Category Archives for SAINTS

Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint — Billie Holiday

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July 17– Billie Holiday
“Lady Day.” Great American jazz singer, performer.
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JULY 17, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
*Epping Forest, England: Fairlop Fair.
*Feast of the Clockless Nowever.

ALSO ON JULY 17 IN HISTORY…
1794 — Biggest rebel victory in Whiskey Rebellion.
1887 — Dorothea Dix, reformer, suffragette, dies, Trenton, New Jersey.
1959 — Jazz singer Billie Holiday dies, New York City.
1967 — John Coltrane, jazz great, dies, New York City.
1975 — U.S. and U.S.S.R. couple in space orbit (Apollo/Soyuz).
2007 —Channel Tunnel Rail Link officially completed between England & France.

Excerpted from The 2009 Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints: Radical Heroes for the New Millennium by James Koehnline and the Autonomedia Collective

Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint — Walter Benjamin

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July 15– WALTER BENJAMIN
Visionary German cultural critic and philosopher. Victim of fascism. Destroyer of art’s aura. [Hashish visioneer.]

JULY 15, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
* Swaziland: Reed Dance Day
* Paris, France: Night Watch. Torchlight processions, bands in the street.
* England: St. Swithin’s Day: If it rains, it’ll rain for 40 days.
* Japan: Black Ship Festival commemorates Commodore Perry’s arrival in 1853.

ALSO ON JULY 15 IN HISTORY…
1381 — Peasants’ Revolt instigator John Ball dies, St. Albans, England.
1796 — Thomas Bulfinch, mythology man, born, Newton, Massachusetts.
1892 — Radical cultural theorist Walter Benjamin born, Berlin, Germany.

Excerpted from The 2009 Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints: Radical Heroes for the New Millennium by James Koehnline and the Autonomedia Collective

Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint — BUENAVENTURA DURRUTI

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July 14– BUENAVENTURA DURRUTI
Anarcho-communist militant, Spanish Civil War martyr.
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JULY 14, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
*Bastille Day: Tremendous festivity throughout France. Paris dances all night along the Seine and in the streets.

ALSO ON JULY 14 IN HISTORY…
1789 — Storming of the Bastille in Paris heralds French Revolution.
1811 — Luddites break machines at Sunnon-in-Ashuano.
1896 — Spanish anarchist leader Buenaventura Durruti born, Léon, Spain.
1912 — Woody Guthrie, peoples’ songwriter, born, Okemah, Oklahoma.
1995 — MP3 digital file format introduced.

Excerpted from The 2009 Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints: Radical Heroes for the New Millennium by James Koehnline and the Autonomedia Collective

Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint — COMPAY SEGUNDO

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July 13– COMPAY SEGUNDO
Cuban “Compadre,” musician, songwriter, free spirit.
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JULY 13, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
*Swaziland: Reed Dance Day.
*Border of France and Spain: Festival of the Three Cows. The result of an ancient Basque blood feud in which French shepherds killed Spanish shepherds and were condemned to pay a blood tax in perpetuity, an elaborate ritual in which three cows are given to the Spanish Basques, followed by revelry.

ALSO ON JULY 13 IN HISTORY…
1787 — U.S. Congress outlaws slavery in Northwest Territories.
1954 — Mexican surrealist painter, activist Frida Kahlo dies, Coyoacán.
1986 — British painter, cut-up artist Brion Gysin dies, Paris, France.
2003 — Buena Vista Social Club guitarist Compay Segundo dies, Havana, Cuba.

Excerpted from The 2009 Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints: Radical Heroes for the New Millennium by James Koehnline and the Autonomedia Collective

Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint — Ulus Baker

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July 12– Ulus Baker
Turkish Cypriot sociologist, scholar, media theorist, activist

JULY 12, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
*Nova Scotia: Lobster Carnival. King Neptune crowned; bagpipes, fireworks, parades, contests, dancing, feasting.
*Northern Ireland: Orangeman’s Day.

ALSO ON JULY 12 IN HISTORY…
1817 — Civilly disobedient Henry David Thoreau born, Concord, Massachusetts.
1892 — Polish writer Bruno Schulz born, Drohobycz, Galicia, Austro-Hungary.
1895 — Inventor, polymath, R. Buckminster Fuller born, Milton, Massachusetts.
1904 — Poet, diplomat Pablo Neruda born, Parral, Chile.
1909 — U.S. Congress authorizes first income tax (16th Amendment).
2007 — Turkish media theorist Ulus Baker dies, Istanbul, Turkey.

Excerpted from The 2009 Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints: Radical Heroes for the New Millennium by James Koehnline and the Autonomedia Collective

Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint — ORLANDO FALS BORDA

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July 11– ORLANDO FALS BORDA
Colombian advocate of “participatory action” education.

JULY 11, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
*Tibet: Monks of Choni Lamasery perform ”The Old Dance” in costumes and masks dating back to Manchu dynasty, representing all the demons of Buddhist hell.
* Bodmin, Wales: The Bodmin Riding.

