News from the North Texas Progressive October 24, 2011

 

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October 24, 2011

Dear nancy,

Good Morning!

The "Occupy" movement continues to heat up and changes the national narrative, some facts you need to know . You are invited to 2 great free documentary screenings and other local progressive and Democratic events and early voting starts today.

Thanks,
Nancy Cunningham

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In This Issue

Early Voting On Amendments Starts Today..

North Dallas Texas Democratic Women, October 27th Meeting.

MSNBC Lineup Changes: 'Ed Show' Moves To 8 PM, 'Last Word' Returns To 10 PM Starts Tonight!...

Democracy Now

A Grassroots Newscast Gives A Voice To Struggles (NYT).

Thom Hartmann podcasts are available on the Los Angeles Progressive Talk..

2011 United Nations Day in Dallas "Nothing But Nets" - to eradicate malaria...

North Texas Democrats : Notes and News

Paul Krugman on Current TV about how OWS has changed the conversation..

OWS movement: The Shocking, Graphic Data That Shows Exactly What Motivates the Occupy Movement..

Free screening and discussion of the movie Food Stamped.

Can't hit the streets : Occupy the Boardroom...

The Class War Has Begun.. bt Frank Rich

 

Early Voting On Amendments Starts Today

This year we vote on ten proposed amendments to the Texas Constitution. Early Voting begins Monday, October 24. Here are several sources of information about the propositions on this year's statewide ballot.

 

The Dallas County Election Department links to this quick list by VoteTexas.org. The League of Women Voters has up a pdf of their own Voter's Guide. The Texas Legislative Council has a pdf of a their own report here. The Texas House Research organization has a pdf of their report at http://www.hro.house.state.tx.us/pdf/focus/amend82.pdf  

 

1.    You don't need a photo ID to vote in this election. The photo voter ID bill that passed the legislature last session has not been pre-cleared by the Department of Justice and has not gone into effect. All you need is your voter registration certificate or any of the many other acceptable forms of ID under current election law listed here. 

2.    The last day to apply for a ballot by mail is November 1, 2011. More information about voting by mail can be found here. 

3.    Everyone will have Constitutional Amendments on their ballot. These are amendments to the Texas Constitution. You can read explanations of each amendment here. The Texas Democratic Party has no official position on any of these amendments.

4.    Some of you will have local elections or bond elections on your ballot. For information on additional items that will be on your ballot, contact your County Elections office. 

5.    If you plan to vote early in person, contact your County Early Voting Clerk for locations. During Early Voting, you may vote anywhere in the county.

6.    On Election Day, you'll have to vote at the location specific to your precinct. Find out more about your precinct specific voting location here.

If you have additional questions about voting in this year's election, check out votexas.org.

    

 

North Dallas Texas Democratic Women, October 27th Meeting

"Textbook Battle" at the State Board of Education

Join us as a staff member from Texas Freedom Network educates us about the curriculum and textbook "culture war" battles at the Texas State Board of Education. TFN is leading the fights against partisan politicians on the State Board who are determined to promote their own personal and political agendas in our children's public classrooms.

You can learn how to help teachers and experts play a bigger role in ensuring that Texas students receive a 21st century education.

 

6:45 Northhaven United Methodist Church /11211 Preston Road (between Forest and Royal)

 

 

 

MSNBC Lineup Changes: 'Ed Show' Moves To 8 PM, 'Last Word' Returns To 10 PM Starts Tonight!

MSNBC Lineup Changes: 'Ed Show' Moves To 8 PM, 'Last Word' Returns To 10 PM

The Huffington Post   Jack Mirkinson First Posted: 10/19/11 02:35 PM ET Updated: 10/19/11 04:36 PM ET

MSNBC announced Wednesday that it is making a major change to its lineup. Starting Monday, "The Ed Show" will be moved to the prime 8 PM slot. Lawrence O'Donnell's "The Last Word" will be moved to 10 PM, where it began before it was shifted to 8 PM following Keith Olbermann's departure from the network.

Rachel Maddow, the network's highest-rated host, will stay where she is at 9 PM.

 

And in January... 

 

Jennifer Granholm to join Keith Olbermann's prime-time lineup at Current TV

Former Michigan governor will host weeknight show at 9 p.m. starting in January

 

Current TV, the prime-time home of Keith Olbermann, Wednesday announced a strong election-year move with Jennifer Granholm joining the channel in January to host a show weeknights at 9 following Olbermann's. read on   

 

 

Democracy Now

"Lost in Detention": As Obama Admin Deports Record 400,000, Film Explores What Immigrants Face Behind Bars

The Obama administration has released new figures showing U.S. deportations of immigrants reached a record high. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement says it deported nearly 400,000 people in fiscal year 2011, the highest total in the agency's eight years. The data was released the same day a coalition of Latino and immigrant rights groups held a National Day of Action to protest Obama's immigration policies.A new PBS Frontline documentary, "Lost in Detention," investigates the immigration program under Obama. We are joined by the award-winning broadcast journalist who led the investigation, Maria Hinojosa. Watch/Listen/Read

