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Since I've moved to Missoula, the Street Lit authors in Austin have moved to a new site at http://streetlitauthors.org/, run by the awesome Tony Nuñez and Phil Force. 

Below you'll find Street Lit news posts from my Austin years with the group, and a selection of the creative works of the
 Street Lit Authors Club. I'll be posting new works from the Missoula folks sooner than later, so keep an eye on us. We've got great things in the works.

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Poverty is a Weapon of mass destruction!

9/21/2016

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A political head-scratcher and call to the polls from Thomas Woodward, Director - Public Policy - SI of the Global Human Commodities Exchange, and Street Lit author:
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John F. Kennedy, the 35th U.S. President of the Democratic party. Kennedy sought to inspire all Americans to be more active in their citizenship. Kennedy was the youngest man ever elected to the presidency, succeeding the man who, at the time, was the oldest. He symbolized—as he well realized—a new generation and its coming-of-age. Near the end of 1963, in the wake of the March on Washington and Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Had a Dream" speech, Kennedy finally sent a civil rights bill to Congress. One of the last acts of his presidency and his life, Kennedy's bill eventually passed as the landmark Civil Rights Act in 1964. He also proposed a voting-rights bill and federal programs to provide healthcare to the elderly and the poor.

Ronald Wilson Reagan, the 40th U.S. President of the Republican party. President Reagan helped redefine the purpose of government and pressured the Soviet Union to end the Cold War. He solidified the conservative agenda for decades after his presidency. In 1981, Reagan once gain made history by appointing Judge Sandra Day O'Connor as the first woman to the U.S. Supreme Court. Although he never lost his admiration for FDR, Reagan became an ardent conservative and switched his registration to Republican in 1962. In 1987, the Americans and Soviets signed a historic agreement to eliminate intermediate-range nuclear missiles. That same year, Reagan spoke at Germany's Berlin Wall, a symbol of communism, and famously challenged Gorbachev to tear it down.
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