“For the Love of It” Original Dances & Music thru Daniel Llanes Friday & Saturday April 13 & 14, at 8 PM Dougherty Cultural Arts Center After a successful series of musical performances under the giant Oak Tree in downtown Republic Square Park during SXSW, performance artist Daniel Llanes and company will offer a repeat performance of “For the Love of It”, Friday & Saturday April 13 & 14, at 8 PM, at the Dougherty Cultural Arts Center. This performance … Continue reading →

The Showdown between American Democracy and American Tyranny of the ICE age… Friday, April 13 9am – Press Conference at Texas Capitol, Speakers Committee Rm. 2w.6 10 am – Depart Capitol Steps Saturday, April 14 9:30am: Begin at Manor City Hall in downtown Manor (W. Parsons and S. Burnet); North on Old TX-20 which is also Hwy. 973; North on 973 to Rice’s Crossing (Hwy. 973 and FM 1660) Sunday, April 15 9:30am, Start at Rice’s Crossing (Hwy. 973 and … Continue reading →

April 12th, 8pm @ Monkeywrench Books: 110 E. North Loop Children of Heaven (1997, 88 mins) Persian with English subtitles, Directed by: Majid Majidi In this simple family drama from Iran, two children invent an intricate plan to conceal the loss of a pair of shoes. Ali (Amir Farrokh Hashemian) and his sister Zhara (Bahare Seddiqi) are living in a poor neighborhood. Their mother is suffering from illness and their father is overworked and underpaid. When Ali is sent out … Continue reading →

Thursday, April 12, 7pm to 9pm, Austin Center for Peace and Justice and the American Friends Service Committee host… “… but we must speak.” Remembering MLK, Jr.’s Beyond Vietnam Speech …a celebration of the 40th anniversary of Dr. King’s April 4, 1967 speech – “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break the Silence” – delivered to a meeting of Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam at Riverside Church in New York City. The event will feature readings from the speech, music, … Continue reading →

Wednesday, April 11, 7:30pm @ MonkeyWrench Books, 110 E. No. Loop, 407-6925 Amnesty International – Austin will show ‘Dangerous Living: Coming out in the Developing World’ This film, presented in association with Amnesty’s GLBT human rights network OUTFRONT, documents the tremendous changes and challenges that the GLBT community has faced in the developing world in the past decade. Your $5 suggested donation will go to the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission.

Wednesday, April 11, 7:30 PM, UT Campus, NOA building room 1.126 Speakers: Rev. Caroll Pickett – Former prison chaplain who ministered to over a hundred men executed in Texas, and author of the book “Within These Walls: Memoirs of a Death House Chaplain” Jewel Nelms – Mother of Frances Newton, the first Black woman to be executed in Texas since the Civil War. Lily Mae Hughes – Member of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty, who witnessed the execution … Continue reading →

Wednesday April 11 @ 2pm AND Thursday April 12 @ 7:30pm (1 hr) ACES building on UT campus. (A.C.E.S. 2.302) in the Avaya Auditorium. Between This Breath and You A play exploring the Palestine-Israel conflict, written by Naomi Wallace, directed by Corey Atkins. MFA Directing student Corey Atkins presents a new one-act play by OBIE award winner Naomi Wallace. The script explores the conflict between Israel and Palestine through the story of an Israeli janitor, an American nurse and a … Continue reading →

Wheels of Justice Rolling into Austin Tejas Tuesday, April 10th; CBA 4.328 @ 7pm Wheels of Justice is an organization dedicated to “nonviolent education and action against war and occupation in Iraq and Palestine for justice and universal human rights.” They travel in a big bus and have been rolling around the country doing educational presentations and actions for years, and this Tuesday, April 10th they will be here in Austin. So join us Tuesday night at 7pm, as Campus … Continue reading →

Tuesday, April 10, 4:30 PM. Join thousands of Texans to march for immigrants’ rights and a day of action for positive Texas legislation. At this very moment Texas legislators are proposing a series of bills that would be harmful to immigrants and all Texans. Thousands will converge at the Texas Capitol to demand justice for immigrants. You can help by organizing your church, local organization, friends, or family to converge on Austin on April 10. There will be a rally … Continue reading →

Cindy Sheehan headlines impeachment rally – Monday, April 9 Joining Sheehan will be Diane Wilson (author of An Unreasonable Woman), Debra Sweet, Dr. Bob Jensen, and Sissy Farenthold. The theme is “Impeachment! Our Right… Our Duty.” 6-9 p.m. at Resurrection Metropolitan Community Church, 11th St. at T.C. Jester. For more information, contact Charles Mauch, 713/432-1277, chasmauch@aol. com.

