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Standardized testing is used as a tool to fire teachers and close schools to move towards the privatization of education. Houston CVPE has put together resources to explain why this movement is important and how you can get started.

Over 100 Kids Were Illegally Employed in Dangerous Meat-Packing Plant Jobs

Child labor investigation spreads to meatpacking, produce companies in 11 states

Over 300 minors found working at 3 McDonald's franchisees: Department of Labor

Fast-food giants overwork teenagers, driving America’s child labor crisis

Illegal child labor is on the rise in a tight job market

Child labor remains a key state legislative issue in 2024

Tyler with Build Galveston joins me to discuss a recent housing policy win in Galveston.

Get more prep tips here.

Learn more about community hubs, a long-term plan for keeping you and your neighbors safe, here.

Tomball Community Fridge is asking for donations for their fridge, blankets, jackets, and other warm items. Follow them on Instagram.

"On Wednesday January 3rd, Eight 1st Precinct Constables Of Harris County came to a food sharing service of Food Not Bombs to serve a warrant to a member in attendance. After their arrest, Jerrode Brown better known as JB was upset and called out to the cops to put away their tasers as there was no threat. The police had been pointing their weapons in the faces of civilians who were rightfully upset because the warrant was for Brazoria County and it is not normal procedure for Harris County to carry out this arrest. One officer lost their cool and decided to chase and tackle JB to the ground for expressing their need for safety. During the altercation the officer fractured his wrist and and another officer put a taser to his spine at point blank range and tasered him for 12 seconds even though he was already on the ground. " - more info on JB's fundraiser page.

Police have given Food Not Bombs 86 tickets for feeding the houseless, and continue to escalate.

Cash Assistance for Harris County Residents

You may qualify for $500/month from Harris County! The application period starts on January 8, 2024, at 9:00 a.m. and ends at 11:59 p.m. on January 26, 2024. Apply here.

Free Store

550 McKinney St, Sunday, Jan. 7, at 7:30 pm.

Come bring things to grab, donate, or trade. Learn more here.

BLMP Programs and Information

BLMP Links — including fundraiser and signing up for newsletters

Paul White Re-Entry Fund

Mitchelle

Mitchelle (she/her) is an educator turned environmental advocate based in Houston, Texas. She currently works as a Senior Outreach Associate for the Environmental Protection Network (EPN) and partners with communities dealing with environmental racism, including but not limited to those dealing with lead in water, petrochemical facilities, and land restoration. In this position, she has developed profound relationships with communities and has become personally involved in their struggles. 

Mitchelle also has been working with TBME (Texas Black Migrant Ecosystem Coalition) over the last year to formulate a space that caters and advocates for black migrant experiences. She hopes the emerging coalition will affect change in a state that is hostile to immigrants and especially black migrants. 

Mitchelle is also a poet, and her work has been featured in Atlanta Review, and she has performed at Write About Now Poetry. Her work discusses gender violence, immigration, and Black identity. She sees a strong connection between justice and storytelling. It is her belief that while policies fight for a better future, storytelling ensures we heal from our past. 

Loyce

Loyce (she/they) is a Tanzanian-born storyteller, facilitator, and organizer based in Houston, TX. Their work interrogates Black Diasporic histories, and seeks to center how oppressed people build power.

Loyce's writing has been featured on Button Poetry, Write About Now, Badilisha Poetry, Fields Magazine and PBS. They also founded a creative writing and performance initiative for East African youths called Paza Sauti.

Loyce currently serves as the co-lead for the Houston Hub of Black LGBTQIA+ Migrant Project (BLMP). Through this work, Loyce has curated spaces to support Black queer migrants and advocate for Black migrant justice.

There are many petitions you can sign - see here.

Upcoming rally to join:

Dec. 9, 2023 at 1pm behind Ben Taub Hospital

🗣️CALLING ALL HOUSTON HEALTHCARE WORKERS🗣️: Come rally with us in Hermann Park by Lamar Fleming St. (behind Ben Taub Hospital) next Saturday, December 9th, at 1 PM! We will be featuring guest speakers, educating passersby about the ongoing genocide in Gaza, Palestine, and honoring the lives of healthcare workers that were tragically lost due to Israel’s killings. Bring your flags and keffiyehs and show Houston that healthcare workers here support a ceasefire and the liberation of Palestine! 🇵🇸
Information on parking can be seen in slide 2! Free parking is available at the Sam Houston Monument (Lot A), in front of the Houston Zoo (Lots G and F), across the street (Lot H), and near the Miller Outdoor Theatre (Lots E and D).

