| Dear nancy, Good Morning!
Democratic clubs and groups are firing up for the November elections with great events , meetings and voter/campaign projects. Find a group and get involved now!
Thanks to the John Lingenfelder campaign for sponsoring this week's newsletter and you are all invited to have some birthday cake with him and find out how you can help his campaign !
Thanks,
Nancy Cunningham
I still has passes ! Email me to get free passes to the August 27th opening of the movie 'Countdown to Zero' at the Angelika Dallas. Watch the trailer at http://www.takepart.com/countdowntozero
Email /Webpage /Facebook /Twitter /Newsletetter archive | | Celebrating the 90th Anniversary of Women's Right to Vote! | | 
Join the Texas Democratic Women of Collin County & the North Dallas Democratic Women in Welcoming Andrea White as We All Commemorate the Passage of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
Saturday, August 28th, 10:00 a.m - 12:00 p.m.
Haggard Park, 901 E. 15th Street, Downtown Plano Remarks by Andrea White, Wife of Bill White, Democratic Nominee for Texas Governor Free Frozen Snacks & Drinks /Music & Face Painting/Voter Registration
Join local Democrats as we gather to celebrate the 90th Anniversary week of the passage of the 19th Amendment, guaranteeing women's right to vote!
Democratic Party of Collin County
2504 K Avenue, Suite 200 /Plano, TX 75074
www.collindems.us
| | Democracy Now | |  Iraqis See Same War Under a Different Name
The Obama administration says the last combat brigades have left Iraq. Is this the end of the Iraq war or just a rebranding of the US occupation? More than 50,000 troops remain in Iraq as well as 4,500 special operations forces and tens of thousands of private contractors. The US embassy in Baghdad is the largest in the world-the size of eighty football fields. We get a perspective on the so-called withdrawal rarely heard in the US media: that of two Iraqis, Raed Jarrar of Peace Action and Yanar Mohammed of the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq.
Listen/Watch/Read
As GOP and Some Top Dems Unite in Opposing NY Islamic Community Center, a Roundtable Discussion with Mother of 9/11 Victim, Rabbi, Muslim Lawmaker and Islamic Scholar
We spend the hour on the controversy around the proposed construction of an Islamic community center in Lower Manhattan, which has turned into a national issue. Opposition to the center first started among fringe, right-wing blogs but has swept into the mainstream, with some Democrats, including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, coming out against it. Republicans have vowed to make the controversy a campaign issue in the fall. We host a roundtable with four guests: Minnesota Representative Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress; Rabbi Irwin Kula of the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership; Islamic scholar John Esposito of Georgetown University; and Talat Hamdani, whose son Salman died on 9/11 in the attacks on the World Trade Center.
Listen/Watch/Read
Filmmakers, Activists Try to Save Dolphins from Slaughter in Oscar-Winning Doc The Cove
The Academy Award-winning film The Cove opened last month in Japan after months of protests by right-wing activists who had pressured some cinemas into canceling screenings. The film documents how a group of activists and filmmakers used hidden cameras to expose the annual slaughter of over 20,000 dolphins in the small Japanese fishing village of Taiji, 200 miles southeast of Tokyo. We speak with the film's director, Louie Psihoyos, and dolphin activist Ric O'Barry.
Listen/Watch/Read
| | The Obama Effect- Texas Observer | |  For weeks Texas' political class has been abuzz about President Barack Obama's planned visit to the Lone Star State. How would a visit from an unpopular president in a conservative stronghold impact statewide races? Could Republicans take advantage of it? Should Democrats avoid Obama? Was Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bill White's plan to avoid the president a wise one?
But after Obama swept through Austin and Dallas yesterday-having raised more than $600,000 for the Democratic Party-it seems his visit didn't have quite the political reverberations many pundits expected. Plenty of people came out to cheer or protest Obama (and/or the federal government, tyranny and socialism). But the day's events probably will have little impact on state politics.
read on
| | North Texas Progressive Book Suggestion | |
Hopes and Prospects
By Noam Chomsky List Price: $16.00
Price: $10.88 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25.
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In this urgent new book, Noam Chomsky surveys the dangers and prospects of our early twenty-first century. Exploring challenges such as the growing gap between North and South, American exceptionalism (including under President Barack Obama), the fiascos of Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S.-Israeli assault on Gaza, and the recent financial bailouts, he also sees hope for the future and a way to move forward-in the democratic wave in Latin America and in the global solidarity movements that suggest "real progress toward freedom and justice."
Hopes and Prospects is essential reading for anyone who is concerned about the primary challenges still facing the human race.
| | North Texas Democrats : Notes and News | 
MID-CITIES DEMOCRATS Happy Hour at Rio Mambo
on Monday, August 23rd
Please come enjoy this social occasion with fellow Democrats from
5:30PM-7:30PM at the popular Rio Mambo Restaurant on Hwy 121, just north of Glade Road map
We will be in the section on the north side of the restaurant.
Suggested donation at the door: $20.00 to benefit the Mid-Cities Democrats.
