Sunday, August 29th 5pm, Texas State Employees Union, 1700 South 1st Street Dr. Dahlia Wasfi was born in the United States to an American Jewish mother and an Iraqi Muslim father. She lived in Iraq as a child, returning to the U.S. at age 5. She earned her medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1997. Dr. Wasfi has made two trips to Iraq to visit her extended family since the 2003 “Shock and Awe” invasion, including a three … Continue reading →

Saturday, August 28, 6 pm, 5604 Manor, 5604 Manor Road Screening of “Nero’s Guests: The Age of Inequality,” documentary featuring journalist P. Sainath. The new documentary “Nero’s Guests: The Age of Inequality,” directed by Deepa Bhatia, tells the story of India’s agrarian crisis and the growing worldwide inequality through the work of award-winning journalist P. Sainath. For the past decade, Sainath has been reporting on the epidemic of farmers committing suicide in India as a result of the collapse of … Continue reading →

7pm Saturday August 21, 2010, Club Primos, 1700 East 6th St. “We are Strength:” Changing Worlds & Giving up the Spirit. Celebrating the work of Save Our Youth (SOY) & announcing a new project of Red Salmon Arts, Ex-Pinta Support Alliance (ESA). A Fundraiser for SOY & ESA featuring musica, poesia, silent art auction, y mas . . . Join us as we continue to honor the prison abolition work of our elder, raulrsalinas, working with young people & women … Continue reading →

Friday, August 20, 6:30 pm, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, 14311 Wells Port Drive (exit off I-35, west on Wells Branch Parkway) St. Andrew’s Summer Film Series – “Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story”. This 1996 film starring Moira Kelly and Martin Sheen tells the story of Dorothy Day, a New York journalist who along with Peter Maurin established the Catholic Worker Movement and the activist newspaper “The Catholic Worker.” Controversial for her support of the economic system called “distributism,” she … Continue reading →

Thursday, August 19, 7:30 pm, Texas State Employees Union Assembly Room, 1700 South 1st St. Were you at the U.S. Social Forum? Do you wish you had been? In June, thousands of social justice activists met in Detroit at the USSF to discuss, plan, and organize the struggle for a more just, equitable, and sustainable world. It was the second of these vibrant, cross-issue social change gatherings. In what we hope will be one of many USSF programs, members of … Continue reading →

August 15: 8:00pm – 10:00pm, Dub Academy, 906 East 5th St Come out for the official screening of the indie short film “EAST OF THE HIGHWAY.” Screening will be followed by live soundtrack performances. Synopsis: In an East Austin neighborhood struggling in the eye of gentrification, neighborhood youth start a crime wave to save their homes from being lost to greedy developers. Created by Will Martin Trailer: http://vimeo.com/5868290 Facebook

Sunday, August 15, 6 pm, 5604 Manor, 5604 Manor Road In June we kicked off a new series of gatherings to explore the question, “What does it mean to be human?” One of the topics that emerged in that discussion was our struggles to confront the ecological crisis, honestly but without going crazy, which we discussed in July. Another theme has been the injustice and unsustainability of our economic system, the predatory corporate capitalism that dominates the global economy. In … Continue reading →

Saturday, August 14, 6:30 pm, 5604 Manor, 5604 Manor Road 5604 Manor Summer Film Nights – “Walkout”. 5604 Manor is a new space on Manor Road dedicated to making a better community and a better world. Austin Voices and the Third Coast Activist Resource Center are combining this summer to offer free Saturday night screenings of great films that show what is possible when people use their creative talents to achieve a goal. The film screenings are open to the … Continue reading →

Monday, Aug. 9, 12:00pm – 4:00pm, Gregory Gym, UT campus President Obama graces Austin, TX with his presidential presence on Monday, begging us for more money to elect more warmongers to the United States Congress. Let’s take a stand for the people of Afghanistan and Iraq! We start at noon for our friends who are employed and have a lunch break. We will stay until after the speech is over and the spectators leave. GET OUT OF AFGHANISTAN! GET OUT … Continue reading →

Monday, Aug. 9 at 9:00am until August 25 at 5:00pm, Fort Hood, TX Created By UnderThe HoodCafe: The 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment is preparing to deploy later this month. Among the 5K troops they are sending to the “winding down” war in Iraq are hundreds of wounded warriors! These Soldiers have already survived the fight, but Col. Allen, the Regimental commander, will put them back in harms way unless YOU ACT NOW TO STOP HIM! Call and Harass the 3rd … Continue reading →

Sunday, August 8, 2010, 2:00 PM to 10:00 PM, Moose Lodge, 2103 E.M. Franklin Ave, Austin, Texas My brother Arturo is having a fundraiser for the non-profit organization National Puro Conjunto Music Association (NPCMA) he founded and I am helping him. Our family comes from a long line of musicians and our uncle’s band, El Conjunto de Pete Morales is in the Buddy Holly Hall of Fame in Lubbock, Texas. My brother is really wanting to preserve the music we … Continue reading →

Saturday, August 7, 2010, 7:00 – 9:00 PM, T. Don Hutto Detention Center, 1001 Welch Street, Taylor, TX Please join Texans United for Families, Grassroots Leadership, and organizers from across Texas for a vigil to draw attention to the nation’s unaccountable and out-of-control detention system. The vigil will mark the one-year anniversary of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) announced detention reform and the end of family detention at Hutto. ICE currently heralds Hutto as a model detention center despite the … Continue reading →

Friday, August 6: 7–9 pm, Pfluger pedestrian bridge over Lady Bird Lake near Lamar On Friday evening, Aug. 6th, Friends will gather on the Pfluger pedestrian bridge (just east of Lamar over Lady Bird Lake) and spend a couple of quiet, thoughtful hours (7-9 pm) together passing out peace cranes and peace/nuclear disarmament literature to passersby, and tending to a dozen glass-container candles and photo posters about Hiroshima/Nagasaki. The vigil is being organized by the Peace and Social Concerns Committee … Continue reading →

Thursday, August 5, 7:00 PM, UT campus, Parlin Hall room 206 Texas may have some of the worst health, education, and poverty rates in the US, but there are a few categories in which it exceeds every other state, and even foreign nations: incarceration and execution. Since 1980, Texas has built 94 new state prisons, which now house over 171,000 inmates. In the same time period, Texas has executed 462 people. Recently, numerous scandals have begun to shine a national … Continue reading →

On the day verdict is announced in California, gather at Austin City Hall (Cesar Chavez and Lavaca) at 5:30 PM. RSVP on Facebook

August 2, 2010, 6pm-8pm, Council Chambers, 301 W. Second Street, 1st Floor, Austin, Texas 78701 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. 2010-0289: Complainant alleges that officers responding to a domestic disturbance were insensitive and biased in their comments and approach. 2. 2010-0535: Officer is alleged to have used profanity and force while on duty 3. … Continue reading →