Jubilee Saints Project
c/o Koehnline
POB 85777
Seattle, WA 98145-1777
Every fifty years the Ancients observed the jubilee - a time of renewal when all slaves were freed, all debts were cancelled, all prisoners were released, all fields lay fallow, and all laborers observed feast days and festivals of zerowork!
For 500 years the 'New' World has been sentenced to life at hard labor, death in the fields, mines, big houses, schools, prisons & factories of competing cabals. But the Capitalist/Socialist Planetary Work & War Machine will not rule forever! In the cracks and on the margins of this Wetiko-diseased world, Temporary Autonomous Zones flourish! Sound the ram's horn! We call for a celebration of the Grand Jubilee of the New World's discovery. In advance of the feasting and revelry we are preparing a Calendar of Saints, with each and every day a Feast Day! We invite your nominations! Sponsor a saint today!
The Chronicle Of Higher Jubiliation
An Introduction to the Jubilee Sainthood Project
Columbian Jubilee
In 1984 the United States government established the Christopher Columbus Quincentenary Jubilee Commision to plan and co-ordinate nation-wide celebrations of the 500th anniversary of Columbus' first landing in the so- called New World, the traditional starting point for the European Invasion of the Americas.
Columbus, Admiral of the Ocean Sea, or, as he liked to call himself, the Christ-bearing Dove, was a religious nut of the first order. He had two great obsessions. The first was to loot the gold of the heathen world in order to finance a triumphant Crusade by the Roman Church to retake Jerusalem, the center of the Christian world. The second was to sew-up the world for Christ, in preparation for the Millenium.
If Columbus had had the slightest interest in the possibility that he had discovered a "New World," we would most likely have continents named North and South Columbia today. He had no such interest. The last thing he wanted was a New World to worry about. It was a considerable complication for his simple-minded faith. He wanted to show that the world was of manageable size; the aging world made whole, holy, harmonious - a small world after all. A "New World" with countless lost and scattered tribes to find and convert was a serious set-back, forcing unavoidable delays; a major pain in the ass. In his will he directed his son to establish a fund for the reconquest of Jerusalem. Someone else's children could shoulder the burden of a "New World." Chris was disgusted with the whole business.
We, in turn, are disgusted with the official Quincentenary hype designed to celebrate one of Europe's premier imperializing cannibals. But we take some ironic pleasure in the fact that the U.S. government has settled on that far more convivial Biblical tradition, the Jubilee.
Jubilee
It is quite likely that the Christian conception of the Millenium evolved out of ancient Hebrew Jubilee legislation. In the Gospel according to Luke, especially, the coming Kingdom of God has very much the character of a divinely-ordained, universal Jubilee, a great social leveling. When Jesus went to Nazareth to begin preaching, the first thing he did was open the scroll to the words of the prophet Isaiah which proclaim the "acceptable year of the Lord" - in other words, the year of Jubilee. Then he said, "Today, this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing." Jubilee evolves in the Bible from the legal ideal of social justice in Leviticus, through the poetic prophecy of Isaiah, to the fulfillment announced by Jesus in Luke.
Historically, Jubilee began as an ancient prerogative of kings, a kind of social safety valve. Later it was codified as law, though probably never fully enacted. Finally, with Jesus, the trumpet (ram's horn or jubel) is sounded for all who have ears to hear; for all who are in touch with the spirit within; the Millenium, the kingdom of God is here and now - a timeless, universal Jubilee. The Empire of Lies is exposed and the chains of the law are broken.
