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Happening This Week:
Coal Vote, Abortion March, Renn Fest, Climate Hike, and More
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| Enjoy the Japanese Tea Gardens while doing Tai Chi with a U.S. and World Record-holding Tai Chi master David-Dorian Ross. | |
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| On the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Mujeres Marcharán calls on everyone to raise their voices for abortion rights and to defend and expand our democratic rights. | |
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| San Antonio-based CPS Energy’s Board of Trustees votes on closing the JK Spruce coal plant and adopt a generation plan for the years ahead. | |
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| Wed, Jan 25: Dr. Cornel WestWest comes to San Antonio College to discuss rooting solidarity and collaboration in our daily practice of peace building and racial justice work. | |
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Rearview |
MLK March in San Antonio (January 16, 2023) |
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On environmental racism |
Of all the elevating of rights-based values during this most popular MLK march in the United States, few could compare with this gem from D2 Councilmember Jalen McKee-Rodriguez while questioning last week CPS Energy CEO Rudy Garza about a coming transition in energy generation. While the details are yet to be decided by CPS Energy’s Board of Trustees at a special January 23 meeting, we can expect that much of the generation will still focus around Calaveras Lake in the southeast and (very likely) continue to lean on polluting fossil fuels.
McKee-Rodriguez said:
“I still have concerns about the pollution impacts. My district is closer than others to the power plants. ... We're continuing to pin the burden of living with pollution on families on the East Side. That's my concern. These are mainly poor working-class families. To me that's environmental racism.”
— Councilmember Jalen McKee-Rodriguez, D2
Here’s a reminder that San Antonio’s African-American community, largely on our East Side, inhabit hot spots for both colliding urban heat island and high asthma rates. Spreading the burdens of our energy choices is not the answer. Eradicating them is. Adelante! |
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Around the Bend |
| A Contemporary Art exhibit of clay sculptures by renowned ceramicist Veronica Castillo Salas, depicting the relationship of women to the earth. | |
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| Gary Poole will talk about the science behind climate change and understanding the effects already occurring globally and locally. | |
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| Yanawana Herbolarios and San Arte Cultural Arts bring immersive art, meditation, and healing circle to help manifest a better future. | |
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| Special hands-on opportunity, working with clay sculpting, sketch drawing, watercolor painting, and poetry to close out special exhibit, ‘Life in the Wild.’ | |
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