Next Meeting: July 17, 2021

Welcome back! TDWJC will meet IN PERSON on July 17 at Antonio's.

Our guest speaker will tell us about Meals On Wheels North Central Texas, which serves the counties of Johnson, Ellis, and Navarro. MOWNCT's Impact: "We mobilize across 2,772 square miles to ensure our seniors are well-fed, safe, and reminded of their value to their community. With almost half of our clients living alone, we are a formidable advocate for a vulnerable population facing food insecurity, unattended injury, and loneliness."

As time allows, we'll also work on a Clothes Hanger Campaign to protest SB 8 (the heartbeat bill). The goal is to inundate our state lawmakers (Burns, Birdwell, Abbott, Dan Patrick) with wire coat-hangers to remind them that their vote and support of the "heartbeat" bill has set women's rights back to the days of back-alley abortions.

The bill is scheduled to go into effect on September 1. We are joining with Indivisible TX Lege to let our Legislators know that we will remember their support of this atrocious bill that strips Texas women of our rights, our lives, and our futures. With hang-tags attached to wire coat-hangers, we will tell them how disappointed we are with their support of this extreme anti-choice bill, and we will state emphatically that we'll remember their misogyny when we vote in November 2022.

Wire coat-hangers and hang-tags will be provided at our next meeting. Please bring any extra wire hangers that you want to donate to the effort.

For more background on what SB 8 does: Clothes Hanger Campaign