ALSO ON JULY 11 IN HISTORY…
1593 — Italian mannerist painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo dies, Milan, Italy.
1804 — Aaron Burr kills Alexander Hamilton in duel.
1892 — Striking miners blow up Pinkerton barracks, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.
1925 — Colombian theorist of “participatory action” education Orlando Fals Borda born, Barranquilla. “Action brings knowledge.”
2006 — Terrorist bombings rock Mumbai, India, killing more than 200.

Excerpted from The 2009 Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints: Radical Heroes for the New Millennium by James Koehnline and the Autonomedia Collective

Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint — GEORGES BATAILLE

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July 10– GEORGES BATAILLE
Radical French philosopher of the exuberant irrational.

JULY 10, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
*Bahamas: Independence Day.
*Ancient Greece: New Robe for Athena Day. Procession headed by model ship on wheels with her robe flying like a sail from the mast, followed by herdsmen with animals for sacrifice, musicians, slaves with trays of gifts, chariots and horsemen. At the Acropolis, sacrifices were made and robe was draped over Athena’s shoulders.

ALSO ON JULY 10 IN HISTORY…
1875 — Black educator Mary Macleod Bethune born, Mayesville, South Carolina.
1888 — Surrealist painter Giorgio de Chirico born, Volos, Greece.
1917 — Emma Goldman sentenced to two years for aiding draft resisters.
1962 — Philosopher of transgression Georges Bataille dies, Paris, France.
1987 — Musical producer John Hammond, Jr. dies, New York City.

Excerpted from The 2009 Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints: Radical Heroes for the New Millennium by James Koehnline and the Autonomedia Collective

Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint — U.G. KRISHNAMURTI

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July 9– U.G. KRISHNAMURTI
Indian philosopher, radical anti-guru.

JULY 9, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
*Call of the Horizon Day.
*Festival of Grand Unified Theories.

ALSO ON JULY 9 IN HISTORY…
1856 — Scientific genius Nikola Tesla born, Smiljan, Croatia.
1858 — Anthropologist Franz Boaz born, Minden, Germany.
1918 — Indian anti-guru U.G. Krishnamurti born, Masulipatam, India.
1936 — American poet June Jordan born, Harlem, New York.
1977 — Radical American feminist Alice Paul dies, Moorestown, New Jersey.

Excerpted from The 2009 Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints: Radical Heroes for the New Millennium by James Koehnline and the Autonomedia Collective

Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint — Vladimir Mayakovsky

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July 7– Vladimir Mayakovsky
Russian Futurist poet, anti-Stalinist political subversive.

We order that the poets’ rights be revered:

-To enlarge the scope of the poet’s vocabulary with arbitrary and derivative words (Word-novelty).
-To feel an insurmountable hatred for the language existing before their time.
-To push with horror off their proud brow the Wreath of cheap fame that You have made from bathhouse switches.
-To stand on the rock of the word “we” amidst the sea of boos and outrage.

And if for the time being the filthy stigmas of your “common sense” and “good taste” are still present in our lines, these same lines for the first time already glimmer with the Summer Lightning of the New Coming Beauty of the Self-sufficient (self-centered) Word.


From Mayakovsky’s Futurist Manifesto: A Slap in the Face of Public Taste

JULY 7, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
*Pamplona, Spain: Fiesta of San Fermin and the Running of the Bulls.
*Tanzania: SabaSaba Peasants Festival.

ALSO ON JULY 7 IN HISTORY…
1865 — Four accused with John Wilkes Booth in Lincoln assassination conspiracy hanged.
1893 — Futurist poet Vladimir Mayakovsky born, Bagdadi, Georgia, Russia.
1919 — Radical American lawyer William Kunstler born, New York City.
2006 — Former Pink Floyd lead singer Syd Barrett dies, Cambridge, England.

Excerpted from The 2009 Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints: Radical Heroes for the New Millennium by James Koehnline and the Autonomedia Collective

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Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint — Frida Kahlo

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July 6– Frida Kahlo
Tormented, visionary Mexican surrealist painter, writer.
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Frida Kahlo’sWithout Hope, 1945.

JULY 6, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
*Ceylon: Festival of Buddha’s Eyetooth. Continues for days. Most processions are at night. Painted, jeweled elephants, leaping dancers, costumes, drumming, spinning prayer wheels.

ALSO ON JULY 6 IN HISTORY…
1415 — Czech religious rebel Jan Hus burned at stake, Konstanz, Germany.
1535— Sir Thomas More beheaded by order of Henry VIII, London, England.
1699 — Captain Kidd, pirate, captured in Boston and deported to England.
1907 — Mexican surrealist painter Frida Kahlo born, Mexico City, Mexico.
1916 — German surrealist painter, writer Unica Zürn born, Berlin, Germany.
1942 — Jewish teen Anne Frank and family seek refuge from Nazis, Amsterdam.
1944 — Inept fire-eaters create Ringling Big Top bonfire, killing 160, Hartford, CT.

Excerpted from The 2009 Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints: Radical Heroes for the New Millennium by James Koehnline and the Autonomedia Collective