Gov. Perry thought he could ram 4000 miles of Trans-Texas Corridor pavement and railroad ties down our throats. Texans tend to get riled up in the face of that kind of arrogance. They have organized the CorridorWatch project to defend the environment and rural towns against Perry's massive boondoggle.
Texas politics just got interesting!
http://www.corridorwatch.org
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Introduction
Always
remember that the two most important things you need
to do prior to performing any kind of civil disobedience are: (1)
talk to
an attorney, and (2) have a
civil disobedience training, conducted by a skilled
instructor/facilitator.
However,
the
civil disobedience instructor and the attorney can only guess
at the likely outcomes of various types of actions. There are no
guarantees.
You never know how the prosecutor is going to charge you, you can only
make
an educated guess. It's always possible they will exaggerate the
charges.
It's also
very important to make sure you have an attorney to represent
you after
the action. Be sure and write the attorney's name and phone number in
permanent
marker on your arm before the arrest. This is because when you are
arrested,
your identification and all your possessions will be taken, but the
writing
on your arm will still be there.
When you
talk to the attorney prior to the action, you may only discuss
possibilities.
For example, "What would be the likely outcome if I were to do this or
that
action?" "What might happen if" are the only kinds of questions the
attorney
may answer. Attorneys may not advise someone on how to break the law,
and
if they have foreknowledge of a clear intent to break the law, they are
required
by law to report it to the police. Civil disobedience performers get
around
this by speaking, as I indicated, in possibilities and
what-ifs.
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Brenda Denson-Prince wanted to be the first woman County Commissioner in Kaufman County, not the latest example of what the Republican juggernaut can do.
"As I look back over the General Election held on Nov. 2, 2004, I know that voting is a 'right' that is being taken away everyday," writes Brenda Denson-Prince. But she is not writing about far away places like Ohio or Florida. She is writing about her own attempt to become the first woman in Kaufman County, Texas to sit on the County Commissioners Court. On the day after Christmas, Denson-Prince faxes me forty pages.
For the past three years the 50-year-old Texas native studied up for the position of County Commissioner by going to meetings. And she recruited the outgoing Commissioner, Ivan Johnson, to be her campaign manager. In the Democratic primary, she won handily. And right up to ten o'clock on election night, she felt pretty good about her chances. That's about the time she says she left Democratic Party headquarters in the town of Kaufman to return home to Terrell. With virtually all nine voting boxes counted, she was about 200 votes ahead.
"Y'all better get back over here," is what Terry Crow told Ivan Johnson over the telephone not too long after ten o'clock. "They're about to steal the election away from Brenda." Johnson was watching the phone at the Denson-Prince campaign headquarters in Terrell. So Johnson called Denson-Prince, they hopped in their cars, and sometime between 10:30 and 11:00 that night, they walked through the back door of the Kaufman County courthouse annex, where the votes had been counted.
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Use the attached Word document to submit open records requests (i.e., public information) to various city, county, school and state government entities.
The most effective way to investigate a local government, an agency, financial records, a school district budget, or to just get information about a political candidate, is the Open Records Request, commonly referred to as the Public Information Request.
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Please consider this important proposal. We are looking for your ideas. Ask your family, coworkers and friends to join you in making a difference and walkout together on the anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. Join the coalition of artists, musicians, students, teachers, actors, cooks, waitresses, longshoremen, truckers, lawyers, contractors, veterans, bus drivers, homemakers, cashiers, maids, janitors, grocery, office, sanitation, farm, factory and train workers walk the road to freedom and peace and walkout on January 14 and March 18, 2005. The larger the economic impact the more effective the walkouts will be.
Over 100,000 civilians have been killed and over 1,000 young Americans have died since the illegal war on Iraq started on March 20, 2003. Everyday we learn of gruesome acts of torture and crimes against humanity.
In Dallas, Please join us at our "Dallas Mourns" event on January 20th. http://www.keepdallasplastic.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=94&sid;=4066822c47d2a09a5fce9f3798706d82
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Five local activists went to Park Cities Baptist Church on Northwest Highway to display large signs and banners depicting the children and other civilian victims of the War in Iraq with the message to the Religious Right, "this is what you voted for."
Pre-action reconnaissance by the activists found the church members leaving church via a back way in over construction. The picketers caught churchgoers leaving the first service and entering for the second.
"It was a bit tense because it's Park
Cities, not Dallas right there," says Charles, one of the five anti-war activists. "Police kicked us off the city sidewalk by saying it was private, and tried to kick us off the median, but we held our ground and things were fine. "
"There was some taunting by the traffic cop, he asked us things like 'how did we care about lives if we weren't worried about the church people blocking traffic to look at our signs' and a bit by a small group of church teens. But this didn't detract many people from saying, 'thanks for being here' and, 'thanks for speaking out.'"
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This season's highly-successful REC was held in Houston near downtown. Participants from all over the region trained, socialized, developed, and created energy. The theme of this highly-successful Radical Encuentro Camp was "Beyond Electoral Politics”. It was held in Houston on December 3rd, 4th, and 5th, at the MECA building near downtown. The building used to be an elementary school, and was an excellent venue for the variety of workshops. Some workshops were held in classrooms, some in open meeting spaces, and some on a stage. Feature continued on newswire >>
Hundreds of citizens in and around Ellis County have spoke out against a proposed asphalt plant in Waxahachie. Monday night's city council meeting was packed with nearly 200 people, 50 of which spoke out on the plan. The city council unanimously rejected the proposal. Feature continued on newswire >>
DALLAS - A federal lawsuit is set to be filed against the Waxahachie Independent School District for its role in a series of controversial drug searches last year.
Dallas attorney Tom Corea, who lives in Ellis County (county seat=Waxahachie), confirmed his law firm's plans this week in an e-mail sent out to local political activists and TV reporters.
"I have been retained by the Gallegos family
to pursue a lawsuit against the district for the violations of [federal law] and state [law] against Tarah Gallegos," Corea said.
The lawsuit comes on the heels of a parent-citizen protest outside of Waxahachie Jr. High, where school officials confirmed a series of informant-led drug searches took place last year.
Linda Gallegos, mother of 15-year-old Tarah, complained to The Ellis County Press last year that school administrators threatened her daughter with suspension if she did not comply with a female principal's request to lift up her shirt; a male principal was in the same room when the threat and search took place, Tarah said last year, in reference to one of the searches last year.
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