Events

Documentarian Anne Lewis presents her acclaimed film Morristown.

Morristown: in the air and sun is a working class response to globalization. It engages the audience in the issues of immigration, factory flight, and the organized demand for economic justice.

Filmed over an 8-year period in the mountains of east Tennessee, interior Mexico, and Ciudad Juarez, Morristown: in the air and sun is rooted in the authentic expression of workers who speak about their lives, work, disappointments, and hope. These conversations are combined with scenes in factories, fields, union halls, Mexican stores, city parks, and employment agencies. The documentary travels to the U.S.-Mexican border (El Paso – Juarez) to create deeper understanding of factory flight out of Morristown, and to interior Mexico to look at the forces that cause immigration. Morristown ends with a stunning union victory at a large poultry processing plant in Morristown, Tennessee.

Colombia Support Network presents:
Who Shot My Brother?

In this award-winning documentary, filmmaker German Gutierrez investigates an
assassination attempt on his brother, and uncovers Colombia's complex history
of violence, resistance, U.S. intervention and the drug trade. This film is
both moving and beautiful. It is a must see for those interested in what is
going on in Latin America.

Colombia Support Network: Austin Chapter meeting to follow.

Friday, September 26th, 2008
7-9 PM
Monkey Wrench Books
110 E. North Loop
Austin TX 78751

Themes: Singularity, Transhumanism, Other Stuff."

Award-winning author and filmmaker Frank B. Wilderson, III was born in 1956. Originally from New Orleans, his family moved when he was six to Minneapolis, where they became the first Black homeowners in Kenwood. Both his parents were psychologists, and their academic careers moved the family through Chicago, Detroit, and eventually Berkeley, where Wilderson came of age under tutelage of the Black Power and student movements. In the late 1970s and 1980s he studied and taught poetry and fiction at The Loft Literary Center. He left Minneapolis again in 1989 to pursue an MFA in creative writing at Columbia University; later that same year he went to South Africa for the first time on a research trip funded by the Jerome Foundation on a grant for emerging artists.

Friends,

This Sunday, October 8, and every 1st Sunday,
Monkey Wrench Books is hosting:

Indigenous Children's Story Hour
at 1:00 PM.

This week we are featuring a Guatamalan Legend,
The Humming Bird King

We will have snacks, stories & activities.

Also this week, our friend & Aerospace Engineer Prof. Cesar Ocampo
will bring his amazing Helio-Telescope and give us all a chance to
look at the Sun!!

Dont miss a rare opportunity. Come to story hour, have snacks,
see the Sun, meet other rad parents & kids.

Hope to see you there!

Contact: info@austintimeexchange.org

"The Austin Time Exchange Network (ATEN), a grassroots, community program, enables individuals to exchange services with one another by sharing skills within a network of people in Greater Austin. It is a local exchange system designed to validate and reward the work of respecting equality and rebuilding community while providing an alternative means for its members to meet their needs. The goal of ATEN is to serve as a bridge between people from different economic, social, and ethnic backgrounds by providing the opportunity for interaction through the exchanging of services. All of this aims to encourage systemic social change, economic equality, and community empowerment in Austin."

Eliot M. Tretter, PhD, Lecturer in the Department of Geography and the Environment will give a lecture that on the recent economic events that address the causes and prospects for an alternative economic future.

Ecovillage reading group discussion meeting. Current is the Toolbox for Sustainable City Living by Scott Kellogg and Stacy Pettigrew.

The Ecovillage reading group reads roughly one book every month or two on the topics related to Ecovillages, natural building, sustainable energy and permaculture. The group meets every other wednesday at MonkeyWrench books to discuss the current book and related topics.

Contact: info@austintimeexchange.org

"The Austin Time Exchange Network (ATEN), a grassroots, community program, enables individuals to exchange services with one another by sharing skills within a network of people in Greater Austin. It is a local exchange system designed to validate and reward the work of respecting equality and rebuilding community while providing an alternative means for its members to meet their needs. The goal of ATEN is to serve as a bridge between people from different economic, social, and ethnic backgrounds by providing the opportunity for interaction through the exchanging of services. All of this aims to encourage systemic social change, economic equality, and community empowerment in Austin."

Monday, October 20th, 7pm,at Monkeywrench Books (110 E. North Loop)

Jordan Flaherty (Left Turn, Colorlines)talking about the links between the struggle for justice in the rebuilding of New Orleans, and struggles people are facing everywhere around housing, health care, and criminal justice.

Jesse Muhammad (Final Call) sharing his first-hand experiences as a journalist that helped bring the story of the case of the Jena Six to a national audience.

Hadassah Hill ($pread Magazine) performing as her alter ego, Axon D'Luxe.
We'll also have Davey D, Hip Hop historian and journalist, Iris Rodriguez of La Nueva Raza, and Freestyling by Austin’s Gnostic Prophet.

The Gadabout Traveling Film Festival features independent short films, a full art show featuring artists from the radical arts collective Just Seeds (www.justseeds.org), and live music with Halo Fauna, rock from NY.

Contact: info@austintimeexchange.org

"The Austin Time Exchange Network (ATEN), a grassroots, community program, enables individuals to exchange services with one another by sharing skills within a network of people in Greater Austin. It is a local exchange system designed to validate and reward the work of respecting equality and rebuilding community while providing an alternative means for its members to meet their needs. The goal of ATEN is to serve as a bridge between people from different economic, social, and ethnic backgrounds by providing the opportunity for interaction through the exchanging of services. All of this aims to encourage systemic social change, economic equality, and community empowerment in Austin."