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Nov 2, ’10 12:37 AM

Nov. 2 Autonomedia Jubilee Saint — Georges Sorel

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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 ancestors 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.

Excerpted from The 2010 Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints: Radical Heroes for the New Millennium by James Koehnline and the Autonomedia Collective

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Oct 20, ’10 12:00 PM

October 20 Autonomedia Jubilee Saint — Arthur Rimbaud

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OCTOBER 20 — ARTHUR RIMBAUD
Gay poet, gun runner, anarchist activist.

“I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.”

OCTOBER 20 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
Bahai‘i: BIRTH OF THE B‘AB.
FEAST OF NO EXCUSE FOR A FEAST.

ALSO ON OCTOBER 20 IN HISTORY…
1854 — Gay French poet, gunrunner Arthur Rimbaud born, Charleville, France.
1859 — American pragmatist philosopher John Dewey born, Burlington, Vermont.
1874 — Modernist composer Charles Ives born, Danbury, Connecticut.
1890 — British adventurer Sir Richard Francis Burton dies, Trieste, Italy.
1918 — Germans accept U.S. peace terms, ending World War I.
1926 — American socialist leader Eugene Debs dies, Chicago, Illinois.
1947 — U.S. House Un-American Activities Committee begins investigation of the entertainment industry.

Excerpted from The 2010 Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints: Radical Heroes for the New Millennium by James Koehnline and the Autonomedia Collective

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Oct 19, ’10 12:00 PM

Oct. 19 Autonomedia Jubilee Saint — Lu Xun

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OCTOBER 19 — LU XUN
Famed Chinese writer of rebellion and revolution.

OCTOBER 19 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
FEAST OF THE WICKED SCAM.
LAILAT UL QADR.

ALSO ON OCTOBER 19 IN HISTORY…
1433 — Metaphysical giant Marsilio Ficino born, Figline, Florentice Republic.
1745 — Irish satirist and scatological critic Jonathan Swift dies, Dublin, Ireland.
1781 — Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown; world turned upside down.
1862 — Auguste Lumière, French film pioneer, born.
1895 — Architect and culture critic Lewis Mumford born, Flushing, New York.
1899 — Guatemalan novelist Miguel Angel Asturias born, Guatemala City.
1936 — Chinese revolutionist, writer Lu Xun dies, Shanghai.
1983 — Grenadan leader Maurice Bishop killed in internal political coup, Grenada.
1987 — “Black Monday” stock market crash, world-wide.

Excerpted from The 2010 Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints: Radical Heroes for the New Millennium by James Koehnline and the Autonomedia Collective

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Oct 18, ’10 12:00 AM

Oct. 18 Autonomedia Jubilee Saint — DIGNA OCHOA

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OCTOBER 18 — DIGNA OCHOA
Mexican human rights activist, martyr.

OCTOBER 18 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
Kent, England: GREAT HORN FAIR. Merrymakers wear horns on their
heads, cross-dress and lash each other with evergreen boughs.
ALASKA DAY.
FESTIVAL OF POETIC TERRORISM.

ALSO ON OCTOBER 18 IN HISTORY
1839 — Hollow Earth theorist Cyrus Reed Teed (Prophet Koresh) born.
1859 — French philosopher Henri Bergson born.
1870 — Buddhist philosopher D. T. Suzuki born.
1893 — Suffragist leader Lucy Stone dies, Boston, Massachusetts.
1895 — Brotherhood of the Cooperative Commonwealth founded in Washington.
1898 — Puerto Rico becomes U.S. colony, ceded from Spain.
1901 — Furor erupts over U.S. President Teddy Roosevelt’s invitation
for White House dinner to Black leader Booker T. Washington.
1929 — English government declares Canadian women legally to be “persons.”
1973 — Cartoonist Walt Kelly, creator of “Pogo” dies, Hollywood, California.

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

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Oct 5, ’10 12:25 AM

Oct. 5 Autonomedia Jubilee Saint — Philip Berrigan

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OCTOBER 5 — PHILIP BERRIGAN
Rebel American Catholic priest, antiwar activist.

