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Today's Autonomedia Saint — Violeta Parra

violetta parra
OCTOBER 14 — VIOLETA PARRA
Great Chilean folk singer, cultural rebel, suicide.

OCTOBER 14, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
Yorkshire, England: BLESSING THE FISH HARVEST.

ALSO ON OCTOBER 14 IN HISTORY…
1859 — Direct Action anarchist bandit Ravachol born, Saint Chamond, France.
1894 — Poet e.e. cummings born, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1917 — Chilean folk singer, culture hero Violeta Parra born, San Carlos, Ñuble.
1964 — Civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. awarded Nobel Peace Prize.
1982 — Direct Action blows up Litton Systems plant in Toronto, Canada.
1991 — Burmese opposition figure Aung San Suu Kyi wins Nobel Peace Prize.

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 — Harry Partch

Harry Partch
SEPTEMBER 3 — HARRY PARTCH
American avant-garde microtonal composer, radical.

Harry Partch, Delusion of the Fury, Part One

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
CELEBRATION OF THE CROWDED OCTAVE.

ALSO ON SEPTEMBER 2 IN HISTORY…
1752 — English Parliament cancelled for ten days in constitutional crisis.
1811 — Utopianist John Humphrey Noyes born, Brattleboro, Vermont.
1813 — “Uncle Sam” image used for first time, in Troy, New York, Post.
1859 — French socialist leader Jean Jaures born, Castres, Tarn, France.
1883 — Russian novelist Ivan Turgenev dies, politically exiled, Bougival, France.
1962 — American poet e.e. cummings dies, North Conway, New Hampshire.
1969 — Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh dies, Hanoi.
1974 — Microtonal composer, hobo Harry Partch dies, San Diego, California.
1981 — Prison revolts in Poland, 150 escape.
1991 — Filmmaker, US nationalist propagandist Frank Capra dies, La Quinta, CA.American rock prophet, cultural renegade, rebel hero.