North by Northwest Democrats

RG4N Community Meeting

Start: Jul 18 2007 - 7:00pm
End: Jul 18 2007 - 8:00pm
Location: First Unitarian Universalist Church, 4700 Grover Ave.

Please plan to attend our next community meeting for the latest news and developments on the Northcross situation. We’ll discuss what’s happening at Northcross, the details of our recently filed lawsuit, and what comes next in our drive for responsible development.

***** Additionally, we would like to have a table set up at the meeting for our supporting organizations - a place where you can have brochures or other handouts regarding your organization, if you would like. You can sit at the table to answer questions, or you can
provide me with your handouts and I can staff the tables for you.
Please let me know if you would like to do this and I will make arrangements to get any materials from you before the meeting.

Thank you call for your support!
Laurelin Mullins
Community Outreach Chair
Responsible Growth for Northcross
cell - 791-0408

Please Join the Austin North by Northwest Democrats on Monday, June 18th, at 6:00 pm, but read on for important details and updates on the venue change for this meeting:

Executive Summary:

We’re meeting at the JCAA at the usual time, prior to attending Mayor Will Wynn’s presentation on Austin’s role in the fight against global warming. There will be vegetarian pizza available, and we ask that you phone Jan or e-mail me to RSVP.

The Full Announcement:

Instead of the usual meeting place for our June 18th meeting, we will be
attending the Jewish Community Association of Austin (JCAA) Summer in the
City Speaker Series at the Dell Jewish Community Campus, 7300 Hart Lane.

We will meet at our usual time of 6:00pm, before Mayor Wynn’s presentation.
Jan has suggested that I let everyone know that once inside the building,
there will be signs directing us to our meeting room. Due to security
concerns, there will be a security guard at the gate, and you may be
required to open your trunk for inspection.

There will be vegetarian pizza available. So we know how much pizza to
order, please RSVP by phone (you may contact Jan at 512.583.0451) or by
e-mail (you may e-mail me at jelyon@jelyon.com).

Members should feel free to bring in their own food - but it must be
vegetarian. Time permitting, the mayor will meet with us prior to his
presentation.

From the JCAA website:

Will Wynn Presents the Austin Climate Protection Plan

Monday, June 18 7:00

As part of a citywide speaking tour, Mayor Will Wynn presents a slide show presentation and discussion about Austin’s role in the fight against global warming and the issues raised in Al Gore’s documentary film An Inconvenient Truth.

Visit the JCAA website for more information on the HotTalk series.

Directions:

The JCAA is located at 7300 Hart Lane. Traveling north on Mopac,
exit Far West Boulevard. Take a left on Far West and at the fourth light,
Hart Lane, take a right. The J is located half a block up Hart Lane on the
left. Look for the stone sign marking the entrance to the Dell Jewish
Community Campus.

Jim Harrington is Director of the Texas Civil Rights Project, which he founded in 1990, and an adjunct professor at the University of Texas Law School. A native of Michigan, Harrington received his law degree in 1973 from the University of Detroit, from where he also earned a Master’s degree in philosophy in 1969. After law school, Harrington worked ten years as Director of the South Texas Project in the Rio Grande Valley, before moving to Austin. Harrington has spent his thirty-three years as a lawyer in civil rights work, handling landmark cases involving grand jury discrimination, police miscon­duct, privacy, voting rights, free speech and assembly, farm worker organizing, and the rights of persons with disabilities. Additionally, Harrington served two years as director of the Americans with Disabilities Act National Backup Center, helping to organize ADA litigation campaigns in more than twenty states and U.S. territories. He is author of The Texas Bill of Rights: A Commentary and Litigation Manual and numerous law review articles and commentaries.

The Texas Civil Rights Project is a statewide community-based, non-profit civil rights foundation, promoting social, racial, and economic justice and civil liberty, through the legal system and public education, for low income and poor persons. TCRP has offices in Austin, San Juan, and El Paso. The Project does litigation, advocacy, and education around issues involving school discipline, youth and disabilities, jail diversionary programs, modification of probation and parole programs for youth and people with disabilities, and peer sexual harassment in junior and senior high schools.

Link: Texas Civil Rights Project

Please Join the Austin North by Northwest Democrats
on Monday, May 21st, at 6:00 pm
at Texpresso, 2700 W Anderson Lane Austin [map]
(in the Village Shopping Center)

The guest speaker will be James C. Harrington - Director, Texas Civil Rights Project