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and e-mail are continually late,
often arriving after the planned meeting or rally.
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Thursday, May 1, 4:30 p.m.
March for Immigrant Rights
Austin Immigrant Rights Coalition has organized a May
1 march and rally for immigrant rights. The rally is at the State Capitol
at 4:30, and the march will begin at 5:30.
Location: South side of the Texas State Capitol, 11th
and Congress.
Information: Austin Immigrant Rights Coalition: 524-2012,
austinirc@gmail.com
Friday, May 2, 7 p.m.
Human Rights Crisis in Florida's Fields
The Student/Farmworker Alliance-ATX presents an evening
of traditional Vera Cruz folk music and a report-back from the historic
petition delivery at Burger King's corporate headquarters.
Location: MonkeyWrench Books, 110. E. North Loop.
Saturday, May 3, 7 p.m.
Fausto Valiente Roberto de Leon,
"Guatemala, International Mining, and Autonomous Community
Resistance"
Fausto Valiente Roberto de Leon represents the Pastoral
Commission for Peace and Ecology (COPAE), and will speak about community
struggles against gold and silver extraction in San Marcos, Guatemala.
COPAE is an organization that has accompanied communities through community
consultations in Sipakapa and other forms of resistance. COPAE works to
monitor the health, social, and environmental affects of mining and supports
community efforts to exert their right to autonomy against transnational
corporations and create locally determined economic alternatives for development.
In addition to discussing the devastating affects of mining on rural communities,
Fausto will address how the international system and the neoliberal model
facilitate the entry of Northern mining companies in Guatemala.
Also shown will be part of the short documentary film,
Sipakapa No Se Vende (Sipakapa Is Not For Sale) which focuses steep environmental
and human costs of gold mining that have lead Maya communities in the Sipakapa
municipality of Guatemala to exercise their right to be consulted about
the expansion of mining operations into their area.
Location: MonkeyWrench Books, 110. E. North Loop.
Food will be provided. Donations to cover Fausto's travel
costs are gladly accepted.
Monday, May 5, 6:30 p.m.
Documentary, "Meeting Face to Face: the Iraq-U.S.
Labor Solidarity Tour"
In June 2005 six senior Iraqi trade union leaders toured
the United States hosted by U.S. Labor Against the War, visiting 25 cities
and speaking to several thousand unionists, peace activists, and others.
This 27-minute documentary captures the energy and emotions of the tour
while expressing the important substantive message Iraqi workers want to
convey to all Americans: end the occupation; oppose the privatization of
Iraqi national resources; and support the right of all Iraqi workers to
organize free and independent trade unions. Thomas Bacon, coordinator of
both the 2005 and 2007 tours, will be at the event for discussion following
the film.
Location: Texas State Employees Union, 1700 South
First Street.
Thursday, May 8, 7 p.m.
Workers' Defense Project, "Immigration and Its Root
Causes"
Workers' Defense Project will host a participatory workshop
on neo-liberal economic policies such as NAFTA and structural adjustment
policies by the IMF and the World Bank that have helped fuel immigration
worldwide.
Location: MonkeyWrench Books, 110. E. North Loop.
Friday, May 9, 7:30 p.m.
Plain View Press Group Reading
Madeleine Mysko will read from Bringing Vincent Home,
a Vietnam-era novel told by the mother of a soldier who returns home with
serious burns. A real and riviting protrayal of the burn ward vicitms and
their families. H. Palmer Hall will read from Coming to Terms, a collection
of autobiographical essays with focus on his experiences during the Vietnam
War. Susan Bright, the editor of Plain View Press, will read from The Layers
of Our Seeing and other poems.
Location: MonkeyWrench Books, 110. E. North Loop.
Saturday, May 10, 7:30 p.m.
Mazin Qumsiyeh, "Restore Human Rights: End the Occupation
of Palestine"
Interfaith Community for Palestinian Rights hosts author
Mazin Qumsiyeh, who will speak about the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
Location: St. Edward's University, 3001 S. Congress,
Ragsdale Center, Jones Auditorium.
Monday, May 12, 8 p.m.
PermaCulture in a West African
Eco-Village
Learn about permaculture at Xofa Eco-Village in Ghana,
West Africa from Cudjoe Exah, one of Xofa's founder and permaculture farmer,
and Vicki Wolf, environmental writer and eco-happy traveler. They will
also present a video of interviews at the eco-village.
Location: MonkeyWrench Books, 110. E. North Loop.
Wednesday, May 14, 8 p.m.
Bonnie Tamres-Moore, "U.S.-Supported
Torture"
Bonnie Tamres-Moore, a founding member of the National
Religious Campaign Against Torture, will speak about torture, the United
States, and the rule of law. The event is sponsored by Interfaith Community
for Palestinian Rights.
Location: MonkeyWrench Books, 110. E. North Loop.
Tuesday, May 20, 7 p.m.
Vote Rescue Update!
