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03 / 6
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03 / 7
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 10:00 pm
Learn Something Awesome! The workshops will include: crocheting plastic bags into useful items, acupuncture and Chinese medicine, yoga with a radical perspective, and designing a basic web site with Adobe Dreamweaver. This is a laid-back, conversational event designed to connect and educate members of the Austin community. Come out and Learn Something Awesome! | ||
03 / 8
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 4:30 pm
The Austin Time Exchange Network (ATEN) is a local program that enables individuals to provide and receive skills and services within a network of people and organizations in Greater Austin. Similar to concepts expressed in bartering and alternative currency systems, this grassroots initiative lets members exchange labor and assistance without using the U.S. Dollar. Launched in April of 2006, ATEN currently has over 60 members and invites new participants to join by attending any of our upcoming introduction meetings. | ||
03 / 9
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03 / 10
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03 / 11
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03 / 12
Start: 8:00 pm
End: 10:00 pm
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03 / 13
Start: 12:00 am
Carlos' brother is in Dead Legs and is travelling from Florida to be here for you. You should come hang out! Audrey Ryan (3:00PM) | ||
03 / 14
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 5:32 pm
Punk Rock Breakfast II @ ROOM SERVICE VINTAGE @MONKEY WRENCH BOOKS & SCOOTER REVOLUTION The Valley Arena (Long Beach ) | ||
03 / 15
Start: 11:00 am
End: 10:00 pm
Four on the Floor Party Benefiting MonkeyWrench Books MonkeyWrench Books would like to invite you to a FREE (but please tip your bartender!) show at Parts and Labour (1604 South Congress) this Saturday. Featuring free tamales from Fancy Pants Tamales and great bands from 11:00am-10:00pm. The schedule is as follows: Caitlin Rose (11:45am), The Mean Us (12:45pm), The Mediums (1pm), David Israel (1pm), The Nobility (2:30pm), Your 33 Black Angels (3:15pm), The Vivian Girls (4pm), So Many Dynamos (4:45pm), AM Syndicate (5:30pm), Black the Dynasty (6:15pm), Astronautalis (7pm), The Show is the Rainbow (7:45pm), Burning Hotels (8:30pm), The Always Already (9:15pm), De Nova Dahl (10pm). Start: 11:00 am
The Political Party and He Said She Said Presents Fest By No Fest @MONKEY WRENCH BOOKS @ ROOM SERVICE VINTAGE @MONKEY WRENCH BOOKS Teenage Bottlerocket (CA) Start: 4:00 pm
End: 4:30 pm
The Austin Time Exchange Network (ATEN) is a local program that enables individuals to provide and receive skills and services within a network of people and organizations in Greater Austin. Similar to concepts expressed in bartering and alternative currency systems, this grassroots initiative lets members exchange labor and assistance without using the U.S. Dollar. Launched in April of 2006, ATEN currently has over 60 members and invites new participants to join by attending any of our upcoming introduction meetings. | ||
03 / 16
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03 / 18
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03 / 19
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03 / 20
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03 / 21
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 10:00 pm
The EZLN and The Other Campaign/La Otra Campaña in the USA Juan Haro of the Movement for Justice in the Barrio will discuss the Zapatista's Other Campaign both in Mexico and the USA. He will focus on how it has influenced the work that the MJB does around anti-gentrification organizing in New York City. The Movement for Justice in El Barrio was founded by immigrants and low-income people of color. For the past three years, this 400-member strong tenant rights organization has successfully staved off the gentrification of Spanish Harlem. Movement for Justice in El Barrio will be coming to Austin to share their successes and discuss their organizing strategies. Friday, March 21st | ||
03 / 22
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 4:30 pm
The Austin Time Exchange Network (ATEN) is a local program that enables individuals to provide and receive skills and services within a network of people and organizations in Greater Austin. Similar to concepts expressed in bartering and alternative currency systems, this grassroots initiative lets members exchange labor and assistance without using the U.S. Dollar. Launched in April of 2006, ATEN currently has over 60 members and invites new participants to join by attending any of our upcoming introduction meetings. | ||
