whats on in austin

>From: NOWAR <worker-nowar@lists.tao.ca>
>Reply-To: nowar@lists.tao.ca
>To: nowar@lists.tao.ca
>Subject: NOWAR - Upcoming Events and McChesney
>Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 07:24:28 -0500
>
>Hello, all. There are several events in the next week that may be of
>interest to people on this list.
>
>On Friday, October 15 the film "¡Zapatista!" (a Big Noise film) will be

>shown at the Center for Mexican American Cultural Arts, 600 River
Street.
>The film begins at 8:00 p.m. and is free and open to the public. The
>filmmaker, Rick Rowley, will be present for the screening and for the
>following panel discussion and reception.
>
>On Monday, October 18, there will be a Forum against Corporate
>Globalization at 7:00 pm at the AFL-CIO Hall (11th and Lavaca). Hosts
will
>include Jim Hightower, Rick Levy (Legal Director, Texas AFL-CIO),
Monica
>Sjoo (Swedish eco-feminist activist and author), and Larry Freilich
(Sierra
>Club). The event is sponsored by Public Citizen, the Alliance for
>Democracy, the Sierra Club, APJC, and the Travis County Green Party,
and
>endorsed by several other groups.
>
>The well-known media critic Robert McChesney will be giving two talks,
>"Corporate Media v. Democracy" on Wednesday, October 20, at 7:30 pm in
CMA
>2.320 (CMA is on the SW corner of Dean Keeton(26th) and Whitis, one
block
>east of Guadalupe), and "The Emerging Struggle for Democratic Media" on

>Thursday, October 21, at 7:30 pm at Trinity United Methodist Church on
600
>E. 50th St. An expert on the privatization of broadcast media in the
United
>States and on the political economy of the global media, he has written

>several books, including, most recently, "Rich Media, Poor Democracy."
He
>is currently a professor at the University of Illinois. A reminder,
along
>with a more extensive bio will be sent out next week. This event is
>sponsored by Peace Action Austin, the UT Radical Action Network, and
the
>Department of Journalism.
>
>Please come out to one or all of these events. Corporate globalization,

>associated with names like GATT, WTO, MAI, and, of course, the IMF and
the
>World Bank has been immensely destructive to the people of the world,
with
>negative effects even on the people of the industrialized world.
>Furthermore, the need to force other countries, often through a blatant

>violation of their internal democratic process, to fall in line with
this
>new paradigm seems to be at the root of the renewed US penchant for
>military aggression and enormously punitive and destructive measures
like
>the sanctions on Iraq, which have killed over 1 million people over the

>last nine years. The total death toll of corporate globalization is far

>higher than that.
>
>The Zapatistas understood this from the beginning, stating clearly that

>NAFTA is a "death sentence for the Mexican people." Their uprising
occurred
>on January 1, 1994, the day that NAFTA went into effect.
>
>All above events are free and open to the public. Please forward as
>appropriate.
>
>In Solidarity,
>
>the Nowar Collective
>