Previous calendar postings:
durhamspark.blogspot.com/2024/04/some-additional-events-and.html
durhamspark.blogspot.com/2025/03/update-for-week-12-in-2025.html
I hope to post more shortly. I had to copy a draft back in.
[Apparently there has been a Yemen vigil at Union Square, in Manhattan, New York City every Saturday morning at 11am since March 2017 – “Yemen is Starving.” – “Put a human face on war in Yemen.” – “Let Yemen Live.” – Kathy Kelly on World Beyond War, re-posted on popularresistance.org I don't know if any regular anti-war vigils remain in North Carolina.]
[Correction, apparently there has been an anti-Trump protest of some kind going on at the Chatham County Courthouse circle in the center of Pittsboro, NC (on Saturdays?).] [There were weekly [or twice a week or monthly] anti-war or anti-torture vigils not that many years ago at two locations on West Franklin Street [I meant in front of the old Post Office and at the Village Plaza shopping center on East Franklin] in Chapel Hill, at Brightleaf Square (and further downtown [where the Bull statue is now]?) in Durham, at Crabtree Mall [and at the local Federal Building (and at squares downtown?) in Raleigh, on Highway 70 near Smithfield; etc. (in Asheville and Fayetteville? [Greensboro?]) and there could be again.] [In front of the White House for decades (see: durhamspark.blogspot.com/2018/10/reportback-from-womens-march-on.html ); SOAW was at Fort Benning once a year; [there was a vigil] in front of a government building in London in the UK? Beating pots [and boycotting] in Istanbul now...]
Neoliberalism in North Carolina, under two governors from the Democratic Party; the initial comment period on the proposed gameland use pass ends March 28th: soundrivers.org/wildlife-resources-commission-considers-fee-for-boat-ramp-game-land-use/
[Friends of the Lower Haw: www.lowerhaw.org ]
[ www.kickstarter.com/projects/darrylsjones/tandem-bicycle-romance-short-film ]
[ www.themarginalian.org/2025/03/18/berryman-advice/ ]
[ www.themarginalian.org/2025/03/25/shane-drinkwater-art/ ]
[ earthship.com ]
[In the UK: katebradbury.substack.com/p/a-false-spring-toad-habitats-and ]
[Spring 'came' here before April 1st; I hope to post more later in April; orthopterans and owls call at night (and during the day), I found a pretty but freshly dead dagger moth of some kind inside (and a large, finely marked jumping spider (?) alive one morning) and I heard and saw blue-gray gnatcatchers and a Spizella (?) sparrow on the 1st, many trees are beginning to leaf or flower (trifoliate oranges and more azaleas on the 1st), a dark violet and cinquefoil are flowering, purple vetch and two purple Lamiaceae spp. too, dogbane and elephant's foot have come up, dayflowers appeared by today, yellow pollen covers the ground, etc. Thunder the evening of 31st. WRAL put the average last frost date as April 8th (in Raleigh?), but it can be in May, and the official "growing season" began March 23rd.[
"If you can retire due to age within the next three months, you need to call Social Security before close of business this coming Monday if you don’t want to be faced with the choice of navigating the online application process or having to go to a Social Security office, if there’s one open near you, and hope you can be seen that day." – ohiobarbarian.substack.com/p/my-social-security-retirement-saga
["Rhode Island School of Design shuts down pro-Palestinian art exhibition" – www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/04/01/tlig-a01.html ]
[On the EU seizures: diario-octubre.com/2025/03/30/quiza-usted-aun-no-se-haya-dado-cuenta-de-que-es-un-personaje-cercano-a-putin/ ]
[ diario-octubre.com/2025/03/31/m-caracol-nuevos-mapas-pero-siempre-la-brujula-que-funciona/ ]
[ michaelharrison.org.uk/2015/03/16th-march-1968-my-lai-massacre/
mltheory.wordpress.com/2025/02/12/french-art-database/
www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/israel-has-murdered-yet-another-journalist
simplicius76.substack.com/p/secret-history-bombshell-nyt-report
German Anti-Spiegel: anti-spiegel.ru ]
[More atrocities in Gaza: www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/israel-attacked-ambulance-crews-and ]
[ www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-president-of-peace-just-bombed ]
[Machine translated – "The West: The New Fascism" – diario-octubre.com/2025/03/29/occidente-el-nuevo-fascismo/ ]
[ mronline.org/2025/03/13/more-than-7000-massacred-in-syria/ ]
[ mronline.org/2025/03/25/the-pentagon-is-recruiting-elon-musk-to-help-them-win-a-nuclear-war-2/ ]
[ diario-octubre.com/2025/03/29/estudio-viajar-a-marte-es-mas-peligroso-de-lo-que-parece/ ]
www.algora.com/Algora_blog/2025/03/27/auto-war-trump-hits-tokyo-and-frankfurt-with-a-sledgehammer
www.algora.com/Algora_blog/2025/03/16/the-forever-wars-may-be-over-but-trump-is-no-peacemaker
www.algora.com/Algora_blog/2025/03/16/how-to-build-an-omnipotent-thought-control-machine
A campaign to rename Volgograd? – www.rt.com/russia/614862-volgograd-stalingrad-zyuganov-communist/
RT – Russia carries out peaceful activities in the Arctic, but will defend itself if attacked by NATO: www.rt.com/russia/614875-arctic-nato-conflict-putin/
In Moldova: www.rt.com/russia/614847-moldova-governor-gutsul-arrest/
www.rt.com/russia/614852-zelensky-hatred-russians-office/
Qatargate: www.rt.com/news/614867-israel-qatar-netanyahu-scandal/
A student was seized by ICE, working with Rubio, for just once co-authoring a college (?) newspaper op-ed calling for divestment from Israel. NPR is covering the new McCarthyism at universities, but I don't think they are that interested, after all of their talk prior to the election about Trump being a grave threat. Nothing further about Mahmoud Khalil and very little about others detained. [There was a story on Morning Edition on the 28th and the leader of the SUNY system was asked about the issue first thing in an interview the evening of the 29th, but still, it doesn't seem to be a very grave issue for NPR and they don't highlight the Trump-Vance administration's conflation of banned "material support" for "terrorism," or alleged petty "vandalism," and constitutionally-protected free speech (reminiscent of the Obama-Biden administration's targeting of FRSO over solidarity with struggles in Latin America., etc.?). Legal, constitutionally-protected free speech in favor of Palestinian and neighboring Arab national liberation from "Western" colonialism and imperialism is what the US government, and the NGO CEP, have a problem with, and are trying to tar.]
[On All Things Considered April 1st Elsa Chang asked someone from the University of Pennsylvania why the Federal government shouldn't withhold funding over "anti-semitism," [there was something like 'reported,' a not very noticeable caveat] and his answer included something like "science" and innovation are separate issues from how universities deal with "anti-semitism;" this is a "fig leaf" (he meant, to attack institutions of higher education, not to attack perfectly legal pro-Palestinian free speech, often said by Jewish students?); universities, or some universities, can do better on "anti-semitism;" and I think he said something about speech and due process. NPR's question assumed that the charges are true and the administrator's very 'diplomatic' answer did not deny it. Even legal defenders for the accused aren't going very far in interviews.] [An interview on Fresh Air April 2nd?] [1A had a clear-cut program on the government's seizure of students at 10am April 2nd and the author of Presidents and the People (?) put it in perspective, going back to John Adams (and he said that we have no knowledge of who Trump-Vance deported to El Salvador, below); the guests all gave what I would call good comments.] [And on Latino USA April 2nd. Now NPR is talking about Mahmoud Khalil, other targeted students and faculty; the deported alleged gang members, etc. again, and the words might be getting harder. It was speculated at 7pm that naturalized citizens could be next.] [I think I heard that the targeting of immigrant students under Biden.]
[Someone (in danger from Salvadoran gangs) was inadvertently sent (the new rendition?) to El Salvador and the Trump administration says that it can't and won't try to bring him back, though they half admitted that they were wrong.]
[From ProPublica: The pilot(s) on a private ICE deportation flight told the airline staff that they should just save themselves in an emergency; how can they evacuate a planeload of restrained people (and the company said don't even make eye contact with them)?]
[They want to execute Mangioni (?).]
[Cory Booker's floor speech ended, beating the record.]
[Israel is just 'pressuring' Hama with outrageous violence and the cut off of food supplies, etc., but they don't put it that way when Russia bombs Ukrainian infrastructure.]
[On Due South April 1st, on Emily Fang (?) and her new Let Only Red Flowers Bloom – they didn't focus on her demonstrated pro-imperialist hostility toward the Chinese government (?); she is from Connecticut, spoke Mandarin with her family growing up, and graduated from Duke University.]
[On WUNC's 1pm show on the 1st – organic Chinese social media nicknames for Trump are something like 'Trump Makes China Great Again' and 'Super Clueless.']
[There was a protest against cuts at the Durham VA the afternoon of the 2nd.]
[The continuation of Wolf Hall and something on the Vietnam War (the controversial documentary by Ken Burns?) are airing on the local PBS station.]
