Events

Campaign to End the Death Penalty.
Family members of death row inmates tell their stories about the criminal injustice system. Featuring Sandra Reed, mother of Rodney Reed, innocent on death row; Lawrence Foster, grandfather of Kenneth Foster Jr., who came within hours of an execution before winning a commutation of his sentence; Jeannine Scott, wife of wrongly convicted Yogurt Shop defendant, Michael Scott; and Delia Perez Meyer, sister of falsely accused death row inmate, Louis Castro Perez

Discussing the humanure handbook and ecovillage related subjects.

Immigration, Detention, and Deportation.
Film screening of Hutto: America’s Family Prison with film-maker Matthew Gossage; organizers from Grassroots Leadership will speak about organizing against private immigrant detention centers. Also, members of the Austin Immigrant Rights Coalition will speak on the issue of ICE in the Travis County Jail.

Juvenile Justice
PODER, the east Austin environmental and economic justice organization, will address the issue of juvenile justice and current efforts to reform the Texas Youth Commission’s youth prisons

We're starting new book Toolbox for Sustainable City Living.

Come discuss topics related to ecovillages and sustainable living.

As consolidation and a lack of diversity in mass media grow in the U.S., a movement of media reformers, community media-makers and activists is resisting and standing in opposition to the corporate control of how we communicate. This past June, the National Conference on Media Reform in Minneapolis and the Allied Media Conference in Detroit were gathering spaces to address this important issue.

Local filmmaker and media producer Matt Gossage will report back on the issues covered at these two conferences and the national organizing movements which met there. This interactive discussion will focus on how the policies of media justice are crucial to all communities and social justice movements.

Abolitionism, Post-Racial Racism and Moving Beyond the Prison-Industrial Complex.
A discussion with Joy James, visiting Professor at UT’s Center for African and African American Studies. James is the editor of several anthologies by incarcerated activists and authors, including The New Abolitionists and Warfare in the American Homeland.

Live Nude Girls UNITE!
A documentary about strippers unionizing

This first person documentary follows Julia Query, lesbian/stand-up comedian/peepshow-stripper, and daughter of a feminist activist, on her raucous journey to help organize the only union of strippers in the United States. Shot on a variety of formats, Live Nude Girls Unite! weaves backstage and dancing footage with labor organizing, street protests, stand-up comedy and comic-book style "animation" making an intelligent and dramatic cutting-edge film.

MonkeyWrench Books Show/Benefit
Carousel Lounge
1150 E 52nd
(512) 452-6790

8pm Hao Chiang Chiang
8:45 Wax Museum Pandemonium
9:30 The Catfish Hunters
10:15 The Boxing Lesson
11pm Fiction
8pm till midnight

$5 suggested donation
http://www.carousellounge.net/

We're beginning to discuss Toolbox for Sustainable City Living among other ecovillage relate topics.