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Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint — Dorothy Day

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NOVEMBER 29 — DOROTHY DAY
The Roman Catholic Church may never name her a saint.
We do.

“The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart.”

NOVEMBER 29 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
FESTIVAL OF GREAT EXPECTATIONS.

ALSO ON NOVEMBER 29 IN HISTORY…
1799 — American utopianist Amos Bronson Alcott born, Wolcott, Connecticut.
1832 — Writer, critic Louisa May Alcott born, Germantown, Pennsylvania.
1870 — State-run compulsory education initiated in England.
1943 — Stalin, Churchill, FDR meet in Tehran, carve up late-20th-century world.
1947 — German Green Party leader Petra Kelly born, Günzburg, Bavaria.
1969 — Australian artist and labor radical Norman Lindsay dies.
1980 — Dorothy Day, radical founder of Catholic Worker, dies, 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.

Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint – Camillo Berneri


May 7– Camillo Berneri
Italian-born anarchist philosopher, killed by Spanish Stalinists.

MAY 7, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
*Feast of St. Nicola in Bari, Italy, celebrates the transfer of his relics to Bari. Religious rites followed by spectacular fireworks displays honor this patron of orphans, pirates, etc.

ALSO ON MAY 7 IN HISTORY…
1937 — Stalinist squad assassinates 500 anarchists, including Italian-born
philosopher Camillo Berneri, in Barcelona, Spain.
1941 — Golden Bough author Sir James George Frazer dies, Cambridge, England.
1968 — Parisian students and workers revolt in near-successful revolution.

Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint – GYORGY LUKACS

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April 13 — György Lukács
Marxist philosopher, cultural theorist, social critic, likely dupe of Stalinist counter-revolution.

APRIL 13, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
* Meme Appreciation Day.
* Revolutionary Tricks of History Day

ALSO ON APRIL 13 IN HISTORY…
1743 — American politician Thomas Jefferson born, Shadwell, Virginia
1828 — Josephine Butler born, Glendale, Northumberland
1885 — Marxist philosopher György Lukács born, Budapest, Hungary.
1906 — Samuel Beckett, Irish writer, born, Dublin.
1909 — American writer Eudora Welty born, Jackson, Missippi.
1912 — Too poor to book the Titanic, Theodore Dreiser waits for another ship.
1919 — Eugene Debs imprisoned for opposition to WWI.
1945 — Belsen and Buchenwald nazi concentration camps liberated.

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