From Col. Ann Wright…Camp Casey Commander Hey you Camp Casey folks: Get your mudboots and come on to Camp Casey!!!! They can’t Rain Out a Revolution! Camp Casey may be under water, but George has some barns in Crawford that he just might invite his neighbors into!!!! It will be a lean Camp Casey if the rains continue-but 10 to a hotel room ain’t bad! Camp Casey is Flexibility- August 2005 and 12,000 showed up in the ditches!! Easter 2007, … Continue reading →

Thursday, April 5, 8pm @ MonkeyWrench Books “Gold and Greed: North American Mining in Central America” A Rights Action Speaking Tour with Carlos Amador Aleman and Sandra Cuffe Carlos is a community organizer, educator and leader of the Siria Valley Environmental Committee in Francisco Morazan, Honduras. His work includes working to expose the multiple violations and damage being caused by cyanide-leaching, open pit gold mining practiced in the region by the Vancouver-based Goldcorp (formerly Glamis Gold) mining company, and to … Continue reading →

Thursday, April 5th, 2006, 7-10 pm, First Unitarian Church – Sanctuary, 4700 Grover Avenue, VoteRescue Presents: A Revealing Evening on Election Hacking! (and why we need hand-counted paper ballot elections!) Join us for: · The stunning hacking of real Diebold electronic voting equipment (a vendor used in Texas) from the HBO documentary, “Hacking Democracy” · A presentation by award-winning software architect and banking security consultant Bruce O’Dell · Public announcement on The Texas Hand-Counted Paper Ballot Bill of Texas (HB … Continue reading →

Thursday, April 5, 2007, 7:00 p.m., ALLGO [701 Tillery] ALLGO PROUDLY ANNOUNCES AN INTIMATE READING OF: BRUISING FOR BESOS by ADELINA ANTHONY! Cost: Donations Accepted – PLEASE RSVP BY: Wednesday, April 4 Contact: Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano – (512) 472-2001 / lorenzo@allgo.org Austin, TX – March 29, 2007 – After a standing-only Austin performance of her one-woman show, Mastering Sex & Tortillas!, Adelina Anthony is returning to Austin for one night only for an intimate reading of Bruising for Besos. … Continue reading →

4:00PM – 5:30PM, Thursday, April 5, 2007, Jeffers Courtroom, UT Law School 3.140 Free and open to the public A panel of state legislators will analyze the immigration bills proposed in the Texas House of Representatives The panel will discuss the current “hot button” immigration issues and the arguments on both sides of the debate. A question and answer session will follow. Sponsored by The US/Mexico Bar Association student chapter ** The Chicano/Hispanic Law Students Association** The Human Rights Law … Continue reading →

UPDATE: Tickets are now available for the Camp Casey Peace Institute Peace Awards Event, scheduled for April 5 in Austin. Information below and at the link. Peace, Patrice Join Cindy Sheehan in Austin for the Camp Casey Peace Institute Peace Awards celebrating Peace Makers Making a Difference! Honoring Texas Legend Willie Nelson Annie Nelson Jodie Evans and Code Pink Ava Lowery and Peace Takes Courage Former Diplomat Ann Wright & The Crawford Peace House April 5, 2007 Food & Drinks, … Continue reading →

Wednesday, April 4th, 7:30 pm @ MonkeyWrench Books Racism, White Privilege & Coalition Politics: A Transnational Dialogue with João Costa Vargas & Charles R. Hale A Conversation on Global White Supremacy, Activism, and Grassroots Alternatives to Neoliberalism Charles R. Hale, professor of anthropology at the UT-Austin and author of Más Que Un Indio (more Than An Indian): Racial Ambivalence and the Paradox of Neoliberal Multiculturalism in Guatemala, will begin by reflecting on his work on race and ethnicity in Guatemala … Continue reading →

Wednesday, April 4th, 7:00 – 8:30 PM, UT-Austin ETC 2.108 (College of Engineering Building) Sponsored by: Movimiento Estudiantil Chicanas/os de Aztlan (MEChA), Palestine Solidarity Committeé (PSC), CAMEO, International Socialist Organization, Progressive Collective, and Public Affairs Alliance for Communities of Color. The T. Don Hutto Family Detention Center is a for-profit private prison run by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA). The Hutto facility was originally built to incarcerate male adult criminals, but was recently retrofitted to jail children. Please join us … Continue reading →

April 4, 2007, 11:30 – 1:15 MLK Memorial March Commemorating 39th Anniversary of King Assasination Citizen Activists involved with the, Austin NAACP, Black Press, Interreligious Ministries, PODER, Labor and Peace invite you to a demonstration and demand that human issues like universal health care, racial justice, immigration, peace, employment and educational priorities be addressed. 11:30 a.m. Assemble at City Hall 2nd/Lavaca 11:45 a.m. Prayer Vigil 12:00 noon March North on Lavaca to 5th St., east on 5th to Congress Ave. … Continue reading →