Youth Liberation Network Benefit

Austin, TX – Local Austin bands Maneja Beto and Toumai
will be performing January 21, 2005 at Ruta Maya
International Headquarters in a benefit to support the
work of the Youth Liberation Network (YLN), an Austin-based organization that does community work with youth of color. The benefit will also feature performances by DJ E Be Lo and local youth hip-hop artists. Doors open at 9pm and tickets are $5 at the door.

Maneja Beto has gained a regular following in Austin with their unique blend of cumbia, rock and Tejano soul. Musicaustin highlighted the group’s debut album “para que las paredes no se aburran” as one of the best Austin albums of 2004. More information about the bands are available on www.toumaitheband.com and www.manejabeto.com

All proceeds from the event will go to support the 4th
Annual Youth Encuentro, a week-long camp that provides youth with workshops in media technology and creative expression. Each year about 50 youth come to Austin from around Texas and different parts of the country to participate in All participants attend the Encuentro completely free of charge. Additional information about the YLN or the Encuentro is
available at www.youthliberation.net.

Location:
Ruta Maya 1202 S. Congress Avenue

Cost: $5

Directions: Ruta Maya is located at 1202 S. Congress Avenue. For
additional information about the benefit contact Eddie
Campos at (512) 302-1401.

Organizer:

Crush

Closing Reception for the MFA Thesis Exhibition by Shannon Petrello

****photo collages addressing war, consumerism, gender and love****

Location:
surplus gallery @ the glove factory
408 S Washington St
Carbondale, IL

Organizer:

United WE Stand Rally & Cultural Festival

ACTION ALERT * UNITED FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE

On Friday, January 21, help launch the post-inaugural progressive agenda at the “United WE Stand” Rally and Cultural Festival at Plymouth Congregational Church, featuring comedian/actor Rosie O'Donnell; Rev. Graylan Hagler, Pastor, Plymouth Congregational UCC and UFPJ Steering Committee; Damu Smith, Founder of Black Voices for Peace; UFPJ National Coordinator Leslie Cagan and others.

LOCAL ACTIONS NATIONWIDE: Dozens of local protest events around the country are scheduled for January 20. Some highlights: Activists in New Orleans are organizing a "Jazz Funeral for Democracy," the Northland Anti-War Coalition is organizing a Counter-Inaugural March in Duluth, MN, and folks in Houston are coordinating a day of creative direct action and non-cooperation.

WEAR A WHITE RIBBON: UFPJ also encourages everyone to wear a white ribbon on January 20 to honor all who have died as a result of the Bush Administration’s policies. White is the symbol for peace in many countries around the world and the symbol of mourning in others. The white ribbon is simple and clear: "We mourn all of the dead. We support the troops. End the war now and bring the troops home."

SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT MARCH 19: Wherever you are on January 20, it’s a great opportunity to begin spreading the word about the global day of protest on March 19, the two-year anniversary of the Iraq War. United for Peace and Justice has called for hundreds of local actions in communities large and small across the U.S., with special support for the major regional demonstration being planned in Fayetteville, NC.

Location:
Plymouth Congregational Church

URL: http://www.unitedforpeace.org

Counter-Inaugural Events

This is a great site for info on the Counter-Inaugural activites.

Location:
Washington DC mostly

URL: http://www.counter-inaugural.org/index.php?name=events

Tsunamis Triggered by Submarine Landslides

The Perilous Earth: Understanding Natural Hazards

Professor David Mohrig, Dept of Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences, MIT

"Tsunamis Triggered by Submarine Landslides"

Sponsored by MIT Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences

Open to the public

Location:
MIT 54-915

Cost: free

URL: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/events/lecture_series.shtml

Making Kind Choices

Ingrid Newkirk

Making Kind Choices: Everyday Ways to Enhance Your Life Through Earth- And Animal-Friendly Living

Choosing a compassionate lifestyle that makes you feel good and positively impacts on the environment and on animals has never been easier. In this practical and accessible handbook, loaded with resources for all products that are mentioned, Ingrid Newkirk presents fabulous options that will not only enhance your life, but those of your neighbors, your community, animals, and the earth itself.

All Harvard Book Store events are free and open to the public. No tickets are required unless otherwise noted. Please call (617) 661-1515 for more information.

