Friday, September 26, 7 pm, MonkeyWrench Books, 110 E. North Loop. Filmmaker German Gutierrez investigates an assassination attempt on his brother and encounters Colombia’s complex history of violence, resistance, U.S. intervention, and the drug trade. The event is hosted by the Colombia Support Network Austin Chapter.

Thursday Sept 25, 2008, 8 p.m., The Salvage Vanguard Theater, 2803 Manor Rd., Austin, Tx www.voxlox.net/releases/alex_coke/iraqnophobia www.austinchronicle.com Dear Austin Friends, Creative Music Fans, and People for Peace, Something Special is happening this September 25th- Alex Coke, with the Creative Opportunity Orchestra (and some special guests), will perform the illuminating composition, Iraqnophobia, at the Salvage Vanguard Theatre. To me, its the perfect inspiration for us all to come together again in a meaningful way, on what is now 7 years after … Continue reading →

Thursday, September 25, 5:00 – 6:30 PM, Outside Senator Cornyn’s office, 221 W, 6th St Protest the tax money giveaway to wall street. Stand with your neighbors and say NO Bush Bailout! Everyone is invited. Make signs saying “No to Bush Bailout” and “NO Welfare for the Rich” or others as you like. Protest called by UFPJ and other groups.

Wednesday, September 24, 7 pm, Third Coast Film Night at Alamo Drafthouse Ritz, 320 E. 6th Street Irena Salina’s award-winning documentary investigation into what some would label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century: the global water crisis. Salina builds a case against the growing privatization of the world’s dwindling fresh water supply with an unflinching focus on politics, pollution, human rights, and the emergence of a domineering world water cartel. Interviews with scientists and activists … Continue reading →

Wednesday, September 24, 7 pm, Georgetown Public Library, 402 W. 8th St. Immigration Reform Effort sponsors this forum on the controversial T. Don Hutto Family Residential Facility in Taylor, run by the for-profit Corrections Corporation of America. Panelists include Barbara Hines, clinical professor of law and director of the Immigration Clinic at UT School of Law and co-counsel in the lawsuits challenging conditions at T. Don Hutto; Scott Medlock, Attorney; Prisoners’ Rights Advocate in the Austin office for the Texas … Continue reading →

9/23, 7pm – Congregation Church of Austin, 408 W. 23rd Street 9/24, 5pm – Reception at The Old School, 1604 E. 11th Street 9/24, 7:30pm – Texas State University, UCM Wesley, 601 N. Guadalupe, San Marcos Fr. Roy Bourgeois will speak in Austin about his experiences in Latin America and the consequences of US policy. On November 21 a bus will take those who wish to show support for a humane change in US foreign policy to Ft. Benning, GA … Continue reading →

September 23rd silent auction begins at 7:00 PM and the play is at 8:00 PM, First Unitarian Universalist Church of Austin, 4700 Grover Ave. TCADP will sponsor a play as a fund raising event. The play is called “Third”. Set at a small New England college, “Third” begins in 2003, just as President George W. Bush launches the invasion of Iraq. Laurie Jameson, 54, a very popular and stridently feminist English professor, meets an intelligent jock who sparks her ire … Continue reading →

Dalton Trumbo’s JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN will have its World Premiere at the beautiful and historic Paramount Theatre in Austin, Texas, on Monday, September 22, 2008 at 7pm. The event will be hosted by the film’s star, Austin native Ben McKenzie, and its director, Rowan Joseph. A percentage of ticket proceeds will be donated to the Fallen Patriot Fund, a non-profit group established to help families of U.S. military personnel who were killed or seriously wounded during Operation Iraqi Freedom.

IN HOUSTON September 21: Award-winning foreign affairs journalist Robert Fisk. Described by the New York Times as “probably one of the most famous foreign correspondents of Britain,” he has had over thirty years of experience in international reporting in Belfast, Sarajevo, Beirut, and Baghdad. His understanding of journalism is “that it must challenge authority — all authority — especially when governments and politicians take us to war.” He is considered the world’s most decorated foreign correspondent, having received numerous awards … Continue reading →

(rescheduled) Sat., Sept. 20, from 5 to 9 pm., 2200 S. Lamar Political Action Art Auction Party: Come get ready, folks, for the BIG fight for the heart and soul of Austin as the BIG BOY developers are raising mega-cash to snuff out our movement on television! Can the grassroots win — only YOU can answer that question! There’s gonna be fire dancers and the South Austin Jug Band, maybe even at the same time, if they’ll let us talk … Continue reading →

Friday, September 19, noon, UT School of Social Work, Utopia Theater The Social Justice Action Coalition and Upstream Radio on KVRX are sponsoring Irwin Tang, author of Gook: John McCain’s Racism and Why It Matters. Irwin Tang is the editor and co-author of Asian Texans: Our Histories and Our Lives and a work of fiction described as “brilliant and heartbreaking” by the Austin Chronicle — How I Became a Black Man and Other Metamorphoses (2006).

