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MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History March 25, 1957: U.S. Customs seized copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on obscenity grounds. Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and City Lights manager, Shigeyoshi Murao, were arrested on obscenity charges for publishing and distributing the poem. Howl was inspired, in part, by a terrifying peyote vision Ginsberg had in which the façade of the Sir Francis Drake Hotel, in San Francisco, appeared as the monstrous face of a child-eating demon. The obscenity charges stemmed from homophobic responses to his explicit references to homosexuality. Ginsberg’s first experience with LSD, as well as Kerouac’s and Burroughs’s, was with acid provided by the anthropologist Gregory Bateson, one-time husband of and long-time collaborator with Margaret Mead. You can read more about Bateson and Mead’s early experimentation with, and promotion of, psychedelics (and their collaboration with the CIA) in the recent book, “Tripping on Utopia.”

#workingclass #LaborHistory #poetry #howl #lgbtq #allenginsburg #homophobia #lawrenceferlinghetti #citylights #obscenity #censorship #bannedbooks #kerouac #williamburoughs #lsd #peyote #margaretmead #gregorybateson #psycheldelics #books #writer #author #poet @bookstadon

Howl and Other Poems was published in the fall of 1956 as number four in the Pocket Poets Series from City Lights Books. By Lawrence Ferlinghetti (source) - AbeBooks.com entry (jpg). Cropped and minor color correction in PhotoShop, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=80296195
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MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History March 24, 1919: Poet and activist Lawrence Ferlinghetti was born. Ferlinghetti is most well-known for his book of poetry, “A Coney Island of the Mind” (1958) and for cofounding City Lights bookstore and publishing, in San Francisco. The authorities arrested him for publishing Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” because they deemed it obscene. However, a jury acquitted him in 1957. Politically, Ferlinghetti considered himself an anarchist. His politics were influenced by Anarchist poet and IWW member Kenneth Rexroth.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #IWW #beatniks #Ferlinghetti #obscenity #CityLights #publishing #poetry @bookstadon

Ferlinghetti in 1965, with graying beard and mustache, balding, smiling. By Elsa Dorfman - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=100259368
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Bremen

:megaphone: DEMNÄCHST!
*Zusammenfassung 25.10. bis 25.11. für Bremen

Giver
25.10.2024 Bremerhaven / Haus der Jugend

Lazuli
25.10.2024 Worpswede / Music Hall

Skardus
25.10.2024 Bremen / Kultur im Bunker

Turbostaat
25.10.2024 Bremen / Schlachthof

Blanker Hohn
26.10.2024 Nordenham / Eldorado

Fleshworks
26.10.2024 Sulingen / Jozz

Obscenity, Morbitory, Human Waste, Anasarca
26.10.2024 Oldenburg / MTS Records

Sixtyfive Cadillac
26.10.2024 Cloppenburg / Kulturbahnhof

The Brew
26.10.2024 Oldenburg (Oldenburg) / Cadillac

The Void's Embrace
26.10.2024 Weyhe / Trafo

#Asendorf#BlankerHohn#Bremen
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Ecologia Digital

#mustread on #enshitification by @pluralistic
"1st: the minor #obscenity is a feature, not a bug. The marriage of something long and serious to something short and funny is a happy one that makes both the word and the ideas better off than they'd be on their own. As Lenny Bruce wrote in his canonical work in the subject, the aptly named 'How to Talk Dirty and Influence People'"

pluralistic.net/2024/10/14/pea

pluralistic.netPluralistic: Dirty words are politically potent (14 Oct 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Matthew Rimmer

Rapper Brother Marquis, member of 2 Live Crew, dies aged 58 theguardian.com/music/article/
Musician earned platinum-selling success with group who overcame obscenity and copyright charges, and coined famous 99 Problems chorus line #copyright #obscenity #rap #uslaw #uspol

The Guardian · Rapper Brother Marquis, member of 2 Live Crew, dies aged 58By Ben Beaumont-Thomas
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MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History May 31, 1819: Poet Walt Whitman was born. Whitman published his first and most famous collection of poems, Leaves of Grass, in 1855, using his own money. It was criticized as obscene for its sensuality. During the Civil War, he volunteered in hospitals caring for the wounded. Many believe Whitman was gay or bisexual, based on his writings, though it is disputed by some historians. Oscar Wilde met Whitman in the United States in 1882 and told the homosexual-rights activist George Cecil Ives that Whitman's sexual orientation was beyond question—"I have the kiss of Walt Whitman still on my lips." Whitman is considered by many to be Americas first and greatest poet. He inspired many who came after him, including Ezra Pound, Langston Hughes, Kerouac, Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti, Gary Snyder and June Jordan.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #waltwhitman #civilwar #poetry #poet #writer #lgbtq #gay #obscenity #oscarwilde #allanginsberg @bookstadon

