Monday, November 7, 7:00 PM, UT, campus, Bass Lecture Hall, Sid Richardson Hall 2.104 (parking is available in the LBJ parking lot) Come to a free screening of “Not in Our Town: Light in the Darkness,” a one-hour PBS documentary about a town taking action after anti-immigrant violence devastates their community. Jonathan Bernstein, the Executive Director for the organization that produced the film, will lead a discussion with the audience following the film. The discussion will explore the role of … Continue reading →

Monday, November 7, 2011, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM, Meeting Room (2.120), Student Activity Center, The University of Texas at Austin Manuel Luis Martinez is a native Texan currently living in Columbus, Ohio. He serves as an associate professor of twentieth century American literature, American studies, Chicano/Latino studies, and creative writing at the Ohio State University. He began his education at St. Mary’s University, San Antonio, completed a Master of Arts in Creative Writing at the Ohio State University, and … Continue reading →

Sunday, November 6, 5-7 pm, Black Star Co-op, 7020 Easy Wind Drive The progressive community center 5604 Manor is throwing a fundraising party at Black Star Co-op, Austin’s fantastic cooperatively owned and operated brewpub. Workers Defense Project, Third Coast Activist Resource Center, and Third Coast Workers for Cooperation came together in 2009 to purchase and renovate the building at 5604 Manor Road for office, meeting, and event space for the progressive community in Austin. At this event we’ll discuss talk … Continue reading →

Nov. 5, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Auditorium, Room 8100, Building G, Riverside Campus, Austin Community College President of Concerned Philosophers for Peace Danielle Poe will present the annual presidential address on Diane Wilson’s environmental activism during the closing plenary session for the CPP annual conference at Austin Community College. In a paper tentatively titled, “Mothering against the Norms: Diane Wilson and Environmental Activism,” Prof. Poe will explore intersecting meanings of justice and mothering in the writings of the highly respected Texas … Continue reading →

Saturday, November 5, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM, Gather at Bank of America at 2501 S. Congress Ave (south of Oltorf) Austin TX and at Wells Fargo at 2326 S. Congress Ave. (north of Oltorf) An action in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street. Together we can ensure that these banking institutions will always remember the 5th of November! If the 99% removes our funds from the major banking institutions to non-profit credit unions on this date, we will send a … Continue reading →

Friday, November 4 , 2011, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM, Texas Union Theater (UNB 2.228), Texas Union, The University of Texas at Austin LAS CALACAS 2011 is a Dia de los Muertos show featuring dance, teatro, and an exhibit about the indigenous history of Dia de los Muertos. The show will feature, Ballet Folkorico Fiesta Mexicana, UT Ballet Folklorico and Grupo Flor y Canto. The festivities will include teatro from José Guadalupe Posada, Afro-Mestizo dances (Son Jarocho, Yucatán and Costa … Continue reading →

Friday, Nov. 4, 3:00pm – 5:00pm, Auditorium, Room 8100, Bldg. G, Riverside Campus, Austin Community College Featuring Susana Almanza of PODER, Jim Harrington of the Texas Civil Rights Project, and a representative from Red Salmon Arts. The community panel will be moderated by Prof. Jose-Antonio Orosco of Oregon State University, author of “Cesar Chavez and the Common Sense of Nonviolence.” The community panel is hosted by the annual conference of the Concerned Philosophers for Peace (CPP) as part of their … Continue reading →

Thursday, November 3, 7pm, MonkeyWrench Books, 110 E. North Loop The Texas criminal justice system ain’t CSI. Contrary to what’s portrayed on television, bullets are regularly matched to the wrong gun, fingerprints are misidentified, crime labs botch their analysis, and accidental fires are misread as arson. The Texas Observer editor Dave Mann joins us for a conversation on his coverage of the role of bad science in the wrongful convictions in Texas. Dave Mann is the editor of the Texas … Continue reading →

Monday, October 31, 3:00-4:15 p.m., CMA 5.160 (LBJ Room) The Department of Communication Studies and the College of Communication present: Professor Deepa Kumar of Rutgers University. Professor Kumar’s work has previously focused on media framing of social movements, particularly the labor movement. More recently, she has been investigating the rhetorical dimensions of popular representations of Islam in US media. She is the author of Outside the Box: Corporate Media, Globalization and the UPS Strike (University of Illinois Press, 2007) and … Continue reading →

October 7, 2011 – November 13, 2011, Mexic Arte Museum, 419 Congress Ave. Presented in conjunction with Mexic-Arte Museum’s annual Viva la Vida Fest, Death to Dollars both honors Day of the Dead celebrations and investigates how the holiday’s traditional folkloric and religious iconography has been commercialized. While the holiday’s increased presence in mass media and global commercial culture may represent a step away from its roots, this move has also created new spaces for public art, community organizing and … Continue reading →

7pm Friday October 28, 2011, Resistencia Books, 1801-A South First St. POETS! MUSIC! HOMEMADE COOKIES! SNACKS! MORE POETS! Please join us for a Dia De Los Muertos Reading with the following poets: Gloria Amescua Laurie Ann Guerrero Moises S. L. Lara Jorge Antonio Renaud jo reyes-boitel ire’ne lara silva Liliana Valenzuela Please consider donating to the Flor De Nopal Literary Festival happening in December 2011. We are extremely excited to announce the upcoming Flor de Nopal Literary Festival. We are … Continue reading →

Fridays in October at 7 pm “Cooperative Enterprises Build a Better World” film series Each October, cooperatives across the United States celebrate the contributions of cooperatives to their communities and the distinctive business model that makes it possible. For this year’s Co-op Month, Third Coast Workers for Cooperation will be celebrating the theme, “Cooperative Enterprises Build a Better World” with a film series focused on worker-owned cooperatives. There will be snacks before the film and discussion after. October 7, 7 … Continue reading →

