Thursday, Oct. 30, 8pm, Ruta Maya Coffee House, 3601 So. Congress Ave. Putting the “Party” back into politics! With the upcoming election so close, the unCONVENTIONAL group from California is touring the U.S. to mobilize and inspire voters. On THURSDAY Oct 30th, the tour arrives in Austin! Penny Little, creator of the unConventional Tour and Award winning filmmaker (“Electile Dysfunction” and “9/11 Dust and Deceit”) says: “This is not just a tour. We are filming the entire event. We want … Continue reading →

Thursday, Oct. 30, 7 pm, TICE, 1009 E. 11th St. Austin “Creating Justice in Our Movements: Confronting Interpersonal Abuse in Social Justice Communities” – Born out of several women’s firsthand experiences with interpersonal abuse and misogyny in organizing spaces, this workshop, led by Cristina Tzintzun of Workers Defense Project, explores creative ways to collectively and proactively address these issues. In honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Monkey Wrench Books and the office of Thematic Initiatives and Community Engagement (TICE) will … Continue reading →

October 30th. (Thursday) 6:30pm Reception, 7pm Film, Mexican American Cultural Center (MACC) 600 River Street “LIONESS” is a film about 5 Women Soldiers who served in some of the bloodiest battles in Iraq. The director is coming to Austin for this screening and so is one of the soldiers (Rebecca Nava). They will be part of a Q & A /Discussion after the film. The screening and reception are free to you and your guest. Discussion will follow for those … Continue reading →

Wednesday, Oct. 29, 7pm, Alamo Drafthouse Ritz, 320 E. 6th Street With Ben Wizner — The ACLU of Texas Central Texas Chapter, in cooperation with Third Coast Activist, will present 3 screenings of Secrecy this month in Austin. This is a new film by Harvard professors Peter Galison and Robb Moss about government classification debates that debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2008. The film examines “the hidden world of national security policy by examining the many implications … Continue reading →

Tuesday, October 28, 7:00 PM, University of Texas at Austin, Welch 1.120 World-renowned journalist, author and documentary filmmaker John Pilger will discuss the “war on terror,” focusing on the gap between the rhetoric in the air and reality on the ground in order to help citizens understand the methods of, and the motivations behind, that war. Pilger began his career in 1958 in his native Australia before moving to London in the 1960s. Beginning in Vietnam in 1967, he has … Continue reading →

Saturday, October 25, 2:00 – 6:00 PM Austin’s Campaign to End the Death Penalty will be carpooling / caravaning to Houston for the march. For info on caravan: cedpAustin@gmail.com Abolish the Death Penalty! More than 400 people have been executed in Texas since 1982. The March to Stop Executions has been held each October since 2000. March gathers at S.H.A.P.E. Harambee Building, 3903 Almeda Rd. March goes to S.H.A.P.E. Community Center, 3815 Live Oak.

Saturday Oct. 25 – Festival de las Plantas: Honoring our Plants: Grandparents, Remedies, Family: 11am – 4pm, Roy Guerrero Colorado River Park, 800 Grove Blvd. (off E. Riverside Dr.) 11 am Ceremonial Blessing with Danza Conchero Danza Conchero, Workshop with Capitana Helga Garza: Traditional healing with plants Kid’s arts & crafts and stroy-telling. Lunch served at noon. Sponsored by PODER and Alma de Mujer/ Contact PODER: 472-9921 poder@austin.rr.com/ Alma de Mujer ph: 258-3380 fax: 258-1858

Friday Oct. 24 7pm @ Resistencia Bookstore 1801-A South First St. People Organized in Defense of the Earth & her Resources (PODER) presents a platica (discussion) on Nature’s Pharmacy with La Capitana Helga Garcia-Garza Chonchero Azteca Chichimeca. The platica will bring awareness of our natural environment – nature’s pharmacy and its ability to heal us. Helga continues to practice our traditional ways of healing with mother earth’s healing plants and flowers. 7pm @ Resistencia Bookstore

Friday, October 24 7pm, Mexican American Cultural Center, 600 River Street, Austin, Texas TSEU Activist and filmmaker Anne Lewis, Texas Folklife, and the Mexican American Cultural Center (MACC) invite you to a free screening of “Morristown: in the air and sun” — a working class response to globalization, immigration, factory flight, and the organized demand for economic justice. Filmmkaker Anne Lewis, historian-activist Martha Cotera, and sociologist Nestor Rodriguez will lead the post screening discussion. For more information about the film … Continue reading →

Execution Vigil 5:30 pm 11th and Congress in front of the Capitol http://www.oag.state.tx.us/oagnews/release.php?id=2696

Thursday, October 23, 5:30 PM, Texas Union fountain at UT (Guadalupe between 21st and 24th Streets.) NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION TO STOP THE EXECUTION OF TROY DAVIS: Innocence matters! Troy Anthony Davis has an execution date of Monday, October 27. Join Austin CEDP in an action to help try to save the life of Troy Davis. There will be a picket, petitioning, and a laptop that you can use to send messages to Georgia and federal authorities. For more ways … Continue reading →

Thursday, October 23, 2008, 4:30 – 6:30 pm, Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, The University of Texas Libraries, Sid Richardson Hall Unit 1 A Journey to Uxáta/Un Viaje a Uxáta: A Photo Documentary of Northern Mexico By John Christian (through Feb. 2009). You are cordially invited to the opening of A Journey to Uxáta/Un Viaje a Uxáta, A Photo Documentary of Northern Mexico by John Christian. There will be a reception with light refreshments to accompany the exhibit’s premier.

