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  Sunday Bloody Sunday -- Recommendations and Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Memory of Bloody Sunday overshadows most other violent instances in the history of the recent troubles of Northern Ireland, arguably because it was carried out by the British Government and not paramilitaries.
Bromberger Blutsonntag or Bromberg Bloody Sunday is an event that is said to have taken place on September 3, 1939 during the German invasion, in and around Bydgoszcz (German ''Bromberg'') Polish Pomeranian Voivodship.
Bloody Sunday had its origins in the Irish War of Independence (1919-21), which followed the formation of an unilaterally declared Irish Republic and its parliament, Dáil Éireann.
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 History of Sunday Laws in America   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
This devastating analysis by Congress of the religious and Sunday law controversy in 1829 and 1830 was so thorough, and so complete was the victory for religious freedom in America, that not until 1888 was any serious move again made for national Sunday-observance legislation.
It was being seen that a stiff enforcement of Sunday legislation brought a return to the tension and tattle and fear tactics of the early colonial religious laws.
In a 1961 case in which a Sunday law was tacitly approved by the Supreme Court, Chief Justice Earl Warren stated that Sunday Laws would always remain a violation of the First Amendment whenever it was demonstrated that their objective was "to use the State's coercive power to aid religion." (McGowan v.
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 Review: Bloody Sunday
Bloody Sunday takes us through the day of January 30, 1972, beginning in the wee hours of the morning and extending until after sunset.
There are times during Bloody Sunday when it's easy to forget that this is a re-creation, not footage from the actual event.
Bloody Sunday won an audience award at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival, which is a tribute to the impact it has upon viewers.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Bloody Sunday
Bloody Sunday (1913), violence in Dublin on 31 August 1913 during the Dublin Lockout
Bloody Sunday (1920), violence in Dublin during the Irish War of Independence (1919–1921) on 21 November 1920
Bloody Sunday (1965), violence during the Selma to Montgomery, Alabama marches on 7 March 1965
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 Today in History: March 7
Allowing CBS footage of "Bloody Sunday" as evidence in court, Judge Johnson ruled on March 17, that the demonstrators be permitted to march.
To mark the thirty-fifth anniversary of "Bloody Sunday," on March 7, 2000, Lewis, a U.S. Congressman from Atlanta's 5th District, and Hosea Williams crossed the Pettus Bridge accompanied by President William Clinton, Coretta Scott King, and others.
Ironically, on March 7, 1850, (exactly 115 years before "Bloody Sunday") Daniel Webster gave his famous "Seventh of March speech" in favor of the Compromise of 1850, which, while it postponed the Civil War, strengthened states' rights at the cost of African-American freedom.
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 Metropolitan Police Service - History of the Metropolitan Police Service
This riot in Trafalgar Square on 13 November 1887 caused many injuries and some alleged loss of life, and led to a sustained media campaign against the Commissioner.
Their presence made the square a centre for political agitation, and by September the Commissioner, Sir Charles Warren, fearing London would again be at the mercy of the mob, asked the Home Secretary to ban all meetings in the square.
A meeting to challenge his order was called for 2.30pm on Sunday 13 November, and Warren responded by expressly prohibiting any procession from entering the square on that day.
www.met.police.uk /history/bloody_sunday.htm   (332 words)

  
 Socialism Today - How the Labour Party was formed   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
In 1887 a strike of Lanarkshire miners was brutally attacked by the army.
However, on 13 November 1887, 'Bloody Sunday', as many as 100,000 protesters defied the ban and were brutally charged by thousands of mounted police.
In 1887, against a background of protests over repression in Ireland, unemployment and free speech, Engels wrote 'it is now an immediate question of organising an English working-men's (sic) party with an independent class programme.
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 Bloody Sunday
The Social Democratic Federation (SDF) organised a meeting for 13th February, 1887 in Trafalgar Square to protest against the policies of the Conservative Government headed by the Marquess of Salisbury.
Some of the protesters were arrested and later two of the leaders of the march, John Burns and Robert Cunninghame Graham, were arrested and later sentenced to a six-week prison sentence.
In cross-examination I was asked whether I had not seen any rioting; and when I replied in a very pointed way "Not on the part of the people!" a large smile went round the Court, and I was not plied with any more questions.
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 An Orthodox Social Gospel in Late-Imperial Russia
The march on Bloody Sunday was organized by the Assembly of Russian Workers, Russia’s first mass labor organization, which itself had been founded and led by Fr.
The clergy of St. Petersburg met in January 1905 to discuss Bloody Sunday; a group of younger clergy, while condemning Gapon’s final actions, declared that the Church needed to recognize the people’s suffering and respond to it.
Bloody Sunday revealed the inherent tensions within the Church itself, while at the same time giving impetus for wide-sweeping demands for Church reform and greater independence of the Church from the state.
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 Jeff Streeby's Sunday Creek       Cowboy Poetry at the BAR-D Ranch   ...
