Dear nancy, Good Morning!
I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. The Holiday parties have begun get them on your calendar ! Make sure you buy your ticket today for the Dallas Peace Center Peacemaker Award dinner it is always a wonderful evening.
Restrepo is on TV tonight ! Don't miss it!
Thanks,
Nancy Cunningham
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Dallas Peace Center 24th annual Peacemaker Awards Dinner Thursday, December 2nd | 
Larry James of CitySquare named Peacemaker of the Year Dallas Peace Center also honors Texas Muslim Women's Foundation and Rev. Bill Matthews The Dallas Peace Center (DPC) hosts its 24th annual Peacemaker Awards Dinner on Thursday, December 2, at the Double Tree Hotel, 4099 Valley View Lane, honoring Larry James of Central Dallas Ministries, Texas Muslim Women's Foundation, and Rev. Bill Matthews for their diverse and successful efforts in promoting peace, justice and human rights. Radio personality and activist Rick Vanderslice will emcee the event. Larry James, CEO of Central Dallas Ministries (CDM), has guided his organization for 16 years, fighting poverty through housing, hunger relief and health care, and working to discover and dismantle the institutionalized systems that prevent the disenfranchised from advancing. James has said that his top advisors are the people he serves, and his willingness to listen to the voice of experience has made CDM unusually effective. Its revolutionary apartment building, Citywalk@Akard, provides formerly homeless and low-income people with high quality living quarters in a building that also houses moderate income residents. James's blog, "Larry James' Urban Daily" is a must-read for anyone interested in changing the social, political and physical structures of our city that work against the poor. The Texas Muslim Women's Foundation was founded in 2005 in order to empower, promote, and support women and families through educational, outreach, philanthropic, and social services. TMWF participates in numerous community charity events, operates a resale shop and has an active youth auxiliary. In the next few years, the organization plans to open Sayyah (which means "shade"), a shelter for abused women of all faiths and races. Rev. Bill Matthews has been a cornerstone in the Dallas peace and justice community for more than two decades. Possessing a special gift for bringing diverse people together in fellowship, Matthews as chaired or been a member of numerous boards of organizations that include DFW International, the Thanks-Giving Foundation, the Dallas United Nations Association and the Dallas Peace Center. He is currently working on a proposal to bring the Parliament of World Religions to Dallas for a 2014 conference. Tickets are available at different levels. For more information contact Trish Major at 214-823-7793 or admin@dallaspeacecenter.org. To purchase tickets online, visit www.dallaspeacecenter.org. |
Restrepo documentary on National Geographic channel tonight ! | 
RESTREPO is a feature-length documentary that chronicles the deployment of a platoon of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley. The movie focuses on a remote 15-man outpost, "Restrepo," named after a platoon medic who was killed in action. It was considered one of the most dangerous postings in the U.S. military. This is an entirely experiential film: the cameras never leave the valley; there are no interviews with generals or diplomats. The only goal is to make viewers feel as if they have just been through a 90-minute deployment. This is war, full stop. The conclusions are up to you. DIRECTORS' STATEMENTThe war in Afghanistan has become highly politicized, but soldiers rarely take part in that discussion. Our intention was to capture the experience of combat, boredom and fear through the eyes of the soldiers themselves. Their lives were our lives: we did not sit down with their families, we did not interview Afghans, we did not explore geopolitical debates. Soldiers are living and fighting and dying at remote outposts in Afghanistan in conditions that few Americans back home can imagine. Their experiences are important to understand, regardless of one's political beliefs. Beliefs are a way to avoid looking at reality. This is reality.
- Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger http://restrepothemovie.com/story/
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Democracy Now | 
Chalmers Johnson, 1931-2010, on the Last Days of the American Republic The distinguished scholar and best-selling author Chalmers Johnson has died. He passed away in California on Saturday afternoon at the age of 79. During the Cold War, he served as a consultant to the Central Intelligence Agency and was a supporter of the Vietnam War, however, later became a leading critic of U.S. militarism and imperialism. He wrote the book, Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire in 2000, which became a bestseller after the 9/11 attacks. He went on to complete what would become a trilogy about American empire. Today we re-air part of our last interview with Chalmers Johnson from 2007. Listen/Watch/Read
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North Texas Progressive Book Suggestion | 
Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans Wendell Potter List Price: $26.00 BUY HERE Price: $16.99 & eligible for free shipping with Amazon Prime You Save: $9.01 (35%) Wendell Potter is the insurance industry's worst nightmare. In June 2009, Wendell Potter made national headlines with his scorching testimony before the Senate panel on health care reform. This former senior VP of CIGNA explained how health insurers make promises they have no intention of keeping, how they flout regulations designed to protect consumers, and how they skew political debate with multibillion-dollar PR campaigns designed to spread disinformation. Potter had walked away from a six-figure salary and two decades as an insurance executive because he could no longer abide the routine practices of an industry where the needs of sick and suffering Americans take a backseat to the bottom line. The last straw: when he visited a rural health clinic and saw hundreds of people standing in line in the rain to receive treatment in stalls built for livestock. In Deadly Spin, Potter takes readers behind the scenes to show how a huge chunk of our absurd healthcare spending actually bankrolls a propaganda campaign and lobbying effort focused on protecting one thing: profits. Whatever the fate of the current health care legislation, it makes no attempt to change that fundamental problem. Potter shows how relentless PR assaults play an insidious role in our political process anywhere that corporate profits are at stake-from climate change to defense policy. Deadly Spin tells us why-and how-we must fight back.
Wendell Potter on MSNBC Discussing the Insurance Industry's Campaign against Michael Moore's SiCKO and Health Reform watch here
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North Texas Democrats : Notes, News and Holiday Party | 
Colleyville, Grapevine, Southlake Democrats Folks are invited on Monday, November 29 at 7 pm for gumbo and a meeting. We will debrief the recent election, elect our own officers for 2011 and strategize about what's next. Please let them know if you'll be attending by calling 817-481-6707.
Metrocrest Democrats' Holiday Party
Save the Date for the Metrocrest Democrats' Holiday Party on Monday, December 13, 2010.
The Club will provide hors d'oeuvres and Dinner & Drinks will be "on you".When: 7:00 PM
Where: Siena Pasta & Pizza at 780 S. MacArthur Blvd, suite 100, Northeast corner of Belt Line & MacArthur, Coppell, TX 75019
Dallas County Democrats Holiday Party
The County Chair and Secretary and all of the Precinct Chairs are members of the Executive Committee. All good Democrats are welcome at the party. The joint event will be at the usual place, the Communication Workers of America Hall, at 1408 N. Washington at Bryan, Dallas, and is scheduled from 6:30 to 8:30 PM on Monday, December 13 DCYD Holiday Party
December 10, 2010 8:00 PM - 11:00 PM
The Home of the Fitzgeralds Dallas, TX 75226
Join DCYD as we celebrate 2010. Light bites and libations will be served. For our community service project for the holiday season, we are hosting a canned food drive for Methodism's Breadbasket. Please bring canned food items or a cash donation to the event and help brighten another person's holiday. For more information and to RSVP, please contact Jordan McCarter |
| 30 Media Heroes from Salon | 
Salon's popular "30 Biggest Media Hacks" list has resilted in them sponsoring a readers' ballot to pick "30 Media Heroes."
The response has been overwhelming, with votes pouring in via Comments at the end of the original story.
