Category Archives for SAINTS

Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint — DJUNA BARNES

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June 12 — DJUNA BARNES
Home-schooled poet, Lost Generation Left-Banker.
View Barnes’ collection of poems and drawings Book of Repulsive Women.

JUNE 12, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
*Ghost in the Machine Day.

ALSO ON JUNE 12 IN HISTORY…
1892 — American modernist writer Djuna Barnes born, Cornwall on Hudson, NY.
1963 — N.A.A.C.P. leader Medgar Evers fatally shot, Jackson, Mississippi.
1964 — Nelson Mandela sentenced to life imprisonment, South Africa.
1972 — Radical labor organizer Saul Alinsky dies, Carmel, California.

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 — MARIE LAVEAU

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June 11 — MARIE LAVEAU

Voodoo High Priestess of New Orleans.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaJP8w-jW2k

JUNE 11, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
*Hart & Shelby, Michigan: National Asparagus Festival.
*Festival of Goibnui, Smith of the Gods and Provider of the Ale of Immortality.

ALSO ON JUNE 11 IN HISTORY…
1572 — British dramatist, poet Ben Jonson born.
1872 — Canadian unions legalized.
1888 — Martyred American anarchist Bartolomeo Vanzetti born, Italy.
1897 — Voodoo High Priestess Marie Laveau dies,New Orleans, Louisiana.

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

Locavore Liqueur: Philadelphia's new colonial ROOT Tea—"a truly contemplative quaff, rooted in history and our own cultural landscape"

From Philadelphia’s Art in the Age, who are making and distributing the Colonial-style “Root” liqueur:

ROOT traces its heritage all the way back to the 1700s when colonists were first introduced to the Root Tea that Native Americans would drink as an herbal remedy. Brewed from sassafras, sarsaparilla, wintergreen birch bark, and other roots and herbs, Root Tea was used to cure a variety of ailments. As colonial settlers passed the recipe down form generation to generation, the drink grew in potency and complexity. This was especially true in the Pennsylvania hinterlands where the ingredients naturally grew in abundance. These homemade, extra-strong Root Teas were a favorite in colonial homes and public houses all over the northeastern colonies.

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Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint — GUSTAVE COURBET

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June 10 — GUSTAVE COURBET

Anarchist painter, Proudhonist, Parisian Communard.
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The Meeting or Good Day, Monsieur Courbet

JUNE 10, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
*Festival of the Forgotten.

ALSO ON JUNE 10 IN HISTORY…
1682 — First tornado witnessed by whites in New World hits New Haven, Connecticut.
1809 — French painter and communard Gustave Courbet born, Ornans, Doubs.
1898 — U.S. Marines begin invasion of Cuba in Spanish-American War.
1927 — Libertarian great Victoria Woodhull dies, Worcestershire, England.
1935 — Alcoholics Anonymous twelve-step cult founded.
1940 — African liberationist Marcus Mosiah Garvey dies, London, 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 – Cochise

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June 9 — Cochise
Chiricahua Apache chief, resistance leader.
Listen to Dan Carlin’s awesome podcast about the the Chircahua and Apache wars.

JUNE 9, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
*Shillingstone, England: Tallest Maypole Day.
*Feast of the Birth of the White-Breasted Giantess

ALSO ON JUNE 9 IN HISTORY…
1870 — British social novelist Charles Dickens dies, Kent, England.
1874 — Great Apache chieftain Cochise dies, Chiricahua, Arizona.
1893 — Witty, gay American songwriter Cole Porter born, Peru, Indiana.
1902 — Anti-anarchist law passed in Washington.
1934 — Animated film star Donald Duck born.
1974 — Guatemalan novelist, diplomat Miguel Angel Asturias dies, Paris, 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 — TOM PAINE

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June 8 — Thomas Paine
Propagandist, “Founding Father” of American revolutionism.
View the complete works of Thomas Paine.

