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A two-week reflection on the effects of development on the trees and people in East Austin

April 18 to 30, 2009

Space12

3121 12th Street

“Muntu” is a word that means both tree and person.

What is happening to the muntu of East Austin amidst the city’s changing cultural and geographical landscape?

This multimedia exhibit offers the entire Austin community a time and space for shared reflection on this and related questions, for conversations of all kinds, in diverse media:

performance, poetry, storytelling, sculpture, music, essays, photography, and good old-fashioned talk.

Austin – East of I35, a photography show by Rama Tiru

A community arts project:

We are members of the Austin United Coalition. We are concerned Austin citizens, organizations, businesses, parents, students, and workers who want to move forward from this city’s legacy of racism.

In 2005 the city of Austin joined with concerned citizens to create the African American Quality of Life Initiative. This initiative came about as a result of city government’s response to a number of studies that showed glaring systematic inequities affecting the African American community in Austin.

Well, nelson Lender and the knee-jerk reactionaries of the NAACP have done it again. They are only floundering for something to do and this is it. At the very least Highland mall practiced bad business. Blacks historically have gone to this mall and to shut it down during an event that a large number of blacks come to was not good business. Not good business is it? I mean who is really being racist here by even bringing race into this? I'll answer that "NAACP".... What is even more reactionary is that the "NAACP" is connecting some clubs downtown to Highland malls bad business practice. Even if Highland mall had racist intentions behind their closing you can't connect these two together. It irritates me to no end that guilty white people want to defend this shit.

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well, folks, this is the first blog entry in a minute. as our listeners may know, kpwr is a new studio, down the way from the rhizome, still somewhere in the eastside. it feels different here, which is to be expected.

but, as we say, the people will radio. here's a bit a news you may not find anywhere else:

CWA strike against AT&T over Health Care and cost shifting to employees
Negotiations between AT & T and the Communications Workers of America continue to move slowly. With 5 Regional Contracts across the country set to expire April 4th, workers in Locals from coast to coast held strike votes this week. Rachel Clarke and Courtney Wilson bring us more from Local 6222 out of Houston.

if folx remember this story from years ago I would like to remind. Only because I think it to be that interesting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDHT0hBgVOw&feature=related
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