MonkeyWrench Movie Mondays presents Hackers!

Can you believe it? 10 years since Crash Overide (aka Zero Cool), Acid Burn, Phantom Phreak and the Cereal Killer and the gang rollerbladed their way into our hearts and to victory over Mr. The (Don't call me Eugene)Plague. More pop culture references than you can shake a stick at. (Both the hero and the skateboard riding villain quote Travis Bickel!!?!) Being a nerd has never been so sexy. I mean really.Horny teenagers in goofy clothes avert an eco disaster and triumph over the government. The romantic montage is Johnny Lee Miller and Angelina Jolie commiting cyber pranks on the hapless government Agent Gill. They put fake ads in the personals! They mark him as deceased on his permanent record! Oh, those zany kids. Can you hear the cash registers ringing as Hollywood tries to commidify another youth sub-culture that exists largely in thier own fevered brain? As loudly as the hip "Rave" sound track. There are cameos by both Penn of Penn and Teller and Marc Anthony!!! This movie is both so bad and so good on so many levels the only thing you can do is come out and see it.

Location:
Monkey Wrench Books
110 E. North Loop
Austin, Texas 78751
(512) 407-6925

Cost: sliding scale free to $100

Organizer:

URL: http://www.monkeywrenchbooks.org

Pledge of Resistance-Baltimore Meeting

Join the Pledge of Resistance-Baltimore as it meets on Monday nights at the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) building on York Road. The Pledge, formerly the Iraq Pledge of Resistance, regularly engages in civil disobedience on behalf of our collective civil liberties. Every action is non-violent and is conducted peacefully.

The Pledge has a series of actions planned in the upcoming months that are designed to visibly oppose the Bush administration's "preemptive" warmongering and attacks on the Bill of Rights. If you're concerned about the direction the US is heading to please consider coming out and joining us. (Note: it is always advisable to call in advance to confirm the meeting is being held as scheduled.)

Location:
806 York Road, Baltimore, MD

Organizer:

Massachusetts Transgender Political Coaltion General Meeting

The Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition (MTPC) is dedicated to ending discrimination on the basis of gender identity and gender expression. We educate the public, lobby state and local government, encourage political activism, and empower community members through collective action.

The MTPC’s work is guided by the following values: equal rights and institutional responsibility; working against all forms of oppression; building broad-based participation and community power; developing leaders and building coalitions; drawing strength from diverse experiences and identities; being informed by our history and elders; growing through challenge and critique; being inclusive of those who cannot be fully visible; and accountability to the communities for which we work.

You do not have to be a member to come to a general membership meeting. Anyone who currently has permanent or student residence in Massachusetts can be considered a general member, and accordingly attend meetings, provide input to proposals, and receive information about the organization. General membership will be differentiated from voting membership according to level of participation in the organization.

Location:
JRI Health 132 Boylston St 2nd floor, ring bell for JRI Health.

Cost: free and open to all

Directions: Near Boylston St Green Line stop, close to downtown crossing

Organizer:

URL: http://www.masstpc.org

Holy Water-Gate: Abuse Cover-Up in the Catholic Church

Director Mary Healey Conlon and producer Louise Rosen in person
HOLY WATER-GATE examines nineteen years of an emerging crisis in the Catholic Church. Director Mary Healey Conlon examines the historic events of the clergy sex abuse scandals, and introduces key players involved in the sexual abuse scandal, including victims, whistle-blower priests and a senior ranking US Cardinal who is called upon by the Vatican to control a waxing maelstrom. The film brings the viewer deep within the institutional mind of the Catholic Church: a powerful institution that now promises to rectify the horrors of the abuse it enabled upon thousands of children.
www.holywater-gate.com

Location:
Coolidge Corner Theatre

Directions: The Coolidge Corner Theatre is located 1/2 block from the corner of Harvard and Beacon Streets in the Coolidge Corner shopping district of Brookline. We're just minutes from downtown Boston and Harvard Square.

By train: take the Green Line (C branch to Cleveland Circle) trolley from downtown to Coolidge Corner via Beacon Street. The Coolidge Corner stop is at Harvard Street, 5-10 minutes from Kenmore Square.

By bus: take bus #66, Dudley/Harvard Square.

All buses and trolleys stop at the Harvard Street/ Beacon Street intersection.
Both lines are also on the night owl route - operating until 2:00am on Friday and Saturday nights.

From Mass Pike, 90: Take exit 18 Allston/Brighton. As you exit tolls, stay to left for Allston exit and merge with Cambridge St. Follow until you reach Harvard Ave on your left, after the overpass at the intersection with the frightening "Captain Fishbones" sign. Take the left onto Harvard Ave and follow through Allston and across Commonwealth Ave, continuing for about 1.5 miles. Just before reaching the major intersection of Harvard and Beacon St, you will notice our giant theatre marquee on your right.

