Archive for January, 2010
Public Safety Commission Meeting @ Austin City Hall
The Public Safety Commission is set to have their next meeting this coming Monday. APD Chief of Staff David Carter will be giving an update on the Fusion Center @ 4:45PM. This is an excellent opportunity to ask questions and get the facts about the Fusion Center.
When: Monday, February 1, 2010 at 4:00 pm
Where: City Hall, Boards and Commissions Room 1101 (301 West 2nd St)
Austin Police Department Protest!
This is it people! This is GUN CONTROL in TEXAS. It is starting! And WE THE PEOPLE are the only ones who are going to do anything about it! Not the sold out NRA, not our sold out elected officials, IT’S UP TO US!
This Monday, January 25th @ the Austin Police Department’s HQ @ 5PM, Texans for Accountable Government will show APD and BATF that we will NOT bury our head in the sand as they try to bully gun show promoters and vendors and cut off public access to purchasing a fire arm here in Austin! DO NOT BRING ARMS – this MUST be a PEACEFUL demonstration. Please DO bring your holsters and wear them on your hip/shoulder – but instead of a weapon, place a Constitution in it! The media will eat this up! Bring extras for others to borrow if you have them!
When: Monday, January 25th from 5-7pm
Where: Austin Police Department 715 East 8th Street
Fusion Center Q&A – Jan 26th @ 7PM
Texas Impact (texasimpact.org) is hosting a public forum with an APD representative who will be speaking about the Austin Regional Intelligence Center. This is an important opportunity to ask questions. We encourage people who are concerned with the Fusion Center apparatus to attend and ask hard questions. We want APD to explain how they’re planning to ensure that this Fusion Center will not violate our privacy or civil liberties. More importantly, we want APD to defend why they should have a Fusion Center at all.
When: Tuesday, January 26th @ 7PM
Where: St. John’s United Methodist Church (2140 Allandale Road)
Transportation Hearing @ The State Capitol – Feb 1st
If you want to end tolling as the primary means to fund new roads and for the MOST AFFORDABLE method of funding roads to prevail, you MUST come to the State Capitol Feb 1st to be heard!
That means telling lawmakers NO to selling our roads to private, foreign corporations (in these CDA contracts), NO to raiding teacher retirement funds and public employee retirement funds to finance them, NO to ANY tax increases until they CLEAN HOUSE at TxDOT and STOP raiding the gas tax for things that don’t relate to roads, and YES to the MOST AFFORDABLE way to fund roads (which is the statewide gas tax, hasn’t been raised since 1991).
What: Hearing on Transportation Funding
When: February 1 @ 8:00 AM
Where: Capitol Extension Auditorium – State Capitol – Austin, TX
More details to follow.
Contact Sudie Sartor at (210) 496-2997 or at sudie@texasturf.org if you’re interested in carpooling from your area to the Capitol on Feb 1st.
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