[AGL] These sound like terrific events. Gail Collins--MUST MAKE IT

[Frances Morey]

AUSTIN AREA EVENTS (facebook link)
Index: Click on an event title to jump to its entry, or scroll down to see them all.
Oct Friday nights "Cooperative Enterprises Build a Better World" film series
Oct 6 Occupy Austin at City Hall
Oct 6 Budget cuts and women's health
Oct 9 David Cobb on "Creating Democracy and Challenging Corporate Rule"
Oct 9 Screening of "Bhopali" and discussion with director
Oct 11 "Are the Pigs Alright?" A Conversation with Texas Observer's Melissa del Bosque Oct 13 Gail Collins on "When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present"
Oct 13 Austin Permaculture Guild classes
Oct 20 Screening of "Flow: For Love of Water"
Oct 21 Inside Books Project hosts a free screening of "Cool Hand Luke"
Oct 22 12th annual march to abolish the death penalty
Oct 23 Sustainable Food Forum
Oct 24 Craig Aaron of Free Press on creating a more democratic media
Oct 26 Freedom Fighters speak on reforming criminal justice system 
Oct Friday nights 
7 pm
"Cooperative Enterprises Build a Better World" 
film series
Each October, cooperatives across the United States celebrate the contributions of cooperatives to their communities and the distinctive business model that makes it possible. For this year's Co-op Month, Third Coast Workers for Cooperation will be celebrating the theme, "Cooperative Enterprises Build a Better World" with a film series focused on worker-owned cooperatives. There will be snacks before the film and discussion after.
October 7, 7 pm - "Civilizing the Economy: The Co-op Alternative" This film examines the phenomenal success of Emilia Romagna in northern Italy, one of the world's most successful example of a co-operative economy. Emilia Romagna, with Bologna its capital, generates 45 percent of its GDP from co-ops in food production and distribution (including their own supermarkets), cement manufacturing and construction, ceramics and machinery, and many other manufacturing sectors.
October 14, 7 pm - "The Take" This documentary by Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein shows how workers in Argentina took over the factories abandoned by their previous owners in the wake of the 2001 economic meltdown putting them under worker self-management. The film follows 30 unemployed auto-parts workers who walk into their idle factory, roll out sleeping mats and refuse to leave until they can re-start the silent machines.
October 21, 7 pm - "Beyond the Bottom Line: American Worker Cooperatives" This documentary puts a twist on the American Dream -- businesses in which workers own the stock, reap the profits and decide for themselves how the company runs. It is the story of worker-entrepreneurs in dozens of communities and nearly every kind of business, from manufacturing to health care to high tech. Some are tiny firms, while others employ hundreds and record millions of dollars in yearly revenues.
October 28, 7 pm - "Corazon de Fabrica" This film looks at the life of a group of workers from the Argentinean Patagonia who fight to stop the deaths and accidents that happen in the factory where they work. They live complex and dangerous conflicts that require more and more commitment, which dramatically changes their perception of the world.
Location: 5604 Manor, 5604 Manor Road, Austin, 78723 - 5604manor.orgreturn to top
Oct 6 (Thu) 
starting at 3 pm
Occupy Austin 
at City Hall
In response to the Occupy Wall Street action in New York City, similar actions have sprung up around the country. The Austin action will take place at City Hall downtown. For more information, see thewebsite or Facebook page.
The General Assembly for Occupy Austin describes its mission: "We are dedicated to non-violently reclaiming control of our governments from the financial interests that have corrupted them. We demand that our public servants recognize that the people are the supreme authority."
Occupy Wall Street describes itself as a "leaderless resistance movement with people of many colors, genders and political persuasions. The one thing we all have in common is that We Are The 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%. We are using the revolutionary Arab Spring tactic to achieve our ends and encourage the use of nonviolence to maximize the safety of all participants."
Location: City Hall, 301 W. Second St., Austin, 78701return to top
Oct 6 (Thu) 
7-9 pm
Panel discussion 
Budget cuts and women's health
This panel discussion about the disastrous effects budget cuts are having in Central Texas on women's health. Starting this month, targeted attacks on Planned Parenthood health centers are hitting close to home. Gov. Rick Perry approved a state budget that singles out women's health, eliminating more than two-thirds of funding for basic women's health care services including life-saving breast and cervical cancer screenings, abortion services, HIV testing, and affordable birth control. Effective September 1, the Planned Parenthood in downtown Austin will no longer receive $474,000 in federal/state funds that allow them to serve 4,000 Austinites each year.