If you are not a precinct chair, you can sign this petition to showcase public support to the resolution.

Greg and Leslie from Houston DSA joined me to discuss what is Prop A and how it could help the Houston City Council be more democratic.

Currently, in the City Of Houston, only the mayor has the power to add items to the weekly City Council meeting agenda. This means that the mayor controls what is discussed and voted on in City Council. Prop A is on the ballot for this upcoming election and aims to change that!

Larry McKinzie is a long-time community advocate and Houston-ISD teacher who is against the state takeover of the schools. He is currently undergoing the process of being fired from HISD. Recently, two teachers who spoke up to question New the Education System (NES) during a faculty meeting are now under threat of being fired as well. Read more here.

There was a mayoral forum on public transportation as well that I was able to attend. The second half of the report is my recap of the forum hosted by Link Houston, Air Alliance, Bike Houston, Citizens Transportation Coalition, APA TX, and Blueprint Houston.

Link Houston is hosting a Mayoral Forum on Transportation, Sat. Sept. 23, from 10am - noon. Join them at the Architecture Center Houston at 902 Commerce St.

An emergency support rally is being called for to support HISD teacher and advocate, Larry McKinzie, as he is under threat of being fired under pressure of this new appointed board of managers. He is a long-time community advocate and is against the takeover. This rally will be Mon. Sept 18, at 7pm at 2428 Southmore Blvd.

Bocafloja is an interdisciplinary artist of afro-indigenous descent based in Atlanta, GA.  Bocafloja’s mediums of creation include documentary filmmaking, music, literature and photography. His body of work addresses topics such as the Global South, decoloniality, critical race theory and the African Diaspora in Latin America.

Bocafloja joins me and Bryan Parras, life-long community organizer from Houston's ship channel, to discuss Bocafloja's documentary, Enclave, and his work over the years. We also discuss systemic issues and what drives us to be in the movement.

Enclave is a visual cartography of the ocean and its preservation. A documentary that explores the historical and geopolitical factors involved in the extensive extraction of natural resources and its impact in social life. A critical dialogue on environmental racism through narratives in first person, music, orality, dance and storytelling. A portrait of Latinamerica's complexity in regards history, economy, identity and culture.

Filmed in Panama, Enclave becomes one of the few film projects who center the experience and contributions of racialized communities within a typically white controlled dialogue. Here is the trailer to his latest video.

• Sign the petition - bit.ly/nostatetakeover
• Follow @houstoncvpe for updates and information on how to get involved

Need to get caught up on the issue?

Texas Education Agency will take control of Houston ISD in June

Timeline: How the TEA takeover of Houston ISD unfolded

Houston ISD Takeover is a Trojan Horse for Privatization

Texas Supreme Court clears way for state’s education agency to take over Houston ISD

TEA opens second round of applications for those who would like to apply to be on the board following takeover

Here are articles/interviews even further back for context

· INTERVIEW - Movement to End Standardized Tests in Texas

· INTERVIEW - Both Parties Are Dismantling Public Education, University of St. Thomas Professor Explains How

· ARTICLE - Recap of Arrests at Houston’s School Board Meeting

· ARTICLE - Houston Chronicle Acts as Propaganda in Regards to School Privatization

· ARTICLE - Walmart’s Efforts to Privatize Education Evident in Houston

· ARTICLE - Texas Laws Forces School Districts Into Privatization & Holds Democracy Hostage

The state takeover of public education is a ruse for privatization. New Orleans no longer has public schools, all privatized, and Houston is headed down the same path. This takeover removes democratically elected board members for the school district and appoints a board of managers. Learn more about how they are choosing the board of managers here. Even though the takeover is this week, there has been no announcement on who these board managers are or who the new superintendent will be. Ruth and Kourtney with @houstoncvpe join me for the update.

Actions:

• Sign the petition - bit.ly/nostatetakeover
• Join the protest on June 8

Need to get caught up on the issue?

