| Dear nancy, Good Morning!
Go to a baseball games, get involved with local Democratic candidates and attend more screenings!
Oh and you might want to join some folk to remind our President that we'd like to bring our troops home !
Thanks,
Nancy Cunningham
Email /Webpage /Facebook /Twitter /Newsletetter archive | | Democrats at the Ballpark | |  Democrats at the Ballpark-Tuesday, August 24, 2010 - 7pm
Back by popular demand, the North Central Democrats is bringing back the Democrats at the Ballpark. Join us on Tuesday, August 24 as the first place Texas Rangers take on the Minnesota Twins.
Seats are in section 330, rows 7, 8, and 9. (Ballpark seating chart.) Tickets are available for a $10 suggested minimum donation.
What: Democrats at the Ballpark
When: Tuesday, August 24, 2010
First pitch: 7:05pm
Where: The Ballpark in Arlington
To get your tickets, please contact Diane Hollingsworth at dianemholl@aol.com or call 817-427-5097.
Carpooling will be available for those who wish to share the cost for parking.
Availability is limited.
| | Democracy Now | |  Andrew Bacevich on Afghanistan War: "The President Lacks the Guts to Get Out"
Retired US Army colonel and historian Andrew Bacevich joins us for his first interview about his new book, Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War. "The question demands to be asked: Who is more deserving of contempt?" Bacevich asks. "The commander-in-chief who sends young Americans to die for a cause, however misguided, in which he sincerely believes? Or the commander-in-chief who sends young Americans to die for a cause in which he manifestly does not believe and yet refuses to forsake?"
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Verizon & Google Enter Reported Deal for Tiered Internet Use, Is Net Neutrality in Jeopardy? *
The internet and telecom giants Verizon and Google have reportedly reached an agreement to impose a tiered system for accessing the internet. The deal would enable Verizon to charge for quicker access to online content over wireless devices, a violation of the concept of net neutrality that calls for equal access to all services. The deal comes amidst closed-door meetings between the Federal Communications Commission and major telecom giants on crafting new regulations.
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"I Have No Regret to Anybody in the Military. This Is Clearly a Failure of Our Government"-Iraq War Vet Dan Choi Discharged Under "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"
"As we mark the end of America's combat mission in Iraq," President Barack Obama said this week, "a grateful America must pay tribute to all who served there." He should have added "unless you're gay," because, despite his rhetoric, weeks earlier the commander-in-chief fired one of those Iraq vets: Lt. Dan Choi. Choi is a West Point graduate, an Arabic linguist and an Iraq war veteran. He was fired under the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy. We talk to him about his life, his coming out and his military service.
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Environmental Activist Jerry Cope on "The Crime of the Century: What BP and US Government Don't Want You to Know"
Environmental activist Jerry Cope has spent the last few weeks traveling along the Gulf Coast and experiencing firsthand the contamination in the air and water. In an article being published on Huffington Post, Cope argues that instead of celebrating the allegedly vanishing oil, we should be concerned about the disappearance of marine life in the Gulf. He describes the Gulf as a "kill zone" and looks into where the marine animals have gone, given that BP has reported a relatively low number of dead animals from the spill.
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| Texas leaders threaten lawsuit over federal education fund provisions | | 
Texas leaders threaten lawsuit over federal education fund provisions In the latest round of the Texas vs. Washington political battle, the state's Republican leaders Thursday blasted a U.S. Senate-passed mandate on education funding in Texas, with Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst threatening legal action against the federal government if the House upholds the measure in a critical vote next week. The provision applies only to Texas and was crafted by Texas Democrats in Congress, who say they want to ensure that more than $800 million in federal education dollars earmarked for the state isn't diverted to other purposes.
read on | | Dallas Sierra Club | General Meeting Program - August 10, 7:00 pm - Refreshments at 6:30 
Environmentally Friendly Pest Management
For over 20 years, Gene Helmick-Richardson, Ph.D. entomologist, has been working in "organic" pest control in the Metroplex. He was Green before Green was cool. He presents BYOB (Bring Your Own Bug) programs to schools and libraries and has many stories of the wonders of the six- and eight-legged world. In addition to speaking on the ever-changing world of least toxic pest control and offering free advice for pest control in our area, Gene will share a few insect adventures.
