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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 – JEAN-FRANCOIS LYOTARD


April 21 — Jean-François Lyotard
French philosopher, critic of the postmodern condition.

APRIL 21 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
*Festival of Sacred Groves
*Baha’i Ridvan

ALSO ON APRIL 21 IN HISTORY…
1816 — British novelist Charlotte Bronte born, Thornton, Yorkshire
1828 — Noah Webster publishes two-volume dictionary of “American” English.
1879 — Javanese feminist Raden Adjeng Kartini born.
1910 — American writer Mark Twain dies, Redding, Connecticut
1914 — U.S. invades Veracruz, Mexico, try to halt German weapon imports.
1998 — Socialism au Barbarie editor, postmodern critic Jean-Francois Lyotard dies, Paris.

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