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Do not miss this great event and fundraiser!
Saturday, October 24, 2009 6:30pm .
Southfork Ranch 3700 Hogge Road Parker, Texas
Featuring Guest Speaker: Texas State Rookie Senator of the Year Wendy Davis
Purchase tickets online at www.tdwcc.org "Spur Our Candidates On To Victory" | | Democracy Now | |  Twitter Crackdown: NYC Activist Arrested for Using Social Networking Site during G-20 Protest in Pittsburgh
Elliot Madison was arrested last month during the G-20 protests in Pittsburgh when police raided his hotel room. Police say Madison and a co-defendant used computers and a radio scanner to track police movements and then passed on that information to protesters using cell phones and the social networking site Twitter. Madison is being charged with hindering apprehension or prosecution, criminal use of a communication facility, and possession of instruments of crime. Exactly one week later, Madison's New York home was raided by FBI agents, who conducted a sixteen-hour search. We speak to Elliot Madison and his attorney, Martin Stolar.
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Arrest of 61 Peace Activists Outside White House Kicks Off Week of Protest Against Afghan War
As the occupation of Afghanistan enters its ninth year, the antiwar movement here in the United States has organized several actions this week calling for an end to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Dozens of rallies and protests are being held across the country today. We speak to David Swanson, who was among sixty-one people arrested Monday at a protest outside the White House.
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| | Roll Beyond Coal Rallies, Bike Rides & Hikes for Clean Power, Green Jobs, & Clean Air | | 
DALLAS -Bike the 9.4 mile route around White Rock Lake with your family and friends starting at The Bath House Cultural Center on 521 E. Lawther Drive in Dallas.
Prizes to be given for the best Halloween and Clean Air costumes!
Free Basic Bike Check-ups on site.
Registration: 8:30 am. Bike ride: 10:30 am.
http://www.dallassierraclub.org/
Register here
| | Cut Republicans out of healthcare! By Garrison Keillor | |  Every so often, sitting down to your Cheerios, you open the New York Times to the crossword puzzle and find clues such as "_ Van Winkle" and "_ of 1812" and "Buried in Grant's Tomb" and you finish the thing in five minutes flat feeling brilliant and unappreciated, some sort of national treasure, and then you spend an hour searching for your glasses and car keys and that brings you down smartly to earth. For some reason, you've parked your glasses in the top drawer of the bureau next to the pewter soup spoons and the car keys in an earthenware vase atop the clavichord.
The easy crossword threw you off stride. Up here in the North we believe that adversity is a stimulus of intelligence, so we don't want our kids stuck in the slow track in school, putzing around in the shallows, trapped in boredom and lazy thinking. We want the schools to push them, make them write whole sentences and paragraphs, grapple with calculus, learn about the Renaissance, and all the more so if they're bound to become truck drivers. What is so disheartening about politics is the putzing around in the shallows. The sheer waste of time -- years, decades, spent on thrilling public issues in which the unconservative right fights tooth-and-nail against the regressive left and nothing is gained. It's like a tug-of-war between two trees. read on
| | North Texas Progressive Book Suggestion | |  Breaking the Sound Barrier
by Amy Goodman by Haymarket Books 
Buy Now
"Amy Goodman has taken investigative journalism to new heights of exciting, informative, and probing analysis."-Noam Chomsky
"You can learn more of the truth about Washington and the world from one week of Amy Goodman's Democracy Now! than from a month of Sunday morning talk shows. Make that a year of Sunday talk shows. That's because Amy, as you will discover on every page of this book, knows the critical question for journalists is how close they are to the truth, not how close they are to power."--From the Preface by Bill Moyers
| | Air America and Progressive Talk Radio News | | 
Thom Hartman makes Talker's Magazine Top Ten List
10. Thom Hartman - Thom Hartmann is live daily. His national daily progressive radio talk show, now in its sixth year on the air, replaced Al Franken on the Air America Radio Network, is also distributed to radio stations nationwide on the Jones Satellite system. More people listen daily to the Thom Hartmann Program than any other progressive talk show in the nation. Here ( Ed is #18 and Stephanie #30)
Sam on Jeff Farias
We spoke with Sam Seder - former Air America host, writer, director and comedian. Sam is a New York based writer, director, talk show host & comedian. Seder has co-hosted BreakRoom Live with Marc Maron, M-F 3pmEST for (formerly) Air America Radio. Seder has also hosted 2 weekday shows on AAR: Free Podcasts Sen. Al Franken gets serious on free speech, net neutrality
Sen. Al Franken started his career as a comedian, but he's dead serious about the issue of net neutrality. Appearing Monday at the Future of Music policy summit at Georgetown University in Washington, the Minnesota Democrat delivered an impassioned defense of net neutrality: the idea that broadband providers should generally treat legal web content equally, and should not discriminate against web-based services that might compete with their own offerings. | | America's Smartest Cities - Dallas is #48 th ! | | 
Metro Area Population: 6,300,006
Daily Beast IQ Score: 64
Folks in Dallas-Fort Worth, according to the data, are less interested than most in reading and voting and, like Houston, the number of higher academic institutions per capita is paltry. No excuses, given the metro area is the size of Rhode Island and Connecticut combined.
