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Hello all. Visit ThirdCoastActivist.org<http://thirdcoastactivist.org/> for perspective on issues, an events calendar, and more.

Monday, November 26, 6-8 pm
Panel on “A Public Defender’s Office in Travis County”
In April, a study found<https://www.statesman.com/NEWS/20180420/Study-finds-serious-shortcomings-in-Travis-County-indigent-defense> that the outcomes for Travis County defendants with appointed attorneys in low-level felony drug cases was worse than for those who hire their own lawyers. The Texas Indigent Defense Commission recently recommended<https://www.austinmonitor.com/stories/2018/10/county-looks-at-legal-community-for-public-defender-office-task-force/> that the Travis County Commissioners Court create a public defender office.
The panel to discuss the need for such an office will include Amanda Woog, Executive Director of the Texas Fair Defense Project; Trudy Strassburger, Senior Legal Counsel at the Justice Collaborative Engagement Project; and Andrea Marsh, Clinical Lecturer and the Director of the Mithoff Pro Bono Program at the UT School of Law.
The event is sponsored by Liberal Austin Democrats, Texas Democrats for Progressive Courts, Austin Young Democrats, and Our Revolution Travis County. More information and registration<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/panel-discussion-a-public-defenders-office-in-travis-county-tickets-51961957614> online.
Location: Austin City Council Chambers, 301 W. 2nd St., Austin.

Wednesday, November 28, noon-1:30 pm
Ashley Farmer on “The Black Women Intellectuals and Activists Who Revolutionized Black Power”
            University of Texas professor Ashley Farmer<https://www.ashleydfarmer.com/bio/> will speak research on women in the Black Panther Party, focusing on the multi-faceted roles that they played in the Party’s organizational and ideological development and how they crafted the ideal of the “black revolutionary woman” in popular and political culture. Farmer is the author of Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era, a comprehensive history of black women’s political and intellectual contributions to the Black Power movement.
            The event is sponsored by the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies. More information online<https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/cwgs/events/event.php?id=48421>.
Location: University of Texas, Burdine Hall<https://facilitiesservices.utexas.edu/buildings/UTM/0099> (BUR 554), Austin

Friday-Saturday, November 30–December 1
Puerto Rico in the Wake of Crisis: Toward a Just (After)life of Disaster
            The symposium on “Puerto Rico in the Wake of Crisis: Toward a Just (After)life of Disaster<https://law.utexas.edu/puerto-rico/>” brings together scholars, activists, and artists from Puerto Rico and the diaspora. Before September 2017, Puerto Rico—one of the longest-held colonial possessions in the world—was facing a dire economic crisis and large-scale out-migration. With the hurricanes Irma and Maria, the island’s vulnerabilities were exposed for the entire world to see.
The symposium will feature a keynote event on Friday night with New York-based attorney and activist Elizabeth Yeampierre<https://www.uprose.org/elizabeth-yeampierre/>, an internationally recognized environmental and climate justice leader who is executive director of UPROSE, Brooklyn’s oldest Latino community-based organization, and co-chair of the Climate Justice Alliance.
The event is organized by Mónica Jiménez<https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/aads/faculty/maj452>, a professor in the University of Texas Department of African and African Diaspora Studies, and the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, with support from many other UT departments and centers.
Register online<https://law.utexas.edu/puerto-rico/registration/> for this free, open event. The full schedule<https://law.utexas.edu/puerto-rico/schedule/> and information on speakers<https://law.utexas.edu/puerto-rico/participants/#monica-jimenez> is online.
Location: University of Texas, Law School<https://maps.utexas.edu/buildings/utm/ccj> (Friday) and Gordon White Building<https://maps.utexas.edu/buildings/utm/gwb> (Saturday), Austin

Saturday-Sunday, December 1-2, 9 am-6 pm
15th Annual Women & Fair Trade Festival
The Women & Fair Trade Festival<https://womenandfairtrade.weebly.com/> is an annual Austin marketplace, now in its 15th year, that hosts eight artisan producers from women’s cooperatives from all over the world who gather in Austin to meet local buyers, enjoy local musicians and celebrate cultural exchange.
The event is sponsored by Austin Tan Cerca de la Frontera<http://www.atcf.org/>. More information on the Facebook event page<https://www.facebook.com/events/321962268359904/>. For volunteer opportunities, contact robert at atcf.org<mailto:robert at atcf.org>
Location: Ironwood Hall, 505 East 7th St., Austin, 78701

Friday-Sunday, March 29-31
New Story Festival
The New Story Festival<https://www.newstoryfestival.com/> is a transformational experience of community, creativity, and the common good that will combine art and music, spirituality and social action, big ideas and playful connection. Information on ticket prices online<https://www.newstoryfestival.com/festivaltickets/>.

Location: Huston-Tillotson University<http://htu.edu>, 900 Chicon St, Austin, 78702

Unless otherwise noted, events are free and open to the public. Please forward where appropriate.

In Solidarity,
Third Coast Activist Resource Center

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