Fund Raiser

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.

Suggested donation $5-25

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

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/

Monkey Wrench is having a book and yard sale!

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.

Black Star Co-op’s monthly beer social returns to the backyard of
MonkeyWrench Books on Saturday, June 16th. Come out to relax in the
backyard, enjoy a pint, and learn more about the Co-op.

What: June Beer Social
Where: 110 E North Loop
When: Saturday, June 16th, 7-10PM
What to bring: Chairs, Friends, and Thirst!

Note: Please do not park on the North Loop strip.

Celebrate MonkeyWrench Books' 5th Anniversary

Come on out and celebrate five years of all-volunteer, collectively-organized non-profit radical book-selling and community space providing!

Join us for a great show with five great bands:

Attic Ted,
Perennial Tuesday
Yatsuzaki [2012]
Many Birthdays
Wax Museum Pandemonium

Thursday, April 26th
Doors at 7pm
at
The Carousel Lounge
1110 E. 52nd Street (Corner of Cameron & 52nd just east of I-35)

5$ donation requested at the door