NOVEMBER 17 — VOLTAIRINE DE CLEYRE
The original American anarcha-feminist, writer, social rebel.
“Humanity can not be made equal by declarations on paper. Unless the material conditions for equality exist, it is worse than mockery to pronounce men equal. And unless there is equality (and by equality I mean equal chances for every one to make the most of himself) unless, I say, these equal chances exist, freedom, either of thought, speech, or action, is equally a mockery.”
– In Defense of Emma Goldman and the Right of Expropriation, 1893.

NOVEMBER 17 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
CREATIVE ALIENATION DAY. HERE TO GO DAY.

ALSO ON NOVEMBER 17 IN HISTORY
1624 — Mystic philosopher Jacob Boehme dies, Görlitz, Germany.
1637 — American rebel Anne Hutchinson, antinomian, brought to trial.
1734 — John Peter Zenger arrested for libels against colonial government.
1790 — August Möbius, topologist, born, Schulpforta, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
1866 — Anarcha-feminist Voltairine de Cleyre born, Leslie, Michigan.
1875 — American Theosophical Society founded.
1896 — Sacramento, California reports first of dozens of sightings of huge myste-
rious airships appearing all over U.S. for the next six months.
1942 — Hobo organizer, cultural drop-out Ben Reitman dies, Chicago, Illinois.
1966 — 46,000 meteoroids fall on Arizona in twenty minutes.
1979 — Russian crackpot astro-physicist Immanuel Velikovsky dies.

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NOVEMBER 16 — MIKHAIL BAKHTIN
Russian literary and cultural theorist, anti-Stalinist Marxist.

NOVEMBER 16 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS…
Côte d’Or: THREE DAY WINE FESTIVAL. RESIDENT ALIENS’ DAY.

ALSO ON NOVEMBER 16 IN HISTORY…
1747 — Knowles Riot in Boston; hundreds of sailors, laborers & free blacks
rise up against British Navy Press Gangs, temporarily ending impressment.
1811 — Mississippi River flows backwards (due to earthquake).
1885 — Mètis rebellion leader Louis Riel hanged, Assiniboia, Canada.
1889 — Playwright George S. Kaufman born, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1895 — Russian cultural theorist Mikhail Bakhtin born, Orel, Russia.
1916 — Margaret Sanger arrested for her birth control clinic, Brownsville, NY.
1946 — Shamanarchist, psychonaut Terence McKenna born, Hotchkiss, Colorado.
1973 — Free Religionist Alan Watts dies, Mill Valley, California.

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NOVEMBER 15 — MARGARET MEAD
American feminist, anthropologist, rebel educator.
“Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.”

NOVEMBER 15 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS…
Austria: ST. LEOPOLD’S DAY marks the beginning of new wine season
with drinking and festivities. FESTIVAL OF TOTAL SUBMISSION.

ALSO ON NOVEMBER 15 IN HISTORY…
1864 — Sherman burns Atlanta in U.S. Civil War.
1887 — American painter Georgia O’Keeffe born, Sun Prairie, Wisconsin.
1887 — American poet Marianne Moore born, Kirkwood, Missouri.
1917 — Bolsheviks take Moscow, Russian Revolution succeeds.
1934 — New York Schoolish poet Ted Berrigan born, Providence, Rhode Island.
1969 — 250,000 march on Washington to protest war in Vietnam while U.S.
President “Tricky” Dick Nixon watches football on television.
1978 — Anthropologist and feminist rebel Margaret Mead dies, New York City

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NOVEMBER 14 — FLORA TRISTAN
Great French feminist and socialist theorist, writer.

NOVEMBER 14 HOLIDAYS AND FESIVALS
Inuit ASKING FESTIVAL. On the first day young people blacken their faces
and make the rounds collecting food for the next day’s feast. At the
feast men and women ask each other for coveted possessions,
which are turned over. After a large percentage of village
property has changed hands, everyone dances.

ALSO ON NOVEMBER 14 IN HISTORY…
1831 — German Idealist philosopher G. W. F. Hegel dies, Berlin, Germany.
1843 — French feminist and socialist Flora Tristan dies.
1889 — American feminist journalist Nellie Bly sets out to circle the world.
1925 — Surrealist art exhibit opens in Paris, causing great scandal.
1938 — All Jews are expelled from German colleges as Nazis consolidate power.

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NOVEMBER 13 — CAMILLE PISSARRO
French impressionist painter, anarchist.

