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Remember early voting ! You are invited to attend a very special local screening of the film, Restrepo.
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Special screening of Restrepo | 
You are invited to the Texas Theater for a special screening of Restrepo on Wednesday, May 11th at 7:30pm. This is in conjunction with the photo exhibit next door at the Oak Cliff Cultural Center called XXI Conflicts in a New Century that Dee Mitchell and Cynthia Mulcahy and Tim Hetherington. One of the directors who was killed in combat was supposed to be here for the screening and it will be in his honor. Before seening the film you should see "Diary," a film he made about being in war zones , which you can see here: http://vimeo.com/18497543 |
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Grumpy Republicans await Obama in visit to Texas | 
Grumpy Republicans await Obama in visit to Texas President Barack Obama may be visiting Texas on Tuesday, with stops in El Paso and a fundraiser in Austin, but he won't be feeling the love - at least not from a growing chorus of unhappy GOP lawmakers who see the administration's refusal to designate the wildfire-battered state a disaster area the latest slap in the face to the very Republican Lone read on |
Democracy Now | 
The manhunt for Osama bin Laden is over. Nearly 10 years after the attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, U.S. forces are said to have assassinated the Saudi-born founder of al-Qaeda inside Pakistan. We speak with Jeremy Scahill, the national security correspondent for The Nation magazine, who has followed the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts closely as well as reported on the covert war inside Pakistan. Watch/Listen/Read "The idea that bin Laden got from Tora Bora to that house over the last seven or eight years without a single element of the Pakistani state knowing about it just doesn't ring true," said Pakistani journalist Mosharraf Zaidi, who has been reporting in Abbottabad. Pakistani writer Tariq Ali questions how bin Laden could have been living inside a fortified compound within a mile of Pakistan's premier military academy. Watch/Listen/Read |
Keith Olbermann | The Death of Bin Laden | 
Keith Olbermann, FOK News Channel · May 3, 2011 Olbermann comments on the politics of the death of Osama bin Laden, of the end of Sarah Palin's presidential hopes, and about the air being sucked out of Peter King's anti-Muslim congressional hearings. Keith also points out that the search for Bin Laden began and ended with Democratic Presidents. watch here |
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North Texas Democrats : Notes and News | 
Dallas Young Democrats Please join us at our next General Meeting, this coming Tuesday, as we discuss the current legislative session's impact on school funding on both a state and local level, as well as the proposed district maps. May 10, 2011 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM Brooklyn Jazz Cafe /1701 S Lamar St /Dallas, TX 75215 Happy Hour starts at 6:30, and the meeting begins at 7:00. We look forward to seeing you there! PS: Be sure to visit www.DallasYoungDemocrats.org to keep up with our event and meeting schedules! |
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Free Bradley Manning Rally at Leavenworth, KS | 
Saturday, June 4 · 11:30am - 2:30pm Rally to protest the indefinite detention and unconstitutional torture of Bradley Manning. Car pools are being formed in Minneapolis, Texas, Wichita, Tulsa, Kansas City, Colorado. If you can't attend due to transportation, please post here, we'll get you hooked up. Enthusiasm for this event has been amazing in the few short hours since we posted it. We want to get 100,000 people to show up. We'll be coordinating room shares, fo...od, and water, as well as shade sites. We ask that you be open minded about the other people who may attend this event, coming from various personal, political, and religious backgrounds. We are currently drawing up a policy paper asking that people who attend this event do *not* bring: guns, explosives, fireworks, illegal drugs, or other sources of likely disruption. If you feel very strongly that some other items should not be involved in this event, you should feel free to join the MO-KAN support group here on Facebook and make inquiries of the organisers there. Thank you. If you cannot attend, here are some things you *can* do to help. Please invite your friends to this event. Please post a link to this event on your profile, or to a group you are in. Please consider writing a letter to the editor to the Leavenworth, Kansas newspapers: The Leavenworth Times, the Fort Leavenworth Lamp. They are at leavenworthtimes.com and ftleavenworthlamp.com respectively. Be pleasant, say what you believe about Bradley Manning, and let's lay some groundwork in the local community. more info |
Dallas Peace Center: Bin Laden Death A Turning Point | 
DALLAS, TX (KERA) - The Dallas Peace Center says the death of Osama bin Laden gives the Obama Administration an opportunity to change U.S. policy - away from military action. KERA's BJ Austin reports.
Peace Center members say the death of bin Laden closes a painful era for the United States, and creates a new opportunity to really promote peace.
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| The Unwisdom of Elites By PAUL KRUGMAN NYT | 
| The past three years have been a disaster for most Western economies. The United States has mass long-term unemployment for the first time since the 1930s. Meanwhile, Europe's single currency is coming apart at the seams. How did it all go so wrong? Well, what I've been hearing with growing frequency from members of the policy elite - self-appointed wise men, officials, and pundits in good standing - is the claim that it's mostly the public's fault. The idea is that we got into this mess because voters wanted something for nothing, and weak-minded politicians catered to the electorate's foolishness.
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Thom Hartmann | The People's Masters | 
Thom Hartmann, Berrett-Koehler Publishers: "More than two thousand corporations had been chartered between 1790 and 1860. They helped protect themselves from economic disasters by keeping tight control over the economy and the markets within which they operated. In this they echoed the Federalist ideas of Alexander Hamilton and John Adams. Many companies deal with competition by working hard to earn our business, just as Adam Smith - whose 1776 book The Wealth of Nations summarized many economic principles for the founders of this nation - envisioned. But others don't; they feel that the best way to deal with competition is to eliminate it. And, as the East India Company had shown, two ways to do so were by getting the government to grant a monopoly or special tax favors or by crushing or buying out one's competition." Read the Article
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The Dallas Peace Center presents the 2011 Summer Dinner Lecture Series | The Dallas Peace Center presents the 2011 Summer Dinner Lecture Series  Ken Butigan Director, Pace e Bene Another Step toward Mainstreaming Nonviolence When: Thursday, June 9 Where: Margaux's, 150 Turtle Creek Blvd # 202 (facing Irving Blvd.), Dallas For nearly three decades Ken Butigan has worked with social movements and promoted nonviolent solutions to problems in Central America, East Timor, and the U.S. Ken joined the Pace e Bene staff in 1990. He developed and for several years directed Pace e Bene's From Violence To Wholeness program, and was actively involved in creating Pace e Bene's Engage: Exploring Nonviolent Living program. Dallas Peace Center 5910 Cedar Springs Rd. Dallas, TX 75235-6806 214-823-7793 www.dallaspeacecenter.org
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Cenk Uygur | Bin Laden Dead: War Was Not the Answer | 
A lot of people will make the point today that we should leave Afghanistan as soon as possible now that our top goal of going over there has been accomplished. This comes, ironically, eight years to the day after President Bush declared Mission Accomplished in regard to Iraq -- and can anyone remind me what that mission was? We declared two wars to target...
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2011 SPEAKER SERIES FAITH VOICES ON JUSTICE | 
Thursday, May 19, 7pm at Northaven United Methodist Church Rev. Dorothy Budd, Episcopal Deacon, Church of the Incarnation, and author of: Tested: How Ten Wrongly Imprisoned Men Held Onto Hope" Join us at 6pm for a community meal with Rev. Budd and the exonerated. www.DallasChristians.org
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