Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint — Hermann Gorter

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NOVEMBER 26 — HERMANN GORTER
Pioneering Dutch Council Communist, poet.

NOVEMBER 26 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
U.S.: THANKSGIVING. BAHA’I: COVENANT DAY. FESTIVAL OF BIG TALK.

ALSO ON 26 IN HISTORY…
1792 — American anti-slavery and suffragist activist Sarah Grimke born.
1864 — Dutch poet, council communist Hermann Gorter born, Wormerveer.
1883 — Black emancipationist Sojourner Truth dies, Battle Creek, Michigan.
1969 — Military draft lottery established in U.S.

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