Fri, April 9, 2010 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM, Texas Union, Quadrangle Room (3.304), The University of Texas at Austin In May 1999, a group of students opposing the arrest of 10 student protesters ended a week of unrest when administrators agreed to meet with them to discuss creating a new Asian American Studies Program. Come meet and hear from the “UT 10″: who were they, what they are doing now, and what you can do for your community. UT … Continue reading →

Thursday, April 8, 2010, 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm, MonkeyWrench Books, 110 E. North Loop “Death and Taxes” DVD Screening and Talk by ACOMT (Austin Conscientious Objectors to Military Taxation). We all know that war sucks! So how can we, U.S. taxpayers, refuse to support wars through our taxes? Austin Conscientious Objectors to Military Taxation (ACOMT) will tell us how! In the documentary “Death and Taxes,” people around the U.S. talk about why and how they resist paying taxes for … Continue reading →

7:30pm Thursday April 8, 2010, Resistencia Books, 1801-A South First St., Austin, TX From ‘Antiracism’ to Abolition: a scholarly activist workshop on the politics of racial genocide Limited seating available. You must RSVP to reserve a space: revolu@swbell.net or 512-416-8885 Facilitated by Radical Scholar/Activist Dylan Rodriguez (Professor & Chair of Ethnic Studies at UC Riverside). Dylan Rodriguez will facilitate a workshop to develop intensive discussion on how a serious engagement with the social condition of racist genocide might alter or … Continue reading →

Tuesday, April 6, 7:30 PM, UT campus, Texas Union building, Texas Union Theater Activists today are trying to overturn another egregious top-down managerial autocratic edict very similar to the closing Texas Union Film Program in 1997. See a free screening of the 1999 documentary “University, Inc.” This film “documents the steps thus far taken to ‘repurpose’ the Cactus are the exact same as those that led to the closing of the Texas Union Film Program in 1998,” writes the Austin … Continue reading →

April 5, 2010, 6pm-8pm, Austin City Hall, Council Chambers, 301 W. Second Street, 1st Floor Citizen Review Panel Regular Monthly Meeting Public Input Agenda The Public meeting of the Citizen Review Panel will be held at City Hall Council Chambers at 6:00 p.m. The following is the agenda: 1) 2009-1571: Complainant is alleging excessive force along with several other general order violations. 2) 2009-1506: Complainant alleges a violation of their rights and the officer did not adhere to Texas Law. … Continue reading →