Texas Education Agency will take control of Houston ISD in June

Timeline: How the TEA takeover of Houston ISD unfolded

Houston ISD Takeover is a Trojan Horse for Privatization

Texas Supreme Court clears way for state’s education agency to take over Houston ISD

TEA opens second round of applications for those who would like to apply to be on the board following takeover

Here are articles/interviews even further back for context

· INTERVIEW - Movement to End Standardized Tests in Texas

· INTERVIEW - Both Parties Are Dismantling Public Education, University of St. Thomas Professor Explains How

· ARTICLE - Recap of Arrests at Houston’s School Board Meeting

· ARTICLE - Houston Chronicle Acts as Propaganda in Regards to School Privatization

· ARTICLE - Walmart’s Efforts to Privatize Education Evident in Houston

· ARTICLE - Texas Laws Forces School Districts Into Privatization & Holds Democracy Hostage

Intercontinental Terminals Company (ITC), the organization responsible for the major chemical fire in Deer Park in 2019, is currently seeking to renew its operating permit under Title V as determined by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ). Environmental organizations showed up to pushback on May 4, 2022, at the Deer Park High School’s North Campus. Organizations Air Alliance Houston, Fenceline Watch, Caring for Pasadena Communities with Lonestar Legal Aid, and Channelview Health and Improvement Coalition showed up and gave powerful comments during the hearing. Some residents from surrounding cities like Baytown, Galena Park, and Pasadena, showed up, and even fewer Deer Park residents.

There were three Deer Park residents that showed up to speak on the permit. Two residents were against the operating permit renewal, citing health reasons, as one mother spoke up about how the fire exacerbated her child’s side effects from cancer and another mother spoke up about her experience with her family evacuating.

Read more here.

Anna and Fouad with Rice Students for Justice Palestine and Palestinian Youth Movement, respectively, join me to discuss how Rice University plans to platform Israeli war criminals at the upcoming event, Israel at 75. They are asking community members to show up and protest the event, and to also sign their petition.

"The “Israel at 75” conference, which marks the 75th anniversary of Israel’s colonization of Palestine, glorifies al-Nakba, or The Catastrophe, in which 400 Palestinian towns and villages were destroyed and over 1,000,000 Palestinians forcibly displaced from their homeland in order to create the state of Israel. For over 75 years, the Palestinian people have resisted the most barbaric forms of Israel’s violence — from daily home demolitions, to mass arrest of Palestinian youth, to illegal military blockades that deny Palestinians freedom of movement on their own land." - Info from the petition

For more education about Palestinians resisting Israel, please watch Abby Martin's The Empire Files. To learn more about how the movement in Palestine connects to the oppression in the United States, please read Angela Davis' Freedom is a Constant Struggle.

There is a national movement to privatize public education, and in Texas, the threat is in our backyard. Privatizing schools will prioritize profit over kids and education. Ruth from Houston CVPE joins me to discuss this threat further, and to discuss community movement to fight back.

Learn how to opt out of STAAR testing.

Read Houston CVPE's blog on busting common myths.

Sign the petition.

Historical context to get you caught up on the issue:

• INTERVIEW - Movement to End Standardized Tests in Texas
• INTERVIEW - Both Parties Are Dismantling Public Education, University of St. Thomas Professor Explains How
• ARTICLE - Recap of Arrests at Houston’s School Board Meeting
• ARTICLE - Houston Chronicle Acts as Propaganda in Regards to School Privatization
• ARTICLE - Walmart’s Efforts to Privatize Education Evident in Houston
• ARTICLE - Texas Laws Forces School Districts Into Privatization & Holds Democracy Hostage

Follow Jailhouse Justice on Instagram.

Read his investigation, here. 

Listen to an extended interview with Belly of the Beast journalist Demetrius Goines, here. 

With climate change getting worse and the government barely in sight to help, it's important that neighbors know they can band together.

Residents, Doris and David, in the Northeast Action Collective speak on how they have organized their neighborhoods to help when the government won't.

Read the article here. 

Review the interactive map here.

The police training facility in Atlanta is set to destroy 381 acres of the Weelaunee Forest, and Blackhall Studios plans to destroy another 40 acres for a sound stage. Cop City will be the largest police training facility in the United States and is slated to include a mock city where police will train with firearms, tear gas, helicopters, and explosive devices to repress protest and mass unrest, much as they did during the 2020 George Floyd protests.

There are ties to donors and Atlanta Police Foundation board members in Houston that are helping fund this facility.

