News from the North Texas Progressive june 17 2013

 

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June 17,  2013

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Please make sure you plan on attending the great WOW film screening event and maybe even the Denton Democrats Gun Club Event -find out lots more below.

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In This Issue

WOW Dems (Women Organizing Women Democrats) Fundraiser Event.

Democracy Now

Could Texas Be Turning Blue?...

North Texas Democrats : Notes and News

350.org and Texas Drought Project asks you to : Sign the Keystone XL Pledge of Resistance

nteractive to track energy and environmental lobbying in Texas

Fight the Future...By PAUL KRUGMAN.

 

WOW Dems (Women Organizing Women Democrats) Fundraiser Event  Announcement screening of the award-winning documentary 'The Invisible War'

WOW Dems (Women Organizing Women Democrats) Fundraiser Event  Announcement

WOW Dems is hosting a screening of the award-winning documentary The Invisible War And Panel Discussion with Distinguished Women Veterans

 

Thursday, June 27, 6:30-9:30 p.m.

Angelika Film Center-Plano, Shops@Legacy

 

The Invisible War is a groundbreaking investigative documentary about the rape of women within the US Armed Forces. Following the screening will be a panel discussion by Women Veterans who will share their experiences and detail actions to take to support legislation to stop the epidemic. We will have updates on Congressional activities as they unfold.

 

Panelists:

Lisa Skier, Air Force Captain -1975-1992, now Program Coordinator for Grace After Fire. (The mission of Grace After Fire is to provide the means for women Veterans to gain knowledge,insight and self-renewal.)

Cindi Koehn, U.S Army Veteran, achieved rank of Army Staff Sergeant with 16 years of service,first in Air Defense Artillery and then in Military Intelligence. Cindi received the Joint Service Commendation Medal, Four Amy Commendation Medals and Five Army Achievement Medals Penny Phillips, commissioned officer for 10 years, 6 years on active duty as an Air Force JAG officer ending service with rank of Captain. Prior to military service, she was a criminal prosecutor which included prosecution of all crimes with women or children as victims in Haleand Swisher Counties, Texas.

 

Go to www.wowdems.org to RSVP and purchase tickets.

WOW Dems is a North Texas-based organization dedicated to expanding the participation of women in politics and government. Donations will go to WOW Dems Political Action Committee and are not tax-deductible. 

 

Democracy Now

James Bamford on NSA Secrets, Keith Alexander's Influence & Massive Growth of Surveillance, Cyberwar

As the U.S. vows to take "all necessary steps" to pursue whistleblower Edward Snowden, James Bamford joins us to discuss the National Security Agency's secret expansion of ... Read More 

Digital Blackwater: How the NSA Gives Private Contractors Control of the Surveillance State

As the Justice Department prepares to file charges against Booz Allen Hamilton employee Edward Snowden for leaking classified documents about the National Security Agency, the role of private ... Read More 

Medgar Evers' Murder, 50 Years Later: Widow Myrlie Evers-Williams Remembers "A Man for All Time"

Fifty years ago today - June 12th, 1963 - 37-year-old civil rights organizer Medgar Evers was assassinated in the driveway outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi. In the early 1960s ... Read More   

 

Could Texas Be Turning Blue?

Hillary Clinton joined Twitter this week and set in motion speculation about her possibly running for President in 2016 - and further fueled the possibility that Texas might just be ready to go blue.

Could Texas, where Democrats did not exactly go out of their way to gain any of the state's 38 electoral votes in 2012, be truly poised to be a battleground state?

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North Texas Progressive Calendar

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Monday, June 17:

*  North Texas Asian Democrats (7:30 PM, Maxim's Restaurant located at 1531 Terrace Drive, Richardson)

 

Tuesday, June 18:

*  Stonewall Democrats of Dallas (6:30 PM, Ojeda's Restaurant, 4617 Maple Ave., Dallas)

 

  • Denton Democrats Business Mixer  6 - 8 p.m. Mellow Mushroom - Denton 217 E Hickory Street Just east of the Historic Downtown Square

·         H-E-B City Group Monthly Meeting T 6:30PM Pizza Garden217 Harwood Road, Bedford TX 76021 (map)Go through the buffet line as you enter, and we will be meeting in the group room at the back of the restaurant.

