Thurs., Nov. 30, 7 pm. One World Theatre, 7701 Bee Caves Road 2005 Grammy Award Winners Joel Guzman and Sarah Fox bring their high energy Latin music show to the One World Theatre. They artfully blend smooth salsa, R&B and rock cumbia creating a Latin music masterpiece. Sarah Fox is recognized as one of the most passionate singers and gifted songwriters famous for captivating audiences with her stunning vocal renditions of classic boleros. Joel Guzman is not only a superbly … Continue reading →

Thursday, November 30 – Come out to shop & support Red Salmon Arts! Benefit Night @ Ten Thousand Villages (A Fair Trade Operation) Ten Thousand Villages will donate a percentage of their proceeds to Red Salmon Arts. On Thursday Nov. 30, not only are the items you buy guaranteed to be purchased according to fair trade principles, but some of those proceeds will also go to the efforts of Red Salmon Arts! 5pm – 9pm @ Ten Thousand Villages, 1317 … Continue reading →

Wed, Nov 29, at noon on the South Mall of the UT campus, the Palestine Solidarity Committee, a student organization, will be having a mock Israel-Palestine soccer game. The game will be followed by a screening of Goal Dreams, a documentary that narrates the struggles of the Palestinian national soccer team, at 8pm at Monkeywrench Books. The game at NOON will be a humorous portrayal through theater of the historical injustice in Palestine, and the unfairness of the current political … Continue reading →

Monday, November 27, 8:00 p.m. MonkeyWrench Books, 110 E. North Loop KOOP Radio Monthly Benefit, “The Power of Nightmares.” This BBC documentary parallels the rise of two political groups — radical Islamists and U.S. neoconservatives — from the Cold War to the current “War on Terror.” Suggested donation is $5.

Sunday, November 26, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. Saengerrunde Hall, 1607 San Jacinto An Invitation to Last Sunday by Eliza Gilkyson and Jim Rigby We live in the most affluent and powerful nation in the history of the world, yet more and more people are beginning to fear that all our money and guns are little protection against the crises that loom ahead. We think that those crises — political and cultural, economic and ecological — are real and that the … Continue reading →

Sunday, November 26th, 6:00 pm; ADMISSION: $10 adults, $5 students with i.d., free for children under 5 and slam participants Ruta Maya World Headquarters, 3601 S. Congress, Austin, Texas The top four poets of the season this year will win an all expense trip to San Jose, California! The turkey will be a skeleton. Hopefully, what’s left of the green bean casserole, cranberry sauce and fruit cake will all be out at the curb. After getting your fill of food … Continue reading →

Transgender Advocates of Central Texas and its allies will gather for a candlelight vigil at Austin City Hall Plaza on Monday, 11/20/06 at 6:30pm. The address is 301 W. 2nd Street. Special guests include Austin Mayor Will Wynn and State Representative Garnet Coleman. On November 20, 2006 members of the transgender community and their allies around the world will mark the 8th annual International Transgender Day of Remembrance (DOR), a day dedicated to memorialize those who have lost their lives … Continue reading →

Monday, Nov. 20, 7:30pm, MonkeyWrench Book, 110 E North Loop. Dissident Women: Gender and Cultural Politics in Chiapas A Reading and Book Presentation by Shannon Speed, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at UT Austin R. Aída Hernández Castillo, Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at the Center of Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS) in Mexico City Melissa M. Forbis, Doctoral Candidate in Anthropology at UT Austin. Yielding pivotal new perspectives on the indigenous women of Mexico, Dissident Women: Gender and Cultural … Continue reading →

Sunday, Nov. 19, 7-9 pm. Smith Auditorium, Congregation Beth Israel*, 3901 Shoal Creek Boulevard Religious Values and Torture: Moral Questions for a Changing World A panel discussion followed by a Q&A session. The panel will consist of 5-7 religious leaders and lay experts from diverse faith backgrounds. Representatives of the Jewish, Islamic, Buddhist and Christian communities have been invited. The following panelists have committed to participate as of November 8, 2006. Moderator – Rev. Emilee Whitehurst, Executive Director, Austin Area … Continue reading →

November 18, 4:00 – 8:00 p.m. LCRA Board Room The Central Texas Muslimaat (CTM) will sponsor a live and a silent auction of unique Arabic calligraphic art pieces to raise funds for their Family Matters program, which helps victims of domestic violence by connecting them with culturally and religiously sensitive resources and support. The event will feature live performances, appetizers, and an extraordinary collection of unique Arabic calligraphic Art from many different international artists and artisans. Tickets and more information … Continue reading →

Friday, November 17 – Red Salmon Arts presents Cafe Libro, a bi-monthy open mike series (Featured reader TBA). We invite poet/artistas to come share/enjoy the cantos & cuentos of emerging & established writers/musicians. Hosted by Carole Metelllus. 7:00pm Resistencia Books 1801-A South First St.

