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[Excerpt] To abate the confusion, fear, and anxiety about SB 4, about 10 police officers representing Arlington, Fort Worth, Kennedale, and Mansfield Police Departments met Aug. 29 at St. Joseph...
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Before a packed audience of 700 leaders of Dallas Area Interfaith, and on the one-year anniversary of the shooting that took the lives of five police officers, Dallas Area Interfaith...
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For almost ten years, Mauricio Aguilar vacillated between dead-end tech jobs paying $10-25 per hour, putting in long hours to support his wife and four children. This went on until he "took Skill...
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Former Mayor Pro Tem Monica Alonzo, who waited until the day before the election to support Dallas Area Interfaith's agenda in support of affordable housing and early childhood education, lost...
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Hundreds of DAI leaders forced a runoff election by increasing the number of voters by almost 800 in a region of Dallas home to housing code changes and mass evictions....
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In District 6, where only 800 votes were cast in the previous election, DAI leaders organized a nonpartisan accountability assembly in which 300 local residents grilled city council candidates on...
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[Excerpt below from page 81 of study linked below]“Catholic congregations and leaders…were central in the push for payday lending reform in nearby Arlington. Father Daniel Kelley of St. Joseph Catholic...
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When Pope Francis announced the new bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Dallas, Bishop Edward Burns, DAI welcomed him and expressed eagerness to collaborate. According to lead organizer Josephine Lopez-Paul:...
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Dallas Area Interfaith leaders assembled by the hundreds at Temple of Faith CME to address neighborhood safety issues identified through conversations with fellow parishioners and neighbors: police protocol on traffic stops, wage...
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Within days of Dallas Area Interfaith’s (DAI) stunning housing code victory, the owner of hundreds of single family rental homes in West Dallas, HMK, sent eviction notices to 305 tenants ordering them to...
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