  • The Dallas Alternative Energy Meetup Group6:00 PM Keller Public Library 640 Johnson Road Keller, TX 76248

Wednesday, June 19:

*  Garland Democratic Woman's Club Speaker: Rachel Baker Ford on the Garland Voice.(11:30 A.M., Siciliano's Italian Restaurant, 2210 W. Buckingham Rd., Garland)

*   Northwest Dallas Democrats (7:30 pm to 10:00 pm, 11824 Webb Chapel Road, Farmers Branch)

 

Saturday, June 22:

  • Democratic Gun Club  1:30 p.m.Quail Creek Gun Range FM 1171 & I35W (1/4 mile west)$14 Adults, $8 Kids, RSVP Required Learn more here.
  • Summer FUNdraiser 6:00 p.m.815 Ector Street, Denton$15 per person It's that time of year when we enjoy hot dogs, ice cream and great Democratic company at the annual FUNdraiser in the Keffer's backyard! There will be an auction and Democratic goodies for sale. If you can bring homemade ice cream, please let us know.Whether you plan to pay at the door or on-line, please RSVP to help us plan for your attendance. RSVP or inquire at 940-387-906 or 940-566-1165, or purchase your ticket on-line here: Summer FUNdraiser 2013   

Sunday, June 23:

  •  The Dallas Alternative Energy Meetup Group 12:00 PM REI, Dallas 4515 LBJ Frwy, Dallas TX located between Midway and Welch on the north access road to I-635 between Guitar Center and Haverty's. Dallas, TX 7524

350.org and Texas Drought Project asks you to : Sign the Keystone XL Pledge of Resistance

The State Department's release of its Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement in March was one of those days that remind us of just how steep a hill to climb this fight against climate change is.

 

Even with a president who recently professed a lofty goal of getting all cars off of oil, even with one of our stronger climate hawk senators as the new secretary of state, the State Department still released a joke of an environmental assessment of the Keystone XL pipeline, taking us one big step closer to approval of this project that should be a no-brainer of a rejection.   Go here  

  

 

Interactive to track energy and environmental lobbying in Texas

From protecting endangered lizards to changing industry standards on fracking, energy and environmental groups have many - sometimes competing - political interests in Texas.

Use this interactive to track campaign contributions by some of the most influential energy and environmental lobbying groups and individual donors in Texasrom protecting endangered lizards to changing industry standards on fracking, energy and environmental groups have many - sometimes competing - political interests in Texas.

Use this interactive to track campaign contributions by some of the most influential energy and environmental lobbying groups and individual donors in Texas
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Open House at Dallas Peace Center

All Are Welcome to Attend Thursday, June 20 7:00 - 8:30 pm

 

Dallas Peace Center (On the campus of First Community Church)

9120 Ferguson Rd, Dallas 75228

 

If you want to change the world, if you believe that a better world is possible, and if you want to join with others who share your passion and commitment to peace and justice, then make the Dallas Peace Center your center. Join us!

For More Information or to RSVP: email: admin@DallasPeaceCenter.org or call 214-660-7676

Plenty of food, give-a-ways, plus an update on what is taking place at the DPC and how you can

make a difference in the lives of others.

www.DallasPeaceCenter.org

Fight the Future

By PAUL KRUGMAN

Fight the Future

By PAUL KRUGMAN

 

 

Last week the International Monetary Fund, whose normal role is that of stern disciplinarian to spendthrift governments, gave the United States some unusual advice. "Lighten up," urged the fund. "Enjoy life! Seize the day!"

O.K., fund officials didn't use quite those words, but they came close, with an article in IMF Survey magazine titled "Ease Off Spending Cuts to Boost U.S. Recovery." In its more formal statement, the fund argued that the sequester and other forms of fiscal contraction will cut this year's U.S. growth rate by almost half, undermining what might otherwise have been a fairly vigorous recovery. And these spending cuts are both unwise and unnecessary.

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Time Out: Federal Complaint Alleges Rampant Abuse in Texas Truancy Program

 

 

Students are handcuffed, often jailed. Fines can reach into the thousands of dollars. Accused students and their families are never provided with legal counsel. According to a complaint seeking federal intervention, that is the strange and possibly illegal world of the Dallas County truancy court.

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Rachel Maddow Blasts Rick Perry's Bill To Save 'Merry Christmas' In Texas 

 

Rachel Maddow Blasts Rick Perry's Bill To Save 'Merry Christmas' In Texas

Rachel Maddow Blasts Rick Perry's Bill To Save 'Merry Christmas' In Texas


 

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News from the North Texas Progressive June 10, 2013

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June 10, 2013

Dear nancy,

Good Afternoon!

Wow ! Lots going on ! There are some amazing events with local Democratic groups this week in North Texas and they REALLY want to hear from you and have you be involved as we move forward!
 