Come celebrate the 4th Anniverary of the Proyecto Defensa Labora on Friday, November 17 (7pm – 11pm). Call Cristina for more information or to volunteer: 512-391-2305

Thursday, November 9 – Men, Please Stand Up: it is time for well-meaning men to take a stand against the epidemic of men’s violence aimed at women. Please join us to view a short video, meet each other, and talk about what we can do in Austin. A FREE Gathering @ Resistencia Bookstore. 1801-A South First St. 6:30pm – 8:30pm. Snacks and refreshments will be provided. For more info: César J. Alvarado cesarjalvarado@yahoo.com 934-1350 Tony Switzer tswitzer1@austin.rr.com 491-5210

The Texas Court of Criminat Appeals has ordered a review of the case… So there will be no protest. November 16, 2006, TX (AP) If death Texas row inmate Charles Nealy is put to death, Texas will end the year with 25 executions, up three from last year, but about average for the past decade. A record 40 Texas prisoners were executed in 2000. (NCADP Execution Alert)–Charles Nealy, a black man, is scheduled for execution on Nov. 16. In August … Continue reading →

Tuesday, Nov. 14, 8:00pm @ MonkeyWrench Books, 110 E North Loop “Iraq For Sale.” The story of what happens to everyday Americans when corporations go to war. Acclaimed director Robert Greenwald (Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, Outfoxed, and Uncovered) takes you inside the lives of soldiers, truck drivers, widows and children who have been changed forever as a result of profiteering in the reconstruction of Iraq. Iraq for Sale uncovers the connections between private corporations making a killing … Continue reading →

Monday, November 13, 8:00 p.m. MonkeyWrench Books, 110 E. North Loop Amnesty Inernational – Austin will begin its monthly film night by screening “Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land” — a clear and well-organized examination of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the way it is portrayed in the U.S. media. The film includes interviews with Hannan Ashrawi, Noam Chomsky, Robert Fisk, and Robert Jensen.

Kneeling Down at Noon: Nov. 8-19; Wed-Sat, 7:30 p.m., and Sun, 2 p.m.; Mary Moody Northen Theatre, St. Edwards University Everyone is invited to the Mary Moody Northen Theatre’s production of Kneeling Down at Noon from Wednesday, Nov. 8 to Sunday, Nov. 19. The play tells a richly woven story of Muslims struggling to find, share, and live their daily faith. From the devout wife of an atheist activist, to the doubting son struggling with prejudice in America, to the … Continue reading →

SUN Nov. 12th, 2pm – Copa Bar and Grill, 217 Congress St. Panel Discussion Follows LETTERS FROM THE OTHER SIDE interweaves video letters carried across the U.S.-Mexico border by the film’s director with the personal stories of women left behind in post-NAFTA Mexico. Director Heather Courtney interacts with her subjects through her unobtrusive camera, providing an intimate look at the lives of the people most affected by today’s failed immigration and trade policies. Her use of video letters provides a … Continue reading →

Meet at Republic Square Park (4th St. and Guadalupe) on Saturday, November 11, at 2:00pm. March to the Capitol at 2:30pm to confront the Nazis and stand up for the rights of migrants and all people. Call to Action, against those worth confronting, in the real REAL WORLD and off the computer!! Confronting the Nazi Menace in Austin, Nov. 11, Central Texas Anti-Racist Action This Veterans’ Day, Saturday, November 11, the white supremacist organization National Socialist Movement (NSM) is holding … Continue reading →

November 11 (Saturday 10am-7pm) & 12 (Sunday 10am-6pm); Copa Bar and Grill, 217 Congress Avenue; American Friends Service Committee will host two days of panels, film, and the sale of crafts made by Mexican women’s cooperatives. Fair trade acknowledges the human beings that make our products. It means that small producers receive fair prices for their products, helping them build a better future for themselves and their communities. This helps to reverse current trends that reward the middle man or … Continue reading →

Friday, November 10, 7:30 p.m. Treasure City Thrift Store, 1720 E. 12th Street. Bus Riders Union, by the respected documentary filmmaker Haskell Wexler, chronicles the organizing and direct action taken by the bus passengers of the Los Angeles transit system. While the MTA was spending 70% of revenue on the 6% of passengers who ride the trains, the bus riders, many of whom are transit dependent, were left with overcrowded and unreliable buses. A multiracial organization successfully rises up to … Continue reading →

FRI, Nov 10, 4:30 PM at University of Texas, Jesse H. Jones Communication Center, CMA Building ‘A’ room #2.320 (Located at the corner of Guadalupe St and Dean Keaton St) Little Birds (Iraq/Japan) FREE – NEW DAY / TIME Austin Asian Film Festival http://www.cinemaasiaaustin. org After the U.S. armed forces entered Iraq in April 2003, Watai Takeharu remained in Iraq to continue shooting portraits of Iraqi citizens in the war-ravaged country. In Baghdad, Samawa, Falluja, and at Abu Ghraib, Watai … Continue reading →

Thurs, Nov 9, 7PM, UTC 2.112A Celia Santis Ruiz presents “Weaving Consciousness: Women and Indigenous Identity in Chiapas” Ms Santiz is a Spanish- and Tzotzil-speaking woman who will share her personal journey as a Mayan woman from a traditional background in the highlands of southern Mexico and the story of Jolom Mayaetik (Mayan Women Weavers), a collective she helped found ten years ago. While preserving traditional Mayan weaving, Ms Santiz and Jolom Mayaetik are moving ahead, seeking the power of … Continue reading →

November 9 (Thu) 7:00 pm Mahmood Mamdani, “Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: The Politics of Culture Talk,” In this lecture, Mahmood Mamdani argues that the U.S. government’s classification of a “good” and a “bad” Muslim are really quasi-official terms for political alignment rather than any moral quality. He critiques what he calls “culture talk,” the attempt to explain terrorism and violence through the religion of Islam rather than through political analysis. Good Muslim, Bad Muslim Mamdani is a professor of Government … Continue reading →

It gives me great pleasure to announce the inauguration of the Texas Center for Education Policy (TCEP). Our inaugural Texas Faces the Future Distinguished Lecture will be given by renowned Professor Gary Orfield, director of the Harvard Civil Rights Project at Harvard University. The inaugural lecture takes place on Thursday, November 9, 2006 at 6:00PM in the Santa Rita Room (3.502), third floor of the Texas Union at The University of Texas at Austin campus (see Texas Union map and … Continue reading →