A-Infos (en) Daily Bleed: 4/20 Ludlow Massacre, Luddites, Goldman, Ray, Felicani, IWW (excerpts)

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1812 -- England: Luddite problem. Colliers from Hollinwood
& local mob attacked Mr Burton's manufactory in Middleton
& again 22nd April, 10 rioters killed. Food riots in
Manchester, Bolton, Ashton & Oldham, & all through
Cheshire north-east of Stockport.

1914 - US: Ludlow Massacre of Striking miners & families by
National Guard.

In an attempt to persuade strikers at Colorado's Ludlow
Mine Field to return to work, company "guards," engaged by
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. & other mine operators attacked a union
tent camp with machine guns, then set it afire. Five men, two
women & 12 children died as a result.

The “Cleveland Leader”, echoing the sentiments of much of
the US press, wrote,

    "The charred bodies of two dozen women & children show
    that  Rockfeller knows how to win!"

John D. Rockefeller's company "guards" machine-gun & set
fire to a union tent camp during a strike at Colorado's Ludlow
Mine Field. In all, 26 people die in what  is known as the
Ludlow Massacre.

1916 -- US: Emma Goldman defends herself in birth control
trial. She is convicted, &, in lieu of paying $100 fine, serves
15 days in the Queens County Penitentiary.

1920 -- US: Man Ray, surrealist, anarchist & photographer,
signs the constitution of "Société Anonyme Inc".
(Museum of Modern Art) with Marcel Duchamp &
Katherine Dreier.
http://www.manray-photo.com/html

1953 - Members of Communist Party USA forced to register as
"foreign agents."

1966 - Six US pacifists, including Barbara Deming &
82-year- old A.J. Muste, deported for anti-war protests, Saigon,
South Vietnam.

1967 - US planes bomb Haiphong for first time during the
Vietnam War.
http://www.bev.net/computer/htmlhelp/vietnam.html

1967 - Aldino Felicani (1891-1967) dies. Italian-American
anarchist, typographer, editor, & publisher of many papers.
Friend & supporter of Vanzetti. Published, until his death,
the paper "Counter-Current."
http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/sinners/FelicaniAldino.htm

1969 - People's Park planted, Berkeley, California -- a
resistance to the encroachment of the authorities into
"peoples' space".
http://www.dnai.com/~hi_there/history.html

1985 - US: Some 250,000 march in Washington to protest US
policy in Central America.

1992 - Vienna, Austria: Women in Black demonstrate in
solidarity with their Serbian sisters.

1999 -- US: Second Columbine Massacre.

 The Columbine Massacre you never hear about was
 November 21, 1927, when IWW
 picketing miners were brutally massacred.

    Columbine Massacre Monument
    Lafayette
    Northern Colorado Mine Workers Historical Marker,
    a sign on Highway  7 leading to Lafayette, marks the
    Columbine Massacre where miners
    were killed while on picket duty during a 1927 strike.
    http://www.reuther.wayne.edu/exhibits/iww.html


       At some point we must draw a line
       across the ground of our home & our being,
       drive a spear into the land, & say to the
       bulldozers, earthmovers, government &
       corporations,
       "thus far & no farther."

                            ---Edward Abbey

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