LULAC District III - North Texas

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LULAC Membership Dues – February 28 Deadline

National, State and District membership fees are due. Packets are being mailed out this week (Jan. 11-15) from district and state. You should have received your packet from the national office last week. If you haven’t your packets within the next week, please contact the following people:

• District – Patricia Munoz at silvercreek11@gmail.com or at 214.868.3880

• State – Valentine Villa at villavgvilla@aol.com or at 254.774.1418

• National – Guadalupe Morales at gmorales@lulac.org or at 866.577.0726

Note: Packets are being mailed out to the address of the council president listed in the last membership roster turned in (March 2009). If the person is no longer president, make sure to contact him or her to get the packet. Please make every effort to turn in membership rosters – typed. Handwritten rosters with writing that is not legible may result in members not receiving their LULAC information from National, State and District leaders.

Free Legal Help

Many LULAC Councils often receive phone calls from the public asking for legal assistance. The Dallas Bar Association sponsors free legal advice phone lines on the 2nd and 3rd Wednesday of each month. "LegalLine," an anonymous telephone hotline, is staffed by volunteer attorneys who will answer your legal questions for FREE by answering phone calls from 5:30 to 8 p.m. There are Spanish-speaking attorneys when available. The telephone number to call is 214.220.7476. Callers are welcome to call with any kind of legal question.

LULAC District Convention

The LULAC District III Convention will take place Saturday, April 10, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., at Eastfield College, Pleasant Grove Campus, located at 802 S. Buckner Blvd., Dallas, TX 75217. Businesses wishing to sponsor the convention, sponsor a booth or place an advertisement in the convention program may contact LULAC District III Deputy District Director Jesse Garcia at jessegarciadallas@gmail.com.

LULAC State Convention

The 2010 Texas LULAC State Convention will take place June 2-6, 2010, at the Austin Hilton Airport Hotel, located at 9515 Hotel Drive, Austin TX 78719.

LULAC National Convention

The 2010 National LULAC Convention and Expo will take place July 12-17, 2010, at the Albuquerque Convention Center, located at 401 Second St. NW, Albuquerque, NM 87102. Convention hotels: Hyatt Regency Albuquerque - 800.233.1234 and Double Tree Hotel Albuquerque - 505.247.7000.

LULAC District III Legal Partners

On Saturday, Jan. 30, LULAC District III leaders heard from legal partners who have offered their services. We thank them for their assistance in helping low-income people access justice:

Employment Issues: Maricela Siewczynski, maricela@texemploymentlaw.com, 214.634.9990.

Civil Legal Services: Andrew Musquiz, musquiza@lanwt.org, 214.748.1234 ext. 2239.

Please mention that LULAC sent you.  Special thanks to the Dallas Bar Association and the Dallas Hispanic Bar Association for their partnership with LULAC District III.

West Texas Women’s Conference

“How to be an Empowering Latina Woman” is this year’s West Texas Women’s Conference theme, taking place Saturday, Feb. 13, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the

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Volunteer!

Hispanic Career Professionals: Educator Denise Tucker needs Hispanic professionals to talk about their careers and to help conduct mock interviews with junior high students who are being prepared for success. Please contact Ms. Tucker, Career Investigations Teacher at Hector Garcia Middle School, at 972.502.5500.

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LULAC

With approximately 115,000 members throughout the United States and Puerto Rico, the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) is the largest and oldest Hispanic Organization in the United States. LULAC advances the economic condition, educational attainment, political influence, health and civil rights of Hispanic Americans through community-based programs operating at more than 700 LULAC councils nationwide. The organization involves and serves all Hispanic nationality groups.

Historically, LULAC has focused heavily on education, civil rights, and employment for Hispanics. LULAC councils provide more than a million dollars in scholarships to Hispanic students each year, conduct citizenship and voter registration drives, develop low income housing units, conduct youth leadership training programs, and seek to empower the Hispanic community at the local, state and national level.

North Texas LULAC District III serves 27 counties and extends to the border of Texas and Oklahoma, east to the Texas Louisiana border and south of Dallas into Ellis County.

District III is made up of the following counties in Northeast Texas: Archer, Bowie, Clay, Camp, Cass, Collin, Cooke, Dallas, Delta, Denton, Ellis, Fannin, Franklin, Grayson, Gregg, Harrison, Hopkins, Hunt, Jack, Kaufman, Lamar, Marion, Montague, Morris, Rains, Red River, Rockwall, Smith, Titus, Upshur, Van Zandt, Wichita, Wise, Wood and Young.