April 29; 6:30 pm. Austin History Center. Downtown Austin, 810 Guadalupe Street. Irwin Tang will be giving a talk on Asian Texan history, with a slant towards Austin, Texas. Twenty researchers and writers worked five years to bring you Asian Texans, with academically rigorous tales of: * The first Asian Texan: A Filipino cabin boy on a slave ship destined for the Republic of Texas.

Tuesday, April 29, 6 p.m., Saint John’s United Methodist Church, 2140 Allandale Road Robert Jensen, “Israel/Palestine in the News: Facts and Stories” As part of a lecture series on Palestine at St. John’s United Methodist Church, UT Journalism Professor Robert Jensen will speak about coverage of Israel and Palestine in the U.S. media. Refreshments are at 6 p.m. and the lecture begins at 6:30.

APRIL 29, 2008, 4:00-6:00pm, The University of Texas, Texas Union Theater, 2.228 Texas Freedom Network (TFN) Student Chapter Presents: “The Education of Shelby Knox” With special guest, Producer Shelby Knox in attendance for post-screening discussion! Join us for a free documentary film screening at the UT Texas Union about the need for comprehensive sex education in Texas. This special screening is hosted by the Texas Freedom Network Student Chapter and co-sponsored by Planned Parenthood, and other nonprofits.

Sunday, April 27th, 5:00pm, MonkeyWrench Books MonkeyWrench 6th Anniversary Party and MonkeyWrenchers of the Year Awards MonkeyWrench Books is celebrating 6 years as a radical bookstore and community space with the presentation of our first annual MonkeyWrenchers of the Year awards. We’ll be honoring individuals and organizations who embody the spirit of MonkeyWrench, by working to build a world based on social justice. Special recipients include longtime Austin activist Ran Moran, the Inside Books Project, and more. We’ll also be … Continue reading →

Sunday, April 27, 2008, 4:00 PM – 9:00 PM, Jovita’s Mexican Restaurant, 1819 South First St Fundraiser/Benefit for Completion Funds for Documentary about Veterans who are homeless in the Central Texas area: Documentary Project “The Discarded” in the Austin-area by One Eye Open Productions* -Music line up-

April 25-27 IN DALLAS: 2008 South Central Regional Conference for a U.S. Department of Peace, at Southern Methodist University, Dallas. Creating a Politics of Hope and Possibility. Keynote speaker is Marianne Williamson. For more information, www.txdop.com.

Thursday, April 24th at 12 noon in front of City Hall, 201 West Cesar Chavez Street PODER, Govalle/Johnston Terrace Neighborhood Planning Team, Old West Austin Neighborhood Association (OWANA), and Fix Austin will hold a press conference challenging Judge Cooper’s ruling that allows the Austin Tomorrow Plan to be “merely advisory”. If the ruling stands, it means that the City can locate a new CIP (Capital Improvement Project) in a neighborhood without going through a process to amend the neighborhood’s plan. … Continue reading →

Tuesday, April 22, 2008, from 6 – 8:00 PM. PODER (People Organized in Defense of Earth & her Resources) and Alma de Mujer celebrates Earth Day and PODER’s 17th Anniversary. The Earth Day Celebration is taking place at Govalle Park, 5200 Bolm Road (Airport Blvd & Bolm Rd). PODER is guided by the indigenous belief that nature kind and human kind are interwoven and interlocked. Today, neighborhoods are faced with a common issue of survival and a crisis of life … Continue reading →

Monday, April 21, 6:30 – 9 p.m., Advanced Holistic Healing Arts, 321 W. Ben White, Ste 203, 78704 Women’s Community Action Network (WeCAN) is a new group forming in Austin that will initiate and participate in community projects as well as network with existing organizations to meet the needs of our community. Through the project(s) chosen women will learn the process of research, motivation, developing and implementing an action plan, and project documentation and promotion.

Sunday, April 20, 6pm, MonkeyWrench Books Book discussion of The Cost of Privilege: Taking on the System of White Supremacy and Racism Author Chip Smith will be on hand to present his book and lead a discussion of white privilege and racism as a central feature of American society. Chicana activist and author Betita Martinez says of the book, Chip Smith has given us a powerful weapon for the battle against white supremacy…..the author dares to outline a bold program … Continue reading →

Saturday, April 19, 5:00 PM, UT Campus, PAR 105 Join the antiwar groups of UT Austin and Texas State University for our spring regional gathering on the US War on Terror and the student movement. Our CAMEO chapters will be convening to share our organizing experiences. Together, through a day of presentations and discussions, we’ll try to address some of the issues facing the antiwar movement today, educating ourselves and combining efforts to create long and short-term strategies to end … Continue reading →

Saturday, April 19, Houston Peace and Justice Center’s 2008 Spring Conference is entitled ‘The Widening Gap: Economic Injustice at Home and Abroad.’ Its goals are to display the causal connections between economic distress in the U.S. and a global system of elite domination; indicate the ways that the well-being of a large majority of Americans is being subverted by the economic, political, and media power of the wealthiest 1% of our population; raise economic justice to major importance in the … Continue reading →

A graduate student member of the Texas A&M University community and his family (wife and three children) from Niger (in sub-Saharan Africa) are currently facing a great financial crisis. The student was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in February (for failure to maintain proper medical insurance for his wife and family), two days before his dissertation defense. He spent three weeks in Federal Detention, and after release has since successfully defended and submitted his PhD Dissertation. The family plans … Continue reading →