Location:
Harvard Book Store 1256 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge

Cost: free

URL: http://www.harvard.com/events/press_release.php?id=1374

Tribute to Guerilla filmmaker

Guerilla filmmaker Sarah Jacobson passed away last year at the too-young age of 32. She was an important voice in independent, underground film, and a real champion of DIY filmmaking. While Sarah may no longer be with us, her films live on, and we celebrate her work with three special days of programs.

Fri Jan 21 midnite - Mary Jane's Not A Virgin Anymore
Sarah's debut feature was a hit at Sundance and other film festivals across the country. It follows Jane, a high school student who works at the local arthouse movie theater, as she learns about life, love, masturbation and sex. Especially sex. "I fell for Mary Jane's Not a Virgin Anymore, a first feature that's as awkward, raucous and eager as its protagonist." - Amy Taubin, Village Voice "Sarah's funny and true portrayal of deflowered girldom has all the scary awkward grace and hectic thrill of this most freaked out rite of passage." - Kim Gordon, bass player for Sonic Youth.

Sat Jan 22 midnite - Ladies And Gentlemen The Fabulous Stains
If it weren't for Sarah's love of this spunky-punky lost classic, a whole generation may have missed out on the best angry girl rock film ever made. The year is 198__ and angry teenager Corinne "Third Degree" Burns (a really young Diane Lane) decides to form a Shaggs-esque with her cousin (and also very young Laura Dern) and sister and hit the tour bus with an angry British punk band - played by actual members of the Clash and the Sex Pistols, and fronted by Ray Winstone (QUADROPHENIA, SEXY BEAST). In true angry grrrl fashion, they beat the old white men at their own game and become an overnight sensation with song titles like "Waste of Time" and catch phrase "We don't put out!" An amazing cult classic not available on video!

Location:
Coolidge Corner Theatre

Cost: $6 each

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

Inauguració de l'Ateneu Popular de l'Eixample

Inauguració de l'Ateneu Popular de l'Eixample

17:00 : projecció de la pel·lícula «La estrategia del caracol»

20:00: inauguració de la cafeta amb pinxos

22:00: actuació musical

Location:
Ateneu Popular de l'Eixample

Cost: gratuït

Directions: Passatge Conradí 3, a l'alçada de Sicília amb Roselló
metro Sagrada Família (L2 i L5)

Organizer:

Sopador i Teatre al Cso La Opera

Divendres 21 de Gener de 2005 teatre FUM, FUM, FUM de Jordi Sánchez a partir de les 23h i a les 21h sopador antirepressiu de l'Hortet de Santa Eulàlia viu.
Us esperem a totes!

Location:
SO LA OPERA
c/Josep Prats 56-58 cantonada amb Francesc Moragues
L'Hospitalet (centre) de Llobregat

metro: L1 av. carrilet
fgc: av. carrilet
renfe: hospitalet
bus's: L10, L12, LH2, N15, N13

Cost: 2leurus sopador i 2 leurus teatre

Directions: A prop del mercat del centre i del qüartell de la remonta

Organizer:

II Aniversari KOP-Alta Tensió. Sopar i espectacle

22:00 Sopar aniversari i espectacle amb Anthony Jones (malabars), Berta (trapeci) i número sorpresa.

Location:
KOP-Alta Tensió (Prat)
c/Dr.Soler i Torrents núm. 36-38
El Prat de Llobregat
Tren, busos 65-165 i L10

Cost: 5 euros el sopar

Organizer:

URL: kasalprat.org

Manuela Gaztetxearen itxieraren 5. urtemuga

Bigarren infusio gaua:

infusioa, musika, poesia, improbisazioa, barra mobila...

Location:
Zarautz, musika plaza

Organizer:

People in Black vigil

The next People in Black vigil will take place on Friday, January 21, 2005 at 1:00 PM at the Twelve Corners in Brighton, weather permitting.

People in Black stands in solidarity with the Israeli peace group Women in Black that have weekly vigils in Jerusalem against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.

Rochester People in Black also opposes the US occupation of Iraq.

Please wear black.

Location:
Twelve Corners in Brighton, weather permitting.

