This is an announcement for the paper "Property (T) and rigidity for actions on Banach spaces" by U. Bader, A. Furman, T. Gelander, and N. Monod. Abstract: We study property (T) and the fixed point property for actions on $L^p$ and other Banach spaces. We show that property (T) holds when $L^2$ is replaced by $L^p$ (and even a subspace/quotient of $L^p$), and that in fact it is independent of $1\leq p<\infty$. We show that the fixed point property for $L^p$ follows from property (T) when $1<p< 2+\e$. For simple Lie groups and their lattices, we prove that the fixed point property for $L^p$ holds for any $1< p<\infty$ if and only if the rank is at least two. Finally, we obtain a superrigidity result for actions of irreducible lattices in products of general groups on superreflexive Banach spaces. Archive classification: Group Theory; Functional Analysis The source file(s), ftlp14.tex: 137939 bytes, is(are) stored in gzipped form as 0506361.gz with size 43kb. The corresponding postcript file has gzipped size 152kb. Submitted from: monod@math.uchicago.edu The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/math.GR/0506361 or http://arXiv.org/abs/math.GR/0506361 or by email in unzipped form by transmitting an empty message with subject line uget 0506361 or in gzipped form by using subject line get 0506361 to: math@arXiv.org.