The town of Sunday Creek is fictitious, but all of these incidents and characters are based on figures from the historical record.
Sunday Creek is a major work, not only for cowboy poetry but for American poetry in general.
The story of her experience in Sunday Creek and the circumstances of her death are here drawn from the traditional folklore of Bannack, Montana.
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 1887   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Year 1887 (MDCCCLXXXVII) is a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.
January 6 - `Abd-allah II of Harar opens the Battle of Chelenqo with an attack on the camp of the Shewan army of Negus Menelik II early in the morning; prepared for the assault, the Negus orders a counter-attack which routs the enemy, resulting with the capture of Harar a few days later.
The last remaining documented person who was born in 1887 was Kamato Hongo, who died on October 31, 2003, aged 116 years.
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 Londonist: Monday Miscellanea
1887: ‘Bloody Sunday’ - thousands of demonstrators are beaten to a pulp by police and troops in central London.
Not to be confused with the day of violence in Derry in 1972, this particular ‘Bloody Sunday’ refers to the events that unfolded on 13th November 1887, as the Social Democratic Federation attempted to stage a large demonstration in Trafalgar Square.
Cunninghame-Graham, notably, was suspended from parliament only two months prior to the events of ‘Bloody Sunday’ (for using the word “damn” in the House of Commons).
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 University of Michigan, Special Collections Library - William Morris - Socialism
On “Bloody Sunday,” the Trafalgar Square Riot of 1887, in which police attacked a crowd insisting on the right to free speech, Morris spoke from a cart but escaped the truncheons that killed three and injured more than two hundred.
This forceful, though merely fractional, use of state power convinced Morris that a socialist revolution was not possible in his time and that the chief task before him was education.
He first delivered this one during the winter of 1887, a time when he was devoting much of his energy to speaking engagements throughout the greater London area.
www.lib.umich.edu /spec-coll/morris/social.html   (759 words)

  
 1850-1994: The Battle for Hyde Park: ruffians, radicals and ravers | libcom.org
A serious of confrontations in the Square culminated in Bloody Sunday 1887, when several people were killed by police during a mass illegal demonstration.
In both cases there is a conspiracy of the Church with monopoly capital, but in both cases these are religious penal laws against the lower classes to set the consciences of the privileged classes at rest.
Such a challenge to the Suffragettes (still, Sunday by Sunday, battling to regain the old meeting place, which the Government had forbidden them) could scarcely be allowed to pass.
libcom.org /library/history-hyde-park-radicals-ravers   (8691 words)

  
 Uncle Dale's Old Mormon Articles: Saints' Herald 1887-99
Quarrels between the various tribes sprang up, bloody wars were waged and the process of disintegration began.
In tone and evident editorial strategy, this article much resembles the "Spaulding-Smith Story" review published in the July 30, 1887 issue of the Herald, wherein the reviewer manages to avoid engaging the content of material he was reviewing altogether.
Note 3: This is the same "charcoal" Deming (he sold "blood purifier" charcoal as a sideline) blasted by Hiram P. Brown in the previous issue of the Herald and the brother of the Rev. M.
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 Daily Bleed: Enrique Marco Nadal, Valentina Sáez Izquierdo, B. Traven, Leon-Jules Leauthier, Emma Goldman, Harry ...
The "Bloody Sunday" incident is a turning point in British struggles for free speech rights.
Today Shaw took part in a demonstration in London that resulted in the Bloody Sunday Riot.
1887 -- US: Over 20,000 workers join the funeral march for the Haymarket anarchists framed for throwing the "Haymarket bomb": Adolph Fischer, George Engel, Albert Parsons, August Spies (all executed) & Louis Lingg (who blew himself up the day before the execution) — see also 4 May & 28 October.
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 Poetry of Alvydas Slepikas
Your mouth is twisted, the wind in your hand holds sleeping beanpods, with Asia's devotees and the spirit of exhaustion in the mundane.
O fly, you bloodbug, memory of trading counters, the bloody Sunday of slaughter steams from a gaping mouth.
The single book of poems that he has published consists of mature work that holds out the further promise of expanding on his basic, keenly humanist scope.
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Clerkenwell Green: Wat Tyler meets Richard II nearby in 1381; Shakespeare, Hogarth and Pepys are associated with it; Lenin edits "The Spark" whilst living here; Socialist protestors set out from here for Trafalgar Square on Bloody Sunday 1887.
Amidst all this No. 29, Clerkenwell Green has its own fascinating history
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 Dr. Annie Besant
While he would defend free speech at any cost, he was very cautious about encouraging working-class militancy.
Unemployment was a central issue of the time, and in 1887 some of the London unemployed started to hold protests in Trafalgar Square.
The events created a great sensation, and the newspapers dubbed it ‘Bloody Sunday’.
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 The Wild Geese Today -- Bataireacht: The Art of Irish Stick-Fighting
But he very clearly delineates the bloody nature of the struggles fought between the Catholic Irish and Protestant Americans in the 19th century.
