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North Texas Progressive Election 2010 "Yes We Can" mini fundraiser!
Things are tough all over and when money is tight sponsorship of the newsletter suffers ...so we just want to make sure we have all the money we need to keep going! We like to raise money the old fashioned way - by having a raffle for great prizes!
For every $20.00 you donate your name will be placed in a raffle for FANTASTIC gifts.
You can use PayPal http://www.dallasairamerica.org/buyour.htm (safely use your credit card or debit card ) You can also mail me a check just send me an email at northtexasprogressive@gmail.com I'll send you the mailing address.
Here are the fabulous gifts for this fundraiser. Remember, you buy a chance to win one of these items for every $20 you donate. Please be generous.
Books Autographed
1 autographed TOXIC TALK: How The Radical Right Has Poisoned America's Airwavesby Bill Press
1 autographed Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union by David Swanson
Non- Autographed
1 Killer Politics: How big money and bad politics are destroying the great American Middle class by Ed Schultz
1 Air America: the Playbook -what a bunch of Left-Wing media types have to say about a world gone right (rare collector's item) with introduction by Al Franken (now Senator)
DVDs and CDs
1 autographed Majority Report DVD (rare collector's item includes Sam Seder at RNC in 2004)
Misc
1 MSNBC Mouse Pad "MSNBC: A fuller spectrum of news"
1 Sam Seder autographed Majority Report Mouse Pad
1 1 lb of Ground Free Trade Coffee from Just Coffee: Grounds for Democracy (Now) blend
1 T-shirt Air America 910am radio (collector's item)
Thanks, Nancy Cunningham
Email /Webpage /Facebook /Twitter /Newsletetter archive | | TODAY!!! Last Day to Register to Vote in the November 2nd General Election | | 
Monday, October 4th 2010
Your voter registration card must be at the County Elections Administration office before 5 p.m. on October 4. To print a voter registration card, which must be mailed by October 1, go to Voter Registration Application.
Early Voting
October 18 - October 29, 2010. You can vote an ANY early voting location in Denton County during the early voting period, which ends on Friday, October 29. Click here for polling locations and times - EARLY VOTING.
Ballot by Mail
You may also request a ballot by mail at this link - BALLOT BY MAIL.
Every vote counts in this important mid-term election, so spread the word, andhelp get Democrats elected!!! Find your county elections department here | | Democracy Now | |  "Waiting for Superman": Critics Say Much-Hyped Education Documentary Unfairly Targets Teachers Unions and Promotes Charter Schools
Waiting for Superman, a new documentary by filmmaker Davis Guggenheim, has caused a stir in the education world for its sweeping endorsement of the charter school movement and attack on teachers unions. President Obama has endorsed the film, describing it as "heartbreaking" and "powerful," but some teachers have called for a boycott of the film for its portrayal of teachers and the teachers union. We speak to Rick Ayers, founder of the Communication Arts and Sciences program at Berkeley High School and adjunct professor in teacher education at the University of San Francisco.
Listen/Watch/Read
FBI Raids Homes of Antiwar and Pro-Palestinian Activists in Chicago and Minneapolis
Antiwar activists are gearing up for protests outside FBI offices in cities across the country today and Tuesday after the FBI raided eight homes and offices of antiwar activists in Chicago and Minneapolis Friday. The FBI's search warrants indicate agents were looking for connections between local antiwar activists and groups in Colombia and the Middle East. We speak to the targets of two of the raids and former FBI officer Coleen Rowley.
Listen/Watch/Read
| | LOCAL "Rally to Restore Sanity" BUS BEING PLANNED ! | | 
BRING BACK SANITY RALLY BUS
If you would be interested in chartering a bus to go to Jon Stewart's BRING
BACK SANITY RALLY on October 30, let me know ken22640@suddenlink.net . We
would leave the Dallas Area, drive straight through, and arrive the morning
of the rally. We would stay overnight then return the next day by driving
straight through. Ken Leach Ken22640@suddenlink.net
From the site : "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore!"
Who among us has not wanted to open their window and shout that at the top of their lungs? Seriously, who?
Because we're looking for those people. We're looking for the people who think shouting is annoying, counterproductive, and terrible for your throat; who feel that the loudest voices shouldn't be the only ones that get heard; and who believe that the only time it's appropriate to draw a Hitler mustache on someone is when that person is actually Hitler. Or Charlie Chaplin in certain roles. 