From Interstate 93: Take the Storrow Drive exit and follow to Storrow Drive (this navigation changes periodically because of Big Dig construction, so watch for the signs). Take Storrow Drive to the Kenmore Square exit. As the exit splits, stay in the right hand lane. Take the first right onto Beacon St. Follow Beacon St through Kenmore Square (past the legendary Citgo sign), staying in the center lane. After you cross the overpass, keep going straight ahead, following the trolley tracks along Beacon St until you reach the intersection of Beacon and Harvard St, landmarked by a large Tudor style building with a clocktower (and a Walgreens) on the corner. You'll see us one half block up Harvard, but continue on Beacon to Center St and turn right to access our parking lot behind the building.

From Route 9: Route 9 inbound to the Brookline Village/Harvard St intersection. The Brookline fire station is on your right. Go through the intersection and take a right immediately after the fire station, and loop around the back. You can now turn right and cross back over Route 9 onto Harvard St. Follow Harvard St through Brookline Village, about one mile to Beacon St. Cross Beacon St and you will immediately see our marquee on your left. Parking is along Beacon, or go around the block and enter the lot behind our building on Center St.

URL: http://www.coolidge.org

International Responsibilities in the Face of the AIDS Pandemic

Themes of Foreign Aids: International Responsibilities in the Face of the AIDS Pandemic, and the Challenges of Stigma, Discrimination and the Right to Health.

(A.R.T.) Joia Mukherjee, Partners in Health; other panel members to be announced.

open to the public

Location:
Harvard University, Zero Arrow Theatre

Cost: free

URL: http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/calendar/lectures.html

Taller de Dansa al CSOA l'Estella

Com cada dilluns es fa un curs de dansa principalment oriental al CSOA l'Estella.

Location:
CSOA l'Estella

Directions: c/ Lepant, 83
al costat de l'estació de tren
de Mataró

Organizer:

URL: http://www.musaik.net/estella

Prou impunitat policial

Avui dilluns tothom a Rius i Taulet a les 6 de la tarda.Tres joves de l'AjG varen ser detinguts i apallissats per la Guàrdia Urbana la matinada de diumenge dia 9.
Prou abusos policials.

Location:
plaça Rius i Taulet, Gràcia BCN

Directions: Rius i Taulet

Organizer:

Error: la conferencia "La Unión Europea" no es hoy

He puesto mal la fecha, la conferencia es el miércoles y no hoy.

Location:

Conferencia "La Unió Europea"

Conferencia "La Unió Europea", a càrrec de Joan Garcia, advocat, membre de la comissió de la UE d'Attac-Catalunya, dins de la Campanya sobre el Tractat Constitucional europ

Location:

Lloc: Casal Cardener. C/Cardener, 45,

Organizer:

URL: http://attac-catalunya.pangea.org/

Perth anti-G8 meeting

Get together in Perth to organise against the G8.
Those involved from around Scotland are warmly invited.

Location:
Letham club, Marlee road.

Cost: donation

Directions: The letham club is on the 1,2,9, and 10 bus routes. 90p gets you there from Mill street on any of these routes.
1 and 2, take the one in preferrence, and ask for the rannoch road shops.
One end of the shops is a postoffice. The other a chinese takaway. Go up the street the takaway's on the corner of, and the entrance to the club's at the other end of it.Marlee road.
9 and 10, take the nine in prefference. Ask for the letham club. The bus stops right outside.
Don't mistake it with the community centre next door. the club's on the corner of twedsmuir road and marlee road.

URL: http://www.enrager.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3458

Green Party Monthly Meeting

Howard Eagle will be the guest speaker at the Green Party of Monroe County's monthly meeting. He will be addressing the development of the 21st Century African-American Leadership Council as it relates to police and racism.

The Green Party of Monroe County's next monthly meeting will feature guest speaker, Howard Eagle. He will be speaking on the 21st Century African American Leadership Council, which was formed in the wake of the Adam McFadden/East End incident of a couple of months ago. He'll be addressing racism and police brutality in Rochester.

A number of IndyMedia readers responed to Mr. Eagle's articles on the East End incident and its aftermath. Now all the "anonymous" people have a chance to ask questions in person.

Also taking place at the meeting will be the final nomination and election of 2005 officers for the local Green Party. The positions of Chair, Vice-Chair, Secretarty and Treasurer will be decided.

2005 Green Campaigns will also be discussed, including the one announced candidacy of Chris Hilderbrant, whose website is at www.hilderbrant.org.

The meeting will take place at 179 Atlantic Avenue at 7pm on Monday, January 10th. The meeting, as usual, is open to the public.

Location:
179 Atlantic Avenue

Cost: Free & open to the public

Organizer:

URL: http://www.gpomc.org

Santa Cruz Indymedia meeting

SANTA CRUZ INDYMEDIA NEEDS YOUR HELP!