Visit our website http://texas.sierraclub.org/dallas/
| | North Texas Progressive Book Suggestion |  Common Nonsense: Glenn Beck and the Triumph of Ignorance
By Alexander Zaitchik
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Forget Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, and Sean Hannity-Glenn Beck is the Right's new media darling and the unofficial leader of the conservative grassroots. Lampooned by the Left and Lionized by the far Right, his bluster-and-tears brand of political commentary has commandeered attention on both sides of the aisle.
Glenn Beck has emerged over the last decade as a unique and bizarre conservative icon for the new century. He encourages his listeners to embrace a cynical paranoia that slides easily into a fantasyland filled with enemies that do not exist and solutions that are incoherent, at best. Since the election of President Barack Obama, Beck's bombastic, conspiratorial, and often viciously personal approach to political combat has made him one of the most controversial figures in the history of American broadcasting.
In Common Nonsense, investigative reporter Alexander Zaitchik explores Beck's strange brew of ratings lust, boundless ego, conspiratorial hard-right politics, and gimmicky morning-radio entertainment chops. Separates the facts from the fiction, following Beck from his troubled childhood to his recent rise to the top of the conservative media heap Zaitchik's recent three-part series in Salon caused so much buzz, Beck felt the need to attack it on his show Based on Zaitchik's interviews with former Beck coworkers and review of countless Beck writings and television and radio shows Explains why Beck is always crying, why he has so many conservative enemies, why he's driven by conspiracy theories, and why he's dangerous to the health of the republic A contributing writer to Alternet, Zaitchik's reporting has appeared in the New Republic, the Nation, Salon, Wired, Reason, and the Believer Beck, a perverse and high-impact media spectacle, has emerged as a leader in a conservative protest movement that raises troubling questions about the future of American politics. | | FORUM: Myth & Truths Behind the New Black Panther Party | FORUM: Myth & Truths Behind the New Black Panther Party
Saturday, August 14th, doors open at 2:30pm, event starts at 3:00pm
Do what you need to on Saturday, then come down for cold drinks and hot topics at 3pm at The Progressive Center. Thomas Muhammad, Chairman of the local chapter of National Black United Front, will lead a discussion about the New Black Panther Party's history, current goals and controversies, and what role the NBPP has in our community
http://www.progressivecenteroftexas.org/ | | Dallas Drinking Liberally | | Dallas Drinking Liberally will not let high temperatures get you down! Join us for cool drink specials a nd hot topics from our perch at The Libertine on Greenville Avenue.
· Meet the oh-so-cool Judge Peggy Hoffman of Dallas Criminal Court No. 9. She developed PRIDE Court to help women arrested for misdemeanor prostitution overcome the issues that subjugated them and reestablish healthy and productive roles in society.
· Enjoy home - brewed beer for 2.50 per bottle or draught. When you drink St Arnold Oktoberfest or St. Arnold Amber, Fireman #4 , Shiner, Lone Star or Southern Star Blond Bombshell you support local brewers and save bucks!
· Put your business card in the mix and maybe win a prize!
· And hang out with ease because the parking is free!
Forward this invite to other liberals, progressives , free thinkers and open minded folk who need a good time and a friendly place to be:
Wednesday August 11 at 7 PM
The Libertine Bar on Greenville Avenue (free parking across the street)
Dallas Drinking Liberally will be "Promoting Democracy One Pint at a Time!"
See you there!
Julie, Cyndie and Diana
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| | North Texas Democrats: Notes and News | |  North Central Democrats August Meeting
Monday, August 9, 2010 - 7pm
Join the North Central Democrats for the August General Meeting and meet one of our newest Judicial Candidates. The guest speaker will be Teri Estes, candidate for the 360th District Family Court Judge. If you attended the CEC meeting on July 19th you know what a great candidate Teri is. If you haven't had a chance to hear Teri, and get to know her, you won't want to miss this meeting.
