The Real Cost of a Lap Dance?
Lawsuit cites violation of wage laws at strip clubs
Diana Welch
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News, Oct. 29, 2010
Mistrial, Retrial for McKay
Jurors drop bomb on prosecutors' case against man accused of bomb-making
News, Feb. 6, 2009
The Informant
Revolutionary to rat: The uneasy journey of Brandon Darby
News, Jan. 23, 2009
RNC Aftermath
Austin protester pleads guilty in Minnesota
News, Jan. 16, 2009
Activists Raise Concerns About FBI Informant
News, Jan. 9, 2009
New Plan Aims to Heal Insurance Ills of Small Biz
Nonprofit launches project to help small businesses provide health coverage
News, Oct. 17, 2008
KB Home Workers Await Payday
Months after completing work on houses for KB Home, seven construction workers still haven't seen their paychecks
News, Sept. 12, 2008
Queen Lo-La Facing RV Park Exile
Trailer court moves to eject Nubian Queen Lo-La
News, July 20, 2007
Refugees Remain in Taylor Prison
ACLU files suit to spring children from 'residential facility'
News, April 13, 2007
Billy the Kid
Daily Reviews and Interviews
Screens, March 16, 2007
Hard Road Home
Daily reviews and interviews
Screens, March 16, 2007
The Few
A former Marine's unfiltered photography leads an American documentary crew into Darfur
Screens, March 9, 2007
Immigrant Detention Blues
Unknown number of immigrants languish in private detention center in Taylor; a small but growing group is working to make their situation public knowledge
News, Feb. 2, 2007
Shedding Light on Prisoners' Rights
HIV/AIDS awareness group trying to make case for prisoners' right to condom access
News, Jan. 26, 2007
Cross-Border Tidbits
Coahuila, Mexico, passes measure to legalize same-sex unions; and Babies "R" Us starts new year feeling wrath of both the Minutemen and immigration rights movement
News, Jan. 19, 2007
A Small Light Bulb: Artists, activists, spiritual people convene
Monthly salon where progressives can meet and talk begins this Sunday
News, Nov. 24, 2006
Anti-War Dad Comes to Austin
Bob Watada, father of Lt. Ehren Watada – who refused to go to Iraq and who has publicly denounced the war repeatedly – comes to Austin as part of national speaking tour
News, Oct. 27, 2006
Immigration Legislation Update
Immigrant rights taking a hit in D.C.
News, Oct. 6, 2006
Let Open Gays in Military
Small, local effort to call attention to discrimination against gays in military recruiting under way with sit-in
News, Sept. 22, 2006
Immigration Injustice
Local family has been on its own ever since mother was arrested and charged with transporting undocumented residents
News, Sept. 22, 2006
Immigration Update
Congress not making immigration legislation progress; and local immigrant rights organizers gather to call attention to those separated from their families via detention or deportation
News, Sept. 15, 2006
Soldier of Morality
Spc. Mark Wilkerson learns that it's a lot easier to get in the Army than it is to get out
News, Sept. 8, 2006
Laredo Overrun by Documented Politicos
Second of two House Subcommittee on International Terrorism and Nonproliferation hearings held in South Texas; and Department of Homeland Security progresses with plans to militarize – and privatize – border
News, July 14, 2006
Airline Discrimination?
Burundian author and runner Gilbert Tuhabonye has check-in trouble at Denver airport
News, June 30, 2006
Border Militarization Update
Perry authorizes use of Texas National Guard at border; and El Paso County Sheriff's Office says will temporarily cease holding immigration stops and raids
News, June 30, 2006
Anarchist Soccer Rules
Local anarcho-athletes to travel overseas for Anti-Racist World Cup
News, June 9, 2006
Immigration Insanity in D.C.
While Senate debates useless details of proposed immigration legislation, potentially insidious portions of Hagel-Martinez compromise lurk, waiting to slip through
News, May 26, 2006
Immigrants Flex Muscle
Day Without an Immigrant work stoppage and boycott draws more than a million people into the streets nationally; thousands turn out locally
News, May 5, 2006
Protest Retaliation?
For many in Austin's immigrant community, the hope that swelled from the massive April 10 immigrant rights protests has turned to fear
News, April 28, 2006
War Watch
Cindy Sheehan and others who have lost loved ones in Iraq come to Austin
News, April 21, 2006
Empire Control Room & Garage
