Tuesday, September 11, 2007, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm, Texas Union Chicano Culture Room, 4.206 The Center for Mexican American Studies Invites you attend: Comic Strip as Social Commentary with Hector Cantu, Creator of “Baldo”

TRANSPORTATION POLICY MEETING – MOPAC Bike Bridge, Monday, September 10th, 6:00pm, Texas State Capitol, Auditorium Room E1.004 “One used to be able to ride northbound on the shoulder [of MOPAC] until TXDOT re-striped it with no input from the city. The first cyclists who rode after the re-striping were sharing a lane with motorists going 70mph.” says Pete Wall of Yellow Bike And equally importantly, a recent article in the statesman – http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/08/20/0820wear.html – slammed the proposed bridge as unnecessary, … Continue reading →

Friday September 7 – Red Salmon Arts presents Cafe Libro, a bi-monthy open mike series, featuring Marcos Andres Flores. He is a Native South-Central Texas Xicano poet/scribe who grew up on a dirt road in the same barrio – on the same piece of land – as his mother before him – and her mother before her. His poetry, essays, short stories, and anecdotes deal with the preservation of home and the creation/re-creation of family, culture, and community. He will … Continue reading →

Nonviolence Training for Personal and Social Change Next Austin Workshop: SEPTEMBER 7-8, 2007 St John’s United Methodist Church, Allandale & Burnet (Friday noon to evening and Saturday 9am to evening) All are welcome to attend. For more information or to register: Austin Center for Peace and Justice

Thursday Sept. 6, 2007, 7:30 pm. Join the Bus Riders Union – ATX! — a group of bus passengers organizing to fight the Capital Metro fare increase. Capital Metro is trying to double the bus fares, to pay for very expensive trains that will run to the suburb of Leander. The people of Austin, many of whom are transit dependent, will benefit very little from this new service, but are being asked to pay twice what they currently pay for … Continue reading →

Thursday, September 6, 7:00 PM, UT campus, Parlin Hall, room 101 ISO PUBLIC FORUM Parlin Hall is in the northwest corner of the South Mall, the grassy lawn south of the UT Tower. See a map at: www.utexas.edu/maps/main/buildings/par.html

THURSDAY, September 6th, 7pm :: Book Launch + Celebration :: Clarity: How To Accomplish What Matters Most :: Ann Daly :: With all the tools of time-saving technology at our disposal, why do we still feel like we¹re spinning our wheels on the small stuff? Because in order to harness the power of those tools, we first need to be clear about what we want. In her new book, Clarity: How to Accomplish What Matters Most, Dr. Daly shows us … Continue reading →

WEDNESDAY, September 5th, 7pm :: Reading + Signing :: Claudia Smith + Tiff Holland :: Tiff Holland will be reading from BONE IN A TIN FUNNEL, a chapbook of poems from Pudding House Publications, and Claudia Smith will be reading from her collection THE SKY IS A WELL AND OTHER SHORTS, winner of Rose Metal Press’ first annual short-short chapbook contest. Lyric and gritty, glowing and graceful, The Sky Is a Well & Other Shorts is a complex and compact … Continue reading →

Sept. 5, 2007 — We need to continue to keep the momentum and the issue in front of the citizens of this city and this state. Please join us at the vigil on Lavaca between 10th and 11th, 5:30-6:30 PM.

Presidential candidates, congress members and the world media will be in Fort Worth attending the Texas Republican Straw Poll Townhall Convention on September 1, 2007 – days prior to General Petreaus’ report to the nation about the ongoing war and occupation in Iraq. Americans from across the country will descend on Fort Worth to express their opinion on the war. You are invited to join in the “American People’s Poll on Iraq – Texas Townhall” rally and other events to … Continue reading →