Category Archives for SAINTS

Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint – KENNETH REXROTH


DECEMBER 22 — KENNETH REXROTH
American beat poet, literary essayist, anarchist.

DECEMBER 22, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
Hindu world:  PONGOL OF THE SUN.

ALSO ON DECEMBER 22 IN HISTORY…
1880 — British novelist George Eliot dies, London, England.
1894 — French court-martial finds Captain Alfred Dreyfus guilty of treason.
1905 — Beat writer and essayist Kenneth Rexroth born, South Bend, Indiana.
1927 — British anarchist painter Fermin Rocker born, London, England.
1985—Minutemen guitarist D. Boon dies, in a van accident near Tucson, AZ.
1989 — Irish playwright, novelist Samuel Beckett 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. The 2010 Autonomedia Calender is now available on the Autonomedia site.

Todays' Autonomedia Jubilee Saint – SA’ADIA MARCIANO


DECEMBER 21 — SA’ADIA MARCIANO
Moroccan-born founder of the Israeli Black Panthers.

DECEMBER 21, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
WINTER SOLSTICE, 17:51 UT.     Wiccan YULE.     Chinese FEAST OF WINTER
SOLSTICE. Most celebrated family festival of year. In old China prisoners
were allowed to go home for the day. At the feast, places are set for
deceased family members. Fruit trees are given offerings of rice.
England: ST. THOMAS’ DAY.A tradition of “Thomasing,” begging gifts,
door-to-door.

ALSO ON DECEMBER 21 IN HISTORY…
1620 — Forefathers’ day celebrates landing of Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock.
1858 — Anthropologist Franz Boaz born, Minden, Germany.
1911 — First use of get-away car in bank robbery, French Bonnot gang.
1916 — Pecan shellers strike leader Emma Tenayuca born, San Antonio, Texas.
1937 — Animated feature Snow White & Seven Dwarfs released, Disney Studios.
1940 — Mother of Invention Frank Zappa born, Baltimore, Maryland.
1941 — Black surrealist artist, musician Peetie Wheatstraw dies, East St. Louis, IL.
2007 — Israeli Black Panthers founder Sa’adia Marciano dies, Jerusalem, Israel.

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.

Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint – MAUD GONNE


DECEMBER 20 — MAUD GONNE
Firebrand Irish hermeticist, feminist, revolutionist.

DECEMBER 20, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
UNDERDOG DAY. FAREWELL TO AUTUMN. CHAOS DAY. Eat wontons.
Hindu world: PONGOL OF THE COWS. Sacred animals are sprinkled with
water, saffron, flowers & leaves of sacred plants; their horns are
painted, garlands hung about their necks. With drums & cymbals they
are driven through town with much festivity.

ALSO ON DECEMBER 20 IN HISTORY…
1838 — Edwin Abott, author of Flatland, born.
1865 — Irish feminist, revolutionist Maud Gonne born, Aldershot, Hampshire, England.
1968 — American social activist writer John Steinbeck dies, New York City.
1989 — US troops invade Panama and oust Manuel Noriega, but don’t catch him.
1991 — C.I.A. classifies a task-force report on greater openness as “secret.”

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.

Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint – PHIL OCHS


DECEMBER 19 — PHIL OCHS
Emblematic American protest folksinger of the Sixties.
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DECEMBER 19, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
Hindu FESTIVAL OF THE GODDESSS ANKRANT. The gods wake up after six
months of sleep. A day for exchanging gifts, feasting and visiting.

Guatemala: FIESTA OF SANTO TOMAS (Dec. 19-25). Celebrated by the
Chichicastenango Indians. Features the flying-pole ceremony: A pole
made from a tall pine is consecrated and erected in the village. Plat-
forms and ropes are attached, dancers climb to the very top and,
attached to ropes coiled around trees, they fly into the air in
ever-widening circles.

ALSO ON DECEMBER 19 IN HISTORY…
1848 — British novelist Emily Bronte dies, Haworth, Yorkshire, England.
1875 — Black educator, historian Carter G. Woodson born, New Canton, Virginia.
1910 — Criminal, gay author Jean Genet born, Paris, France.
1940 — American protest folksinger Phil Ochs born, El Paso, Texas.
1946 — Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh launches war against French.
1968 — Socialist politico Norman Thomas dies, Huntington, Long Island, New York.

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.

Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint – OSSIE DAVIS


DECEMBER 18 — OSSIE DAVIS
American actor, civil rights activist, political radical.

Broadway production of Davis’ 1961 play, Purlie Victorious.

DECEMBER 18, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
HIJRA, Islamic New Year. Oaxaca, Mexico: FIESTA OF THE VIRGIN OF THE LONELY. Apache dancers, amusement park rides, gambling, plenty of fireworks.

