SEPTEMBER 4 — IVAN ILLICH
Anarchist priest, critic of institutions and bureaucracies.
SEPTEMBER 4, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
ANTI-LABOR DAY: Zerowork. Guatemalan Highlands: LOOKING AT THE
BOUNDARIES. A syncretic Mayan/Christian ceremony performed by the
Cuchumatan Indians, involving the perambulation of the township
boundary markers, with prayers for all people outside as well as in.
ALSO ON SEPTEMBER 2 IN HISTORY…
1896 — French playwright, poet, madman Antonin Artaud born.
1908 — Black American writer Richard Wright born, Natchez, Mississippi.
1926 — Anarchist critic of institutions Ivan Illich born, Vienna, Austria.
1965 — Medical humanitarian Albert Schweitzer dies, Lambaréné, Gabon.
1995 — William Kunstler, sixties-era rebel lawyer, dies, New York City.