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Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint – JOAN MIRO


April 20 — Joan Miro
Great Catalan painter, sculptor, printmaker, bon-vivant.

APRIL 20, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
* Thailand: Rice Planting Day
* Jewish Passover

ALSO ON APRIL 20 IN HISTORY…
1494 — Antinomian religious protestant Johannes Agricola born.
1893 — Surrealist painter Joan Miro born, Montroing, Spain.
1914 — Ludlow massacre of striking miners and families by National Guard.
1953 — U.S. Justice Department makes Communists register as foreign agents.
1969 — People’s Park planted, Berkeley, California.
1998 — German terrorist Red Army Faction announces dissolution after 28 years.

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 – Pierre Ramus!

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April 15 — Pierre Ramus
Austrian writer, pacificst, anarchist propagandist.

APRIL 15, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
*Jewish Passover begins.
*Tax Resister’s Day
*African Freedom Day

ALSO ON APRIL 15 IN HISTORY…
1452 — Renaissance polymath Leonardo da Vinci born.
1882 — Anarchist Rudolph Grossman (aka Pierre Ramus) born, Vienne, Austria.
1889 — Painter and radical Thomas Hart Benton born, Neosha, Missouri.
1898 — Blues vocalist great Bessie Smith born, Chattanooga, Tennessee.
1921 — Albert Enstein gives a lecture on temporal relativity.
1938 — Peruvian poet Cesar Vellejo dies, Paris, France.
1908 — Marxist existentialist Jean Paul Satre dies, Paris, France.
1986 — Gay French novelist, criminal, Saint Jean Genet dies, Paris, France.
2001 — Joey ramone, iconic punk outcast, dies of cancer, New York City.

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