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Email /Webpage /Facebook /Twitter /Newsletetter archive | | Democracy Now | |  Democracy Now! in Port-Au-Prince: Patrick Elie on Haiti Six Months After the Earthquake
Haiti remains a nation in ruins, six months after one of the world's worst natural disasters killed more than 300,000 people. Thousands of bodies still lay under rubble. We begin today's show in Port-Au-Prince outside what remains of the Montana Hotel where some 200 people died in the earthquake. We speak to Patrick Elie, a longtime Haitian democracy activist and Haiti's former Secretary of State for Public Security."We are a people who can fend for ourselves," Elie said. "We have a vision of where we want to go so we do need friends but we don't need people to think for us or to pity us and that is probably this attitude that is playing a part in the aid not being forthcoming."
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The Food Bubble: How Wall Street Starved Millions and Got Away With It
While Goldman Sachs agreed to pay $550 million to resolve a civil fraud lawsuit filed by the SEC, Goldman has not been held accountable for many of its other questionable investment practices. A new article in Harper's Magazine examines the role Goldman played in the food crisis of 2008 when the ranks of the world's hungry increased by 250 million. We speak to Harper's contributing editor Frederick Kaufman.
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| | Jim Hightower | Jobless "Recovery" Requires Us to Rebuild America | |  Jim Hightower, Truthout: "The good news is that America's economy continues to grow.
The bad news is that most people's personal economies continue to shrivel. The June report on jobs glows with the happy news that America's unemployment rate has fallen to 9.5 percent - the best we've had in a year! 'We are headed in the right direction,' trumpeted President Obama."
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| | Around Texas ... | | 
BIG BROTHER AND YOUR CAR
Texas law enforcement agencies have been buying automated license plate readers for patrol cars, thanks to federal stimulus funds. Staff writer Forrest Wilder investigates and learns that the eyes of Texas cops are upon your car, all the live-long day.
read here
Univ. of Texas considers taking Klansman name off dorm
Simkins Hall named after Florida KKK organizer who admitted committing violence against African-Americans
Read | | Progressive Talk News | | 
Sam Seder and Life Imitates Art: Backstage With Larry
TV Guide
by Deirdre Dolan When writer-director-comic Sam Seder received an email saying Larry David had specifically requested him to tape a few Curb discussions he ... read on
Me and Face The Grayson by Stephanie Miller
Midterm prospects for Democrats were on the menu for this week's FACE THE GRAYSON.
Congressman Alan Grayson isn't buying into all the media chatter that American voters will hand the car keys back to the Republican Party this November.
Click on the audio clip below to hear why- and to learn the one thing Alan Grayson says he will not do to be on the STEPHANIE MILLER SHOW.
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Funny man Franken is all business in Senate
Chicago Sun-Times
WASHINGTON -- Al Franken was not joking.The Minnesota Democrat, presiding over the Senate, wouldn't allow Sen. Joe Lieberman "just an additional moment" to finish a thought on the health-care bill.Time had run out, Franken told the stunned Connecticut Independent, who asked to conclude his remarks. "In my capacity as senator from Minnesota," Franken said, "I object."The moment left veteran ...
read | | Oliver Stone's new documentary "South of the Border" | | 
Oliver Stone's new documentary "South of the Border" will be releasing in Dallas on July 23rd at the following theatre:
AMC Grand 24
10110 Technology Blvd. East
Dallas, TX 75220
(214) 720-4262
www.amctheatres.com
See below a review of the film from Alternet. Please spread the word in your area about the release of the important film, and let me know if you have any questions.
Oliver Stone Tells the Real Story of the Leftist Latin American Leaders Transforming the Continent
By Daniela Perdomo, AlterNet
After decades of military dictatorships and IMF puppetry in Latin America, the southern cone of the New World is slowly but surely moving toward reformist, left-leaning governance. This all started in 1999, when Hugo Chávez was elected in Venezuela. Today, Chávez has left or left-center allies at the helm of Brazil, Ecuador, Bolivia, Argentina, Paraguay, and preceding him, Cuba.
read on | | North Texas Progressive Book Suggestion |  WAR
by Sebastian Junger (Author)
Price: $15.97 & eligible for free shipping with Amazon Prime
BUY HERE War is insanely exciting.... Don't underestimate the power of that revelation, warns bestselling author and Vanity Fair contributing editor Junger (The Perfect Storm). The war in Afghanistan contains brutal trauma but also transcendent purpose in this riveting combat narrative. Junger spent 14 months in 2007-2008 intermittently embedded with a platoon of the 173rd Airborne brigade in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley, one of the bloodiest corners of the conflict. The soldiers are a scruffy, warped lot, with unkempt uniforms-they sometimes do battle in shorts and flip-flops-and a ritual of administering friendly beatings to new arrivals, but Junger finds them to be superlative soldiers. Junger experiences everything they do-nerve-racking patrols, terrifying roadside bombings and ambushes, stultifying weeks in camp when they long for a firefight to relieve the tedium. Despite the stress and the grief when buddies die, the author finds war to be something of an exalted state: soldiers experience an almost sexual thrill in the excitement of a firefight-a response Junger struggles to understand-and a profound sense of commitment to subordinating their self-interests to the good of the unit. Junger mixes visceral combat scenes-raptly aware of his own fear and exhaustion-with quieter reportage and insightful discussions of the physiology, social psychology, and even genetics of soldiering. The result is an unforgettable portrait of men under fire.
