Category Archives for SAINTS

Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint – LOUIS RIEL


OCTOBER 23 — LOUIS RIEL
Manitoban leader of the Mètis Rebellion.

OCTOBER 23, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
San Juan Capistrano: SWALLOWS DEPART. NATIONAL MOLE DAY.
CANNING DAY. FESTIVAL OF FORGOTTEN GODS. FEAST OF GOOD AND PLENTY.

ALSO ON OCTOBER 23 IN HISTORY…
1734 — French writer, early communist theorist Restif de la Bretonne born.
1844 — Mètis Rebellion leader Louis Riel born, Manitoba, Canada.
1850 — First national Women’s Rights convention, Worcester, Massachusetts.
1926 — Leon Trotsky expelled from Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1927 — Surrealist Beat poet Philip Lamantia born, San Francisco, California.
1956 — Revolution erupts in Hungary, Russian tanks called in.
1958 — Russian Boris Pasternak wins Nobel Lit Prize for Doctor Zhivago.

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 – SARGON BOULUS


OCTOBER 22 — SARGON BOULUS
Iraqi-born Assyrian beatnik poet, translator.

OCTOBER 22, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ACTION AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY FEAST OF FOOLS.

ALSO ON OCTOBER 22 IN HISTORY…
1878 — Anti-Socialist Law passed in Germany.
1887 — Greenwich Village revolutionist John Reed born, Portland, Oregon.
1897 — World’s first car dealership opens, London, England.
1913 — Action photographer Robert Capa born, Budapest, Austria–Hungary.
1918 — Flu epidemic claims one fourth of all Americans, killing half a million.
1962 — Missile crisis develops over Soviet warheads in Fidel Castro’s Cuba.
2007 — Assyrian Iraqi beatnik poet Sargon Boulus dies, 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 – NUSRAT FATAH ALI KHAN


OCTOBER 13 — NUSRAT FATAH ALI KHAN
Qawwali singer, mystical sufi seeker of the
“stateless state” of Enlightenment
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo0EqAWHGdg
OCTOBER 13, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
Latin America: DIA DE LA RAZA celebrates Columbus’ landing as the be-
ginning of a new “race” from the fusion of Spanish and Indian blood.
Thailand: “THE FLOATING OF LAMPS” honors footprint left by Buddha
on a riverbank.     FESTIVAL OF UNMEDIATED PLAY.

ALSO ON OCTOBER 13 IN HISTORY…
1909 — Francisco Ferrer, libertarian educator, murdered in Spain.
1925 — American stand-up comic, social rebel Lenny Bruce born.
1948 —Sufi qawwali singer Nusrat Fatah Ali Khan born, Lyallpur, Pakistan.
1951 — General Motors displays solar-powered motor, Chicago.
1961 — Film visionary Maya Deren dies, Queens, New York.
1988 — Shroud of Turin, alleged burial cloth of Christ, declared fake.

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 – MOSES HARMAN


OCTOBER 12 — MOSES HARMAN
Lucifer editor, agrarian socialist, paradigm of male feminism.

OCTOBER 12, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
INTERNATIONAL MOMENT OF FRUSTRATION.   Marshall, Texas: “Fireant
Festival,” including fireant chili and ritual roundup.
SCREAM DAY: Thirty-second global scream  at 1200 hours GMT

ALSO ON OCTOBER 12 IN HISTORY…
1492 — Arawaks discover Columbus and his crew, who return the favor
with rape and pillage which continues to this day.
1830 —Lucifer editor, agrarian socialist Moses Harman born, Pendelton County, VA.
1875 — British occultist Aleister Crowley born.
1990 — Mexican writer Octavio Paz wins Nobel literature prize.

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 – HULDRYCH ZWINGLI


OCTOBER 11 — HULDRYCH ZWINGLI
Swiss protestant radical leader, humanist leveller.

OCTOBER 11, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
DESSERT DAY. IT’S MY PARTY DAY. FEAST OF REAL FAMILY VALUES.

ALSO ON OCTOBER 11 IN HISTORY…
1424 — Religious reformer Jan Zizka dies.
1531 — Swiss religious rebel Huldrych Zwingli killed in Battle of Kappel.
1868 — Electric vote recorder patented, Edison’s first invention.
1874 — Masseseditor Mary Heaton Vorse born, New York City.
1924 — Founding of the Bureau of Surrealist Research.
1961 — Film comedian Chico Marx dies.
1963 — Jean Cocteau dies, Milley-la-Fôret, 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 – CHARLES FOURIER


October 10 — CHARLES FOURIER
French utopian socialist, prophet of lemonade seas.

OCTOBER 10, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
FEAST OF THE CHAINS OF TRANSMISSION.

