Friday, April 30, 6:30 pm, UT Campus, Avaya Auditorium (ACES 2.302), free parking on San Jacinto. Screening and discussion of the film “No More Tears Sister”–a film that explores the price of truth in times of war. Set during the violent ethnic conflict that has enveloped Sri Lanka for decades, the documentary recreates the courageous and vibrant life of renowned human rights activist, Dr. Rajani Thiranagama. Mother, anatomy professor, and symbol of hope, Rajani was assassinated at the age of … Continue reading →

Friday, April 30, 5:30 – 7:30 PM, 11th St. and Congress Ave., south end of Texas Capitol Join a peaceful protest outside of the Texas Capitol to show our government officials that we do not agree with, nor do we support capital punishment. This event will coincide with several other world-wide events in an effort to show solidarity in the fight for abolition. The aim is to show the men and women who currently sit on death row that they … Continue reading →

Thursday, April 29, 7:00 PM, Austin Convention Center (Red River and Cesar Chavez) A call to protest from some local high school students: “Sarah Palin is coming to Austin. Let’s mess with her head. So the less-than-one-term Governor from the great white (…really white) north is coming to Austin Texas for a ‘pro-life’ rally. What the %@*# is she thinking? On April 29 bring your best signs, costumes, rally cries and sarcasm, and meet some of your fellow protesters for … Continue reading →

Thursday, April, 29th, 6PM-8PM at the Community Engagement Center (1009 E. 11th St. Marvin C. Griffin Building) “Visiting Hutto: Friendship, Solidarity and Human Rights”: Texans United for Families (TUFF) Coalition members will talk about our new visitation project at the T. Don Hutto Detention Center. After a brief overview, we will hold a public dialogue about what it means to provide friendship and solidarity in highly surveilled detention centers, and how visitation connects (or doesn’t) to other organizing efforts against … Continue reading →

Tuesday, April 27, 7:00 PM, Café Caffeine, 909 W. Mary St. (at Bouldin Ave.) You are invited to a special screening of THE PEOPLE SPEAK, the documentary feature film produced by Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Chris Moore, Anthony Arnove, and Howard Zinn, about the radical traditions that have forged US history. Narrated by the late, acclaimed historian Howard Zinn, and based on his best selling books, A People’s History of the United States and, with Anthony Arnove, Voices of A … Continue reading →

8:00 pm, MonkeyWrench Books, 110 E. North Loop Ansel Herz, an Austinite and UT Alumnus, was one of the few foreign journalists in Haiti to live through and report on the January 12 earthquake and its immediate aftermath. He’s also one of the few journalists still living there – most of them left the month after the quake. Since then, a theme has emerged in his reporting that’s been missed almost entirely by the establishment media: little violence in Haiti, … Continue reading →

9:30pm (new start time) Saturday April 24, 2010, Resistencia Bookstore, 1801-A South First St. We invite you to a forum for progressive artist/activists: a series of experiments in jazz music, spoken word, and dance. This session will feature a performance by Omi Osun Olomo/ Joni L. Jones with black improvisational music by the 3Collective & special guest Brannen Temple on drums. The performance is in celebration of the birthday of political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal (April 24, 1954). Rooted in the … Continue reading →

Thursday April 22, 6:00 pm 8:30 pm, Holiday Inn Town Lake, 20 North I-H 35, Austin, TX 78701 (the hotel is just South of the Holly Street exit if headed Southbound on I-35, on the West-bound service road of I-35) Phone:(512) 472-8211 Free Community Forum with Tom Wootton: “There is an Advantage to the Bipolar Club.” Since 2003, Tom Wootton has addressed groups throughout the United States at state and national conferences on mental health. He is working cooperatively with … Continue reading →

Thursday, April 22nd, 6PM-8PM at the Community Engagement Center (1009 E. 11th St. Marvin C. Griffin Building) “Workers Rights are Human Rights”: Workers Defense Project (WDP) is membership-based organization the empowers low-wage workers in Austin to improve their working conditions. Worker members and organizers from Workers Defense Project will discuss the pervasive human rights violations taking place in Austin’s construction industry, where a construction worker dies every 2.5 days and 1 in every 5 workers has been denied their wages. … Continue reading →

Through Sunday, April 25, University of Texas Join the Save Our History student movement for a week of action as we call for a stop to the attacks on our history standards by the ideological faction on the State Board of Education. Upcoming events: Thursday, April 22–Petition drive on UT Union Patio. Come sign our petition to stop the State Board! Sunday, April 25–Save Our History coalition rally on UT South Mall in courtyard between Benedict and Mezes. Rally with … Continue reading →

Cine Las Americas Film Festival Austin, TX On Sunday, April 25th, join us for a film screening of Cruz Reynoso: Sowing the Seeds of Justice. The screening is free and open to the public. The film is a portrait of Cruz Reynoso, who was the son of farm workers and went on to be the first Mexican American appointed to the California Supreme Court. He has continued to be a role model for generations of young Mexican Americans to this … Continue reading →

Wed, April 21, 2010 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM, Chicano Culture Room (UNB 4.206), Texas Union, The University of Texas at Austin Graduate Portfolio Plática: Hortencia Jiménez: “Waking the ‘Sleeping Giant’?: The Role of Immigrant Rights Coalitions in Mobilizing Protest” Much has been written about the 2006 pro-immigrant rights mobilizations in terms of the scale and scope, the role of the Spanish-speaking media, and the role of the Catholic Church. Absent from this discourse is the role of Immigrant Rights … Continue reading →

