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Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint – HUTCHINS HAPGOOD


NOVEMBER 19 — HUTCHINS HAPGOOD
American author, journalist, anarchist, free love advocate.

NOVEMBER 19, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
GROUP RATES FOR GROUP SOULS DAY.         HAVE A BAD DAY DAY.

ALSO ON NOVEMBER 19 IN HISTORY…
1493 — “Christ-bearing Dove” Christopher Columbus “discovers” Puerto Rico.
1915 — Labor organizer Joe Hill executed by firing squad in Utah.
1919 — Italian filmmaker Gillo Pontecorvo born, Pisa, Italy.
1944 — American anarchist Hutchins Hapgood dies, Provincetown, Massachusetts.
1961 — Michael Rockefeller presumed eaten by cannibals, Asmat, New Guinea.

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 – BRAD WILL


OCTOBER 27 — BRAD WILL
Indymedia activist, killed in street protests, Oaxaca, Mexico.

OCTOBER 27, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
FEAST OF THE LORD OF MISRULE.     
PUNKIE NIGHT: Children parade with gourd lanterns on last Thursday in October.

ALSO ON OCTOBER 27 IN HISTORY…
1904 — New York City subway opens.
1912 — Player piano composer Conlon Nancarrow born, Texarkana, Arkansas.
1914 — Welsh poet Dylan Thomas born, Swansea, Wales.
1932 — American poet Sylvia Plath born, Boston, Massachusetts.
2006 — New York Indymedia journalist Brad Will killed, Oaxaca, Mexico.

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