[From the NC AFL-CIO –
March 20: US Mail is Not for Sale Day of Action with APWU
March 21: Tell Senator Tillis to Stop Hiding from Workers protest (Raleigh)
March 23: "Hell No!" to Dismantling the Postal Service Day of Action with NALC
March 25: Day of Action on Paid Leave, Paid Sick Days, and Raising the Minimum Wage!
April 17: DPWL Public Hearing in Asheville
April 24: DPWL Public Hearing in Charlotte
April 28: Workers' Memorial Day (Raleigh)
April 29: DPWL Public Hearing in Durham
May 10: National Association of Letter Carriers' Food Drive ]
consortiumnews.com/2025/03/27/thousands-protest-ice-abduction-of-tufts-student/
consortiumnews.com/2025/03/27/losing-academic-freedom/
consortiumnews.com/2025/03/21/the-chris-hedges-report-americas-constitutional-crisis/
consortiumnews.com/2025/03/27/the-hate-group-helping-trump-deport-israels-critics/
consortiumnews.com/2025/03/26/alleged-war-crime-applauded-in-leaked-signal-chat/
consortiumnews.com/2025/03/27/chris-hedges-surrendering-to-authoritarianism/
Senator Tom Cotton follows Nancy Pelosi: consortiumnews.com/2025/03/26/codepink-responds-to-us-senate-mccarthy-style-attack/
consortiumnews.com/2025/03/24/a-journalists-last-story-before-israel-killed-him/
fair.org/home/publishers-firing-shows-double-standard-in-israel-palestine-cartooning/
consortiumnews.com/2025/03/24/palestinian-rights-are-human-rights/
consortiumnews.com/2025/03/25/uks-secret-meeting-with-top-israeli-arms-firm/
husseini.substack.com/p/interview-with-jim-clancy-and-cnns
husseini.substack.com/p/israel-escalates-genocide-kills-journalists
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-becomes-rent-a-cops-for-ceos
[ www.normalisland.co.uk/p/doctor-cancelled-by-new-york-university ]
[ www.normalisland.co.uk/p/snow-white-obviously-flopped-because ]
www.normalisland.co.uk/p/clashes-in-west-bank-as-settlers
fair.org/home/israel-kills-palestinian-journalist-hossam-shabat-as-us-media-look-away/
www.dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-children-israel-sniper-shoot-jazeera
jfkfacts.substack.com/p/jfk-records-release-brings-lone-gunman
On the March 24-June 10, 1999 NATO attack on Yugoslavia: michelchossudovsky.substack.com/p/twenty-six-years-ago-nato-war-aggression-yugoslavia
www.dropsitenews.com/p/hossam-shabat-journalist-killed-gaza-last-article
jonathancook.substack.com/p/the-new-fascism-israel-is-the-template
jonathancook.substack.com/p/would-it-be-okay-for-hamas-to-strike
On the anniversary of the German Peasants War: portside.org/2025-03-24/momentous-class-struggle-german-peasants-war
On the truck-swallowing sinkhole in Saitama, Japan: www.nippon.com/en/in-depth/d01102/
The cherry blossom or sakura forecast in Japan; I think I heard a news headline that the cherries are flowering on time this year: www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h02345/
From a survivor of the March 20, 1995 sarin attack on the Tokyo subway: www.nippon.com/en/japan-topics/g02493/
Post-colonial 20th century Yemen history: edberg.substack.com/p/destination-yemen
From the Town of Carrboro:
"The Grand Opening CELEBRATION of the Drakeford Library Complex was held on Friday, March 21, 2025 with much joy and spirit of community connections past, present and future. The main hall was packed for remarks by elected officials from the Town of Carrboro and Orange County, U.S. Congresswoman Varlerie Foushee, Carrboro Poet Laureate Liza Wolff-Francis, Town Manager Patrice Toney, and Derrick Drakeford (son of Robert Drakeford, for whom the complex is named), a ribbon cutting, refreshments, building tours, and special presentations honoring the construction workers who built the complex, historic background about Robert Drakeford and more.
If you haven't yet visited the Drakeford Library Complex, you need to make the trip!
Watch the full video from this historic occasion for Carrboro at https://youtu.be/Q0tjpvIGQhU "
[The Town of Carrboro hosted a Town Hall meeting at the Drakeford Library Complex "at 11 a.m. Saturday, March 29, to give residents an opportunity to express their thoughts in the wake of enacted or proposed changes across various policy areas at state and federal levels of government."]
Forsyth Creek Week 2025 is March 22nd-31st: www.forsythcreekweek.org
sonar21.com/it-wasnt-a-leak-it-was-a-devious-charlie-foxtrot/
Uri Berliner on NPR in the rightist Free Press: www.thefp.com/p/uri-berliner-npr-should-refuse-to-take-federal-funds
www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/israel-is-gunning-down-children-with
fair.org/home/sanitizing-resumption-of-genocide-as-pressure-on-hamas/
On the AMA: www.thebignewsletter.com/p/how-the-american-medical-association
travelbetweenthepages.com/2025/03/24/mapping-monday/
On Azov in Ukraine: diario-octubre.com/2025/03/23/el-batallon-azov-sale-de-la-lista-negra-de-grupos-extremistas-de-la-universidad-de-stanford/
On VI Lenin, with many photos: diario-octubre.com/2017/04/22/147-anos-del-nacimiento-de-vladimir-ilich-ulianov-lenin/
diario-octubre.com/2025/03/23/la-gran-hipnosis/
The "Western" threat to shipping in the English Channel: diario-octubre.com/2025/03/23/rusia-escolta-sus-mercantes-con-buques-de-guerra-en-el-canal-de-la-mancha/
diario-octubre.com/2025/03/07/feminismo-privatizaciones-y-conciencia-de-clase/
diario-octubre.com/2025/03/23/el-mensaje-con-advertencia-que-japon-le-envia-a-china/
World Water Day (March 22nd) in Nicaragua: diario-octubre.com/2025/03/23/nicaragua-cobertura-de-agua-potable-supera-95-por-ciento/
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-the-democrats-corporate
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vin-SvqWY40&ab_channel=DialogueWorks
From BAJ: "Pepe Escobar: Yemen Strikes Back as U.S. and Israel Escalate
Nima Alkhorshid interviewing Pepe Escobar."
In Colorado: theworker.news/2025/03/27/immigrant-rights-and-union-activist-arrested-by-ice/
In Tennessee: theworker.news/2025/03/23/vw-plans-mass-layoffs-at-recently-unionized-chattanooga-plant/
www.rt.com/russia/614654-investigation-ukranian-crimes-kursk-sudzha/
On Artyom Dmitruk: www.rt.com/russia/614649-mp-zelensky-murder-plot/
www.rt.com/news/614674-cia-contaminated-sugar-cuba-ussr/
www.rt.com/news/614667-macron-russians-jihadists-france/
theintercept.com/2025/03/21/trump-epa-monsanto-roundup-bayer-cancer-chemicals/
theintercept.com/2025/03/20/ucla-palestine-israel-campus-protest-lawsuit/
On the case of Cornell University British-Gambian graduate student Momodou Taal: theintercept.com/2025/03/21/trump-free-speech-lawsuit-ice-momodou-taal/
"Israel’s 'Culture of Cruelty' Inspires the Far Right Worldwide, Says Pankaj Mishra" theintercept.com/2025/03/22/briefing-podcast-pankaj-mishra-gaza/
newleftreview.org/issues/ii114/articles/dylan-riley-what-is-trump
newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/constitutional-collapse
newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/contre-attaque
On the conflict in DR Congo: newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/causes-of-war
newleftreview.org/issues/ii118/articles/anders-stephanson-neo-impressionist-hegemon
newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/american-destiny
On three prominent women in revolutionary and Napoleonic France: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n04/rosemary-hill/no-more-corsets
On Victor Serge's manual: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n04/greg-afinogenov/thank-god-for-dynamite
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Serge
Deciphering Linear Elamite: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n04/tom-stevenson/beyond-mesopotamia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Elamite
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n05/paul-taylor/ai-wars
On the Grimm brothers: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n05/colin-burrow/ogres-are-cool
[ tannerfboyle.substack.com/p/forbidden-science-dispatches-9 ]
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n05/jan-werner-mueller/no-one-is-further-right-than-me
On German finances: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n05/thomas-meaney/goodbye-black-zero
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n05/sheila-fitzpatrick/not-corrupt-enough
/www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/march/not-conducive-to-the-public-good
World Water Day proclamation in Carrboro: www.carrboronc.gov//CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=2945
World Water Day 2025 theme – "Glacier Preservation"
Regarding the May 2, 2014 trade union building massacre in Odessa, Ukraine: mronline.org/2025/03/22/european-court-rules-ukraine-guilty-in-odessa-massacre/
Wikipedia's version: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Odesa_clashes
On Romania; but the EU condemned the decision? – mronline.org/2025/03/12/romania-a-captured-state/
On "Cultural Marxism" – mronline.org/2025/03/19/cultural-marxism-the-mainstreaming-of-a-nazi-trope/
mronline.org/2025/03/22/google-imports-ex-israeli-spies-the-genocide-resumes-cruel-britannia
www.dropsitenews.com/p/mahmoud-khalil-journey-refugee-syria-columbia-university
Chuck Schumer on Israel: www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/senate-majority-leader-admits-what
And see: mondoweiss.net
[In history this week: www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/03/23/mezp-m23.html ]
[History: portside.org/2025-03-17/week-peoples-history-mar-19-25 ]
[ theworker.news/2025/03/29/book-review-the-great-san-francisco-general-strike/ ]
[ diario-octubre.com/2025/03/29/una-pagina-para-la-tierra-palestina/ ]
[From Haaretz; allegedly Palestinians are demanding that Hamas roll over, presumably to be followed by extrajudicial mass killing of its surviving members, Israeli and maybe US occupation, and further bloodshed; more praise for HTS' new Syria and even George W Bush's Iraq; bombing cities didn't produce movements for surrender in WWII, etc., yet they claim that Gaza is different; there was contradictory coverage on NPR and the BBC: portside.org/2025-03-28/stop-turning-gaza-rubble-fed-war-and-hamas-rule-palestinians-ramp-their-protest The BBC is going on about whether the government of Myanmar will allow earthquake aid into rebel-held areas, unlike the case of Gaza. US wars? 90's Iraq? The speakers said something about Russia and Ukrainian and Syrian hospitals, ambulances, and schools – again like Gaza and the "War on Terror," but only Russia is considered tainted ('forever?') and beyond the pale, the new "Hun." A military hospital in Kharkiv. Trump just had an apartment building blown up in Yemen to kill one man. The mainstream media for its part is going on about how this was revealed to Jeffrey Goldberg, a dual US and Israeli citizen who volunteered to be an Israeli military prison guard and was "one of the leading media cheerleaders for the attack on Iraq" (at David Remnick's New Yorker?): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Goldberg Hostile to Irish-American too?? Israel allegedly executed first responders and has a mass grave next to a military base. A mass grave. Can it be seen by private reconnaissance satellites? Where is the great Bellingcat? Months ago the BBC had an interview with a media witness/refugee in Gaza implying that detained people were being shot to death just behind a berm of sand. March 28th I thought about what it means if a government is determined to be "fascist," a term being thrown around in recent years. Lightly? What is to be done if you expect open terror to begin imminently?] [A poem by Turkish poet Nâzım Hikmet?] [And if catastrophic climate change comes for the "West" too, aside from the new cold/hot world war?]
