Austin Beloved Community

Template:TOCnestleft Austin Beloved Community is an Austin Texas based historical and activist website created in 2014 by Anne Lewis. It is closely affiliated with Freedom Road Socialist Organization.

People

The people who created Austin Beloved Community - Anne Lewis organizer/filmmaker/director, Jeanne Stern animator/painter, Salma Mirza web developer, Rene Renteria photographer, Justin Hennard sound designer, Emma Louise Mutrux artist, Jacob Branson design consultant.

Funders

This project is funded and supported in part by the City of Austin through the Economic Growth & Redevelopment Services Office/Cultural Arts Division believing an investment in the Arts is an investment in Austin’s future. Visit Austin at NowPlayingAustin.com.

Austin Beloved Community site launch

MC Jacob Branson wearing a Freedom Road Socialist Organization organization T shirt

Thursday May 1, 2014 marked the InternationalWorker's Day.

Many grassroots organizations and activists gathered at Resistencia Bookstore to celebrate and to recogmize the official web launch for Austin Beloved Community.

Austin has a rich history of social justice organizations, artists and activists who have worked hard to fix longstanding problems in neighborhoods and communities.

Organizations participating included: ACC/AFT Local 6249, ADAPT, ALLGO, Austin Tan Cerca de la Frontera, Campaign to End the Death Penalty, Challenger Newspaper, Creative Action, Code Pink, Democratic Socialists of America, Education Austin, Freedom Road Socialist Organization (/OSCL), Grassroots Leadership, Austin Immigrant Rights Coalition, International Socialist Organization, MonkeyWrench Books, People's History in Texas, PODER, Proyecto Defensa Laboral (Workers Defense Project), Resistencia Bookstore, Rise Up Texas, Texans United for Families (TUFF), The Sierra Club, The Rag Blog, Texas Jail Project, Third Coast Activist, Treasure City Thrift, TSEU/CWA Local 6186, Women's Community Center.

Event organizers were Anne Lewis and Jacob Branson.

Music by Sonoita, Fandango Tejas, Mario Garza, Kiko Villamizar, Kiya Heartwood, and The Bronze Band!

Attendees

Attendees included Anne Lewis, Jacob Branson (MC), Leslie Cunningham, Dave Cortez, Beverly Baker Moore, Sarah Rafael Garcia, Ang Garcia, Mike Corwin.

