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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.

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Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint — ORLANDO FALS BORDA

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July 11– ORLANDO FALS BORDA
Colombian advocate of “participatory action” education.

JULY 11, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
*Tibet: Monks of Choni Lamasery perform ”The Old Dance” in costumes and masks dating back to Manchu dynasty, representing all the demons of Buddhist hell.
* Bodmin, Wales: The Bodmin Riding.

ALSO ON JULY 11 IN HISTORY…
1593 — Italian mannerist painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo dies, Milan, Italy.
1804 — Aaron Burr kills Alexander Hamilton in duel.
1892 — Striking miners blow up Pinkerton barracks, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.
1925 — Colombian theorist of “participatory action” education Orlando Fals Borda born, Barranquilla. “Action brings knowledge.”
2006 — Terrorist bombings rock Mumbai, India, killing more than 200.

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