See all here
**On that topic make sure you read: Krugman - The Uneducated American - NYTimes.com
If you had to explain America's economic success with one word, that word would be "education." In the 19th century, America led the way in universal basic education. Then, as other nations followed suit, the "high school revolution" of the early 20th century took us to a whole new level. And in the years after World War II, America established a commanding position in higher education.
READ here | | A Texas-sized health care failure- NYT | |  THE Senate Finance Committee has for the moment rejected the idea of creating a public health insurance plan. It's difficult to see how Americans will be able to find good, affordable health insurance without one. But if we are to go forward without a public option, it is more important than ever to make sure that we get another part of health reform right: the exchanges, where it is envisioned that small businesses and people without employer-sponsored insurance could shop for policies of their own.
read on
| | North Texas Democrats : Notes and News | | 
Dallas County Democrats
Friday, October 16: Dallas County Democratic Party 9TH ANNUAL FISH FRY Featured Speaker Hank Gilbert, candidate for Governor. Entertainment by the Turtle Creek Chorale. $35 or just $25 for DCDP Sustaining Members. More info online at this page. (6:30 - 9 PM, Sokol Hall, 7448 Greenville Ave., Dallas) Saturday, October 17: PRECINCT CHAIR TRAINING 101 Open to all precincts. This is a basic level training class to help prepare Democratic Precinct Chairs how to organize their precinct and increase the number of people voting Democratic in their area. (9 - 11:30 AM, La Madeleine, 3906 Lemmon Ave, #110, Dallas)
Oct. 16: Fun At The Fish Fry
Every year, Democratic voters and our candidates come together for food and fellowship at the FISH FRY. This year's event is NEXT FRIDAY, October 16, at 6:30 PM, at the Sokol Hall, 7448 Greenville Avenue at Walnut Hill, in Dallas. Our guest speaker will be Hank Gilbert, who has announced his intention to run for Governor of Texas on the Democratic ticket. He surprised everyone during his first run for Agriculture Commissioner, garnering the highest vote total of any statewide executive race on the ballot. The evening's entertainment will be provided by the nationally famed Turtle Creek Chorale. buy ticket here
TCDWC ( Tarrant County Democratic Women)
Annual Picnic & Chili Cook-Off
Description: TCDWC Annual Picnic and Chili Cook-off at Longhorn Park in Benbrook, off Dirks Rd. Games, Children's Corner, Chili, 1-3PM October 24, 2009, $10.00 donation.
Location: Longhorn Park in Benbrook, off Dirks Rd.
Date: Saturday, October 24, 2009
Time: 1:00pm-3:00pm CDT
Duration: 2 hours
Metrocrest Democrats
The next regular meeting of Metrocrest Democrats will be Monday, October 19, at 7 p.m. at the New New Buffet, 3822 Belt Line Rd., Addison.
Our speaker for the October 19th meeting will be Joe Duffy, North Texas Regional Director for Organizing for America, a project of the Democratic National Committee. Joe will bring us up to date on OFA's activities and plans. We know one plan is for OFA to help turn Texas blue!
Rockwall Democrats RCDP On the Same Page (Bookclub) Gathering
When:Tuesday, October 6th, 2009 Discussion Begins @ 7:00 PM.
This month we will be discussing Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama.
Any questions? Please call the RCDP phone at 469.865.9205.
Contact Mackenzie Vahalik, Secretary, Rockwall County Democrats for location and more information
bookclub@rockwalldems.com // www.RockwallDems.com
Democratic Party of Collin County and the Texas Democratic Women of Collin County- "Democratic Campaigns In Collin County -- How to Win" Presented in Partnership with the Democratic Party of Collin County and the Texas Democratic Women of Collin County
A Series of 7 Workshops for Candidates, Precinct Chairs, Activists, and Campaign Volunteers
Weekly Monday Workshops Begin October 12th and Continue Through November 30th You may register online here: www.collindems.us/dwaddon/reg.php
Week 1 - How I Won: It Can Be Done
Week 2 - The Winning Team
Week 3 - Organizing to Win
Week 4 - The Winning Message
Week 5 - Marketing to Win
Week 6 - To Win It Takes Money
Week 7 -Creating the Winning Plan
Note: No workshop on Monday of Thanksgiving week - Nov. 23 Questions? Please contact Charles Brown at cbrown1rozcb@verizon.net
Midcities Democrats Have you joined for 2009? If you have not yet become a dues-paying member of the Mid-Cities Democrats, do so today.
Fill out our 2009 membership form and bring to our next meeting or put it in the mail any time (the mailing address is on the form). You may also pay dues online by visiting our Club Website. http://www.midcitiesdemocrats.com/
Far North Dallas Democrats
Event: Far North Dallas Democrats Monthly Meeting "Featured Speaker Dr. Halperin"
What: Club/Group Meeting
Start Time: Thursday, October 15 at 7:00pm End Time: Thursday, October 15 at 9:00pm
Where: Sonny Bryan's BBQ Restaurant | | Law in the Schools Fall Program: Legal Community Visits the Classroom | | 
ACS has partnered with the Dallas Bar Association to bring its Law in the Schools Program to Dallas Independent School District's (ISD) classrooms this fall. This program allows legal professionals to speak to Dallas ISD social studies classrooms.
