| Dear nancy, Good Morning!
No newsletter next week as we all take a little break to celebrate the 4th of July!
Yes, there are ways you can help inn the gulf and it's not too late to register for Netroots in Las Vegas!
Thanks,
Nancy Cunningham
Email /Webpage /Facebook /Twitter /Newsletetter archive | | Arianna Huffington, Mary Matalin Together at Last on the Radio | |  The New York Observer Mon, 21 Jun 2010 08:55 AM PDT
Mark Green, Observer columnist and former Air America president, has started a weekly talk show on 77 WABC radio featuring Arianna Huffington and Mary Matalin. The show is called Both Sides Now and the idea is for the two ideologically opposed, though very respectful, women to have it out on different issues and Mr. Green to play middle man. In the first episode, Mr. Green asked the pair about ... here
| | Democracy Now | |  Academy Award-Winning Filmmaker Oliver Stone Tackles Latin America's Political Upheaval in "South of the Border", US Financial Crisis in Sequel to Iconic "Wall Street"
Academy Award-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone has taken on three American presidents in JFK, Nixon and W. and the most controversial aspects of the war in Platoon and Born on the Fourth of July. He looked at the greed of the financial industry in the Hollywood hit Wall Street and its forthcoming sequel. In South of the Border, his latest documentary out this week in the United States, Stone takes a road trip across South America, meeting with seven presidents about the revolution sweeping the continent. The leftist transformation in the region might be ignored or misrepresented as nothing but "anti-Americanism" in the corporate media, but this film seeks to tell a different story. Stone joins us along with the film's co-writer, the Pakistani British author and activist Tariq Ali.
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| | Naomi Klein | Gulf Oil Spill: A Hole in the World | |  Naomi Klein, Guardian UK
"Obama cannot order pelicans not to die (no matter whose ass he kicks). And no amount of money - not BP's $20 billion, not $100 billion - can replace a culture that's lost its roots."
The Deepwater Horizon disaster is not just an industrial accident - it is a violent wound inflicted on the Earth itself. In this special report from the Gulf coast, a leading author and activist shows how it lays bare the hubris at the heart of capitalism
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| | Celebrate Independence Day on Grapevine Lake with Mid Cities Democrats | ** I don't know if this is sold out or not but they may have a waiting list for cancellations
Members of the Mid-Cities Democrats mayrecall that in 2008 we reserved a 4thof July Party Boat on Grapevine Lake. The event was TONS of fun and a huge fundraising success! Families, couples, and individuals alike had a GREAT time!
Back by popular demand is the 4th of July Party Boat!
The boat leaves at 6PM and returns at 10PM or when the fireworks are over. Passengers should meet at the waiting room of the Silver Lake Marina, 2500 Fair Way Drive in Grapevine , beginning at 5:30PM for sign in. All passengers must sign a manifest and liability waiver. Boarding begins at 5:45PM. Click here for a map to Silver Lake Marina.
Ticket prices are $30 per adult, $15 for children under 12, or $25 for MCD members. Limited to 50 passengers. Checks are made payable to The Mid-Cities Democrats and sent to P.O Box 271, Bedford, TX, 76095. Contact Dorie Cranshaw at 817-917-4492 or dorieblueeyes@aol.com to reserve tickets for you and your family today or to make other arrangements for your suggested donation.
Hot dogs, chips, and drinks will be available for a suggested donation or feel free to bring your own picnic dinner. | | Democratic Notes and News | | 
The next TDWCC general meeting is Monday, June 28, 2010, 6:45pm. at the Preston Ridge Campus of Collin College 9700 Wade Blvd Frisco, Texas, Founders Hall, Shawnee Room F148.Our June meeting will feature a Candidate Forum to vet and vote on endorsements for the November election. All are welcome to attend, only members will be eligible to vote. The following candidates and representatives have confirmed attendance:
Bill White for Governor Campaign, his daughter, Elena
Jeff Weems for Railroad Commissioner Campaign, his wife Dinah
John Lingenfelder for Congress 3rd district,
Sajeel Khaleel for Colling County Court at Law 3,
David Smith for County Judge,
Rafael de la Garza for Collin County DA,
Rick Koster for County Commissioner,
Rey Flores for JP,
Bonnie Lee Goldstein and Larry Praeger, 5th District Court of Appeals Place 4 and 12, respectively.. | | Janeane Garofalo talks to AV Club | | 
Although she once described herself as an "underachiever" and "straight-C student" with typical self-deprecation, Janeane Garofalo is almost better known these days for making ambitious political arguments than for cracking jokes. Garofalo's conversion from sarcastic slacker to impassioned activist began during the George W. Bush administration, when she slowly drifted away from her stand-up career and movie roles to become a host on the recently shuttered liberal radio station Air America. Since then, Garofalo has become a ubiquitous presence on political debate shows ranging from Countdown With Keith Olbermann to the notably less welcoming Fox And Friends, and her unapologetic remarks-specifically her assertion last year that Tea Party protestors are "racist rednecks"-have made her a favorite target of right-wing hate. But Garofalo hasn't entirely abandoned entertainment for punditry: In the past few years, she's turned up in popular fare like Ratatouille and 24 while still performing stand-up regularly, with her latest comedy special (and first in more than a decade) If You Will debuting Saturday, June 26, on pay-cable channel EPIX. Before the show's première, The A.V. Club called Garofalo ostensibly to talk about comedy-although, as with her career of late, politics ended up dominating the conversation.