Keeping up this site as a source of news and events for the activist community is hard work, and we are always looking for new faces and fresh voices! There are tons of ways to get involved with the local, people-controlled media that we call Indymedia. (People-controlled media... what a radical idea!)

We need original reporting! First and foremost, Indymedia is the place where you can tell your stories and report on what the corporate media won't tell you. Go to an action? Write about what you saw here. See an eye-opening presentation? Write about what you learned here. It only takes a second to hit the publish button, and you can get your story out!

Santa Cruz Indymedia currently meets the second and fourth Monday of each month, 5:00 PM, at Santa Cruz Barrios Unidos (1817 Soquel Ave).

Next Santa Cruz Indymedia Meeting:

second and fourth Monday each month!
5:00 - 7:00 PM
Barrios Unidos

If you would like to get more involved with Santa Cruz Indymedia, please send an email to:
scimc (at) indymedia.org

Location:
Barrios Unidos
1817 Soquel Avenue

Cost: FREE

Directions: Barrios Unidos is located at 1817 Soquel Avenue.
It is on the left side of Soquel Ave., just before Capitola Rd., if you are coming from downtown Santa Cruz.

Organizer:

URL: http://santacruz.indymedia.org/mod/info/display/questions/index.php

Joseph Lowery/Martin Luther King Convocation

Martin Luther King Convocation featuring Reverend Joseph Lowery. A colleague of Dr. King's, Reverend Lowery played a pivotal role in shaping the nation's civil rights movement through his lifelong commitment to justice. Rev. Lowery will speak on "King Legacy and Twenty First Century; or Elucidate, the Celebrate."

Location:
Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium

Cost: free

Organizer:

8am Breakfast - 2877 Lawrance St. Denver

Everyone is Welcome

Location:
Volunteers of America
2877 Lawrence Street, Denver, Co

Cost: Free

Organizer:

11:30am Lunch - 2877 Lawrance St. Denver

Everyone is Welcome

Location:
Volunteers of America
2877 Lawrence St.
Denver, Co.

Organizer:

Tsunami Global Vigil for the Global Village

Worldwide Vigils to take place -
Global Vigil for the Global Village


For Immediate Release
Friday, 07 January, 2004

Issued simultaneously in San Francisco, Toronto, Tel Aviv, Hamburg, Brisbane, Grand Canary Island, Copenhagen, Zagreb, Vienna, Geneva –

Global Vigils will take place on Sunday, 9 January, Monday, 10 January and Wednesday, 26 January 2005 in cities across the planet.

The earthquake and tsunami hit Asia on Sunday December 26th, 2004. We did not mourn immediately because we knew so little. Soon, a fuller understanding of what happened crossed our consciousness. We realised that the earthquake and tsunami HAD hit Asia – but it had also hit the whole world.

Some municipalities around the world and, to a lesser extent, some countries, have observed vigils. While we applaud these efforts, we feel more is needed. We have seen a trauma delivered to the earth and to humans like no other in recent memory.

Towards that end, we need to pause, reflect, grieve, ponder, and heal. And we need to do this on a global scale. We need to connect and reconnect. With our neighbours next door, neighbours across the border and neighbours across the continents.

Why? Because the world must catch its breadth. And because each individual needs to say, "I must catch my breadth." This Global Vigil isn't about death tolls or mainstream's fascination with which country is giving the most money etc."

This is
about taking some time to stop and think, reflect and connect - break from
the media madness and have your own thoughts and your own real feelings.

In Toronto, vigil locations are as follows:
Sunday, 9 JANUARY: Multiple Toronto locations, meet at 4:30 pm at any of the four gatherings. Withrow Park, north end of the Park; Trinity Bellwoods Park, by the Wolf and Tree Installation art Grange Park, by the wading pool; Dundas Square, (Yonge and Dundas) Streets, Downtown.

Monday, 10 JANUARY: Dundas Square 4:30 - 6:30 pm; York University, Vari Hall Foyer 5 pm

Wednesday, 26 JANUARY: Details to follow


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For more information:
Himy Syed • globalvigil-AT-gmail.com • www.globalvigil.tyo.ca

Confirmed Candlelight Vigil Locations

Sunday January 9th:

NORTH AMERICA:

CANADA
Toronto, Ontario, Canada:
Multiple Toronto locations, meet at 4:30 pm at any of the four gatherings...
Withrow Park, north end of the Park;
Trinity Bellwoods Park, by the Wolf and Tree Installation art
Grange Park, by the wading pool
Dundas Square, (Yonge and Dundas) Streets, Downtown.