An 1862 photograph of Whitman taken by the famous photographer and journalist Mathew Brady. He’s wearing a white shirt, with long gray beard and hair, looking off to the side. By Walt_Whitman_-_Brady-Handy.jpg:Mathew Benjamin Brady(1822–1896)DescriptionAmerican photographer, war photographer, photojournalist and journalistDate of birth/death18 May 182215 January 1896Location of birth/deathNew YorkManhattanWork periodfrom 1844 until circa 1887Work locationNew York City, Washington, D.C.Authority file: Q187850VIAF: 22965552ISNI: 0000 0001 2209 4376ULAN: 500126201LCCN: n81140569NAID: 10570155WorldCatderivative work: Beao - Walt_Whitman_-_Brady-Handy.jpg, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9665739
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MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History April 26, 2004: Author Hubert Selby died. He wrote “Last Exit to Brooklyn” and “Requiem for a Dream.” His first novel, “The Queen is Dead,” was banned in Italy and prosecuted for #obscenity in the U.K. Allan Ginsberg thought that Last Exit would “explode like a rusty hellish bombshell over America and still be eagerly read in a hundred years.” Selby dropped out of high school to work on the docks of Brooklyn, before becoming a merchant seaman in 1947. However, he caught tuberculosis from the cows on board the ship. He was in and out of hospitals for the next three years. Doctors told him he was going to die. But several surgeries and experimental drugs saved his life. Too sick to do physical labor, he tried writing to earn a living.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #HubertSelbey #literature #books #author #fiction #writer #obscenity #allanginsberg #LastExitToBrooklyn @bookstadon

1st edition cover to Last Exit to Brooklyn, in yellow. By http://www.biblio.com/books/32281322.html, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=23419447
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MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History March 25, 1957: U.S. Customs seized copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on obscenity grounds. Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and City Lights manager, Shigeyoshi Murao, were arrested on obscenity charges for publishing and distributing the poem. Howl was inspired, in part, by a terrifying peyote vision Ginsberg had in which the façade of the Sir Francis Drake Hotel, in San Francisco, appeared as the monstrous face of a child-eating demon. The obscenity charges stemmed from homophobic responses to his explicit references to homosexuality. Ginsberg’s first experience with LSD, as well as Kerouac’s and Burroughs’s, was with acid provided by the anthropologist Gregory Bateson, one-time husband of and long-time collaborator with Margaret Mead.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #poetry #howl #lgbtq #allenginsburg #homophobia #lawrenceferlinghetti #citylights #obscenity #censorship #bannedbooks #kerouac #williamburoughs #lsd #peyote #margaretmead #gregorybateson @bookstadon

Howl and Other Poems was published in the fall of 1956 as number four in the Pocket Poets Series from City Lights Books. By Lawrence Ferlinghetti (source) - AbeBooks.com entry (jpg). Cropped and minor color correction in PhotoShop, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=80296195
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Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈

#RepublicanParty #Bills addressing #obscenity in #schools, #pornography advance to full #Nebraska #Legislature.

#Hateful #StateSenators #JoniAlbrecht and #DaveMurman seek to force #censorship in #PublicSchools, #Libraries.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Nebraska #Education #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Censorship #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate

nebraskaexaminer.com/2024/03/1

Nebraska Examiner · Bills addressing obscenity in schools, pornography advance to full Nebraska Legislature • Nebraska ExaminerProposals to crack down on obscenity have advanced from committee, setting up fights that have largely evaded the Nebraska Legislature.
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PrivacyDigest

Law Enforcement Braces for Flood of Child Sex Abuse Images Generated by A.I.

Steve Grocki, the chief of the Justice Department’s child exploitation and #obscenity section, warned against A.I.-generated child sex #abuse images, describing it as “a particularly heinous form of online exploitation.”
#privacy #ai #doj

nytimes.com/2024/01/30/us/poli

The New York Times · Law Enforcement Braces for Flood of A.I.-Generated Child Sex Abuse ImagesBy Eileen Sullivan
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Maria De Agosto

War industries are definitely calling all the shots (sic) these days. Governments and heads of state can't be that dumb and suicidal in spite of all the benefits and sycophancy. How long until they unleash Armageddon, the pious peoples of the Book? No wonder they ignore, stale or deny the climate emergency: it's like they already know we probably won't last enough to feel climate change consequences....#wargames #greed #obscenity #therealwarlords #mainstreammedia bbc.com/news/world-asia-672821

BBC NewsThe US is quietly arming Taiwan to the teethAmerica is using its own money to send weapons to a place it officially doesn't recognise.
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