The Organizing School
@organizingschool
The Organizing School provides a quality education in the mechanics and skills of effective grassroots Change. We run the College of Constructive Hell-Raising.
And shortly thereafter, a Fort Worth RR workers strike made national news, ruined one union and inspired another. Should do a story sometime. There’s no marker on South Main for The Battle of Buttermilk Junction, but there should be.
$80 Billion will end up buying 4-5 nukes, most of which will be abandoned between their eighth and ninth year of construction….
This poem is included in every handbook we distribute to our students. It expresses our operating philosophy better than any tract or creed. Happy July 4th to what could and should be.
The Supreme Court’s 1989 Texas vs Johnson decision ruling flag burning as Free Speech originated with a Yippie "Republican War Chest Tour” protest during the 1984 Republican convention that concluded @ Dallas City Hall, a building the City is now considering tearing down.
fyi - built around the same time (1905?) as “the first concrete bridge” in City Park that became a recreational destination because of the new and novel building material….
Goldbeck was there in May 1925 and took some epic panoramic 4-5 foot long photos of a baptism. This is only a portion.
Tolbert taking a walking tour in downtown Dallas with Council Members after implementing her new visionary plan, “Holes for Dallas."
Which is why everyone going to said night should wear one of these or its approximations….
Dallas has had light rail for 30 years and ranks 8th in ridership.
Two years? That might be giving American attention spans too much credit.
Approx 4% of the est GOP voting pop voted 4 Paxton to be their Senate nominee. Not “the Texans." Not even a GOP majority. We’re in a bad patch now, but this state has produced more than its share of righteous pols, & will do so again. No place is irredeemable, including whereever this guy is from.