DECEMBER 15 — CHICO MENDES
Martyred defender of the Amazon rain forest, native peoples.

DECEMBER 15 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
U.S.: BILL OF RIGHTS DAY. First ten constitutional amendments became effective December 15, 1791.

14th-century London: MEN’S SOCIETY OF PIU held annual feast and song
festival to promote mirth, peace, honesty, joyousness and love.

ALSO ON DECEMBER 15 IN HISTORY…
1796 —American revolutionist “Mad Anthony” Wayne dies.
1890 — Sioux chief Sitting Bull killed by soldiers, South Dakota.
1944 — Environmentalist martyr Chico Mendes born, Pote Seco, Brazil.

Excerpted from The 2009 Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints: Radical Heroes for the New Millennium by James Koehnline and the Autonomedia Collective. The 2010 Autonomedia Calender is now available on the Autonomedia site.