Twice this week (so far), separately talking to US scholars of China and a Chinese scholar of the US in China, NPR likened Trump's actions to Mao and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (!).
[There was another anti-Tesla day of action March 29th and someone's Tesla was alleged vandalized (scratched?) in Pittsboro recently, after yelling by the Courthouse at a coupon promotion for Tesla (on... ).]
NC Governor Stein's State of the State address was in March, on... and Raleigh's State of the City address was...
Electronic Intifada's weekly livestream was this afternoon, EDT.
From the Veterans for Peace Democracy and Peace Working Group – March 27th at 7:30pm ET "VFP Democracy & Peace Webinar #3 of 4: A Sheep in Wolf's Clothing; Help! I'm Colonized and Can't Get Up!" Discussing: poclad.org/BWA/2005/BWA_2005_FEB.html Register at: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/1-orKukCQDS6TtUBeeTRjg#/registration
April 24th: "Our Corporate Elite and the Constitution; AIPAC's War on Democracy and Capitol Hill Citizen"
There will be an Al-Quds Day rally in New York City (at Times Square; at the corner 42nd Street and Broadway) Friday, March 28th at 4pm; from the Al-Quds Day Committee of New York: "Al Quds Day demonstrates the unity, will, and power of those seeking justice in the face of arrogant imperialist powers today. All are requested to attend." Al-Quds Day (or Jerusalem Day) is the last Friday in the month of Ramadan: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quds_Day
[Peak ornamental cherry blossoms in Washington, DC (two weeks??)? But the National Festival is March 20th-April 13th: nationalcherryblossomfestival.org ]
The 17th Annual Small Treasures Juried Exhibition will be at the Cary Gallery of Artists March 28, 2025 to April 22, 2025; events March 29th and 30th (?): www.carygalleryofartists.org/small-treasures
March 28th-May 11th: ackland.org/exhibition/phantom-limb-selected-works-by-the-mfa-class-of-2025/
"The Ethics of Memory with David Treuer, Ryan Falcioni, and Bz Zhang" will be March 28th 5:30pm- 7:00pm at Duke's Nasher Museum of Art; organized by the Kenan Institute for Ethics: kenan.ethics.duke.edu/event/the-ethics-of-memory-with-david-treuer-ryan-falcioni-and-bz-zhang/
From BAJ; slightly edited:
Photography, Documentary and Music
Reclaim Indigenous Historical Memory
Featuring
There will be a partial solar eclipse around 6:32am EDT on the 29th (the New Moon), visible from northwestern Russia to the US Northeast, and from northwestern Africa to Greenland, but best seen from northern Quebec, Canada and dropping to 1% coverage of the Sun in Washington, DC; see is.gd/2025partial
Mars will appear closer than half a degree from Pollux, the brightest star in Gemini, on March 30th.
The Moon will be at perigee March 30th at 1:25am EDT.
Venus and Saturn will appear 10 degrees apart on the 30th, around 2am?
The free Triangle Bonsai Society Expo 2025 will be at the NCBG March 29-30th.
"History Hike: The Civil War at West Point on the Eno" will be March 29th at 10am in Durham: durhamparksandrecreation.substack.com/p/explore-nineteenth-century-durhams
The African American Legacy in Gardening and Horticulture Symposium will be March 29th 9:30am-4:30pm at the Hayti Heritage Center in Durham; in-person and online; preregistration required.
The 8th annual KoreaFest will be March 29th 10am-3pm at the NC State Fairgrounds in Raleigh (?): www.inwavemovement.com/koreafest-2025
The Chatham County AgFest will be March 29th 10am-3pm at the Chatham County Agriculture and Conference Center (1192 US 64 West Business in Pittsboro); Grand Trees of Chatham will be tabling, etc. [ growingchatham.my.canva.site/heading and growingsmallfarms.ces.ncsu.edu/2024/11/2025-ag-fest/ ]
March 29th at 10am at the Constitution Party of North Carolina State Convention – 3901 Raeford Road in Fayetteville, NC 28304: secure.anedot.com/the-constitution-party-of-north-carolina/gunraffle
Stop the Coup – March 29th at 1pm at 1898 Memorial Park in Wilmington, NC (1018 North 3rd Street): emancipatenc.org/stop-the-coup/
[BST began in the UK March 30th? The BBC's Hard Talk program ends soon.]
Israeli Apartheid Week (March 21-30; “People Power Makes Apartheid History” "Resist. Rise. Decolonize." – bdsmovement.net ) and National Farmworker Awareness Week (March 25-31; saf-unite.org/national-farmworker-awareness-week/ ) are at the end of March. More? It was or still is Agriculture Week?
[Free Stuff Market in Raleigh March 30th: triangleonthecheap.com ]
[Philip Hoare at the Oxford Literary Festival in the UK: oxfordliteraryfestival.org/literature-events/2025/march-31/william-blake-the-sea-monsters-of-love ]
Forsyth Creek Week 2025 is March 22nd-31st: www.forsythcreekweek.org
Eid al-Fitr (the end of Ramadan) will be March 31st.
Participatory Budgeting (PB Durham) by March 31st: www.pbdurham.org
The annual NC Science Festival is held throughout April and throughout the State; organized by UNC's Morehead Planetarium.and presented by RTI (?). [ ncsciencefestival.org/ ]
From HASTRO, on the 1st:
Early the night of April 1st "...most of Europe will be able to observe an occultation of several stars in the Pleiades by the 3-day old lunar crescent." –
www.imcce.fr/lettre-information/archives/222#current-article1
In "most of North America," earlier in the evening –
ssp.imcce.fr/forms/occultations/HIP-17499/301/2025-04-01G "
Land Back
Indigenous Resistance from Turtle Island to Palestine
Click here to register for the livestream of the meeting
Join several organizations on Land Day 2025 to discuss land back efforts from the Levant to Turtle Island. From an internationalist and anti-capitalist perspective, we will discuss forms of resisting occupation, honoring the land, and indigeneity.
Register at: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_EsigybMrTYOR4QYteNvCzQ#/registration
[Mama Cookie Day April 3rd 2-5pm in Durham; USSW: www.instagram.com/raiseupthesouth/p/C5WLOBMs7Y6/]
[From Democracy North Carolina:
Beyond Vietnam – A Time to Break Silence Event
Join us on Thursday, April 3, starting at 7:00 PM, as we discuss King's courage to speak truth to power, even when it cost him allies and endangered his life, and how it calls us to similar moral courage today.
