Daily Archives: 03/05/2010

(Community Matters) NYT – “Haitian Singer and His Guitar Fight Urge to Weep”  article here

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(Community Matters) @Concern’s Ed Kenney (@eokenney) reports this music blasting in the streets of Haiti – “the official recovery anthem”

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(Community Matters) AAS article on Austin gang activity – Progressives and conservatives alike would probably agree combating gang activity is as critical as terrorism. If we are going to push limits of civil liberties fighting terrorism, we ought to be at least as aggressive against gangs. We need to nip their growing Austin presence in the bud, and we need to impress upon our Travis County elected judges that we will not tolerate recidivism among this bunch.

(Community Matters) Arrived yesterday for a Human Rights Campaign (HRC) leadership conference.  Regrettably, missed Thursday’s lobby day.  LGBT donors and leaders from all around the country at last night’s reception.  Of course Kirk Rice taking care of the home team.  I snuck out with the DNC’s LGBT Council executive director, Tom Petrillo, and DNC regional deputy, Guy Selden, for dinner.  We met up with Haylie Rudy & Cory Vargas at Founding Farmers.  Sad to hear Tom is leaving the DNC – terrific new opportunity for him; interesting opportunities in filling his position.