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In This Issue

Please support the NTX Progressive newsletter raffle and read the Pew research study on nonprofit news

Interactive: 2014-15 School Finance Budget Viewer.

Blue in the Heart of Texas...Dallas County Democrats Summit

Texas tea party leader in Dallas : GOP doesn't want black people to vote...

Democracy Now

Fight Rages On for Medicaid Expansion in Texas-State with Highest Rate of Uninsured..

Hon. Craig Watkins: Please Don't Seek The Death Penalty Anymore!..

North Texas Progressive Book Suggestion

June 16 - Father's Day Salvation Army Lunch Volunteers needed...

Install a Tornado Shelter or Safe Room for up to $3,000 Rebate!...

North Texas Democrats : Notes and News

Texas prohibits nearly 70 percent of its counties from having a fire code.

 

Please support the NTX Progressive newsletter raffle and read the Pew research study on nonprofit news 

* Now this study isn't exactly about what this newsletter does - because we don't do investigations and journalism but we do inform WHEN NO other commercial "news" outlets are reporting.  We reach thousands of NTXProgressives every week !

So who would have known about Bush Lie-bray protests,  Monsanto protests and Walmart actions ? All were organized here and reported on afterwards just this year !

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Pew Research Study of the Economics of Nonprofit News Outlets Reveals a Growing but Fragile Part of the Media Landscape

As the business model for commercial journalism has been upended and newsrooms have shrunk, a comprehensive new Pew Research Center study finds that nonprofit news outlets represent a growing new source of information - but one facing substantial challenges to its long-term financial sustainability.

 

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Interactive: 2014-15 School Finance Budget Viewer

The budget that awaits the final approval of the 83rd Legislature - and Gov. Rick Perry - adds about $3.4 billion back to public schools from the $5.4 billion lawmakers cut in 2011. With this interactive, explore how your school district fares under Senate Bill 1 as the hours left to pass the legislation dwindle. Funding for 2015 includes $330 million in one-time transition aid for school districts to adjust to new state teacher retirement system rules.

View/download the FY2014 data. View/download the FY2015 data.

 

Blue in the Heart of Texas

Dallas County Democrats Summit

Blue in the Heart of Texas

Dallas County Democrats Summit

Saturday, June 15

Northaven United Methodist Church Campus             

11211 Preston Road, Dallas

  

Blue in the Heart of Texas is a summit on party building, people building and best practices for coordinated campaigns, hosted by the Dallas County Democratic Party. Democratic precinct chairs and committee chairs as well as activists and interested newcomers are invited to attend.

The summit will include three main topic tracks in the morning, a complimentary box lunch on the premises, plus interactive KnowledgeFest sessions in the afternoon that allow you to be involved in guided roundtable conversations about topics that matter to you and network with fellow Democrats.

Learn more and register here:

 Dallas Summit

 

Texas tea party leader in Dallas : GOP doesn't want black people to vote

A tea party leader in Dallas is facing a backlash after saying the Republican Party doesn't want African-American voters to show up at the polls.

"I'm going to be real honest with you," Tea Party leader Ken Emanuelson said at a Dallas County Republican Party event on May 20. "The Republican Party doesn't want black people to vote if they are going to vote 9-to-1 for Democrats."

An audio recording of his comments were published online Tuesday by the pro-Democrat group Battleground Texas.

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Democracy Now

"A Massive Surveillance State": Glenn Greenwald Exposes Covert NSA Program Collecting Calls, Emails

The National Security Agency has obtained access to the central servers of nine major Internet companies - including Google, Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo! and Facebook. The Guardian and The ... Read More 

Debate: Supreme Court OKs Unfettered DNA Collection - An Invasion of Privacy or a Blow to Crime?

In a landmark decision, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled the police can collect DNA samples from people they arrest even before they are convicted of a crime. Supporters of the swabbing ... Read More 

Bradley Manning Trial: WikiLeaks Lawyer Sees Spurious "Enemy" Claims & Bid to Scare Whistleblowers

The military trial of Army whistleblower Bradley Manning at Fort Meade, Maryland, began Monday with the defense and prosecution presenting starkly contrasting accounts. Manning is ... Read More 

 

Fight Rages On for Medicaid Expansion in Texas-State with Highest Rate of Uninsured

Gov. Rick Perry and Tea Party have postponed debate in legislature to 2015, unless public pressure can change minds.


Health care advocates and business groups, whose efforts failed to move Gov. Rick Perry and the Texas legislature to expand the state's Medicaid population under the Affordable Care Act, are digging in for a protracted struggle that might extend until 2015 or beyond.

