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Sept. 17 Autonomedia Jubilee Saint — Helen Nearing

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SEPTEMBER 17 — HELEN NEARING
“Back-to-the-Land” dropout advocate, ecologist.

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
Villiers–Perwin, Belgium: FEAST OF THE PILGRIMS. A ludicrous, raucous
parody of pilgrimages, with nonsense speeches, mock baptisms and fu-
nerals, clowns and pantomime donkeys, feasting and drinking.
Burma: FESTIVAL OF MIN KYAWZWA, God of Drinking and Fireworks.

ALSO ON SEPTEMBER 17 IN HISTORY…
1179 — Hildegard of Bingen, archetypal medieval feminist, dies.
1859 — Self-coronation of Emperor Norton I of U.S., San Francisco, California.
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1883 — Poet William Carlos Williams born, Rutherford, New Jersey.
1980 — Former Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza assassinated.
1995 — “Back to the Land” radical Helen Nearing dies, Harborside, Maine.

Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint — IDA METT

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June 2 — IDA METT
Anarchist chronicler of the Kronstadt Rebellion.
Read The Kronstadt Commune

June 2, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
*Mons, Belgium: Festival of the Golden Chariot.
*Festival of Utter Confusion.

ALSO ON JUNE 2 IN HISTORY…
1740 — Writer, sex deviate Marquis de Sade born, Paris, France.
1899 — Butch Cassidy’s gang robs Union Pacific train in Wyoming.
1924 — Natives in heartland of North America are granted “citizenship”
by the state that largely exterminated them.
1987 — Celebrated Spanish guitarist Andrés Segovia dies.

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