infos]

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