Camille Pissarro, The Boulevard Montmartre at Night, 1897. Oil on canvas. National Gallery, London, UK.

NOVEMBER 13 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
Ancient Rome: FESTIVAL OF JUPITER. FAKE I.D. DAY.

ALSO ON NOVEMBER 13 IN HISTORY…
1829 — Sam Patch, famed stunt diver, dives to his death.
1850 — British novelist Robert Louis Stevenson born.
1903 — French painter, anarchist Camille Pissarro dies, Paris, France.
1914 — Caresse Crosby applies for patent for the backless brassiere.
1967 — Scandalously nude musical “Hair” opens in New York City.
1974 — Karen Silkwood killed during Keer-McGee Nuclear
Power Plant investigation; driving to meet reporter with documents
on safety violations, her car mysteriously crashes, documents disappear.

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NOVEMBER 12 — ROLAND BARTHES
French Marxist theorist of the pleasure of the text.

“Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.” — A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments, 1967.

NOVEMBER 12 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
OLD TEUTONIC YULE FEAST. BUSMAN’S HOLIDAY.

ALSO ON NOVEMBER 12 IN HISTORY…
1381 — Adolphus, Count of Cleves, founds “The Brotherhood of Fools.”
1660 — John Bunyan jailed for preaching without a license, Bedfordshire, England.
1815 — Women’s rights activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton born, Johnstown, NY.
1817 — Religious mystic Bahá’u'lláh born.
1845 — French progressive anarcho-communist Jules Guesde born, Paris, France.
1915 — French literary critic Roland Barthes born, Cherbourg, Manche, France.
1939 — Canadian-born Chinese revolutionist Norman Bethune dies, Heibei, China.
1990 — Iran gives Kuwaitis untilmatum to acquire Iraqi identity cards.

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NOVEMBER 11 — KURT VONNEGUT
Beloved American novelist, sardonic social critic.

NOVEMBER 11 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
U.S.: VETERAN’S DAY. MARTINMAS, one of four “quarter days” in Old
England when rents were paid. As celebration and consolation there
was feasting and drinking. Was also called “TEAR-STOMACH DAY.”Martin
was the patron of beggars, tavern keepers and wine growers, proba-
bly because his day coincides with the ancient “FEAST OF DIONYSUS.”
Netherlands: ELEVEN ELEVEN ELEVEN DAY.Tradition says
eleven is the number of fools. On the 11th day of the 11th month a
council of 11 begins organizing the next year’s carnival, “so anyone
can be as foolish as he or she cares to be for those three days.”

ALSO ON NOVEMBER 11 IN HISTORY
1647 — First American compulsory school law passed, Massachusetts.
1821 — Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky born, Moscow, Russia.
1831 — American slave rebellion leader Nat Turner hanged, Jerusalem, Virginia.
1880 — American feminist Lucretia Mott dies, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1887 — Haymarket martyrs executed, Chicago, Illinois.
1922 — American novelist Kurt Vonnegut born, Indianapolis, Indiana.
1942 — Jimi Hendrix, rock guitar wizard, born, Seattle, Washington.
1989 — Civil Rights Memorial dedicated in Montgomery, Alabama.
2004 — Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat dies; succeeded by Mahmoud Abbas.

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NOVEMBER 3 — ARMANDO PEREZ
Slain New York City community, social justice activist.

NOVEMBER 3 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
U.S.: ELECTION DAY. Belgium: ST. HUBERT’S DAY,celebrated with deer
hunt in medieval costume. Communion wafers stamped with hunting
horns were given to the dogs before hunt. Ancient Rome: ISIS CULT.
Feasting & licentious celebration of restoration of Osiris.

ALSO ON NOVEMBER 3 IN HISTORY…
1755 — Massachusetts offers £20 bounty for scalps
of female and male Indians under age 12.
1883 — U.S. Supreme Court decides Native Americans are “aliens.”
1926 — American sharpshooter Annie Oakley dies, Greenville, Ohio.
1957 — Wilhelm Reich dies in prison (won’t stop sale of orgone accumulators).
1979 — Five radicals killed by KKK/Nazis, later exonerated, Greensboro, N.C.

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NOVEMBER 2 — GEORGES SOREL
French anarcho-communist, theorist of “Direct Action.”