The program is scheduled for the week of November 16-20, 2009.
Application and lesson plan documents here:
http://www.acslaw.org/conclass Amy Smith -- asmith@dallasbar.org or 214-220-7465 (fax) | | Bill Moyers talks to Simon Johnson and US Rep. Marcy Kaptur and review the JOURNAL's coverage of the financial crisis. | | 
BILL MOYERS: That's the progressive Representative from Ohio, Marcy Kaptur, she's with me now. She has a Masters from the University of Michigan, did graduate study at M.I.T. and still lives in the same house in the Toledo working class neighborhood where she grew up.
She's in her 14th term in Congress, the longest-serving Democratic woman in the history of the House, and she's an outspoken financial watchdog on three important Committees: Appropriations, Budget and Oversight and Government Reform.
Also with me is a familiar face to viewers of this broadcast. Simon Johnson is the former Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund. He now teaches Global Economics and Management at M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management. He's one of the founders of the website Baselinescenario.com. I check it out daily for Simon's take on the economic and financial crisis.
It's been a year since the great collapse and both my guests are well equipped to assess what's happened since then. Welcome to you both.
watch interview here
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| | Two Wrongs Make Another Fiasco
by Frank Rich in NYT | | 
| THOSE of us who love F. Scott Fitzgerald must acknowledge that he did get one big thing wrong. There are second acts in American lives. (Just ask Marion Barry, or William Shatner.) The real question is whether everyone deserves a second act. Perhaps the most surreal aspect of our great Afghanistan debate is the Beltway credence given to the ravings of the unrepentant blunderers who dug us into this hole in the first place.
Let's be clear: Those who demanded that America divert its troops and treasure from Afghanistan to Iraq in 2002 and 2003 - when there was no Qaeda presence in Iraq - bear responsibility for the chaos in Afghanistan that ensued. Now they have the nerve to imperiously and tardily demand that America increase its 68,000-strong presence in Afghanistan to clean up their mess - even though the number of Qaeda insurgents there has dwindled to fewer than 100, according to the president's national security adviser, Gen. James Jones.
But why let facts get in the way? Just as these hawks insisted that Iraq was "the central front in the war on terror" when the central front was Afghanistan, so they insist that Afghanistan is the central front now that it has migrated to Pakistan. When the day comes for them to anoint Pakistan as the central front, it will be proof positive that Al Qaeda has consolidated its hold on Somalia and Yemen.Include strong call-to action links to drive traffic and increase the likelihood of converting browsers into buyers. This promotion is optional. You can simply delete all default text and the promotion will disappear. | | North Dallas Texas Democratic Women | | 
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PROTESTS AGAINST 9th YEAR OF OCCUPATION OF AFGHANISTAN
CONTINUE IN DALLAS | | 
CODE PINK founder Medea Benjamin to visit Bush neighborhood, join demonstration
As the Obama Administration, military planners and Congress continue to debate the 9th year of war and occupation in Afghanistan, the Dallas Peace Center continues its vigils at Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison's North Texas office every Saturday in the month of October, 2009. The next vigil will be on October 10, 10 a.m.-Noon.
On October 17, Medea Benjamin, co-founder of CODE PINK, an organization of mostly women known for their fearless determination to "speak truth to power" in Washington D.C. and throughout the world, will be joining the vigil. Benjamin has just returned from a visit to Afghanistan.
Before the vigil, Benjamin and members of local CODE PINK chapters will gather in front of the gates that seal off George Bush's neighborhood, to serenade the ex-president who has yet to be convicted of committing war crimes while in office. CODE PINK is known for its pithy political songs that musically lampoon U.S. foreign and domestic policy. The choir will assemble outside of John H. Pershing Elementary School, 5715 Meaders Lane, October 17 at 9:15 a.m. Afterward the group will caravan to Hutchinson's office for the 10:00 a.m. vigil.
The vigils call on Obama to reconsider the folly of sending an additional 40,000 more American troops to the country called "the Empire Killer," in a conflict that has punished thousands of innocents for the actions of Al Qaeda, which knows no national boundaries. More than 1000 Afghan civilians and more than 200 U.S military personnel have lost their lives in 2009 alone, and those numbers are growing faster.
Weekly Vigils:
What: Vigil to mark the 9th year of war and occupation in Afghanistan.
Where:Sen Hutchison's Office 10440 N. Central Expwy (I-75 and Meadow Road )
When: Every Saturday in October, 10 am -12 PM
CODE PINK visits George W. Bush:
What: CODE PINK choir serenades George W. Bush Where: Outside of John H. Pershing Elementary School, 5715 Meaders Lane, Dallas When: Saturday, October 17, 9:15 a.m.
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