First Night New Year’s Eve The Djembabes and Friends Performance and Community Drum Circle at 11:15PM on the First Street Bridge! Please join us for another AMAZING and BEAUTIFUL community drum experience on New Year’s Eve and let us celebrate the closing of 2006 and the welcoming of 2007 at the First Night Grande Finale on the First Street Bridge. Bring drums and especially all kinds of rhythm instruments to play and to share…there really isn’t a lot of easy … Continue reading →

The Crawford Peace House will host Waco Friends of Peace Fourth Annual New Years Eve Candle Light Vigil 5:30 PM, Sunday, Dec. 31 Crawford, TX in remembrance of the 650,000 Iraqi civilians killed since March 20, 2003 Speakers include Alan Northcutt, MD Giving a summary of the Lancet report documenting the deaths Rev. Robert Flowers Cindy Sheehan If you cannot come to Crawford, please join with us in consciousness of shining the light of truth on the horrific acts perpetrated … Continue reading →

This month Last Sunday will be on a Friday, since the last Sunday of December is New Year’s Eve. Guests include author and radio commentator Jim Hightower, singer-songwriter Ruthie Foster, and poet Naomi Shihab Nye. Like the previous month, Jim Rigby will speak and Eliza Gilkyson will perform. Robert Jensen will emcee the event. This month’s program will also include more opportunity for interaction among everyone attending. Details are available at http://ThirdCoastActivist.org/lastsunday.html Location: Saengerrunde Hall, 1607 San Jacinto (next door … Continue reading →

When: Thursday Dec 28 8:30 am Where: Camp Casey in Crawford, TX What: Gather at Camp Casey in Crawford at 8:30 am then take shuttle for a Press Conference at the First Barricade on the way to the President’s Ranch. please circulate widely! Camp Casey Alert!: Help the Decider Decide! President Bush has summoned his National Security Advisors to Crawford Texas this week to advise him about policy options in Iraq. Activists are being asked to come to Crawford to … Continue reading →

Dec 24, from 5-6pm, across from the entrance of the Hutto prison camp. Austin, Texas. Along with Jay J. Johnson-Castro, two professional Flamenco performers, Teye and Belen, who are based in Austin ( www.teyeandbelen.com ), are organizing a Christmas Eve Vigil for the children who are incarcerated in the Hutto prison camp in Taylor , Texas . Jay, who gained international media attention when he made a 205 mile walk from Laredo to Brownsville to protest the proposed border wall … Continue reading →

11:30am Demonstration on the 11th St. Bridge (west intersection with IH-35) This action is planned in response to a call for a worldwide mobilization put out by the EZLN, who calls on all honest people, in Mexico and the world, to initiate, starting now, continual actions of solidarity and support to the Oaxacan people, with the following demands: For the living reappearance of the disappeared, for the freedom of the detained, for the exit of Ulises Ruiz and the federal … Continue reading →

Dec. 19, 9:30 p.m., One World Theater, Benefit for Ana Sisnett’s Medical Treatment Lourdes Pérez is coming to Austin to perform on December 19 in a benefit for Ana Sisnett. Lourdes will perform at the One World Theater, along with special guest Illuminada — Olver Rajamani, Kay Sparks, Hartt Stearns & Martin Perna (of Anti-Balas). Tickets are $20.00, 3.00 of which will go to the venue and $17.00 of which will go to Ana, to be used for medical treatment … Continue reading →

The Austin Center for Peace and Justice is calling for a vigil on the day following the death of the 3,000 U.S. soldier in Iraq,* on the Lamar Pedestrian Bridge at 6:30pm. Bring candles and paper plates or cups to catch wax (bring extra to share!). Parking available across Cesar Chavez in the old Cedar Door parking lot, in the 4th-6th Streets and Lamar area, and in the City Hall parking garage at Cesar Chavez and Lavaca. 799-5117 or austinpeacecenter.org … Continue reading →