ALSO ON DECEMBER 18 IN HISTORY…
1830 — Trial of Swing Rioters, peasants & workers who fought for minimum wage.
1865 — Chattel slavery abolished in U.S. (Wage slavery continues to thrive.)
1879 — Artist Paul Klee born, Bern, Switzerland.
1917 — Black American actor, civil rights activist Ossie Davis born, Cogdell, Georgia.
1946 — South African black-rights activist Steve Biko born, King Williamstown.
1969 — Great Britain abolishes capital punishment.

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.

Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint – MARTY GLABERMAN


DECEMBER 17 — MARTY GLABERMAN
American radical political theorist, proto-autonomist.

DECEMBER 17, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
Ancient Roman SATURNALIA (December 17– 23): “Unrestrained and intemperate jollity.”  Relaxation of social rules, no business transacted, courts closed, wars suspended, feuds forgotten,slaves take place of masters. LORD OF MISRULE selected.


Above: “Saturnalia” by Antoine-François Callet

ALSO ON DECEMBER 17 IN HISTORY…
1790 — The great Aztec stone calendar discovered, Mexico.
1830 — Latin American liberationist Simón Bolívar dies, Santa Maria, Colombia.
1936 — Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy make first appearance.
1944 — Abstract painter Wassily Kandinsky dies, Paris, France.
2001 — U.S. radical political theorist Martin Glaberman dies, Detroit, Michigan.

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.

Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint – TOOTIE MONTANA

DECEMBER 16 — “TOOTIE” MONTANA

New Orleans carnival chief, political activist.

DECEMBER 16, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
Mexico: First of eight nights of POSADAS,the children’s Christmas
festival. Processions, singing, breaking piñatas.

ALSO ON DECEMBER 16 IN HISTORY…
1770 — Composer Ludwig von Beethoven born, Bonn, Germany
1773 — Boston Tea Party celebration, Boston, Massachusetts.
1775 — Romantic novelist Jane Austen born, Steventon, Hampshire, England.
1863 —Philosopher George Santayana born, Madrid, Spain.
1901 — Anthropologist Margaret Mead born, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1922 — Yellow Pocahontas Chief Allison “Tootie” Montana born, New Orleans.

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.

Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint – DIEGO RIVERA


DECEMBER 8 — DIEGO RIVERA
Great Mexican muralist, Marxist, agit-prop conspirator.

DECEMBER 8, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
BUDDHIST BODHI DAY: ROHATSU.
FEAST OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION.   TAKE IT IN THE EAR DAY.

ALSO ON DECEMBER 8 IN HISTORY…
1810 — World peace advocate Elihu Burritt, the “Learned Blacksmith,” born.
1859 — British opium-eater, romantic writer Thomas De Quincey dies.
1886 — Radical Mexican muralist Diego Rivera born, Guanajuato.
1925 — “The Coconuts,” starring the Marx Brothers, opens on Broadway.
1940 — Four hundred German planes bomb London, England.
1980 — Ex-Beatle John Lennon shot to death, 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 – ANTONIO MACEO


DECEMBER 7 — ANTONIO MACEO
“The Bronze Titan.” Cuban revolutionist, anti-imperialist.

DECEMBER 7, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
FESTIVAL OF PRIMORDIAL BEINGS.

ALSO ON DECEMBER 7 IN HISTORY…
1872 — “Ludentologist” Johan Huizinga born, Groningen, Holland.
1896 — Cuban revolutionist, military hero Antonio Maceo dies, San Pedro, Cuba.
1902 — American political cartoonist Thomas Nast dies, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
1928 — Anarchist, linguist, social critic Noam Chomsky born, Philadelphia, PA.
1931— White House turns away hundreds of unemployed laborers.
1941 — Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, prompting U.S. entry into WW II.
1970 — Surrealist machine-maker Rube Goldberg dies, New York City.
1985 — British novelist, essayist Robert Graves dies.

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 – TAIJI YAMAGA


DECEMBER 6 — TAIJI YAMAGA
Japanese anarchist theorist, Esperantist.

DECEMBER 6, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
ST. NICHOLAS’ DAY: Nicholas became a Bishop when quite young.  From
this fact arose the old European tradition of Boy Bishops, who reigned
from December 6 to 28, in a cold Burlesque church of officials.

ALSO ON DECEMBER 6 IN HISTORY…
1865 — 13th amendment ratified, abolishing slavery in the United States.
1889 — Great trial of the Chicago Haymarket anarchists begins.
1896 — Songster Ira Gershwin born, New York City.
1933 —  U.S. ban on James Joyce’s “pornographic” modern novel Ulysses lifted.
1956 — Fidel Castro’s revolution begins in Cuba.
1961 — Radical Algerian psychiatrist Frantz Fanon dies, Washington, D.C.
1970 — Japanese anarchist, language theorist Taiji Yamaga dies.

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