Dear nancy, Good Morning! I'm going to rush to get the newsletter out a little earlier this morning, in case you are looking for MLK parade information or places you can volunteer on this important day of service. If you are working today and can't attend this events, I also included information on how you can donate badly needed coats and blankets to help homeless stay warm through the " SoupMobile".
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Day March Dallas / Ft. Worth | 
Fort Worth MLK Parade What: The annual Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Celebration Parade/March/Rally will commemorate the legacy of Dr. King and feature marching bands, floats and decorated vehicles. When: Monday, January 17, 2011 at 11 a.m. Where: Fort Worth. The Parade will be staged on Commerce and Calhoun streets between 12th and 16th streets and will step off at Commerce and 12th St., head north on Commerce to 9th St., west on 9th St. to Main St., north on Main St. to 2nd St., west on 2nd St. to Houston, south on Houston to 13th St. and end at the Fort Worth Convention Center Water Gardens Plaza. 25th Annual Elite News MLK Parade and Festival What: The 25th annual Elite News MLK Day at Fair Park will feature 200 entries such as floats, marching bands, color guards, drill teams, clowns, vehicles, walkers and more. The festival in Fair Park's Tower Building will feature a health fair, a gospel concert, poetry and story telling performances, a fashion show, children's activities, vendor booths and more. When: January 17, 2011 at 10 a.m. Where: Fair Park, 1300 Robert B. Cullum Blvd., Dallas |
MLK Day of Service Day on not off ! | You can find all MLK Day of service projects here |
Tucson: Time for Another Examination of Conscience by Bobby Kennedy Jr. | 
** read this, it is about the climate in Dallas in 1963 !! On November 22, 1963, Mummy told us that a bad man had shot Uncle Jack. His death forced a national bout of self-examination of a rage that, whether sensible or not, seemed to have set the stage for his murder. read on |
With New TV Show, Radio Talker Thom Hartmann Brings Substance to Style
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Adele M. Stan, AlterNet: "Hartmann is a true believer in the power of media to convert the skeptic to the progressive point of view, and his radio guests are mostly conservatives, whom he debates with gusto, armed with an historian's knowledge of America's distant and recent past.... Indeed, 'The Thom Hartmann Program' is an unusual mix of substantial subject matter with the high energy and on-air calls from listeners that define the tried-and-true talk radio format." Read the Article |
Democracy Now | 
For more than a year, Fox News host Glenn Beck has been increasingly targeting Frances Fox Piven, a 78-year-old distinguished professor of political science and sociology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Beck has repeatedly accused her of advocating violence and of hatching a plan in 1966 to overthrow the system. Piven joins us in our studio. Watch/Listen/Read
Tavis Smiley on Obama's Arizona Memorial Speech, Martin Luther King and Hate in America We get reaction to President Obama's memorial speech in Tucson from journalist Tavis Smiley. And on this eve of the birthday of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., who decried violence abroad and at home, we also play excerpts of his historic 1967 address at the Riverside Church, when he called for an end to the Vietnam War. Smiley is hosting a nationally televised discussion tonight titled, "America's Next Chapter."
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Perry for president? Survey of Texans says no | 
Gov. Rick Perry insists that he has no intention of running for president, and that's apparently just fine with a strong majority of his fellow Texans, according to a newly released poll conducted for the Star-Telegram and other major newspapers. read on |
North Texas Democrats : Notes and News | 
Arlington Area Progressive Liberal Meetup Group Monthly Meetup When : Sunday, January 30, 2011 1:00 PM Where: Starbucks / 4340 Little Rd /Arlington TX 76016 Far North Dallas Democrats Meeting
When : Thursday January 20 Please join us for the first FNDD meeting of 2011. Our guest speaker will be Jeff Dalton who will speak on the success of the 2010 Dallas County Coordinated Campaign. Join us at 6:30 PM for socializing and dinner with the meeting starting at 7PM. Stonewall Democrats of Dallas
Tuesday, January 18: 6:30 PM, Ojeda's Restaurant, 4617 Maple Ave., Dallas
Texas Coalition of Black Democrats
Tuesday, January 18: 6:30 PM, Moorland YMCA, 907 E. Ledbetter Rd., Dallas |
| "Peace Begins with ME!" Radio show second Friday each month ! | 
Len writes " David Swanson will be my guest on my radio show this coming Friday: "Peace Begins with ME!" second Friday each month - the next show will be Jan 14, 2pm CST." you cal listen to free podcast link below ! With host: Len Ellis Welcome to Peace Begins With Me, a monthly dialogue to promote peace through personal responsibility. News Flash!! We live in a society, in a culture, in a world surrounded by violence. Like a drop of water in the ocean, violence is so prevalent, so much a part of our daily lives, we many times don't even recognize it or are aware of it. Hence the impetus for this program, to raise our awareness of violence, and provide ways to deal with conflict and violence in our lives. From language to abuse to fighting and to the ultimate expression of violence - war - we always have choices of how we are going to deal with not only our fellow human beings, but with all of life. We may wish that it was easy, that some day our leaders will simply proclaim "peace" and that would be the end of violence. But our leaders are a reflection of our consciousness, they represent and manifest all our thoughts, feelings, and actions. Until each of us can be at peace, to act in a nonviolent way, we are part of this culture of violence. The challenge is to create, then grow, a culture of peace. And where are our leaders going to learn the skills required to model peace? To promote peace? I guarantee you that at the stroke of midnight some hand will not be waived and all of a sudden every leader on this planet will know how to live a nonviolent life - not gonna' happen! read on and listen to free podcasts |
