Events

There is a scientific consensus that we need to stop the rise of emissions by 2015 or nature will soon take over. After this we will only witness what nature has in store for us. To avert this catastrophe we need to pass a very good US bill this summer which, hopefully will be followed by a very good UN agreement this coming December in Copenhagen. Jere Locke, Director of Texas Climate Emergency Campaign (TCEC) will talk about the latest science, nature's timelines and what we need to accomplish legislatively. TCEC works in 12 congressional districts building coalitions in advance of the coming vote on the national bill.

Austin Creative Code will be having a meet-up at MonkeyWrench Books. Austin Creative Code is an informal group in Austin Texas that helps artists learn to program, and empowers them to build interactivity into their artwork. Bring simple project ideas and we'll try to help you get started! More info: http://austincreativecode.net/

Simón Sedillo is a chicano community rights defense organizer and a documentary film-maker whose work has centered on placing skills, cameras and editing equipment in the hands of communities in resistance so that they may be able to document their own histories of struggle. Sedillo has spent the last 6 years documenting and teaching community based video documentation in Mexico, in immigrant communities, and with youth of color across the US. Sedillo is currently on tour screening short film segments, from Oaxaca and Chiapas, produced by a new Oaxacan media cooperative, manovuelta.net. Sedillo recently helped uncover a military funding scandal at Kansas University, in Lawrence Kansas wherein the geography department was working in collaboration with the Department of Defense to map communally held indigenous land in Oaxaca. He will also be sharing his latest investigative research into the mater.

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.

The next meeting will go even deeper into "The Revolution of Everyday Life" (chapters 20, 22, 23). Buy a copy at the store or click on the link for the material.

We meet every other Tuesday night at 8pm-10pm ish.

Alice Embree, who joined a delegation headed by the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES) to El Salvador during the most recent presidential election, will give a presentation on her experience.