Monthly Archives: October 2009

Ruta Maya 3601 S. Congress ( Behind Opal Divine’s ) 7:00 Potluck – ( Bring Food Only ) 9:30 Dance- Live Rock and Roll Cover Band til 2 a. m. when we Fall Back one hour ! Note: This party … Continue reading →

Saturday, October 31, 2009 — 2:00 – 3:00 — Capitol Extension Room E2.028 CodePink co-founder Diane Wilson will take part in a panel discussion this Saturday, October 31st at the Texas Book Festival. Here is a bit about the panel … Continue reading →

As the Obama Administration, military planners and Congress debate the future conduct of the war in Afghanistan, the Dallas Peace Center will mark the beginning of the ninth year of the war with vigils at Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison’s North … Continue reading →

OCT 31 – NOV 3: THE CITY OF AUSTIN AND THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR Civilian Oversight of Law Enforcement (NACOLE) invites you to the Fifteenth Annual Conference (2009), an opportunity for community members, civilian oversight practitioners, government and law enforcement … Continue reading →

Thursday, October 29, All tickets are Orchestra Level and start at $14. The talk will begin at 7:30 pm in the Cullen Theater at the Wortham Center. PROGRESSIVE FORUM: Climatologist Dr. James Hansen will be in Houston to deliver a … Continue reading →

7pm Thursday October 29, 2009, Resistencia Bookstore, 1801-A South First St., 416-8885 Red Salmon Arts presents a performance reading of Chicana Lives and Criminal Justice: Voices from El Barrio featuring Vicki Grise, Lilia Rosas, and other Xicana artist/activists. Drawing on … Continue reading →

Wednesday, October 28, 6:00 PM, UT campus, Texas Union Theater “American Radical” is a documentary portrait of academic and activist Norman Finkelstein. A devoted son of Holocaust survivors, ardent critic of Israeli and US policies, and author of The Holocaust … Continue reading →

Dear Friends, As you know, our Rejecting Violence, Imagining Alternatives community conversation series will be holding its final session Wednesday, October 28 from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. at the Rev. Marvin C. Griffin Building, 1009 East 11th Street. Cosponsors for … Continue reading →

Tuesday and Wednesday, October 27 and 28, 5:15 PM: UT campus, Tuesday meeting in Texas Union building, Chicano Culture room 4.206; Wednesday meeting in RLM 7.112 UT administrators are slashing the jobs of instructors and staff workers in colleges and … Continue reading →

The Bus Riders Union will present our plan at the monthly Capital Metro Board of Directors meeting on October 28, 2009 at 4PM at Metro HQ (5th & Pleasant Valley) The Bus Riders Union-ATX proudly announces the release of our … Continue reading →

6:30pm Tuesday October 27, 2009, UT Austin Community Engagement Center, 1009 E. 11th St. Red Salmon Arts presents: Chicana Lives and Criminal Justice: Voices from El Barrio: Lecture, Book Signing, & Performance with scholar/activist Juanita Díaz-Cotto (Director of the Latin … Continue reading →

Reginald Blanton, in his final words, thanked his supporters, told his victim’s family that he understood their pain and decried the drugs used to put him to death. Blanton was condemned to die for the robbery and shooting death of … Continue reading →

Saturday, October 24, 2:00 – 5:00 PM, Gather at 2 pm at the southside steps Texas State Capitol Building. MAKING THE DEATH PENALTY HISTORY: The March to Abolish the Death Penalty has been held each October since 2000 in cooperation … Continue reading →

Sunday, October 18, 11am, Café Caffeine, 909 W. Mary, Austin Please join CodePink Austin as we welcome Medea Benjamin, co-founder of CodePink and Global Exchange. Medea recently traveled to Afghanistan with a CodePink led delegation. She will speak about the … Continue reading →

Saturday, October 17th, 2009, 7 pm, The Independent 501 Studios, 501 Brushy Street They Speak Youth Poetry Slam Presented by the Texas Youth Word Collective. Finally, after a summer of sweltering heat and a September that saw both the start … Continue reading →

Oct 17, 2009, 3-6 pm Rally at City Hall UPDATE: From 2:30 to 3:00 p.m., come join us for a teach-in on Afghanistan. Also from 2:30 to 3:00, we’ll have children’s sign-making activities. Sign-making materials will be provided. The rally … Continue reading →

On Friday, October 16, two dynamic personalities will come together on the SMU campus to participate in “A Humanitarian Forum on Gaza.” Both are committed to bringing to the Western world the truth about conditions in the Middle East. One … Continue reading →

Friday, October 16, 7 pm, First Unitarian Universalist Church, Howson Hall, 4700 Grover Ave., Austin 78756 Interfaith Community for Palestinian Rights is hosting a screening of “Encounter Point,” a documentary film which follows a former Israeli settler, a Palestinian ex-prisoner, … Continue reading →

Thursday, October 15, 7:00 PM, UT Campus, Parlin 201 STUDY GROUP: We’ll be discussing the book Black Liberation and Socialism (Ahmed Shawki, Haymarket Books 2005), a sharp and insightful analysis of historic movements against racism in the United States — … Continue reading →

Wednesday, October 14, 6:30 – 9:00 PM, Mercury Hall, 615 Cardinal Ln. Celebrate the PDL’s seventh anniversary with a silent auction, food, and live music. This years honoree is Tate-Austin-Hahn for their generous help in producing our groundbreaking study “Building … Continue reading →