Monday, April 19, 7 pm, University of Texas at Austin, Thompson Conference Center (TCC 2.102) “Destiny’s Children: A Legacy of War and Gangs” – An illustrated lecture by Professor Donna DeCesare. Like many photojournalists, Donna DeCesare has covered the brutality of war. But what of war’s aftermath? In her Destiny’s Children project , DeCesare follows the lives of four young people marked by the experience of war. Each struggles with difficult circumstances and has to face the lure of gangs. … Continue reading →

Monday, April 19 Call to protest from World Can’t Wait: “Karl Rove will still be in Texas on April 19, speaking at the University of Texas in Austin… Austin will have the chief propagandist for the war in Iraq at UT. Let’s rally outside the Student Union. Rove’s talk is at 7:00 pm and there’s a meet and greet at 8:30 pm.” More info: warcriminalswatch@worldcantwait.org

Monday, April 19 – Monday, April 26, Location: UT campus, See Facebook Event Page for Full schedule, speakers, and details at Haiti goes completely off of the radar in media until an environmental or political disaster occurs. The objective of this event is to give historical and political context to the current situation in order to understand how challenges facing the country previous to the earthquake compound aid, development, and social justice in its wake. The event will address questions … Continue reading →

April 16-18th 2010, The University of Texas at Austin The Feminist Action Project is a new, student-focused conference to take place April 16th-18th 2010 at The University of Texas at Austin. During these three days, we hope to connect activists through a series of workshops, panels, performances, and keynote address. The Feminist Action Project is open to all levels of students (high school, undergraduate, graduate), Feminists, and Feminist Allies. Our conference is entitled The Feminist Action Project: Examining Intersections, Building … Continue reading →

Thursday, April 15th, 6:00 p.m.-6:30 p.m. Networking and appetizers; 6:30 p.m.-8:00 p.m. Program, Hyatt Regency Austin, 208 Barton Springs Road Priority Associates Invites You to a Women’s Evening with Kristin Armstrong: Very few of us get to live out our “fairy tale dreams” of our childhood of getting the perfect job, marrying Prince Charming and living in a foreign land. But Kristin Armstrong did! In 1997, while working for an Austin advertising and PR firm, Kristin met her “Prince Charming,” … Continue reading →

Thursday, April 15th, 5-6pm, Downtown Post Office, 510 Guadalupe (corner of 6th and Guadalupe) Please join ACOMT, CodePink, Universal Living Wage Coalition and others at the downtown post office as we educate tax payers regarding how much of their money pays for war. We will be passing out pie chart flyers to folks as they drive up to mail their tax returns. If a thousand people were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent … Continue reading →

Tuesday, April 13: 6:30 – 8:30 PM, Riverbend Church, Smith Chapel, 4214 Capital of Texas Hwy Silent Auction viewing begins at 6 P.M. Silent Auction and Fundraiser to Benefit Truth Be Told.  It will be a night of fun, music, desserts, and silent auction as we celebrate several of Austin’s creative artists!  Truth Be Told is a 501(c)(3) non-profit service organization providing transformational tools for women behind and beyond bars.  Come Join Truth Be Told for Creating a New Community.  … Continue reading →

Monday, April 12, 7 pm, University of Texas at Austin, Thompson Conference Center (TCC 2.102) “Catching out: The secret world of day laborers” – A talk by Dick Reavis. What is life like for day laborers? Dick J. Reavis reported to a labor hall each morning, hoping to “catch out,” or get job assignments for which workers are paid at the end of each day. Written with the flair of an experienced journalist and a gifted storyteller, Catching Out describes … Continue reading →

Saturday, April 10, 8pm–Join us at Monkey Wrench for an evening of food, drinks, music and dialogue to help raise funds for Mamas of Color Rising, a collective of working class mothers of color organizing around accessibility to food, housing, education, and safety in Austin, TX. Come support the Mamas in their efforts to get involved in the New Mythos Project, a national grassroots network of mamaz and community caretakers that includes a northeast to southwest tour and a convening … Continue reading →

This Djembabes Spring Benefit Concert begins April 10 at 8pm at St. David’s Episcopal Church, 301 E. 8th St. Before the show, a reception will be held in Sumners Hall with beer, wine, and food available from Café Devine. The concert doors will open at 7:45pm. The Djembabes have played for Code Pink benefits; the show next week will benefit the Global Peace Youth Summit and the Amala Foundation. A special night of rhythm and song will happen Saturday April … Continue reading →

Saturday, April 10th, 2010, 6pm, $10 cover, $5 students with i.d., under 5 free, The Independent (Corner of East 5th & Brushy Street) They Speak Youth Poetry Slam Off Finals, Presented by the Texas Youth Word Collective: The Chinese consider the number 8 to be a lucky number, signifying sudden fortune, prosperity. This is our 8th season, and April 10th, the 8th Austin youth poetry slam team will be chosen to go to the City of Angels, Los Angeles, California. … Continue reading →

Friday April 9, 2010, from 4:30-7 p.m. at Maria’s Taco XPress, 2529 S. Lamar (near Walgreens, at Bluebonnet and Lamar) EVERYONE is welcome to join us for a beer or a mango margarita. With the good weather, we’ll be outside, maybe on the cool new deck! Rag Blog contributor Dick Reavis, who also wrote for the original Rag, will be in town and will join us. Reavis teaches journalism at North Carolina State and his new book is Catching Out: … Continue reading →