Please join CodePink New Year’s Eve 4:30pm at City Hall to stand in solidarity with the people of Gaza and the Gaza Freedom Marchers now in Cairo. This will be a simple vigil with signs (please bring one) and a flyer designed to raise awareness of the effects of the blockade, and remind folks of the one year anniversary of Israel’s 22 day assault, which killed more 1400 Palestinians and injured more than 5000. Please see gazafreedommarch.wordpress.com for more information … Continue reading →

6pm – 12am Sunday December 20, 2009, The Sandra Cisneros’ fabulous 55th Birthday Party! at “LUNA” on 6740 San Pedro, San Antonio, Tejas It is a fundraiser to benefit the Macondo Foundation, a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization that supports professional writers who are giving back in underserved communities. RSVP by making a donation online today at www.macondofoundation.org or make a donation at the door. There will be live performances by Rodolfo Lopez, S.T. Shimi, Chayito & El Curo, the Krayolas and … Continue reading →

Saturday, December 19th, 2009, 4 pm, The Independent, (Corner of East 5th & Brushy Street) Okay. Santa’s right around the corner and Christmas Break is almost here. There is no telling the kind of gifts you will get come Christmas day: electric socks, Atari (because someone thought that you would enjoy something retro; laugh if you want but it happens), and, of course, the perennial fruit cake (the present that gets regifted EVERY year!). Before you even receive those gifts … Continue reading →

12pm – 6pm Saturday December 19, 2009, Resistencia Bookstore, 1801-A South First St. Welcome to our yearly X-MAS TIENDITA: where you will find unique holiday gift items: Artesania, Jewelry, Tarjetas, Posters, Literature, Musica, y Liberacion! Join us as we congregate/celebrate one last time before the new year! **Also, come support la familia Vargas by picking up some of their fresh tamales by the dozen: ** Traditional & Vegetarian Tamales. This year we are highlighting the beautiful handcrafted indigenous artwork by … Continue reading →

7pm Friday December 18, 2009, Resistencia Bookstore, casa de Red Salmon Arts, 1801-A South First St., Red Salmon Arts presents Ojos de Dios/God’s Eyes: a platica/presentation by Lipan Apache artist & teacher Julia Nava on the traditional and sacred North American indian artform commonly known as Ojos de Dios/God’s Eyes. Julia Nava will speak on the origin, meaning, and evolution of Ojos de Dios artistic creations and how these artistic weavings symbolically link the indigenous Mexican culture with the Coahuiltecan … Continue reading →

Saturday, December 12, 3:00 – 4:30 PM, Under the Hood Cafe & Outreach Center, 17 College Street, Killeen, Texas Antonia Juhasz is on the National Advisory Board of Iraq Veterans Against the War and is the Director of The (True Cost of) Chevron Program at Global Exchange in San Francisco. She’s the author of The Tyranny of Oil: The World’s Most Powerful Industry and What We Must Do To Stop It — just newly released in paperback and updated with … Continue reading →

Th, Fri, Sat, Dec. 10-12, 17-19, 8pm The Mexican American Cultural Center (MACC) 600 River Street The Austin Latino Theater Alliance (ALTA) proudly announces La Pastorela 2009, a traditional Yuletide play that has been performed in Native American/Latino communities since the late 16th century when Spanish priests first introduced it to the Native people of this land. Revered in the Christmas tradition aspect, as the Latino counterpart to The Nutcracker, La Pastorela is a family-friendly, musical comedy must see during … Continue reading →

Demonstration outside GEO Group Regional Headquarters, Thursday, Dec. 10 @ noon, 1583 Common Street, New Braunfels Google map. Contact: blibal@grassrootsleadership.org, Bob Libal of Grassroots Leadership Vigil at the Reeves County Detention Center, Saturday, Dec. 12 @ 11 a.m., Meet at Reeves County Courthouse, 100 E. 4th Street, Pecos, TX Google map. More info and RSVP: Contact ACLU of Texas Outreach and Advocacy Coordinator, thayes@aclutx.org, Tracey Hayes. In observance of International Human Rights Day, a coalition that includes the ACLU of … Continue reading →

Please join ACLU-Texas on Dec. 10 at 5:30 p.m. at the Travis County Commissioners Courtroom (first floor of the Granger Building at 314 West 11th St. in Austin) to show your support of Austin women of every economic status. A longstanding family-planning program that serves the most vulnerable of Austin women is being attacked. Anti-choice groups have flooded the Travis County Healthcare District with phone calls pressuring the Board to discontinue funding abortion services for women through the Medical Assistance … Continue reading →

Dr James Hansen at the Progressive Forum – Monday, December 7, 7:30 pm, Cullen Theater at the Wortham Center. For more information, visit this link. Climatologist Dr. James Hansen will be in Houston to deliver a presentation titled, “Threat to the Planet, Implications for Intergenerational Justice.” James Hansen was the first to create broad awareness of global warming in his Congressional testimonies in the 1980s. His recent research has made the public aware that the climate is even more sensitive … Continue reading →

Dec. 7, 2009, 6pm-8pm, Council Chambers, 301 W. Second Street,1st Floor, Austin, Texas 78701 Public Input Agenda 1) 2009-1053: Complainant alleges detectives failed to properly investigate crimes against her. 2) Community Policing Issues Complainants/Citizens may address the Citizen Review Panel about the above items. If you wish to address the Citizen Review Panel please sign up 30 minutes in advance of the Public session. For additional information on any agenda item, please contact Office of the Police Monitor, City of … Continue reading →

7:30pm, Saturday Dec. 5, 2009, Resistencia Bookstore, casa de Red Salmon Arts, 1801-A South First St., Austin, Tejas A public reading & signing by Ana Castillo, Internationally Acclaimed Poet and Award Winning Author. FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

7pm Friday December 4, 2009, Resistencia Bookstore, casa de Red Salmon Arts, 1801-A South First St., Austin, Tejas CineResistencia presents a documentary film screening of We Will Always Be Here (Sol Rojo Productions) Juárez-Lincoln University, 715 East First Street, was founded in 1971 in Austin, Texas, as a Mexican American center of higher education. It was a direct out growth of the wider Chicano/amovement for civil rights, self-determination, & ethnic pride that took root & grew from the 1950s through … Continue reading →

It is a privilege to be able to share my novel Buddha’s Wife with you this coming Wed. (Dec. 2nd) at BookWoman in Austin at 7:00 pm. (BookWoman, 5501 North Lamar, #A-105, Austin, TX 78751). BookWoman at Facebook For those that are unfamiliar with this work of fiction, Buddha’s Wife is an inspirational story about friendship, family, loss, love and forgiveness. Thousands of books, texts and stories have followed Siddhartha’s path to becoming The Buddha (and his teachings), but little … Continue reading →

Tests administered to Woods put his IQ anywhere from the 60s to the 80s. An IQ of 70 is considered the threshold for mental impairment. Woods was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to die for the April 1997 slaying of Sarah Patterson, his ex-girlfriend’s daughter. She and her 9-year-old brother were snatched from their home in Granbury, near Fort Worth. Sarah’s throat was slit with a knife. Her brother was beaten and left for dead but survived to testify … Continue reading →