ALSO ON OCTOBER 10 IN HISTORY…
1837 — French utopian socialist Charles Fourier dies, Paris, France.
1917 — Jazz great Thelonious Monk born, Rocky Mount, North Carolina.
1941 — Ogoni environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa born, Bori, Nigeria.
1973 — Beloved and Respected Comrade Leader U.S. Vice President Spiro T. Agnew resigns in financial scandal and disgrace.

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 – JOHN LENNON


OCTOBER 9 — JOHN LENNON
Imagine… Martyred Beatle with brains, guts, vision, genius.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBjGe6VXPMI

OCTOBER 9, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
LEIF ERIKSON DAY. INSTANT KARMA DAY.
Japan: CHRYSANTHEMUM FESTIVAL. GIVE PEACE A CHANCE DAY.
China: FEAST OF HIGH PLACES, kite flying festival. SEASON OF GLASS.

ALSO ON OCTOBER 9 IN HISTORY…
1000 — Leif Erikson reaches Vinland.
1855 — Joshua Stoddard gets patent for steam calliope.
1940 — Future Beatle John Lennon born, Liverpool, England.
1978 — Belgian cabaret composer Jacques Brel dies.
1983 — James Watt resigns in disgrace as U.S. Secretary of the Interior.
1985 — One-time film great Orson Welles dies, Hollywood, 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 – MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI


SEPTEMBER 29 — MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI
Prominent Italian modernist filmmaker, political radical.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAcePPSsFP0
Above: Short segment of Antonioni’s film Zabriskie Point (1970).

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
Royal Courts of Justice, London: PAYMENT OF QUIT-RENT, an ancient,
solemn, annual ceremony in which the city pays the crown six horse-
shoes, 61 nails, a bill-hook and a hatchet. Germany: MICHAELMAS,
the English Feast of Goose, in which the weather is forecast
by the breastbone of a goose.
Mexico: FESTIVAL OF TEZCATZONCATL, Chief God of Intoxication.

ALSO ON SEPTEMBER 29 IN HISTORY…
1547 — Don Quixote author Miguel de Cervantes born, Alcalá de Henares, Spain.
1902 — French experimental writer Emile Zola dies, Paris, France.
1912 — Influential Italian filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni born, Ferrara, Italy.

Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint – BHAGAT SINGH


SEPTEMBER 27 — BHAGAT SINGH
Legendary Indian romantic, volcanic anti-imperialist.

“The people are scared of the word anarchism. The word anarchism has been abused so much that even in India revolutionaries have been called anarchist to make them unpopular…. [But] I think in India the idea of universal brotherhood, the Sanskrit sentence vasudhaiva kutumbakam etc., have the same meaning.”


Above: Singh in jail at age 20.

SEPTEMBER 27, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
ANCESTOR APPRECIATION DAY. India: FESTIVAL OF VARUNI, Goddess of Wine. Ila, Zambia: FESTIVAL OF NAMAKUNGWE, The Originator.

ALSO ON SEPTEMBER 27 IN HISTORY…
1722 — Patriot and beer brewer Sam Adams born, Boston, Massachusetts.
1840 — American political cartoonist Thomas Nast born, Landau, Germany.
1907 — Indian freedom fighter Sardar Bhagat Singh born, Banga, Layalpur, Punjab.
1964 — Warren Commission Report on JFK death released: “Only Oswald.”

Sept. 25 Autonomedia Jubilee Saint – NORMAN O. BROWN


SEPTEMBER 25 — NORMAN O. BROWN
American philosopher, cultural and political critic.

“… In the unconscious, cerebral is genital. The word cerebral is from the same root as Ceres, goddess of cereals, of growth and fertility; the same root as cresco, to grow, and creo, to create. Onians, archaeologist of languate, who uncovers lost worlds of meaning, buried meanings, has dug up a prehistoric image of the body, according to which head and genital intercommunicate via the spinal column: the gray matter of the brain, the spinal marrow and the seminal fluid are all one identical substance, on tap in the genital and stored in the head. The soul-substance is the seminal substance: the genius is the genital in the head.”

–Norman O. Brown, Love’s Body


SEPTEMBER 25, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
NATIVE AMERICAN DAY.
Old China: SALUTE THE SUN DAY.
Chemehuevis, California: FEAST OF NARIWIINYAPAH: God of Immortal Water.
Asia Minor: FEAST OF NAMMU, Sumerian Goddess of the Primeval Sea.

ALSO ON SEPTEMBER 25 IN HISTORY…
1513 — Spanish explorer Vasco Nuñez de Balboa “discovers” the Pacific Ocean.
1881 — Revolutionary, writer Lu Xun born, Shaohsing, Chekiang, China,
1913 — Radical psychoanalytic critic Norman O. Brown born, El Oro, Mexico.
1932 — Anarchist Catalonia becomes “autonomous” region of Spain.
1957 — Eisenhower orders army to escort 9 Black children to Little Rock school.