Challenge the SBOE Rally!
Event Details
Time: May 16, 2010 from 11am to 5pm
Location: Texas State Capitol
Street: 1100 N Congress Avenue
City/Town: Austin, TX
Event Type: rally
Organized By: Shine
Latest Activity: May 14, 2010
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Event Description
The far-right extremists on the Texas State Board of Education recently proposed sweeping changes to the social studies curriculum. These changes include removing Thomas Jefferson from a world history standard about important Enlightenment thinkers, exaggerating (or outright lying about) the influence of religion on the Founders, downplaying the importance of the civil rights movement, and exaggerating the importance of conservatives such as Phyllis Schlafly, Newt Gingrich, and even Rush Limbaugh.
Join the Atheist Community of Austin for a rally at the State Capitol on Sunday, May 16th, 2010.Bring your friends, neighbors, family members - anyone who cares what kind of education kids in Texas receive. We need 1000 people there to send a message to the SBOE and the Texas Lege - that religious and political ideologies aren't an appropriate foundation for a 21st century education.
Bring a lunch, sunscreen, and a sign - Separation of Church & State signs are particularly appropriate. You'll join members of other atheist, freethinker, and concerned citizen groups from across the state. More details to follow as we get closer to the rally.
Link to full description on Meetup.com
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Comment by Shine on May 14, 2010 at 3:40pm -
Yikes, time flies; only two days left until the rally. I still have not dug up that petition!
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Comment by Luciano G. Gayton on May 4, 2010 at 9:28pm -
I am taking care my old dear sweet mother. Plus no car. I have never believed in god or devils. Take a video to show. Especially of yourselves, I don't want to see any lying murdering con-artist. are there any petition to sign. I am a voter.
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Comment by GT on May 2, 2010 at 5:37am -
Shine: I had that idea as well before I got sidetracked into bombing the email address. Any luck with the petition?
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Comment by Shine on May 1, 2010 at 5:18pm
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Good idea, GT. I think that I remember hearing about a petition circulating somewhere for this; I'll have to see if I can dig up the link.
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Comment by GT on May 1, 2010 at 4:28am
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The State Board of Education (SBOE) has an elected 15 member board. Here is a picture of Officers, Committees, and Members from the webpage
http://www.tea.state.tx.us/index4.aspx?id=3803
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It seems that all emails to these people go to one address -
sboesupport@tea.state.tx.us
Just a thought, we could have an email writing campaign to SBOE supporting whatever your proposals are?
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Comment by Shine on April 30, 2010 at 8:16pm
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The rally is legit, I just don't know what other organizations are involved.
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Comment by Shine on April 30, 2010 at 7:58pm
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Here is a link to the ACA's Facebook page. I don't think that they have posted an event for the rally, though. I found an American Atheist and a Secular Center page, but as I'm not familiar with either organization I don't know if those are official or fan pages. (I'm just hesitant to link the wrong organization.)
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Comment by Bryan Stewart on April 30, 2010 at 7:52pm -
Has anyone started a facebook event for it? I can't go but would think fb would be more used and seen than meetup.com
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Comment by Shine on April 30, 2010 at 4:32pm
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Okay. :) I copied-pasted the blurb above from the Meetup.com link. Thanks for spreading the word!
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Comment by Monica Salcedo (Monicks) on April 30, 2010 at 4:26pm -
Thanks Shine, in that case, I think I will ask for permission to repost the original article.
I think this is the one:
http://secularcenterusa.blogspot.com/2010/04/action-alert-rally-to-...
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