Terri Williams, State Secretary of the TMRA
(Texas Motorcycle Rights Association,
a Coalition Partner with VoteRescue in "Texans for REAL
Elections"); Terri works
closely with Sputnik, the TMRA's leader of many years,
and is extremely knowledgeable
about lobbying for (and against) legislation at the Capitol.
Terri will share some of the
TMRA's stories of lobbying success with us, and give
us some tips going forward about
how we can work to promote "The Texas Hand-Counted Paper
Ballot Bill of 2009",
which we plan on promoting next year with hopes of passage
this next round.
We will also be showing an election related movie and
we'll also be updating everyone
on our progress with the County Commissioner's Court
and also City of Austin.
Location: Brave New Books, 1904 Guadalupe
Hope to see you there!
Vickie (and Karen)
775-3737 and 496-7408
Wednesday, May 21, 7 p.m.
Third Coast Film Night at Alamo Drafthouse Ritz, "Angry
Monk: Reflections on Tibet"
Gendun Choephel Gendun Choephel (1903-1951) is a legendary
figure in Tibet, not simply because he was believed to be the reincarnation
of a famous Buddhist lama but also because this promising young monk eventually
turned his back on monastic life and became a fierce critic of his country's
religious conservatism, cultural isolationism and reactionary government.
After leaving the monastery in 1934, and fueled by his intellectual curiosity
and free-spirited nature, Choephel began extensive travels throughout Tibet
and India in order to understand the true political history of his country.
ANGRY MONK provides both a personal and political portrait
of this pioneering and visionary intellectual who was also a smoking, drinking
and sexually active man who renounced the "false duty of monastic obligations."
The film traces the biography and historic times of Choephel, who lived
between the British colonial invasion of 1903 and the occupation by the
Chinese army in 1951.
In addition to rare archival footage, Choephel's paintings
and sketches, and contemporary scenes of many of the sites he visited,
the documentary features interviews with Tibetan historians, scholars,
writers, poets, a travel companion, a contemporaneous British diplomat,
and Choephel's wife. Their commentary and reminiscences chronicle the major
phases of Choephel's life, including his monastery education in Lhasa (1927-34),
his journey across Tibet (1934-1938), his journey throughout India (1938-1946),
and his return to Tibet (1946-1951).
Choephel's many writings include a guide book to Buddhist
holy sites in India, a Tibetan translation of the Kama Sutra, and a political
history of Tibet published posthumously. He also wrote articles for an
expatriate newspaper that criticized Tibet as a political, cultural and
scientific backwater, which in 1946 led the Tibetan government to imprison
Choephel for three years as a political subversive. Today Choephel is a
revered figure in his Chinese-occupied homeland, and an influential symbol
of hope for those seeking political and spiritual reform in a free Tibet.
"Absorbing... a very useful perspective on recent Tibetan
history."
-- The Vancouver Sun
"Excellent... The film not only sheds light on a most
unique personality. It also is an excellent introduction to Tibetan culture
and politics."
-- Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
Location: Alamo Drafthouse Downtown, at the newly renovated
Ritz Theater location, 320 E. 6th Street
Tickets - $8.25 general / $6 student, senior - are available
at the door or online at http://www.originalalamo.com/Show.aspx?id=5374
Thursday, May 22, noon - 1 p.m.
Action against Global Border Security Conference and
Expo
Austin Immigrant Rights Coalition (AIRC) is organizing
a public action at the Global Border Security Conference and Expo to draw
attention to the death toll on the border and in detention centers, along
with the profits made by private companies to militarize the border and
privatize detention centers.
Location: Outside of the Austin Convention Center
(500
Cesar Chavez, between Trinity and Red River).
Tuesday, May 27, 8 p.m.
Documentary, "A Grin without a Cat"
A GRIN WITHOUT A CAT (France, 1978, 185 min., French
with English subtitles) is director Chris Marker's epic film-essay on the
worldwide political wars of the 60's and 70's: Vietnam, Bolivia, May '68,
Prague, Chile, and the fate of the New Left. Described by Marker as "scenes
of the Third World War," the film is divided into two parts.
Part One: Fragile Hands, from Vietnam to Che's death
ending with Paris in May '68.
Part Two: Severed Hands reflects on events from the Prague
Spring to the election of Allende in Chile to Tlatelolco in México.
Location: MonkeyWrench Books, 110 E. North Loop.
Thursday, May 29, 8 p.m.
MonkeyWrench Books Spanish Language Film Series,
"En el País de No Pasa Nada"
Maricarmen de Lara, best known for her feminist documentaries,
directs this comedy about a corrupt philandering businessman and his wife
and the class conflicts created when Enrique is kidnapped by a band of
incompetent kidnappers This film uses humor to describe the social problems
facing Mexico and the role of women in society.
(2000, 91 min., México, in Spanish with subtitles
in English)
Location: MonkeyWrench Books, 110 E. North Loop.
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