Speakers will include Drucilla Tigner, Community Outreach Specialist with Planned Parenthood, and UT professor Dana Cloud, who teaches and studies rhetoric and history of social movements. The event is sponsored by Austin RAGE (Radical Action for Gender Equality).
Location: 5604 Manor, 5604 Manor Road, Austin, 78723 - 5604manor.orgreturn to top
Oct 9 (Sun) 
6-8 pm
David Cobb on 
"Creating Democracy and Challenging Corporate Rule"
David Cobb of the Move to Amend campaign will speak at a community forum on "Creating Democracy and Challenging Corporate Rule." In light of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Citizens United v. FEC, which opened the floodgates to unlimited corporate spending on elections, there has been increased interest in abolishing "corporate personhood." Cobb, an attorney and organizer for the Move to Amend coalition, will talk about the proposed constitutional amendment.
The screening is sponsored by Austin Center for Peace and Justice, Coffee Party Austin, Gray Panthers of Austin, National Gray Panthers, The Sustainable Energy and Economic Development (SEED) Coalition, the Travis County Green Party, and Vote Rescue. For more information contact Bill Stout, BillStout at txgreens.org, or visit the Travis County Green Party website.
Location: 5604 Manor, 5604 Manor Road, Austin, 78723 - 5604manor.orgreturn to top
Oct 9 (Sun) 
6-8:30 pm
Screening of "Bhopali" 
and discussion with director
The award-winning film "Bhopali" focuses on the survivors of the world's worst industrial disaster. In 1984, a leak of toxic gas from a pesticide factory in Bhopal, India, operated by the U.S. corporation Union Carbide (now owned by Dow Chemical) killed 20,000 and left hundreds of thousands more with severe health problems. The site of the factory remains contaminated by toxic waste, devastating the long-term health of Bhopal's residents and leaving their groundwater undrinkable. Director Van Maxmilian Carlson, who spent a year in Bhopal witnessing the daily struggles of the survivors and their battle for justice, will answer questions after the film.
The screening is sponsored by AID Austin, in association with Amnesty International and Nazar.
Location: Texas Union Theater (UNB 2.228), University of Texas, 2247 Guadalupe St., Austinreturn to top
Oct 11 (Tue) 
7 pm
"Are the Pigs Alright?" with 
the Texas Observer's Melissa del Bosque
Texas Observer investigative reporter Melissa del Bosque talks about an Austin biotech firm's goal to radically change livestock production by cloning meat and milk cows for the global livestock market. Thestory is on the Texas Observer website.
Del Bosque's work also has been published in Time magazine and the NACLA Report on the Americas, and featured on Latino USA.
Location: MonkeyWrench Books, 110 E. North Loop, Austin, 78751 monkeywrenchbooks.orgreturn to top
Oct 13 (Thu) 
7-9 pm
NY Times' Gail Collins on 
"When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present"
New York Times op/ed columnist Gail Collins will reflect on women's struggles for equality over the past half century in an informal lecture and discussion. Drawing on her 2010 book, "When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present," Collins will talk about what has been accomplished and the challenges that lie ahead.
Collins joined the Times in 1995 as a member of the editorial board and later became a columnist. In 2001, she became the first woman ever appointed editor of the Times' editorial page. Collins is also the author of "America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines" and "Scorpion Tongues: Gossip, Celebrity, and American Politics." Before joining the Times, Collins was a columnist at New York Newsday and the New York Daily News, and a reporter for United Press International. Her first jobs in journalism were in Connecticut, where she founded the Connecticut State News Bureau to provide coverage of the state capitol and Connecticut politics. When she sold it in 1977, the CSNB was the largest news service of its kind in the country, with more than 30 weekly and daily newspaper chains.
The suggested $15 donation at the door (no one turned away for lack of funds) will benefit 5604 Manor. The event is sponsored by the Workers Defense Project, Third Coast Activist Resource Center, and Center for Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Texas.
For more information, contact Robert Jensen at (512) 471-1990 or rjensen at uts.cc.utexas.edu.
Location: 5604 Manor, 5604 Manor Road, Austin, 78723 - 5604manor.org 
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