read on | | Sam Seder on Social Security: Are We In 2005, or 2010? | |  Sam Seder gives voice to the confusion many are having: after Democrats successfully fought off George Bush's attempts to gut Social Security in 2005, why did Obama pack his deficit commission in 2010 with people like co-chair Alan Simpson, who are dead set on doing the same thing?
BTW, if you haven't subscribed to Sam's YouTube channel, it's always a good idea.
| | It's NOT too late to sign up to attend Netroots in Las Vegas! | |
I attended 2 years ago in Austin and it is BLAST!
Netroots Nation '10
Thursday, July 22, 2010 8:00 AM - Sunday, July 25, 2010 2:00 PM (Pacific Time)
Each year, some of the brightest minds in progressive politics come to Netroots Nation to speak with -- and hear from -- you. We've already announced several of our special guests, including Sen. Al Franken and Elizabeth Warren, and we're thrilled to add progressive champions like Ed Schultz, Majora Carter and Raul Grijalva to our growing list of speakers.Don't miss out! Click here to register for Netroots Nation 2010.
Netroots Nation is a place to organize, build coalitions and ignite the change that will help us achieve our shared goals and values. That's why we're kicking things off Thursday night with a program full of inspiring progressive leaders. In addition to Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer, you'll hear from MSNBC's Ed Schultz, Daily Show co-creator Lizz Winstead, environmental justice champion Majora Carter, Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas and AFSCME president Jerry McEntee, as well as Nevada Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford. Elon James White, comedian and host of the award-winning web series This Week in Blackness, will emcee.
And on Saturday, we'll close out our time together with a program headlined by Minnesota Sen. Al Franken.Our closing lineup will also include Congressman Raul Grijalva, Blue Green Alliance political director Chuck Rocha and EMILY's List executive director Stephanie Schriock, as well as Minnesota's Tarryl Clark, who's running for Congress against Republican Michele Bachmann. Be sure to check out our full agenda, now updated with times, to see what other exciting sessions are happening in Las Vegas.
If you haven't registered, there's still time! Tickets are just $295 (but going up July 1), so click here to reserve your spot now.
Local attendee to blog about the event!
****In preparation for my upcoming participation at the Netroots Nation Convention in July, I have started a blog. My intention is to comment on items of interest to me and share them in a way that others can comment.
I posted my first entry and hope you will take a minute to read it, post your comments and then follow me in this new venture! Click here to go to "Women's Voices".
Lenna Webb Communications Chair
| | Sign up now for this summer's Nuclear Free World Pilgrimages | | 
Travel with the Nuclear Free World Committee of the Dallas Peace Center to he site of the first atomic weapon test and two important sites in the nuclear weapons complex. For information or to register, call Mavis at 806-340-9358.
Resistance for a Nuclear Free Future
July 3-5 at the Y-12 Complex, Maryville & Oak Ridge, TN
Join a national gathering culminating with nonviolent direct action, with the Nuclear Resister, Nukewatch, and the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance for a conference at Maryville College Saturday and Sunday and a demonstration and nonviolent action at Y-12 Monday Morning. Speakers will include Kathy Kelly and Fr. John Dear. Y-12 produces "secondaries" for U.S. nuclear weapons and is currently upgrading the W76 warheads.
Cost: Registration for meals and lodging $185; est. transportation $125
Registration Deadline: June 21
Back to the Beginning
July 15-18 at the Trinity Test Site, Socorro, NM
The original atomic weapon was exploded July 16, 1945, in southern New Mexico. It was called the Trinity Test. We will travel to the test site for a July 16 vigil. The trip may include a visit to WCS, the mixed and low level radioactive waste disposal site near Andrews, TX, and the WIPP transuranic waste disposal site near Carlsbad, NM.
Cost: Estimated lodging, $50; estimated travel, $110.
Registration Deadline: June
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| | Oil Spill - how can you help ? | |  Thousands of possibilities: they come in small, medium and large; immediate, soon, long-term; cost free, inexpensive, very expensive. If I can do it, you can help; we can all do this together.