- What: "Beyond Vietnam – A Time to Break Silence"
- When: Thursday, April 3rd at 7:00 PM
- Where: Virtual Event registration
www.mobilize.us/democracync/event/771829/ and www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkatimetobreaksilence.htm [
[Earth in Focus: A Dialogue Between Art and Environment opening reception April 4th 6-8pm at (?) the Halle Cultural Arts Center of Apex (237 Salem Street in Apex, NC) [on exhibit through May]: chathamartistsguild.org/artists/irena-cepulyte ] [Tapping into Spirit - Featured Artists Exhibit at the Hillsborough Gallery of Arts (121 North Churton Street in Hillsborough, NC) through April 20th: chathamartistsguild.org/artists/martha-danek/ ]
[A Star Party at the White Oak parking area of the ATT (1305 White Oak Church Road in Apex) Friday, April 4th (April 5th if the weather is poor on the 5th) 6:30-9:30pm: wake.gov/StarParty ]
[A Star Party at the White Oak parking area of the ATT (1305 White Oak Church Road in Apex) Friday, April 4th (April 5th if the weather is poor on the 5th) 6:30-9:30pm; part of the Statewide Star Party and the NC Science Festival: wake.gov/StarParty and ncsciencefestival.org/ – #NCSciFest #EveryDayWhereOne #EveryDayScience #GoKelvinGo]
The Subaru Cherry Blossom Festival and Sakura Weekend [April 5-6th] in Philadelphia will be in early April : PhillySakura.org
Arbor Day in Cary will be (or was)... [Arbor Day was March 21st in North Carolina overall in 2025: www.arborday.org/celebrate/globe and March 22nd 12-3pm in Cary, at the Town Hall; part of Tree City USA for 42 years: www.carync.gov/recreation-enjoyment/events/environmental-events/arbor-day Durham?]
Durham's annual Full Frame Documentary Film Festival [the 17th?] will be... [April 3rd-6th; many of the featured documentaries are about the Ukraine War and at least one is about Palestine: www.fullframefest.org ]
Raleigh's Dreamville music festival, the last, will be... [April 5-6th: dreamvillefest.com/home/ ]
There will be Hands Off! rallies on around Saturday, April 5th, there will be a national rally that day at the Washington Monument in DC 12-3:30pm ET: handsoff2025.com/ [Events in Durham, Chapel Hill, Raleigh, Wilmington, Hickory, Hendersonville, Asheville, Greenville, Greensboro, Watauga County, and a few other places?]
There will be a March on Washington – Stop the Genocide! in in DC the same day at 1pm: marchforpalestine.org/bus Buses will be coming from Raleigh, Charlotte, Columbia (SC), Atlanta, Tampa Bay, Richmond, Newark, throughout New York City, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Dearborn, Chicago, Providence, Montpelier, Martinsburg (WV), and more.
Someone from the Close Guantanamo Coalition recommends: CUT (government) COSTS-CLOSE GUANTANAMO and CUT WASTE-CLOSE GUANTANAMO
The Party for the Pine 2025 will be April 5th 10am-3pm at Weymouth Woods State Park in Southern Pines, NC: friendsofwewo.org/party-for-the-pine-2025
There will be Revolutionary War living history events in Hillsborough, NC 10am-4pm April 5th: visithillsboroughnc.com/event/revolutionary-war-living-history-day-3/
[Beyond the Book Children’s Book and Art Festival 10m-3pm April 5th: triangleonthecheap.com ]
[The Apex Holi Festival will be April 5th: triangleonthecheap.com ]
In the UK April 5-6th: weirdweekendnorth.com
Earth Day and Open Streets in Carrboro: "Enjoy a car-free Weaver Street on Sunday, April 6 from noon to 4 p.m." – www.carrboronc.gov/745/Carrboro-Earth-Day-Open-Streets
Joshua Hamilton, former Director of the Multicultural Center at the University of North Texas.
Professor Bryan McCann, United Campus Workers; secretary of the Louisiana State University AAUP.
Professor Pranav Jani, president, AAUP-Ohio State University; advisor, SJP-Ohio State
Kristen Godfried, Arizona PhD student, organizer, and Tempest member
Moderated by Professor Dana Cloud, AAUP-University of Cincinnati ]
SILER CITY, NC—The Friends of the Wren Memorial Library will host a book sale on April 11 – 12, 2025, at the Wren Memorial Library. This event is free and open to the public.
WHAT: Friends of the Wren Memorial Library Book Sale
WHEN: Friday, April 11: 2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Saturday, April 12: 10 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
WHERE: Wren Memorial Library
500 N 2nd Ave
Siler City, NC 27344
WHO: Friends of the Wren Memorial Library
The Chatham County community is invited to the Friends of the Wren Memorial Library Book Sale. This sale features over 3,000 items, including hardbacks, softbacks, DVDs, audio books, and CDs.
Items are sorted and conveniently displayed for easy browsing, including a larger than usual number of North Carolina history books. Admission is free, and purchases may be made by cash, check, or card. All proceeds from the book sale are used to benefit the library for programs; purchasing needed books, materials, and equipment; and improving its technology and services.
For more information about the sale, call the library at Call: 919-742-2016 919-742-2016 or contact the Friends of the Wren Memorial Library at wrenfriends2[at gmail com].
Kara Lusk
Public Information Officer
Chatham County Government"
[From Friends of Lower Haw River:
Nature Photo Outing with Dr. Kevin Ricker
Date [and] Time: April 12th from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm
Location: US 64 Haw River Canoe Access at 348 River Access Road, Pittsboro NC 27312
Friends of Lower Haw is offering this free event that is open to the public. Meet nature photographer Dr. Kevin Ricker and join him on a walking tour where he will point out common places to find different species of wildlife, where to take cool photos, and different approaches to photographing wildlife. He will be taking photographs of wildlife we see during the walk, so this is a great opportunity to see how he gets such great images. Bring your own camera if you want to, but it is not mandatory. We will be walking in the Lower Haw River State Natural Area on uneven ground so wear sturdy shoes and bring your own drinking water. This outing is part of our “Meet the Photographer” series that offers the opportunity for a fascinating "behind the scenes" experience with a nature photographer. See Dr. Kev's nature photos @chathampediatricdentistry
Friends of Lower Haw River
lowerhawevents [at gmail com] ]
[The 25th Annual Triangle Lebanese Festival will be April 12-13th at the Triangle Lebanese-American Center in Raleigh: triangleonthecheap.com ]
NC Pilgrimage for Peace and Justice should be in mid-April? See Witness for Peace Southeast, renamed?
Good Friday is April 18th in 2025, in both Eastern and Western Christianity and Easter Sunday is April 20th. – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Friday and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_of_Easter
International Dark-Sky Week is held annually the week of the New Moon in April, and highlights light pollution and stargazing: idsw.darksky.org [April 21-28 in 2025]
[From the Chatham Artists Guild – wildlife photography by Barb Case at:
Raleigh Underground Market - Sun., April 13th & May 11th, 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Midtown Park - North Hills 4011 Cardinal at North Hills St, Raleigh, NC
Cary Spring Daze Arts [and] Crafts Festival - Sat., April 26th, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Fred G. Bond Metro Park, 801 High House Road, Cary, NC Booth #D411
Mystic Mother's Day Market - Sat., May 10th, 12:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Mystic Farm & Distilling CO 1413 Stallings Rd, Durham, NC]
[Shut Down Drone Warfare – April 20-26th at Holloman AFB in Alamogordo, New Mexico: www.shutdowndronewarfare.org/
The relatively strong Lyrid meteor shower is visible April 14-30, and peaks on the 22nd.
[The Blake Society – April 23rd at 7:30pm, "free and online," Mark Crosby talks about Blake’s formative years as an apprentice engraver.]
[A few local Earth and Arbor Day events will be around April 25-27th: triangleonthecheap.com ]
[April 25-27th in Durham: www.keepdurhambeautiful.org/events/2025/gardentour ]
A Spring Plant Sale during Raulston Blooms, 10am-pm April 26th at the JCRA in Raleigh.
[Historic Garden Week is April 26th-May 3rd?]
[Friday, April 28th is the international Save the Frogs Day ( savethefrogs.com ) and Workers' Memorial Day (there is usually an event in Raleigh).]
Asteroid Vesta will reach opposition May 2nd, and be closest to the Earth five days later; potentially it could be seen just by eyesight.
The NCBG's Spring Native Plant Sale will be 9am-2pm on Saturday, May 3rd.
[The Durham Greek Festival will be Saturday, May 3rd-Sunday, May 4th: triangleonthecheap.com ]
[30th Annual Art in the Garden Sculpture Exhibition 2025 – Garden Art Gallery, 1902 Borland Road, Hillsborough, NC: garden-art-gallery.com ]
[May 16-18th in Sumter, SC: www.sumtersc.gov/tourism/things-do/festivals-events/iris-festival ]
[May 19th at 6pm: www.eventbrite.com/e/lecture-ufos-men-in-black-and-the-unbelievable-life-of-gray-barker-tickets-1259769176519 ]
[From SOAW: May 26th-June 1st – "22nd annual Migrant Trail, a 75-mile pilgrimage from Sasabe, Sonora, to Tucson, Arizona" – azmigranttrail.com ]
[Ocrafolk Festival (June 6–8, 2025) – ocracokealive.org ]
[The 46th Annual Festival for the Eno.]