JUNE 8, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
*China: Dragon-Boat Races commemorate search for Ch’i Yuan (3rd century B.C.) who threw himself in river. No finish line, no judges. Arguments & fist fights always break out, but ends with merry feast.
*Name Your Poison Day.

ALSO ON JUNE 8 IN HISTORY…
632 — Islamic prophet Mohammed dies, Medina, Arabia.
1809 — American revolutionary great Tom Paine dies, New York City.
1876 — French feminist, novelist George Sand dies, Nohant, France.
1997 — Nigerian novelist Amos Tutuola dies, Ibadan.
2006 — Dr. John Money, sexual identity physician, dies, Towson, Maryland.

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 — IMRE NAGY

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June 7 — IMRE NAGY
Hungarian Communist leader, hung for support of Uprising.

JUNE 7, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
*Southwold, England: Mayor’s Day. Dignitaries mountmerry-go-round horses, party.
* Festival of All Possible Worlds.

ALSO ON JUNE 7 IN HISTORY…
1843 — Mad German poet Friedrich Hölderlin dies, Tübingen, Germany.
1848 — French drop-out painter Paul Gauguin born, Paris, France.
1852 — American utopianist Hosea Ballou dies, Boston, Massachusetts.
1896 — Hungarian Communist leader, Uprising martyr Imre Nagy born, Kaposvar.
1980 — Free-living sex novelist Henry Miller dies, Big Sur, California.
1981 — Israel bombs suspected Iraqi nuclear installation.
2006 — Anthrax alert shuts down British House of Commons, London.

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 — ODILON REDON

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June 6– ODILON REDON
Great French Symbolist painter, student of Rodolphe Bresdin.
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Porträt der Violette Heymann 1910. Click for full size.

JUNE 6, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
*Festival of Chiu Hsien, Taoist Spirit of Wine.

ALSO ON JUNE 6 IN HISTORY…

1778 — Debtors’ prisons abolished in U.S.; debtors continue to flourish.
1875 — German novelist Thomas Mann born, Lübeck, Germany.
1884 — World’s first roller coaster opens, Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York.
1916 — French Symbolist painter Odilon Redon dies, Paris, France.
1961 — Archetypal psychoanalyst Carl Jung dies.
1982 — Beat poet, Buddhist Kenneth Rexroth dies, Montecito, California.
1984 — Sikh Temple at Amritsar occupied by Indian Army, 300 slain.

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 — FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA

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June 5– FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA
Spanish surrealist poet, dramatist, homosexual, victim of fascists.

JUNE 5, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
*Chicago: Salvation Army Doughnut Day.
*Sikh Birth of Gobindh Singh.
*Festival of Popular Delusions.

ALSO ON JUNE 5 IN HISTORY…
753 — St. Boniface slain by Druids for chopping down sacred tree.
1878 — Revolutionist Francisco “Pancho” Villa born, San Juan del Rio, Durango.
1899 — Spanish dramatist, poet Federico Garcia Lorca born, Fuente Vaqueros, Granada.
1900 — American writer Stephen Crane dies, Badenweiler, Germany.
1934 — British situationist Ralph Rumney born, Newcastle, England.
1968 — Bobby Kennedy shot in Los Angeles hotel following victory in Democratic primary, dies the next day.

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 — MANSOOR HEKMAT

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June 4 — MANSOOR HEKMAT
Iranian Marxist humanist, council communist.

JUNE 4, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
*Berga, Spain: Fiesta. “Turks” on hobby-horses stage dance-battle, joined by bizarre devils exploding fireworks, who are then disposed of by Archangel Michael and huge, giraffe-necked mules, eagles, dancing giants and dwarves.
*Queens: Festival of the Sticky Penis.

ALSO ON JUNE 4 IN HISTORY…
570 — Islamic prophet and mystic visionary Mohammed born, Mecca, Arabia.
1798 — Lover and writer Giacomo Casanova dies, Bohemia.
1919 — U.S. women finally get the vote.
1937 — First grocery carts introduced for consumer America.
1989 — Tien-an-men Square massacre occurs, Beijing, China.

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