| Greetings! Good Morning
This week you'll find Early voting, Young Dem State conventions and a long list of wonderful monthly Democratic club meetings to keep you busy!
We have a great selection for your 'NTXProgressive Book of the week' and of course, some great progressive media news!
There is also a new column "Something you can do to help" I'll try to post some things in the future of things you can easily do to help with local volunteer projects, this week you can get involved with Resolana and help with the book drive to benefit incarcerated women.
Thanks, Nancy Cunningham
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*Don't forget the Neil Durrance for Congress rally!
Jobs and Economy Rally
April 10, 2010 /10:00 a.m.
TWU Local 567 Union Hall
2050 Golden Triangle Blvd.
Fort Worth, TX 76177
Live entertainment, guest speakers, and great fun! | | Ten Things You Can Do to Help Progressive Journalism | |  What's wrong with this picture? Air America vanishes into the ether, while Glenn Beck indoctrinates 2.7 million daily viewers with his histrionic brand of right-wing lunacy. Independent news agencies must continuously solicit donations from readers to stay afloat, while hate-filled shock jock Rush Limbaugh makes $50 million a year.
On the other hand, there's still a lot of great progressive media on the airwaves, including Democracy Now!, which airs on more than 800 TV and radio stations worldwide, along with radio shows by Ed Schultz and Stephanie Miller. The Nation and TheNation.com are part of a progressive journalistic community that is challenging the right in every medium. ZP Heller, a writer (HuffPo, OpenLeft, AlterNet) who is working on a novel lampooning corporate media, lists ten steps you can take to help keep progressive journalism alive:
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| | 2010 Texas Young Democrats State Convention | | 
The 2010 Texas Young Democrats State Convention details are as follows:
Date April 23 - 25, 2010
LocationUniversity of Texas at Austin - exact location TBA
Hotel Courtyard & Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott
5660 North IH-35 /Austin, Texas 78751 USA
Please contact the hotel at: 512-302-5550 and let them know that you are with the Texas Young Democrats.
Web site http://www.texasyds.com/
Registration Fees
Early Registration
$45 - General Member
$35 - Giving Back or Volunteering | | North Texas Progressive Book Suggestion | | 
Creative Community Organizing: A Guide for Rabble-Rousers, Activists, and Quiet Lovers of Justice (Paperback)
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Why can't there be enough food, shelter, jobs, health care, homes, schools, education, safety and security for everyone? How can people work together to challenge the way things are, to help redistribute wealth and power, to create a more just and humane society? The answer is "Creative Community Organizing". This latest work by legendary activist, musician and author Si Kahn, is a different kind of community organizing book. As with other books, including some by Kahn himself, it does outline many of the practical tactics organizers use. But it's also about community organizing as a way of thinking and a way of life. "Creative Community Organizing" suggests ways that readers can identify and analyze the various options for action, weigh the positives and negatives and make choices among them. In other words, focus on the end goal and then determine the best strategies, tactics and methods to achieve that goal. It will help established community organizers become more creative and innovative, encourage them to question established principles and decide whether or not they still work. Those new to the field will discover a whole new way of looking at the world - they'll gain a new sense of empowerment, understand that things don't have to be the way they are, that the world can be more fair and humane - and that they can live and work in ways that help make that happen.
20 Principles for Successful Community Organizing
Kahn's new book, "Creative Community Organizing: a Guide for Rabble-Rousers, Activists and Quiet Lovers of Justice," is a manifesto for the politically active. READ MORE on Alternet | | A World of Women for World Peace April 24th | 
Sponsored by Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson
This program began in 2001 to bring greater visibility to the women who are victims of war and aggression, and the women who facilitate peacemaking, peacekeeping and peace-building activities in their communities. Learn more...
| | North Texas Democrats : Notes and News | | 
Early Voting Starts!
Monday, April 5 through Friday, April 9:Early Voting For Runoff
Hours and locations will be posted at DalCoElections.org, Tarrant County Elections, and Collin County
The Dallas County East Democrats
The Dallas County East Democrats (DACED) meets at Martinez Restaurant 901 Gross Rd. in Mesquite 75149 every last Weds of the month. Networking starts at 6:00 PM the meeting begins at 7:00 PM Annual Dues are min. $12.00 ($20.00 suggested)
CGS Democrats April Meeting
We will meet Thursday, April 8 at 7:00 pm at Market Street, 5650 Colleyville Blvd. @ Hall Johnson in Colleyville. Area candidates will be in attendance to discuss their campaigns and ways our members can get involved. We will also be planning our candidate forum Monday April 19th. More information for that is below.
Everyone is welcome to arrive at 6:30 pm to order dinner and socialize. The meeting will start at 7:00 pm. See www.cgsdemocrats.com for more details or call Susie Stonecipher at 817-481-6707.
Dallas County Young Democrats
April General Meeting
April 13, 2010 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Cocktails start at 6:30 pm, Meeting starts at 7:00 pm
Zubar / 2012 Gree nville Ave /Dallas, TX 75206
Join DCYD for our April General Meeting.
