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Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint – VAL PLUMWOOD


August 11 — Val Plumwood
Australian eco-feminist, theorist of radical ecosophy.

August 11, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
FESTIVAL OF HAPPY FEET.   RETURN YOURSELF TO THE FOOD CHAIN DAY.

ALSO ON AUGUST 11 IN HISTORY…
1833 — Agnostic iconoclast Robert Ingersoll born, Dresden, New York.
1921 — Malcolm X “auto”-biographer Alex Haley born, Ithaca, New York.
1882 — Anarchist critic of Bolshevism Voline born, Tikhvine, Novgorod, Russia.
1939 — “Radical ecosophist” Val Plumwood born, near Sydney, Australia.
1961 — Berlin Wall completed, escalating Cold War politics.
1965 — Race insurrection in Watts, Los Angeles, California leaves 35 dead.
1997 — Vanguard composer, activist Conlon Nancarrow dies, Mexico City, Mexico.

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

Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint — MALCOLM X

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May 19 — MALCOLM X
Petty criminal, prisoner, convert to Islam, one-time spokesman for Elijah Muhammad. Embracing a more enlightened orthodox Islam, he was assassinated by either the FBI or Black Muslims. Revolutionary genius and martyr.

MAY 19, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
*Britanny: Pardon of the Poor. Pilgrimage of poor to shrine of St. Yves.

ALSO ON MAY 19 IN HISTORY…
1864 — American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne dies.
1890 — Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh born, Kim Lien, Vietnam.
1895 — Cuban revolutionary José Marti dies, Dos Rios, Cuba.
1928 — First annual Frog-Jumping Contest, Calaveras County, California
1925 — Malcolm X born, as Malcolm Little, Omaha, Nebraska.
1935 — T. E. Lawrence (“of Arabia”) killed in motorcycle accident.
1954 — Modernist composer Charles Ives dies, West Riding, Connecticut.

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