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Learn Something Awesome!

The next Learn Something Awesome! public workshop event will be held on Thursday, April 24th at Monkey Wrench Books at 7pm. The workshops will include: Creating a dress form out of duct tape, DIY Event Planning, Documentary Audio and Video editing, and more. This is a laid-back, conversational event designed to connect and educate members of the Austin community. Come out and Learn Something Awesome!

There will be a pedal-in film festival in Monkey Wrench's backyard. This is a benefit for Skillshare Austin, a new organization raising money to throw a weekend skillsharing event. The film festival is free but Skillshare Austin will be accepting donations for popcorn and beer. The films that will be shown are independent movies about bikes (that you have not already seen!) Skillshare Austin volunteers will be signing up teachers for workshops, as well as selling patches, t-shirts, and other *exciting* items to raise money. Pedal on down, have fun, and help raise money for an exciting radical event!

MonkeyWrench 6th Anniversary Party and MonkeyWrenchers of the Year Awards
Sunday, April 27th, 5:00pm

MonkeyWrench Books is celebrating 6 years as a radical bookstore and community space with the presentation of our first annual MonkeyWrenchers of the Year awards. We'll be honoring individuals and organizations who embody the spirit of MonkeyWrench, by working to build world based on social justice. Special recipients include longtime Austin activist Ran Moran, the Inside Books Project, and more. We'll also be holding a vegetarian BBQ. The BBQ starts at 5:00pm, the awards start at 6:00pm. Come by and celebrate with us at 110 E. North Loop.

La Estrategia del Caracol (1993, 105 min., Colombia, IN SPANISH NO SUBTITLES)

Sergio Cabrera directs this film about a group of people renting apartments in a building in Bogota. When the neighbors receive news that they are to be evicted to make way for gentrification things get interesting.

The neighbors band together with an old anarchist Spanish revolutionary war vet and resist in progressively more unconventional and at times hilarious ways. This is a great flick about resistance with a sense of humor.
IN SPANISH NO SUBTITLES

Monday, April 28th
8:00 pm
MonkeyWrench Books
110 E. North Loop (53rd St. at Ave. F)
for info or directions call 512-407-6925

Tech Night at Monkey Wrench Books -- Exploring Radical things happening in Tech

Discussions and Training on:
- 3D printers
- Creative Commons
- Open source applications
- Linux installations
- Local file sharing w/ Ringlight
- Intro to Drupal
- Hacking.

We will be showing Steal this Film II and Good Copy, Bad Copy during the night.

There will also be music.

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.
Student/Farmworker Alliance • http://sfa-atx.blogspot.com

MonkeyWrench Books
110 E. North Loop (53rd St. at Ave. F)
for info or directions call 512-407-6925

Guatemala, International Mining, and Autonomous Community Resistance
Saturday, May 3rd, 7:00pm
MonkeyWrench Books, 110. E. North Loop

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.

In China and Tibet the upcoming Summer Olympics casts a spotlight on a
brutal government and occupying force. The speakers are from the Tibetan
Association of Austin & Falun Gong (Austin).
Amnesty International • www.amnestyaustin.org

MonkeyWrench Books
110 E. North Loop (53rd St. at Ave. F)
for info or directions call 512-407-6925

Immigration and its Root Causes

A participatory workshop facilitated by members of the Workers' Defense Project 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.

Monkey Wrench Books
110 E. North Loop
Thursday, May 8
7 pm to 8:30pm
(Outside in the backyard--weather permitting--indoors if it's raining)

Plain View Press Group Reading

MonkeyWrench Books is pleased to announce a reading of works by three Plain View Press authors.

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 riveting portrayal of the burn ward victims 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 will read from The Layers of Our Seeing and other poems.

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.

Monday May 12th
8:00 pm
MonkeyWrench Books
110 E. North Loop
512-407-6925 for more info

Fraude: México 2006 (105 min.)
IN SPANISH. NO SUBTITLES. SORRY ABOUT THIS

This documentary was directed by Luis Mandoki as a response by
Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the declared loser in the 2006
Mexican presidential elections. El Fraude covers Mexico's illustrious
history/tradition of electoral fraud, the illegal media attacks orchestrated
by the elite, atttemps to disqualify López Obrador, cheating on election
day, and López Obrador's post-election response.

Tuesday, May 13th
8 PM.

The Nuremburg trials represented what Justice Brandeis called "The sanitizing
effect of sunlight" and the triumph of justice over vengeance. Sixty-three
years later, we conduct trials behind closed doors at Guantanamo, where the
chief military prosecutor has resigned in protest and we have deeply compromised
the rule of law. What has changed? The world is watching. Bonnie
Tamres-Moore is a human rights activist working on the issue of US-supported torture.
She is a founding member of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture.

Interfaith Community for Palestinian Rights • www.icpr-austin.org

MonkeyWrench Books
110 E. North Loop (53rd St. at Ave. F)
for info or directions call 512-407-6925

Author Event: Amanda Marcotte and It’s a Jungle Out There: The Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments

Drawing on her personal experiences of dealing with anti-feminists—from her years of blogging about feminism and living in the woman-unfriendly state of Texas—Marcotte brings her wit and distinct lack of patience to the topic of surviving while feminist. She doles out priceless advice along the way on how not only survive but also thrive, and even how to carve out a space for your feminist self in these oft-times hostile environments.

About Amanda Marcotte

My Mother Wears Combat Boots: A Parenting Guide for the Rest of Us
Jessica Mills will read from her new book, My Mother Wears Combat Boots ( AK Press, 2007)

Sunday, May 18th, 2pm
First monthly story time!
Hang out and relax while MonkeyWrench volunteers read rad books to
your kids.
Snacks provided, feel free to bring more to share.