Wednesday, October 22, 7:00 PM, UT campus, CMA A 3.112 STRANGE FRUIT: THE DEATH PENALTY AND AMERICAN CULTURE The death penalty is often a subject of different cultural mediums: television, film, music and literature. Sometimes it is the politics of the death penalty that shape that expression. Other times it is the cultural expressions that shape people’s opinions of the death penalty. At this meetings we will discuss how the death penalty is represented in American culture, through a multi-media … Continue reading →

October 21, 22, 29 at 7 pm, Third Coast Film Night at Alamo Drafthouse Ritz, 320 E 6th Street The October 29 screening will be followed by a Q&A with ACLU attorney Ben Wizner, who is interviewed in the film about the ACLU’s handling of the case of Khaled El-Masri, who was kidnapped and detained for five months in a secret CIA prison. Secrecy, a new film by Harvard professors Peter Galison and Robb Moss about government classification debates, debuted … Continue reading →

Monday, October 20, 2008, Jesse H. Jones Communication Center, Building B, ACL Studio, 5:00 – 7:00 PM Screening: “Latinos ’08: How Political Candidates and Advocacy Groups Try to Buy Latino Loyalty,” a film by Phillip Rodriguez. Hosted by the School of Journalism, the College of Communications, and the Center for Mexican American Studies. Free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be provided.

Thursday, October 16, 7:00 PM, University of Texas at Austin, Garrison 0.102 Camilo Mejía grew up in Nicaragua and Costa Rica before moving to the United States in 1994. He joined the military at the age of nineteen, serving as an infantryman in the active-duty army for three years before transferring to the Florida National Guard. After fighting in Iraq for five months, Mejía became the first known Iraq veteran to refuse to fight the war in Iraq, citing moral … Continue reading →

Sunday, October 12, 6 pm, St. Andrews Presbyterian Church, 14311 Wells Port Drive, west of I-35 off Wells Branch Parkway. Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and author of the New York Times and international bestseller, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Published worldwide in September 2007, The Shock Doctrine is set to be translated into 25 languages to date. Her previous book No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies was also an international bestseller, … Continue reading →

Sunday, October 12, 2008, 5:00 pm, University Baptist Church, 2130 Guadalupe Street “Hope Not Hate” Candlelight Vigil in Memory of the 10th Anniversary of the Deaths of James Byrd, Jr. and Matthew Shepard Austin, TX (September 30, 2008) – On Sunday, October 12, University Baptist Church will host “Hope Not Hate”, a gathering on the 10th anniversary of the hate killings of James Byrd, Jr. and Matthew Shepard. Equality Texas Foundation, The African American Diversity Ministry of MCC Austin at … Continue reading →

October 11th (Saturday), St. Martin’s Lutheran Church Texans for Peace is proud to announce our fourth annual educational conference, which will focus entirely on the subject of gang activity–prevention, intervention, and disruption to education as well as society. The conference is aimed primarily at elementary and secondary educators, from both private and public institutions.

October 10-11: The Mexican-American Cultural Center will be holding its 2nd Annual Bilingual Symposium on Immigration. Topics include: Guest Workers and the New Slavery, Jorge A. Bustamante, Ph.D.President and Founder of El Colegio de la Frontera Norte United Nations – Human Rights for Migrants, University of Notre Dame; A Story of Becoming a Good Samaritan, Mr. Rubén Garcia, Co-Founder and Director, Casa AnunciaciónBorder Shelters, El Paso, Texas; Who is my neighbor? Luke 10:25-37, Arturo Chávez, Ph.D., President and CEO, Mexican … Continue reading →

Dean Jack Otis Social Problem and Social Policy lecture “Hate in America: What Can Be Done?” to be presented by Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center on Tues., Oct. 7, at 2:00 in the Flawn Center Atrium.

7:00 PM University of Texas at Austin, MEZ 0.306 Oct. 6: “The New Rulers of the World.” Using the example of Indonesia, this film explores the impact of globalization on ordinary people and the role of multinational corporations and the institutions that back them.

Monday, October 6th, 2008, 7:00pm, Texas Union Ballroom (3.202) The Center for Mexican American Studies & MACC Present the Documentary Screening of: Brown is the New Green: George Lopez and the American Dream, a new documentary film by Phillip Rodriguez that examines how media and marketers are shaping America’s perception of Latinos. Followed by Q & A Session with the Director, Phillip Rodriguez, LatinWorks, and GSD&M. This event is free and open to the public.

7pm, Oct 6., BookWoman, 5501 N. Lamar Blvd. #A-105, Austin Texas 78751 Mary Ann Wright (born 1947) is a retired United States Army colonel and retired official of the U.S. State Department, known for her outspoken opposition to the Iraq War. She is most noted for having been one of three State Department officials to publicly resign in direct protest of the March 2003 invasion of Iraq.

October 6, 2008, 6pm-8pm, Council Chambers, 301 W. Second Street,1st Floor Office of the Police Monitor, 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) 08-0334 Complainant alleges that a razor blade was placed in his pocket by an officer when searched prior to his arrest. 2) 08-325 Complainant expressed concern over collision investigation and inability to get a police report. 3) 08-150 … Continue reading →