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Collect and send towels! Laundry CEO Organizes Towel-Collection Drive for Gulf Spill Clean-Up 16 Jun 2010 David Gross, CEO of Gulf Coast Laundry Services in Gulfport, Miss., is coordinating an effort to get much-needed towels to wildlife agencies racing to save birds, turtles, dolphins and other animals affected by the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Gross is still reaching out to laundries to gather whatever they can, but the most emergent need is still towels. Gross is also asking laundries to pay for shipping costs of the materials they send.To make a donation or for more information on what or where to send supplies, contact Christie Allen at 288-896-4405 or e-mail christiea@gclaundry.com .
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Summer Vacation: The tourist economy for your fellow Americans living on the rim coasts of the Gulf of Mexico is collapsing. Rooms, campgrounds are available. You can have the most unique vacation you could ever imagine, doing your part to help save the Gulf of Mexico.
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Teachers: Organize student Summer Environmental Aid Workers. School's out. What better way for a student to spend Summer than to work in a Living Laboratory of the Future of America?
United We Serve
http://www.service.gov/
Volunteer Match HERE
National Resources Defense Council
The NRDC has opportunities to join its Activist Network as well as donate to the Gulf Coast Recovery Fund.
CLICK HERE for more information.
National Wildlife Federation
You can become involved in the oil spill cleanup or help wildlife in distress by signing up on the National Wildlife Federation's website. The organization and other partners created a volunteer wildlife surveillance network to help track the effects of the spill.
If you can't volunteer, there are opportunities to donate to help the animals impacted by the spill.
CLICK HERE for more information.
| | | | | Worse Than a Nightmare
By BOB HERBERT | | 
President Obama can be applauded for his decisiveness in dispatching the chronically insubordinate Stanley McChrystal, but we are still left with a disaster of a war in Afghanistan that cannot be won and that the country as a whole will not support.
No one in official Washington is leveling with the public about what is really going on. We hear a lot about counterinsurgency, the latest hot cocktail-hour topic among the BlackBerry-thumbing crowd. But there is no evidence at all that counterinsurgency will work in Afghanistan. It's not working now. And even if we managed to put all the proper pieces together, the fiercest counterinsurgency advocates in the military will tell you that something on the order of 10 to 15 years of hard effort would be required for this strategy to bear significant fruit.
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| | Human Rights Initiative of North Texas | |
What does a human rights activist look like? Where do they live?
Perhaps in New York, where the United Nations is headquartered,
or perhaps Washington, DC.
Or Dallas. Yes, the struggle for freedom and equality around the
world lives in Dallas, Texas, too.
At Human Rights Initiative.
We are lawyers and social workers, pastors and students. We are
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Through a network of dedicated volunteers, Human Rights
Initiative helps those who have suffered terrible wrongs at home
for worshipping their God. For speaking out against oppression.
For being women.
We provide legal representation and social services free of
charge to those who have fled persecution and arrived in Dallas,
Texas with nothing. No family, no friends. No money. And often,
very little hope.
At Human Rights Initiative, we provide the resources - the
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persecutors behind and begin anew
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| | U.S. Sen. Al Franken is stepping into the pages of a new comic book. | | 
U.S. Sen. Al Franken is stepping into the pages of a new comic book.
A biographical comic called "Political Power: Al Franken" goes on sale on Wednesday.
It's the latest in a line of comic books featuring politicians from Ronald Reagan to Barack Obama.
The Minnesota Democrat is a former "Saturday Night Live" star who won his seat from Republican Norm Coleman last year in a contest that dragged eight months past the election.
The 32-page comic book from Bluewater Productions of Vancouver, Wash., explores Franken's career and his election.
The cover features a portrait of Franken standing before the American flag and a Minnesota flag.
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| | Hate Corporate Radio? Well Speak Up-the FCC Is Listening | | 
Conservative radio talk show host Al Roney offered listeners a local perspective on WGY, an AM station in Latham, N.Y. That is, until the Clear Channel-owned station replaced Roney's morning show with canned programming. In February, he was fired, and Glenn Beck's nationally syndicated show-far less interested in life in Latham than Roney-took over his slot.
"I like the local focus that (Roney) brought to the radio," Eric Sutton told the Albany Times Union, "and I really think we're going to miss that. There's nobody else talking about the local disgraces that are going on."
Of course none of this is shocking news. Since Congress lifted the limits on local radio station ownership in 1996, mega corporations like Clear Channel have been swooping in to communities to buy stations, fire local staff and replace the local shows with computer-generated playlists and syndicated (mostly right-wing) talk show hosts broadcasting from miles-and even states-away.
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