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05 / 2
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
The Student/Farmworker Alliance-ATX presents an evening of traditional Vera MonkeyWrench Books | ||
05 / 3
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
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. | ||
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05 / 5
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05 / 6
Start: 7:30 pm
End: 9:30 pm
In China and Tibet the upcoming Summer Olympics casts a spotlight on a MonkeyWrench Books | ||
05 / 7
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05 / 8
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:30 pm
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 | ||
05 / 9
Start: 7:30 pm
End: 10:52 pm
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. | ||
05 / 10
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05 / 11
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05 / 12
Start: 8:00 pm
End: 10:00 pm
PermaCulture in a West African Eco-Village Learn about permaculture at Xofa Eco-Village in Ghana, West Africa Monday May 12th | ||
05 / 13
Start: 8:00 pm
End: 10:00 pm
Fraude: México 2006 (105 min.) This documentary was directed by Luis Mandoki as a response by Tuesday, May 13th | ||
05 / 14
Start: 8:00 pm
End: 10:00 pm
The Nuremburg trials represented what Justice Brandeis called "The sanitizing Interfaith Community for Palestinian Rights • www.icpr-austin.org MonkeyWrench Books | ||
05 / 15
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
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 | ||
05 / 16
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05 / 17
Start: 3:00 pm
End: 5:00 pm
My Mother Wears Combat Boots: A Parenting Guide for the Rest of Us | ||
05 / 18
Start: 2:00 pm
End: 3:00 pm
Sunday, May 18th, 2pm | ||
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05 / 27
Start: 8:00 pm
End: 10:33 pm
1968: 40 Years Later Can Dialectics Break Bricks? (1973, 90 min. French with English subtitles) is a Situationist film by director René Viénet which uses an older martial arts film ("The Crush" from Doo Kwang Gee) for its visuals. This film was then dubbed over by the filmmakers in a detournement. The idea was to adapt a bourgeois film into a radical critique of cultural hegemony. | ||
05 / 28
Start: 8:00 pm
End: 10:00 pm
discussing chapters 1-3 of The Humanure Handbook | ||
05 / 29
Start: 8:00 pm
End: 10:45 pm
Spanish Language Film Series En el País de No Pasa Nada (2000, 91 min., México, in Spanish with subtitles in English) 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. Thursday, May 29th | ||
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