Category Archives for SAINTS

Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint – CAMARÓN DE LA ISLA


DECEMBER 5 —CAMARÓN DE LA ISLA
Spanish nuevo flamenco cantaor, countercultural rebel.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPV4yJE6AcM

DECEMBER 5, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
Ancient Rome: FESTIVAL OF FAUNUS. Feasting and merrymaking.
Belgium: ST. NICHOLAS’ EVE. Black Peter, Nick’s Moorish servant,
drops down the chimney with gifts for children.

ALSO ON DECEMBER 5 IN HISTORY…
1786 — Shay’s Rebellion breaks out in Massachusetts.
1791 — Musical genius Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dies, Vienna, Austria.
1885 — American sex/pol radical Louise Bryant born, Reno, Nevada.
1897 — Jewish mystic philosopher Gershom Scholem born, Berlin, Germany.
1901 — Animator, imagineer, amusement park builder Walt Disney born.
1901 — Theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg born, Würzburg, Bavaria.
1933 — 21st Amendment adopted, ending prohibition in U.S.
1955 — Nuevo flamencosinger Camarón de la Isla born, San Fernando, Spain.

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 – HERBERT READ


DECEMBER 4 — HERBERT READ
Distinguished British anarchist art critic.

DECEMBER 4, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
Nuremberg, Germany: KRIS KRINGLES’ FAIR.

ALSO ON DECEMBER 4 IN HISTORY…
1122 — Poet of wine, women and song Omar Khayyam dies.
1866 — Painter Wassily Kandinsky born, Moscow, Russia.
1875 — Poet Rainer Maria Rilke born, Prague, Austria-Hungary.
1893 — British anarchist art critic Herbert Read born, Muscoates Grange, Yorkshire.
1939 — Berkeley Tribe leader Stew Albert born, Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, NY.
1969 — Black Panther “Chairman” Fred Hampton murdered by Chicago police.
1975 — Critic of totalitarianism Hannah Arendt 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 – ALLAN BÉRUBÉ


DECEMBER 3 — ALLAN BÉRUBÉ
Gay American historian, activist, independent scholar.
“None of us can do our best work until we believe that the life of the mind really does belong to us.”

DECEMBER 3, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS…
China: FEAST OF LU-HSING, the Stellar God of Happiness.

ALSO ON DECEMBER 3 IN HISTORY…
1847 — Frederick Douglass & Martin R. Delaney start North Star, anti-slavery paper.
1857 — Polish-born English sailor, novelist Joseph Conrad born.
1894 — Romanticist writer, critic Robert Louis Stevenson dies, Upolu, Samoa.
1930 — French radical filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard born, Paris, France.
1946 — Gay Americn historian, activist Allan Bérubé born, Springfield, MA.
1956 — Soviet artist Aleksandr Rodchenko dies, Moscow, Soviet Union.
1984 — Union Carbide disaster kills thousands in Bhopal, India.
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.

Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint – ANDY PALACIO


DECEMBER 2 — ANDY PALACIO
Belizean Garifuna singer, cultural ambassador, folk activist.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ01Kcx8k6c

DECEMBER 2, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
Belgium: LOVERS’ FAIR.     FEAST OF PIRATE UTOPIAS.

ALSO ON DECEMBER 2 IN HISTORY…
1620 — First English-language newspaper published, Britain.
1859 — Abolitionist, direct-actionist John Brown hung, Charleston, Virginia.
1885 — Zorba the Greek author Nikos Kazantzakis born, Candia, Crete.
1902 — Cuban surrealist painter Wifredo Lam born, Sagua de Grande, Cuba.
1942 — First “controlled” atomic chain-reaction, Stagg Field, Chicago, Illinois.
1960 — Garifuna musicologist, folk activist Andy Palacio born, Barranco, Belize.

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 – TOULOUSE-LAUTREC


NOVEMBER 24 — TOULOUSE-LAUTREC
Decadent French society painter, illustrator, anarchist.

NOVEMBER 24 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
FESTIVAL OF SILENCE.     THE WORLD IS A PAPER AIRPLANE DAY.

ALSO ON NOVEMBER 24 IN HISTORY…
1632 — Philosopher Baruch Spinoza born, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
1713 — Satirical novelist Laurence Sterne born, Clonmel, Ireland.
1859 — Evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species published.
1864 — Decadent French artist, anarchist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec born, Albi.
1953 — Joe McCarthy declares Truman Administration “crawling with communists.”
1963 — Jack Ruby shoots alleged JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald on live television.
2005 — “Loisaida” squatter, housing justice activist Carmen Rubio 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 – GRACCHUS BABEUF


NOVEMBER 23 — GRACCHUS BABEUF
French Revolutionist, founder of the Conspiracy of Equals.