Chivas Watson, founder of WorkingGroup512, alleges that he was beaten and arrested by Harris County Police during a traffic stop. The police officer filed a criminal complaint against Chivas, claiming Chivas sought controversy while the police officer's back was turned. However, there is video evidence that shows otherwise. Chivas is asking the community for help by signing a petition and donating to his legal fees.

Trigger Warning (2:20 - 34:00): During the first part of the interview, Chivas details his experience from being arrested, to being searched, and his time in jail and the process of being in court. This first part includes police brutality as he recounts his story. If you do not wish to be triggered, please forward to the 34:00 minute mark to hear the rest of the interview. 

I have reached out to Harris County Constable Precinct 4 for comment. When they provide the comment, this summary section will be updated to include it.

• Why Congress is intervening in a labor dispute between railway companies and freight workers
• Railroad Workers United Press Release: Democrats, Then Republicans Smite Rail Labor
• What Would It Take For Rail Workers To Win?
• Timeline of Railroad Labor Negotiations

Actions: 

• Support their fundraising campaign
• Talk about this movement with friends and family
• Get prepared with community for if they do strike—buy dry goods, canned food, and be in community
• Don't take corporate media seriously when they shift blame to workers away from the ruling class. Talk about it. 

I report on the movements that fight back, yes, but that also includes making community aware of each other. In this report, three interviews with Pasadena community members are featured. Out of Line HTX hosted a Vanessa Guillen documentary viewing at the Texas Chiropractic College, and Agustin, Maria, and Emely interviewed with me before we watched it.

To stay updated with Pasadena movement, follow South Houston Pasadena Barrio Coalition on Facebook or Instagram. 

You can also learn more about BACODA's Pasadena Community Coalition here, and follow them on Facebook or Instagram.

If you are interested in the education movement in Pasadena, follow Educators for PISD on Facebook or Instagram.  

Gabriela from Texas Jail Project joins me to recap the movement for a community safety budget in Harris County. 

Organizers across coalitions have been working since April to create a Community Safety Budget in response to Harris County's budget hearings. Every year, the Harris County Commissioner's Court has budget hearings to allocate tax dollars across the county, and it was that time of year. We reviewed wins including language accessibility to budget materials -- budget information was only printed in English -- and we reviewed losses including cuts to key community programs and no new revenue budget. 

You can review the community budget information here: bit.ly/HARRISBUDGET2023

Upcoming events - 

• Tuesday, Nov 1
  Pasadena's Dia de Los Muertos to pay homage to victims of the Uvalde massacre and all Texas mass shootings and further honor them by taking action and demanding a minimum age requirement for assault rifle purchases.
• Thursday, Nov 3
  Community input is needed for long-range transportation plans for Galveston/Brazoria County
• Saturday, Nov 5
  Learn more about environmental justice at the Clear Lake Presbyterian Church from Texas Health and Environmental Alliance

Houston’s Starbucks Union Goes on Unfair Labor Practice Strike

Movement to Unionize Climate Jobs Before the Jobs Exist in Gulf Coast

• First unionized Starbucks in Houston!
• Union leader was fired from Starbucks after almost 9 years
• Donate to his relief fund

Fort Bend County Houston Environmental Organization hosts workshop - “Crossroads: Gerrymandering and Environmental Justice”

• Wednesday, September 28 at 6PM
• Learn some background and hear updates on local actions you can take
• Westmoor Club at Aliana
  11333 Westmoor Dr., Richmond, TX 77407
• Posted by CEER on Instagram

Gulf Coast Community Town Hall on Offshore Wind

• Saturday, October 1 at 9 am
• Workshop at 9 am, speakers at 11 am, and celebration at 12 pm. Live music and refreshments provided. Entry is free
• The Gulf of Mexico is going to be the next offshore wind powerhouse, and, if done right, this industry has the potential to create THOUSANDS of family-sustaining union careers while cleaning up our environment
• RSVP

Harris County Tax Budget Action

• Review the Community Safety Budget proposed by organizers
• Review talking points
• Sign up to speak for Tuesday, Sept 27, at 10 am
• Speak virtually by registering by 8 am Tuesday, Sept 27
• Submit written comment via email to CommissionersCourt@hctx.net by 4 pm, Tuesday, Sept 27
• Commissioner's agenda
• Hearing for the tax rate and hospital budget
• Call your Precinct Commissioner and County Judge Hidalgo

Screwston Antifascist Committee

• Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022
• 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
• Location:
  Avenue CDC
  3517 Irvington Blvd, Houston, TX 77009
• The meeting will be available on Zoom, but you need to register to attend to receive the link
• Register to attend, whether in person or on Zoom

Get involved with the community:

Air Alliance Houston

• Review public comment guidance
• Submit a public comment
  No. O1061, Application No. 28256

Get involved with the community:

Air Alliance Houston is organizing around this permit.

