Category Archives for SAINTS

Today’s Autonomedia Jubilee Saint – MARCUS GARVEY

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AUGUST 17 — Marcus Garvey
Jamaican-American “Back to Africa” revolutionary.

August 17, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
China: FEAST OF THE HUNGRY GHOSTS. Wide variety of offerings for those
who died orphans, paupers or beggars, & those who died far from home.
Those lonesome & desolate souls may return to inhabit leaves & grasses,
& spread plagues. If offerings are made, they may stay away.

ALSO ON AUGUST 17 IN HISTORY…
1887 — “Back to Africa” Marcus Josiah Garvey born, St. Ann’s Bay, Jamaica.
1892 — “Come up and see me sometime” Mae West born, Brooklyn, New York.
1955 — Emmett Till killed for “talking to a white woman,” Money, Mississippi.

Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint – TINA MODOTTI


AUGUST 16 — TINA MODOTTI
Italian-born radical photographer and model, active in
Mexican workersʼ struggles and revolutionary politics.

August 16, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
Tutbury Castle, England: FESTIVAL OF THE MINSTRELS.

ALSO ON AUGUST 16 IN HISTORY…
1617 — First of many African slaves delivered to Virginia, sparking local economy.
1896 — Radical photographer and model Tina Modotti born, Udine, Italy.
1911 — Alternative economist E. F. Schumacher born, Bonn, Germany.
1936 — Jesse Owens leaves Berlin Olympics with four gold medals.
1962 — Libertarian and anarchist publications banned in Castro’s Cuba.
1977 — Elvis Presley dies, drugged, on the crapper… or so we’re told….
1987 — The Harmonic Convergence, remember? C’mon, you remember!

Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint – KARL KORSCH


AUGUST 15 — KARL KORSCH
Brilliant Marxist-anarchist philosopher, communist.

August 15, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
Loule, Portugal: ASSUMPTION DAY. The ascension of Virgin Mary bodily into Heaven. Votive lights, skyrockets, brass band plays while running uphill to the shrine. Hundreds of guitars, bagpipes, drums, and a definite “pagan” flavor.
Florida, New York: OUR LADY OF FLOWERS Festival, with Polish celebrants parading in floats, and picking of an Onion Queen. A blessing of herbs and spices.
CHAUVIN DAY, the patron saint of all Chauvinists.  
DORMITION OF THE OTOKOS.

ALSO ON AUGUST 15 IN HISTORY…
1785 — Opium-eater, writer Thomas DeQuincey born.
1886 — Marxist-anarchist philosopher Karl Korsch born, Tostedt, Germany.
1888 — T. E. Lawrence “of Arabia” born, Tremadog, Caernarfonshire, Wales.
1917 — Salvadorean religious leader Oscar Romero born, Ciudad Barrios.
1918 — “The Sinking of the Lusitania,” first feature-length cartoon, released.
1935 — American humorist Will Rogers killed in plane crash, Alaska.
1967 — Surrealist painter René Magritte dies, Brussels, Belgium.
1969 — Temporary Autonomous Zone “Woodstock” Festival opens, upstate New York

Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint – RIRETTE MAITREJEAN


AUGUST 14 — RIRETTE MAITREJEAN
French individualist anarchist, Bonnot gang member.

August 14, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
Sardinia: FESTIVAL AT SASSARI, which originated following a 16th-century plague. A great procession of people carrying enormous lighted candles, each with many long ribbons attached and held by others, with ballet-like movements to flute and drums, and ending at the MADONNA OF THE MIDDLE OF AUGUST.
Chicago: BUD BILLIKEN DAY, a Black children’s holiday.
Massachusetts: LIBERTY TREE DAY.

ALSO ON AUGUST 14 IN HISTORY…
1765 — Stamp Act riots begin in Boston.
1842 — Seminoles forced on the Long March to Oklahoma.
1887 — French Direct Action anarchist Rirette Maitrejean (Anna Estorges) born.
1930 — Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky commits suicide.
1935 — U.S. Social Security Act signed.
1956 — German dramatist Bertolt Brecht dies, Berlin.
1963 — Broken by McCarthyism, lefty playwright Clifford Odets dies, Los Angeles.
2002 — Maverick painter Larry Rivers dies, Southhampton, Long Island, New York.
2003 — Largest power blackout in history hits huge swatch of U.S. Northeast.

Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint – HIPPOLYTE HAVEL


August 13 – Hippolyte Havel
Scholarly, notorious anarchist dandy, critic, activist.

