| "I am convinced that the truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally non-violent struggle for justice." Cesar Chavez |
LULAC Council 4871
The Dallas Rainbow Council
2010 National LULAC Council fo the Year!!!!
2010 Texas LULAC Council of the Year!!!
2010 District III Council of the Year!!
The Dallas Rainbow Council
2010 National LULAC Council fo the Year!!!!
2010 Texas LULAC Council of the Year!!!
2010 District III Council of the Year!!
Creating dialogue between the
Hispanic and LGBT community
which have a common goal: full equality.
Hispanic and LGBT community
which have a common goal: full equality.
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| Since 2/05/2007 |
| We are LULAC 4871 - The Dallas Rainbow Council. We are a community action group that works to better our neighborhood. If you want to work on community service projects, come join us! |
NEWS UPDATES
September 2010 - LULAC 4871 launches Youth Council:
The Dallas Rainbow Council has adopted a LULAC Youth Council made up
students from the Oak Cliff and West Dallas side of town. These great kids hail
from Sunset, Pinkston and Townview High Schools. LULAC 4871 members
Jesse Garcia, Suzanne Hickman and Patricia Mancha are mentoring 20 kids this
academic year. Are you interested in helping us out? Please contact Jesse at
jessegarciadallas@gmail.com.
Sept. 4 - Car Wash this Saturday:
Our Youth Council is having a fundraiser this Saturday to raise money for its
organization. Please stop by and wash your car on Saturday, Sept. 4, from 8 a.m.
to 1 p.m., at the Wendy's, located at 2328 W. Illinois Ave., Dallas, TX 75224.
Sept. 19 - Pride Parade:
The Dallas Rainbow Council will be parade entry No. 33 at the 2010 Alan Ross
Texas Freedom Parade on Sunday, Sept. 19. Dallas’ annual gay pride parade
will begin at 2 p.m. Our vehicle entry will need to be in place by Noon. Marchers
and banner carriers should be at our entry site by 1 p.m. LULAC 4871 will have a
booth at the Pride Picnic where folks will congregate after the parade. Our booth
is located in front of the N. Hall Street and Sale Street intersection. Booth set up
will be at 9 a.m. The park will open as early as 11 a.m. and the festival will end at
6 p.m. Organizers expect 30,000 people. We will need members to walk along
our entry down Cedar Springs Rd. and help us throw beads and carry our banner
during the parade. And we need volunteers for our booth in the park to help us
register voters and distribute literature. To volunteer, contact Jesse at
jessegarciadallas@gmail.com.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Sept. 15 - General Meeting:
We will meet on Wednesday, Sept. 15, at 6:30 p.m., at Havana’s, located at 4006
Cedar Springs Rd., Dallas, TX 75219. Special guest speaker is Elena White,
daughter of Texas Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Bill White. Join us for
dinner, drinks and fellowship!
Oct. 9 - LULAC “Train the Trainer on Employment Issues”:
LULAC District 3 and District 21, along with our sister council LULAC 4782, will
host a “Train the Trainer on Employment Issues” which will empower LULAC
members with knowledge about your rights in the workplace. The event takes
place Saturday, Oct. 9, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., at the Arlington Entertainment
Complex, located at 915 West Pioneer Pkwy, Arlington, TX 76013. Guest
presenters include Juan Munoz, Bilingual Investigator at the Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission, and Employment Law Attorney Maricela Siewczynski.
This free event is for LULAC members.
Oct. 10 - LULAC LifeWalk Team has formed:
Our LifeWalk LULAC Team has formed and will participate in the annual 5k
run/walk on Sunday, Oct. 10, at Noon, at Lee Park. As of today, 13 LULAC 4871
members will walk: Zhyla Alvarado, Reymundo Anthony, Elias Cantu, Rogelio
Fernandez, Jesse Garcia, Martha Garcia, Elizabeth Lopez, Sean Lozano, Patricia
Mancha, Patrick McCoy, Sammy Nesbit-Guevara, Claudio Rejas, Priscilla Rice
and Chelle Simmons. Team members are encouraged to register online by
visiting www.lifewalk.org and select LULAC as your Team. We have already
raised $725 (online and offline). We are within in reach of our $1,000 goal!
Dec. 10-11 – Cena En El Barrio:
LULAC District III and its councils will participate in the 7th Annual Cena En El
Barrio (Dinner in the Neighborhood) North Texas feeding project. This year’s
event will take place on Friday, Dec. 10, from 5 to 9 p.m. (drop off and sort
supplies), and Saturday, Dec. 11, from 6 a.m. to 3 p.m. (assemble and deliver).
Mountain View College LULAC will host this event inside the MVC Gym, located
at 4849 W. Illinois Ave., Dallas, TX 75211. Talks are underway to bring back
North Texas and Tyson as partners. LULAC District III executive officers and
presidents decided to assign the following: adult councils will collect cake
mixes, young adults will collect bags of beans and rice, and youth will collect
vegetable cans (preferably corn, carrots, green beans, peas and mixed
vegetables). At the July LULAC 4871 general meeting, new member Dahlia
Garcia said her office Ameritax will donate 100 cake mixes toward our 200 goal.
Dallas Rainbow Council members are encouraged to bring cake mixes and
copy paper boxes (to deliver meals in) to the September, October and November
meetings. This year LULAC 4871 will once again donate meals to the Resource
Center Dallas Food Pantry and the AIDS Interfaith Soup Kitchen. If you want to
help out our new LULAC Youth Council, please bring canned vegetables. The
LULAC youth group has challenged itself to collect 500. The group has already
collected 40 cans one week into the challenge.
