Invitees to President Obama’s UT-Austin Speech: Get Out of Afghanistan, War’s Failing, Set a Timetable

By: Derrick Crowe Monday August 9, 2010 9:30 pm

Today, President Obama came to my town to give an invite-only speech at the University of Texas. Lacking an invite, I wondered what people with invites had to say about the Afghanistan War. Here’s what I found: All the people who had tickets to the event who consented to be interviewed and who gave an [...]

Hope

By: Derrick Crowe Monday July 12, 2010 9:00 am

This evening, I spent a couple of hours at Central Market in downtown Austin, Texas, with 7 other people in one of the first Meetups to Rethink the Afghanistan War. I’ve been involved in a serious way in the struggle to end the war for a little more than two years. This was the most [...]

Joseph Andrew Stack’s Reputed Suicide Note

By: Casual Observer Thursday February 18, 2010 11:27 am

The pilot who today flew into an Austin office building housing IRS offices is thought to have written this note.

In Austin, Voices for True Health Care Reform

By: Casual Observer Tuesday September 1, 2009 11:47 am

On August 29th, Austin sent its congressman back to Washington to do battle for a true public option, and real healthcare reform.

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