August 13, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
BLAME SOMEBODY ELSE DAY.
Antigua, Guatemala: FESTIVAL OF THE VOLCANO commemorates the 16th-century uprising of King Sinicam. The re-enactment takes place on an artificial volcano built for the occasion. Traditional native music, dancing and food.
LEFT HANDER’S DAY.
People’s Republic of Congo: Three-day NATIONAL FESTIVAL.

ALSO ON AUGUST 13 IN HISTORY…
1521 — Cortez succeeds in capturing Aztec island capital city Tenochtitlan.
1818 — American suffragist Lucy Stone born, West Brookfield, Massachusetts.
1871 — Anarchist critic, dandy Hippolyte Havel born, Thabor, Austria.
1923 — Chicano Wobbly artist Carlos Cortez born, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
1931 — U.S. Customs closes border to keep citizens from gambling in Mexico.
1945 — Prophetic novelist, socialist H. G. Wells dies, London, England.

Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint – WILLIAM BLAKE


August 12 — William Blake
Major English romantic poet, mystic, subversive.

August 12, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
Surrey, England: MITCHAM FAIR. A “Charter Mayor” is selected, who
opens the three-day fair with a four-foot key to unlock the joys of the
fair. A great variety of games and amusements.
Scotland: THE GLORIOUS 12TH opens grouse-hunting season.

ALSO ON AUGUST 12 IN HISTORY…
1653 — First police force formed in present U.S., in New Amsterdam.
1812 — Lady Ludd leads English women in riots over bread prices.
1827 — English romantic poet William Blake dies, London, England.
1843 — First Fourierist phalanx founded in U.S.
1896 — Klondike gold rush begins, Yukon Territory, Canada and Alaska.
1955 — German novelist Thomas Mann dies, Kilchberg, Switzerland.
1992 — Anarchist composer and musician John Cage dies, New York

Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint – VAL PLUMWOOD


August 11 — Val Plumwood
Australian eco-feminist, theorist of radical ecosophy.

August 11, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
FESTIVAL OF HAPPY FEET.   RETURN YOURSELF TO THE FOOD CHAIN DAY.

ALSO ON AUGUST 11 IN HISTORY…
1833 — Agnostic iconoclast Robert Ingersoll born, Dresden, New York.
1921 — Malcolm X “auto”-biographer Alex Haley born, Ithaca, New York.
1882 — Anarchist critic of Bolshevism Voline born, Tikhvine, Novgorod, Russia.
1939 — “Radical ecosophist” Val Plumwood born, near Sydney, Australia.
1961 — Berlin Wall completed, escalating Cold War politics.
1965 — Race insurrection in Watts, Los Angeles, California leaves 35 dead.
1997 — Vanguard composer, activist Conlon Nancarrow dies, Mexico City, Mexico.

Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint – JORGE AMADO


August 10 — Jorge Amado
Brazilian peopleʼs novelist, one-time communist.

August 10, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
Huesca, Spain: FIESTA OF SAN LORENZO.The charred bones of Lorenzo, in a
reliquary shaped like his head, are carried through the streets amid
giants, moors and hobby horses. Festive dances and bullfights held.

Wiltshire, England: TAN HILL FAIR is held on the highest peak of
Wiltshire Downs, miles from any town, a survival from ancient times.
Salt beef and beans eaten.

ALSO ON AUGUST 10 IN HISTORY…
1815 — Senecan prophet Handsome Lake (Ganioda’yo) dies, Onondaga, New York.
1912 — People’s writer Jorge Amado born, Salvador de Bahia, Brazil.
1981 — Reagan approves work orders for the Neutron Bomb.

Today's Autonomedia Jublilee Saint – CHARLES FORT


August 9 – Charles Fort
Investigator of the paranormal. Poet of the damned.

August 9, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
China: FEAST OF THE MILKY WAY.
Gloucestershire, England: CRANHAM FEAST. Parade, feasting, bowling for pigs, coconut shying, dancing.

ALSO ON AUGUST 9 IN HISTORY…
1483 — Sistine Chapel first opens to public, St. Peter’s, Rome, Italy.
1874 — American paranormal chronicler Charles Fort born, Albany, New York.

Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint – EMILIANO ZAPATA


August 8 – Emiliano Zapata
Heroic military figure in the first Mexican revolution.

August 8, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
Scotland: BURRYMAN FESTIVAL. A man in tight-knit suit and mask is cov-
ered from head to toe with burrs and strolls the streets of Linlithgow,
collecting tribute from housewives. No one knows why.

ALSO ON AUGUST 8 IN HISTORY…
1449 — Portuguese slaver Henry the Navigator delivers 6 ships of human cargo.
1876 — Thomas Alva Edison gets patent for mimeograph.
1879 — Revolutionary hero Emiliano Zapata born, Anenecuilco, Morelos, Mexico.