Tarrant County Young Democrats
Tarrant County Young Democrats Monthly Meeting
Start Time: Tuesday, April 13 at 7:00pm
Where: Mama's Pizza /5800 Camp Bowie /Fort Worth, TX Greater Arlington/Mansfield Democratic Women
Monthly Meetup
WhenThursday, April 15, 2010 6:30 PM
Where Buck n' Loon's /3517 S Cooper St /Arlington TX 76015
817-466-2825
Metrocrest Democrats.
Monday, April 12-Metrocrest Democrats next regular meeting
The next regular meeting of Metrocrest Democrats will be Monday, April 12, at the New New Buffet, 3822 Belt Line Rd., Addison. Join us for conversation and dutch-treat supper at 6:30 pm. The program will run from approx. 7 - 8 pm
Our speaker for the April 12th meeting will be Jeff Dalton, Democratic campaign consultant and activist. He will discuss the growth of the local Democratic Party and what we must do in North Texas to take back the Texas House so that Democrats will have a say in the redistricting of our state.
HEB Democrats Meeting April 8th
The HEB Chapter of the Mid-Cities Democrats will meet this coming Thursday, April 8th at 7:00PM at the Pizza Garden, 217 Harwood Road, Bedford 76021. Click here for map | | SMU Media and Human Rights Symposium Kicks Off with a Tribute to Academy Award-Winning Film Director/Producer Rob Epstein | |  The symposium begins with Tribute! A Conversation with Rob Epstein on Tuesday, April 6, 2010 at the Angelika Film Center. Tribute! will screen clips from the life's work of director/producer and two-time Academy Award winner Rob Epstein, including his current 2010 Sundance Film Festival hit, HOWL. Epstein is also known for directing the Oscar-winning documentary The Times of Harvey Milk. The Angelika Film Center is located at 5321 E. Mockingbird Lane, Dallas, Texas 75206. The screenings will begin at 7:00 p.m.
On Wednesday, April 7, 2010, the symposium will take place from 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. at the Meadows Museum and will include four top-notch panels, focusing discussion on how the media impacts human rights in America. The symposium will feature themed sessions concerning justice in journalism; new media and human rights; media and the death penalty; and media, race, ethics and justice.
The symposium is free and open to the public. Reservations are required for all events and can be made through the SMU Cinema-Television Division at (214) 768-2129 or smumediasymposium@gmail.com
More info here
| | Dallas Historical Society presents a very special presentation of KERA's Little Mexico / El Barrio | |  THURSDAY, APRIL, 29 6:30 PM MARGARET AND AL HILL LECTURE HALL
FREE TO THE PUBLIC
The flavor, aroma, customs and language from Old Mexico were transplanted to an area that came to be known as Little Mexico, just north of downtown Dallas. Here many immigrants from Mexico settled to begin their new lives in the United States.
Using archival photographs, home movies and personal accounts of past and present residents, Little Mexico/El Barrio tells the story of a once thriving community defined not only by specific geographic boundaries, but by a common language and cultural heritage.
The half-hour program includes interviews with prominent Mexican American community leaders and the personal accounts of past and present residents of this neighborhood where everybody knew one another.
"The community was very close knitted," said Francisco X. "Pancho" Luna. "In those days, nobody locked their doors. There was no air conditioner so we left the doors open to get a breeze. We enjoyed those days."
Among the stories and memories relived in Little Mexico/El Barrio are: Maria Luna, who started her tortilla-making business in the 1920s; St. Ann's Catholic School, Travis Elementary and Cumberland Hill School, the places where Little Mexico children went to school; and the discrimination many residents faced as they tried to deal with the not always smooth transformation of the neighborhood from predominantly white to Mexican American.
This 1997 KERA program was produced by Yolette Garcia and Rick Leal.
| | Peaceful Vocations is having a garage sale! | |  As a fund-raising effort, PV will be having a garage sale on Saturday, April 17th. This is an easy way to help out your favorite organization. You can either donate items to sale or come to the garage sale to buy. We would really appreciate it if you would do both!
If you would like to donate items, PV will be picking up donations on the Friday prior to the garage sale. Just contact us at: peacefulvocations@yahoo.com
This is the excuse you needed to clean out your garages and closets! peacefulvocations@yahoo.com
1145 Clara Street Fort Worth, Texas 76110
| | Progressive Talk Radio News | |  Franken Goes Back to Comedic Roots
When comedian turned statesman Al Franken was running for Congress he did his best to distance himself from his SNL roots, but he's back to the laughs to raise campaign funds. KCBS' Janice Wright reports read watch HERE
Ed Schultz hosts stranded Ice-bridge truckers
MSNBC and Dial Global talk star Ed Schultz received an interesting text message while preparing to go on the air earlier this week. A contractor working for him at his newly purchased fishing lodge on Manitoba's Wrong Lake told him his closed-for-the-season lodge was hosting a group of ice-bridge truckers who became stranded when weather left them with no return route. The truc kers were hauling supplies to First Nations people in the area when the warm weather caused the ice to melt sooner than expected. So the trucks are stuck there until next winter since the region has no roads - the only way into the area is by small aircraft or canoe! Now, Schultz and his wife are contemplating keeping the lodge open year round to serve the truckers who drive their vehicles to deliver supplies to the Aboriginal Canadians via ice covered rivers and lakes. Schultz recently purchased the former Thunderbird Lodge & Outposts (known to fishermen for its tremendous Walleye and Northern Pike) and renamed it Big Eddie's North Country Lodge (Mar. 26, 2010) HERE
Jack Rice Receives 2010 Freedom of Speech Award.
