Monday, April 19 7PM UT Student Union Plaza
PROTEST KARL ROVE AT UT
Call to protest from World Can't Wait: "Karl Rove will still be in Texas on April 19, speaking at the University of Texas in Austin... Austin will have the chief propagandist for the war in Iraq at UT. Let's rally outside the UT Student Union.

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NOT ONE MORE DOLLAR! CALL YOUR CONGRESSPERSON ! THIS IS NATIONAL CALL IN WEEK , NO MORE WAR FUNDING FOR AFGHANISTAN !

Congress has returned from recess and a war supplemental is on their agenda. They need to hear from constituents.

When you call you should ask there be no more war funding for Afghanistan, that a date be set an end date to U.S. occupation and that real peace negotiations begin.

A second call-in week will be scheduled when there is better intelligence on the timing of the war supplemental vote and possible amendments but it is important to lay the groundwork now. We expect the vote will happen before Friday, May 28, the start of the Congressional Memorial Day recess.

Please call both your Senators and your House Member. The Congressional hotline number is: (202) 224-3121. They will connect you to your representatives.

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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3/18/2010 RALLY ON CAPITAL STEPS: RACISM AND SOCIAL JUSTICE

HOW WHITES ARE AFFECTED BY RACISM

I’m here today representing the Austin Center for Peace and Justice, and I’m honored to do so; our main mission cites the need to assisting Austin to live in socially responsible ways. 

A friend and I were talking after meditating at a local Buddhist Meditation center.  She was trying to describe one of the monks, and said, “Yeah, he’s the bald one.”  We both burst out laughing, because all the monks there were bald!

Stereotypes and ignorance are two major areas that keep racism going.  This joke is much like the person who says, “They all look the same to me.”  This denies that fact of individuality of people within a category.  What’s often hard for European Americans to grasp is the notion of unity and diversity when it comes to viewing difference between those ethnic groups that look very different than us.

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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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