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Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint — COMPAY SEGUNDO

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July 13– COMPAY SEGUNDO
Cuban “Compadre,” musician, songwriter, free spirit.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ4NOXz3gjA

JULY 13, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
*Swaziland: Reed Dance Day.
*Border of France and Spain: Festival of the Three Cows. The result of an ancient Basque blood feud in which French shepherds killed Spanish shepherds and were condemned to pay a blood tax in perpetuity, an elaborate ritual in which three cows are given to the Spanish Basques, followed by revelry.

ALSO ON JULY 13 IN HISTORY…
1787 — U.S. Congress outlaws slavery in Northwest Territories.
1954 — Mexican surrealist painter, activist Frida Kahlo dies, Coyoacán.
1986 — British painter, cut-up artist Brion Gysin dies, Paris, France.
2003 — Buena Vista Social Club guitarist Compay Segundo dies, Havana, Cuba.

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 — Albert Parsons

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June 24– Albert Parsons
Radical American editor, printer, Haymarket martyr.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OQxncb2ihQ&feature=related

*Festival of Contagious Magic.

ALSO ON JUNE 24 IN HISTORY…
1647 — Margaret Brent urges women’s vote before Maryland Assembly.
1842 — Devil’s Dictionary author Ambrose Bierce born, Meigs County, Ohio.
1848 — Haymarket martyr Albert Parsons born, Montgomery, Alabama.
1869—“Mammy” Pleasant, abolitionist, named Voodoo Queen of San Francisco.
1947 — Kenneth Arnold sights flying saucers over Mt. Rainier, Washington State.

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 — JOSÉ CARLOS MARÍATEGUI

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June 14 — JOSÉ CARLOS MARÍATEGUI

Marxist theorist of indigenous Latin American liberation.
View José Carlos Mariátegui internet archive.

JUNE 14, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
*Flag Day
*Black Flag Day.
*Baha’i: Race Unity Day.
*Pop Goes the Weasel Day.

ALSO ON JUNE 14 IN HISTORY…
1811 — American abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe born.
1894 — Marxist theorist José Carlos Maríategui born, Moquegua, Peru.
1905 — Battleship Potemkin mutiny, Odessa, Russia.
1926 — American impressionist painter Mary Cassat dies.
1933 — Polish-born novelist Jerzy Kosinski born.
1940 — German troops march into Paris, lowest point of the Second World War.
1951 — First UNIVAC computer installed in U.S. Census Bureau office.
1965 — Jewish mystic, philosopher Martin Buber dies.
1982 — Argentina surrenders Falkland Islands to Great Britain, ending war.

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 Brown


May 9– JOHN BROWN
Radical abolitionist. “His truth goes marchin’ on.”

MAY 9, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
*France: Joan of Arc Processions.

ALSO ON MAY 9 IN HISTORY…
1800 — Slavery abolitionist John Brown born, Torrington, Connecticut.
1860 — “Peter Pan” creator Sir James Barrie born, Scotland.
1904 — Communications theorist Gregory Bateson born, Grantchester, Britain.
1961 — FCC chairman Newton Minow calls TV “vast wasteland.”
1974 — Impeachment hearings against Richard “Tricky Dick” Nixon begin.

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