New Meetup for The Dallas Alternative Energy Meetup Group | 
Announcing a new Meetup for The Dallas Alternative Energy Meetup Group! What: Masterful tale of how an oil refinery ticks When: Saturday, January 22, 2011 1:00 PM Where: REI /4515 LBJ Fwy /Dallas, TX 75244 /972-490-5989 Masterful tale of how an oil refinery ticks - 13 DAYS: THE PYTHAGORAS CONSPIRACY Now is your chance to hear how oil refineries really work from an oil company executive who has written a masterful thriller detailing the way a refinery ticks without boring the reader or introducing too much technical jargon. And while the retorting of crude oil is part of the story, the characters and their human relationships are what make this book so readable and interesting. It reads like books by Michael Crichton, Tom Clancy, and John Grisham. The author, L. A. Starks, http://lastarksbooks.com/, earned a chemical engineering bachelor's degree, magna cum laude, from New Orleans' Tulane University. This was followed by a finance MBA from the University of Chicago. She worked more than a decade for well-known oil companies in engineering, marketing, and finance from refineries to corporate offices which prepared her to write 13 DAYS: THE PYTHAGORAS CONSPIRACY (Brown Books Publishing Group, 2006) about a plot to sabotage oil refineries and the woman who must discover and stop it. Ms. Starks donates a percentage of 13 DAYS' revenues to a New Orleans rebuilding fund. Let's make this 'Progressive book of the week' ! You can purchase the book here |
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| By FRANK RICH NY Times | OF the many truths in President Obama's powerful Tucson speech, none was more indisputable than his statement that no one can know what is in a killer's mind. So why have we spent so much time debating exactly that? Barry Blitt The answer is classic American denial. It was easier to endlessly parse Jared Lee Loughner's lunatic library - did he favor "The Communist Manifesto" or Ayn Rand? - than confront the larger and harsher snapshot of our current landscape that emerged after his massacre. A week on, that denial is becoming even more entrenched. As soon as the president left the podium Wednesday night, we started shifting into our familiar spin-dry post-tragedy cycle of the modern era - speedy "closure," followed by a return to business as usual, followed by national amnesia.
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Drinking Liberally toast the President | 2011 is here and so is the anniversary of President Obama's inauguration. It just so happens to fall on our regular meeting date! Come toast the President and VP with Drinking Liberally Addison on Thursday January 20th starting at 6pm at The Quarter on Addison Road. It's a big f'n deal!
Drinking Liberally, Thursday, January 20, 7 pm ~~~~~~~~~~~ Rio Mambo, 5150 Highway 121 (just off Hwy. 121), Colleyville (map) DL Mid-Cities, a social networking organization for progressives and liberals is hosted by Kathleen Thompson and Brad Walker. Questions? E-mail midcities@drinkingliberally.org or call Kathleen at 817.798.5242 |
It's All About PrioritiesACLU and Texas Legislature | 
The 82nd Legislature The following 140 days will be pivotal for legislators and their priorities. And it will be for us, too. You already know immigration - one of our strategic campaigns - will be a contentious issue, and we will be there fighting to ensure the rights of all Texas residents. But we have more on our plate. Here is a quick rundown of some of the ACLU of Texas' legislative priorities for this session. For a full list of what we're working on during this session, be sure to download the 2011 ACLU of Texas Bill Book (PDF), copies of which will soon be in the hands of every single state representative and senator. EDUCATION The ACLU of Texas' Focus on Learning in Texas Classrooms campaign shapes our legislative agenda on education. We will support reforms to end the so-called school-to-prison-pipeline, which too often funnels schoolchildren away from the classroom and into the criminal justice system. VOTING RIGHTS We will push for higher standards for certification of electronic voting machines and require a paper trail. We will also seek to address problems with provisional ballots, and we will support voter education programs. As you can see, we have work to do, work for which we need your help. Please take a moment to forward this email to a friend and encourage them to sign up to receive more legislative alerts like these by subscribing to ACLU of Texas e-alerts.
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SoupMan is Code Blue Weather Alert needs Coats & Blankets | 
The SoupMan is calling a Code Blue Weather Alert. He needs Coats & Blankets to pass out to the homeless this week and through the rest of the winter. Contact the SoupMan at david@soupmobile.org and let him know how you can help. 3017 Commerce St.Dallas, TX 75226 Check us out at our new homepage: http://www.soupmobile.org/
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Tom DeLay Sentenced to Three Years in Prison | 
While DeLay heads to jail, his legacy of arrogant and ruthless partisanship thrives Tom DeLay was sentenced to three years in prison for his role in an illegal scheme to launder almost $200,000 in corporate campaign donations. A Texas Judge sentenced DeLay to three years in prison on charges of conspiracy to launder money. He was sentenced to an additional five years in prison on the charge of illegally laundering money, but that sentenced was reduced to ten years on probation. (Source: Austin American-Statesman, January 10, 2011)
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