ALSO ON OCTOBER 5 IN HISTORY…
1582 — Pope Gregory annuls 14 days, bringing calendar back in line with seasons.
1713 — Encyclopedist Denis Diderot born, Langres, France.
1789 —Declaration of The Rights of Man published.
1813 — Shawnee Chief Tecumseh killed in War of 1812.
1864 — Louis-Jean Lumière, film pioneer, born, Besançon, France.
1877 — Chief Joseph, Nez Percé chief, surrenders to U.S. troops.
1923 — Rebel priest, antiwar activist Phil Berrigan born, Two Harbors, Minnesota.
1934 — French surrealist filmmaker Jean Vigo dies, Paris, France. `

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Oct 3, ’10 11:49 AM

October 3 Autonomedia Jubilee Saint — Woody Guthrie

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OCTOBER 3 — WOODY GUTHRIE
American folk singer, composer, rebel free spirit.

Woody Guthrie, “Ranger’s Command.” One of two surviving film clips of Guthrie performing.

ALSO ON OCTOBER 3 IN HISTORY…
1226 — Pantheistic social revolutionary Francis of Assisi dies, Assisi, Italy.
1838 — Chief Black Hawk, Native American leader, dies.
1896 — British socialist designer William Morris dies, Kelmscott House.
1900 — American novelist Thomas Wolfe born, Asheville, North Carolina.
1925 — American writer Gore Vidal born, West Point, New York.
1967 — Radical American folk singer Woody Guthrie dies, New York City.

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Dec 29, ’09 12:00 AM

Today’s Autonomedia Jubilee Saint — Sheikh Anta Diop

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DECEMBER 29 — SHEIKH ANTA DIOP
Radical African historian, “The Pharoah of Knowledge.”

DECEMBER 29 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
ISLAMIC MUHARRAM. FESTIVAL OF AUTONOMOUS MEDIA.

ALSO ON DECEMBER 29 IN HISTORY…
1890 — Wounded Knee Massacre of Oglala Sioux, Pine Ridge, South Dakota.
1911 — Sun Yat Sen named first president of Republic of China.
1916 — Russian crackpot monk Rasputin assassinated.
1923 — Radical African historian Sheikh Anta Diop born, Caytou, Senegal.
1943 — Masses political cartoonist Art Young dies, New York City

Excerpted from The 2009 Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints: Radical Heroes for the New Millennium by James Koehnline and the Autonomedia Collective. The 2010 Autonomedia Calender is now available on the Autonomedia site.

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Dec 28, ’09 12:00 AM

Today’s Autonomedia Jubilee Saint — Guy Debord

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DECEMBER 28 — GUY DEBORD
French Situationist thinker, filmmaker, theorist, streetfighter.

“Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.”

DECEMBER 28 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
Belgium: HOLY INNOCENTS’ DAY. Children play all sorts of tricks on their
elders, including stealing their keys & locking them up.

ALSO ON DECEMBER 28 IN HISTORY…
1895 — Lumiére brothers give first commercial showing of a movie.
1905 — American jazz master Earl “Fatha” Hines born, Duquesne, Pennsylvania.
1931 — Situationist theorist, “Mai ’68” leader Guy Debord born, Paris, France.
1945 — American social writer Theodore Dreiser dies, Los Angeles, California.

Excerpted from The 2009 Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints: Radical Heroes for the New Millennium by James Koehnline and the Autonomedia Collective. The 2010 Autonomedia Calender is now available on the Autonomedia site.

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Dec 27, ’09 12:00 AM

Today’s Autonomedia Jubilee Saint — Julian Benda

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DECEMBER 27 — JULIAN BENDA
French theorist of the traitorous nationalist intellectual.

“Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace. It will not be the abstaining from an act, but the coming of a state of mind. In this sense the most insignificant writer can serve peace, where the most powerful tribunals can do nothing.”

DECEMBER 27 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
South Africa: FEAST OF MARIMBA, Goddess of Musical Happiness.