September 2010 - LULAC 4871 launches Youth Council:
The Dallas Rainbow Council has adopted a LULAC Youth Council made up
students from the Oak Cliff and West Dallas side of town. These great kids hail
from Sunset, Pinkston and Townview High Schools. LULAC 4871 members
Jesse Garcia, Suzanne Hickman and Patricia Mancha are mentoring 20 kids this
academic year. Are you interested in helping us out? Please contact Jesse at
jessegarciadallas@gmail.com.
Sept. 4 - Car Wash this Saturday:
Our Youth Council is having a fundraiser this Saturday to raise money for its
organization. Please stop by and wash your car on Saturday, Sept. 4, from 8 a.m.
to 1 p.m., at the Wendy's, located at 2328 W. Illinois Ave., Dallas, TX 75224.
Sept. 19 - Pride Parade:
The Dallas Rainbow Council will be parade entry No. 33 at the 2010 Alan Ross
Texas Freedom Parade on Sunday, Sept. 19. Dallas’ annual gay pride parade
will begin at 2 p.m. Our vehicle entry will need to be in place by Noon. Marchers
and banner carriers should be at our entry site by 1 p.m. LULAC 4871 will have a
booth at the Pride Picnic where folks will congregate after the parade. Our booth
is located in front of the N. Hall Street and Sale Street intersection. Booth set up
will be at 9 a.m. The park will open as early as 11 a.m. and the festival will end at
6 p.m. Organizers expect 30,000 people. We will need members to walk along
our entry down Cedar Springs Rd. and help us throw beads and carry our banner
during the parade. And we need volunteers for our booth in the park to help us
register voters and distribute literature. To volunteer, contact Jesse at
jessegarciadallas@gmail.com.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Sept. 15 - General Meeting:
We will meet on Wednesday, Sept. 15, at 6:30 p.m., at Havana’s, located at 4006
Cedar Springs Rd., Dallas, TX 75219. Special guest speaker is Elena White,
daughter of Texas Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Bill White. Join us for
dinner, drinks and fellowship!
Oct. 9 - LULAC “Train the Trainer on Employment Issues”:
LULAC District 3 and District 21, along with our sister council LULAC 4782, will
host a “Train the Trainer on Employment Issues” which will empower LULAC
members with knowledge about your rights in the workplace. The event takes
place Saturday, Oct. 9, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., at the Arlington Entertainment
Complex, located at 915 West Pioneer Pkwy, Arlington, TX 76013. Guest
presenters include Juan Munoz, Bilingual Investigator at the Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission, and Employment Law Attorney Maricela Siewczynski.
This free event is for LULAC members.
Oct. 10 - LULAC LifeWalk Team has formed:
Our LifeWalk LULAC Team has formed and will participate in the annual 5k
run/walk on Sunday, Oct. 10, at Noon, at Lee Park. As of today, 13 LULAC 4871
members will walk: Zhyla Alvarado, Reymundo Anthony, Elias Cantu, Rogelio
Fernandez, Jesse Garcia, Martha Garcia, Elizabeth Lopez, Sean Lozano, Patricia
Mancha, Patrick McCoy, Sammy Nesbit-Guevara, Claudio Rejas, Priscilla Rice
and Chelle Simmons. Team members are encouraged to register online by
visiting www.lifewalk.org and select LULAC as your Team. We have already
raised $725 (online and offline). We are within in reach of our $1,000 goal!
Dec. 10-11 – Cena En El Barrio:
LULAC District III and its councils will participate in the 7th Annual Cena En El
Barrio (Dinner in the Neighborhood) North Texas feeding project. This year’s
event will take place on Friday, Dec. 10, from 5 to 9 p.m. (drop off and sort
supplies), and Saturday, Dec. 11, from 6 a.m. to 3 p.m. (assemble and deliver).
Mountain View College LULAC will host this event inside the MVC Gym, located
at 4849 W. Illinois Ave., Dallas, TX 75211. Talks are underway to bring back
North Texas and Tyson as partners. LULAC District III executive officers and
presidents decided to assign the following: adult councils will collect cake
mixes, young adults will collect bags of beans and rice, and youth will collect
vegetable cans (preferably corn, carrots, green beans, peas and mixed
vegetables). At the July LULAC 4871 general meeting, new member Dahlia
Garcia said her office Ameritax will donate 100 cake mixes toward our 200 goal.
Dallas Rainbow Council members are encouraged to bring cake mixes and
copy paper boxes (to deliver meals in) to the September, October and November
meetings. This year LULAC 4871 will once again donate meals to the Resource
Center Dallas Food Pantry and the AIDS Interfaith Soup Kitchen. If you want to
help out our new LULAC Youth Council, please bring canned vegetables. The
LULAC youth group has challenged itself to collect 500. The group has already
collected 40 cans one week into the challenge.
LULAC 4871 - The Dallas Rainbow Council donates hundreds of school
supplies to DISD Teacher Ricky Grijaldo and his 5th grade class at Cesar
Chavez Learning Center.
supplies to DISD Teacher Ricky Grijaldo and his 5th grade class at Cesar
Chavez Learning Center.
| September General Meeting Wednesday, September 15, 6:30 p.m. Havana's 4006 Cedar Springs Rd., Dallas, TX 75219 |
At the August general
meeting, Census
Partnership Specialist
Nancy Guerrero gave
LULAC 4871 an award for
supporting her outreach
efforts in the Hispanic
community. In July,
LULAC 4871 got a similar
recognition for supporting
Census Partnership
Specialist Elizabeth
Lopez's outreach in the
LGBT community.