<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><b class=""><span class="" style="font-weight: normal;">Hello all. Visit </span><a href="http://thirdcoastactivist.org/" class="" style="font-weight: normal;">ThirdCoastActivist.org</a><span class="" style="font-weight: normal;"> for perspective on issues, an events calendar, and more.</span><br class="" style="font-weight: normal;"><br class=""></b></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><b class="">Tuesday, October 30, 12 - 12:30 pm<br class="">Rally for the Trial of the Century<br class=""></b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>This open mic rally is to support a <a href="https://www.ourchildrenstrust.org/us/federal-lawsuit/" class=""></a><a href="https://www.ourchildrenstrust.org/us/federal-lawsuit/" class="">l</a><a href="https://www.ourchildrenstrust.org/us/federal-lawsuit/" class="">awsuit originally filed in 2015</a> by 21 youth against the federal government (Juliana v. U.S.). Their complaint asserts that, through the government's affirmative actions that cause climate change, it has violated the youngest generation’s constitutional rights to life, liberty, and property, as well as failed to protect essential public trust resources. </div><div class=""><b class="">Location:</b> Williamson County Courthouse on Georgetown Square, 710 S Main, 78626<br class=""></div><br class=""><div class=""><div class=""><b class="">Tuesday, October 30, 6:30-10 pm<br class="">Checkpoint Nation<br class=""></b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><i class="">Texas Observer</i> reporter <a href="https://www.melissadelbosque.com/" class="">Melissa del Bosque</a> will discuss her article “Checkpoint Nation” with <i class="">Harper’s Magazine</i> associate editor Rachel Poser. The article, a collaboration between the two magazines, examines the border zone—a buffer of about 100 miles that runs along any U.S. border—where U.S. Customs and Border Protection has been given the freedom to trample on constitutional rights in the name of security.<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The event is free but space is limited. More information and <a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/harpers-observer-reading/" class="">RSVP online</a>.<br class=""><b class="">Location:</b> North Door, 501 Brushy St., Austin, 78702</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Thursday, November 1, 6 - 8 pm<br class="">Film Screening: "Speciesism: The Movie"</b><br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>A young man investigates the world of factory farms and encounters a political and intellectual movement that considers animals as important as humans. Trailer at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJYzia6KUbs" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJYzia6KUbs</a><div class=""><b class="">Location:</b> Asian American Resource Center - Meeting Room 8, 8401 Cameron Rd, Austin, TX 78754<br class=""></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Friday, November 2, 7 pm<br class="">“Combatting Human Trafficking” with Karen Countryman-Roswurm<br class=""></b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://www.wichita.edu/academics/fairmount_college_of_liberal_arts_and_sciences/socialwork/FacultyAndStaff/countrymanroswurm.php" class="">Karen Countryman-Roswurm</a>, founder and Executive Director of the <a href="http://combatinghumantrafficking.org/" class="">Center for Combatting Human Trafficking</a>, will discuss her work with homeless, runaway, and “throwaway” youth and the problem of domestic minor sex trafficking. Countryman-Roswurm is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at Wichita State University in Kansas.<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>More information on the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/288894618626181/" class="">Facebook event page</a>, or contact Morgan <a href="mailto:Lairdmorganlaird@utexas.edu" class="">Lairdmorganlaird@utexas.edu</a>.<br class=""><b class="">Location:</b> <a href="http://www.uumc.org/" class="">University United Methodist Church</a>, 2409 Guadalupe, Austin, 78705</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><b class="">Saturday, November 3, 2-4 pm<br class="">Young People and Voting<br class=""></b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>A panel will discuss how to increase voter participation among young people. Panelists will include Grant Loveless, member of the ACC District Student Government Association, Maya Patel with TX Votes at UT Austin, and others involved in education. <br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The event is sponsored by <a href="http://cg4tx.org/" class="">Common Ground for Texans</a>, a nonpartisan nonprofit based in Austin.<br class=""><b class="">Location:</b> Old Quarry Branch Library, 7051 Village Center, Austin<br class=""><br class=""><b class="">Monday, November 5th, 6:30 pm<br class="">Language Justice, a Community Conversation with Indigenous and Asian-American activists <br class=""></b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Austin Language Justice Collective will host an event with Anh Ly, a senior at UT-Austin and language justice researcher and activist, who will present her insights on the experience of speakers of Vietnamese in Austin, and Odilia Romero and Janet Martinezare leaders of the indigenous-run organization, the Front of Indigenous Binational Organizations in Los Angeles, who will discuss organizing for language rights in Los Angeles since the 1990s.<div class=""><b class="">Location:</b> Friends Meeting House, 3701 Martin Luther King Boulevard, Austin, TX</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Thursday, November 8, 5:30-7:30 pm<br class="">Screening of "Dirt Rich"<br class=""></b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>This new documentary demonstrates that regenerative agriculture and reforestation are needed to ensure a global food supply and to mitigate climate change. A panel with the filmmaker will follow. <br class=""><b class="">Location:</b> F.W. Olin 105 on Southwestern University, Georgetown 78626</div></div><div class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div class=""><b class="">Monday, November 12, 4-6 pm</b></div><div class=""><b class="">Law and the Reproduction of Food Poverty<br class=""></b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Tomaso Ferrando, a Lecturer in Law at the University of Bristol, will speak on “Law and the Reproduction of Food Poverty.” Author Raj Patel from the LBJ School of Public Affairs will respond to Ferrando’s talk.<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>More <a href="https://law.utexas.edu/humanrights/event-type/law-production-inequality/" class="">information online</a>. <br class=""><b class="">Location: </b>Sheffield-Massey Room in Townes Hall (TNH 2.111), University of Texas School of Law, Austin</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Unless otherwise noted, events are free and open to the public. 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