Wednesday, October 26, 7:00 PM, 5604 Manor community center, 5604 Manor Rd. The Freedom Fighters — a group of formerly incarcerated innocent men from Dallas — will speak about their efforts to reform the criminal justice system that unjustly imprisoned them. The event is sponsored by the Austin Black and Brown Alliance, which works to unify working class Black and Latino/a communities to address common forms of structural racism and economic inequality through political organizing, education and research, and trainings … Continue reading →

Monday, October 24, 7-9 pm, 5604 Manor, 5604 Manor Road Craig Aaron leads Free Press, a leading national organization working on media and technology policy in the public interest. Before joining Free Press, he was an investigative reporter for Public Citizen’s Congress Watch and managing editor of In These Times magazine. He is the editor of two books, “Appeal to Reason: 25 Years In These Times” and “Changing Media: Public Interest Policies for the Digital Age.” Founded in 2002, Free … Continue reading →

Sunday, October 23, 12:30 – 2 pm, Congregational Church of Austin, 408 W 23rd St.–parking is free at the Co-op Parking Garage until 2 pm. The Congregational Church of Austin/United Christian Church will sponsor a Sustainable Food Forum. Guest speakers from Austin’s Sustainable Food Center and Urban Patchwork Neighborhood Farms will discuss ways in which their organizations are seeking alternatives to unsustainable farming and food production practices, and solutions to the lack of adequate access to fresh and nutritious food … Continue reading →

Sunday, October 23, 1 – 4 pm, 5604 Manor, 5604 Manor Road Representatives from local farms, farmers markets, and Community Supported Agriculture projects will be on hand for a Local Food Fair in the backyard of 5604 Manor. There will be produce for sale, live music, tasting samples, and lots of information about healthy food and communities. The event is in conjunction with national Food Day on October 24. For more information, contact tecolotefarm@gmail.com.

This Sunday, October 23, 2011 Gather at Noon at the Texas AFL-CIO (11th St. and Lavaca) The Austin Central Labor Council of the AFL-CIO has unanimously endorsed this march in solidarity with the Occupy Austin protests. We’ll meet at at the AFL-CIO headquarters and then march to City Hall, where we will rally. This will be a great way to re-energize the labor movement in Austin, show some support for Occupy Austin, and raise our voices together to say “Stop … Continue reading →

Saturday, October 22, 2:00 – 5:00 PM, downtown Austin, march route TBA Each October since 2000, people from all walks of life and all parts of Texas, the US and other countries have taken a day out of their year and gathered in Austin to raise their voices together and loudly express their opposition to the death penalty. Now with Rick Perry in the race for President, it’s more urgent than ever for the movement to tell the truth to … Continue reading →

Saturday, October 15, 5:00 – 7:00 PM, Pease Park, 1100 Kingsbury St. On October 15 we are asking you to COME OUT for marriage equality in the Lone Star State! The movement for marriage in Texas is alive and well and we need you to help us kick off the fight for FULL equality in our state! We demand a repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act! We demand a repeal of the Texas constitutional ban on same-sex marriage! We … Continue reading →

Gulf Shores, AL, on Oct.15, 2011, Noon – 4pm. The NVDA now being planned for Gulf Shores during the Shrimp Festival is proud to be teaming up with PowerShift as one of their 100 Days of Action events. This will be a Non-Violent Direct Action Protest at The Shrimp Festival against the Big Polluter BP and to make the call for Clean Energy Alternatives and Jobs in Gulf Coast Communties! Click here for more information We need as many people … Continue reading →

Oct. 15th, 2011, LBJ High School, 10am-2pm (Saturday) Nov. 18th, 2011, Covington Middle School, 10am-2pm (Friday) Jan 28th, 2012, Reagan High School, 10am-2pm (Saturday) All Travis County Parents/Guardians/Principals/Teachers/Students Are Champions 17 Championship Questions-Together, All Homes & Schools Are Winners When To Use The “17 Championship Questions”-Education Equals A Safe & Prosperous Community: ** Student: To help the teacher and principal help you be the best champion you can be. ** Parent/Guardian: To help the teacher and principal meet or exceed … Continue reading →

Thursday, October 13, 7-9 pm, 5604 Manor Gail Collins on “When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present” — New York Times op/ed columnist Gail Collins will reflect on women’s struggles for equality over the past half century in an informal lecture and discussion. Drawing on her 2010 book, When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present, Collins will talk about what has been accomplished and the challenges … Continue reading →

Tuesday, October 11, 7 pm, MonkeyWrench Books, 110 E. North Loop Texas Observer investigative reporter Melissa del Bosque talks about an Austin biotech firm’s goal to radically change livestock production by cloning meat and milk cows for the global livestock market. Del Bosque’s work also has been published in Time magazine and the NACLA Report on the Americas, and featured on Latino USA.

Monday – Friday, October 10 – 14 Texas State Employees Union members will be engaged in week of action at universities across Texas, intended to kick off a campaign of building union membership as we continue to oppose current cuts and gear up for the next legislative session which will almost certainly see new battles over public funding for higher education. On October 13 there will be a rally on the West Mall, and later that evenings a Panel Discussion … Continue reading →

Sunday, October 9, 6-8:30 pm, Texas Union Theater (UNB 2.228), University of Texas The award-winning film “Bhopali” focuses on the survivors of the world’s worst industrial disaster. In 1984, a leak of toxic gas from a pesticide factory in Bhopal, India, operated by the U.S. corporation Union Carbide (now owned by Dow Chemical) killed 20,000 and left hundreds of thousands more with severe health problems. The site of the factory remains contaminated by toxic waste, devastating the long-term health of … Continue reading →