The Informant

Revolutionary to rat: The uneasy journey of Brandon Darby

"...Chiapas, Mexico of the Zapatistas and good old community organizing." It was also when Darby made national headlines by..."

Jan. 23, 2009 News Feature by Diana Welch

Point Austin: Getting Wello

Join the fight for universal health care

"...using the film as a springboard for a national organizing campaign in support of universal health care. As Moore's..."

July 6, 2007 News Column by Michael King

Maxey Goes Statewide?

Is an openly gay Austin liberal the answer to rebuilding the state Democratic Party?

"...of doing some amazing things in the way of organizing elections and voters, and in building organizations."..."

June 2, 2006 News Feature by Amy Smith

Naked City

Headlines and Happenings from Austin and Beyond

"...way up. Maxey is a longtime activist and seasoned political operative, who led the statewide campaign against the Prop...."

March 10, 2006 News Feature

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...toll-road plan. To give these people another breath of political life is to enable them to swing with the..."

Feb. 25, 2005 Column

Being Bayard Rustin

Bennett Singer and Nancy Kates' Brother Outsider gets inside the life of a civil rights lion.

"...Luther King, in the end he was deemed a political liability to the cause, his talents best utilized from..."

Nov. 14, 2003 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

'Showdown in Texas' Takes on Bush in His Old Back Yard

The American Friends Service Committee's May 3 rally aims to be a global multi-issue challenge to the Bush agenda.

"...justice Quaker organization headquartered in Philadelphia, the AFSC began organizing the Showdown well before the war in Iraq began...."

April 11, 2003 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Naked City

"...name of fighting terrorism. Among the most frightening: "Restore political ideology as grounds for exclusion and/or deportation." We're guessing..."

Oct. 26, 2001 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Rebels With a Cause

Compelling documentary about the Sixties" Students for a Democratic Society includes commentary from such leaders as Tom Hayden and Austin's Alice Embree and Jeff Shero Nightbyrd.

"...National Secretary Mike Spiegel describes how his formerly hawkish political outlook was forever shattered by the realization that his..."

March 2, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Neighborhood Watch

"...I was supposed to be a scientist and was politically involved in the civil rights movement, the anti-war movement,..."

Aug. 13, 1999 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Power, Forward

Dave Zirin on 'What's My Name, Fool?: Sports and Resistance in the United States'

"...attitude toward sports, huffing that an examination of the political economy of baseball or boxing is beneath serious commentary...."

Nov. 11, 2005 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

March 2020 Club Endorsements

Who's backing whom in the Democratic primary?

"...Action, Latino Victory Fund, UT-Austin UDems, CWA District 6 Organizing for Power, Unite Here Local 23, Communications Workers of..."

Feb. 4, 2020 News Post

The History of the LGBTQ Movement in Austin

From Stonewall to today, how Pride has progressed in our city

"...to 1970, Austin's lesbian and gay community "was not politically conscious of itself," but it was active. The city's..."

Aug. 9, 2019 News Feature by Beth Sullivan

Here Comes the Guv

Kinky Friedman lights up his campaign

"...November general election and to become the state's first politically independent chief administrator since Gov. Sam Houston was running..."

Feb. 17, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Texas Faith and Freedom

Samantha Smoot recounts her work with the Texas Freedom Network

"...student, at Harvard/Radcliffe, and I got involved in various political causes, mostly having to do with women's issues. Afterward..."

Oct. 15, 2004 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Postmarks

Helping Herb

"...contentious, then she/he hasn't seen or heard very many political races...."

March 6, 1998 Column

'Chronicle' Endorsements

March 4 primary election

"...Precinct 4 race) plays into the popular perception that political infighting and funding competition among precincts are par for..."

Feb. 22, 2008 News Feature

CNN Obama-Clinton Debate: The full transcript

Word for word, the whole shebang

"...ago I came to Austin for my very first political job, and that was registering voters in south Texas...."

Feb. 21, 2008 News Post by Lee Nichols

Not So Red

A "blue state" reporter journeys through the multi-colored regions of the Lone Star State

"...in the midst of a six-month road trip to politically "red states" – Texas, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Alabama, Montana, and..."

July 1, 2005 News Feature by Rose Aguilar

Parades Go By

The history of the rainbow lineup rolls forward into a spectrum of Austin Pride 2012

"...sidelines. This home-video footage also shows that the pervasive political statement that year was the anti-Briggs Initiative, a proposition..."

Sept. 21, 2012 Features Feature by Andy Campbell

'Chronicle' Endorsements

March 4 primary election

"...disaffected independents and disillusioned Repub­lic­ans to build a new political coalition that should build broad, grassroots support for effective,..."

Feb. 15, 2008 News Feature by The 'Chronicle' News staff

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...fact that we are a more features-based, rather than political, publication, and instead made it sound as if we..."

Aug. 27, 2004 Column

The Hottest Race in Texas

The David Fisher-Todd Staples Senate Contest in East Texas Will Decide the Fate of the State Senate -- and the U.S. House

"...into submission -- a real, live, up-close and personal political event was in progress up in East Texas. In..."

Oct. 27, 2000 News Feature by Michael King

How You Became a Criminal

An interview with Canadian documentary filmmaker Ron Mann about his newest film, Grass.

"...SXSW Film Festival, represents a more somber and overtly political topic -- marijuana prohibition in the U.S. -- but..."

March 10, 2000 Screens Feature by Nick Barbaro

Poetry as Activism

Raul Salinas' Passion for Literature and Life

"...doing field work for one of his most cherished political causes. A few nights hence, Salinas will host a..."

March 21, 1997 Books Feature by Phil West

All in the Family

Elizabeth, Bruce & George: Love, Austin Style

"...sell Austin's utility, while her father, Texas' pre-eminent Democratic political advisor George Christian, has for the last decade been..."

July 19, 1996 News Feature by Audrey Duff

Revolution: The Power to Begin

Letters at 3AM

"...every revolution, no matter what its nature (economic, social, political, cultural -- revolutions come in many ways). The powerful..."

Oct. 27, 1995 Column

Point Austin: Thinking Outside the Box

Stacy Mitchell examines the megaretail culture and the tools required to dismantle it

"...Businesses, Mitchell's Big-Box Swindle is a historical, economic, and political study of the major international chain-store corporations and their..."

Nov. 24, 2006 News Column by Michael King

Point Austin: Three Dimensions

When you're looking for heroes, avoid the usual suspects

"...an increasingly cosmopolitan downtown, highlighting the new Clinton Library (political-historical exhibits much more impressive than the exterior, which the..."

June 23, 2006 News Column by Michael King

Page Two: For What It's Worth

Thoughts on conflict of interest and the staying power of Neil Young

"...the Sunset Strip riots that were more cultural/lifestyle-oriented than political, which we knew because we all knew those kind..."

Dec. 16, 2005 Column by Louis Black

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