Are you one of those people? Excellent. Then we'd like you to join us in Washington, DC on October 30 -- a date of no significance whatsoever -- at the Daily Show's "Rally to Restore Sanity."
Ours is a rally for the people who've been too busy to go to rallies, who actually have lives and families and jobs (or are looking for jobs) -- not so much the Silent Majority as the Busy Majority. If we had to sum up the political view of our participants in a single sentence... we couldn't. That's sort of the point.
http://www.rallytorestoresanity.com/
http://www.keepfearalive.com/
| | "DOING MORE FOR DALLAS COUNTY" order your yard sign today | | 
Stand up for the progress that is happening in Dallas County because of Democratic leadership. Order your "DOING MORE FOR DALLAS COUNTY" yard sign today.
THERE ARE TWO WAYS TO GET A SIGN:
1) Drop by the DCDP Party Office at 4209 Parry Ave, Dallas, Texas 75223 MAP
or
2) Use the online order form to have a sign delivered to your home address.
Order your sign today. HERE
Sincerely, Darlene Ewing -Chair, Dallas County Democratic Party | | North Texas Progressive Book Suggestion | | 
Price: $8.95 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25. Details BUY HERE
As a World War II combat soldier, Howard Zinn took part in the aerial bombing of Royan, France. Two decades later, he was invited to visit Hiroshima and meet survivors of the atomic attack. In this short and powerful book, Zinn offers his deep personal reflections and political analysis of these events, their consequences, and the profound influence they had in transforming him from an order-taking combat soldier to one of our greatest anti-authoritarian, antiwar historians. This book was finalized just prior to Zinn's passing in January 2010, and is published on the sixty-fifth anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima.
| | North Texas Democrats : Notes and News | |  Denton County Democrats
Gas Drilling Forum in Flower Mound
Answers to your gas drilling questions is the aim of this forum hosted by the DCDP Environment and Energy Committee. Local experts, community activists, and political candidates from the Democratic and Republican parties have been invited.
Join us for this lively discussion and informative forum.
Wednesday, October 6 /7:00 - 8:30 p.m. /4150 Kirkpatrick Lane /Flower Mound, TX
Dallas County Democrats
Winning Wednesdays
Please join us every Wednesday evening until election day as we make calls to our base voters. We are enthusiastically calling our voters to insure not only their support but to encourage their help in getting out the VOTE. In order to finish our list we need to make a little over 1000 calls each Wednesday, so we need your help!
We have three locations for you convenience and we usually begin by 6pm and end by 9pm. This week we will only open the Parry location from 7pm - 9pm due to a conflict with another event. RSVP by email to ladeitra.adkins AT dallasdemocrats.org.
DCDP HQ - 4209 Parry Avenue, Dallas
DCDP Duncanville - 621 Hustead, Duncanville
DCDP NW Dallas - 11500 N Stemmons Fwy #186, Dallas
We have phone lines at all three locations, but please bring your cell as a backup if you can.
SCHEDULE
Wednesday, October 6, 2010 6pm-9pm
Wednesday, October 13, 2010 6pm-9pm
Wednesday, October 27, 2010 6pm-9pm
Grand Prairie Democrats
Saturday, October 9:
10 AM, Avion Village Clubhouse, 800 Skyline Rd., Grand Prairie
Rowlett Democratic Club
Saturday, October 9:
3 - 5 PM, Rowlett Public Library, 3900 Main St., Rowlett
Tarrant County Dems
Once again, we will be getting together at The Usual. As an added incentive, we are also going to offer a tour of Cowboy Stadium on Saturday, October 30th, which is the day before the game with Jacksonville.
The "40 for 40" promotion was, obviously, originally intended to draw 40 people who would contribute $40 each to the Party. I think we can, and should, do a lot better than that. Although the requested donation will still be $40*, I am hopeful several hundred people will show up for these events---and in that way we will be able to achieve our goal of raising enough money to achieve our Get-Out-The-Vote goals.
Please plan to attend! We have all worked so hard to continue the progress our Party has made over the past few years it would be tragic to see our efforts fall short simply because we could not raise a few thousand dollars. We are SO close!
RSVP by ordering your tickets below.
Questions? Please email S.Prescott at sph@tcdp.net or call 817.335.8683
| | Marc Maron does Dallas - WTF Live Tour Trees in Dallas Oct 19th | | 
Marc Maron ( former host of Air America's Morning Sedition) will be live in Dallas on Oct 19th.