CSPAN BOOK: Sebastian Junger, War
Author and journalist Sebastian Junger talks about his latest book which chronicles the experiences of soldiers fighting in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley. Mr. Junger was embedded with 173rd Airborne Brigade's Battle Company at various times between June 2007 and June 2008. He discusses his book with Paul Rieckhoff, founder and executive director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. Mr. Rieckhoff, an Iraq War veteran, is the author of Chasing Ghosts: Failures and Facades in Iraq - A Soldier's Perspective.
Watch here | | "Yes You Can, Mr President! End the Afghan War!" vigil every friday ! | |  Vigil: 1100 Commerce, Earle Cabell Bldg, Downtown. Fri 11:30 am- 1 pm
"Yes You Can, Mr President! End the Afghan War!"
Join the call to end the longest war in American history and bring the troops home!
Demand taxpayer money be spent on creating jobs, providing healthcare, education, housing, building roads and bridges and not wasted in fighting the war in Afghanistan!
Make your own sign, just fill in the blank: Money For______ , Not For War!
(signs in Spanish needed!)
Sponsored by Middle East Peace Committee of the
Dallas Peace Center. Call 214-823-7793 for details.
| | Social Change in the Workplace and Sustainability | | 
Thursday, July 22, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Mark your calendar now and make plans to join us on July 22 for an exciting double bill to hear first hand how two local business leaders are working to bring social change to the workplace and to bring sustainability education to businesses and the community.
Our guest speakers will be Cannon Flowers, founder of The Demeter Project, and Jeff Kiec, director of Sustainability, EcoGreenHotel and the Deep Ellum Sustainability Council
MEET like-minded professionals who want to connect to use the power of collaboration to make a real difference in our community. LEARN about the benefits of being a Net Impact member, with local and global connections. ENJOY! The people, the place - La Grange - the food and drink.RSVP here.
Find out more about Net Impact DFW at: http://netimpactdfw.ning.com/
(LaGrange, 2704 Elm Street, Dallas, 75226) | | North Texas Democrats: Notes and News | | 
Mid-Cities Democrats
The Mid-Cities Democrats Monthly Meetup
When Thursday, July 22, 2010 7:00 PM
Where Springcreek Barbeque
1509 Airport Fwy (at Forest Ridge)
Bedford TX 76022
North Texas Asian Democrats ( Monday, July 19: 7:30 PM, Hunan Dynasty, 8150 N Macarthur Blvd., Irving) Stonewall Democrats of Dallas (Tuesday, July 20: 6:30 PM, Ojeda's Restaurant, 4617 Maple Ave., Dallas) Texas Coalition of Black Democrats (Tuesday, July 20: 6:30 PM, Moorland YMCA, 907 E. Ledbetter Rd., Dallas) | | Dallas Peace Center- Summer Dinner Lecture Series | | 
July 22-Susan Gordon Director, Alliance for Nuclear Accountability
will speak on "Dr. Strangelove's Bombplex -- Building More Bombs so we can have Fewer Bombs" and Robert Jensen Professor of Journalism, University of Texas-Austin will speak on "No Nukes/No Empire: The Abolition of Nuclear Weapons requires the End of the U.S. Empire"
FunAsia 1210 E. Beltline Rd., Richardson /Reception at 6:00 p.m.
Dinner & Program at 7:00 p.m.
Purchase tickets | | | | | The Good News About Mel Gibson
By FRANK RICH | | 
FOR Fourth of July weekend fireworks, even Macy's couldn't top the
spittle-spangled eruptions of Mel Gibson. The clandestine recordings of
his serial audio assaults on his gal pal were instant Web and cable-TV
sensations - at once a worthy rival to Hollywood's official holiday
releases and a compelling sequel to his fabled anti- Semitic rant of
2006. A true showman, Gibson offered vitriol for nearly all tastes,
aiming his profane fusillade at women, blacks and Latinos alike. The
invective was tied together by a domestic violence subplot worthy of
"Lethal Weapon." There was even a surprise comic coda, courtesy of
Whoopi Goldberg, who, alone among Gibson's showbiz peers, used her
television platform on "The View" to defend her buddy's good character.
The Gibson tapes - in plain English and not requiring the subtitles of
some of the star's recent spectacles - are a particularly American form
of schadenfreude. There's little we enjoy more than watching a pampered
zillionaire icon (Gibson's production company is actually named Icon)
brought low. The story would end there - just another tidy morality tale
in the profuse annals of Hollywood self-destruction from Fatty Arbuckle
to Lindsay Lohan - were it not for Gibson's unique back story.
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| | | The Errington Thompson Show | | 
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| | Dallas Citizen Forester Program | |  Residents interested in helping grow a greener Dallas are invited
to join the City's Citizen Forester Program. Deadline to
register is July 31, with classes beginning August 21. To register, email citizenforester@tx.rr.com
Participants will learn how to care for and preserve the city's trees and urban forests and make Dallas a more
livable city through tree education, planting, and preservation. Classroom instruction and field training covers the economic, environmental, psychological, and aesthetic benefits of trees
while encouraging stewardship of natural resources.
The Citizen Forester program is supported by the City of Dallas
Park and Recreation Department, the City's Urban Forest Advisory Committee, and the Trinity Blacklands Urban Forestry
Council.
| | Dallas utilities among the nation's most expensive | | Dallas Business Journal ;Low cost-of-living, great airport, central location and cheap land: business boosters in North Texas have been repeating that mantra for decades, and it still applies, for the most part. Expensive utilities probably don't come up on recruiting pitches, but Dallas consumers pay a lot for their utilities, compared with other big cities, according to data from online consumer adviser WhiteFence.com.
The all-in monthly cost of phone, TV, internet, electricity and gas is the fourth highest among major American cities. Only Baltimore, Houston and Orlando had higher monthly costs in the data compiled by Houston-based WhiteFence.
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