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Rien. (Nothing.) Allons enfants de la Patrie ¿Quién es? ¿Quién es? (Who is it? Who is
it?) Children don't read to find their
identity. They don't read to free themselves of guilt, to quench the
thirst for rebellion, or to get rid of alienation. They have no use
for psychology. They detest sociology. They still believe in good, the
family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation
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Durruti, whom I saw but a month ago, lost his life in the street-battles of Madrid. My previous knowledge of this stormy petrel of the Anarchist and revolutionary movement in Spain was merely from reading about him. On my arrival in Barcelona I learned many fascinating stories of Durruti and his column. They made me eager to go to the Aragon front, where he was the leading spirit of the brave and valiant militias, fighting against fascism ...
A great man this Anarchist Durruti, a born leader and teacher of men, thoughtful and tender comrade all in one. And now Durruti is dead. His great heart beats no more. His powerful body felled down like a giant tree. And yet, and
yet--Durruti is not dead. The hundreds of thousands that turned out Sunday, November 22nd, 1936, to pay Durruti their last tribute have testified to that ...
No, Durruti is not dead. The fires of his flaming spirit lighted in all who knew and loved him, can never be extinguished. Already the masses have lifted high the torch that fell from Durruti's hand. Triumphantly they are carrying it before them on the path Durruti had blazoned for many years. The path that leads to the highest summit of Durruti's ideal. This ideal was Anarchism--the grand passion of Durruti's life. He had served it utterly. He remained faithful to it until his last breath ...
No, Durruti is not dead! He is more alive than living. His glorious example will now be emulated by all the Catalan workers and peasants, by all the oppressed and disinherited. The memory of Durruti's courage and fortitude will spur them on to great deeds until fascism has been slain. Then the real work will begin--the work on the new social structure of human value, justice and freedom.
Emma
Goldman; 'Durruti
is Dead, Yet Living' (1936); anarchist Buenaventura
Durruti y Domingo was born on July 14, 1896
Call up the
vision gardens and order me a newer planet to live on and work on.
Woody Guthrie, American folk singer, born July 14,
1912
I hate a song that
makes you think that you are not any good. I hate a song that makes you
think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No
good for nothing. Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too
slim or too ugly or too this or too that. Songs that run you down or poke
fun at you on account of your bad luck or hard travelling.
I am out to fight those
songs to my very last breath of air and my last drop of blood. I am out to
sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world and that if it
has hit you pretty hard and knocked you for a dozen loops, no matter what
color, what size you are, how you are built, I am out to sing the songs
that make you take pride in yourself …
Woody Guthrie
I got disgusted with the whole
sissified and nervous rules of censorship on all my songs and ballads, and
drove off down the road across the southern states again.
Woody Guthrie
Well, it's
always we ramble that river and I
All along your green valley,
I'll work till I die
My land I'll defend with my
life, if it be
'Cause my
pastures of plenty must always be free.
Woody Guthrie, 'Pastures of Plenty'
This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright # 154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don't give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do.
Woody Guthrie
The theatre is like a faithful wife. The film
is the great adventure -- the costly, exacting mistress.
Ingmar Bergman, Swedish film and stage director and playwright, born on
July 14, 1918
Supposing one day trucks travelled through the
city announcing, "The war in Vietnam is over! The war is over! Turn on
your radio for further information." Within two minutes everybody would
be calling their mothers, "Hey Mom! The war's over!"
Nixon would
have to go on TV to reassure the American people that the war was still
on.
Jerry Rubin,
Yippie founder and activist
We create revolution by living it.
Jerry Rubin
By the end, everybody had a label – pig, liberal,
radical, revolutionary ... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical
but not a revolutionary.
Jerry Rubin
Spread ideas that undercut the content world of
Amerika. We must alienate middle-class Amerika. All watches and clocks will be
destroyed; barbers will go to rehabilitation camps where they will grow their
hair long.
Jerry Rubin
July
14 is
the 195th
day of the year in the Gregorian
Calendar (196th in leap years), with 170
days remaining.
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Fête
Nationale (Bastille
Day), public holiday,
France and all French dependencies
Bastille Day
is a holiday commemorating the end of the monarchy
in France and the beginning of the First Republic, during the French Revolution.
On May 5,
1789, Louis XVI convened the General Estates to hear their
grievances. The deputies of the Third
Estate representing the common people (the two others were clergy and
nobility) decided to break away and form a National Constituent Assembly.
On June
20, the deputies of the Third Estate took the Tennis Court Oath (named after the place
where they had gathered which was a place where an ancestor
of tennis, the 'jeu de paume' was played), swearing not to
separate until a Constitution had been established. To show their support,
the people of Paris
stormed the Bastille, a prison where people were jailed by decision
of the king. Thus the Bastille was a symbol of the absolutism of the monarchy.
Many
historians believe that the storming of the Bastille was more important as
a rallying point and symbolic act of rebellion than any practical act of
defiance. No less important in the history of France, it
was not the image typically conjured up of courageous French
patriots storming the Bastille and freeing hundreds of oppressed peasants.
Shortly
after the storming of the Bastille, on August
26, the Declaration of
the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was proclaimed.
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