He'll be at Trees 7:30 pm tickets $15.00
2709 Elm St / Dallas
But Tickets here http://treesdallas.com/
Find out more about Maron here and listen to his great podcasts!
| | Dallas Area Christian Progressive Alliance - The Elimination of Poverty | Saturday, October 9, 2-3:30pm- Theo Walker, Phd, The Elimination of Poverty
We once believed that institutional slavery would be with us always. Do we dare believe that poverty can be abolished? Join other progressive Christians for another excellent speaker. Northaven United Methodist Church, 11211 Preston at Northaven.
The Dallas Area Christian Progressive Alliance is currently participating in the planning phase of an initiative for 2011 cosponsored with the Church in Society Commission of Northaven United Methodist Church, "Faith Voices on Justice," to feature regular speakers on issues related to theology and the justice mandate: peace, economic and social justice, environmental justice, and more. Look for additional information soon | | | | | Obama in command: The Rolling Stone interview | | 
We arrived at the southwest gate of the white house a little after one o'clock on the afternoon of September 17th. It was a warm fall day, but the capital felt quiet and half-empty, as it does on Fridays at the end of summer, with Congress still in recess. Rolling Stone had interviewed Barack Obama twice before, both times aboard his campaign plane - first in June 2008, a few days after he won the Democratic nomination, and again that October, a month before his election. This time executive editor Eric Bates and I sat down with the president in the Oval Office, flanked by busts of Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr. The conversation stretched on for nearly an hour and a quarter. The president began by complimenting my multi-colored striped socks. "If I wasn't president," he laughed, "I could wear socks like that."
When you came into office, you felt you would be able to work with the other side. When did you realize that the Republicans had abandoned any real effort to work with you and create bipartisan policy?
Well, I'll tell you that given the state of the economy during my transition, between my election and being sworn in, our working assumption was that everybody was going to want to pull together, because there was a sizable chance that we could have a financial meltdown and the entire country could plunge into a depression. So we had to work very rapidly to try to create a combination of measures that would stop the free-fall and cauterize the job loss.
read on
| | | The Errington Thompson Show | | 
Do you want to hear a great Progressive Talk Radio show ?
Listen to Dallas native Dr. Errington Thompson on Revolution 880 from Asheville, NC live Saturdays 3-4pm cst
Read blog & listen to free podcasts
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| | "The Future of Transportation, Jobs and Education in North Texas" with Bill White | | The Dallas Democratic Forum presents
Bill White
Candidate for Governor of Texas
"The Future of Transportation, Jobs and Education in North Texas"
Monday- October 11th Belo Mansion
2101 Ross Avenue Dallas, Texas 75201
11:15 AM - Registration/Buffet
12:00 - Program (doors close)
Bill White has requested that everyone coming to the luncheon bring an "undecided voter" to hear his plans.
RSVP - wdgriggs@yahoo.com
Luncheon: $25 click here to pay by credit card
Join or Renew your membership in TheDallasDemocratic Forum
www.thedallasdemocraticforum.com
| | Make Music Not War Denton Peace Festival | |  When: Thursday, October 7, 4:00 p.m.
Where: Fry & Hickory Sts., Denton
| | My BFF just told me "TTYL" is in the dictionary. LMAO | | New words, senses, and phrases have been added to the New Oxford American Dictionary
Oxford University Press Blog: New words, new phrases, old words - new senses - with some of which you will be familiar in light of the ongoing financial crisis, riding public transport, using social media, and having kids.
here
| | Washington Post Blog: Impact of War - How nine years of war has changed lives back home | | Impact of War - How nine years of war has changed lives back home: "More than eight years after the attacks of 9/11, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan reverberate in ways large and small. They have transformed the U.S. Armed Forces, defined a generation of veterans, left thousands dead and wounded. Yet they have also been fought largely out of view, with fewer than one percent of Americans directly involved. And while the wars may be winding down, the after-effects are only just beginning. This blog is a first-of-its-kind collaboration between The Washington Post and the people who live the wars everyday--soldiers, veterans, caregivers, spouses, advocates. Here, experts and everyday people can come together to talk about how the war has changed their lives. Accompanying these conversations is a series of stories by reporter Christian Davenport that, over the course of a year, will explore the impact of the wars in the Washington region, from Walter Reed to Arlington Cemetery to a local high school. Together, these stories and this blog seek to create a conversation and a community that shed some light on what the wars mean to all of us."
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