[In Pittsboro: a new Fall Sculpture Show – September 19-20th; the deadline for submissions is May 1, 2025: theplantnc.com ]
Originally posted at: nepajac.org/stoptheattacksonpalestinianrightactivists.htm
Stop the attacks on Palestinian Rights Activists
A UNAC Statement
3/17/2025
Mahmoud Khalil, a Syrian born Palestinian and former graduate student at Columbia University, has been detained in a prison in Louisiana and threatened with deportation for his association with pro-Palestine protests at Columbia, where he was a negotiator between the University and the student activists. He is not the only foreign student to be threatened with deportation over his participation in these actions. At Cornell University, Momodou Taal, a Gambian-born UK citizen has been fighting expulsion and deportation for his participation in pro-Palestine protests, and at Yale, Dr. Helyeh Doutaghi, an Associate Research Scholar from Iran has been suspended for an alleged connection with Samidoun, an organization that supports Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons. There are tens of thousands of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons, many of them incarcerated without charge.
The detention and threat of deportation against Mahmoud Khalil and the punitive actions against other foreign students is a continuation of state repression practiced by Donald Trump and by his predecessors. The accusations against Khalil and the others are inventions meant to make examples of them and crush opposition to United States complicity in Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.
Zionist groups openly boast of giving the Trump administration names of non-citizens who they want to see deported. Yet Trump’s actions are an extension of the Patriot Act, the illegal detentions at Guantanamo Bay, and of institutions like Columbia University working with police departments to end peaceful protests. At other institutions faculty have been fired and students have been suspended or even expelled in an effort to placate the state and their own wealthy donors.
Trump is not just claiming a right to deport non-citizens who exercise their rights to speak and assemble freely, but he is continuing the Biden administration’s commitment to ethnic cleansing in Gaza, while Israel continues bombing and cutting off water and electricity, which are war crimes by definition, and in violation of a ceasefire agreement. Like other presidents, Trump is bombing Ansar Allah and civilians in Yemen to punish their steadfast solidarity with Palestine. The Obama/Clinton initiative to destroy the Syrian Republic has also come to fruition, with the leader of Al Qaeda in Syria now ruling the country. At the same time, his multinational force of Takfiri-Wahhabi-Salifist extremists slaughters Alawite, Shia and Christian Syrians in the thousands.
Palestine is not the only point of contention that drives the state to repress speech. The Uhuru 3 were indicted by the Biden Department of Justice, accused of being Russian agents when they spoke against the proxy war in Ukraine. They were ultimately acquitted, but their case exemplified the commitment to silence individuals and movements who speak out against U.S. imperialism. The most common form of repression in the U.S. is the police state, as in Chicago, where the local police department ran a black site prison, Homan Square, with the help of the Justice Department under the Obama, Trump, and Biden presidencies.
Trump’s deportations in violation of court orders are a new threat to human rights. But Guantanamo Bay still holds prisoners, and the Patriot Act has been renewed several times since it was first passed in 2001.
UNAC demands freedom for Mahmoud Khalil and others repressed for exercising their rights to speak and assemble freely, an end to genocide and wars of aggression, and the end of university complicity in the suppression of political speech.
Free Palestine!
Stop Deportations!
Free all Political Prisoners!
Defend the Human Rights of Free Speech and Assembly!
Stop Imperialist Aggression!
David Herbert Lawrence (September 11, 1885 – March 2, 1930).
Luther Burbank (March 7, 1849 – April 11, 1926): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther_Burbank
Founded [or incorporated] March 13, 1893 [?]: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grass_Valley,_California
[ michaelharrison.org.uk/2015/03/16th-march-1968-my-lai-massacre/ ]
[Arbor Day was March 21st in North Carolina in 2025: www.arborday.org/celebrate/globe ]
[Jeremy John Wade, host of River Monsters (aired 2009–2017), etc., was born March 23, 1956 in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Wade ]
Paleontologist Robert Thomas Bakker was born March 24, 1945 in Bergen County, New Jersey; author of The Dinosaur Heresies (1986)and Raptor Red (1995): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_T._Bakker and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaur_renaissance
Bridget Rose Dugdale (March 25, 1941 – March 18, 2024): mronline.org/2024/04/04/dr-rose-dugdale-fighter-for-irish-freedom-student-of-chairman-mao/ and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Dugdale
World Water Day is March 22nd every year: www.un.org/en/observances/international-days-and-weeks and www.un.org/en/observances/water-day /Theme – "Glacier Preservation" in 2025?
The intentional crash of Germanwings Flight 9525 in the high French Massif des Trois-Évêchés mountain range was March 24, 2015: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanwings_Flight_9525
Thity-nine members of the Heaven's Gate cult were found dead March 26, 1997 in Rancho Santa Fe, San Diego, having committed mass suicide so that their souls could board a spacecraft they believed to be following Comet Hale-Bopp, a very bright comet at the time. Comet Hyakutake was bright the March before, though I think my memory wants to say that Hale-Bopp was first and that I saw both, without optical aids.
The "Saudi Coalition," materially supported by the US, intervened in the Yemeni Civil War March 26, 2015, fighting the Ansar Allah (Houthi) coalition (termed Operation Decisive Storm). See also: cpcml.ca/Tmlm2023/MS5302.HTM#4 US ending in 2021??
[March 26th is Make Up Your Own Holiday Day – Days of the Year website.]
Manatee Appreciation Day is supposed to be the last Wednesday in March, the 26th in 2025.
A "'bright light'" was reportedly seen in Lyons, Wayne County, New York December 9, 1891, January 5, 1892, February 2, February 29, March 27, April 23 – Weird America: A Guide to Places of Mystery in the United States, by Jim Brandon, 1978.
Russian revolutionary Sergei Kirov was born March 27, 1886 in Urzhum, Russia, in what is now Kirov Oblast. He was assassinated December 1, 1934 at the Smolny Institute in Leningrad; his ashes were placed in the Kremlin Wall necropolis: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Kirov
Two Boeing 747s collided on a runway in Tenerife in the Canary Islands March 27, 1977, the deadliest airliner crash.
Hungarian sociologist Karl Mannheim (Károly Manheim), author of Ideology and Utopia, was born March 27, 1893 in Budapest; he passed away January 9, 1947.
The North Carolina Green Party gained official recognition March 27, 2018, meaning people could register as Greens and the Green Party could appear on ballots, making it easier for Greens to run for office ( www.ncgreenparty.org/sb656 ). It lost recognition again after the 2020 election, and then had to petition again and even go the courts to force the Democrat-run NC State Board Elections to follow the law in 2022 and again in 2024.
[March 27th is International Scribble Day – Days of the Year website.]
Soviet writer Maxim Gorky (Alexei Maximovich Peshkov) was born March 28, 1868. Some of his works are online at: www.marxists.org/archive/gorky-maxim/index.htm and in print from redstarpublishers.org/
The second known asteroid, 2 Pallas, was discovered March 28, 1802 by German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthaus Olbers.
Silo Plowshares
On March 28, 1986 (Good Friday that year) five peace activists damaged two Minuteman II ballistic missile silos controlled from Whiteman Air Force Base, near Holden, Missouri. The activists displayed banners including ""Disarmament - An Act of Healing." Working in two groups, they used sledgehammers to damage the tracks used to open the 120-ton silo covers, used masonry hammers to damage sensors, and cut wires. They drew crosses in blood on the silo covers and wrote "Disarm and Live" and "For the Children" with spraypaint on the silo pads. They also indicted the government for violating religious and secular law and indicted churches that abet the arms race. About 40 minutes later they were arrested by military police. They were found guilty of destroying government property and conspiracy. Three were jailed for contempt because they refused to answer questions, such as who had alerted CBS' "60 Minutes" about the action. The remaining two were again jailed for lack of cooperation in protest of the three jailed for contempt. Four were sentenced to eight years imprisonment and five years probation and one to seven years imprisonment and the same five years probation. All were fined $100 dollars, two had to pay $1680 in restitution and two $424. These summaries come from Swords Into Plowshares: Nonviolent Direct Action for Disarmament, edited by Arthur J Laffin and Anne Montgomery, and published in 1987.
March 28th is Weed Appreciation Day, etc. – the National Day Calendar website.
[March 28th is Respect Your Cat Day – Days of the Year website.]
Al-Quds Day (or Jerusalem Day) is the last Friday in the month of Ramadan: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quds_Day
Lavrenti Pavlovich Beria was born March 29, 1899 in what is now Abkhazia, a Soviet autonomous republic that seceded from the Republic of Georgia after Georgia seceded from the disintegrating USSR. Beria and people associated with him were tried and executed December 23, 1953, paving the way for Khrushchev's rise, though it has been alleged that Beria poisoned Stalin and was involved in other crimes. Some of Beria's works are online at: www.marxists.org/archive/beria/index.htm , neodemocracy.blogspot.com/search/label/Beria , michaelharrison.org.uk/2022/03/writings-of-the-soviet-leadership/ , and in print from redstarpublishers.org ; there is some discussion of Beria in articles at ml-review.ca/aml/index/subject.html#b
The Maoist New People's Army, armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines (English-language website: cpp.ph/ ), was established March 29, 1969 and has been waging armed struggle ever since. The US government classified it as a "terrorist" group in 2002. I think this Smithsonian Folkways CD has music from the NPA : folkways.si.edu/philippines-bangon-arise/historical-song-struggle-protest-world/music/album/Smithsonian
The Communist Party of the Philippines was founded December 26, 1968, according to Wikipedia, and the CPP's armed wing, the New People's Army, was founded March 29, 1969. Copying Alliance! at a UPS Store I heard that the guerilla army has been referred to as "No Postal Address." I don't know if that is true or what it amounts to. The US Socialist Unity Party hailed the Philippine Revolution on the 55th anniversary of the CPP; "From Palestine to the Philippines stop the US war machine!:" www.struggle-la-lucha.org/2023/12/30/statement-on-the-55th-anniversary-of-the-communist-party-of-the-philippines/
March 29th is the unofficial Day of the Young Combatant / Día del joven combatiente in Chile, commemorating the killing of Rafael and Eduardo Vergara Toledo, brothers who allegedly belonged to MIR (Revolutionary Left Movement) during the US and China-supported Pinochet dictatorship.
