The event will include a discussion about the Coalition of Immokalee Workers' recent victories\, as well as the poor working conditions tomato pickers face in the fields of southwest Florida.
A blurb about the movie Fast Food Nation\:
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T171207Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090404T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090405T010000Z UID:http://www.monkeywrenchbooks.org/events/female-empowered-erotica-reading-elva-maxine-beach-susan-stockton-and-prudence-arceneaux URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.monkeywrenchbooks.org/events/female-empowered-erotica-reading-elva-maxine-beach-susan-stockton-and-prudence-arceneaux SUMMARY:Female Empowered Erotica Reading with Elva Maxine Beach\, Susan Stockton\, and Prudence Arceneaux END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T171207Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090405T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090405T190000Z UID:http://www.monkeywrenchbooks.org/events/help-build-community-garden-monkeywrench URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.monkeywrenchbooks.org/events/help-build-community-garden-monkeywrench SUMMARY:Help Build a Community Garden at MonkeyWrench! DESCRIPTION:Building Community\: As part of Alma’s Sustainable Communities Program\, Ana-Maurine Lara brings her experience with strengthening community self-determination through urban gardening and information-sharing to Alma de Mujer’s Earth Box Project. Sites around Austin\, including PODER\, Resistencia\, and now MonkeyWrench will be new sites of Alma Earth Boxes.
On Sunday\, April 5\, at 10am\, community members\, MonkeyWrench volunteers\, and everyone who’s interested are invited to learn about each other and about urban gardening as we build an Earth Box with Ana-Maurine Lara.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T171207Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090405T180000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090405T200000Z UID:http://www.monkeywrenchbooks.org/events/monkey-wrench-books-kids-story-hour-presents-reading-julia-mickenberg URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.monkeywrenchbooks.org/events/monkey-wrench-books-kids-story-hour-presents-reading-julia-mickenberg SUMMARY:Monkey Wrench Books' Kid's Story Hour presents a reading by Julia Mickenberg DESCRIPTION:Juliea Mickenberg will join us to read from her Tales for Little Rebels\: A Collection of Radical Children's Literature. Story Hour is held every 1st Sunday of the month at at 1pm. Come by for stories\, snacks\, and activities.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T171207Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090409T010000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090409T030000Z UID:http://www.monkeywrenchbooks.org/events/morristown-air-and-sun-part-immigrant-rights-film-series URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.monkeywrenchbooks.org/events/morristown-air-and-sun-part-immigrant-rights-film-series SUMMARY:\\"Morristown\: In the air and sun\\" as part of Immigrant Rights Film Series DESCRIPTION:Morristown\: In the air and sun (2007). Filmed over an 8-year period in the mountains of east Tennessee\, interior Mexico\, and Ciudad Juarez\, Morristown\: in the air and sun is rooted in the authentic expression of workers who speak about their lives\, work\, disappointments\, and hope. These conversations are combined with scenes in factories\, fields\, union halls\, Mexican stores\, city parks\, and employment agencies. The documentary travels to the U.S.-Mexican border (El Paso - Juarez) to create deeper understanding of factory flight out of Morristown\, and to interior Mexico to look at the forces that cause immigration. Filmmaker Anne Lewis will lead a discussion after the film.
Please join the Austin Immigrant Rights Coalition Wednesdays in April at MonkeyWrench Books (110 E. North Loop) for an Immigrant Rights film series. Donations collected at each film screening will support the work of the Austin Immigrant Rights Coalition.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T171207Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090410T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090410T020000Z UID:http://www.monkeywrenchbooks.org/events/food-justice-series-concentration-power-global-food-system URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.monkeywrenchbooks.org/events/food-justice-series-concentration-power-global-food-system SUMMARY:Food Justice Series\: Concentration of Power in the Global Food System DESCRIPTION:Discussion on how free trade agreements -- partnerships between governments and corporations -- centralize food production and concentrate market power.
* Paul Martin\, Siempre Sustainable Network
* Carmen Llanes\, PODER &\; Texas Fair Trade Coalition
* Eva Hershaw\, Photojournalist
* Moderator\: Sthea Mason\, American Friends Service Committee
Come join us to discuss our FIRST round of topics\: Situationism and the revolution of everyday life! If that isn't exciting enough\, selected books will be discounted 15% for members of the book group. This book group is young and vulnerable to new ideas so come and give it what you got.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T171207Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090416T010000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090416T030000Z UID:http://www.monkeywrenchbooks.org/events/los-trabajadoresthe-workers-part-immigrant-rights-film-series URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.monkeywrenchbooks.org/events/los-trabajadoresthe-workers-part-immigrant-rights-film-series SUMMARY:\\"Los Trabajadores/The Workers\\" as part of Immigrant Rights Film Series DESCRIPTION:Los Trabajadores/The Workers - Through the words of immigrant workers and the families they've left behind\, Los Trabajadores /The Workers tells the stories of workers at an Austin\, Texas day labor site. It places their struggles and contributions in the context of the City's economic development\, and reveals the impact of globalization on their lives. Filmmaker Heather Courtney will be in attendance for a discussion.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T171207Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090417T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090417T020000Z UID:http://www.monkeywrenchbooks.org/events/food-justice-series-fair-food-across-borders URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.monkeywrenchbooks.org/events/food-justice-series-fair-food-across-borders SUMMARY:Food Justice Series\: Fair Food Across Borders DESCRIPTION:Film screening (\\"Paying the Price\\") and discussion on migrant agricultural workers in the U.S. and Mexico.
