Esther Reyes, executive director of the Austin Immigrant Rights Coalition, will speak about the current status of the immigration reform legislation, identifying ways people can help put pressure on legislators to create a just immigration policy as well as contribute to local organizing and community building. The Austin Immigrant Rights Coalition promotes human rights and [...]

Legendary Detroit author/activist Grace Lee Boggs will speak and answer questions via Skype about her book The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century. The event, organized by the Beyond Capitalism Book Club, will begin with Boggs talking about the book and her ideas for visionary organizing , followed by Q&A. A daughter of Chinese [...]

Associate Producer Lynsey Jones is hosting a screening of “GrowthBusters: Hooked on Growth.” The film, described by director Dave Gardner as a full-frontal assault on the “taboos, myths and greedy growth profiteers that keep us speeding toward a cliff,” features interviews with former World Bank economist Herman Daly, former presidential advisors Gus Speth and Robert [...]

“Schooling the World: The White Man’s Last Burden” takes a challenging, sometimes funny, ultimately deeply troubling look at the role played by modern education in the destruction of the world’s last sustainable indigenous cultures. Examining the hidden assumption of cultural superiority behind education aid projects, the film looks at the failure of institutional education to [...]

NEW DAY: Tuesday, July 2, 6 pm Reporters from local publications will discuss the work of the Texas Legislature. Texas Observer editor Dave Mann will moderate the panel of Patrick Michels (Texas Observer), Aman Batheja (Texas Tribune), Richard Whittaker (Austin Chronicle), and Erica Grieder (Texas Monthly). RSVP to walthall@texasobserver.org. NEW LOCATION: North Door Studios, 501 [...]

In this workshop on how activists can take better photos, John Anderson will cover the basics of taking good photos, covering events, ethical/legal concerns, and the role of photojournalists in activism. Anderson also will show some of his work documenting Occupy Austin, using those photos to explain the process of photographing the work of activists. [...]

This fundraiser for Austin Tan Cerca de la Frontera’s legal fund and their Mexican partners, the Border Committee of Workers, will feature a short film, food, live music, and dancing. There also will be brief presentations by members of a solidarity delegation who were arrested in April while visiting Mexican maquiladora workers in Ciudad Acuña. [...]

Director Joshua Tucker will be on hand for the Austin premiere of “We Can’t Eat Gold: An Alaskan Documentary,” which follows the efforts of Alaska Natives to defend the world’s largest salmon runs from the proposed Pebble Mine. President Obama has the power to direct the Environmental Protection Agency to use its authority under the [...]

Grassroots Leadership and Texans United for Families will be leading a second vigil and protest outside of the IAH Polk Secure Adult Detention Center calling for its immediate closure. The Polk County center is one of the worst immigrant prisons in the U.S., with acute and chronic human rights violations. This event is part of [...]

This pilgrimage to Casa Marianella, a local immigrant shelter, is a call to solidarity with immigrants and is designed to promote understanding of the challenges faced by immigrants when they leave their home countries and come to the United States. Please RSVP to Courtney Greene, cgoike@gmail.com, for more information. Location: Starting at Our Lady of [...]