With services for both students and the general public alike, having a university nearby can offer some pretty good perks. Here’s a look at what’s available to near neighbors–not just students–as the university year kicks off again.
September 2003
Parents Sign Up for HIPPY at Riverwest Schools
HIPPY isn’t about the 60′s. It’s Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY). Giving parents the tools, experience, and help they need to become involved in their preschool youngsters’ education is what this free Riverwest program is all about. And when parents get involved, kids do well in school.
Riverwest Community History Reading
Tom Tolan will be reading from his Riverwest: A Community History at Schwartz Bookshop, Monday, September 8, 7 pm reading, 2559 N. Downer Ave. (414-332-1181).
On Pilgrimage in Oklahoma City
by Robert Waldrop, Labor Day, AD 2003, Oscar Romero Catholic Worker House
As this is Labor Day, we should stop for a moment and reflect on the Church’s teachings regarding labor. The Church teaches that labor is superior to capital, but our culture of death of course has reversed this and our economic structures give the advantage to capital. The Church teaches the duty of employers to pay a living wage, but our culture of death makes excuses for low wage employers, even though low wage employers are as deadly to a community as methamphetamine dealers. An unfair and unjust system of globalization, which from beginning to end is rigged to favor the powerful, is destroying jobs in the United States and providing transnational corporations with structural incentives to oppress workers in poor countries with a system characterized by low wages, opposition to unions, and physical coercion of workers.
This Weekend in Riverwest
Riverwesters in Acoustic Duo Set at MKE Alehouse – Bremen Cafe show – Open Mic at Closet Classics – Celia CD release party – The Bugs CD release party – Quarters and Circle A shows – Gardeners Market – Courtyard Cafe – Vegetarian Potluck
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