Thursday, September 18, 7 pm, Location: UT – Austin, Thompson Conference Center (TCC 1.110) Beyond the rhetoric about the wonders of globalization is the reality of ordinary people’s lives. How do the decisions made by the powerful in government and business affect those lives? Why is the inequality gap around the world widening? After two decades of reporting on the false promises of the global economy and painful local realities, India’s leading journalist P. Sainath is uniquely qualified to help … Continue reading →

Texas has its hands full with millions in need following Hurricane Ike.  But the state is never too busy to kill.  Join the vigil for life at 5:30, Wed. Sept. 17, 2008.  11th and Congress (in front of the Capitol). http://www.tcadp.org/index.php?page=write-governor-bpp William A. Murray, 39, was condemned for the 1998 death of Rena Ratcliff, killed in her small home in Kaufman, east of Dallas, where she lived alone. The convicted murderer’s mother had once cared for the elderly woman as … Continue reading →

Tuesday, September 16, 2008, 6:00 pm, Rally and Parade, Gregory Plaza, The University of Texas at Austin 6:30 pm – 10:00 pm, Free Food, Live Music, Dancing, Grito Mexicano, Latin@ Organizations, Main Mall, The University of Texas at Austin Celebración de la Independencia Everyone is Invited! Sponsored by Lambda Theta Alpha Latin Sorority, Inc. and Lambda Theta Phi Latin Fraternity, Inc. Special Thanks to: The Center for Mexican American Studies and The Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies

Saturday, September 13, time and location TBA In 1991 four Austin girls were killed in an local yogurt shop. After an eight year investigation plagued with leaks, false confessions, and insufficient evidence, four young men were arrested for the murders. Two of them were eventually released for lack of evidence. Michael Scott and Robert Springsteen were tried and convicted, not on the basis of any evidence, but because of “confessions” coerced by Austin police. Several years and two overturned convictions … Continue reading →

Friday Sept. 12 – Red Salmon Arts presents a reading & book signing of Diadema (Floricanto Press), a novel by Xicanindio author Carlos Aceves (El Paso, Tejas). 7pm Resistencia Bookstore, casa de Red Salmon Arts, 1801-A South First St. Diadema is a fictionalized account of actual events, which came together in Paseo, a Texas border town. Mary Black receives a deathbed request from her best friend Diadema, to find a son that she gave up for adoption and let him … Continue reading →

September 12-14 The American Friends Service Committee’s widely acclaimed exhibition on the human cost of the Iraq War. More than 400 boots, representing Texas soldiers, and shoes, representing Iraqis, who have died in Iraq will be displayed at Auditorium Shores in Austin. Free and open to the public. For more information contact Alyssa Burgin, alyssa@texansforpeace.org.

Sept. 11, 8 p.m. MonkeyWrench Books, 110 E. North Loop. Irwin Tang will present his latest work, “Gook: John McCain’s Racism and Why It Matters.” The combination of racism and warmongering are perfectly encapsulated in “gook,” a racist term formed during numerous U.S. wars, from the invasion of the Philippines (1898-1902) to the occupation of Haiti in 1920, to the Korean and Vietnam Wars. John McCain used this anti-Asian slur freely and casually until he was forced to stop for … Continue reading →

Thursday, September 11, 7:00 PM, UT Campus, Parlin Hall, room 206 CAPITALISM AND CRISIS Socialism is based on the idea that we should use the vast resources of society to meet people’s needs. If people are hungry, they should be fed; if people are homeless, we should build homes for them; if people are sick, the best medical care should be available to them. Socialism would take the wealth of the rich and use it to meet the basic needs … Continue reading →

Wednesday, September 10, 7:00 PM, UT campus, CMA 3.112 THE SYSTEM IS BROKEN: WHY YOU SHOULD OPPOSE THE DEATH PENALTY The capital punishment system is plagued by wrongful convictions. Innocence, racism, lack of adequate defense, mental illness, and numerous crime lab scandals, have all helped to create a system rife with error. In addition, not much is being done to reduce the causes of crime. The death penalty is not the solution to societal problems. The CEDP is a group … Continue reading →

Sept. 10, 5:30 pm, 11th & Congress, in front of the Capitol The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Friday dismissed a writ seeking review of the case of Charles Dean Hood, and on the same day the Texas attorney general’s office took the unusual position of filing a brief supporting a closer review of the allegations of a romance between the judge and prosecutor at his trial. The Court of Criminal Appeals said Mr. Hood’s filing raised “the exact … Continue reading →

Tuesday Sept. 9, 7pm, Resistencia Bookstore, casa de Red Salmon Arts, 1801-A South First St. Red Salmon Arts presents a reading & book signing of Cesar Chavez and the Common Sense of Nonviolence (Univ. of New Mexico Press) by Jose-Antonio Orosco, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Oregon State University. Cesar Chavez has long been heralded for his personal practice of nonviolent resistance in struggles against social, racial, and labor injustices. However, the works of Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. … Continue reading →

September 4, 2008, 6pm-8pm, Council Chambers, 301 W. Second Street,1st Floor Regular Monthly Meeting: Public Input Agenda The Public meeting will be held at City Hall Council Chambers at 6:00 p.m. The following is the agenda: 1) 08-268 Complainant believes that the officer treated him with an impartial attitude when he was detained as a suspect. 2) 08-281 Complainant alleges that APD officers erroneously towed and destroyed two of his vehicles. 3) 07-729 Complainant alleges that officer acted inappropriately with … Continue reading →