The Gulf War Did Not Take Place / La Guerre du Golfe n'a pas eu lieu by French sociologist Jean Baudrillard (July 27, 1929 – March 6, 2007) was published in Libération and The Guardian newspapers in a series, January 4, February 6, and March 29 in 1991. Referred to in: www.workers.org/2024/02/76700/
Two Army HH60 Black Hawk helicopters from the 101st Airborne Division crashed during training the night of March 29, 2023 near Fort Campbell, in western Kentucky near Hopkinsville and Clarksville: www.foxnews.com/us/fort-campbell-helicopter-crash-kentucky-gov-andy-beshear-confirms-multiple-fatalities-expected
[March 29th is Smoke and Mirrors Day – Days of the Year website.]
Russian revolutionary Alexandra Kollontai was born March 31, 1872. See also: www.marxists.org/archive/kollonta/index.htm , neodemocracy.blogspot.com/search/label/Kolontai , michaelharrison.org.uk/2022/03/writings-of-the-soviet-leadership/ , and redstarpublishers.org/ See also the March 8, 2023 posts here and recent posts on mltheory.wordpress.com. [And: mltheory.wordpress.com/2025/03/24/reminiscence-about-a-certain-visit-on-the-death-of-a-kollontai-1952/ ]
The annual US Farmworker Awareness Week is March 25-31, ending on the birth anniversary of labor organizer Cesar Chavez in 1927 in Yuma, Arizona (Chavez passed away April 23, 1993 in San Luis, Arizona, near Yuma): saf-unite.org/national-farmworker-awareness-week/ , en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesar_Chavez and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesar_Chavez_Day He worked closely with Dolores Huerta, born April 10, 1930 in what is now the ghost town of Dawson, New Mexico, near Cimarron: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolores_Huerta
[George Henson Page, host of Nature, etc. was born March 31, 1935 in Hartwell, Georgia and passed away June 28, 2006 in Equinunk, Pennsylvania: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Page_(television_presenter) ]
Ilir Hoxha was born March 31, 1949 and was also imprisoned for years after the counterrevolution in Albania.
A US-backed military coup in Brazil beginning March 31, 1964 installed a brutal military government that lasted until 1985, praised by former rightist president Jair Bolsonaro.
According to Wikipedia, the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist), known as the Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada for electoral purposes, to separate it from the unrelated Communist Party of Canada, was founded March 31, 1970. On the 53rd anniversary: cpcml.ca/Tmlm2023/MS5304.HTM#1 On the 54th: cpcml.ca/cpcmlarticle2403311409/ Some music from the CPCML is online at: www.youtube.com/channel/UCGM05kHPxsmToUjm-sSZefg
Activist Norman David Mayer (March 31, 1916 – December 9, 1982), claiming to have explosives, threatened to blow up the Washington Monument December 8, 1982, over nuclear weapons; he was shot and killed.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_holdout – "holdouts" after WWII: December 1, 1945; January 1, 1946; late March-April 1947; May 12, 1948; January 6, 1949; March 1950; June 27, 1951 and later; 1953; May 1954; November 1955, November 1956; May 1960; May 23, 1960; January 24, 1972; October 1972, March 1974; December 18, 1974; etc and unconfirmed 1980-May 2005? Others joined national uprisings and civil wars in East and Southeast Asia.
Giuseppina Pasqualino di Marineo (December 9, 1974 – March 31, 2008 in Gebze, Turkey): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pippa_Bacca
March 31st is the International Transgender Day of Visibility, declared in 2009 and officially proclaimed by Biden in 2021, and Cesar Chavez Day (March 31, 1927 – April 23, 1993), proclaimed nationally in 2014 by Obama, at the end of Farmworker Awareness Week: saf-unite.org/national-farmworker-awareness-week/
[March 31st is Crayon Day – Days of the Year website.]
[March 31st is Tater Day, Bunsen Burner Day, Crayon Day, etc.; the public Bellevue Hospital in New York City in 1736; Wabash, Indiana was reportedly lit with electric streetlights by March 31, 1880; DST in 1918; the Marshall Aid Act was passed in 1948; the creation of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare in 1953; Vietnam War US surge ordered in 1968; 10 Things I Hate About You, based on The Taming of the Shrew, came out March 31, 1999? – the National Day Calendar website.]
It was reported that slices of meat fell from a cloud near Cloverlea (Clover Lea? Not Clover leaf), on the south bank of the Pamunkey River, close to Richmond (?), in Hanover County, Virginia, on land belonging to Dr GW Bassett, a medical doctor, on Good Friday, 1850. The brief mention in Weird America: A Guide to Places of Mystery in the United States (page 175) says that the cloud was red. In Unnatural Phenomena: A Guide to the Bizarre Wonders of North America it is said that several men observed a small cloud going northeast to southwest overhead and fragments of flesh and liver fell over a span of 5 yards. Bassett and another person picked up 15 – 20 samples, some of which weighed an ounce, the next morning. The samples were preserved in alcohol and one was sent to a doctor in Richmond. This Dr Bassett seems to be the George Washington Bassett (August 23, 1800 – August 25, 1878) buried in Old Church, Hanover County – www.findagrave.com/memorial/6446088/george-washington-bassett
By Easter Sunday 1987 every known California condor had been captured, for a captive breeding program. The birds were de-loused, apparently exterminating the California condor louse Colpocephalum californici , discovered in 1963, destroying the information that could have been gained from studying them and possibly causing future problems for the condors, when they get new parasites, the ecological niche of their skin or feathers now being vacant. Insights into human evolution have come through the study of our parasites, also going extinct, just through better hygiene or through active extermination campaigns, though some are generalists and could live without feeding on us. I feel like there is some tension or problematic questions that public health workers and officials ignore. The BBC frequently reminds me of it. Apparently when the first nuclear bomb was detonated there was some acknowledgement of the magnitude of what the Manhattan Project had done or achieved. More examples at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation-induced_extinction
Muhammad XII of the Emirate of Granada surrendered January 2, 1492, ending the Reconquest of what is now Spain from Muslim rulers, just before the seizure of a Spanish empire in the New Word. There were two rebellions of the Alpujarras around December 18, 1499 to April 1501 and December 24, 1568 to March 1571.
The Diggers began occupying Saint George's Hill, Weybridge in Surrey, England April 1, 1649: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diggers ? Billy Bragg has a song about it.
January 17, 1771, or December 5, 1770 to April 1. 1771, Chatham County, NC was created? – www.chathamcountync.gov/our-community/learn-more-about-chatham-county\
Germany's "Iron Chancellor," Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck or Otto, Prince of Bismarck, Count of Bismarck-Schönhausen, Duke of Lauenburg (April 1, 1815 – July 30 1898): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_von_Bismarck
Wikipedia dates the First Red Scare as being January 21, 1919 to April 1, 1920, and the Palmer Raids took place November 1919 and January 1920, under President Woodrow Wilson.
The great Gastonia textile strike of 1929, near Charlotte, North Carolina, was April 1st-September 14th at the Loray Mill. The chief of police and a striker were killed during the violence, several people on the union side were imprisoned, and two leaders fled to the USSR. An event April 2nd.
The Catalonia Offensive, December 23, 1938 to February 10, 1939, during the Spanish Civil War, July 17, 1936 to April 1, 1939.
The Spanish Civil War ended April 1, 1939, with the Nationalists, aided by Germany, Italy, Portugal, and others, overthrowing the Second Republic, aided by the USSR, Mexico, secretly by France, and others. Many volunteers from other countries fought on both sides.
The Hainan Incident, George W Bush's first foreign policy crisis, was April 1, 2001, and resulted in the destruction of a Chinese PLA Navy J-8II fighter and the presumed death of pilot Lt Cmdr Wang Wei and the capture of the offending US Navy EP-3 ARIES and its 24 crew members when they landed at a Chinese base. The EP-3 was shipped back to the US in pieces and rebuilt. EP-3's and military aircraft from other countries apparently came very close January 29 and November 5, 2018 over the Black Sea, July 19, 2019 near Venezuela, etc, in each case the US claiming to be the innocent party, operating over international waters.