NOVEMBER 23, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
Japan: NIINAME-SAI, harvest festival.
ST. CLEMENT’S DAY: Processions of blacksmiths and (mad) hatters.

ALSO ON NOVEMBER 23 IN HISTORY…
1170 BC — First recorded strike takes place, in Egypt, by laborers working on a pyramid.
1760 — French revolutionary François-Noel Babeuf born, St. Quentin, France.
1883 — Radical Mexican muralist José Orozco born, Zapotlán, Jalisco, Mexico.
1888 — Film comedian Harpo Marx born.
1927 — American belle-lettrist Guy Davenport born, Anderson, South Carolina

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 – MIGUEL COVARRUBIAS


NOVEMBER 22 — MIGUEL COVARRUBIAS
Mexican painter, author, bon vivant, adventurer.

NOVEMBER 22, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
ST. CECILIA’S DAY: as patroness of musicians her day is observed with a
variety of music festivals. START YOUR OWN COUNTRY DAY.
Climax, Georgia: SWINETIME. “This homecoming for past residents pro-
motes swine and raises funds for the Climax Community Club.”

ALSO ON NOVEMBER 22 IN HISTORY…
1718 — Pirate Blackbeard (Edward Teach) killed with 25 bullets.
1819 — British novelist George Eliot born, Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire.
1904 — Mexican painter, author Miguel Covarrubias born, Mexico City, Mexico.
1916 — Socialist novelist Jack London dies by his own hand, Glen Ellen, California.
1930 — Nation of Islam founded by Prophet Elijah Mohammed.
1963 — British Christian mystic, novelist C. S. Lewis dies, Oxford, England.
1963 — British novelist, psychedelic pioneer Aldous Huxley dies, Hollywood.
1963 — U.S. Prez John Kennedy assassinated in right-wing coup, Dallas, Texas.

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 – ALEXANDER BERKMAN


NOVEMBER 21 — ALEXANDER BERKMAN
Lover of Emma Goldman, failed anarchist assassin,
U.S. deportee, suicide following sorry Soviet heartbreaks.

NOVEMBER 21, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
NOSTALGIA FOR THE FUTURE DAY.     FALSE CONFESSIONS DAY.

ALSO ON NOVEMBER 21 IN HISTORY…
479 BC — Chinese philosopher Confucius dies.
1694 — François Marie Arouet de Voltaire born, Paris, France.
1783 — First free flight of manned balloon, France.
1866 — Egyptian pan-Africanist Duse Mohammed Effendi born.
1870 — Anarchist activist Alexander Berkman born, Vilna, Russia.
1898 — Surrealist painter René Magritte born, Lessines, Hainaut, Belgium.
1974 — U.S. Freedom of Information Act passed.

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 – LEO TOLSTOY


NOVEMBER 20 — LEO TOLSTOY
Christian anarchist, novelist of epic and historic scale.

NOVEMBER 20, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
Mexico: REVOLUTION DAY. WRITING ON THE WALL DAY.

ALSO ON NOVEMBER 20 IN HISTORY…
1752 — British poet, forger, suicide Thomas Chatterton born, Bristol, England.
1816 — Term “scab” born at Albany Typographical Society.
1884 — American socialist leader Norman Thomas born, Marion, Ohio.
1910 — Russian anarchist, novelist Leo Tolstoy dies, Astapovo train station, Russia.
1945 — Nuremberg war crimes trial begins.
1969 — 78 Indians from 20 tribes seize Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay.
1975 — Spanish fascist Francisco Franco dies. (And he’s still dead!)
1978 — Surrealist painter, cultural renegade Giorgio de Chirico dies, Rome, Italy.

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 – HUTCHINS HAPGOOD


NOVEMBER 19 — HUTCHINS HAPGOOD
American author, journalist, anarchist, free love advocate.

NOVEMBER 19, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
GROUP RATES FOR GROUP SOULS DAY.         HAVE A BAD DAY DAY.

ALSO ON NOVEMBER 19 IN HISTORY…
1493 — “Christ-bearing Dove” Christopher Columbus “discovers” Puerto Rico.
1915 — Labor organizer Joe Hill executed by firing squad in Utah.
1919 — Italian filmmaker Gillo Pontecorvo born, Pisa, Italy.
1944 — American anarchist Hutchins Hapgood dies, Provincetown, Massachusetts.
1961 — Michael Rockefeller presumed eaten by cannibals, Asmat, New Guinea.

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