June 13 — AMADEO BORDIGA
Italian left communist, Prometheus Group leader.
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JUNE 13, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
*U.S.: Children’s Day.
*National Juggling Day.
ALSO ON JUNE 13 IN HISTORY…
1865 — Irish poet William Butler Yeats born, Dublin, Ireland.
1889 — Italian left communist leader Amadeo Bordiga born, Resina, Italy.
1963 — Civil rights activist, martyr Medgar Evers dies, Jackson, Mississippi.
1979 — Sioux awarded $17.5 million for land taken in 1877.
1980 — Guyanese historian, activist Walter Rodney assassinated, Georgetown.
1986 — American Big Band leader Benny Goodman dies.
Excerpted from The 2009 Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints: Radical Heroes for the New Millennium by James Koehnline and the Autonomedia Collective
Comments
The Lakota were actually awarded *interest* on the principal in 1979, for a total of $106 million. They refused the money. By 2002 it was worth $700 million.