April 1st is Fossil Fools Day noting the foolishness of burning more fossil fuels and polluting the atmosphere, started in 2004. April Fool's Day has been marked for at least hundreds of years. April 1st is also Edible Book Day.
The Sacred Stone Camp, a center of resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline, was established April 1, 2016. In 2025 there was a lawsuit to neutralize Greenpeace.
The US Capitol Car Attack was April 2, 2021.
Early on April 16, 2013 several people cut communication cables and then carefully shot up 17 transformers at PG and E's Metcalf substation in Coyote, near San Jose, California, but there wasn't much power loss: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalf_sniper_attack In August and October of that year one man attacked electrical equipment in central Arkansas. In March and April 1975 a guarded PG and E substation was bombed twice by the NWLF, or so they claimed. December 31st that year the George Jackson Brigade bombed a substation in Seattle. In 2016 a man shot at a substation in Utah and had plans for further attacks. November 11, 2022 a Carteret-Craven Electric Cooperative substation in Jones County, NC was vandalized, knocking out power for over 12,000 people. In late November 2023 (?) there were at least six attacks in the Pacific Northwest, two with guns. The morning of December 25th four substations were attacked around Tacoma, knocking out the power to more than 14,000 people. Two men were arrested January 3rd, but apparently did it only as part of a plan for burglaries. There were also attacks on electrical infrastructure in Brazil around January 8, 2023. A man was arrested on suspicion that he bombed PG and E transformers in December and January 2022-23? – abc7news.com/san-jose-explosives-pge-transformers-blown-up-peter-karasev-arrest-sj-man-arrested-in/12910094/ , en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_grid_security_in_the_United_States
A Reichsbürger monarchist coup plot was allegedly foiled December 7, 2022 in Germany. In April 2017 rightist soldiers in Germany's special forces were charged with planning to assassinate several politicians in a Day X plot.
The advanced F-22's first kill was a lost Chinese research "airship"/weather balloon or a sinister Chinese spy balloon, violating US sovereignty, until it was shot down at great expense as it was leaving US territory off of South Carolina February 4th (near Hainan, China January 15, 2023, the Aleutians in AK January 28th, over Canada January 30th, Idaho January 31st, seen from an airliner, near Billings, Montana February 1st; NORAD supposedly knew about it for days before February 2nd). The US media portrays it as China accidentally or intentionally derailing an attempt to cool US-China tensions, but it could be asked whether a faction in the US government created an incident to worsen relations. I heard recently that a military official expected the US war with China to start in 2025, and earlier testimony to Congress predicted war by something like 2028, rather than decades from now. Consider the comments at: www.nakedcapitalism.com/2023/02/chinese-spy-balloon-over-the-us-an-aerospace-expert-explains-how-the-balloons-work-and-what-they-can-see.html First aircraft shot down over the USA after WWII and the highest air-to air ever, supposedly?? February 2 Costa Rica, Colombia, and Venezuela; February 9-10 Beaufort Sea, AK; February 11 Yukon; February 11-12 Lake Huron; February 12 Shandong; February 14 Romania and Moldova; February 16 Shijiazhuang Zhengding International Airport in Hebei; February 19 northeast of Hawaii; April-May over HI, going towards Mexico, but these UFOs stopped being news: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Chinese_balloon_incident and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_high-altitude_object_events_in_2023
Charlemagne (around April 2, 748 – January 28, 814): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlemagne
Florida joined the Union, March 3, 1845, seceded January 10, 1861, and rejoined the Union June 25, 1868. It had been named April 2, 1513. The first known Christian marriage in the territory of the lower 48 of the future US is supposed to have been a mixed race marriage in Florida in 1565: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida
German naturalist and artist Maria Sibylla Merian was born April 2, 1647 in Frankfort, at the time part of the Holy Roman Empire. She passed away January 13, 1717 in Amsterdam and is especially known for studying insects and spent a few years studying the plants and animals of what is today Suriname. Several species have been named for her and she was honored on a West German postage stamp, the 500 Deutsche Mark note, and in 2013 on Google's homepage.
"The father of meteoritics," German physicist Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni November 30, 1756 – April 3, 1827
[Naturalist and author John Burroughs (April 3, 1837 in Roxbury, New York – March 29, 1921 on a train in the vicinity of Kingsville, in the northeast corner of Ohio; his grave is in Roxbury, in New York's Delaware County): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Burroughs ]
The Jeju Uprising on Jeju Island off the south end of what is now the Republic of Korea officially began April 3, 1948 and ended in 1949, after tens of thousands had been killed. The ROK police and military apologized for the brutal suppression of the uprising April 3 in 2022? The US military directly controlled the southern part of Korea during most of this time and later the US had indirect control through the undemocratic ROK government it established.
There were many UFO reports in Lumberton, NC April 3-5, 1975, according to the book Weird Carolinas.
William Henry Harrison (February 9, 1773 – April 4, 1841): www.nps.gov/people/william-henry-harrison.htm
Originally posted here in October 2019 durhamspark.blogspot.com/2019/10/some-early-fall-events-and-anniversaries.html , durhamspark.blogspot.com/2020/03/some-events-and-anniversaries-this.html :
Garbis Altinoglu (pen name Gumus Velli) passed away in mid-October and his funeral was October 21st in Belgium. At one time he was a leader in the underground Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Turkey and was active in the International Struggle Marxist-Leninist project more recently. He was born April 4, 1946 in Armenia but lived in Turkey from a young age. After the military coup in 1980 he was arrested and held for 11 years, with torture and harsh conditions, after which he was exiled and became a refugee in Belgium. He wrote or translated a number of essays and books; for some of his English-language works posted online see: ml-review.ca/aml/AllianceIssues/ALL37-GARBISPRISONS2000.HTM , on repression, political prisoners, torture, and assassinations in Turkey up to 2000 (but still relevant today, as can be seen in Turkey's continuing suppression of leftists and activism and its fight against Kurdish self-determination both inside Turkey and in Syria and Iraq); ml-review.ca/aml/AllianceIssues/HIZBULLAHGA2000.HTM ; and ml-review.ca/aml/AllianceIssues/ALL35MLCP%28TURKEY%29GA2000.HTM , outlining some of the history of the communist movement in Turkey. A biographical article was planned for ml-today.com/ and there is a short biography at: theredphoenixapl.org/2019/10/27/in-memory-of-comrade-garbis-altinoglu-1946-2019/
Some of his works are online at: neodemocracy.blogspot.com/search/label/Garbis%20Alt%C4%B1noglu ]
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[April 4th is School Librarian Day, Vitamin C Day, etc. – the National Day Calendar website.]
April 4, 2024: a McDonald's buyout in Israel?
The second Japanese destroyer named Hibiki (Echo), in the Fubuki or Akatsuki-class of destroyers but similar to a light cruiser, was given to the USSR as a war reparation April 5, 1947 and renamed Verniy (Faithful) and later Dekabrist (Decembrist). The ship had been launched June 16, 1932 and was state of the art at the time. She was sunk at on apparently unrecorded date in the mid-70's.
The Weather-connected May 19th Communist Organization bombed an Israeli Aircraft Industries Building April 5, 1984.
Brian Avery, an International Solidarity Movement volunteer, was shot in the face by Israeli soldiers in an unprovoked attack April 5, 2003 in the West Bank, Palestine town of Jenin, leaving him with disfiguring injuries and other health problems. According to Wikipedia Israel denied any soldiers were in the area at the time, but Israel paid Avery $150,000 dollars to drop a lawsuit in 2008. Avery is from Connecticut but spent part of his childhood in Chapel Hill and was an student at UNC-Greensboro and last I heard lives in the state: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Avery_(activist)
April 5th: www.un.org/en/observances/conscience-day
[April 5th is Handmade Day – Days of the Year website.]
The Civil War Battle of Shiloh was April 6-7, 1862 in Tennessee, but very close to Mississippi.
The Civil War Battle of Sailor's Creek was April 6, 1865 near Farmville, Virginia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Sailor%27s_Creek
The USA officially entered WWI April 6, 1917, declaring war against Germany. The US had been indirectly supporting the Allies before entering the war against the Central powers in the first worldwide inter-imperialist war.
Following a coup that toppled an Axis-allied government, Germany bombed Belgrade, April 6-8, 1941, killing thousands, and then invaded with Italy, which was already occupying Albania. The UK bombed targets in Axis ally Bulgaria, though it was not formally at war with Bulgaria at the time. Yugoslavia surrendered April 17th and was later liberated by Yugoslav and Albanian partisans.
The war in Bosnia was around April 6, 1992 to December 14, 1995; February 28, 1994 air combat by NATO and its first bombing, ever, was April 10-11th: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnian_War
Tartan Day is April 6th.
April 6th: www.un.org/en/observances/sport-day
[April 6th is Pajama Day – Days of the Year website.]
Geologists Day is April 6th in 2025 (the first Sunday in April) and began in the USSR to commemorate an oil discovery.
