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Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint – HERBERT READ


DECEMBER 4 — HERBERT READ
Distinguished British anarchist art critic.

DECEMBER 4, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
Nuremberg, Germany: KRIS KRINGLES’ FAIR.

ALSO ON DECEMBER 4 IN HISTORY…
1122 — Poet of wine, women and song Omar Khayyam dies.
1866 — Painter Wassily Kandinsky born, Moscow, Russia.
1875 — Poet Rainer Maria Rilke born, Prague, Austria-Hungary.
1893 — British anarchist art critic Herbert Read born, Muscoates Grange, Yorkshire.
1939 — Berkeley Tribe leader Stew Albert born, Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, NY.
1969 — Black Panther “Chairman” Fred Hampton murdered by Chicago police.
1975 — Critic of totalitarianism Hannah Arendt 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 Saint — Violeta Parra

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OCTOBER 14 — VIOLETA PARRA
Great Chilean folk singer, cultural rebel, suicide.

OCTOBER 14, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
Yorkshire, England: BLESSING THE FISH HARVEST.

ALSO ON OCTOBER 14 IN HISTORY…
1859 — Direct Action anarchist bandit Ravachol born, Saint Chamond, France.
1894 — Poet e.e. cummings born, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1917 — Chilean folk singer, culture hero Violeta Parra born, San Carlos, Ñuble.
1964 — Civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. awarded Nobel Peace Prize.
1982 — Direct Action blows up Litton Systems plant in Toronto, Canada.
1991 — Burmese opposition figure Aung San Suu Kyi wins Nobel Peace Prize.

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