List of People Who Contributed Memories and Experience

• Aaron Chappell, AFL-CIO
• Akwasi Evans, NOKOA
• Alan Pogue, Texas Center for Documentary Photography
• Allan Campbell, host, People United on KOOP Radio
• Alice Embree, The Rag Blog, SDS
• Amber Pleasant, teacher, Discovery School
• Andrea Zarate, filmmaker, Las Latinitas
• Andrew Garrison, East Austin Stories, Professor, UT-Austin
• Bernice Hecker, Interfaith Community for Palestinian Rights
• Beverly Burr, History of Student Activism (1960-1988)
• Bianca Hinz-Foley, USAS
• Bo McCarver, Blackland CDC
• Bob Feldman, The Rag Blog
• Bob Libal, Grassroots Leadership
• Brad Rockwell, Lowerre Frederick Perales Allman & Rockwell
• Brian McGiverin, Texas Civil Rights Project
• Carl Webb, La Raza Roundtable
• Carlos Perez de Alejo, Cooperation Texas
• Carmen Llanes, Marathon Kids
• Chris Knapp, Texas State Employees Union
• Cynthia Baladez-Mata, Jr., District Director, LULAC District 7
• Dan Stuyck, filmmaker and graphic artist
• Danny Fetonte, organizer, CWA
• Dave Cortez, Sierra Club
• Debbie Winegarten, Women in Texas History
• Diana Claitor, Texas Jail Project
• Eliot Tretter, geographer/author, Austin Restricted: the Making of a Segregated City
• Emilio Zamora, LULAC Council 4884, La Raza Roundtable
• Emily Timm, Workers Defense Project
• Emma Louise Mutrux, artist and editor
• Eric Tang, UT Community Engagement Center
• Evan Taniguchi, Taniguchi Architects
• Gilberto Rivera, La Raza Roundtable
• Glenn Scott, union rep, National Nurses United
• Holly Herrick, Austin Film Society
• Heidi Turpin, Code Pink, Under the Hood
• Kandace Eloisa Vallejo, IATP Food and Community Fellow
• Karen Kocher, filmmaker Austin Past and Present and Living Springs
• Kelly Booker, TSEU
• Kit O’Connell
• Jackie Goodman
• Jacqueline Rush Rivera, Cine Las Americas
• James Branson, TSEU
• Jane H. Rivera, Austin’s Rosewood Neighborhood, one of the Images of America series, Jane H. Rivera, Ph.D. and Gilberto C. Rivera
• Jeff Zavala, Austin IndyMedia
• Jen Reel, The Texas Observer
• Jen Rogue, Rise Up
• Jim Cullers, People’s History in Texas
• Jim Pearson, TSEU
• Josefina Castillo, Austin Tan Cerca de la Frontera
• Karen Kocher, Living Springs Project
• Ken Zarifis, Education Austin
• Lainie, Rise Up
• Laura Varela, filmmaker, raulrsalinas and the Poetry of Resistance
• Lauren Ross, Alliance of Community Trainers
• Leslie Cunningham, TSEU, Central Labor Council
• Lilia Rosas, Resistencia
• Lisa Fithian, Alliance of Community Trainers
• Lucian Villasenor, People’s Task Force
• Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez, U.S. Latina and Latino World War II Oral History Project
• Mariann Wizard, Students for a Democratic Society
• Martha Cotera, author, The Chicana Feminist
• Martha Norkunas, African American Texas Oral History Project
• Mary Arnold, Save Our Springs, Save Muny
• Matthew Gossage, Texans United for Families
• Melissa Hield, People’s History in Texas
• Melissa Wright, geographer/author Necropolitics, Narcopolitics, and Femicide
• Micah Robert Barber, filmmaker, lecturer UT Austin
• Michelle Mejia, filmmaker, Texas Folklife
• Mimi Pickering, filmmaker, Anne Braden: Southern Patriot
• Monica A. Guzman, LULAC District 7, La Raza Roundtable
• Monica Hernandez, Workers Defense Project, Austin Tan Cerca
• Monique Walton, filmmaker, Becoming Box Films
• Nancy Schiesari, filmmaker, Tattooed Under Fire
• Nelson Linder, NAACP
• Nina Vizcarrondo, filmmaker
• Oscar Miquel Salmeron, USAS
• Patrick Bresnan, photographer
• Priscilla Hale, ALLGO
• Ran Moran, Working Stiff Journal
• Raul Valdez, muralist, Los Elementos, Caricaturas, Justicia y Paz…
• Rene Renteria, photographer, filmmaker
• Rene Valdez, Resistencia
• Richard Croxdale, People’s History in Texas
• Robert Jenson, Third Coast Activists
• Robert Ovetz, political scientist, author, Case Study of the University of Texas
• Rose Pulliam, ALLGO
• Sabina Hinz-Foley, Workers Defense Project
• Sarah Cheatham, Treasure City
• Seth Hutchinson, TSEU
• Stephanie Jackson, TSEU
• Steve Mims, filmmaker Incendiary: the Tod Willingham Case
• Susana Almanza, PODER
• Susan Post, BookWoman
• Susanne Mason, filmmaker Writ Writer
• Tania Rivera, Resistencia
• Tim Eubanks, ALLGO
• Thorne Dreyer, the Rag Blog
• Travis Donoho, Education Austin
• Virginia Raymond, co-founder, Political Asylum Project of Austin/Proyecto de Asilo Politico de Austin (PAPA) and teacher
• Will Rogers, writer, Texas Left Labor Report

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