Monthly Archives: February 2007

COMMUNITY MEETING with the OFFICE of the POLICE MONITOR, Wed.7pm http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/news/2007/opmmeet.htm Community Meeting Wednesday, February 28, 2007, 7:00 p.m. Pickle Elementary School Library 1101 Wheatley Ave–next to St. John Community Center (on Blessing) Meet the new Police Monitor and learn … Continue reading →

WEDNESDAY, February 28th, 7pm, Reading + Signing, African Intimacies: Race, Homosexuality and Globalization, Neville Hoad, BookWoman, 918 West 12th St South African, Texas resident, and literary scholar Neville Hoad traces connections between the subjects of his subtitle. Hoad begins with … Continue reading →

Lobby Day, on Wednesday, February 28th, brings together hundreds of pro-choice volunteers from all over Texas. You will meet your legislators (or members of their staff) face-to-face at the Capitol, and share Planned Parenthood’s legislative priorities with them. This is … Continue reading →

Art Reach Café, Tues. Feb. 27th 8pm, Café Mundi (1704 E 5th St East Austin) Listen to live Cuban Conga Music from “Buscando El Monte” Afrocuban Percussion View the closing show of “The Life Cycle of the Monarch Butterfly” Hand … Continue reading →

TUESDAY, February 27th, 7pm, Reading + Signing, Grrl Talk: Sass, Wit and Wisdom. Austin WriterGrrls, BookWoman, 918 West 12th St Get your Grrl Talk On! Official Book Launch & Party for Grrl Talk: Sass, Wit and Wisdom from the Austin … Continue reading →

On Feb. 27, The state of Texas is scheduled to execute Donald Miller for the 1982 murders of Dennis Mozingo and Kenneth Whitt near Houston. Miller and two others shot them after kidnapping and robbing them. Executing Miller would constitute … Continue reading →

When: Friday, March 2nd @ 7:00 pm or Saturday, March 3rd @ 7:00 pm Where: UT – Burdine, 106 How: $8 Tickets can be purchased: a) at the Gender and Sexuality Center (Student Services Building, G1.408, 100 West Dean Keaton … Continue reading →

FROM THE BOTTOM! JOHN ROSS REPORTS BACK FROM THE MEXICAN UPHEAVAL Author/correspondent/poet/and globetrotting troublemaker John Ross delivers a report from the social upheaval in Mexico that followed the stealing of the 2006 presidential election, and its message for frustrated U.S. … Continue reading →

Sunday, Feb. 25 – Red Salmon Arts presents Una Tardeada Con Los Tres Veteranos: John Ross, Roberto Vargas and raulrsalinas. Join us to honor and celebrate the insurgent voices/poetry of three veteran writer/activists who play major roles in the artistic, … Continue reading →

A Conversation With Miriam Miranda, Garifuna Land Rights Activist, Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras (OFRANEH), Sunday, February, 25 @ 1pm, Rhizome Collective, 300 Allen St Miriam Miranda is a key figure in the struggle to defend Garifuna territorial rights and … Continue reading →

Saturday, Feb. 24 – Sisters en Resistencia presents Warrior: The Life of Leonard Peltier directed by Suzie Baer. The film highlights the circumstances surrounding the incarceration of Native American activist Leonard Peltier who was wrongly convicted for the deaths of … Continue reading →

Friday, Feb. 23, 8pm, Rhizome Collective (Bring a chair if you have one and warm clothes if you need them) 300 Allen Street What started out as an annual teachers strike in the south-eastern Mexican town of Oaxaca has become … Continue reading →

Friday, February 23 and Saturday, February 24 St. Andrew’s Presbyterian 5th Annual Activism and Spirituality Conference and Phyllis Bennis Keynote Dinner Friday, 2/23, 6 p.m.: Author and Institute for Policy Studies fellow Phyllis Bennis will give a talk on “The … Continue reading →

Sen. Barack Obama, Candidate for President of the United States, Rally with live music from Ed Jurdi & Cyril Neville, Friday, Feb. 23; Gates open 12:30pm; Program begins at 2:00pm Auditorium Shores, Town Lake (Riverside Dr. & South First St.) … Continue reading →

Newton Anderson is scheduled to be executed by the state of Texas on Feb. 22, 2007. Anderson was convicted of murdering Frank and Bertha Cobb after they discovered him burglarizing their house. The state of Texas should not execute Newton … Continue reading →

LLILAs is organizing a Bi-National conference on NAFTA, Feb 22 & 23 (see complete schedule below). The conference includes several panels but we would like to ask your help to advertise one specifically: The Panel: NAFTA, Labor Relations, and Immigration … Continue reading →

SUPPORT WAR RESISTERS! Thursday, February 22, 2007, 7:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m., Fort Hood (Outside East Gate) Join us at the corner of Tank Destroyer Blvd and Fort Hood Street in Killeen, Texas for a rally in support of Fort … Continue reading →

Late breaking news…Ann Wright will also be speaking. Ann is a retired US army colonel and career diplomat who resigned from the State Dept. in 2003 in protest of the war. Please join us! Support GI War Resisters! Wed., February … Continue reading →

WEEK OF ACTION to DE-FUND THE WAR! Code Pink – Austin, Instruments for Peace, Texans for Peace, local representatives of The Occupation Project and United for Peace and Justice, The Green Party Peace Action Committee and members of the Campus … Continue reading →

CAMEO will be showing the excellent documentary “Sir No Sir!” at UT. The movie will be followed by a discussion with local antiwar vets from the wars in Iraq and Vietnam. Below are the details and text from the flyer. … Continue reading →