On Saturday, Dec. 16, Move On is coordinating house parties for screenings of the excellent Al Gore film on global warming. Here is an issue that can unite the world in everyone’s best interest. See the schedule of Austin screenings or sign up to host a screening of your own. http://www.moveon.org/

Saturday, December 16 – Red Salmon Arts presents a community celebration, blessing ceremony, and an unveiling of a painting by Austin Chicano muralist/activist Raul Valdez. As Red Salmon Arts’ Fall 2006 artist-in-residence, Raul Valdez spent two months creating a 12 ft. x 16 ft painting. (more info soon to come!) 3pm! Resistencia Bookstore casa de Red Salmon Arts 1801-A South First St. Austin, Tejas 512-416-8885

Saturday, December 16th, 11:00AM, Hutto Prison, Taylor TX Caravan to Taylor will meet in Austin at the ACLU office at 1210 Rosewood at 9:45AM This summer, the U.S. began detaining immigrant families. These families are housed in the T. Don Hutto Facility in Taylor. Many of these families consist of small children, even infants. Picture children and their parents living and sleeping in a jail that could house criminals. We need your help to help shut down this facility. A … Continue reading →

Friday, December 15, 9pm *Benefit for **ATX** **Indymedia** **Center**. *Radical media outlets empower our communities and provide tools for organized resistance. All proceeds will go to the 100% volunteer run collectives of Austin Indymedia and People Will Radio (kpwr.org), as well as a project in solidarity with the people of Oaxaca, Mexico(20% of door). The benefit features: The Hot as Shits Work Release Program Neda with DJ’s Dr Bullet, Lexicon, El Capitan, and La Tripa. Doors open at 9pm. $5 … Continue reading →

Friday, December 15 – Red Salmon Arts presents Cafe Libro, a bi-monthy open mike series, featuring ire’ne lara silva & Moises S. Lara. at Resistencia Bookstore, casa de Red Salmon Arts, 1801-A South First St. 512-416-8885 We invite poet/artistas to come share/enjoy the cantos & cuentos of emerging & established writers/musicians. 7pm ire’ne lara silva lives in Austin, Tex. and is the Executive Coordinator for the Macondo Writing Workshop. In the past, she has organized other writing workshops, coordinated literary … Continue reading →

[This is from Jay Johnson-Castro of Del Rio.] Hola y’all… Here’s my next walk… Press Conference: 9:00am, Dec. 14, State Capitol Steps Depart: 10:00am Arrive: 11:00am, Sat., Dec. 16, Hutto Detention Center, Taylor The Border Wall-K taught me a lot. In my 205 mile “wall-k” from Laredo to Brownsville…I learned about prison camps…in America…and right here in Texas. I learned that our government has cut a deal with three privatized prison companies that make obscene profits off of imprisoning refugees … Continue reading →

Tuesday, December 12, 8:00 p.m. MonkeyWrench Books, 110 E. North Loop. Amnesty International Video Night at MonkeyWrench Books, “Outlawed: Extraordinary Rendition, Torture and Disappearances in the ‘War on Terror’” This short film tells the stories of Khaled El-Masri and Binyam Mohamed, two men who have survived extraordinary rendition, secret detention, and torture by the U.S. government working with various other governments worldwide. “Outlawed” features relevant commentary from Louise Arbour, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, U.S. President George W. … Continue reading →

Monday, December 11, at 7 p.m. at the Alamo Drafthouse at 409 Colorado “Iraq in Fragments,” a documentary by James Longley, stands apart from all of this, emerging in the world of film rather than politics. Longley brings the intricate humanity of Iraq to a U.S. audience with an impact that has elicited high praise from reviewers: “mesmerizes” (LA Times), “astonishing” (Village Voice), and “a quiet revelation” (Newsweek) are just a sampling. We’re glad to be hosting an advance screening … Continue reading →