Voting ended this weekend -and final results will be announced Monday morning. Already it's clear that TV and web journos and pundits dominate, with little love shown for longtime print stars. Here's the current Top 30, which naturally could still change quite a bit. Leaders in approximate order (as of Friday morning): 1 thru 10: Rachel Maddow, Matt Taibbi, Glenn Greenwald, Jon Stewart, Amy Goodman, Bill Moyers, Keith Olbermann, Stephen Colbert, Cenk Uygur, Jeremy Scahill. 11-21: Chris Hayes, Arianna Huffington, Dylan Ratigan, Jane Hamsher, Paul Krugman, Bill Maher, Chris Hedges, Greg Mitchell, Digby, Frank Rich http://www.thenation.com/authors/greg-mitchell |
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| Still the Best Congress Money Can Buy By FRANK RICH | O America's latest crisis - until it wasn't - was airport screeners touching our junk. As this long year lurches toward its end, we all agree that something has gone wrong in America, and we're desperately casting about for a coherent explanation for our discontent, if not a scapegoat. Alas, the national consensus that the T.S.A. and full-body scans might be the source of all evil fizzled in less than a week. Most everyone got to Grandma's house for Thanksgiving without genital distress. he Democrats. They were punished in yet another "wave" election - our third in a row - where voters threw Washington's bums out. But most of the public remains bummed out nonetheless. In late October, the NBC News-Wall Street Journal poll found that only 31 percent of respondents believed that America was on the right track. When the survey asked the same question after the shellacking, the percent of optimists jumped to ... 32. Regardless of party or politics, there's a sense a broken country can't be fixed. Few have faith that even "wave" elections are game-changers anymore. | read on |
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Liberal Talkers Get New Platform via Stitcher | 
Hello there! If you are new here, you might want to subscribe to the Radio Syndication Talk RSS feed for updates on this topic. Stitcher Radio, a free mobile phone "smart radio" application, available for iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, and Palm has added Progressive Talk to it's lineup of premium content. Under a series of agreements with individual production companies and web development company 921 Associates LLC, subscribers of the application will now have access to daily programming from nationally syndicated radio talkers Bill Press, Stephanie Miller, Leslie Marshall, Mike Malloy and "Ring of Fire." "We are very excited to provide listeners a great way to access some of the nation's most popular syndicated radio shows, whenever and wherever they want," said Stitcher CEO and co-founder Noah Shanok. "It is great to provide the audience increased flexibility and options "We feel that Stitcher will provide our current subscribers a fantastic option of getting their premium content on the go via their mobile device. While people that are unfamiliar with these exciting programs will be able to discover them by hearing the highlight clips that will be available for free." CNET has compared Stitchers ability to personalize news and talk content to Pandora stating in a review that the application "is to news and information what Pandora is to music." http://radiosyndicationtalk.com/tag/stitcher-radio/ |
North Texas Progressive Election 2010 "Yes We Can" mini fundraiser! | LAST WEEK !!!!! Things are tough all over and when money is tight sponsorship of the newsletter suffers ...so we just want to make sure we have all the money we need to keep going! We like to raise money the old fashioned way - by having a raffle for great prizes! For every $20.00 you donate your name will be placed in a raffle for FANTASTIC gifts you will NOT believe the gifts and how many we have! You can use PayPal HERE (safely use your credit card or debit card ) You can also mail me a check just send me an email at northtexasprogressive@gmail.com I'll send you the mailing address. Thank you very much, Nancy Cunningham Some of the fabulous gifts for this fundraiser. Remember, you buy a chance to win one of these items for every $20 you donate. Please be generous. Books Autographed 1 autographed TOXIC TALK: How The Radical Right Has Poisoned America's Airwaves by Bill Press 1 autographed Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union by David Swanson Non- Autographed 1 Killer Politics: How big money and bad politics are destroying the great American Middle class by Ed Schultz 1 Air America: the Playbook -what a bunch of Left-Wing media types have to say about a world gone right with introduction by Al Franken (Senator) DVDs and CDs 1 autographed Majority Report DVD (rare collector's item includes Sam Seder at RNC in 2004) Misc 1 MSNBC Mouse Pad "MSNBC: A fuller spectrum of news" 1 Sam Seder autographed Majority Report Mouse Pad 1 1# Ground Free Trade Coffee from Just Coffee: Grounds for Democracy (Now) blend 1 T-shirt Air America 910am radio (collector's item)
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