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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.

1968: 40 Years Later
A Film Series

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.

discussing chapters 1-3 of The Humanure Handbook

Spanish Language Film Series
En el País de No Pasa Nada

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

2 American civilians tell Sudanese genocidaires that their days of freedom are over. He is in Darfur now. You must check out the 11 video communiqués they posted on YouTube.
This is breaking news:
http://www.youtube.com/user/peacepiperepairman

It's not just about ending the crisis in Darfur & Eastern Chad. It's about reforming how the international community reacts to mass human suffering. There is hope. There is a peace process for Darfur, Sudan & Kitten & the Peace Pipe Repairman have mapped it out in these communiques.
--
Kitten

[these folks called us from Khartoum and asked us to spread it around]

2 American civilians tell Sudanese genocidaires that their days of freedom are over. He is in Darfur now. You must check out the 11 video communiqués they posted on YouTube.
This is breaking news:
http://www.youtube.com/user/peacepiperepairman

It's not just about ending the crisis in Darfur & Eastern Chad. It's about reforming how the international community reacts to mass human suffering. There is hope. There is a peace process for Darfur, Sudan & Kitten & the Peace Pipe Repairman have mapped it out in these communiques.
--
Kitten

[these folks called us from Khartoum and asked us to spread it around]

2 American civilians tell Sudanese genocidaires that their days of freedom are over. He is in Darfur now. You must check out the 11 video communiqués they posted on YouTube.
This is breaking news:
http://www.youtube.com/user/peacepiperepairman

It's not just about ending the crisis in Darfur & Eastern Chad. It's about reforming how the international community reacts to mass human suffering. There is hope. There is a peace process for Darfur, Sudan & Kitten & the Peace Pipe Repairman have mapped it out in these communiques.
--
Kitten

[these folks called us from Khartoum and asked us to spread it around]

2 American civilians tell Sudanese genocidaires that their days of freedom are over. He is in Darfur now. You must check out the 11 video communiqués they posted on YouTube.
This is breaking news:
http://www.youtube.com/user/peacepiperepairman

It's not just about ending the crisis in Darfur & Eastern Chad. It's about reforming how the international community reacts to mass human suffering. There is hope. There is a peace process for Darfur, Sudan & Kitten & the Peace Pipe Repairman have mapped it out in these communiques.
--
Kitten

[these folks called us from Khartoum and asked us to spread it around]

2 American civilians tell Sudanese genocidaires that their days of freedom are over. He is in Darfur now. You must check out the 11 video communiqués they posted on YouTube.
This is breaking news:
http://www.youtube.com/user/peacepiperepairman

It's not just about ending the crisis in Darfur & Eastern Chad. It's about reforming how the international community reacts to mass human suffering. There is hope. There is a peace process for Darfur, Sudan & Kitten & the Peace Pipe Repairman have mapped it out in these communiques.
--
Kitten

[these folks called us from Khartoum and asked us to spread it around]

"Mistaken Identities: Nation/Race/Gender"
A discussion with Robert Jensen of the themes in his last three books

• Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity, South End Press, 2007.
• The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege, City
Lights Books, 2005.
• Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity, City Lights
Books, 2004.

In these books, Jensen examines how nation, race, and gender affect our
understanding of ourselves, with a focus on the unjust systems of power and
privilege in which they are embedded. In each case he argues against the
dominant culture's ideology and for a politics of liberation.

Jensen is a journalism professor at the University of Texas at Austin and board
member of the Third Coast Activist Resource Center
http://thirdcoastactivist.org.

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Radical Publishing with the South End Press Collective