NOVEMBER 6 — MARIO SAVIO
Youthful Berkeley leader of 1960ʼs Free Speech Movement.
NOVEMBER 6, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
FESTIVAL OF PARTIAL SUBMISSION. MAROONED WITHOUT A COMPASS DAY.
ALSO ON NOVEMBER 6 IN HISTORY…
1880 — German novelist Robert Musil born, Klagenfurt, Austria.
1931 — Playwright Mike Nichols born, Berlin, Germany.
1971 — Onondaga Nation, NY, protests intrusion of interstate highway.
1986 — Iran-Contra scandal begins to break in U.S.
1996 — Free Speech Movement activist Mario Savio dies, Sebastopol, California. Christian anarchist, novelist of epic and historic scale.
Excerpted from The 2009 Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints: Radical Heroes for the New Millennium by James Koehnline and the Autonomedia Collective