Dear nancy, Good Morning!
Lot's going on this week - it's not too late to get tickets to hear Eddie Bernice Johnson talk about the GOP and the debt limit. Also make sure you get your tickets the Mid Cities 4th of July party boat -that event sells out !
Thanks,
Nancy Cunningham
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GOP Debt Limit Fight: How Can We Win? | 
Come hear The Hon. Eddie Bernice Johnson U.S. Representative, Texas 30th District Wednesday, June 8, 2011, luncheon The Belo Mansion /2101 Ross Ave at Olive /Dallas, Texas 11:30 AM -Registration 12:00 Noon - Luncheon and Program RSVP here (required by Tues, 6/7) wdgriggs@yahoo.com 2011 Regular members $25.00 on Paypal Guests $35.00 on Paypal or pay by cash or check at registration table You can also become a member or renew your 2011 membership using Pay Pal by selecting the membership level below (or you may pay at the registration table). |
Democracy Now | 
Veteran investigative reporter Seymour Hersh assesses the popular uprisings sweeping the Middle East and North Africa amidst ongoing U.S. wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan. Watch/Listen/Read The internet is increasingly becoming an echo chamber in which websites tailor information according to the preferences they detect in each viewer. The top 50 websites collect an average of 64 bits of personal information each time we visit-and then custom-design their sites to conform to our perceived preferences. What impact will this online filtering have on the future of democracy? We speak to Eli Pariser, author of The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You. Watch/Listen/Read *** see book below ! Today Vermont is set to make history by becoming the first state in the nation to offer universal, single-payer healthcare when Gov. Peter Shumlin signs its healthcare reform bill into law. The Vermont plan, called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, will attempt to stem rising medical care prices and provide universal coverage. We speak with Dr. Deb Richter, president of Vermont Health Care for All. Watch/Listen/Read Today Bob Dylan turns 70 years old, and we air a special program on his life and music. We speak with the legendary WBAI broadcaster Bob Fass, the host of Radio Unnameable, who interviewed Dylan several times. We play excerpts from the Pacifica Radio Archives of a 1962 performance by Dylan on Fass's show and an interview when he was only 20 years old. We also speak with music writer Elizabeth Thomson, co-editor of the newly reissued book, No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan, written by the late Robert Shelton. And we feature part of Dylan's 1963 performance at the March on Washington and hear why Dylan refused to sing out at protests against the Vietnam War. Watch/Listen/Read We speak with environmental activist Robert Kennedy, Jr., and filmmaker Bill Haney about the new documentary, The Last Mountain, which premiered this year at the Sundance Film Festival. The film chronicles the fight against coal mining across Appalachia and Massey Energy's devastating practice of mountaintop removal to extract layers of coal. Watch/Listen/Read |
Freedom Fighters |  Twenty-eight Dallas men have been freed from prison after serving sentences for crimes they didn't commit. Now this group of exonerees has joined together to create one of the most powerful grassroots criminal justice reform organizations in the state. They're helping to prevent other innocent Texans from serving time. read on |
North Texas Progressive Book Suggestion | 
The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You By Eli Pariser List Price: $25.95 Price: $14.74 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25. BUY HERE An eye-opening account of how the hidden rise of personalization on the Internet is controlling-and limiting-the information we consume. In December 2009, Google began customizing its search results for each user. Instead of giving you the most broadly popular result, Google now tries to predict what you are most likely to click on. According to MoveOn.org board president Eli Pariser, Google's change in policy is symptomatic of the most significant shift to take place on the Web in recent years-the rise of personalization. In this groundbreaking investigation of the new hidden Web, Pariser uncovers how this growing trend threatens to control how we consume and share information as a society-and reveals what we can do about it. |
North Texas Democrats : Notes and News | 
Drinking Liberally Addison Drinking Liberally Addison celebrates its 6th birthday on Thursday June 16th 2011! June 2005 was both a good and bad time in DFW. George W Bush had been sworn into office for the 2nd time 6 months prior. BAD. Sheriff Lupe Valdez was sworn in for the 1st time that year, marking the initial snowball of Blue to start rolling in Dallas County, that later turned into an avalanche. GOOD. But Lupe alone was not enough, and we were fed up! I heard about this thing that started in New York City (New York City?!) in 2003 that sounded great. And what better way to vent that frustration, and turn it into a positive, than with some liberal libations and like minded liberals? Thus we were born and haven't stopped since. Join us again for your 6th year in a row, or even your first time, at The Quarter at 15201 Addison Road starting at 6pm on June 16th. Mid-Cities Democrats 4TH OF JULY PARTY BOAT ON LAKE GRAPEVINE Come celebrate the 4th of July with the Mid-Cities Democrats aboard a party boat on Lake Grapevine. We have booked the double-decker boat again this year from 6PM to 9:30PM on Monday, July 4th to enjoy riding around on the lake, swimming, and watching the fireworks when the sun goes down. The party boat will be taking off from the Silver Lake Marina, 2500 Fairway Drive, Grapevine (map). Bring your folding lawn chair and your own picnic basket OR hot dogs/chips/cookies/soft drinks will be available onboard for a small donation. There are only 50 seats available, so please email to reserve your seats today. Tickets are $25.00 for adults, $15.00 for children 12 and under. You can pay online here or mail a check to Mid-Cities Democrats, P O Box 271, Bedford TX 76095-0271 Denton County Democratic Party Turn Texas Blue 2012 Election Kick-Off-Pancake Supper, Executive Committee Meeting with Organizing for America North Texas Director, Lauren Coffee The Denton County Democratic Party is launching the "Turn Texas Blue!" 2012 Election Kick Off campaign with a grassroots event on Thursday June 9, 2011. The Kick Off will begin with a Pancake Supper and Deputy Voter Registrar sign up, followed by the Executive Committee Meeting with guest speaker, Lauren Coffee of Organizing for America. Lauren discuss the latest grassroots organizing from OFA for the 2012 elections. The event will take place at 332 E. Hickory (at Bell), Denton, Texas, in the Denton Fire Department Community Room. An RSVP is required to attend the Pancake Supper, and can be made by email at mail@dentondemocrats, or by calling 940-566-1165. |
