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Today’s Autonomedia Jubilee Saint — ALAIN ROBBE-GRILLET

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AUGUST 18 – ALAIN ROBBE-GRILLET
French proponent of the “noveau roman,” filmmaker.

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August 18, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
Wales: Ancient Bardic TOURNEY OF DRUIDS. Group singing, processions,
musical & literary competitions, awarding of bardic degrees.

ALSO ON AUGUST 18 IN HISTORY…
1587 — Virginia Dare, first English child born in North America, born in North America.
1812 — Lady Ludd leads corn market riots at Leeds, England.
1922 — Alain Robbe-Grillet, French “nouveau roman” writer, born, Brest.
1977 — Black rights activist Steve Biko arrested, South Africa.

Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint — BUENAVENTURA DURRUTI

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July 14– BUENAVENTURA DURRUTI
Anarcho-communist militant, Spanish Civil War martyr.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_SsqCOEiH8

JULY 14, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
*Bastille Day: Tremendous festivity throughout France. Paris dances all night along the Seine and in the streets.

ALSO ON JULY 14 IN HISTORY…
1789 — Storming of the Bastille in Paris heralds French Revolution.
1811 — Luddites break machines at Sunnon-in-Ashuano.
1896 — Spanish anarchist leader Buenaventura Durruti born, Léon, Spain.
1912 — Woody Guthrie, peoples’ songwriter, born, Okemah, Oklahoma.
1995 — MP3 digital file format introduced.

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 — Gaston Couté

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June 28 — Gaston Couté
French vagabond poet, cabaret anarchist, songwriter.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOQlCOlcWQY&feature=player_embedded

JUNE, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
*Paul Bunyan Day.
*Festival of Terrible Poetry.

ALSO ON JUNE 28 IN HISTORY…
1712 — French philosopher, writer Jean-Jacques Rousseau born, Geneva.
1816 — England: Luddites attack Heathcoat and Bodenmila.
1887 — Greenwich Village free-love radical Floyd Dell born.
1911 — French anarchist cabaret musician Gaston Couté dies, Paris, France.
1964 — Malcolm X founds Organization of Afro-American Unity.
1979 — Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries hikes oil prices 24 per cent.

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