When: Monday, August 9, 2010
Time: 7-8:30pm
(Join us at 6:30pm to eat and socialize)
Where: No Frills Grill
801 S. Main St. (Hwy 377)
Keller, TX 76248
Please be sure to mark this date on your calendars.
All area candidates or their representatives are encouraged to attend.
Tarrant County Democratic Party.
Next Saturday, the 14th, The TCDP will have our first Base walk of the cycle. As you know, off year elections depend on the Base to turn out, and we need your help to turn them out. I hope to see you all on Saturday!
3004 West Lancaster, 76107,
9:00 a.m.-1:00 p,m,
Tarrant County Stonewall Democrats Monthly Meeting
Description: 2nd Monday every month, 7:00 p.m.
Come early for food and fellowship with other Democrats
Location: Tommy's Hamburgers, 5228 Camp Bowie Blvd.
URL: http://www.tarrantcountystonewalldemocrats.org
Time: 7:00pm-8:30pm CDT
Mid-Cities Democrats
The Mid-Cities Democrats won the prestigous Golden Shoe award for having the most volunteers, 14 in total, block walk for Rep. Paula Pierson!
We want, and need, to have even more volunteers show up to re-elect the Legislator of the Year by the Texas Chapter of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Rep. Chris Turner!!
What: Chris Turner Mega Walk
When: Sat. August 7th @ 9:30AM
Where: Turner Re-Election Campaign Office
5850 West Interstate 20, Suite 130, in Arlington
(Click here for a map)
Lunch is served at the home of Rep. Chris Turner and his wife Lisa Turner after block walking. All volunteers are invited to attend. We need your help! Are you coming to block walk or drive walkers? Contact Todd Hill at 817-715-3154 or yohi52@yahoo.com and let him know you are coming.
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Reminder! MCD Happy Hour Fundraiser: Mon., Aug., 23rd @ 5:30
Also, a reminder that the Mid-Cities Democrats will be having a Happy Hour fundraiser on Monday, August 23rd from 5:30-8PM at Rio Mambo in Colleyville. Click here for a map. The suggested donation is $20 with light appetizers provided. Drink specials will be taking place as well.
Do you want to attend? If so, let us know so we can ensure and reserve a spot for you. Capacity is 50. RSVP at RSVP@midcitiesdemocrats.com
Dallas County Young Democrats
General Meeting
August 10, 2010 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Brooklyn's
1701 S. Lamar St
Dallas, TX 75215
Darlene Ewing, Dallas Democratic Party Chair will be speaking about the much anticipated Coordinated Campaign for Dallas County. The Campaign is a centralized push and strategy for all democratic candidates on the ballot for November.
In addition, DA Craig Watkins who will be on the Democratic ticket this November, will also be on hand to talk about his and the party's plans for the upcoming season.
All Welcome!Happy Hour Starts at 6:30!
Back to School 2010 School Supply Drive for Alley's House!
Supply Drive: August 4-17
Backpack Stuffing Event: August 17th, evening time TBD
DCYD will begin to collect school supplies needed for Alley's House. Alley's House Empowers teen mothers and their children to achieve independence through support services, education and mentoring. You may bring your donated items to the General Meeting!
You! can also drop off your donations 8-5 Monday - Friday at Alley's House
4907 Spring Ave., Suite 103 Dallas, TX 75210
| | "America's Most Popular Populist" Jim Hightower
Concludes the Dallas Peace Center Summer Lecture Series | | 
"America's Most Popular Populist" Jim Hightower
Concludes the Dallas Peace Center Summer Lecture Series
Swim Against The Current: Even A Dead Fish Can Go With The Flow
The Dallas Peace Center will conclude its three-part Summer Dinner Lecture Series with the humor and insights of Jim Hightower, "America's most popular populist." He will speak on Thursday, August 19, at the Irving Arts Center, 3333 North MacArthur Blvd., in Irving. The reception is at 6:00 p.m. and the program is at 7:00 p.m.