NOVEMBER 2 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
ALL SOULS DAY. Cheshire, England: SOUL CAKER’S PLAY, featuring King
George, The Dragon, An Old Woman, The Turk, Doctor Quack, Hobby
Horse, and Beelzebub. Brittany: Beginning of “THE BLACK MONTHS.”
Sicily: Good little girls and boys get sweets and toys from their ances-
tors on DEAD RELATIVES DAY. SADIE HAWKINS DAY. DEBUNKING DAY.

ALSO ON NOVEMBER 2 IN HISTORY
1811 — Weavers and knitters smash machines at Sutton and Ashfield, England.
1847 — Direct Action theorist Georges Sorel born, Cherbourg, Normandy, France.
1950 — British socialist playwright George Bernard Shaw dies, Ayot St. Laurence.
1961 — American humorist James Thurber dies, New York City.
1979 — Political bank robber Jacques Mesrine machine-gunned by flics, Paris.

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NOVEMBER 1 — EDWARD SAID
Palestinian activist, scholar, literary critic.

“It is part of morality not to be at home in one’s home.”

NOVEMBER 1 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
U.S.: DAYLIGHT SAVINGS ends. ALL SAINTS/ALL HALLOWS DAY. OLD CELTIC
NEW YEAR. England: Tradition of SOUL-CAKING, door-to-door begging
for cakes in remembrance of the dead. Originally soulers were the poor
and the cakes an exchange for prayers for the departed. Bonfires and
incessant ringing of church bells. GRAVEYARDS DAY.
Mexico: DAY OF THE DEAD.

ALSO ON NOVEMBER 1 IN HISTORY…
1787 — African Free School opens, New York City.
1836 — Seminole resistance to removal begins.
1871 — American antiwar writer Stephen Crane born, Newark, New Jersey.
1872 — Susan B. Anthony and her sisters arrested for registering to vote.
1879 — Thomas Alva Edison gets patent for electric light.
1907 — Alfred Jarry dies, Paris, France; a suicide?
1935 — Palestinian activist, literary scholar Edward Said born, Jerusalem.

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OCTOBER 31 — STUDS TERKEL
American labor, oral historian, “common man” proponent.

OCTOBER 31 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS…
HALLOWEEN. Druids’ SAMHAIN, Autumn sun festival. Ancient Roman
FEAST TO POMONA. Druids held human sacrifices and prayers…
ALL HALLOWS EVE, 10th century. ALL SAINTS EVE. Human sacrifice be-
came cakes left out for the dead, thrown into the fire in the
morning. In Brittany all wore black, etc. Old Celtic NEW YEAR’S EVE.
Struggle between old and new years. FESTIVAL OF INNER WORLDS.

ALSO ON OCTOBER 31 IN HISTORY…
1517 — Martin Luther launches Reformation, Wittenburg, Germany.
1795 — Renowned British lyric poet John Keats born, London, England.
1927 — Kemal Ataturk abolishes the fez, “emblem of ignorance, fanaticism.”
1961 — Uncle Joe Stalin’s body removed from public display in Red Square.
1984 — Indian prime minster Indira Gandhi assassinated in her garden, New Delhi.
2008 — American oral historian, labor journalist Studs Terkel dies, Chicago, Illinois.

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OCTOBER 30 — CLIFFORD GEERTZ
Radical American cultural anthropologist, anti-colonialist.

“There is an Indian story — at least I heard it as an Indian story — about an Englishman who, having been told that the world rested on a platform which rested on the back of an elephant which rested in turn on the back of a turtle, asked (perhaps he was an ethnographer; it is the way they behave), what did the turtle rest on? Another turtle. And that turtle? ‘Ah, Sahib, after that it is turtles all the way down’” – Clifford Geertz, Interpretation of Cultures

OCTOBER 30 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
Chan Kom, Mexico: At midnight the ANGELITOS, spirits of dead children,
come. Doors are decorated with flowers to welcome them.
Offerings of food are left for them and they stay the night.
DEVIL’S NIGHT. COVENANT OF GRACE DAY. LIQUOR IS QUICKER DAY.

ALSO ON OCTOBER 30 IN HISTORY…
1838 — Oberlin College becomes first in U.S. to admit women students.
1871 — French “pure” poet Paul Valéry born, Sète, France.
1885 — American poet, fascist-symp Ezra Pound born, Hailey, Idaho.
1938 — Martians land at Grover’s Mill, New Jersey & start “War of the Worlds.”
1958 — Boris Pasternak bows to Soviet pressure, refuses Nobel Literature award.
2006 — Radical cultural anthropologist Clifford Geertz dies, Philadelphia, PA.

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