Amarillo Judge’s Ruling Could Lead to Nationwide Ban on Abortion Pills

Supreme Court may be the next step

"...international pharmacies, and Texans cannot currently be punished in civil or criminal court for seeking out their own abortion..."

April 14, 2023 News Feature by Abe Asher

SXSW Adds Iron Man, Captain Kirk, New Order to Speaker List

Robert Downey Jr., William Shatner, Deepak Chopra headed to Austin

"...influential and acclaimed bands of all time. Their debut Movement (1981) was overshadowed by the sound of Joy Division;..."

Feb. 14, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

ICE Targeted Immigrants in Sanctuary With Hefty Fines, Emails Show

Documents show Trump administration surveilled and targeted outspoken immigrants

"...with egregious fines, emails show. The Center for Constitutional Rights released the emails as the result of a Freedom..."

Oct. 30, 2020 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Page Two: By Vote or by Violence

How will naysayers and protesters 'take back the country'? And from whom?

"...discredited) or by violence or by massive acts of civil disobedience and protest?..."

July 30, 2010 Column by Louis Black

The Hightower Report

Alito Strikes; and Corporatizing The Border

"...Court spends far more time on issues involving workers' rights, pollution, consumers, and such than on abortion. We warned..."

June 23, 2006 News Column by Jim Hightower

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Nonprofit Needs

"...and many people within KOOP and the broader justice movement do not understand the extent of the power we..."

March 19, 1999 Column

Postmarks

"...on key questions like political accountability, genuine democracy, personal rights and freedoms; but also, more recently, on such promising..."

Dec. 19, 1997 Column

Keep On Shoppin'

Wheatsville Calls on Old Friends to Stay Afloat

"...and say Cesar Chavez stood here. The late farmworker rights leader considered Wheatsville a good friend for honoring the..."

Nov. 8, 1996 News Feature by Amy Smith

Page Two

The vision of a healthy, dynamic, impressively powerful country having a tortured, ongoing internal dialogue about its actions serves to inspire rather than discourage dreams

"...groups: to denounce the death penalty, to support women's rights, to protest U.S. foreign policy and decry our country's..."

Jan. 28, 2005 Column by Louis Black

Naked City

Breaking news from Austin, the region, and elsewhere

"...The San Marcos Bill of Rights Defense Committee presents a forum, "What Does the USA..."

Nov. 21, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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Gore vs. Bush vs. Nader vs. Ventura vs. Hernandez vs. Simone, approximately.

"...still have some educating to do. Most light rail movements in other communities did not pass on their first..."

Nov. 17, 2000 Column

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...represented the Catholic order, said that a pending human rights lawsuit brought against Freeport by local indigenous people "is..."

May 14, 1999 News Feature

As Austin’s Democratic Congressmen Return to Washington, They’re Ringing Alarm Bells

Doggett describes “first step forward in the march to fascism”

"...Trump so much admires have imprisoned journalists, academics, and rights activists by claiming that they are supporters of terrorism,”..."

Nov. 22, 2024 News Feature by Maggie Quinlan

Texas’ New Law Seeks to Kick Out Elected Prosecutors (Especially Ours)

"Rogue prosecutor" law takes effect Sept. 1

"...at D.A.s elected amid the increasingly visible progressive prosecutor movement, defined partly by efforts to reduce mass incarceration. Research..."

July 7, 2023 News Feature by Maggie Quinlan

Williamson County Residents Organize to Remove Confederate Monument

Meanwhile the Texas Legislature tries to block monument removals

"...Southern states (and elsewhere), it dates not from the Civil War period or immediately thereafter – but from 1916,..."

May 7, 2019 News Post by Michael King

SXSW 2012 Film Lineup Announced

'21 Jump Street' selected as Centerpiece Film

"...Wotton. Impassioned about freedom of sexual expression and the rights of sex workers, she specializes in a long over-looked..."

Feb. 1, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Puzzled by Gallagher

"...Dear Editor, Re: “The Conservative Future of the LGBT Movement” [Under Covers Books blog, Feb. 22]: Maggie Gallagher seems..."

Feb. 24, 2010 Postmarks

Tax for Peace Not War

"...www.warresisters.org/piechart.htm, it's 50%.) Whither the outrage from the peace movement, city officials, social service agencies, conservatives, and ordinary taxpayers?..."

Aug. 15, 2005 Postmarks

New Austin 'Spokes' Speak Out Against Tasers

Austin activists coordinate efforts on police tactics, war, and other issues

"...so that they can profit off of abusing human rights."..."

Feb. 18, 2005 News Feature by Diana Welch

Letters at 3AM

McGuffey's Readers helped establish American education as we know it (or knew it).

"...McGuffey's methods and curriculum in Ken Burns' documentary The Civil War. Burns' narration consists largely of quotes from letters..."

April 27, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

From Here to Eternity

The only punk rock band that mattered, and why they still do

"...had taken a different dimension. "Safe European Home," "English Civil War," and "Tommy Gun" all evinced a move away..."

May 19, 2000 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Thanksgiving as a Refugee in America

Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free

"...the surface of the issue. The United Nations Human Rights Council currently has 4.8 million Syr­ians registered as refugees...."

Nov. 25, 2016 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Page Two: We're All Monsters Here

On the subject of this year's Halloween cover

"...issues, that has traditionally and routinely back burnered women's rights, health issues, economic justice, and social equality may some..."

Oct. 30, 2015 Column by Louis Black

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...Mobility Authority, further staking her claims in the GOP civil war over the Texas toll road craze. Though the..."

Oct. 8, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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Our readers talk back.

"...The anti-war movement has been an abysmal failure. We have focused on..."

March 21, 2003 Column

Tulia's Freedom Ride

Activists travel to Tulia for "Never Again!" rally against drug war.

"...said Karen Byars, who was representing the group Human Rights in the Drug War. After about an hour's vigil,..."

July 27, 2001 News Feature by Jennie Kennedy

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Warren Responds

"...Warren ... [is] said to have instigated the petition movement ... [to have Leonard Lyons removed from the Airport..."

Aug. 21, 1998 Column

Schools in Session

Legislators Study Issues: From Vouchers to Combat Pay

"...Vouchers: The movement to put public funds into private school coffers unexpectedly..."

Jan. 3, 1997 News Column by Roseana Auten

Cyberculture Evolution

From Zines to Zen With R.U. Sirius and Jon Lebkowsky

"...working with EFF-Austin and EFF-Houston to organize a cyber rights conference slated for fall...."

Aug. 2, 1996 Screens Feature

Art, Eggs, Kink, and Sleaze in This Weekend’s Art Events

Recommended happenings for your calendar consideration

"...between forces – wind and gravity – that produces movement within their own dialectic process of searching for equilibrium.”..."

April 18, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

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