Writer Marjory Stoneman Douglas was born April 7, 1890 in Minneapolis. She wrote The Everglades: River of Grass, published in 1947, and is known for her work to preserve Florida's Everglades as well as activism for women's suffrage, civil rights, civil liberties, the Equal Rights Amendment, and other causes. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjory_Stoneman_Douglas
Lê Duẩn, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam during the struggle against American imperialism, was born April 7, 1907 or 1908 in Bich La village, Triệu Đông, Triệu Phong, Quảng Trị Province, and passed away July 10, 1986. Some of his writings are online at: www.marxists.org/reference/archive/le-duan/index.htm and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lê_Duẩn
Italian communist leader Antonio Gramsci was born January 22, 1891. He was a leader of the Communist Party of Italy, founded January 21, 1921 and is well-known for works such as the Prison Notebooks, written while he was imprisoned by Italy's Fascist government. Prison conditions resulted in his death April 7, 1937. Some of his works are online at: www.marxists.org/archive/gramsci/index.htm
The Rwandan Genocide began April 7th and ended July 15, 1994: www.un.org/en/preventgenocide/rwanda/day-of-reflection.shtml and www.who.int/campaigns/world-health-day
Indian revolutionary Moni Guha passed away April 7, 2009: www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/rdv16n1/moniguha.htm , moniguha.blogspot.com/ , otheraspect.org/category/moni-guha/ , neodemocracy.blogspot.com/search/label/Moni%20Guha, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moni_Guha , etc. Some of his writings are available at redstarpublishers.org and there should be polemics at ml-review.ca/aml/index/subject.html
Edith Baumann (August 1, 1909 – April 7, 1973)
Timur or Tamerlane (1320s near Kesh, now in Uzbekistan – February 17–18, 1405 in Otrar, now in Kazakhstan; he is interred in the Gur-e-Amir mausoleum in Samarkand, Uzbekistan) was said to have been born April 8, 1336: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timur
A mystery airship, a period UFO, with a searchlight, reportedly travelled rapidly (but airships aren't noted for their speed even today) over Wilmington, North Carolina April 8, 1897, according to the book Weird Carolinas.
Seymour Myron "Sy" Hersh (born April 8, 1937).
Singer, actor, and activist Paul Robeson was born April 9, 1898. There are links to his English versions of the WWII-era Soviet and Chinese anthems in a previous post: durhamspark.blogspot.com/2017/04/communist-fight-songs-and-musical.html and he has a Marxist Internet Archive page at: www.marxists.org/archive/robeson/index.htm
Leila Khaled (ليلى خالد, born April 9, 1944).
April 9, 1948 a neutral Palestinian village near Jerusalem, Deir Yassin, was attacked by the Irgun and Lehi Zionist groups, which were later integrated into the Israeli military. The residents were killed during and after the fighting. The Kfar Shaul Mental Health Center was built over the remains of the village: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deir_Yassin_massacre
Interstate bus desegregation 7/16/1944, 4/9/1947, 4/12, 8/1/1952: chapelhillhistory.org/places/journey-of-reconciliation/ A page on the Peace and Justice Plaza as well.
Santiago Rafael Cruz, an employee of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee working at their office in Monterrey, Mexico was assassinated April 9, 2007. The crime might remain unsolved.
Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko will again be close to the Sun April 9, 2028.
Dolores Huerta, born April 10, 1930 in what is now the ghost town of Dawson, New Mexico, near Cimarron: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolores_Huerta
Anne Lamott (born April 10, 1954).
The Brightleaf (Mall? Square?) District gas explosion around 10:06-7am April 10, 2019 on North Duke Street in Durham; two killed, 25 injured, and that south or east-facing decades old mural of an Aztec warrior/knight seems to be gone, for whatever reason (see a previous post): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Durham_gas_explosion
A Green Party Day?
German social-democrat Ferdinand Lassalle was born April 11, 1825 in what is now Wrocław, Poland.
Enver Hoxha, Albanian partisan during WWII and later first secretary of the Party of Labor of Albania, passed away April 11, 1985. For more information see: www.enver-hoxha.net/ ; (in Russian): www.enverhoxha.ru/ , www.oneparty.co.uk/compass/compass/com13601.html , www.oneparty.co.uk/compass/compass/com13604.html (by son Ilir Hoxha), www.mltranslations.org/Albania/index.htm , marx2mao.com/Other/Index.html#EH , www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hoxha/index.htm , ml-review.ca/aml/index/subject.html , neodemocracy.blogspot.com/search/label/Enver%20Hodja , michaelharrison.org.uk/everything-you-want-or-need-to-know-about-albania/ , michaelharrison.org.uk/the-great-marxist-leninist-theoreticians/ , and some of his works are available in print from redstarpublishers.org/
There was a coup against elected Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez April 11, 2002 (whom Bernie Sanders called something like "a dead communist dictator"), something the Trump and Biden administrations and leading Democrats tried to repeat against the elected government of Nicolas Maduro.
British student and International Solidarity Movement volunteer Tom Hurndall was shot in the head by an Israeli soldier April 11, 2003 in Rafah, Gaza, Palestine. Hurndall was left comatose and died January 13, 2004. The shooter, Taysir Hayb, a Bedouin Israeli sniper, was sentenced to 8 years in prison and released after 6 and a half. Earlier Hurndall went to Iraq as part of a campaign to provide volunteer human shields to protect civilian infrastructure from Coalition bombing. The US government and Human Rights Watch condemned the shields, and the US considered prosecuting American volunteers as war criminals. Hurndall was born (November 27, 1981 in London, UK: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Hurndall
April 12 is Halifax Day, commemorating the Halifax Resolves in 1776, beginning the process of separation from the UK, a date also emblazoned on North Carolina's flag.
The US Civil War began and ended in April. The bombardment of Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor began April 12, 1861. The Civil War ended with several separate surrenders. Robert E Lee surrendered his forces at Appomattox, Virginia April 9, 1865. The largest Confederate surrender occurred at Bennett Place, now in Durham, when Joseph E Johnston surrendered his forces in the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida April 26th. Bennett Place State Historic Site usually holds an Annual Surrender Commemoration in late April: www.bennettplacehistoricsite.com/special-events/ Besides its historical value, Bennett Place is significant ecologically, since the land has been mostly left alone. According to Wikipedia, the last Confederate general to surrender was Cherokee leader Stand Watie, June 23rd, but the last surrender was Confederate commerce raider CSS Shenandoah, November 6, 1865 in Liverpool, UK. It could be argued that the Civil War continued into the Reconstruction period, which ended in 1877.
V.I. Lenin's older brother Aleksandr Ilyich Ulyanov was born April 12, 1866 in Nizhny Novgorod. He was involved with the group Narodnaya Volya and was executed May 20, 1887. He studied zoology and Lenin is supposed to have said something like a revolutionary can't devote so much time to the study of the annelids (earthworms, etc.). Aleksandr Ulyanov is the namesake of asteroid 2112 Ulyanov, discovered by Soviet astronomer Tamara Mikhailovna Smirnova July 13,1972 while on the Crimean Peninsula.
Proletarian novelist and critic Mike Gold was born (as Itzok Isaac Granich) in New York City's Lower East Side April 12, 1894 and passed away May 14, 1967 in Terra Linda, California.
Scholar Zelia Maria Magdalena Nuttall (September 6, 1857 – April 12, 1933); profiled in Smithsonian magazine around 2024 or 2023.
Anthropologist Muriel Eva Verbitsky Hunt was born April 12, 1934 to Russian Jewish parents in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She wrote The 1977 book The Transformation of the Hummingbird: Cultural Roots of a Zinacantecan Epic Poem. She was a professor at Boston University from 1978 and passed away February 29, 1980: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Verbitsky_Hunt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt died April 12, 1945, placing Vice President Harry Truman in power.
Supposed to be the first Abkhazian female pilot, and a veteran of WWII, Meri Hafizovna Avidzba was born January 24, 1917 and passed away April 12, 1986.
Impeached North Carolina governor William Holden was pardoned by the State Senate April 12, 2011.
American bourgeois-democratic revolutionary and later US president, Thomas Jefferson, was born April 13, 1743 in Albemarle County, Virginia.
The Battle of Morrisville was April 13-15, 1865 in western Wake County and was apparently the last official battle between Johnston and Sherman's armies in North Carolina.
Georg Lukács, a Marxist philosopher and literary critic and Minister of Culture in the Hungarian Soviet Republic, was born April 13, 1885 in Budapest. Many of his works are online, in English, at: www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/index.htm
Tanzanian socialist Julius Kambarage Nyerere was born April 13, 1922 in what was then Tanganyika (Tanganyika and Zanzibar united April 26, 1964 to create Tanzania). A biography and two of his works are online at: www.marxists.org/subject/africa/nyerere/index.htm
Professor of English Andrew John von Hendy was born April 13, 1932 in Elmira, New York and taught at Bowdoin College and then at Boston College from 1963 to 2005. He graduated from Niagara University in 1954 and was in the US Army sometime later, afterward attending Cornell. He is the author of The Modern Construction of Myth (2002). He passed away June 6, 2018 in Chestnut Hill, MA. College obituaries.bowdoin.edu/instructor-english-andrew-von-hendy/ and www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/bostonglobe/name/andrew-von-hendy-obituary?id=1716765 (incudes a photo) and www.google.com/search?q=andrew+von+hendy
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