CASH BAR with Happy Hour prices and a selection of appetizers.
We hope you will come join us for an enjoyable time.
Mid-Cities Democrats Meeting Thursday, August 26th
We are pleased to announce that Andrea White will be the Guest Speaker at the regular monthly meeting of the Mid-Cities Democrats this month. Andrea will give us a good overview on how her husband's campaign for Governor is going.
Please note: We are meeting in Grapevine this month.
When: Thursday, August 26th 7PM-8:30PM
Where: Spring Creek Barbeque, / 315 West Hwy 114 / Grapevine TX
Texas Democratic Women of Collin County Paint the State Blue at our 4th annual dinner and silent auction.
"Let's Go Blue for White"
Saturday, September 4, 2010
6:30 p.m. Southfork Ranch
Keynote Speaker: Bill White, Candidate for Governor
Purchase tickets at www.tdwcc.org
Arlington Area Progressive Liberal Meetup Group Monthly Meetup
When Sunday, August 29, 2010 1:00 PM
Where Starbucks
4340 Little Rd /Arlington TX 76016
Dallas County Young Democrats-Discussion Group/Book Club
August 23, 2010 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Crooked Tree Coffeehouse
2414 Routh St
Dallas, TX 75201
Please join the Campaign & Party Relations Committee for our Discussion Group/Book Club Meeting. We will be discussing Homage to Catalonia.
For more information and to RSVP, please contact Katie Haley Dallas County East Democrats
Wednesday, August 25
Cristina Hahsler, Founder of Dallas Can Do Better, will be speaking on the death penalty. (Networking 6 PM, meeting 7 PM, Martinez Restaurant, 901 Gross Rd., Mesquite) | | North Dallas Texas Democratic Women meeting: "Human Trafficking in North Texas". | | 
August 26, 2010 -6:45 PM - 8:30 PM
2nd Floor, Northaven United Methodist Church
11211 Preston Road (between Royal and Forest Lanes)
North Dallas Texas Democratic Women meeting: "Human Trafficking in North Texas". The Executive Director of Ft. Worth based "Traffick911", Deena Graves, and Bill Bernstein, Deputy Director of Mosaic Family Services (and 2004 Democratic candidate for US House of Representatives) will address the increase in human trafficking and what we can do to stop this scourge on our communities.
Call (972) 732-7712 for further information. http://www.traffick911.com
Lenna Webb, Communications
North Dallas Texas Democratic Women
www.nddw.org | | The Bush Tax Cut Club and Three Good Reasons to Let the High-End Bush Tax Cuts Disappear This Year | | 
| | | | | How Fox Betrayed Petraeus
Frank Rich, The New York Times | | 
The 'ground zero mosque,' as you may well know by now, is not at ground zero. It's not a mosque but an Islamic cultural center containing a prayer room. It's not going to determine President Obama's political future or the elections of 2010 or 2012. Still, the battle that has broken out over this project in Lower Manhattan - on the 'hallowed ground' of a shuttered Burlington Coat Factory store one block from the New York Dolls Gentlemen's Club - will prove eventful all the same. And the consequences will be far more profound than any midterm election results or any of the grand debates now raging 24/7 over the parameters of tolerance, religious freedom, and the real estate gospel of location, location, location."
| | read on | | You're Invited to a Birthday Party! to honor President LBJ & John Lingenfelder our next U.S. Congressman | | 
You're Invited to a Birthday Party!!!
To honor President Lyndon Baines Johnson
&
John Lingenfelder our next U.S. Congressman
August 24, 2010
5:30-8:30pm
A Party for All ages!
Come Celebrate with John and give him your best wishes as our Next US Congressman in Washington working for you and your family issues!
Festivities will be held at the campaign headquarters:
1108 W. Parker, Ste. 108
Plano, Tx 75075
(Southwest corner of Parker and Alma)
Phone Number: (972) 468-112
get involved
| | The Errington Thompson Show | | 
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| | Neil Durrance for Congress | | 
Return Government to the People
26the Congressional District of Texas
-Keep American jobs in America
-Make health care affordable for all U.S. citizens
-Increase Pell Grants and decrease tuition
940.239.0380
www.durranceforcongress.com
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| | Top 11 Reasons to Follow Hal Sparks | | 
So here are the Top 11 Reasons You Should Be Following @HalSparks on Twitter:
(why 11? because it *goes* to 11)
11. He's hilarious. As a touring comedian for decades, he headlines venues all across the country. His new Showtime special, which was taped in front of a standing room only crowd, is now available on Amazon and Netflix.
5. He's involved. Hal doesn't shy away from hot topics. An outspoken progressive, he can be heard weekly on The Stephanie Miller Show on a segment affectionately dubbed "Hump Days with Hal", and now he has his very own weekly radio show on Chicago's Progressive Talk radio, which he Ustreams every Saturday between 9am and 11am PST for all his fans each week no matter where he's at in the country.
read all 11 here
listen to Hal Saturdays Live from Chicago's Progressive Talk WCPT (Broadcasting live at
http://ustre.am/hh9m)
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