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Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint — Ba Jin

BA JIN
NOVEMBER 25 — BA JIN
Chinese anarchist, lifelong revolutionist, novelist.
“I am a person always full of contradictions… It was hard to choose whether to devote myself to revolution as a soldier or as a writer.”

NOVEMBER 25 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
Islamic HAJJ begins. USE EVEN IF SEAL IS BROKEN DAY.
FESTIVAL OF SHADOW ECONOMIES. Suriname: INDEPENDENCE DAY (1975).

ALSO ON NOVEMBER 25 IN HISTORY
1904 — Chinese anarchist novelist Ba Jin born, Chengtu, Szechwan, China.
1957 — Radical Mexican muralist Diego Rivera dies, Mexico City, Mexico.
1968 — American socialist novelist, politician Upton Sinclair dies.
1970 — Right-wing gay Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima dies by his own hand.
1974 — British folk-pop composer Nick Drake dies, Tanworth-in-Arden, England.

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 — Fredy Perlman

freddy perlman
AUGUST 20 — FREDY PERLMAN
Co-founder of Black & Red Books in Detroit;
writer, critic, patron saint of autonomous publishers.
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August 18, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
Budapest, Hungary: ST. STEPHEN’S FESTIVAL. A magnificent procession car-
ries the reliquary through the streets followed by feasting,
merry-making and dancing in the streets and parks.

ALSO ON AUGUST 18 IN HISTORY…
1830 — First Negro convention held, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1878 — American novelist Upton Sinclair born, Baltimore, Maryland.
1890 — Crackpot fantasist H. P. Lovecraft born, Providence, Rhode Island.
1934 — Autonomous publisher Fredy Perlman born, Brno, Czechoslovakia.
1940 — Leon Trotsky fatally icepicked by Stalinist goon, Coyoácan, Mexico.
1968 — Soviet Army invades Czechoslovakia, ending “Prague Spring.”