Friday April 18, 7pm. Resistencia Bookstore, casa de Red Salmon Arts, 1801-A South First St. Austin, Tejas – Red Salmon Arts presents Cafe Libro, a bi-monthy open mike series with special guests: Jimi Simmons, Karen Randolph, Sarah Del Seronde, film director of Making the River, and the producer Paul Stoll. Join us hear them speak on the documentary, Making the River, about the Simmons brother case, Jimi and George Simmons, their struggle for freedom, and their connection/history with Xicanindio elder … Continue reading →

April 18, 2008, 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, BookPeople, 603 N. Lamar Blvd., Austin TX (6th and Lamar) Reflections: Book Party at BookPeople Laurie Green, Shannon Speed, Katie Stewart We will be celebrating the following publications of our faculty affiliates: Ordinary Affects by Katie Stewart Battling the Plantation Mentality: and the Black Freedom Struggle by Laurie B. Green Rights in Rebellion: Indigenous Struggle and Human Rights in Chiapas by Shannon Speed Refreshments will be provided!

Please join CodePink, MDS, TxLAW and others at the intersection of 6th and Lamar at 5pm on Friday, April 18th. We will once again try to raise awareness of Sen. John Cornyn’s horrifying voting record. We will be wearing black and will have signs related to Cornyn’s support of the war, torture, spying, etc. We encourage participants to wear black; there is no need to bring signs, but, if you chose to, please keep the message focused on Cornyn and … Continue reading →

Friday, April 18, 2008 4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m., Panel Presentation 5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m., Reception, Campus Club Main Dining Room (corner of W. 25th & Guadalupe) The University of Texas at Austin The Center for Mexican American Studies of the College of Liberal Arts at The University of Texas at Austin PRESENTS “Pistols, Pens, and Guitars: Celebrating 50 Years of Américo Paredes’ With His Pistol in His Hand”

Thursday, April 17, 7:00 PM, UT campus, Parlin Hall, room 303 Bear Stearns, Northern Rock, Lehman Bros… The list goes on as the meltdown in the world’s financial markets continues. Millions of Americans are losing their homes because of adjustable mortgage rates or the declining value of their property. But while Bear Stearns got a massive bailout, the government can’t lift a finger to help ordinary workers when times get tough. How far can this go? Will there be just … Continue reading →

Thursday, April 17 In connection with the release of her new book, Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times, co-authored with David Goodman, Amy Goodman is coming to Houston. As well as a book signing, her appearance will be a benefit for KPFT, which broadcasts her award-winning news program Democracy Now! Tickets: $15 in advance, $20 at door.

Thursday, April 17, 3 p.m., UT Campus, LBJ Room, CMA 5.150 Brown Bag Talk with Journalist Mark Danner Conference: “Image, Memory and the Paradox of Peace: 15 Years After the El Salvador Peace Accords (1992-2007)” Mark Danner, staff writer for The New Yorker and Professor of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley, will visit the UT Journalism School to give a brown bag talk for students. Danner will also be one of the keynotes at the conference “Image, … Continue reading →

Thursday, April 17 from 11AM-3PM, West Mall of the UT Campus “On April 17th, people across the world will mark Palestinian Prisoners Day in recognition of the thousands of Palestinians held in Israeli detention centers. Palestinian prisoners from the Occupied Territories- hundreds of whom are under the age of 18- are tried under military courts and sentenced by military judges. Defendants are often convicted on secret evidence and serve disproportionately long sentences.” To find out more, or to join PSC … Continue reading →

Wednesday, April 16, 7 p.m., UT Campus, JGB 2.324 Former Black Panther and political prisoner Robert King of the Angola 3 The Angola 3 – http://www.angola3.org – are three men incarcerated at Angola Prison on Louisiana since the 1970′s, Robert King, Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox, who have endured solitary confinement longer then any known living prisoners in the United States. They formed one of the only prison Black Panther Party chapters in history and worked to organize other prisoners … Continue reading →

Wednesday, April 16, 2008, 12:00 noon – 1:00 p.m., Texas Union, Chicano Culture Room (4.206) Yolanda Rodriguez-Escobar, Doctoral Candidate in Social Work with a Graduate Portfolio in Mexican American Studies. Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Laura Lein, Professor, School of Social Work Over the past decade, the AIDS pandemic has increased most dramatically among women of color which has resulted in a disproportionate rate of infection among Black women and Latinas. This qualitative study explores the experiences of Mexican American women who … Continue reading →

Join CodePink and others on Tuesday evening, April 15 at the northeast corner of the downtown post office, at Guadalupe and 6th St. from 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm. If you’re upset about the ways your income taxes pay for war, then speak out! We will be holding a long poster-board banner that reads “Cost of Iraq War = $3,000,000,000, 000″ and inside each zero will be written something that loses funding because of war spending. We will also distribute … Continue reading →

Hildegirls Celebration, Saturday, April 12th, 8pm, Unity Church of the Hills Please come join us for the Spring Hilde Girls Celebration. Not only will it be a joyous night of song celebrating and singing the connected heart, but the whole night benefits an incredible cause that we are particularly proud and honored to serve – Global Camps Africa.