Talk host and journalist Jack Rice, who broadcasts via jackrice.org, is the recipient of the 2010 Freedom of Speech Award which was given to him at the TALKERS magazine New Media Seminar in New York City on March 20. Rice, who has worked in talk radio at WCCO, Minneapolis; KOGO, San Diego and, most recently, at Air America Media, is receiving the honor in part because he is, in the words of TALKERS magazine managing editor Kevin Casey - who presented the award - "a talk media broadcaster who has made an exemplary effort to put preconceived political prejudice aside in a search for truth on an issue-by-issue and story-by-story basis."
| | Walmart: The Inhuman Essence of a Corporate "Person" | | 
Jim Hightower, Truthout: "I'm curious about those five Supreme Court justices who recently decreed that a corporation is a 'person' with human rights: Do you think they ever met Mr. Walmart? If they had, they'd be forced to concede that corporate personhood is a sheer fantasy, for there is nothing even remotely human about the bloodless and brainless thing that is Walmart."
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| | | | | It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Obama!
by Frank Rich NYT | | 
| | NOT since Clark Kent changed in a phone booth has there been an instant image makeover to match Barack Obama's in the aftermath of his health care victory. "He went from Jimmy Carter to F.D.R. in just a fortnight," said one of the "Game Change" authors, Mark Halperin, on MSNBC. "Look at the steam in the man's stride!" exclaimed Chris Matthews. "Is it just me, or does Barack Obama seem different since health care passed?" wrote Peter Beinart in The Daily Beast, which, like The Financial Times, ran an illustration portraying the gangly president as a newly bulked-up Superman.
What a difference winning makes - especially in America. Whatever did (or didn't) get into Obama's Wheaties, this much is certain: No one is talking about the clout of Scott Brown or Rahm Emanuel any more.
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| | Neil Durrance for Congress | | 
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| | MAPLight.org - New Web Site Reveals Money and Politics Links in New Ways | | "MAPLight.org, the award-winning nonpartisan, nonprofit research organization dedicated to illuminating the connection between money and politics, has launched a new web site which shines the light of transparency and accountability in powerful ways as never before. The new site is being launched during Sunshine Week, a nonpartisan, national initiative to open a dialogue about the importance of open government and freedom of information. MAPLight.org users will find on the new site robust tools to illuminate how money aligns with votes reveal data on individual legislators and how much money they have received from industry and organizations expose specific contributions to persons, by parties, by committee, and within date ranges and important and vital features including a new U.S. Congress research blog a powerful search engine"
| | The Errington Thompson Show | | 
Do you want to hear a great Progressive Talk Radio show ?
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| | Rockwall County Democrats | | 
| | Something you can do today to help ! | | 
I am COLLECTING BOOKS (English & Spanish)particularly on
healing, health, and personal wellness development for the Dallas county
jail women's library. I will also take fiction & teen novels.
Please contact me if you have any TO DONATE. I will have two times to
drop off books April 15th and 29th.
How I became involved with the County Jail:I Volunteer at RESOLANA http://resolana.info/ a wonderful program that builds a safe and challenging learning community
behind the walls of the criminal justice system, where women can use
their time in custody to acquire the skills, tools and resources for a
positive reintegration into the lives of their families and
communities.. Posted by Ana to MoonLady News
Ana Shoemaker" bananajosefina@care2.com
| | The Democratic Party of Collin County
Citizen Alert: | |
The Democratic Party of Collin County
Citizen Alert:
Why Would Collin County Commissioners
&
County Judge Keith Self
Consider Opposing the Life-Saving New National Health Insurance Reform Law that Will Save Collin County Tax Dollars When Fully Implemented?
Let the Collin County Commissioners' Court
Hear Your Voice!
Monday, April 5th
6:00 p.m.
Town of Prosper Municipal Headquarters
121 W. Broadway
Prosper, TX 75078
| | Crawford Peace House in danger of foreclosure | | 
By Robert T. Garrett / Dallas Morning News
AUSTIN - The Crawford Peace House, once a launch pad for antiwar protests as President George W. Bush sought refuge at his nearby ranch, could soon be on the auction block.
Dallas-area resident Johnny Wolf, who bought the century-old frame house seven years ago, said Friday he's five months behind on the mortgage and faces foreclosure.
"It's hard, when the wars are still going on, to have to do this," said Wolf, a stage designer from Forney who said the recession has nearly driven him to bankruptcy. "It seems like the peace movement has been waning."
This week, California peace activist Cindy Sheehan sent an e-mail urging donations so the house can be preserved as a peace museum and visitor center.
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