| Commentary: Texas offers a lesson in how not to run a prison system | 
Commentary: Texas offers a lesson in how not to run a prison system California should have learned a lesson from Texas in how not to operate prisons. And it's still not too late for the Golden State to learn a few things from the Lone Star State's arduous experience in fighting against doing the right thing for inmates in its custody. read on |
Ed Schultz to return Monday, June 6 | 
Ed Schultz's unpaid suspension is almost up. He'll be returning to the MSNBC airwaves Monday night, TVNewser has learned. Schultz was suspended last Wednesday for calling fellow radio talk show host and Fox News contributor Laura Ingraham a slut, twice on his radio show. MSNBC anchor Thomas Roberts had been filling in, but the Rev. Al Sharpton will be sitting in on "The Ed Show" tonight. In all, Schultz will have missed five shows (May 25, 26, 31. June 1, 2) since his program does not air on Fridays and didn't air on Memorial Day. |
7th Annual Summer Dinner Lecture Series Moving Forward | 7th Annual Summer Dinner Lecture Series Moving Forward For tickets, click HERE or call 214-823-7793 Ken Butigan, Director, Pace e Bene Another Step toward Mainstreaming Nonviolence When: Thursday, June 9 Time: Reception 6:30 Program and Dinner 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. Where: Margaux's, 150 Turtle Creek Blvd # 202 (facing Irving Blvd.), Dallas For nearly three decades Ken Butigan has worked with social movements and promoted nonviolent solutions to problems in Central America, East Timor, and the U.S. Ken joined the Pace e Bene staff in 1990. He developed and for several years directed Pace e Bene's From Violence To Wholeness program, and was actively involved in creating Pace e Bene's Engage: Exploring Nonviolent Living program. |
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| Robert Reich | Why Washington Isn't Doing Squat About Jobs and Wages | 
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog: "The silence is deafening. While the rest of the nation is heading back toward a double dip, Washington continues to obsess about future budget deficits. Why? Republicans don't want to do anything about jobs and wages... Democrats, meanwhile, don't want to admit the recovery has stalled.... But there's a third reason for Washington's inaction. It's not being talked about - which is itself evidence of the problem. The unemployed are politically invisible. They don't make major campaign donations. They don't lobby Congress. There's no National Association of Unemployed People."
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North Texas Progressive Newsletter Nancy Cunningham
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An interview with Sam Seder |
Sam Seder is a comedian and radio presenter who rose to prominence in comedy circles as a member of Cross Comedy, and later to a mass audience in the film Who's the Caboose, as well as bit parts in Spin City and Sex and the City. Since then, he's been involved in the political side of comedy, hosting The Majority Report in its various incarnations, as well as a couple of different radio shows under his own name. As well as political-based radio work, he has also stayed involved in the comedy circuit he came up in, lending his voice to shows like Home Movies, the should-have-been-picked-up Saddle Rash (best cast ever), and most recently Bob's Burgers, with his long time comedy friend H. Jon Benjamin. Read about it all below! How did you get started in comedy? There doesn't seem to be much info on your pre-Who's-The-Caboose? days. read on
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Dr. Errington Thompson's "Where's the outrage? " blog |
Dallas native Dr. Errington Thompson, former host on Revolution 880 from Asheville, NC now blogs at
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A real laugh riot Comedian Marc Maron makes a splash with his star-studded podcasts | 
At: COMIX at Foxwoods, Mashantucket, Conn., Thursday, 8 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 8 and 10:30 p.m. Tickets: $20-$40. 800-200-2882, www.foxwoods.com/ comix.aspx Marc Maron is driving in Los Angeles traffic. He's on his way to Kevin Smith's house, where he will make a guest appearance on the writer and film director's daily podcast. "He's running a little empire over there,'' marvels Maron, on the phone from his car. read on
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Charges are dropped against talk host Nicole Sandler | 
Nicole Sandler Radio-Info previously reported on the arrest of progressive talk host Nicole Sandler, who was taken out in handcuffs from a Florida town hall meeting held by Tea Party Republican Rep. Allen West on April 26, and held in jail for 18 hours. The former Air America and Miami WINZ-AM (940) host, who currently hosts an internet show, was with a group of people asking questions regarding proposed budget cuts to Medicare. According to the police report, the arresting officer alleged that Sandler "became very disruptive and loud ... Her behavior caused many of the audience members to enter into a verbal altercation with her that threatened to become physical. I (the officer) instructed defendant to leave the property more than a dozen times ... she became physically aggressive with this officer, pushing me several times. Defendant was finally placed under arrest." You can read the complete arrest report here. The Broward County Florida chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union announced they would represent Sandler if the case had gone to court.
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