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Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint — Tom Lyttle

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SEPTEMBER 5 — TOM LYTTLE
Cybernaut author, publisher, gourmet chef, conspiratologist.
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Tom Lyttle, Easy Rider Redux. Printed on non-impregnated blotter paper. Signed by Peter Fonda.

SEPTEMBER 5, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
Ancient Rome: CIRCENSIAN GAMES in the Roman Circus, originally
a one-day event of athletic competitions which grew
to a week-long festival with many entertainments.

ALSO ON SEPTEMBER 5 IN HISTORY…
1569 — Flemish painter Pieter Brueghel the Elder dies, Brussels, Belgium.
1791 — Masonic conspirator, composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dies, Prague.
1877 — Great Sioux war chief Crazy Horse murdered by U.S. soldiers, Fort Robinson, Nebraska.
1912 — Anarcho-musicologist John Cage born, Los Angeles, California.
1964 — “Rebel Girl” Elizabeth Gurley Flynn dies, Moscow, USSR.
2008 — Psychedelics researcher Tom Lyttle dies, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint – ELIZABETH GURLEY FLYNN

“The Rebel Girl” of Wobbly fame.

August 7, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
Egypt: FEAST OF ‘AUT-YEB, Personification of Female Joy.

ALSO ON AUGUST 7 IN HISTORY…
1890 — “Rebel Girl” Elizabeth Gurley Flynn born, Concord, New Hampshire.
1958 — Emilia Newcomb spontaneously combusts, walking to a party.
1959 — Explorer VI sends back first picture of Earth from space.
1978 — Love Canal, upstate New York, declared toxic disaster area.
1791 — Slave uprising leads to revolution in Haiti.
1809 — American utopianist Albert Brisbane born, Batavia, New York.
1908 — Anarchist photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson born, Chanteloup, France.
1948 — Black American griot poet Sekou Sundiata born, Harlem, New York City.
2006 — International Astronomical Union demotes Pluto from “planet” status.

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