Tonight's rally postponed, vital call Sunday, and plenty of opportunities to get involved & make your world better. Click below for details.
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Learn about our 2024 candidates here: https://www.txgreens.org/2024_candidates
If you can donate time or money, they would GREATLY appreciate your help. Join our call this Sunday afternoon* to see what you can do.
The presidential candidate will be determined at the Presidential Nominating Convention, August 15-18. Register for that now! https://www.gp.org/2024_anm
If you are a delegate, you must use the same email address for ALL purposes relating to the convention (i.e., credentials, registration, Loomio, Eventee, etc.).
Dr. Stein was the most popular presidential candidate at our conventions & is the presumptive nominee. If you would like to help her campaign, visit this site: https://www.jillstein2024.com/
The big rally scheduled for TODAY - Thursday, Aug. 8th at 7pm, has been moved due to a family health emergency. It will be held on Friday, August 16th. The VP pick will be revealed and there is a great lineup of special guests, so RSVP now. You won't want to miss it. Details here: https://www.jillstein2024.com/vprally
*Green Education, Onboarding, Discussion, & Encouragement (G.E.O.D.E.)
The next GPTX discussion group will be Sunday, August 11th at 4pm!
For August, September, and October the discussion will be about how you can help your Green Party candidates: Eddie Espinoza for Railroad Commissioner, Robin Lee Vargas for State Senate - District 27, Hunter Crow for Board of Education - District 11, and of course, Dr. Jill Stein!
Connection info is here:
https://www.txgreens.org/2024_08_geodes_campaigns
We'd also love to hear about your local wins. Join the discussion! If there's a particular topic you'd like to discuss in future meetings, let us know.
Last month, Denton County GP Secretary Michaela Wilson gave an informative presentation about the #movethedate initiative. It was pretty interesting & eye opening. If you missed it, you missed out, but check out these eye-opening sites:
https://overshoot.footprintnetwork.org/about-earth-overshoot-day/
https://footprintcalculator.org/home/en
https://footprintcalculator.org/en/results/0/solutions
Action Highlight
Fight Death Row
Texas still employs the primitive & cruel practice of capital punishment. The next execution is scheduled for August 7, 2024 at 6:00 pm
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/stop-the-execution-of-arthur-burton-in-texas/
The first scheduled after that is Sept. 24:
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/stop-the-execution-of-travis-mullis-in-texas/
Help Houstonians left without electricity after the storm:
https://houstonfoodnotbombs.org/donate/
https://linktr.ee/WestStreet
The Dallas Black Dance Theatre workers formed a union this year with AGMA and had to file an unfair labor practice charge on their management. They are asking supporters to fill out this letter:
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/35160794a97dc4074d29293d9548a24a03f873b9
GPTX Reading Group
Due to the Presidential Nominating Convention being on the same day as our normal meeting time, there’s no reading group call this month. The next one will be Sept. 22 @ 4pm
Please read chapters 5&6 of Let This Radicalize You:
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1922-let-this-radicalize-you
It's encouraging, inspirational, & sure to get some conversations started.
Follow that link above to learn more.
Visit the event page here to RSVP & find the Zoom connection info.
Volunteer Opportunities
SEC (State Executive Committee)
We've got 2 open positions on the State Executive Committee. If you've been active for 9 months, it might be for you. More information about the position can be found here: https://www.txgreens.org/bylaws#A2
Standing Committees
Several seats are unfilled on the national standing committees. At the Spring State Meeting, we filled a few seats, but many remain open. The SEC can approve appointments at any time, if you’re interested in serving in one of these positions, or would like to help with a smaller project, tell us at this page.
Visual / Graphic Artists
Are you an artist? The donation of a logo design or graphic for merch would be a great help. A button-making party could be a great activity for your local group, but maybe you have other fun ideas. Let us know!
Social Media
To help boost our social media posting frequency, a project has begun - a content calendar. If you have a little free time to research a month or just a week or two, so we have a backup topic for each day, send us a message to help out. There's hundreds of days in the year, but the more help we have, the easier it'll be.
Register Some Voters!
Many eligible Texans have not registered to vote. You can help eliminate a barrier to voting by getting people to register. Head to this site for more info on how that's done:
https://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/pamphlets/deputy.shtml
Group Highlight:
Texas Prisons Community Advocates
https://www.tpcadvocates.org/
TPCA has been fighting to end the cruel conditions of Texas prisons. Unbearable heat, solitary confinement, and other issues that… well don’t get me started. Check out the link above to see how you can make a difference.
If you know other organizations that are putting our key values in action, send us the info so we can get the word out.