Vancouver, British Columbia. Two locations:
Outside Vancouver Art Gallery, on Georgia Street 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm;
Wreck Beach at UBC, weather permitting, bring candles for lighing at sunset 4:30pm - 5:30 pm

U.S.A.
Berkeley, California - West Entrance to the UC Berkeley Campus (Oxford and University) 4:30 pm - 6 pm
San Francisco, California - Ocean Beach, below the Cliff House 4:30 - 6:30 pm
New York City, New York - Washington Square Park Arch, meet at 5 pm onwards
Chicagoland, Illinois - Water Tower Plaza at Chicago and Michigan Avenue, 4:00 pm onwards
Cambridge, Massachusettes - Harvard Square from 5:00 - 6:00 pm on

ASIA
Karachi - Quaid-i-Azam Park, Front Entrance 4 pm - 5 pm

EUROPE
London, U.K. - Hyde Park, Speaker's Corner 4:30 pm
Hamburg, Germany - Ida Ehre Platz in Hamburg 16:30 - 17:30
Grand Canary Island, Spain - Plaza de Saulo Toron/Las Canteras Beach 17:30 - 18:30


Monday January 10th:

North America:

MEXICO
Mexico City, Mexico - Angel de la Independencia on Avenida Reforma

CANADA
Toronto, Canada - Dundas Square 4:30 - 6:30 pm; York University, Vari Hall Foyer 5 pm
Vancouver, Canada - Outside Vancouver Art gallery, on Georgia Street side.

U.S.A.
Memphis, Tennessee - vigil at the intersection of Poplar and Highland streets 5 - 6:00pm
San Francisco, California - United Nations Plaza, Market Street 5 pm - 7 pm
Berkeley, California - Downtown Berkeley BART Station, Main Entrance 4:30 pm - 6 pm
Sacramento, California - The North steps of the Capitol Building ( L Street side ) 4:30 - 6:00 pm
Chicago, Illinois - Federal Building, 220 S. Dearborn 5 pm - 6 pm
New York City - Union Square 5 pm - 7 pm
Ithaca, NY - Ithaca Commons 4:30 - 6:00 pm
Woodstock, NY - Main St. and Mamaroneck Av. (at the fountain on the corner ) 4:30 - 5:30 pm
Washington, D.C. - Gather at Dupont Circle 4:30 onwards
Honolulu, Hawai'i - Hanoa Valley, University Ave and Dole St. from 5:00 pm
Baltimore, Maryland - Charles & Center Streets 4:30 - 6:00 pm
Cambridge, Massachusettes - Harvard Square from 5:00 - 6:00 pm

ASIA:

Pakistan: Karachi - Clifton seaside, near amusement park main entrance
Pakistan: Islamabad - Shah Faisal Masjid , after Sunset Prayers done, outside in front of the main steps

Israel: Jerusalem - Hagar (Paris) Square, opposite Terra Sancta 18:00
Israel: Tel Aviv - Tnuva Junction 17:00 - 18:00

EUROPE

France: Paris - By the Pyramid at the Louvre 4:00 pm - 6 pm
France: Aubenas - Place du Chateau 17:00 - 18:00 pm

U.K.: London, England - Trafalgar Square 4:00 pm onwards
U.K.: Manchester, England - Manchester Town Hall, 'Peace Garden' around back 16:30 - 18:00
U.K.: Dundee, Scotland - Dundee City Center (outside Boots) 17:00 - 18:00 pm

Germany: Hamburg - Ida Ehre Platz in Hamburg 17:00 - 18:00
Germany: Bonn - Outside Bonn Cathedral 17:00 - 18:00

Switzerland: Geneva - Place de la Cite 18:00
Switzerland: Bern - vor der Heiliggeistkirche (beim Bahnhof) 17:00 - 18:00
Switzerland: La Chaux-de-Fonds - Place Espacite 16:30-18:30

Austria: Vienna - Stock im Eisen Platz 17:00 - 19:00

Croatia: Zagreb - Trg Bana Jelacica (Jelacic Square) 17:00 - 18:00 pm [vigil not confirmed yet]

Italy: Trento - Casa per la Pace 17:30-18:30
Italy: Reggio Emilia - Reggio E. main square 18:00 - 19:00 pm

Denmark: Copenhagen - Axeltorv 16:30 - 18:00

AUSTRALIA

Brisbane, Australia - King George Sq. 16:30 - 18:00

Wednesday January 26th
One full month since the disaster,
Memorial Vigils to take place on this day, worldwide.

The website where you can post you local vigil information is available by emailing: GlobalVigil-AT-gmail.com, HiMY SYeD

Location:
Global Vigils will take place on Sunday, 9 January, Monday, 10 January and Wednesday, 26 January 2005 in cities across the planet. The earthquake and tsunami hit Asia on Sunday December 26th, 2004. We did not mourn immediately because we knew so little. S

Cost: FREE

Organizer:

URL: http://www.GlobalVigil.TYO.ca