Events

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.

AND

Radical Publishing with the South End Press Collective

June 7th: A Day of Resistance against the Green Scare!
A benefit for Marie Mason, Ohio environmental activist

Solidarity is a Weapon!
A recently recorded interview with Derrick Jensen--speaking on impending Ecological Collapse, the Green Scare and the Radical Environmental Movement.

On Saturday, June 7th people from all over North America will gather together on a single day to discuss the threat against the radical environmental movement, the Green Scare, and how we can prevent impending ecological collapse. Due to technical difficulties, what was originally planned to be a live webcast with Derrick Jensen is now going to be a recorded interview followed by a discussion of eco-prisoner support.

This event will also be broadcast in multiple cities, including Portland, OR; Sacramento, CA; Chicago, IL; Minneapolis, MN; Bloomington, IN; Evansville, IN; Cincinnati, OH; Detroit, MI; Ann Arbor, MI; Lexington, KY; Washington, DC and New York, NY.

CANCELLED
Of Friends and Whirlwinds: Inquiry, Movements and other Wanderings

TransUS-
A Discussion on the State of North American Queer Feminist Activism

Christoph Fiedler and Elin Sandström Lundh, a pair of Swedish writers will present their findingsfrom their travels across the US and Canada interviewing people about the state of queer feminist activism in 2008. The interviews will be compiled into a book--part photo-essay, part interviews, part original texts by queer activists.

TransUS says, "Queer-feminist activism constitutes an enormous positive power in its constant evolvement and questioning of both queer-feminist theory and of society at large."

Throughout 2008, they have been travelling across the US and Canada, interviewing people involved in queer-feminist actions such as organizing festivals, starting bands, printing fanzines, doing art, arranging demonstrations or more day-to-day activism.

1968: 40 Years Later
A Film Series

The Weather Underground (2002, 92 min.) is an Oscar Nominated documentary that follows the rise and fall of the Weather Underground - a group of several hundred young women and men who tried to violently overthrow the American government during the late 1960s and 70s. Outraged by the Vietnam War and racism in America, the Weathermen battled police in the streets, bombed the US Capitol and two dozen other buildings, and broke Timothy Leary out of prison. For almost a decade, they lived underground and evaded one of the largest FBI manhunts in US history. In this film, former members of the Weather Underground speak candidly about their own thoughts and experiences­many for the first time ever. What drove the group to embrace violence? How did violence affect their cause? How did it change them? And how do they feel about their actions thirty years later?

Tuesday, June 24th
8:00 PM
MonkeyWrench Books
110 E. North Loop

Reading The Humanure Handbook.

monkeywrench will be selling books and teaching and learning some cool stuff at:

Skillshare Austin www.skillshareaustin.org
June 28-29, 10:30-6

SATURDAY 10:30 - 5:30
Parque Zaragosa Rec Center
2608 gonzales st.
www.ci.austin.tx.us/parks/zaragoza.htm

AND

SUNDAY
Rhizome
300 Allen St.
www.rhizomecollective.org.
(don't worry, we've got some plans up our sleeves to keep you cool)

learn some things like:
silkscreening
tattoo yourself
bike mechanics
kite making
self defense
homebrew
image editing
make sauerkraut
make a video
anarchist baby care
start a collective thrift store
crochet
gardening
sewing
movement for pain
soccer skills
be a dj
and more.