Sunday, December 10, 8pm, MonkeyWrench Books South Asia Progressive Film Night presents 15 Park Avenue . (2006, in English). Aparna Sen is perhaps India ‘s foremost woman filmmaker. In her latest film 15 Park Avenue, Sen presents a moving and insightful exploration of the impact of schizophrenia on a young woman and her family in contemporary Calcutta . Meethi (Konkona Sensharma) is a schizophrenic whose primary caregiver is her compassionate but domineering older sister Anjali (Shabana Azmi), a brilliant researcher … Continue reading →

PLEASE HELP US SPREAD THE WORD! AUSTIN CITY-WIDE UNDER 21 POETRY SLAM #3! Presented by the Texas Youth Word Collective EVENT: Austin City Wide Under 21 Poetry Slam #3 DATE & TIME: Sunday, December 10th, 6:00 pm ADMISSION: $5 cover, free for slam participants and under 5 PLACE: Ruta Maya World Headquarters 3601 S. Congress, Austin, Texas CONTACT: Ron Horne (512) 632-5033, Co-Director Dr. Sheila Siobhan (512) 422-6653, Co-Director E-Mail: u21slam@yahoo. com Website: www.txywc.org Before the hustle of the holiday … Continue reading →

Sunday, December 10, 2pm-8pm North Loop holiday block party! Come by the strip for live music, cheap food and drinks, and sales in all the stores. MonkeyWrench will have a selection of gifts perfect for your radical (or not) family and friends.

Sat, Dec 9, 2pm @ Resistencia Books 1801-A South First St. Save Our Youth presents a FREE children’s reading and book signing with Martin Perna of his new coloring book, BLACKOUT! (illustrated by Ricardo Cortes). What happens when the power goes out on a hot summer day in the big city? As the sun sets and the sky darkens, the stars come out, and hearts and imaginations shine bright. You will see bicycles, bridges, boomboxes, congas, lots of stars–even the … Continue reading →

December 8-10 IN HOUSTON: Southern Human Rights Organizers Conference – The 6th bi-annual conference will be in Houston. The theme is “Black and Brown Unite to Fight Toward a Human Rights Movement in the Deep South.” The program will cover a wide range of topics, among them immigrants’ and women’s rights, juvenile justice, low wages, felony disenfranchisement, and environmental justice. There’ll be workshops, plenaries, a public speakout, and a direct action. $25 registration, $10 student and low income. At the … Continue reading →

Thursday, December 7, 7:30pm. MonkeyWrench Books, 110 E. North Loop Green is the New Red! Inside the Green Scare: An Evening of Solidarity with Political Prisoners featuring: Know Your Rights workshop, grand jury teach-in, Green Scare puppet show, and a film on political prisoner Rod Coronado! On December 7th, 2005, the FBI made their first arrests of “Operation Backfire,” a multi-state sweep targeting alleged earth and animal liberation activists. All throughout the United States, people are facing unprecedented prison sentences … Continue reading →

Dionysium this Tuesday, Dec. 5! Debate on third party voting! Alamo Drafthouse South, 1120 South Lamar Blvd ADMISSION EIGHT DOLLARS–buy them online: http://www.dionysium.com Ladies and gentlemen, how often do I get to gush about how great the next Dionysium is going to be? Quite a bit, actually, because we’ve had a lot of really great shows. Nevertheless, this Tuesday, December 5th, 7 p.m. at the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar, we’re going to have an exceptional show, even by our high … Continue reading →

shut up and sing along with folks who make us proud to be from Texas Dixie Chicks Com: gifts that keep talking back Erwin Center, Dec. 4, 7:30 pm: Tickets Online

Date: Saturday, Dec. 2nd, 1 -3 pm. Raindate is Sunday, Dec. 3rd, 1-3 pm. Organized by: Austin Against War, Veterans for Peace, Women In Black, and CodePink. Description of Protest: mock , silent, solemn funeral procession (single file) with everyone dressed in funeral black with some women wearing long black veils (we furnish) and some marchers carrying signs (CP to make) saying messages such as ‘Troops Home Now’ & number of deaths of soldiers and Iraqui civilians, etc. Location: Meet … Continue reading →