• The potential railroad strike, report by More Perfect Union
• 8th Starbucks union in Texas
• Progress on a Starbucks in Houston organizing for a union
• The free AirMail tool created by Air Alliance Houston and January Advisors to combat corporate pollution, read the article here

Actions

• Review data collected by air monitoring network in Northside Houston (see action)
• Stand in solidarity with a Drag Event in Katy against white supremacist hate groups who plan to protest (see action)

• Organizers have created a Community Safety Budget that focuses on education, health, and safety of Harris County residents.
  The Community Safety Agenda is a proactive and life-affirming vision for how Harris County can keep its residents safe. The Agenda’s budget proposals bring together advocates from varied spaces— health, housing, and immigration justice to education, criminal-legal policy change, and climate justice—to craft a shared platform that spans these issue areas. The goal is to reshape the narrative regarding what really keeps communities safe while building new bridges to advance shared policy goals.
• Harris County’s Commissioners Court is getting ready to review budgets for Fiscal Year 2023 at 10 a.m. on September 13, 2022. The new budgets will be effective for the fiscal year beginning October 1, 2022 through September 30, 2023.
• Members of Commissioners Court will meet in the Courtroom of the Commissioners Court of Harris County, Texas, on the ninth floor of the Harris County Administration Building, 1001 Preston Street, Houston, Texas. This meeting is also being held virtually to advance the public health goal of limiting face-to-face meetings and thus slow the spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19). See the announcement.

Here’s the action and links:

Review the Harris County Community Safety Budget and sign up to speak at the Commissioner’s Court in support of this budget for the new fiscal year.

• Review the budget
• Sign up to speak for Tuesday, Sept 13, at 10 am

Get involved with the community:

Here are the organizers who worked on this budget and supports it:

• Texas Civil Rights Project
• Texas Jail Project
• Civil Rights Corps
• Restoring Justice
• Woori Juntos
• Tahirih Justice Center
• MOVE Texas
• Grassroots Leadership
• Community Safety Coalition

Every 12 years, there's a sunset review on the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ). This is the time for all Texans to come together and voice their concerns around environmental racism and address the harm corporate polluters do in in their neighborhoods. The sunset review is set to be in person in Austin, Texas, with the Texas Sunset Advisory Committee for review and a public hearing on June 22, 2022. If you cannot attend in person, you can fill out the public input form, and submit your comment online before June 27, 2022.

This review is important for all Texans to participate and submit public comment, but for this interview we spoke primarily on communities affected by concrete batch plants. Here's who joined me today:

• Shirley Ronquillo - East Aldine resident, community organizer and co-founder of the Houston Department of Transformation
• Erick Garcia - Community liaison/concerned resident of Lindale farms
• Leticia Gutierrez - Government Relations and Community Outreach Director, Air Alliance Houston

Here are the links we talked about during the interview:

• Maps and data of pollution in Harris County
• To go to Austin, email Leticia (leticia@airalliancehouston.org) or Genesis (genesis@airalliancehouston.org)
• Take Action #ForOurCommunities

• Anti-Trans Bomb Threats Shuts Down School in Wisconsin 
• Deregulating Nursing Home Safety to Protect Donors in Florida

Texas

• First Starbucks Unionizes in Texas
• Uvalde Thread - info from copaganda journalist, Alec Karakatsanis I thought you should know about
• Police Have No Duty to Protect You

Houston/Harris County

• Justice for Jalen thread from Houston Abolitionist Collective
• 10 protesters sue Houston, Acevedo for ‘false arrests’ after George Floyd’s murder
• Houston City Council fails to deliver equitable drainage for flood prevention, AGAIN. More info from West Street Recovery and Northeast Action Collective.
• Join climate orgs, Houston Youth Climate Strike and Extinction Rebellion Houston, to protest a liquified natural gas terminal from being built and doing more polluting on Wednesday, June 8

• Climate activist, Wynn Alan Bruce, died after setting himself on fire in front of the US Supreme Court to bring attention to the urgency of the climate crisis. 
• Biden v TX case on the Trump's admin Remain in Mexico policy will essentially determine whether a president can undo a former administration's failed policies. Follow Justice Action Center for more eduction. Here is why folks are fighting to get rid of the Remain in Mexico policy.

