Environmental Board, November 07, 2007, Room 1001 (City Council Chambers) 301 West 2nd St. 6:00 p.m. NOTE: There is an item on the E Board agenda that says; Discussion, Barton Springs Master Plan. I don’t know what time it will come up. They begin at 6pm. I believe they are going to set up, or recommend, a facilitated stake holder process to vet the long term construction projects which have not yet been funded. Remember the City has already approved … Continue reading →

The Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law and mtvU invite you to a screening of the documentary film Darfur Now on Tuesday, November 6, 2007 at 7:00pm in Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Building (CPE) 2.214. This is a special sneak preview screening, ten days prior to the film’s commercial opening in Texas. According to the film’s producers, Darfur Now is a story of hope in the midst of one of humanity’s darkest hours – a call to action … Continue reading →

Riborama is coming, Sat, 11/3 Riborama’s lineup,is going to be Leeanne Atherton & Z, along with the Mother Truckers, the Flounders w/out Eyes, the Zydeco Dots from Hou., the Shelley King Band & Miss Lavelle White. It will be held at: The Oaks is on FM 973 North, ph. # 278-8788, if you’d like to be a SPONSOR, call Jim @ 512-699-5750 very soon.

TEXAS SOCIALIST CONFERENCE 2007 BUILDING THE REVOLUTIONARY ALTERNATIVE Saturday – Sunday, November 3 – 4 University of Texas at Austin http://socialismconferencetx.org The 2007 Texas Socialist Conference is a two-day event that will bring together socialists and other activists who are involved in struggles across the region — from opposing the war to organizing against the death penalty and more — to discuss how we can rebuild the left and a revolutionary alternative to the messed-up priorities of this system: war, … Continue reading →

BRAZOS VALLEY WRITERS AGAINST THE WAR TO READ THIS FRIDAY, 11/2, AT VETERANS FOR PEACE MOVIE NIGHT The next Veterans for Peace free movie night is this Friday, November 2 at the Palace Theater, 105 S. Main in downtown Bryan. As a special treat this month, the Brazos Valley Writers Against the War — Jeff Stumpo, Larry Heineman, Janet McCann, Chuck Taylor, Angie Cruz, and Paul Christensen — will read from their works starting at 7 PM.. There will be … Continue reading →

Friday, November 2, 7pm at MonkeyWrench Books For Jobs & Freedom Author Event Author Robert Zieger will be at the store to discuss his book For Jobs and Freedom: Race and Class in America since 1865. Friday, November 2, 9pm Music Show with: Nic Walker (www.myspace.com/lalaquarry) Devon Grobert Dave Keen of Perennial Tuesday Ryan from the Shire My Name is Swan

From 11/02/2007 to 11/27/2007: Art show at Dougherty Arts Center Austin area artists will share works that explore their reactions to war in a new exhibition at the Dougherty Arts Center, November 2 to November 27, 2007. The show, entitled “War-Artists Respond,” will feature the artwork of more than 50 Central Texas visual artists who’ve taken on the challenge to reflect on the meaning of war and our role in creating it. Sponsored by an independent coalition of local artists, … Continue reading →

Thursday, November 1, 8pm, MonkeyWrench Books Music Show and Book Event Come out to see Ghost Mice play at the store in conjunction with a book event for Punk House: Interiors in Anarchy. Abby Banks is a photographer from Brattlesbro, VT. She has created a book along with Thurston Moore from Sonic Youth called Punk House. It’s a photo book of punk houses all over the US. She will be doing a book tour that includes a film called 1905 … Continue reading →

November 1, 2007 at 7pm in GEO 2.216 on the University of Texas campus. Anna Baltzer, a Jewish American Columbia graduate, Fulbright scholar, and volunteer with the International Women’s Peace Service, is touring the country with a presentation on her experiences documenting human rights abuses in the West Bank and supporting nonviolent resistance to the Occupation. Anna’s presentation covers checkpoints, settlements, demonstrations, Israeli activism, censorship, the separation Wall, and more by providing photographic documentation and critical information often misrepresented or … Continue reading →

The Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law invites you to “Who Controls the CIA? The Dangers of Outsourcing” on Thursday, November 1, 2007 at 5:00pm on the 10th Floor of the LBJ Library in the Brown Room. Author R. J. Hillhouse will address the growing outsourcing of intelligence and military operations and its impact on U.S. national security. She also will discuss the recent controversy over the activities in Iraq of the American contractor Blackwater, which spurred U.S. … Continue reading →