Rally to change Ervay St. to Harvey Milk St. Sent Robert Jeffress and the 1st Baptist Dallas church a message.

 We are having a rally to change Ervay to Harvey Milk St. This is the street which runs past the infamous First Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas where W.A. Criswell was pastor. 

This is the link to the Facebook Event page.

https://www.facebook.com/events/720728772635361

This is the link to the Facebook group for a Harvey Milk St. 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/451152996505826

At the group page is a lot of links to historical materials pdfs which you can download and articles which you can read telling about W.A. Criswell and Robert Jeffress. 

Henry Ervay for whom the street was named was part of the invasion of Nicaragua to make it a slave state, was a Confederate officer, and later played a key role in re-establishing white supremacy in Dallas when he was part of the effort to end the multi-racial democracy of Reconstruction. 

This is a link to a page with background info on Ervay.

http://templeofdemocracy.com/ervay-street.html

Extremism in the Texit movement./ Have largely moved to the Landscape Reparations blog.

 Michelle Renee has done this write up on the Texit movement. 

https://livingbluetx.com/2021/02/beliefs-behind-texit-movement

I have been discussing Texit in this blog over the years and you will find a lot of information in earlier posts. Generally though I have moved to the following blog. 

https://landscapereparations.blogspot.com/2021/01/landscape-reparations-and-deracializing.html

Transferring activity to the blog Landscape Reparations

 Transferring activity to this blog. Local Dallas activity will be covered by Landscape Reparations blog. 

https://landscapereparations.blogspot.com/

There is a webpage with information on Landscape Reparations also at:

http://templeofdemocracy.com/landscape-reparations.html

There is also a YouTube channel Landscape Reparations with its first video, maps talk.

https://youtu.be/MErB-nKphbE

Dallas City Council member Adam Bazaldua wants to renamee R.L. Thornton Freeway. / Importance of Street names discussed. Dallas Observer article.

The article is online here: 

https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/dallas-council-member-wants-to-rename-rl-thornton-freeway-after-juanita-j-craft-11931759

The issues about renaming streets is mentioned and I am quoted a fair amount. 

I had shared with Jacob Vaughn my papers on street names such as the fights over street names, the review of the municipal code on street names, my critique of it, my paper on the metaphysical landscape, etc. 

You can read these papers and papers on why renaming streets is important at these links. 

http://templeofdemocracy.com/dallas-streets.html

This is history over the renaming streets in Dallas. 

http://templeofdemocracy.com/struggle-over-dallas-street-names.html

This link is to the papers on the Metaphysical landscape and stigmatized property and Landscape reparations

http://templeofdemocracy.com/landscape-reparations.html

Botham Jean Memorial Committee introduces the concept of Landscape Reparations into public discussion via Dallas Observer article.

Often the first thing to be done is to get people thinking in new ways and that involves often new concepts and that involves new terms to get people thinking about new ideas. 

The new terms and new concept is "landscape reparations." 

It is mentioned in this article. 

https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/dallas-botham-jean-boulevard-lamar-street-11922314

I have a web page on Landscape Reparations with articles and pod casts. 

http://templeofdemocracy.com/landscape-reparations.html

At this page I have links to a page on name changes in South Africa. 

The Botham Jean Committee had a rally and the terms "landscape reparations" were used in the speeches and additonally the fact that the landscape didn't have Africaness was mentioned. So the concept is now out  there, and I hope it goes national. I haven't put the speeches online. I hope to get that done at some point. Look to this blog to see the updated info. 

The Friendship West Baptist Church had a speaker and the speaker used the term and it was used in their Zoom broadcast. So the concept is out there. I look forward to it continuing to spread and to reach a broader audience, hopefully nationally. 

https://youtu.be/ozVKptKrnbw

https://www.facebook.com/BothamJeanMemorial

Mirabeau Lamar information to support the effort to change the name of Lamar St. to Botham Jean Boulevard.

It is one stop shopping for all the info you need. 

http://templeofdemocracy.com/lamar-street.html

Fight over renaming the Woodrow Wilson High School in Dallas.

I have a web page with the links to news articles about the change, historical papers about the racism of Woodrow Wilson, and a link to the Facebook page of the effort to change the name, and a link to the petition to changee the name. 

As of 7/8/2020 in the afternoon they have 3,060 signatures. People are signing now about every 15 minutes. The following is the link. 

https://www.change.org/p/justin-henry-disd-school-board-president-change-the-name-of-woodrow-wilson-high-school-in-dallas-texas

This is the link to the Wilson page will all the information and links you need to change the name. 

http://templeofdemocracy.com/wilson.html