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Austin Bus Strike

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Bill Kweder, Union Steward of ATU Local 1091, left the picket line out in front of Cap Metro’s headquarters at Fifth Street and Pleasant Valley Road to be a guest on Austin News Real. Bill Kweder explained to Austin bus riders why the bus drivers union was forced to go out on strike.

This Austin News Real program aired on November 7, 2008 on channelAustin 10. channelAustin is Austin’s public access television station / community media center. See www.channelaustin.org

Early Voting Irregularities

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Austin News Real’s Pam Thompson interviews Jenny Clark of Vote Rescue, www.voterescue.org, about reports of voting irregularities during early voting preceding the November 2008 election.

This Austin News Real program aired on October 23, 2008 on channelAustin 10. channelAustin is Austin’s public access television station / community media center. See www.channelaustin.org

The Electric Car

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Austin News Real’s Pam Thompson shows video footage of Pat Cadam, from Green Gears in San Francisco, who visited Austin Community College’s automotive department at the Riverside campus on Oct. 15, 2008. Pat Cadam demonstrated how to convert an existing Toyota Prius into an even more advanced battery operated car. Cadam was also in Austin to attend the Austin Alt Car Expo at the Palmer Center, hosted by Austin Energy. Another interview with Pat Cadam can be found here: http://atxedition.tv/blogs/electriccar

Texas Water 101 Compilation - 1 Hour

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www.iconmedia.org - Texas Water 101 Compilation puts the best segments from the Texas Water 101 series into an hour long edit.

This Austin News Real program aired on October 2, 2008 on channelAustin 10. channelAustin is Austin’s public access television station / community media center (www.channelaustin.org).

Register To Vote

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Katherine Haenschen, a volunteer with the Obama campaign and a graduate student in the Radio-Television-Film Dept. at the University of Texas, appeared on Austin News Real to discuss efforts to register voters in Austin and Travis County. The deadline for voter registration is October 6, 2008.

In this episode of Austin News Real were photographs of Obama campaign volunteers registering people to vote, an interview with Sissy Farenthold at the Texas State Democratic Party Convention in June 2008, and a 5-minute story about that convention from ATXedition.TV.

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