Category Archives for SAINTS

Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint – THEODOR ADORNO


SEPTEMBER 11 — THEODOR ADORNO
Frankfurt School theoretician, negative dialectician.

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
ENKUTATASH, ETHIOPIAN NEW YEAR, 1999. Diocletian New Year, 1722.
Hungary: HARVEST FESTIVAL. WRENCH IN THE WORKS DAY.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVBHJUnLSYU

ALSO ON SEPTEMBER 11 IN HISTORY…
1836 — Hashish-eater dropout Fitz Hugh Ludlow born, Hartford, Connecticut.
1885 — British novelist D. H. Lawrence born, Eastwood, Nottinghamshire.
1903 — Frankfurt Schooler Theodor Adorno born, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
1976 — New York City cop killed defusing bomb set by Croatian Freedom Fighters.
2001 — Terrorist attacks on New York City and Pentagon leave 3000 dead,
leading to so-called “War on Terror,” a putatively endless campaign.

Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint – STEPHEN J. GOULD


SEPTEMBER 10 — STEPHEN JAY GOULD
American Marxist paleontologist, writer,
theorist of “punctuated equilibrium” evolution.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
Old Japan: FESTIVAL OF THE POETS.

ALSO ON SEPTEMBER 10 IN HISTORY…
1676 — British Digger leader Gerrard Winstanley dies, London, England.
1797 — Anarchist, feminist Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin dies, London, England.
1895 — Melville Herskovits, pioneer of African-American studies, born.
1897 — French critic, philosopher Georges Bataille born, Billom, Puy-de-Dôme.
1901 — Emma Goldman arrested in alleged link to McKinley assassin.
1928 —Extraordinary folksinger Yma Sumac born, Ichocan, Peru.
1941 — American Marxist paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould born, New York City.

Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint – PAUL GOODMAN


SEPTEMBER 9 — PAUL GOODMAN
Prolific anarchist critic, novelist, man of letters.

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
Geneva, Switzerland: FLOWER AND GARDEN FESTIVAL.

ALSO ON SEPTEMBER 9 IN HISTORY…
1828 — Christian anarchist writer Leo Tolstoy born, Yasnay Polyana, Russia.
1869 — Anarchist, Haymarket martyr Louis Lingg born, Mannheim, Germany.
1898 —French symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé dies, Valvins, France.
1911 — Anarchist, alternativist writer Paul Goodman born, New York, New York.
1971 — Prisoner revolt at Attica Prison, New York, guards held hostage.
1981 — Plowshare 8 hammer 12 nose cones at GE plant, King of Prussia, PA.

Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint – MERIDEL LE SUEUR


SEPTEMBER 1 — MERIDEL LE SUEUR
Radical American agrarian socialist writer.

SEPTEMBER 1st HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
Orthodox Christian NEW YEAR. New Mexico: FEAST OF THE HERMIT.
Mexico: FEAST OF MACUILXOCHITL, the Five Flower God.

ALSO ON SEPTEMBER 1st IN HISTORY…
1807 — Former U.S. Vice-President Aaron Burr is acquitted of treason.
1864 — Irish patriot Roger Casement born, Sandycove, near Dublin, Ireland.
1875 — “Tarzan” writer Edgar Rice Burroughs born, Chicago, Illinois.
1914 — Last passenger pigeon dies in U.S. at age 12.
1979 — Pioneer 11 flies past Saturn.
1983 — Errant Korean Airlines flight 007 shot down by Soviets.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myYIKJF589g

Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint – RAYMOND WILLIAMS


AUGUST 31 — RAYMOND WILLIAMS
British Marxist literary theorist, cultural critic, novelist.

August 31st, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS:
Trinidad and Tobago: INDEPENDENCE DAY. SCHMOOOZE THE DAY AWAY DAY.

ALSO ON AUGUST 31st IN HISTORY…
12 — Murderous Roman emperor Caligula dies.
1643 — Antinomian Anne Hutchinson killed by natives, Long Island, New York.
1867 — French decadent writer Charles Baudelaire dies, in mother’s arms, Paris.
1909— Spanish anarchist educator Francisco Ferrer captured, hiding in cave.
1919 — American Communist Party formed, Chicago, Illinois.
1997 — Britain’s Princess of Wales, Diana, killed in car crash, Paris, France.
2005 — Stampede on Al-Aaimmah bridge in Baghdad, Iraq kills 1,199 people.

Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint – MARY SHELLEY


AUGUST 30 — MARY SHELLEY
British anarchist, and daughter, wife, & mother of anarchists.

