Seeds of Fire: A People’s Chronology

Recalling events that happened on this day in history.
Memories of struggle, resistance and persistence.

Compiled by Ulli Diemer

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February 10, 1898
Birth of Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956), German poet, playwright, theatre director, and radical.
Related Topics: Playwrights
February 10, 1920
Birth of Alex Comfort (1920-2000), physician, anarchist, pacifist, conscientious objector and writer.
February 10, 1961  
The Voice of Nuclear Disarmament, a pirate radio station, begins operation offshore of Great Britain. It is run by John Hasted, a physicist, a musician, and World War II radio expert active in the Committee for Nuclear Disarmament.
February 10, 1963
Local farmer-landowners launch an armed attack on striking lumberworkers during the Reesor Siding Strike in northern Ontario, killing three and wounding eight others. Twenty landowners are charged in the attack; eventually three of them are found guilty of firearms violations and fined $150 each. The police also charge 237 strikers for ‘illegal assembly’; 138 of them are found guilty.
Further Reading: Reesor Siding
Related Topics: Strikes: Canadian
February 10, 1964
Bob Dylan’s song The Times they are a-changin’ is released; it becomes one of the most popular songs of the emerging New Left protest movement in the United States.
Related Topics: Protest Songs/Music



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