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"Coal Country" Screening

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:30:18 -0600

Start: Mar 14 2010 - 7:00pm

End: Mar 14 2010 - 7:00pm

Join us for a screening of the documentary "Coal Country." Passions are running high in the mountains of Appalachia. Families and communities are deeply split over what is being done to their land. At issue is the latest form of strip mining called ‘mountaintop removal’, or MTR. Coal companies blast the tops off mountains, and run the debris into valleys and streams. Then they mine the exposed seams of coal and transport it to processing plants. Coal is mined more cheaply than ever, and America needs coal. But the air and water are filled with chemicals, and an ancient mountain range is disappearing forever.

Author/Director Casimiro de la Cruz presents "Narry" (tortilla)

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:07:40 -0600

Start: Mar 15 2010 - 7:00pm

End: Mar 15 2010 - 9:00pm

Author/artist Casimiro De la Cruz, who lives in the central Sierra indigenous Huichol community in Mexico, will be showing his film, "Narry," and presenting his original Huichol art.

Casimiro is an artist, cultural promoter, illustrator, filmaker & musician, who recently joined the band, "El venado Azul".

For more information about Casimiro and his art, see the following link: http://www.cafepress.com/tekayuawy

Breakfast shows - free music at MonkeyWrench!!

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:25:00 -0600

Start: Mar 18 2010 - 12:00pm

End: Mar 18 2010 - 4:00pm

Come out and see some amazing bands at MonkeyWrench! Here's the line-up:

Chicken Little (Nashville, TN) 12:00
Your 33 Black Angels (New York, NY) - 12:45
Gold Lake (Madrid, Spain via Brooklyn, NY) - 1:30
Peter and the Wolf (Austin, TX) - 2:15
The Eastern Sea (Austin, TX) 3:00

The shows are free, but we'll be selling books and taking donations, so come on out!

Mad MademZ Meeting & Potluck

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:13:06 -0600

Start: Mar 18 2010 - 7:00pm

End: Mar 18 2010 - 9:00pm

Bring your favorite vegan dish and graze, chat, and share with other female-identifiers. Yum!

Breakfast shows - Free Music at MonkeyWrench!!

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:19:51 -0600

Start: Mar 19 2010 - 12:00pm

End: Mar 19 2010 - 4:00pm

An out-of-this-world line-up. All starting at high noon!

Loup Garoux 12:00 (NOLA)
Hurray for the Riff Raff 12:40 (NOLA)
No Mas Bodas 1:30 (Austin, TX)
Bad Credit No Credit 2:15 (Brooklyn, NY)
Munch Munch 3:15 (Bristol, UK)

Why not!?!

"Crude" Film Screening

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:51:36 -0600

Start: Mar 21 2010 - 7:30pm

End: Mar 21 2010 - 10:00pm

Please join us for a screening of "Crude."

The film documents not only the devastation Chevron (then Texaco) has
wrought on the region, but also the communities’ 16-year struggle for
justice in the Ecuadorean court system.

The feature will be shown outside if good weather prevails so bring
blankets and chairs for comfort; or indoors if conditions don't allow
where setting will be provided. The show starts at 7:30pm with music
videos, short documentaries and viral vids with the main attraction
beginning at 8:00pm to be followed by open discussion. All are welcome as
the event is free and open to the public.

"The Price of Sugar" Film Screening

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:18:08 -0600

Start: Mar 24 2010 - 7:30pm

End: Mar 24 2010 - 7:30pm

Austin Amnesty International group shows a documentary that raises key questions about where the products we consume originate and at what cost? In the Dominican Republic, a tropical island-nation, tourists flock to pristine beaches unaware that a few miles away thousands of dispossessed Haitians have toiled under armed-guard on plantations harvesting sugarcane, much of which ends up in U.S. kitchens. They work grueling hours and frequently lack decent housing, clean water, electricity, education or healthcare. Narrated by Paul Newman, "The Price of Sugar" follows Father Christopher Hartley, a charismatic Spanish priest, as he organizes some of this hemisphere's poorest people to fight for their basic human rights.

"Miami Model" Film Screening

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:17:32 -0600

Start: Mar 25 2010 - 7:30pm

End: Mar 25 2010 - 7:30pm

Join us for the Indymedia documentary "Miami Model" screening. The film explores the tactics employed by law enforcement agencies during demonstrations in Miami, Florida relating to the negotiations for the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) trade agreement in November 2003. The term "Miami Model" refers to the distinctive features of crowd control technique used in Miami, which included large scale pre-emptive arrests, heavily armed sometimes unidentifiable law enforcement, the collection of intelligence from protesters, and the "embedding" of corporate media with the police. Miami-Dade State Attorney Kathy Fernandez Rundle responded to allegations of police brutality saying "The police were very professional, very controlled... I think we have a model here for the rest of the world to emulate in the future when these sort of events take place."

Loose Lips Queer Open Mic

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 18:19:59 -0600

Start: Mar 26 2010 - 7:30pm

End: Mar 26 2010 - 10:00pm

The Queer Sol Collective presents Loose Lips: Speak out, Lash out, Act out.
Loose LIps is a Queer open mic night hosted by Austin based arts collective, Queer Sol. Come support local poets and musicians and queer artistic expression. Expect to be moved, expect a packed house, expect the unexpected, but above all come with an open mind and ear.

All donations from the event will go to the Queer Sol collective, a multidisciplinary artist collective founded by Queer People of Color to explore our diverse abilities, and share our experiences. Queer Sol seeks to provide a safe space for queer identified people of color and their allies to meet, dialogue, connect, and enact social change through artistic means.

Meet us in the MWB backyard and feel free to BYOB!

"Death and Taxes" Screening and Talk by ACOMT (Austin Conscientious Objectors to Military Taxation)

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:12:32 -0600

Start: Apr 8 2010 - 7:30pm

End: Apr 8 2010 - 9:30pm

We all know that war sucks! So how can we, U.S. taxpayers, refuse to support wars through our taxes? Austin Conscientious Objectors to Military Taxation (ACOMT) will tell us how! In the documentary "Death and Taxes," people around the U.S. talk about why and how they resist paying taxes for war and where that choice takes them.