"Lost in Detention": As Obama Admin Deports Record 400,000, Film Explores What Immigrants Face Behind Bars

The Obama administration has released new figures showing U.S. deportations of immigrants reached a record high. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement says it deported nearly 400,000 people in fiscal year 2011, the highest total in the agency's eight years. The data was released the same day a coalition of Latino and immigrant rights groups held a National Day of Action to protest Obama's immigration policies.A new PBS Frontline documentary, "Lost in Detention," investigates the immigration program under Obama. We are joined by the award-winning broadcast journalist who led the investigation, Maria Hinojosa. Watch/Listen/Read

Freed U.S. Hikers Speak at Occupy Oakland, Express Support for California Prisoners on Hunger Strike

Shane Bauer, Josh Fattal and Sarah Shourd, the three American hikers once imprisoned in Iran, made a surprise visit to Occupy Oakland on Monday, less than a month after Bauer and Fattal were released from prison. Bauer said he was proud of Occupy Oakland, expressed his support for California prisoners on hunger strike, and criticized Iran for pressuring Masoud Shafii, his former attorney in Iran. Watch/Listen/Read   

 

A Grassroots Newscast Gives A Voice To Struggles (NYT)

Hours after Amy Goodman, host of grassroots newscast Democracy Now!, was arrested in Minnesota in 2008 while trying to cover protesters at the Republican National Convention, she was sitting in a network news studio above the convention floor, when a producer said: "I don't get it. Why wasn't I arrested?"

read on

 

 

Thom Hartmann podcasts are available on the Los Angeles Progressive Talk

Thom Hartmann podcasts are available on the Los Angeles Progressive Talk

station for those of you who can't listen to him @ new time on 1510.

http://www.ktlkam1150.com/cc-common/podcast.html 

His show is also carried on XM Sirius 127 @ 3-6pm

and streaming on computer or on your smartphone via apps

liketuneinradio, iheartradio, etc, on WWRL @ 3-6pm or many other

stations livefrom 12-3pm. The 2nd 2 hours of the show are also simulcast on FSTV (Free Speech TV)on Dish & DirecTV. 

 

2011 United Nations Day in Dallas "Nothing But Nets" - to eradicate malaria  October 24, 6:30 - 9:00 p.m

2011 United Nations Day in Dallas "Nothing But Nets" - to eradicate malaria

 

Dinner at the FunAsia Restaurant /1210 E. Beltline, Richardson 75081

October 24, 6:30 - 9:00 p.m.

 

Let's help meet Malaria Crisis in Cameroon! Send MedNets

*     300% malaria increase in last 5 years

*     $10 buys a medicated bed net which protects sleeping people and saves lives

Tickets $40 or $15 (students) Please send your check to UNA Dallas 3130 Berrymeade, Farmers Branch, TX 75234

 

Sponsored by the United Nations Foundation with United Nations Association of the USA, Dallas Chapter and Texas Division Information:http://www.nothingbutnets.net/ 

 

 

North Texas Democrats : Notes and News

Dallas Democrats Meetup

Saturday, October 29, 2011 -10:00 AM    La Madeleine (Near S.M.U.)

3072 Mockingbird Ln

 

Tejano Democrats - General Monthly Meeting

Wed, 10/26/2011 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm  

Wednesday, September 28 Benito's Restaurant /6:00 - 8:00 p.m. 1450 W. Magnolia Ave. Fort Worth, TX RSVP to the event via Facebook 

 

 Mid-Cities Democrats  

When: 7:00PM Thursday, October 27th

Where: Los Jimadores Tequila Factory,

3314 Harwood Road, Bedford TX 76021 (map)

Please come early to eat; meeting starts at 7PM. Special Guest Speaker: Gene Lantz, President of the Texas Alliance of Retired Americans and Organizer for North Texas Jobs with Justice.

 

Paul Krugman on Current TV about how OWS has changed the conversation

 

OWS  Paul Krugman

OWS Paul Krugman "The movement has changed the conversation"

 

 

OWS movement: The Shocking, Graphic Data That Shows Exactly What Motivates the Occupy Movement

The Shocking, Graphic Data That Shows Exactly What Motivates the Occupy Movement The corporate media may obsess about what Occupy Wall Street is all about, but these images should make it clear.

 Read on here

 

What OWS is about + data behind the movement! Are you scrambling to find those great charts 2 show your brother in law about inequality? what WS is about data behind the movement

Link 

 

Free screening and discussion of the movie Food Stamped

You are invited to a private screening and discussion of the movie Food Stamped

 

Food Stamped is an informative and humorous documentary film following a couple as they attempt to eat a healthy, well-balanced diet on a food stamp budget.