03 / 23
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03 / 24
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:30 pm
Skotty Kellogg of the Rhizome Collective will be speaking about urban sustainability. | ||
03 / 25
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03 / 26
Start: 7:30 pm
End: 10:00 pm
NAFTA FROM BELOW: Maquiladora Workers Speak Out on the Impact of Free Trade in Mexico Join MonkeyWrench Books and the Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras at A Presentation in Solidarity with the Key Safety Systems’ Workers struggle. Key Safety Systems is a leading global producer of airbags and other auto safety systems, which has sent its production to maquiladoras such as Valle Hermoso, Mexico, just south of Brownsville, Texas, in search of cheap workers. Two workers organizing at KSS’s Valle Hermoso plant, Perla Cruz and Israel Monroy, will speak on the human costs of NAFTA-style free trade. CJM coordinator Martha Ojeda, a former maquila worker and veteran organizer, will also be present. | ||
03 / 27
Start: 8:00 pm
End: 10:29 pm
Spanish Language Film Night The quietly dignified Don Plutarco, his son Genaro and grandson Lucio make a humble living as travelling musicians. They also collect supplies and ammunition for the guerrilla movement that has arisen in response to the tyrannical regime. Upon returning to their hometown after one journey, they find it has been occupied by the army and their fellow villagers have been forced into hiding. Genaro leaves to find a way to salvage the supplies. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to his son, Plutarco attempts to recover the ammunition himself and courageously approaches the squad captain. Thursday March 27th MonkeyWrench Books | ||
03 / 28
Start: 8:00 pm
End: 10:11 pm
Participatory Economics: Alternatives to Corporate Capitalism a Lecture by: Robin Hahnel Robin will speak about Parecon with a specific focus on contemporary examples from Venezuela's Bolivarian revolution. Professor of economics at American University in Washington, DC, and author, with Michael Albert, of Looking Forward: Participatory Economics for the Twenty First Century and The Political Economy of Participatory Economics. He has written three other books analyzing the global economy Panic Rules! Everything You Need to Know About the Global Economy; The ABCs of Political Economy: A Modern Approach; and Economic Justice and Democracy: From Competition to Cooperation Friday, March 28th MonkeyWrench Books | ||
03 / 29
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 4:30 pm
The Austin Time Exchange Network (ATEN) is a local program that enables individuals to provide and receive skills and services within a network of people and organizations in Greater Austin. Similar to concepts expressed in bartering and alternative currency systems, this grassroots initiative lets members exchange labor and assistance without using the U.S. Dollar. Launched in April of 2006, ATEN currently has over 60 members and invites new participants to join by attending any of our upcoming introduction meetings. Start: 5:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm
Mutualism is a school of thought that calls for decentralizing economic and political power through building cooperatives and community financing systems. It is a radical theory that opposes corporate and state power, and instead promotes an economy of small farms, independent business, cooperatives, and self-employed workers. | ||
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04 / 1
Start: 8:00 pm
End: 10:00 pm
Killing Misogyny: Strategies for Survival Cristina Tzintzún will read from her published and unpublished works on love, gender, violence, racism, and alternative forms of community accountability. There will also be opportunities for audience participation. Tzintzún's work has appeared in "Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism" and "The Women's Movement Today: An Encyclopedia of Third Wave Feminism." Tzintzún is currently a staff member of Workers Defense Project/Proyecto Defensa Laboral, an Austin-based community organization that organizes Latina/o immigrants to achieve racial & economic justice in the workplace. Tzintzún will read from portions of the following essays, in addition to selected poetry: Title Essay in "Colonize This! Young Women of Color Speak on Today's Feminism" published by Seal Press Monkey Wrench Books | ||
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