Hightower broadcasts daily commentaries that are carried in more than 150 radio stations and on the web. Each month, he publishes the newsletter, The Hightower Lowdown, which now has more than 135,000 subscribers and is the fastest growing political publication in America. In his latest book, Swim Against The Current: Even A Dead Fish Can Go With The Flow, he and cohort Susan DeMarco introduce readers to people across the country who have questioned authority, trusted their values, sought alternative ways of doing things and stood up for their beliefs - and come through it all doing good and doing well.
Hightower cut his teeth in Texas politics as a legislative aide to Sen. Ralph Yarborough. He co-founded the Agribusiness Accountability Project, a public interest project that focused on corporate power in the food economy, was editor of the Texas Observer and served as Texas Agriculture Commissioner for two terms.
The event will benefit the Dallas Peace Center, a nonprofit organization that, for 29 years has promoted education, dialogue and action for peace and justice. Reservations are $35 per person, or $325 for groups of 10. To purchase tickets, go to www.DallasPeaceCenter.org or call 214-823-7793. | | Free passes to COUNTDOWN TO ZEROAugust 26th | |  I have Free passes to COUNTDOWN TO ZERO * email me for a pass
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The Angelika
Thursday, August 26 · 7:30 pm
5321 E. Mockingbird Ln, Ste 230, Dallas, TX 75206 · 214-826-3300
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COUNTDOWN TO ZERO traces the history of the atomic bomb from its origins to the present state of global affairs: nine nations possessing nuclear weapons capabilities with others racing to join them, with the world held in a delicate balance that could be shattered by an act of terrorism, failed diplomacy, or a simple accident. Written and directed by acclaimed documentarian Lucy Walker (The Devil's Playground, Blindsight), the film features an array of important international statesmen, including President Jimmy Carter, Mikhail Gorbachev, Pervez Musharraf and Tony Blair. It makes a compelling case for worldwide nuclear disarmament, an issue more topical than ever with the Obama administration working to revive this goal today. The film was produced by Academy Award® winner and recent nominee Lawrence Bender (Inglourious Basterds, An Inconvenient Truth) and developed, financed and executive produced by Participant Media, together with World Security Institute. Participant collaborated with Magnolia on last year's Food, Inc., recently nominated for an Academy Award®, and the upcoming CASINO JACK and the United States of Money. Jeff Skoll, Diane Weyermann, Bruce Blair and Matt Brown are the film's executive producers.
| | | | | How to Lose an Election Without Really Trying- Frank Rich NYT | | 
COULD George W. Bush be a kind of Gipper-in-reverse and win yet one more for the Democrats? Clearly this White House sees him as the gift that will keep on giving. The 2010 campaign against the Bush administration is in full cry, with President Obama leading the charge. The Republicans are "betting on amnesia," he confidently told the claque at a recent fund-raiser. "They don't have a single idea that's different from George Bush's ideas." It's now the incessant party line.
Sounds plausible, but it's Obama who's on the wrong side of that bet, to his own political peril.
Betting on amnesia is almost always a winning, not a losing, wager in America. Angry demonstrators at health care town-hall meetings didn't remember that Medicare is a government program, and fewer and fewer voters of both parties recall that the widely loathed TARP was a Bush administration creation supported by the G.O.P. Congressional leadership. So many Republicans don't know Obama is a natural citizen - 41 percent in a poll last week - that we must (charitably) assume some of them have forgotten that Hawaii was granted statehood. The G.O.P. chairman is sufficiently afflicted with amnesia that he matter-of-factly regaled an audience with the counterfactual observation that the war in Afghanistan, Bush's immediate response to 9/11, began under Obama.
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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
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| | Pilgrimage to New Kansas City Nuclear Bomb Plant | | Pilgrimage to New Kansas City Nuclear Bomb Plant
Did you think that President Obama was taking steps to reduce nuclear weapons production? Then why did they just break ground to replace a bomb plant last week?
