Events

Join us and members of Treasure City Thrift for a discussion on the global trade system and how we can empower ourselves to build sustainable and just alternatives to corporate globalization. In addition to the discussion, we will be screening a documentary "China Blue," which takes viewers inside a blue jean factory in southern China.

Treasure City Thrift is a collectively run thrift store that is dedicated to transforming waste into resources which benefit our community. They also seek to provide alternative strategies and environments for the Austin community to learn about horizontal and consent based organizing.

The monthly "Meet a Community Group" series is put together to help bring supporters and community members together with local organizations working on various issues in the Austin area.

www.treasurecitythrift.org

Join us for a screening of ¡Palante, Siempre Palante! The Young Lords, a documentary by former Young Lord, Iris Morales

In the midst of the African American liberation struggle, protests to end the Vietnam War and the women's movement for equality, Puerto Rican and Latino/a communities fought for economic, racial and social justice. From Chicago streets to the barrios of New York City and other urban centers, the Young Lords emerged to demand decent living conditions and raised a militant voice for the empowerment of Puerto Ricans and other Latino/as in the United States and for the independence of Puerto Rico.

MonkeyWrench hosts a free screening of "The Visitor" - the 2008 screenplay that focuses on a lonely professor in late middle age whose life changes when he makes a connection with an immigrant who is subsequently placed in detention and deportation preceedings in post-9/11 New York City. For The Visitor, Thomas McCarthy won the 2008 Independent Spirit Award for Best Director, while Richard Jenkins was nominated for Best Actor in the 2009 Academy Awards.

The screening will be followed by a presentation by the Hutto Visitation Program which arranges a visitation program for women detained at the T. Don Hutto immigrant detention center in Taylor, Texas.

Shhhh. It's a Secret Cafe fundraiser for the newly revived Austin Indymedia!

Join us for a delicious vegan dinner served by the Austin Indymedia collective. Austin IMC is part of a global, grassroots media collective committed to providing an outlet for the circulation of voices and messages that are systematically marginalized by mainstream media. IMC allows for open publishing, encourages community collaboration, and helps open access to the tools necessary to engage in grassroots media-making.

Dinner will be served at 2105 Comal Street at 7 pm and is donation-based.

Please RSVP for yourself and your guest by emailing recognizeyourchains@riseup.net

Join the newly revived Austin Indymedia for the first public meeting!

Austin Indymedia is part of a global, grassroots media collective committed to providing an outlet for the circulation of voices and messages that are systematically marginalized by mainstream media. Austin Indymedia allows for open publishing, encourages community collaboration, and helps open access to the tools necessary to engage in grassroots media-making.

Journalists, filmmakers, photographers, web designers, media makers and users, those interested in learning and everyone in between in welcome to come and learn more about Indymedia!

What happens when a struggling rural community tries to revive its economy by inviting prisons in? The story of four families living in a modern-day prison town, as told in "Prison Town, USA," is a riveting look at one of the most striking phenomena of our times: a prison-building and incarceration boom unprecedented in American history.

Please join us for the documentary "Prison Town, USA" and a post-screening discussion with members of Grassroots Leadership on the impact of prison expansion on rural communities in Texas.

This event is a collaboration with the award-winning documentary series P.O.V. (www.pbs.org/pov).