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Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint(s): Sacco & Vanzetti

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AUGUST 23 — SACCO & VANZETTI
Executed Italian-American anarchists,
wrote stunning letters from prison.

August 23, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
Lithuania: HARVEST FESTIVAL. Ridiculous speeches, feasting and dancing.
In the “Kirvis,” a pretty maiden stands in the center of a circle of
dancers, holding an ax. The circle sings, the ax is thrown, & the young
man who catches it, often bleeding, gets a kiss & a dance.

ALSO ON AUGUST 23 IN HISTORY…
1900 — Folk, protest singer Malvina Reynolds born, San Francisco, California.
1911 — Ishi, last member of his stone-age tribe, discovered in California.
1927 — Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti executed in Boston, amid great protests.
1983 — Back-to-the-Earth advocate Scott Nearing dies, Maine.

Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint — Karl Marx


May 5 — KARL MARX
German communist theorist, capitalist critic, philosopher.

MAY 5, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
*Cinco de Mayo.
* Japan: Feast of Banners, fish kites fly.

ALSO ON MAY 5 IN HISTORY…
1818 — Great Communist theorist, philosopher Karl Marx born, Trier, Germany.
1862 — Battle of Puebla, Mexico.
1867 — Nellie Bly, famous for around-the-world race, born, Cochran’s Mills, PA.
1920 — Italian-American anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti arrested, Braintree, Mass.
1925 — John Scopes arrested for teaching evolutionary theory, Tennessee.
1926 — American jazz great Miles Davis born, Alton, Illinois

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