The fourth trip on the Nuclear Free World Pilgramage will be to the Kansas City Plant, which manufactures non-fissile parts that both Oak Ridge and Los Alamos (plutonium pit production) plants need. The KC Plant supplies 85 percent of each U.S. nuke, including firing sets, aiming devices, security systems, and casings for the fissile material. The Federal Government, the City of KC and private investors broke ground last week for a new, replacement plant for the KC Plant. The Dallas group will leave early Aug. 14, participate in conference activities that evening and Aug. 15, and in the nonviolent direct action Aug. 16.
When: August 14-17
For more information or to register for the trip. call Mavis at 806-340-9358.
| | Obama in Dallas - STOP THE WAR in Afghanistan events! | | President Obama will be flying into Dallas on Monday afternoon. Let's remind him and the public that elected him that there is no good war and that he and Congress should be working to bring the troops home from Afghanistan! We cannot remain silent while precious lives and billions of dollars are being squandered!
How can we let Congress send $33 billion dollars to Afghanistan after we've learned that large amounts of US money are being funneled to Afghan warlords and corrupt officials? How can we throw $33 billion at a mistake when millions of Americans are losing their homes, their security?
also two Afghanistan veterans
will speak at a peaceful, nonviolent demonstration to call for the end to
wars in the Middle East.
When: 4:00 p.m., Monday, August 9, 2010
Where: main entrance, Dallas Love Field, Mockingbird Lane at Cedar Springs
The veterans will be in Dallas this week as part of "A Ride Till The End,"
a national bike tour to share their experiences and raise awareness about
the futility of the wars in the Middle East as well as the importance of
alternative transportation methods, including cycling, in preventing future
wars.
"We are going town to town, spreading this message face to face and we are
not stopping until both wars end," says Jacob George, a veteran of three
tours in Afghanistan. Writings by George and his fellow bikers can be found
at their blogsite, "Operation Awareness,"
http://www.operationawareness.org
| | Jim Hightower: Franken carries on in FDR fashion | | 
Way to go, Al! At last, there's a Democrat in the Senate who's acting like a real Democrat in the FDR mold, unafraid and unabashed to go right at the corporate powers who dominate our economy, environment, media, politics and government.
Al Franken, the new Minnesota senator who won the seat once held by the fighting populist Paul Wellstone, is shaking up the Washington establishment on behalf of regular folks. Instead of going along to get along, Franken is speaking bluntly about the raw judicial activism and corporate obsequiousness of the Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice John Roberts, a lifelong servant of the corporate agenda.
For years, I've railed about the wimpiness of Democrats who approach every Supreme Court nomination strictly from the viewpoint of such social issues as abortion and gay rights. Of course those are important, but the Democrats have given nominees a free pass on the fundamental issue of steadily rising corporate supremacy. Most Supreme Court cases don't involve hot social issues, but questions of power between moneyed behemoths and the rest of us - things like polluting our water and air, denying basic worker rights, abusing consumers and usurping the people's governing authority.
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| | Nominate Peacemaker of the year and volunteer to serve on Dallas Peace Center board. | | Now accepting nominations for the 2010 Peacemaker of the Year Award
Awards are presented every year to people or organizations whose work best exemplifies the mission of the Dallas Peace Center: to promote research, education, dialogue and action for peace and justice.
Please submit nominations by email to: office@dallaspeacecenter.org
or by post to:
Dallas Peace Center
5910 Cedar Springs Rd.
Dallas, TX 75235-6806
Nominations should include: Description of nominee's work for peace and justice; Your name and phone number. The Peacemaker Awards Dinner will be on December 2.
Contribute to Peace & Justice on the DPC Board
The Dallas Peace Center is currently looking for additional members for our Board of Directors. We need some new skills, some new ideas and some new passions -- to supplement the work and dedication of our existing Board members.
Participation in a significant non-profit organization at the Board level carries certain responsibilities, while bringing members a sense of fulfillment for their work on our programs and/or services and/or our internal organization. Our committees and teams will welcome participation and ideas from new Board members.
The initial commitment is to a three-year term, to find out more about being nominated for the Board of the Dallas Peace Center, please contact Ian Hunter at ianhntr@gmail.com.
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