Speakers

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

CANCELLED
Of Friends and Whirlwinds: Inquiry, Movements and other Wanderings

"Mistaken Identities: Nation/Race/Gender"
A discussion with Robert Jensen of the themes in his last three books

• Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity, South End Press, 2007.
• The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege, City
Lights Books, 2005.
• Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity, City Lights
Books, 2004.

In these books, Jensen examines how nation, race, and gender affect our
understanding of ourselves, with a focus on the unjust systems of power and
privilege in which they are embedded. In each case he argues against the
dominant culture's ideology and for a politics of liberation.

Jensen is a journalism professor at the University of Texas at Austin and board
member of the Third Coast Activist Resource Center
http://thirdcoastactivist.org.

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Radical Publishing with the South End Press Collective

The Nuremburg trials represented what Justice Brandeis called "The sanitizing
effect of sunlight" and the triumph of justice over vengeance. Sixty-three
years later, we conduct trials behind closed doors at Guantanamo, where the
chief military prosecutor has resigned in protest and we have deeply compromised
the rule of law. What has changed? The world is watching. Bonnie
Tamres-Moore is a human rights activist working on the issue of US-supported torture.
She is a founding member of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture.

Interfaith Community for Palestinian Rights • www.icpr-austin.org

MonkeyWrench Books
110 E. North Loop (53rd St. at Ave. F)
for info or directions call 512-407-6925

In China and Tibet the upcoming Summer Olympics casts a spotlight on a
brutal government and occupying force. The speakers are from the Tibetan
Association of Austin & Falun Gong (Austin).
Amnesty International • www.amnestyaustin.org

MonkeyWrench Books
110 E. North Loop (53rd St. at Ave. F)
for info or directions call 512-407-6925

Guatemala, International Mining, and Autonomous Community Resistance
Saturday, May 3rd, 7:00pm
MonkeyWrench Books, 110. E. North Loop

Fausto Valiente Roberto de Leon represents the Pastoral Commission for Peace and Ecology (COPAE), and will speak about community struggles against gold and silver extraction in San Marcos, Guatemala. COPAE is an organization that has accompanied communities through community consultations in Sipakapa and other forms of resistance. COPAE works to monitor the health, social, and environmental affects of mining and supports community efforts to exert their right to autonomy against transnational corporations and create locally determined economic alternatives for development. In addition to discussing the devastating affects of mining on rural communities, Fausto will address how the international system and the neoliberal model facilitate the entry of Northern mining companies in Guatemala.

Participatory Economics: Alternatives to Corporate Capitalism
Case studies from Venezuela

a Lecture by: Robin Hahnel

Robin will speak about Parecon with a specific focus on contemporary examples from Venezuela's Bolivarian revolution.

Professor of economics at American University in Washington, DC, and author, with Michael Albert, of Looking Forward: Participatory Economics for the Twenty First Century and The Political Economy of Participatory Economics. He has written three other books analyzing the global economy Panic Rules! Everything You Need to Know About the Global Economy; The ABCs of Political Economy: A Modern Approach; and Economic Justice and Democracy: From Competition to Cooperation

Friday, March 28th
8 p.m.

MonkeyWrench Books
110 E. North Loop (corner of 53rd St and Ave F)
call 512-407-6925 for info or directions

ACLU OF TEXAS LEGAL DIRECTOR LISA GRAYBILL, ANSWERS QUESTIONS

l. Why, of all the complaints that come to local Texas chapters including our own, do you accept so very few to litigate? Why those?

2. Is the current administration "trashing the Constitution" --in Texas ? Nationally?

3. What does the ACLU of Texas docket show about our priorities?

Audience participation encouraged.

The forums are videotaped for later showing on T-W Access Channel 10. The program is called "Taking Liberties" and can be seen every Thursday 7-8 PM.

"Gold and Greed: North American Mining in Central America"
A Rights Action Speaking Tour with Carlos Amador Aleman and Sandra Cuffe

Carlos is a community organizer, educator and leader of the Siria Valley
Environmental Committee in Francisco Morazan, Honduras. His work includes working to expose the multiple violations and damage being caused by cyanide-leaching, open pit gold mining practiced in the region by the Vancouver-based Goldcorp (formerly Glamis Gold) mining company, and to promote and work for community controlled alternative development projects.

Sandra works with Rights Action and has lived and worked in Honduras for over three years, working on a wide range of development, environment and human rights issues with community organizations in Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador; Sandra has investigated and written extensively about the widespread environmental and human costs of North American mining operations in Honduras.

For more information contact Christopher Loperena at 512-300-3685
For directions to MonkeyWrench, call 512-407-6925

A Conversation on Global White Supremacy, Activism and Grassroots Alternatives to Neo-Liberalism

Charles R. Hale, professor of anthropology at UT-Austin and author of Mas Que un Indio: Racial Ambivalence & the Paradox of Multi-culturalism in Guatemala, will begin with a reflection on his work on race and ethnicity in Guatemala and Nicaragua.

Joao Costa Vargas, ass't professor of anthropology at UT-Austin and author of "Catching Hell in the City of Angels: Life and Meanings of Blackness in South Central Los Angeles will talk about the organized efforts of African-diasporic anti-racists in Los Angeles and Rio de Janeiro.

Both speakers will be available to sign books after the talk.