1918 - An anarchist draft resister, Philip Grosser, reports
from Alcatraz Prison that he & other opponents of World
War I are being tortured. Minneapolis is the scene of the
first so-called "Slacker Raid," a dragnet of men without
draft cards.
Minneapolis is the scene of the first
so-called "Slacker Raid," a dragnet of
men without draft cards.
During WWI, the raids will seize more
than 40,000 non-registrants across
the country ( On July 15th, 1919, the
U.S. War Department announces it
has classified more than 337,000
American men as "draft dodgers.")
http://cinepad.com/reviews/slacker.htm
1920 - F. Scott Fitzgerald's first book, �This Side of
Paradise� published; it sells 20,000 copies in a week. At
23 he is the youngest novelist ever published by Scribner's.
1920 - American poet & leading member of the Beats, Gregory
Corso, lives New York. Convicted of theft at 17, he
discovers literature in prison & later meets Allen Ginsberg &
publish
his first book, �The Vestal Lady on Brattle� in 1955.
http://www.charm.net/~brooklyn/People/GregoryCorso.html
You too can support a prison literature program, nurture
some
new reader or writer; AuntieDave's favorite is Books to Prisoners,
which he helped found in the late 1970s:
http://btp.tao.ca/
1923 - Bulgaria: In Yambol, during an anarchist protest
against the government decision to disarm the people, the
army shoots into the crowd, wounding the speaker Atanas
Stoitchev & massacre others. About 30 are murdered here,
including others at the Yambol barracks tomorrow.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/03ref.htm#26/1923
1966 - Over 50,000 march in Fifth Avenue Vietnam Peace
Parade in New York City.
1967 - New York City Central Park Love-In, 10,000 show up.
1968 -- US: Yippies submit application for demonstrations
to Chicago Parks Department.
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/Chicago7/chicago7.html
1969 -- John & Yoko Ono-Lennon start seven day
bed-in against the Vietnam War.
wonsaponatime therewas two Ballons called Jock & Yono.
They were strictly love-bound to happen in a million years.
They werer together man. Unfortunatimetable they both
seemed to have previous experience-which kept calling them
one way oranother.(you know howitis). But they battled on
against overwhelming oddities, includo some of there beast
friends ...
.Being in love they cloong even the more together man --
but some of the posionessmonster of outrated
buslodedshithrowers did stick slightly & occasionaly had to
resort to the drycleaners. Luckily this did not kill them & the
werent banned from the olympic games. They lived hopefully
ever after, & who could blame them.
1969 - Mexico: Anarchist novelist B. Traven dies. Wrote one
of the great travel ship novels, �The Death Ship�.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/TravenB.htm