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Hon. Craig Watkins: Please Don't Seek The Death Penalty Anymore!

The State of Texas is set to carry out execution #500 on June 26, 2013. Kimberly McCarthy is scheduled to receive a lethal injection.

Please help put an end this barbaric and archaic form of "justice". A majority of Texans, when offered a choice between the death penalty and life in prison without possibility of parole, choose the latter.

Help Texas join 18 American states and 140 countries worldwide that have abolished the death penalty!

Please sign a petition that requests Dallas DA, the Honorable Craig Watkins, not to seek the death penalty anymore. We can abolish the death penalty in Texas one DA at a time!

https://www.facebook.com/endTXdeathpenalty?fref=ts    

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How Section 5 blocked a GOP power grab in Texas

In 2008, Wendy Davis, a city councilmember in Fort Worth, Texas, narrowly defeated a 20-term incumbent to win a state Senate seat. Davis, a Democrat, enjoyed strong support from her district's black and Hispanic voters, who had largely been ignored by her Republican predecessor, and once in office she set about fighting for those who she felt lacked a voice.

She worked to kick-start economic growth in poor neighborhoods, pushed for increased public-school funding, and cracked down on predatory lending practices targeting the poor. When Fort Worth kids were forced to crawl under idling trains to get to school, Davis won funding to fix the problem.


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June 16 - Father's Day Salvation Army Lunch Volunteers needed

What better way to honor you dad ?

 

Random Acts of Kindness Volunteer / Non-Profit Meetup

Sunday, June 16, 2013 11:00 AM

Salvation Army Carr P. Collins Social Service Center

5302 Harry Hines Blvd.

Dallas, TX 75235  

 

Install a Tornado Shelter or Safe Room for up to $3,000 Rebate!

Install a Tornado Shelter or Safe Room for up to $3,000 Rebate!

In the wake of the recent intense tornadoes rolling through Oklahoma and the resultant destruction, a remarkable initiative has begun across our DFW metro area designed to being increased storm safety to our residents.

Home owners are invited to apply for residential safe rooms/ tornado shelter installation and receive up to 50% rebate for the cost!  

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North Texas Progressive Calendar

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Monday, June 10:

  • Metrocrest Democrats Our guest speaker will be Darlene Ewing, Chair of the Dallas County Democratic Party. (Dinner 6:30, meeting 7 pm, NewNew Buffet, 3833 Belt Line Rd, Addison)

Tuesday, June 11:

  • PVL - A New Era (6:30 PM, 5150 Mark Trail, Dallas)
  • Dallas County Young Democrats (Happy Hour begins at 6:30, Meeting starts at 7:00 PM, The Foundry, 2303 Pittman St., Dallas)
  • Irving Democrats (7 PM, Jaycee Park Center for the Arts, 1975 Puritan Dr., Irving)
  • Dallas Drinking Liberally (7:30 pm, Uptown Bar, 3605 McKinney Ave, Dallas)

·         Sierra Club General Meeting General Meeting Program 7:00 pm - Refreshments at 6:30

Water Management /Texas Wildlife Conservation Issues

Everyone is welcome. You don't have to be a Sierra Club member. Just show up. We'd love to meet you. Our General Meeting starts at 7:00 p.m. but come at 6:30 for snacks, information and fellowship. Our meeting takes place at REI, 4515 Lyndon B Johnson Freeway, Dallas, TX 75244. Click over to our General Meeting page of our website for more information and a map.

  •  Democratic Business REFERRAL CLUB 8:30-9:30 a.m Breakfast El Chapparel Grille324 E. McKinneyDenton  Democrats working with & buying from fellow Democrats to strengthen the Party.

This will be the 2nd meeting of the reinstated Democratic Business Referral Club. All Democratic

business owners or independent agents/contractors are invited to join the club and market your business to fellow Democrats.

 

Wednesday, June 12:

  • Texas Coalition of Black Democrats (7 PM, Quick's Bar & Grill, 1011 Corinth St., Dallas)
  • Labor Dallas Meeting (7 PM, union hall, 2218 E Main in Grand Prairie)

 

Friday, June 13 :

  • June 14, 6-8 PM Texas Democratic Women Rockwall Democrats , Exploratory Meeting
    LaMadeleine's, I-30 Service Road, Rockwall  

Saturday, June 15:

Blue in the Heart of Texas Summit on party building, people building and campaign best practices. For Democratic Party County Chairs and SDEC members from around the state, Precinct Chairs and activists from Dallas County and surrounding counties, elected officials, and interested newcomers. $25 donation. More info and required link for registration at this page.

