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Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint — ZO D’AXA

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May 24 — ZO D’AXA
French individualist anarchist, military deserter, writer, traveler.

MAY 24, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
*Provence, France: World’s Gypsies gather for 2-day religous festival.
*Canada: Victoria Day.

ALSO ON MAY 24 IN HISTORY…
1864 — Fin de siecle French individualist anarchist Zo d’Axa born, Paris, France.
1883 — Brooklyn Bridge opens, New York City.
1921 — Sacco and Vanzetti trial begins, Braintree, Massachusetts.
1959 — First nuclear fall-out shelter built.
1974 — Big band composer Duke Ellington 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

Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint – BENJAMIN TUCKER


April 17 — BENJAMIN TUCKER
Publisher, theorist of American individualist anarchism

APRIL 17, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
*Feast of Random Walks

ALSO ON APRIL 17 IN HISTORY…
1790 — American inventor, revolutionist, Benjamin Franklin dies, Philadelphia.
1802 — British scientist Erasmus Darwin dies, England.
1854 — Publisher Benjamin Tucker born, South Dartmouth, England.
1863 — Gay Greek poet Constantine Cavafy born, Alexandria, Egypt.
1894 — Opening of Lowell astronomical observatory in Arizona, first in U.S.
1961 — Surreptitiously C.I.A. backed Bay of Pigs invasion fails, Cuba.

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