In time, An Gorta Mor (The Irish Famine), the influence of the Catholic Church, and the rise of Fenianism (militant Irish republicanism) put an end to large-scale Faction Fighting, as more and more of the agrarian faction groups united and were absorbed into the Fenian organization in the latter half of the 19th century.
The last of the classic Faction Fights is often said to have taken place in 1887.
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 Memories
Early 1887 Alexander was involved in an assassination attempt on Alexander III in St. Petersburg, and he was hanged May 8, 1887.
He was expelled in December 1887 for his activities.
On January 22, 1905 (new calendar) about 1000 civilians were killed or wounded by tsarist troops in St. Petersburg, and this date has since been known as Bloody Sunday (of the 1905 revolution).
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 InfoSatellite.com - Virtual reality recreates Bloody Sunday
The ´insurrectionism` of the period reached a climax in the ´Bloody Sunday` on November 1887, when the socialists, at the head of a working-class demonstration, invaded Trafalgar Square and were routed by the police".
There is another "Bloody Sunday", which happened in Londonderry on 30 January, 1972, when British soldiers opened fire on civil protesters, killing 14 of them.
The Savillle Inquiry that investigates what happened exactly decided to recreate the city through virtual reality technology, with the 80 "hotspots" or key locations, and the witnesses can move around 360 degrees within a virtual panorama while they explain what they saw and heard.
www.infosatellite.com /news/2002/02/p050202bloodysunday.html   (504 words)

  
 London, 13 November 1887
On 13 November 1887 the Metropolitan Police conducted a savage attack on an unemployment demonstration in London.
On Easter Sunday 1887 the socialists participated in what Engels called 'without exception the largest meeting we've ever had here'.
Both Engels and William Morris saw the events of Bloody Sunday and its aftermath as a clarifying moment, for the police clubs taught a sharp lesson about state power.
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 'Sunday, Bloody Sunday' - a Strange Quiz quiz -- free game
It's a look at some bloody events which have taken place on Sundays, over the last 150 years.
Why was November 13th 1887 a 'Bloody Sunday' in London?
On September 3, 1939 Bromberg (Bydgoszcz) experienced a 'Bloody Sunday'.
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 Bloody Sunday
The British government-appointed Widgery Tribunal found that the paratroopers were not guilty of shooting dead the 13 civilians in cold blood.
In January 1998, however, British prime minister Tony Blair announced a new inquiry into the events of Bloody Sunday.
Helicon Publishing is a division of Research Machines plc.
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 Chapter XVII : How the Change Came
Police summons for wilful obstruction issued to Morris in July 20 1886, Engraving of the police dispersing the Clerkenwell contigent of the marchers on 'Bloody Sunday' from The Graphic November, 19, 1887
Thus passed the week after the great meeting; almost as large a one was held on the Sunday, which went off peaceably on the whole, as no opposition to it was offered, and again the people cried ‘victory.’ But on the Monday the people woke up to find that they were hungry.
“Well, the Sunday of the meeting came, and great crowds came to Trafalgar Square in procession, the greater part of the Committee amongst them, surrounded by their band of men armed somehow or other.
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 SparkNotes: Vladimir Lenin: Timeline
May 20, 1887: · Alexander Ulyanov, Lenin's brother, hanged in St. Petersburg.
December 17, 1887: · Lenin arrested in student protest at Kazan University, later expelled from the University.
January 22, 1905: · "Bloody Sunday" in St. Petersburg, beginning of 1905 Revolution.
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 Casebook: Jack the Ripper - Timeline
Below is a timeline of Ripper-related events covering the 110 years between 1887 and 1997.
August 22, 1887 -- Israel Lipski is hanged for the murder of Miriam Angel.
November 13, 1887 -- "Bloody Sunday" A mass riot of the unemployed in Trafalgar Square, which Sir Charles Warren suppresses through military force.
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 :::Sunday:::: ARTHUR BALFOUR: MOTHER OF ALL ZIONISM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
All subjects depicted are over eighteen (18) years of age.
He took a firm stand in opposition to home rule for Ireland and earned the nickname “Bloody Balfour” among Irish nationalists.
In 1891 he became First Lord of the Treasury in Salisbury’s second ministry and held the same post in his third government when he also became leader in the Commons.
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 American Civil Liberties Union : Voting Rights Act Timeline
More than 500 non-violent civil rights marchers are attacked by law enforcement officers while attempting to march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama to dramatize the need for African American voting rights and to protest the fatal police shooting of Jimmy Lee Jackson, a civil rights activist.
On Sunday, March 7, 1965, more than 500 peaceful demonstrators were brutally beaten on the outskirts of Selma, Alabama, after marching across the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
The dramatic events of "Bloody Sunday" were broadcast on national television and one week later President Lyndon B. Johnson gave a televised speech before Congress denouncing the assault as "wrong, deadly wrong." Five months later, he signed the Voting Rights Act (VRA) into law, making August 6, 2005, the historic 40th anniversary of the Act.
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