News :: Civil & Human Rights
Help Save Bookwoman Tonight
06 Dec 2007
THURSDAY, December 6th, 8-11pm
:: Campcamp :: Feminist! Video! Art! :: The Opera House - 2209 S. 1st St. ::
$10 suggested donation ::
A night in a room with videos, pillows, candles, flannel denim combinations,
beverages, and a POPCORN potluck - All at The Opera House!
And it’s true what you heard! We on this night will gather and hoard a
collection of donated funds destined to SAVE BOOK WOMAN!!!
:: Campcamp :: Feminist! Video! Art! :: The Opera House - 2209 S. 1st St. ::
$10 suggested donation ::
A night in a room with videos, pillows, candles, flannel denim combinations,
beverages, and a POPCORN potluck - All at The Opera House!
And it’s true what you heard! We on this night will gather and hoard a
collection of donated funds destined to SAVE BOOK WOMAN!!!
News :: Civil & Human Rights
“The Road To Hell”
28 Nov 2007
The greatest threat to the neo-liberal political economy is not terrorism, nor armed insurgency, nor drugs. It has always been and continues to be, grassroots community based organizing for self-sufficiency, self-reliance, self-determination, self-empowerment, and self-defense. In Mexico, as throughout the growing popular movements brewing all over Latin America, this type of organizing can be broken down to just one word: “autogestion”. Autogestion is the greatest threat to neo-liberalism, and the benefits of its global atrocities to the American population. When communities whose role within the neo-liberal political economy is that of a slave, a servant or worse yet, a disposable variable, begin to organize for self-sufficiency, self-reliance, self-determination, self-empowerment, and self-defense, that is the greatest threat to the security of the United States of America. In fact it is the only thing that has ever truly been considered a threat. More... (5 comments)
News :: Protest Activity
UT Students Oppose Tuition Increase
28 Nov 2007
November 27, 2007
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Austin – Students at the University of Texas at Austin have had enough. The Tuition Accountability Coalition, a group of student leaders from communities across UT, will lead a West Mall rally on Wednesday (Nov. 28) at 2:30pm to reject the latest official recommendation to increase tuition at UT by more than 15% over the next two years and confront the officials who approved it.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Austin – Students at the University of Texas at Austin have had enough. The Tuition Accountability Coalition, a group of student leaders from communities across UT, will lead a West Mall rally on Wednesday (Nov. 28) at 2:30pm to reject the latest official recommendation to increase tuition at UT by more than 15% over the next two years and confront the officials who approved it.
News :: Civil & Human Rights : Corporate Crime
Bhopal Gas Disaster demonstration at University of Texas at Austin
17 Nov 2007
Members of the Association for India's Development held a slideshow presentation and collected signatures to support the survivors of the world's worst industrial disaster.We hadn’t even turned the slideshow on yet when we got our first two signatures. Two UT students had seen the projector light from the main mall and their curiosity drew them to us. They read the fliers we handed to them, and after spending ten minutes or so talking to us they went on their way – they were informed about the world’s worst industrial disaster in Bhopal, India.
In 1984, a chemical leak at the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal exposed more than 500,000 people to deadly gases.
News :: Civil & Human Rights : Immigration & Immigrant Rights : Police Brutality
Border Patrol Attacks No Borders Camp Demonstration
12 Nov 2007
12 Nov 2007 - 4:47 pm: The three arrestees have been charged with impeding a federal officer, which is a federal felony, and are being held at Imperial County Jail. Their arraignment is expected tomorrow afternoon. Several phone calls and a jail visit were made with two of the arrestees, Steve Murphy and Erik Wackernagel. The other arrestee is a US permanent resident and faces possible deportation related to these charges. He is not being allowed visitors. Two arrestees have requested and been refused medical attention. Call the warden to pressure them to provide Steve and Erik with vegan/vegetarian food, immediate medical attention for the arrestees, and to allow visitors for all three arrestees: 760.339.6367
No Borders Camp / San Diego IndyMedia
Announcement :: Civil & Human Rights
Benefit for SFA :: Indy Short-Films, BK Brand-Busting, and Son Jarocho
08 Nov 2007
Please join the Student/Farmworker Alliance—ATX for a night of multimedia and culture. Recently returned Austinite, Brent Perdue, will screen short-films about the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and SFA produced during his time in Immokalee, Florida. Local youth, April Kaplowitz
and Kate Kelly, from area high schools will break down Burger King's branded image in an interactive presentation. And local band, Son Sin Nombre, Sin Nombre Son, will play a set of son jarocho, a traditional musical style of Veracruz, Mexico.
Light refreshments will be served and a donation is requested. This is an all-ages event.
The event will be held in the backyard of Monkeywrench Books Friday, November 9th between 6 and 9PM. Monkeywrench Books is located on 110 E.
North Loop.
and Kate Kelly, from area high schools will break down Burger King's branded image in an interactive presentation. And local band, Son Sin Nombre, Sin Nombre Son, will play a set of son jarocho, a traditional musical style of Veracruz, Mexico.
Light refreshments will be served and a donation is requested. This is an all-ages event.
The event will be held in the backyard of Monkeywrench Books Friday, November 9th between 6 and 9PM. Monkeywrench Books is located on 110 E.
North Loop.
Announcement :: Civil & Human Rights
Ocote Souls Sounds at the Carousel Lounge to Benefit Community Radio in Mexico!
06 Nov 2007
DJ Eye-One
Ocote Soul Sounds
Thursday, Nov. 8th
Come Early! Doors 8:00pm
Show starts at 9 and ends at midnight!
Come out to support the autonomous development of this community and get you groove on at the Carousel Lounge
Ocote Soul Sounds
Thursday, Nov. 8th
Come Early! Doors 8:00pm
Show starts at 9 and ends at midnight!
Come out to support the autonomous development of this community and get you groove on at the Carousel Lounge
News :: Civil & Human Rights
Austin Demands Fair Food
02 Nov 2007
The Student/Farmworker Alliance - ATX converged on an area Burger King in a spirited Halloween protest. Chanting, “Down with the King, Off with his Head!” the organizers approached the restaurant. Featured in this video clip, BK employees did not seem happy to see the delegation. The manager-on-duty was clearly defensive, but just doing his job. BK VP Steve Grover, too, is defensive and continues to publicly reject the CIW's demands to work together to address the human rights crisis in the fields of Florida.Local organizers vow to “keep the pressure on here in Austin, TX.”
CIW allies are converging on Miami this November 30th in support of the Coalition's demands.
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