Sunny Day Farms is a farm animal sanctuary and 501(c)3 non-profit just west of San Antonio. The woman who runs it, Brooke, does a fantastic job caring for animals that would otherwise be slaughtered or euthanized.
Recently, SDF and its perpetually meager budget has experienced even more turmoil. The drought has caused hay prices to nearly double, putting a tough financial strain on the organization.
While Sunny Day has enough to get through the month, we would like to do more. In May, members of Vegans Rock Austin (VeganAustin.org) organized a bakesale for them that raised over $1000. We would really like to duplicate that if we could, if not raise more.
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.
Hungry? Need Dinner?
Come out, Eat, and support the Texas Gay Straight Alliance Network
QUEER YOUTH BENEFIT DINNER
We will be serving Vegetarian Tamales!
Right now, the Network is preparing for its upcoming 2010 Activist Camp. The camp will allow queer and allied youth from all over the state of Texas to network, educate and learn from each other. Plus have a kick-ass time! The camp will not only form strong relationships between participants but will also generate new youth leaders through empowerment. However, to make the camp possible we need the your help!
Please come to our Tamale Dinner and show your support for Queer Youth!
Donation price for 3 Tamales and Rice and Beans will be $7-15. Pay what you can!
Join Monkey Wrench Books at the House of Commons co-op (2610 Rio Grande St.) for a fancy, all-vegan benefit dinner catered by Café Rebelde. Plates will be served for a mere $10-20 sliding donation, which includes drinks and the opportunity to support Austin's only all-volunteer, collectively-run radical bookstore.
Attendees will also have the opportunity to participate in our raffle for a chance to win a variety of prizes. We will be seating people at 7:30pm and again at 8:15pm.
And when you’re finished eating, stick around and get down with live music by The Eastern Sea, Literature and Ghost Mountain!
If you're interested in attending the dinner, please RSVP at: rsvp.mwb@gmail.com.
Join us at Monkey Wrench for an evening of food, drinks, music and dialogue to help raise funds for Mamas of Color Rising (http://mamasofcolorrising.wordpress.com), a collective of working class mothers of color organizing around accessibility to food, housing, education, and safety in Austin, TX. Come support the Mamas in their efforts to get involved in the New Mythos Project (http://truthandhealingproject.wordpress.com/new-mythos-project/), a national grassroots network of mamaz and community caretakers that includes a northeast to southwest tour and a convening at the Allied Media Conference (alliedmediaconference.org)--hopefully to include sending some of the Mamas collective.
The Mamas will be giving a report back of the tour and update of the local Mamas project.
Please join Fair Food Austin for a delicious tamale dinner fundraiser -- including a report from the Coalition of Immokalee Workers' "Modern-Day Slavery Museum" tour and a preview of the upcoming Farmworker Freedom March from Tampa to Lakeland, Florida!
The event will include a vegetarian tamale dinner option available via RSVP for a sliding scale cost of $7-$15. However, dining with us is not reciw-sfaquired, so please feel free to attend the presentation itself, which is free and open to the public, and also kicks off at 7pm. Proceeds will help defray travel costs for the fifteen Austinites joining the three-day march in Florida. To RSVP or to find out more information about the caravan from Austin, email sfaatx@gmail.com.
On July 27, beginning at 11am, Monkey Wrench will play host to Austin's contribution to the World Wide Vegan Bake Sale. Come share vegan treats with Food Not Bombs, Austin Pets Alive, and the Monkey Wrench Collective. For more info on the bake sale worldwide, go here: http://www.veganbakesale.org/veganbakesale/index.html
Come by and buy a book for some summer reading! Many titles will be discounted. We are also having a yard sale, so if you have any items to donate please come by to drop them off starting August 1st.
The fun starts at 8am Sunday August 3rd and will last all day. Come out and support your friendly, local, all-volunteer bookstore!
Doug Zachary, Viet Nam War resister and President of the Austin chapter of Veterans For Peace (VFP), will share the music and prophecy of recently deceased VFP Lifetime Member Utah Phillips and open a discussion concerning the relationship between Militarism and Anarchy. Utah was a world-renown singer-songwriter and a long-time member of the Catholic Worker and the Industrial Workers of the World. As an enlisted soldier in the United States Army, he deserted while stationed in Korea and sought out the Korea House, where progressives of many stripes were working to humanize the relations between Koreans and United States military personnel. His exposure there led him into a lifetime of enquiry into the nature of patriarchal and capitalist oppression and into his struggle for peace and justice. Come and honor Utah and help us to imagine better relations between ourselves, the means of production, and the Earth.
