June 17– Miguel Piñero
Playwright, the original Nuyorican.Poet.
Read some of Piñero’s work here.

JUNE 17, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
*Milwaukee: Homebrewers Beer Competition.
*Wish Fulfillment Day.

ALSO ON JUNE 17 IN HISTORY…
1824 — U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs established, Washington, D.C.
1871 — Black American writer James Weldon Johnson born.
1953 — East Germans stage revolt against Russian social imperialism.
1967 — Red China explodes H-bomb, joining club of nuclear-terror states.
1972 — Hotel break-in tips start of Watergate scandal, Washington, D.C.
1988 — Nuyorican Poet Miguel Piñero dies, New York City.

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

June 17 — MIGUEL PIñERO