This week, as hurricanes and wildfires devastate much of the country, the Trump administration will continue to act on the executive order to rescind DACA from 800,000 immigrants--including 138,440 DACA recipients in Texas. Each year Texas DACA recipients contribute $313,095,000 in State and local taxes. Now it’s up to your representatives in Congress to stand up …
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Defend DACA Jeff Sessions is making a statement on Tuesday at 10 a.m. in which he is expected to announce the Trump administration's plan to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. DACA grants protections to immigrants brought to this country as children. DACA recipients work, pay taxes, and have no criminal records. There …
The mayor announced that as many as 7,500 people could be coming to Austin soon, seeking shelter from Harvey's wrath. There are a lot of ways to help, but one way is to provide a welcome kit for new arrivals. Like you, we've seen many lists of needed items, and different groups are collecting for …
We're excited to host a session on protest safety and verbal assertiveness led by trainer Susan “George” Schorn. Space is limited. Please RSVP on Action Network. We’ll cover: Grounding and emotional self-regulation techniques for public speaking/civic conflict situations De-escalation and other group safety skills Tactical nonviolence planning essentials How to take control of a conversation (being …
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Today we have a message for the president. Texans are hurting from Hurricane Harvey, and it will take us years to recover. While it will be some time before the full damage estimates and economic impact of the storm are assessed, we can be sure that our great state's recovery will take a long time. …
UPDATE: some of this week's events have been cancelled or postponed due to Harvey recovery efforts. Please see below for updates. We're writing this on Sunday morning, as rain continues to drench Austin and the news out of Houston is very grim. Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo (formerly of Austin) is instructing people not to go …
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Over the past week, communities from Austin to Houston to Dallas to Boston have shown that Americans will not tolerate white supremacist hate groups. Let's keep that momentum going by pressuring our MoCs to censure the President for his vile "both sides" comments on the domestic terror Charlottesville. Censure is nothing more than a formal …
Re-posted from TX21 Indivisible with minor edits and permission: It hasn’t been a week since the Charlottesville terrorism, and it’s the only thing on some of our minds. Organizers in particular, many of whom have been recruiting people to show up to all the things for seven months running, are asking ourselves whether personal risk …
***UPDATE August 18, 2017*** Michael Dell sent a statement to employees. While it decries "hatred, violence, racism, and terrorism racism," it does not mention the manufacturing council or the president's comments. ***UPDATE August 16, 2017*** Trump shut down the Manufacturing Council after several CEOs quit. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/897869174323728385 Michael Dell was not among those quitting. (A meeting …
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We are deeply saddened about the white supremacist-fueled violence in Charlottesville over the weekend. It was an act of domestic terrorism, plain and simple. On Saturday, Heather Heyer was murdered on the streets of Charlottesville when a man who identified with neo-Nazis used his vehicle as a weapon. Many others were injured, and people still …
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