Above:  Illustration from an 1831 edition of Shelley’s Frankenstein.

AUGUST 30, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
Great Britain: SUMMER HOLIDAY.
Gallup, New Mexico: INTERTRIBAL POWWOW CEREMONY.

ALSO ON AUGUST 30 IN HISTORY…
30 BC — Cleopatra commits suicide, bitten by an (on her?) asp.
1797 — Novelist Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley born, London, England.
1907 — First meeting of Society for the Study of Socialism held by Chinese anar-
chists, Tokyo, Japan. Ninety attend speeches by Liu Shih-p’ei & Shusui Kotoku.
1918 — Vladimir Ilyich Lenin shot, wounded at factory rally, Moscow, USSR.
1963 — “Hot line” telephone link established between Kremlin and White House.

Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint – EDWARD CARPENTER


AUGUST 29 — EDWARD CARPENTER
British poet, gay liberationist, socialist.

AUGUST 29, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
Vevey, France: SWISS WINEGROWERS’ FÊTE, a revival of the Roman
Festival of Ceres, Goddess of the Earth, complete with Ceres, Pales,
Bacchus, Old Silenus, satyrs and fauns — and Swiss yodelers.

ALSO ON AUGUST 29 IN HISTORY…
1533 — Atahualpa, last Incan emperor, put to death by conquistador Pizarro.
1758 — First U.S. Indian reservation established; will serve as model for Hitler.
1809 — Breakfast autocrat Oliver Wendell Holmes born, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1844 — British gay poet, socialist Edward Carpenter born, Brighton, England.
1877 — Mormon “propheteer” Brigham Young born.
1920 — Jazz great Charlie “Bird” Parker hatched, Kansas City, Missouri.
1970 — Huey Newton offers Black Panther troops to the North Vietnamese.
1992 — Radical analyst and schizo-theorist Félix Guattari dies, Paris, France.

Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint – E. P. THOMPSON


AUGUST 28 — E. P. THOMPSON
British radical social historian and anti-war activist.

AUGUST 28, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
FESTIVAL OF NEON REVOLUTION.

ALSO ON AUGUST 28 IN HISTORY…
1749 — Writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe born, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
1882 — Anarchist Praxedis Gilberto Guerrero born, Los Altos de Ibarra, Mexico.
1903 — Utopian nature planner F. Law Olmsted dies, Belmont, Massachusetts.
1916 — Radical American sociologist C. Wright Mills born, Waco, Texas.
1919 — Seattle mayor demands “hang or incarcerate all anarchists for life.”
1993— British Marxist historian E. P. Thompson dies, Upper Wick, Worcester.

Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint – MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE


AUGUST 27 — MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE
Socially committed photo-journalist, adventurer.

Above: Photo of Ghandi by Margaret Bourke-White.

AUGUST 27, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
FEAST OF INCANDESCENT REBELLION.

ALSO ON AUGUST 27 IN HISTORY…
1587 — John White loses 110 colonists at Roanoke, Virginia. Gone to Croatan?
1665 — “The Bare and Ye Cub” first European play staged in North America.
1770 — German Idealist philosopher G. W. F. Hegel born, Stuttgart, Württemberg.
1890 — Surrealist photographer Man Ray born, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1963 — Black American radical W. E. B. DuBois dies, Accra, Ghana.
1971 — American photographer Margaret Bourke-White dies, New York City.

Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint – JULIO CORTÁZAR


AUGUST 26 — JULIO CORTÁZAR
Cronopio? Fama? Fine leftist novelist, Hopscotchplayer.

AUGUST 26, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
WOMEN’S EQUALITY DAY.

ALSO ON AUGUST 26 IN HISTORY…
1786 — Shay’s Rebellion, armed insurrection, begins, Western Massachusetts.
1880 — Guillaume Apollinaire born, Rome, Italy.
1904 — British writer Christopher Isherwood born, High Lane, Cheshire.
1910 — American philosopher William James dies, Chocoura, New Hampshire.
1914 — Argentine novelist Julio Cortazar born, Brussels, Belgium.
1920 — 19th Amendment guarantees U.S. women’s right to vote.
1937 — “Gimme a pigfoot” chanteuse Bessie Smith dies, Clarksdale, Mississippi.
1968 — Pigasus, a true porker, wins Yippie! nomination for U.S. President.
1970 — “Alice Doesn’t” Day. (Unfortunately, Alice still does, more than ever.)