AUGUST 16 — TINA MODOTTI
Italian-born radical photographer and model, active in
Mexican workersʼ struggles and revolutionary politics.

August 16, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
Tutbury Castle, England: FESTIVAL OF THE MINSTRELS.

ALSO ON AUGUST 16 IN HISTORY…
1617 — First of many African slaves delivered to Virginia, sparking local economy.
1896 — Radical photographer and model Tina Modotti born, Udine, Italy.
1911 — Alternative economist E. F. Schumacher born, Bonn, Germany.
1936 — Jesse Owens leaves Berlin Olympics with four gold medals.
1962 — Libertarian and anarchist publications banned in Castro’s Cuba.
1977 — Elvis Presley dies, drugged, on the crapper… or so we’re told….
1987 — The Harmonic Convergence, remember? C’mon, you remember!