   (8 AM - 5 PM, Northaven United Methodist Church Campus, 11211 Preston Road, Dallas

           Register for Blue in the Heart of Texas

 

  • Tarrant County Democractic Party FUNdraiser!! 

TCDP is having a FUNdraiser on June 15, 2013 . . . it is a good-ol' fashioned FISH FRY! Catfish  (Tilapia available upon request!) and all the trimmings, including adult and non-adult beverages, will be available. Each adult ticket purchased includes 2 drink tickets...they can be redeemed for beer and/or wine.

 

Catfish (Tilapia available upon request!) and all the trimmings, including adult and non-adult beverages, will be available. Each adult ticket purchased includes 2 drink tickets...they can be redeemed for beer and/or wine.The cost of this FUNdraiser is a reasonable $25/adult! Children under 12, donation is at your discretion (yep, we are trusting you to be fair!).

 

 Texas prohibits nearly 70 percent of its counties from having a fire code

Texas prohibits nearly 70 percent of its counties from having a fire code

 Victoria County, a little slice of the Texas chemical coast, has nearly 39 million pounds of concoctions that can poison and nearly 11 million pounds that can catch fire.

"A potential for a catastrophic event" is how one federal agency described the risk if they leak. A temptation for terrorists, added another.

But Victoria County cannot use a firefighter's basic tool for preventing industrial disaster: a fire code.

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The Big Shrug
by Paul Krugman NYTimes



I've been in this economics business for a while. In fact, I've been in it so long I still remember what people considered normal in those long-ago days before the financial crisis. Normal, back then, meant an economy adding a million or more jobs each year, enough to keep up with the growth in the working-age population. Normal meant an unemployment rate not much above 5 percent, except for brief recessions. And while there was always some unemployment, normal meant very few people out of work for extended periods.

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Dangers of Fracking

  

  

Dangers of Fracking is a beautifully designed site that tells the story of the dangers of fracking. As you scroll down the page, you learn more about the fracking process.  

 

The story starts out with a definition of fracking before moving to explaining the raw materials that have to be trucked to the fracking site. After the raw materials arrive the story takes us underground to frack and the dangers associated with the process.

 



 

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5 Myths About Military Sexual Assault  




On Tuesday the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Judge Advocate Generals of the Armed Forces testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee on various proposals to combat sexual assault in the military. Testimony was offered in the wake of the release of the Defense Department's annual report showing that despite the military's efforts to ramp up sexual assault prevention programs in recent years, rates of sexual assault in the military climbed by 34 percent between 2010 and 2012. A total of 26,000 service members are estimated to have experienced unwanted sexual contact in 2012 compared to 19,300 in 2010. Moreover, less than 3 out of every 100 estimated sexual assaults in the military in 2012 were ever prosecuted-a shockingly low percentage that has shown no sign of improvement.


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Department of Justice Meets Snuggly the Security Bear!

 

Department of Justice Meets Snuggly the Security Bear!

Department of Justice Meets Snuggly the Security Bear!



 

Did Your Senator Vote to Expand the Government's Spying Power ? 

 

 

Passed in the wake of Sept. 11, the PATRIOT Act received only one dissenting vote but has since become one of the most controversial bills in recent history. It is the legal basis for a government program exposed by the Guardian on Wednesday that collects the call records of Verizon, AT&T, and Sprint Nextel customers. Every time many Americans make a call, the "NSA gets a record of the location, the number called, the time of the call and the length of the conversation," according to the Wall Street Journal. The program relies specifically on Section 215, which allows the government to compel organizations to give up certain records, even if the records are about individuals who are not terror suspects.

 

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Instagram for a cleaner world

 

Instagram can make any situation look better: Flowers appear rosier, skies brighter and complexions clearer. Even garbage can become a work of art on the mobile photo-sharing platform.

About a year ago, Jeff Kirschner was walking with his two young children through the woods, when his daughter Tali noticed a can on the ground. "That's not supposed to be there," Tali noted to her father

  

 10 Inspiring Non-Profits on Instagram

 

 

That's when he began using Instagram to document photos of trash, on the account @litterati and with the hashtag #litterati.

 

Bill Maher Attacks Ronald Reagan: 'The Original Teabagger



Bill Maher Attacks Ronald Reagan: 'The Original Teabagger,' 'Pitchman For Batsh*t'

Bill Maher Attacks Ronald Reagan: 'The Original Teabagger,' 'Pitchman For Batsh*t'

Not safe for work - lots of bad language and hilarious!

 

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