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