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Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint — GEORGE GROSZ

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July 26– GEORGE GROSZ
Dada graphic satirist, reflected nihilist forces in pre-Hitler Germany. Claimed art had no use but as propaganda for the still-building revolution of everyday life.
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Grosz’s Republika Automatow

JULY 26, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
*Cuba: Revolution Day.
*All or Nothing Day.
*Parents’ Day.

ALSO ON JULY 26 IN HISTORY…
1893 — Dada artist and revolutionary George Grosz born, Berlin, Germany.
1894 — Aldous Huxley born, Godalming, Surrey, England.
1953 — Cuban rebel Fidel Castro leads unsuccessful raid on Moncada barracks.
1978 — World’s first test-tube baby born, Bristol, England.

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 — MALCOLM X

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May 19 — MALCOLM X
Petty criminal, prisoner, convert to Islam, one-time spokesman for Elijah Muhammad. Embracing a more enlightened orthodox Islam, he was assassinated by either the FBI or Black Muslims. Revolutionary genius and martyr.

MAY 19, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
*Britanny: Pardon of the Poor. Pilgrimage of poor to shrine of St. Yves.

ALSO ON MAY 19 IN HISTORY…
1864 — American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne dies.
1890 — Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh born, Kim Lien, Vietnam.
1895 — Cuban revolutionary José Marti dies, Dos Rios, Cuba.
1928 — First annual Frog-Jumping Contest, Calaveras County, California
1925 — Malcolm X born, as Malcolm Little, Omaha, Nebraska.
1935 — T. E. Lawrence (“of Arabia”) killed in motorcycle accident.
1954 — Modernist composer Charles Ives dies, West Riding, Connecticut.

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