Texas

• Starbucks Workers unite! Workers in Austin and Denton are digitally gathering on May 2 at 7pm to learn more about the movement. If you're a Starbucks worker and aren't in these cities, you can still join to learn. Let's get aaaall of Texas unionized! Register here: bit.ly/tx-swu

Harris County

• Sunday, May 1 @ 1 pm - May Day Celebration at Mason Park
• Sunday, May 1 @ 4pm - Online meeting with West Street Recovery to review how the Title VI case is going and our plans to submit a budget amendment to the City of Houston. The zoom link is @ bit.ly/wsrspring2022
• Wednesday, May 4 @ 6pm - Online meeting with Metro Houston for the Inner Katy Project. Register here: ridemetro.org/innerkaty
• Volunteer Rebuild Days - West Street Recovery is hosting multiple chances to help Harvey survivors rebuild their homes that are still unlivable after four years. Register here: bit.ly/wsrvol1

• Starbucks Illegal Union Busting
• Workers at Amy's Kitchen call for a boycott

Bring it back home.

Melissa Lucio:

• Before April 18, send letters asking for clemency for Melissa Lucio
  • Call Cameron County DA Luis Saenz and urge him to withdraw Melissa's execution date. 956-300-3881.
  • Contact Texas Governor Greg Abbott and urge him to pardon Melissa, or at least commute her sentence and get her out of death row. His main switchboard number is 512-463-2000.

Stop Freeway Expansions in Texas:

• Join a collective of organizations in Austin, April 20, to demand equity in transportation. Here's the sign up: https://forms.gle/qjeGVXht2CYbBFTd7

#StopShotSpotter:

This petition represents the demands of undersigned Houston community members for the City of Houston and Harris County to:

• Cancel their contracts with private surveillance company ShotSpotter;
• Stop the prosecution of criminal cases that use ShotSpotter alerts as evidence;
• Reinvest the $3.5 million fund intended for ShotSpotter into community supports for gun violence prevention like direct cash assistance, housing and rent support, educational supports that can help address the root causes of gun violence; and
• Accelerate implementation of non-violent crisis response programs to ensure that people facing crises or harm can receive unarmed, non-policing emergency assistance.

Texas Commission on Environmental Quality's Upcoming Sunset Review:

• Register for workshops ahead of the People's Hearing: bit.ly/CEERPH
• Attend the People's Hearing on April 30

Community Care Cooperative is a state-licensed cooperative business that enables neighbors to help neighbors live their best lives by providing personal care and home care services to seniors and disabled people. This is the first Black-founded home care services cooperative in Texas, the second home care cooperative in Texas, and exists as 1 of 14 home care cooperatives in the nation.

Assata Richards, director of Sankofa Research Institute, member of We are the Ones Cooperative Incubator, and founding collective member, interviews with me to discuss it further.

After a music break, we looked at Houston Abolitionist Collective's newest newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/d342be4edebf/hac-mar-2022. This newsletter contains information on sources for Trans & Queer Help, upcoming police union contract, the campaign to remove police surveillance technology, and more.

Sign up to receive the newsletter here: bit.ly/HACnewsletter

• How and why the U.S. Government Perpetrated the 2014 Coup in Ukraine
• How the U.S. Has Empowered and Armed Neo-Nazis in Ukraine
• Nazi war criminals became high ranking commanders in NATO after WW2

Big win for the Northeast Action Collective, Harvey Forgotten Survivor Caucus, and Texas Housers: 

• The GLO discriminated against minorities in Houston and Harris County when denying federal flood relief, HUD says

Info for Pasadena-ISD townhall, see here. 

Learn more about about his campaign here.

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So you vote in the Democratic Party - do you know about precinct chairs? Delegates and caucuses? What a party platform is and how it's supposed to hold the party accountable? It's okay if you don't. In this Left of Liberal throwback, I interview Prince E Winbush III, state delegate twice and more, and we talk specifically on this education. If you can, you should definitely learn more about the processes of the party.