April 2012
32 posts
Apr 30th
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Apr 28th
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Apr 27th
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“Speakers included members of the groups Pride of the Eastside and Occupy Austin,...”
– School worker council created
Apr 24th
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“Members of Occupy Austin also plan to attend to ask the board to reconsider the...”
– Austin school board to hold public hearing on $725 million budget, choose union policy
Apr 23rd
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Apr 21st
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“A related case occurred in Austin, Texas, where one organizer told me that, by...”
– The Wonderful, Unpredictable Life of the Occupy Movement
Apr 20th
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“OCCUPY AUSTIN OCCUQUEERS MEETING Take up your rightful visceral and political...”
– Gay Place: Unicorn, Totally - Columns - The Austin Chronicle
Apr 19th
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Apr 19th
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Apr 19th
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Apr 16th
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Apr 14th
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Day of Action [video] →
I actually was really tired last night & fell asleep around 7pm. I woke around 6am, which was good because I got breakfast with a friend and then it was off to the day’s first action. Today is Cesar Chavez’s birthday, and so I marched with the Austin community from a library in my East Austin neighborhood down to City Hall. The costumes were colorful, the people beautiful, and the weather...
Apr 13th
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“prosecutorial misconduct occurred in 91 Texas criminal cases between 2004 and...”
– Panel Emphasizes Need for Prosecutorial Oversight - News - The Austin Chronicle
Apr 13th
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Occupy Austin protests help stall IDEA enrollment,...
But the situation raises the old question: Why did the district bring IDEA to Austin in the first place? The original proposal was to create the latest and hopefully most definitive restructuring of Eastside Memorial. After a seemingly never-ending series of reforms and staff overhauls and repurposings inflicted by the Texas Education Agency and AISD, IDEA was supposed to be the final format for...
Apr 12th
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Apr 12th
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Mr 1% in San Antonio →
Mr 1% in San Antonio Kit O’Connell greeting Mr 1% (Mitt Romney) at Pearl Stables in San Antonio, Texas. Photo by Preston Morris. Late Tuesday I got a call from members of Occupy Wall Street NYC along with some San Antonio occupiers. After some drama within their ranks, many of the most effective organizers in San Antonio have regrouped and become Occupy Bexar. They invited Comrade, a...
Apr 12th
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Apr 11th
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Apr 11th
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Apr 10th
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“Daily Texans calls for stand against TX Rep. Lamar Smith, author of SOPA”
– The Daily Texan
Apr 10th
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“[Audio] SXSW Panel: The Occupy Movement and the Power of Citizen Journalism”
– e.politics: online advocacy tools & tactics » [Audio] SXSW Panel: The Occupy Movement and the Power of Citizen Journalism
Apr 9th
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“APD Officer Wheeler (Badge #3900) is at the Occupy Austin General Assembly,...”
– #OccupyMap | Occupy Wall Street
Apr 9th
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“Timothy’s Notes on The Culture of Liberty by Mario Vargas Llosa Posted on...”
– March | 2012 | Occupy Austin Reading Group
Apr 8th
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Apr 2nd