How would you like to pay five times as much for insurance as younger people? What about losing your pension or having your Social Security Cut? Right now, Congress is deliberating all those things. We need to organize retirees to fight back! I'm starting a digital organizin... Read more
The AFL-CIO in Texas has the retirees' backs -- and we have theirs! To save pensions, we're urging everyone to go to Austin for the State Employees Lobby Day April 12. Bus rides to Austin cost $15. Click here to buy yours! A lot of really bad things for retirees and our fa... Read more
By unanimous vote, the Dallas Chapter of the Texas Alliance for Retired Americans is behind March 8 activities titled "A Day Without A Woman!" [caption id="attachment_2142" align="aligncenter" width="700"] Dallas Chapter is meeting at Alliance/AFT[/caption] The Houston Ch... Read more
All over Texas, members of the Texas Alliance for Retired Americans (TARA) are in the first ranks of the many ongoing battles for decent living, rights, and dignity in America. Retirees are making calls, filling out petitions, visiting political leaders, and hitting the str... Read more
The sheer amount of work that our 6 Texas chapters are doing is a true wonder. [caption id="attachment_2101" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Yolanda Delgado of Austin TARA at women's march[/caption] Austin collected over 300 petition signatures during their giant 50,000-pe... Read more
The Texas Legislative session began January 10 and the federal government is changing hands. Retirees aren't sitting on ours! For most of Texas, the next big public event is Martin Luther King Jr celebrations on the 16th. [caption id="attachment_2050" align="aligncenter" width... Read more
We are facing threats that are bigger and more urgent than any in our lifetimes! Congressmen Sam Johnson and Paul Ryan agree on attacking Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid I'm asking every Texan who wants to save and expand the right to retire to support the Texas All... Read more
Grace Akbar tells Dallas activists that they need to outreach everybody they know to organize our progressive movement. [caption id="attachment_2058" align="aligncenter" width="700"] Grace Akbar[/caption] She and friend Ethel Castaneda, both retired schoolteachers, wrote up... Read more
The Dallas Chapter of the Texas Alliance for Retired Americans met at 12:30PM on January 5 in the "Lucky Room" at the Crown Buffet Chinese restaurant. [caption id="attachment_2060" align="aligncenter" width="700"] Judy Bryant speaks while Barbara Rojas counts the collection[/c... Read more