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Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint — JOSÉ CARLOS MARÍATEGUI

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June 14 — JOSÉ CARLOS MARÍATEGUI

Marxist theorist of indigenous Latin American liberation.
View José Carlos Mariátegui internet archive.

JUNE 14, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
*Flag Day
*Black Flag Day.
*Baha’i: Race Unity Day.
*Pop Goes the Weasel Day.

ALSO ON JUNE 14 IN HISTORY…
1811 — American abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe born.
1894 — Marxist theorist José Carlos Maríategui born, Moquegua, Peru.
1905 — Battleship Potemkin mutiny, Odessa, Russia.
1926 — American impressionist painter Mary Cassat dies.
1933 — Polish-born novelist Jerzy Kosinski born.
1940 — German troops march into Paris, lowest point of the Second World War.
1951 — First UNIVAC computer installed in U.S. Census Bureau office.
1965 — Jewish mystic, philosopher Martin Buber dies.
1982 — Argentina surrenders Falkland Islands to Great Britain, ending war.

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 — AMADEO BORDIGA

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June 13 — AMADEO BORDIGA

Italian left communist, Prometheus Group leader.
Read articles by Bordiga on LibCom.

JUNE 13, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
*U.S.: Children’s Day.
*National Juggling Day.

ALSO ON JUNE 13 IN HISTORY…
1865 — Irish poet William Butler Yeats born, Dublin, Ireland.
1889 — Italian left communist leader Amadeo Bordiga born, Resina, Italy.
1963 — Civil rights activist, martyr Medgar Evers dies, Jackson, Mississippi.
1979 — Sioux awarded $17.5 million for land taken in 1877.
1980 — Guyanese historian, activist Walter Rodney assassinated, Georgetown.
1986 — American Big Band leader Benny Goodman dies.

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 – ATTILA JOZSEF

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April 11 — ATTILA JOZSEF
Prominent Hungarian surrealist poet, libertarian communist.

APRIL 11, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
*Festival of Unmediated Play
*Prophet’s Birthday

ALSO ON APRIL 11 IN HISTORY…
1722 — Christopher Smart, dotty Brit poet, born, Shipbourne, Kent.
1905 — Surrealist poet Atilla Jozsef born, Ferencvaros, Budapest, Hungary.
1908 — Left communist, literary radical Jean Malaquais born, Warsaw, Poland
1926 — American horticulturist Luther Burbank dies, Santa Rosa, California.
1961 — Nazi henchman Adolph Eichmann goes on trial, Jerusalem, Israel.

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