Events

« Week of August 24, 2008 »
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24	25 (event) Beyond the Bars: Local Struggles Against the Prison Industrial Complex (August 4-25th) Start: Aug 25 2008 8:00 pm Abolitionism, Post-Racial Racism and Moving Beyond the Prison-Industrial Complex. A discussion with Joy James, visiting Professor at UT’s Center for African and African American Studies. James is the editor of several anthologies by incarcerated activists and authors, including The New Abolitionists and Warfare in the American Homeland.	26	27 (event) Live Nude Girls UNITE! Start: Aug 27 2008 8:00 pm Live Nude Girls UNITE! A documentary about strippers unionizing This first person documentary follows Julia Query, lesbian/stand-up comedian/peepshow-stripper, and daughter of a feminist activist, on her raucous journey to help organize the only union of strippers in the United States. Shot on a variety of formats, Live Nude Girls Unite! weaves backstage and dancing footage with labor organizing, street protests, stand-up comedy and comic-book style "animation" making an intelligent and dramatic cutting-edge film.	28 (event) MonkeyWrench Books Show/Benefit Start: Aug 28 2008 8:00 pm MonkeyWrench Books Show/Benefit Carousel Lounge 1150 E 52nd (512) 452-6790 8pm Hao Chiang Chiang 8:45 Wax Museum Pandemonium 9:30 The Catfish Hunters 10:15 The Boxing Lesson 11pm Fiction 8pm till midnight $5 suggested donation http://www.carousellounge.net/	29	30

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