 

Nutrition educator Shira Potash teaches nutrition-based cooking classes to elementary school students in low-income neighborhoods, most of whom are eligible for food stamps. In an attempt to walk a mile in their shoes, Shira and her documentary filmmaker husband embark on the "food stamp challenge" where they eat on roughly one dollar per meal.

 

Along the way, they consult with food justice activists, nutrition experts, politicians, and ordinary people living on food stamps, all in order to take a deep look at the struggles low-income Americans face every day while trying to put three-square meals on the table.

http://FoodStamped.com 

 

WHEN Thursday, October 27, 2011 at 7:00PM

WHERE Angelika Film Center & Cafe

5321 East Mockingbird Lane, Suite 230, Dallas, TX 75206

 

 

Can't hit the streets : Occupy the Boardroom

Occupy the Boardroom: 9 Angry, Heart-Breaking Messages to Wall Street's Elites From the 99%

 

That photograph of well-heeled traders sipping champagne on a balcony high over Zuccotti Park as they look down on the Occupation below is already an iconic image, capturing the haughty detachment with which Big Finance has received this rapidly spreading expression of popular outrage.  

 

The movement is now using a variety of strategies to take its message directly to the "1 percent" - to make sure they can't ignore the protests from the comfort of their sheltered enclaves. A new effort, Occupy the Boardroom, offers those whose economic security has been crushed by the recession a chance to send messages directly to a banking executive of their choice.  

 

read on 

The Class War Has Begun

And the very classlessness of our society makes the conflict more volatile, not less.

   By Frank Rich

 

During the death throes of Herbert Hoover's presidency in June 1932, desperate bands of men traveled to Washington and set up camp within view of the Capitol. The first contingent journeyed all the way from Portland, Oregon, but others soon converged from all over-alone, in groups, with families-until their main Hooverville on the Anacostia River's fetid mudflats swelled to a population as high as 20,000. The men, World War I veterans who could not find jobs, became known as the Bonus Army-for the modest government bonus they were owed for their service. Under a law passed in 1924, they had been awarded roughly $1,000 each, to be collected in 1945 or at death, whichever came first. But they didn't want to wait any longer for their pre-New Deal entitlement-especially given that Congress had bailed out big business with the creation of a Reconstruction Finance Corporation earlier in its session. Father Charles Coughlin, the populist "Radio Priest" who became a phenomenon for railing against "greedy bankers and financiers," framed Washington's double standard this way: "If the government can pay $2 billion to the bankers and the railroads, why cannot it pay the $2 billion to the soldiers?"


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   

erringtonthompsonmd.com

 

 


 

Attend a Public Hearing by the Gas Drilling Task Force  

Attend a Public Hearing by the Gas Drilling Task Force       

 If you are inclined, sign up to speak for 2 minutes to express your concerns and opinions.

 

 

"Citizen pressure convince d the Dallas City Council to appoint a gas drilling task force to study the issue (of fracking within our city limits) and recommend adequate changes to the city's gas drilling ordinance. Now citizens must hold the task force accountable to protecting our air, water, and health."  (from a flyer by the Texas Campaign for the Environment)

When: Thursday, Oct. 27, 6:00 pm 

Where: Dallas City Hall,

 L1F Auditorium

  Info:  

texasenvironment.org 


 

Sam Seder rolls his eye's at Erin Burnett of CNN coverage of OWS

Sam Seder critical of Erin Burnett and Bank of America -- 10/18/11

Sam Seder critical of Erin Burnett and Bank of America -- 10/18/11


 

Texas 'is just a giant ATM' for 2012 presidential candidates

 

 

Texans have some mighty deep pockets for the 2012 presidential race. They have sent more than $16.2 million to presidential candidates this year, including President Barack Obama, Gov. Rick Perry and more than a half-dozen other GOP challengers ranging from Mitt Romney to Ron Paul.

 

read on

Who's Fueling Rick Perry's Presidential Campaign?

 

As he seeks the Republican nomination for president, Rick Perry is leaning heavily on his home state of Texas and his connections to the energy sector to bankroll his campaign, according to research by the Center for Responsive Politics. About 57 percent of the money Perry has raised through the end of September for his presidential campaign has come from residents of Texas -- a total of $9.7 million out of the $17.2 million Perry has raised. Meanwhile, Perry has raised the most among all presidential candidates from the energy sector. » Read More

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OpenSecrets.org Rick Perry presidential profile

 

First Texas Did Away With Last Meals for Prisoners; Now it's Axing Lunch on Weekends

 

Texas! The land where leaders break execution records, where potentially innocent men are put to death, and where death row inmates can't choose their last meal. Now, the state also has the distinction of denying its prisoners lunch on weekends. Really. The Times:


read on


 

Labor Secretary Launch Page And Initiative For Job Seekers

@AllFacebook Facebook, Labor Secretary Launch Page And Initiative For Job Seekers http://t.co/kOA6wl53 




 

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