AUGUST 7 ELIZABETH GURLEY FLYNN
"The Rebel Girl" of Wobbly fame.
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1804 -- William Blake writes to
biographer / poet William Hayley:
"Money flies from
me. Profit never
ventures upon my threshold."
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1890 -- Elizabeth Gurley Flynn lives, Concord,
New Hampshire.
1894 -- US: Eugene Debs & three other trade union
leaders arrested after Pullman Strike.
1897 -- Albert Perrier (or Perier), aka Germinal, lives (1897-1970),
in Buenos Aires. Militant French revolutionary syndicalist.
In the late 1930s he supplied the Spanish anarchists with food
& weapons despite a French blockade during the Spanish
Revolution. During the last months he aided those escaping
the fascists.
Perrier joined the anti-Nazi Resistance movement in France, before
being arrested & sent to a prison camp (from which he escaped).
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1900 -- Mexico: The periodical "Regeneration," published
by the Flores Magón brothers, appears.
1921 -- US: One thousand miners present Governor Morgan with a
resolution calling for an end to martial law in Mingo County.
Their appeal today is ignored, & martial law is not repealed for
over another year, on September 22, 1922.
I loaded sixteen tons, I tried to get ahead,
Got deeper and deeper in debt instead.
Well they got what I made, & they wanted
some more,
And now I owe my soul at the company store.
CHORUS: I loaded sixteen tons & what do I
get
Another day older & deeper in debt.
Saint Peter don't call me cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store.
— George Davis, excerpt, Sixteen Tons (1930s),
a song popularized by Merle Travis (who ripped
it off & claimed to have written in 1946) &
Tennessee Ernie Ford
See George Korson, Coal Dust on the Fiddle
1931 -- Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) lead a strike
at the Boulder Canyon Project begins.
"When traces of blood begin to mark your trail, you'll see
something, maybe. Probably not. In the second place, most
of what I write about in this book is already gone or going fast.
This is not a travel guide but an elegy. A memorial. You're holding a
tombstone in your hands. A bloody rock. Don't drop it on your foot —
throw it at something big & glassy. What have you got to lose?"
— Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire
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1941 -- Rabindranath Tagore dies in Calcutta, India.
1963 -- Ramón Vila Capdevila (1908-1963) dies (aka "Caraquemada",
aka "Jabalí"(le Sanglier), aka "Commandant Raymond"). Militant
Spanish anarcho-syndicalist & guerilla fighter.
Very active in the "Resistance"; on June 11, 1944,
for example, he & 200 men seized a German armoured train.
As a member of the "Batallón Libertad" (mainly Spanish
anarchists) he ehlped liberate Royan & the Gironde estuary.
Following the liberation of France, Vila slipped back into
Spain as a guerilla against the fascist Franco regime.
Today, at age 55, the famed "Caraquemada" is gunned down
& purposely left to die following a shootout with the "Guardia
Civil".
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1964 -- Time Magazine reviews the Beatles' movie "Hard Days
Night."
"AVOID THIS FILM
AT ALL COSTS"
1964 -- Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, in response to falsely
reported attacks on US destroyers (see 2 August; 4 August)
passes the House 416-0, & the Senate 88-2.
Vietnam War booklist from Recollection Books:
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1968 -- US: Dead County, Fla.?: Republican Convention is held
in Miami. Two days of rioting in the black sections of the
city ensue, leaving three dead.
1970 -- US: Four, including the presiding judge, killed in
a courthouse shootout in San Rafael, California. Police
charge Angela Davis provided weapons.
1974 -- Philippe Petit takes a stroll on a tightrope,
between the twin towers of the World Trade Center
high (1,350 feet up) above the city of New York.
"If I see three oranges I have to juggle.
And if I see two towers, I have to walk".
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1990 -- Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President
Big Shrub (& former CIA head) orders deployment of US
troops to Saudi Arabia & the Gulf region.
1995 -- US: Due to international pressure, state of Pennsylvania
announces a stay of its planned Aug. 17 execution of political
prisoner Mumia Abu- Jamal.
http://www.mumia.org/
1999 -- Italy: Three anarchists arrested & accused of fire
attacks on multinational firms. They are members of the
"Silvestre" group in Pisa (publishers of an anarchist animal
& earth liberation journal).
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"...I say, give Nature a little time. In five years, at most
in ten, the sun & wind & storms will cleanse &
sterilize the repellent mess...
The wilderness will again belong to the people."
[Edward Abbey & Phillip Hyde, Slickrock, p.69]
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— @nti-Repellent 1997-2009
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