ALSO ON DECEMBER 27 IN HISTORY…
1867 — Treason of the Clerks author Julian Benda born, Paris, France.
1893 — Fourierist, socialist theorist Victor Considerant dies, Salins, Switzerland.
1917 — Dissenting American journalist John Hess born, Salt Lake Ciity, Utah.
1945 — “World Bank” scam concocted in aftermath of WWII.
1947 — First “Howdy Doody” television show broadcast.
1979 — Soviet invasion of Afghanistan commences.

Excerpted from The 2009 Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints: Radical Heroes for the New Millennium by James Koehnline and the Autonomedia Collective. The 2010 Autonomedia Calender is now available on the Autonomedia site.

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Dec 26, ’09 12:02 PM

Today’s Autonomedia Jubilee Saint — Cornelius Castoriadis

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DECEMBER 26 — CORNELIUS CASTORIADIS
Turkish-born French theorist of radical political autonomy.

“History does not happen to society: history is the self-deployment of society.”

DECEMBER 26 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
BOXING DAY. Ireland: DAY OF THE WREN. Masked revelers and musicians
go door-to-door asking for money. All-day feasting.
NATIONAL WHINER’S DAY. KWANZAA BEGINS.

ALSO ON DECEMBER 26 IN HISTORY…
1891 — Sex novelist Henry Miller born, New York, New York.
1893 — Chinese revolutionary Mao Zedong born, Shaoshan, Hunan Province.
1894 — Black American novelist Jean Toomer born, Washington, DC.
1997 — Revolutionary political theorist Cornelius Castoriadis dies, Paris.

Excerpted from The 2009 Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints: Radical Heroes for the New Millennium by James Koehnline and the Autonomedia Collective. The 2010 Autonomedia Calender is now available on the Autonomedia site.

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Dec 25, ’09 7:09 PM

Today’s Autonomedia Jubilee Saint — Jesus of Nazareth

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DECEMBER 25 — JESUS OF NAZARETH
Persecuted leader of an underground liberation movement, jubilator, social radical, martyr, son of God.

DECEMBER 25 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
CHRISTMAS. BIRTHDAY OF MITHRAS. Congo: CHILDREN’S DAY.

ALSO ON DECEMBER 25 IN HISTORY…
1621 — Massachusetts halts all sinful game-playing, confiscates children’s toys.
1899 — Film tough-guy Humphrey Bogart born, New York City.
1924 — “Twilight Zone” creator Rod Serling born, Binghamton, New York.
1977 —Comedic film great Charlie Chaplin dies, Vaud, Vevey, Switzerland.
1989 — Romanian leader Nicolae Ceausescu executed.

Excerpted from The 2009 Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints: Radical Heroes for the New Millennium by James Koehnline and the Autonomedia Collective. The 2010 Autonomedia Calender is now available on the Autonomedia site.

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Dec 24, ’09 11:45 AM

Today’s Autonomedia Jubilee Saint – Shusha Guppy

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DECEMBER 24 — SHUSHA GUPPY
Iranian-born writer, composer, singer, filmmaker, salonière.


Susha Guppy, excerpt from Bakhtiari Migration documentary, following the Iranian tribe’s annual migration across the Zagros Mountains.

DECEMBER 24 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
Throughout the Western world, December 24 – January 1, “THE HOLIDAYS,” is a period of continuous merrymaking and zerowork.

ALSO ON DECEMBER 24 IN HISTORY…
1865 — White racist organization Ku Klux Klan founded in Tennessee.
1903 — Box collage artist Joseph Cornell born, Nyack, New York.
1907 — Activist journalist I. F. “Izzy” Stone born, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1914 — Wilderness advocate John Muir dies, Los Angeles, California.
1935 —Writer, composer, singer, filmmaker Shusha Guppy born, Tehran, Iran.

Excerpted from The 2009 Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints: Radical Heroes for the New Millennium by James Koehnline and the Autonomedia Collective. The 2010 Autonomedia Calender is now available on the Autonomedia site.

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