Million Musician March

Saturday March 20th - Austin, Texas!

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UT Global Ethics and Conflict Resolution Summer Symposium for High School Students June 6th-19th at University of Texas.

( Financial aid available *)

The camp runs from June 6th to 19th. Registration can be for both weeks or just the first or second week.

The Summer Symposium is a unique University program for mature high school students combining academics, service, and research. Some of the topics explored will be: Negotiation Theory; Music and Art of Peace; A Devoted and Dynamic Family; Safety and School; Race, Ethnicity and Community; Civil Rights, Human Rights, and Individual Responsibility; Current Events; and Public Policy and National Identity.

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Pickin' Party for Peace Sunday afternoons with Instruments for Peace at Cafe Caffeine , 2-430PM in South Austin, Texas

When : March 7th & 14th ( Sundays) 2 pm til 430 pm

Where: Cafe Caffeine 909 W. Mary St 78704
Co-Hosted by Richard Bowden (fiddleplayer), Thom Moon Bird ( Poet) , and Will T Massey .

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Six Innocent Death Row Exonerees to Spend the Week Sharing Their Stories With Students

"Anti-Death Penalty Alternative Spring Break" in Austin March 15-19, 2010

Students Against the Death Penalty will hold an "Anti-Death Penalty Alternative Spring Break" in Austin, Texas from March 15-19, 2010.

The full schedule and a registration form is on the website: www.springbreakalternative.org/deathpenalty.

All events are free and open to the public, both students and non-students. The building and room number on the University of Texas at Austin campus for all events will be announced on the website soon.  Guest speakers include six innocent, exonerated people who together spent about 65 years on death row for crimes they did not commit: Curtis McCarty, Shujaa Graham, Ron Keine, Derrick Jamison, Perry Cobb and Juan Melendez. Speaker bios are available on the website.

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Sunday, March 7th , A Evening of Fun and Community ! Please, join us !

Sara Hickman, Ponty Bone , Esther's Follies, and Bill Oliver & Bob Livingston to perform benefit concert for Austin nonprofit Save Town Lake

Austin, TX - Texas State Official Musician for 2010-11 Sara Hickman, accordion master Ponty Bone & the Squeezetones, Austin comedy mainstay Esther's Follies and others will perform a benefit concert Sunday, March 7 to benefit Austin non-profit Save Town Lake. Save Town Lake was founded in 2002 to work with the City of Austin, neighborhoods and developers to preserve Lady Bird Lake, the literal and figurative heart of Austin. The concert will run from 6:00-10:00pm at El Sol y La Luna on 6th and Red River. El Sol will offer complimentary hors d'oeuvres and happy hour drink specials.

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Shimon ben Gamliel

Upon three things the world is sustained: On judgment (din) on truth (emeth) and on peace (shalom).