January 2009
24 posts
God's Eyes aka Ojo de Dios →
God’s Eyes aka Ojo de Dios originated from the Huichol tribe in the Sierra Madre mountains in Mexico. The Huichol call their God’s Eyes Sikuli, which means “the power to see and understand things unknown.”
When a child is born, the central eye is woven by the father. Then one eye is added for every year of the child’s life until the child reaches the age of five.
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December 2008
27 posts
Cayetana: Poems →
Resistencia Bookstore Featured X-mas Item No. 7
Cayetena by Frances Treviño
Este Filo (Audio CD) by Lourdes Perez
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Resistencia Bookstore Featured X-mas Item No. 6
Cinco Puntos News →
Xavier Garza on Latino USA December 15, 2008 Listen to Latino USA on National Public Radio, Friday, December 19, to hear Maria Hinojosa’s great interview withCharro Claus & the Tejas Kid authorXavier Garza. Then order your own copy of this soon-to-be Christmas classic from south Texas.
CHARRO CLAUS AND THE TEJAS KID →
Resistencia Bookstore Featured X-mas Book No. 4
A Great Book for Navidad Written and illustrated by Xavier Garza Santa needs help! Abracadabra! A cowboy and his nephew become Charro Claus and the Tejas Kid!
Pitch Black →
Resistencia Bookstore Featured X-mas Book No. 3
Pitch Black by Youme Landowne, Anthony Horton
“On the subway, do ever notice that people are always looking, but they only see what they want to? Things can be sitting right in front of them and …more”
Red Salmon Arts/Resistencia Bookstore Calendar,...
READING IS RIGHTEOUS!
7pm - Friday Dec. 19, 2008
Red Salmon Arts presents Murals, Música, y Más: a visual & historical presentation on Chicana/o Murals en Tejas by veteran Austin artista Raul Valdez. With over 25 years of experience creating murals with Raza communities throughout the country, Raul will share images of his murals/art work and tell the stories behind the art that...
Blood Beats: Vol. 1 →
Resistencia Bookstore Featured X-mas Book No. 2
Blood Beats: Vol 1 Demos, Remixes,& Extended Versions by Ernest Hardy
“Writing from a critical center that is melanin-based/feminist/pro-queer/unabashedly-leftist, LA-based writer Ernest Hardy (a Sundance Fellow and membe…more”
Abolition Now! →
Resistencia Bookstore Featured X-mas Book No. 1
Abolition Now!: Ten Years of Strategy and Struggle Against the Prison Industrial Complex by The CRIO Publications Collective
“As new and more virulent articulations of imprisonment, policing, and surveillance have grown over the past decade, one thing remains clear: the…more”
PODER - People Organized in Defense of Earth and... →
PODER Invites you to do a little holiday shopping with handmade products from Austin Artisans Drop by our office between 10AM and 4PM Location: PODER office @ 2604 E. Cesar Chavez St.
Assata Shakur Speaks! →
Assata: Exile since 1979 On May 2 1973, Black Panther activist Assata Shakur (fsn) JoAnne Chesimard, was pulled over by the New Jersey State Police, shot twice and then charged with murder of a police officer. Assata spent six and a half years in prison under brutal circumstances before escaping out of the maximum security wing of the Clinton Correctional Facility for Women in New Jersey in...
Free the SF8 - Committee for the Defense of Human... →
Murder Charges Against Former Black Panthers Based on Confessions Extracted by Torture
New blog focuses just on what’s new with the case: freethesf8.blogspot.com
Nobel Peace Prize laureates issue International Call for justice for the San Francisco 8 – see full text.
Eight former Black community activists – Black Panthers and others – were arrested January 23, 2007 in California, New...
Murals, Música y Más →
It’s impossible to be proud when you don’t know who you are
The Works of Raúl Valdez. serving austin, central Texas and beyond since 1975
It has been a beautiful ride already, as a street artist, playing an occasional song. Many miles, many kids of all ages, many pickett signs and many good times. Doing murals in schools, murals in the ‘hood, serving as a tool for expression...
Red Salmon Arts/Resistencia Bookstore Calendar,...
7pm - Friday Dec. 19, 2008
Red Salmon Arts presents Murals, Música, y Más: a visual & historical presentation on Chicana/o Murals en Tejas by veteran Austin artista Raul Valdez. With over 25 years of experience creating murals with Raza communities throughout the country, Raul will share images of his murals/art work and tell the stories behind the art that document/celebrate the...
“PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY
CALL FOR PAPERS
A Feminism and Legal Theory Project...”
– Source: Ford Foundation Fellows List (via lalilster)
Behind the Walls →
A Guide for Families and Friends of Texas Prison Inmates
Jorge Antonio Renaud
Behind the Walls is a detailed description of the world's largest
prison system by a long-time convict trained as an observer and
reporter. It spotlights the day-to-day workings of the Texas
Department of Criminal Justice—what's good, what's bad,
which programs work and which ones do not, and examines if
practice...
PEN American Center - Jorge Antonio Renaud: Prison... →
Four a.m. work duty and I begin my solitary trudge from outer compound to main building. A shivering guard, chilled in his lonely outpost, strip searches me until content that my inconsequential nudity. poses no threat and then whispers the secret code that allows me admittance into the open quarter-mile walkway. I chuff my way into another day as ice glints on the razor wire and the rifles note...
Los Switcheros del Norte - STORE →
Light Switch Covers
Los Switcheros del Norte →
GCAC: Hecho a Mano →
The Guadaluoe Cultural Arts Center presents the 21st annual Hecho a Mano Made by Hand A Fine Arts and Fine Crafts Market Galeria tONANTZIN 723 S. Brazos December 5-7, 2008
Rescue the Word -- Poem by Marilyn Buck →
sacred words are in danger fugitives, they seek cover bury themselves alive shamed by the profane purposes they are forced to serve dressed in lily-white lies words are in danger english only vows to tear out tongues exiled witnesses to collective memory and homeland ties sacred words are in danger trapped, they hang on billboards judas-goats to conjure deception sing them shout them...
Lowcura →
Levi Romero
sharonbridgforth.com →
Limited Edition/delta dandi Script
Published by Sharon Bridgforth on November 26, 2008 in Community, Family, Inspiration, Joy, Work and Workn.0 Comments
FUNDRAISER
Be a dandi! Play a supporting role in the World Premiere of delta dandi by purchasing & gifting a Signed/Numbered Pre-publication Limited Run Edition delta dandi Script (The version the Austin, Texas World Premiere CAST is...