Challenging Media to Hold the U.S. Empire Accountable- Robert Jensen

Update on Robert Jensen Lecture. Robert Jensen, University of Texas journalism professor and author of Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim our Humanity, will speak on “Challenging Media to Hold the U.S. Empire Accountable” at Rochester Institute of Technology at 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 21, in Webb Auditorium.

Jensen is also offering a workshop, “A Word In Edgewise: Working with Mainstream Media,” 10 a.m. to noon, Saturday, Jan. 22, at 30 North Union St., Rochester. The workshop covers the basics of working with journalists and the news media, including news releases, news conferences and event planning; strategies to use when interviewed by media; and effective letter and op/ed writing.

Location:
Rochester Institute of Technology, Webb Auditorium

Independent MEDIA Film Festival and Panel

Learn about Independent MEDIA through FiLMS and conversation this Friday evening and all day Saturday at the SLO Library.

Learn what has been done throughout the past 60+ years with the struggle of the growing corporate media.

Learn about George Seldes, the mentor of I.F. Stone, who was working against the tobacco industry in the 50s when even his progressive colleagues thought he had gone too far. [Tell the Truth and Run]

Learn how KPFA got started in the late 1940s. Pacifica was the first listener-sponsored radio station in the States. They actually had to give away FM radios for listeners to hear KPFA!! Learn about the conflict between the new owners of Pacifica and the listeners in the late 90s. [KPFA On The Air]

Learn how critics turn their attention on the mainstream media and how the corporate media encouraged the war machine in Afghanistan and Iraq. [WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception]

Learn how Geoge Orwell would have interpreted the past 10 years of media coverage in the US. [Orwell Rolls In His Grave]

Learn how communities are coming together to create their own radio stations called low powered radio stations especially since corporations like Clear Channel have bought up community radio stations only to leave behind a monoculture of the mind. [LPFM: The People's Choice]

Have dinner with Shine Cafe (Morro Bay) Saturday evening. Drink fair-traded / organic coffee sponsored by Outspoken Cafe on Monterey Street in SLO.

Go to Central Coast Brewing after the film on Friday night to enjoy a local brew. They are staying open for us until midnight. They are on Monterey near the railroad crossing.

Attend the FREE panel discussion with the pioneers of independent media in SLO County to discuss HOW to strengthen independent media in our county: Jack McCurdy, Sandra Marshal, Bob Banner, Greg Junnell, Ron Bearce, Pedro Arroyo and Dorothy Littlejohn (from SB Indy Media).

Go to hopedance.org/new/events/indymedia_slo.html for descriptions of the films, time, dates and prices....

Presented by HopeDance Media; Cosponsored by the Sierra Club, Information Press and the local Green Party.
Throughout the day we will also show some shorts about FSTV, LinkTV and City Repair.

See one film or a few of them or all of them but make sure you contribute to the panel discussion and break out groups after the Q&As. As Jello Biafra has stated often enough: "Dont complain about the Media; Become the Media!"

544-9663
www.hopedance.org
Fri Jan 21 and Sat Jan 22 at the SLO Library

Location:
San Luis Obispo Library (Osos&Palm)

Cost: $5 per film or $20 for all 5 films

Organizer:

URL: www.hopedance.org

Felton Independent Community Radio Benefit

Join us on Friday January 21st, starting at 7 o'clock at the Felton Community Hall, for a showing of the Coen Brothers film O Brother, Where Art Thou? A benefit to create an independent community radio station in the San Lorenzo Valley. An interesting and inspiring evening of film, music, speakers, food, and community.

It is also a chance for Felton residents and others in the San Lorenzo Valley to get involved in independent media and support their own community radio station. With the ongoing water ownership struggle, we are ready for more local independent voices in our community.

We'll be joined by Felton FLOW, Free Radio Santa Cruz, and Santa Cruz Indymedia Project to talk about the desperate need for independent media. The event is sponsored by Felton Community Hall (www.feltonhall.com) and Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In (www.thespoon.com/drivein).

We'll have live music by local old-timey musicians, several short films, and our feature film, O Brother, Where Are Thou? We'll have cookies, drinks, beer and wine, and delicious popcorn.