* Melody Gonzalez\, Chiapas Media Project
* Fair Food Austin
* Moderator\: Cristina Tzintzún\, Workers Defense Project
\\"His Girl Friday\\" is a 1940 screwball comedy\, a remake of the 1931 film The Front Page\, which is an adaptation by Charles Lederer\, Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur of their play of the same name. The \\"twist\\" to His Girl Friday is that the one of the lead roles was converted from a man to a woman. The film stars Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell and features Ralph Bellamy. It was directed by Howard Hawks and is noted for the rapid-fire pace of its dialogue.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T171207Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090423T010000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090423T030000Z UID:http://www.monkeywrenchbooks.org/events/mojados-through-night-part-immigrant-rights-film-series URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.monkeywrenchbooks.org/events/mojados-through-night-part-immigrant-rights-film-series SUMMARY:\\"Mojados\: Through the Night\\" as part of Immigrant Rights Film Series DESCRIPTION:Mojados\: Through the Night (2004) - Director Tommy Davis tags along with four migrants from a small village in Mexico as they leave their families and embark on a 120 mile trek across the deserts of Texas\, attempting to evade the U.S. Border Patrol. They must overcome dehydration\, hypothermia and come face to face with death. The film will be followed by a discussion of the border wall and its impact on migrants' safety.
Please join the Austin Immigrant Rights Coalition Wednesdays in April at MonkeyWrench Books (110 E. North Loop) for an Immigrant Rights film series. Donations collected at each film screening will support the work of the Austin Immigrant Rights Coalition.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T171207Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090425T010000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090425T030000Z UID:http://www.monkeywrenchbooks.org/events/multimedia-presentation-author-seth-tobocman-his-new-book-disaster-and-resistance URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.monkeywrenchbooks.org/events/multimedia-presentation-author-seth-tobocman-his-new-book-disaster-and-resistance SUMMARY:Multimedia presentation by author Seth Tobocman on his new book\, Disaster and Resistance DESCRIPTION:Disaster and Resistance\: Comics &\; Landscapes for the 21st Century by Seth Tobocman
Published by AK Press
Would you like to learn how to become Austin Energy's \\"Worst Nightmare?\\" How would you like to take a $12\,000 whole-house rainwater catchment system design &\; ratchet it down to $500? Join do-it-yourself-er Doc Jody\, Winner\, Barton Springs/Edwards Aquifer Conservation District Groundwater \\"End-User\\" Stewardship Award-- discussing how she's been drinking rainwater employing a 6-step filtration/purification system she designed &\; self-installed. Doc Jody is the designated \\"Lowest End-User Water Consumer\\" in the City of Sunset Valley. In a 2\,103 sq.ft. home with NO SOLAR\, Doc Jody's Ariel PermaCulture House has been \\"racking down\\" $72 average TOTAL monthly utility bills (elec-water-gas-sewage-trash) 10+ years. Learn how these amazing feats are being accomplished with a little know-how\, determination\, \\"sacrifice\\" &\; a whole \\"lotta\\" integrity. Live sustainably\, live peaceably. Keep Austin Green.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T171207Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090430T010000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090430T030000Z UID:http://www.monkeywrenchbooks.org/events/collected-immigration-short-films-part-immigrant-rights-film-series URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.monkeywrenchbooks.org/events/collected-immigration-short-films-part-immigrant-rights-film-series SUMMARY:Collected immigration short films as part of Immigrant Rights Film Series DESCRIPTION:Collected immigration shorts featuring Hutto\: America's Family Prison and other short films exploring migration and the struggle for immigrant rights. Hutto filmmaker Matt Gossage will be in attendance along with local activists to discuss upcoming actions.
Please join the Austin Immigrant Rights Coalition Wednesdays in April at MonkeyWrench Books (110 E. North Loop) for an Immigrant Rights film series. Donations collected at each film screening will support the work of the Austin Immigrant Rights Coalition.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T171207Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090501T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090501T020000Z UID:http://www.monkeywrenchbooks.org/events/food-justice-series-building-local-food-systems URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.monkeywrenchbooks.org/events/food-justice-series-building-local-food-systems SUMMARY:Food Justice Series\: Building Local Food Systems DESCRIPTION:Meet individuals and organizations in Austin that are contributing to food access\, efficacy and awareness that helps make a local\, sustainable food system possible.
* Andrew Smiley\, Sustainable Food Center
* Youth participants\, Urban Roots
* Erin Flynn and Skip Connett\, Green Gate Farms
* Moderator\: Marla Camp\, Edible Austin