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From the Town of Chapel Hill web site:

Give Us Your Input on the New Greenways and Cycling Map

Posted Date: 

1/7/2011

Calling all bikers, hikers, and anyone who uses Chapel Hill’s trails and greenways. You’re invited to drop in and provide input for a new Greenways and Cycling Guide Map. A public meeting will be held from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan.13, in the Chapel Hill Town Hall second floor training room.

The Town of Chapel Hill Planning and Parks and Recreation departments are working with Steve Spindler, a cartographer specializing in cycle facility and transit mapping for urban areas, to develop a community map aimed at facilitating and promoting bicycle and greenway usage. Spindler will give a short presentation at 6 p.m. about mapping projects he has worked on and how his work has been used and distributed in other cities.

During this event, Spindler and Town staff will be available to discuss the information that makes urban cycling and greenway trail maps most effective. The Town is seeking public input so this map will benefit visitors, cyclists, and trail users of all types for years to come.

For more information, contact Garrett Davis of the Chapel Hill Planning Department at gdavis2@townofchapelhill.orgor 919-969-5061. 

We are hearing a lot about austerity everywhere nowadays, at every scale, county to international.  What we are not hearing: austerity for the Banks!, austerity for the big electricity utilities!, austerity for vampire multinational corporations! .. who have been making a killing this year while so many have lost their jobs, austerity for the rich! .. who may continue to not pay taxes (possibly enabled by Obama's spinelessness and our lack of accountability for him), austerity to the pentagon!  

Well, here is another attempt --an event-- to begin to change this ...

I would like to encourage all who still have their money with banks that are 'too big too fail,' banks that are 'too big to be subject to austerity' --designations not afforded to real people, who are the ones who end up picking up the tab for the banks and get fleeced in the process--, or with banks that finance criminal environmental practices such as tar sands oil extraction (RBC), to:

Please consider joining the international day of action on December 7th to withdraw your money and put it into a credit union or small independent locally owned bank instead.

Locally we now have, the Latino Credit Union and Harrington bank, and if you have a connection to someone who has an account with the State Employees Credit Union, this works too.

Happy Thanksgiving!

 P.S. Related articles of interest:

• Take Your Money and Run
• Eric Cantona's Call for Bank Protest Sparks Online Campaign