Organize and Sing!
Your Dallas AFL-CIO will help sponsor a singalong at 7PM Monday, July 14, at Kessler Park Methodist Church, 1215 Turner in Oak Cliff. It’s Woody Guthrie’s birthday and Bastille Day. Bastille Day commemorates the people’s uprising and freeing of political prisoners in France in 1789. It is celebrated worldwide. Woody was famous for singing for union causes.
We will have members of our Central Labor Council led by Reverend Folkerth of the church and accompanied by outstanding local musicians. The most important element in a singalong, of course, is YOU!
Big Doings Coming
The Young Active Labor Leaders convention, July 26-7, should be a spark for the entire labor movement. Contact President Travis Cantwell at cantwelltravis22@hotmail.com.. Plans for our own prestigious Dallas Labor Day Breakfast are going well. Contact Jason Tomlinson at jtomlinson.dallasaflcio@gmail.com.
Our News Isn’t the Bosses’ News
All supporters of working families are called upon to help develop our own sources of honest information. The mainstream media (Bonnie Mathias calls it “lamesteam”) is concentrated more and more into fewer and fewer corporate hands, and those hands are connected to knees that are bent to the current Administration.
CBS News recently fired major news reporters and paid $16 million to President Trump. One of the last independent newspaper companies, the Dallas Morning News, was just bought by the Hearst conglomerate.
Fortunately, responsible unions are maintaining their own news systems. http://aflcio.org, http://texasaflcio.org and our own http://texasaflcio.org/dallas can connect you to newsletters and social media.
Need More Information?
- Political Committee Earnest Tilley keeps track of all Dallas labor activities: etilley2006@yahoo.com
- Texas Alliance for Retired Americans: Judy Bryant judy4tara@aol.com
- Young Active Labor Leaders: Stu Becker stubecker89@gmail.com
- Donnie Jolly of ATU: donniejolly@yahoo.com
- Katina Range of APWU: katinarange@dallasapwu.org
- Rena Honea of Alliance/AFT: rena@alliance-aft.org
- Dallas AFL-CIO web site: http://texasaflcio.org/dallas
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MORE ACTIONS COMING UP
Jul 14, 7P: Celebrate Bastille Day and Woody Guthrie’s birthday with singalong at Kessler Park Methodist Church, 1215 Turner (off Colorado) in Oak Cliff. Contact genelantz.dallasaflcio@gmail.com
Jul 17, 7:30P: Dallas Central Labor Council meeting for all affiliated union members
Jul 20: 1:30P: KNON film festival begins with free showing of “Union” at the Texas Theater, 231 W Jefferson in Oak Cliff
Jul 21: Texas Legislature special session begins on a “half-dozen agenda items, including judicial reforms and how to regulate the $8 billion THC industry.”
Jul 25-27: YALL state convention in Dallas Convention Center
August 6, 12:30P: Dallas Chapter of Texas Alliance for Retired Americans meets at 334 Centre in Dallas. Contact Judy4tara@aol.com or 214-729-0063
Aug 14, 9:30A: Solidarity for Social Security rally at Social Security Office, 2530 S Malcolm X Blvd. Contact judy4tara@aol.com
Aug 14, 2nd Thursday, 11A: Retiree on-line update. Contact Genelantz19@gmail.com. If you haven't registered already, register here