Background on Low-Power FM Radio

Until 1982, there were low-power (under 100 Watts) unlicensed FM stations in communities all over the country. At that time, Congress passed the Telecommunications Act of 1982 making unlicensed low-power FM stations illegal. The FCC turned over our airwaves mostly to corporations who could afford the millions of dollars that these increasingly expensive FM stations fetched. Thousands of locally-run, low-power independent community radio stations went dark in 1982.

With media consolidation one company now can own dozens of radio and TV stations in one area, virtually controlling the news and information for whole communities. ClearChannel and Viacom are two examples. In the last month, for instance, FoxNews contracted to provide all of the news heard on the 1500 radio stations owned by ClearChannel nationwide. Naturally, one company owning all of the media reduces the diversity of voices heard in local communities and seriously threatens the idea of a free press.

Strictly speaking, an unlicensed station is not currently legal. However, through this simple civil disobedience, FRAM is working to change the law that turns over control of our airwaves to largely corporate interests.

About the Felton Radio Access Movement

FRAM is an autonomous collection of Felton residents who want more local access to independent alternative media. Following in the footsteps of the Santa Cruz Radio Access Movement (SCRAM) who returned Free Radio Santa Cruz to the airwaves after their shutdown by the FCC, we will be creating a local Felton Free Radio node to give voice to our local issues and struggles.

Location:
Felton Community Hall
6191 Highway 9, Felton

Cost: Donations of $5 will be accepted at the door. No one turned away for lack of funds and no generous donations refused.

Directions: To get there: From Santa Cruz: Go up Graham Hill, Left at Hwy 9, Felton Community Hall is on your right at 6191 Highway 9, Felton.

Organizer:

URL: http://santacruz.indymedia.org/newswire/display/14282/index.php

Inaugural Bawl Too: An Unfortunate Sequel

Sometimes, you gotta party to shake up the Blues. In this case, all the Blues living in the Red State of Florida.

"The Inaugural Bawl Too: An Unfortunate Sequel" is an evening of political satire featuring the Mickee Faust Club. In addition to the skits, songs and bad jokes by the Faustkateers, our anti-Inaugural Poet Laureate Monifa Love returns to Tallahassee to deliver words of *real* freedom. There will be music by Eclectic Acoustic and Zydeco Zoo, and Poetry for A New World Order by members of the audience (contact Isabelle at impotts-AT-yahoo.com if interested). And local Canadians will have an information table about their blue country!

Location:
The Warehouse, 706 West Gaines Street, Tallahassee.

Cost: $10 general admission/ $5 for seniors and students with ID

Directions: From Apalachee Parkway: Turn left heading south on Monroe. At the light for Gaines, turn right and travel about a mile. The Warehouse is on the right hand side of the road.

Organizer:

The Complete History of America (abridged)

Tampa's own "Bad Boys of Abridgement" are back to give you a history lesson guaranteed not to be short on laughs. The follow-up production to The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) and The Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged)

jobsitetheater.org/america.htm

Location:
Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center
Shimberg Playhouse

Cost: $18.50 (50% off student/senior/military rush available 90 minutes before curtain)

Organizer:

URL: http://jobsitetheater.org/america.htm

TENNCARE EDUCATION & ACTION REGIONAL MEETING

Saturday, January 21st,9am – 4:30pm

St Ann’s Episcopal Church

419 WOODLAND AVENUE, NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE



This will be one of up to seven meetings across the state as we launch our plans for protecting health care for Tennesseans in 2006. Nashville’s Middle Tennessee Meeting will be one of the first while Memphis, Cookeville, Chattanooga, Knoxville, Tri-Cities, and Jackson are looking to host their meeting by February 3rd. WE NEED YOUR PRESENCE at the Middle Tennessee Regional Meeting in Nashville. At this forum our plans are to:

1. Celebrate our successes

2. Present our Strategy for the next 6 – 8 months

3. Plan and take action

Location:

Rally for Our Rights

Roe v. Wade day is the 22nd, tons of antis will be coming down to the Capitol to protest.
The pro-choice groups are countering with a pro-choice march on the 21st - next Friday.

Location:
Meet at Walker Sculpture Garden, march over Hennepin Bridge, and gather at Loring Park Pavillion.

Cost: free