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[email protected] . MEETINGS A.C.L.U. Central Texas Chapter Fri. 3/3 Noon. Furrs Cafeteria Banquet Room, [email protected] . Travis County Greens Campaign 2000 Election Meetings. Sat. 4/1 & 4/8, 10:30 a.m. Green Party Campaign Headquarters, 1817 East 6th St. Our Lady’s Austin Alliance for Democracy. Sun. 4/2, 6:30 p.m. AFL-CIO Building, 11 th Peace Action Austin. Mon. 4/3, 7 p.m. Consumers Union office, 1309 Guadalupe. [email protected] . House the Homeless. Wed. 4/5, 4 p.m. 701 W. 5th St. www.housethehomeless.org . Working Stiff Journal Collective. Wed. 4/5, 7:15 p.m. Ran Moran’s house, 5214 Duval. laborl @yahoo.com . International Socialist Organization. Wed. 4/5 & 4/12, 7 p.m. Friends Meeting House, 31st and Washington Square. Amnesty International Group 500 Letter Writing Session. Sun. 4/9, 4 p.m. Central Market Caf, 42nd and Lamar, upstairs. EVENTS Ongoing Picket Line at Overnite Freight. Daily 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Freight nationwide Teamster organizing drive helps all working people struggling . Alan Pogue Photo Exhibition & Reception Commemorating the Birthday of Cesar Chavez: Artist Reception. Fri. 3/31, 7 p.m. 3/27-4/14, exhibition run. Texas Union Gallery, U.T. campus. Picket The Gap, No More Sweatshops. Sat. 4/1, Noon. Guadalupe and 24th. Join this active and vocal informational picket demanding The Gap respect worker rights. This ongoing action is part of the international movement for a living wage and workplace justice. Sponsored by United Students Against Sweatshops and the Austin Living Wage Campaign. Ronnie Dugger and Ruth Caplan. Sun. 4/9, 6:30 p.m. AFL-CIO Building, 11th and Lavaca. Special Alliance for Democracy meeting. David Korten & Richard Grossman: Challenging Corporate Power What Are Our Options? Tues. 4/11, 7 p.m. Unitarian Church, 4700 of The Post-Corporate World: Life After Capitalism and When Corporations Rule the World. Richard Grossman is the co-founder of the Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy and co-author of Taking Care of Business and The Charter of Incorporation. Sponsored by Alliance for Democracy, Austin Coalition for Fair Trade, Green Party of Texas, Just Say No to W.T.O. Coalition, Public Citizen, Sierra Club, Texas Civil Rights Project, Texas Observer, and Texas Network for Economic HOUSTON MEETINGS Women Against Global Trafficking. Thurs. 4/3, 7:00 p.m. First Unitarian Universalist Church, 5200 Fannin, R 207. Common Cause. Tues. 4/4, 7:30 p.m. Christ the King Lutheran Church, 2353 Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement. Tues. 4/4, 7 p.m. Shape Community Center, 3903 Almeda. Contact Joanne Amnesty International Group 23. Wed. 4/5, 7:30 p.m. Olive Branch Meeting room, Houston Animal Rights Team. Thurs. 4/6, 7 p.m. Crooker Bldg. 2nd floor, UniHouston Sierra Club. Thurs. 4/6, 7:30 p.m. Central Presbyterian Church, 3788 Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, Houston Chapter. Tues. 4/11, 7 p.m. 3400 Montrose Blvd., Ste. 312. Akan Pogue Houstonians Against U.S. Military Involvement. Wed. 4/12, 7 p.m. Olive Branch Meeting Room, behind the . EVENTS David Korten & Richard Grossman: Challenging Corporate Power What Are Our Options? Mon. 4/10, 7 p.m. First Unitarian Universalist Church, 5200 Fannin. See Austin events. Contact Bob Buzzanco at . SAN ANTONIO EVENTS HeartBeats. Sat. 4/1, 7 p.m. PeaceCENTER, 127 McCullough. A monthly coffee house. Come hear songs and poems of peace with other PeaceCENTER. Contact Covita Moroney, [email protected] , or visit www.salsa.net/peace/alters. Women at Peace. Mon. 4/3, 11:30 a.m. PeaceCENTER, 127 McCullough. Bring a bag lunch and meet and share ideas with other women David Korten: When Corporations Rule the World. Wed. 4/5, 7:30 author of The Post-Corporate World: Life After Capitalism; and the best selling When Corporations Rule the World, is credited with raising public awareness about the consequences of economic globalization and the expansion of corporate power at the expense of democracy, equity, and the environment. David Korten was a featured speaker at the W.T.O. meeting in Seattle last November, and will be at the I.M.F. protest April 16 in Washington, D.C. To send Texas Bulletin Board submissions, e-mail business @ texasobservenorg and type “TBB” in the subject line. Submissions must be received 17 calendar days before the issue date.