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Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint — PERCY SHELLEY

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August 4– Percy Shelley
Romantic atheist, pagan pamphleteer and poet.

Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number –
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you –
Ye are many – they are few.

Read more from Shelley on Project Gutenberg.

August 4, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
*Norway: Peer Gynt Festival Days.

ALSO ON AUGUST 4 IN HISTORY…
1578 — King of Portugal and his court killed in failed crusade in Morocco.
1792 — Poet, anarchist Percy Shelley born, Sussex, England.
1875 — Storyteller Hans Christian Andersen

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 – JOE LABADIE

Joe Labadie
April 18 — Jo Labadie
American individualist poet, writer, anarchist theorist.

APRIL 18, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
* Zimbabwe: Independence Day
* Festival of Fabulous Wildmen

ALSO ON APRIL 18 IN HISTORY…
1839 — French decadent Charles Baudelaire expelled from college.
1850 — American anarchist poet Jo Labadie born, Paw Paw, Michagan.
1857 — American lawyer for the underdog Clarence Darrow born.
1898 — French Symbolist painter Gustave Moreau dies, Paris, France.
1906 — Great San Francisco earthquake destroys much of the city.
1955 — Relativist theorist Albert Einstein dies, Princeton, New Jersey.

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