Dear nancy, Good Morning!
Fire up the television and make sure you watch a couple of great upcoming programs, watch HBO's Too Big to Fail and PBS's Freedom Riders.
You can also attend a Drinking Liberally get together and read some articles you may have missed.
Thanks,
Nancy Cunningham
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America Held Hostage -By PAUL KRUGMAN | 
Six months ago President Obama faced a hostage situation. Republicans threatened to block an extension of middle-class tax cuts unless Mr. Obama gave in and extended tax cuts for the rich too. And the president essentially folded, giving the G.O.P. everything it wanted. Now, predictably, the hostage-takers are back: blackmail worked well last December, so why not try it again? This time House Republicans say they will refuse to raise the debt ceiling - a step that could inflict major economic damage - unless Mr. Obama agrees to large spending cuts, even as they rule out any tax increase whatsoever. And the question becomes what, if anything, will get the president to say no. The debt ceiling itself is a strange feature of U.S. law: since Congress must vote to authorize spending and choose tax rates, why have a second vote on whether to allow the borrowing that these spending and taxation policies imply? In practice, however, legislators have historically been willing to raise the debt ceiling as necessary, so this quirk in our system hasn't mattered very much - until now. read on |
Democracy Now | 
also :Democracy Now! to Launch Smartphone-Friendly Website Singer-songwriter, actor and author Steve Earle joins us in the studio to talk about his art and perform two songs from his new album, I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive. He is being awarded an honorary degree today from the City University of New York School of Law. Last year, he was honored by the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty for his years of involvement with the anti-death penalty movement. Watch/Listen/Read Senate Democrats have reintroduced the DREAM Act for the first time since Republicans blocked its passage late last year. Under the measure, immigrant youth would obtain permanent residency with a chance for citizenship, provided they attend college for at least two years or enlist in the U.S. military. We speak to Democratic Rep. Luis Gutierrez of Illinois, chair of the Immigration Task Force of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. Watch/Listen/Read As the Obama administration continues to engage in military operations abroad, we turn to the making-and sustaining-of war from a historical perspective. How do politicians galvanize populations to support wars? Why do people continue fighting in unpopular conflicts even after nationalist fervor has waned? In his new book, the historian Adam Hochschild examines these questions and many others through the prism of one of the world's bloodiest conflicts, World War I. The book is called To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918. Watch/Listen/Read |
Al Franken Holds Hearings on Smart Phone Privacy | 
Minnesota Senator Al Franken is currently hearing testimony on mobile privacy, after hearing that both Apple and Google-backed smart phones carry location tracking data in unencrypted forms. The hearings are underway as Congress considers legislation on location-specific smart phone data, Reuters reports. Franken said he was looking for a balance between privacy considerations and the benefits ... read on. |
Faith Seeking Understanding: The Death Penalty Sunday, May 29th 12:15-2:00 pm | 
Faith Seeking Understanding: The Death Penalty Sunday, May 29th 12:15-2:00 pm Fellowship Hall, First United Methodist Church of Hurst, 521 W. Pipeline Road, Hurst (south side of Pipeline between Brown Trail and Precinct Line) Divine Connection Sunday School Class welcomes Dr. Rick Halperin, distinguished scholar on human rights and death penalty matters. SMU Adjunct Lecturer of History, Professor of the Practice of Human Rights and Director of the Human Rights Education Program. Dr. Halperin earned both a PhD and MA in Southern U.S. History at Auburn and SMU, respectively. He has been involved in the effort to abolish the death penalty in the United States for over 30 years and is former chair of Amnesty International USA. He works with capital defense attorneys, communities of faith, victims' rights groups, families of the condemned, and many death row inmates throughout the country. You will not want to miss his presentation and the opportunity to dialog with him on this important topic. Guests are welcome. Box lunches available for $6. Childcare with reservation. Call Susie Stonecipher at 817-481-6707 or merasuph.jr@verizon.net for information and to reserve a lunch. |
North Texas Progressive Book Suggestion | 
The Audacity of Greed: Free Markets, Corporate Thieves, and the Looting of America By Jonathan Tasini BUY HERE List Price: $15.95 Price: $10.85 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25 Product Description "Jonathan Tasini is one of the country's premier labor writers. Not just a reporter, he brings a wealth of firsthand, frontline, experience to every issue he tackles."-Barbara Ehrenreich "This is must reading for anyone who wants to know how we got us into this financial mess-and what it will take to get out of it."-Katrina vanden Heuvel |
North Texas Democrats : Notes and News | 
Dallas County Democrats Precinct Chair Training May 18 There will be another session of Precinct Chair Training on Wednesday, May 18, from 6:30 to 9 PM, at the Pleasant Grove Eastfield Campus, room 108, 802 S. Buckner, Dallas. For more information please call the party office at 214-821-8331. Dallas County Democrats Picnic with Lake Highlands White Rock Democrats May 21 The Lake Highlands White Rock Democrats will hold their annual picnic on Saturday May 21, at 11 AM, at the Flag Pole Hill Pavilion, Northwest Hwy and Buckner, Dallas. There will be legislative update; hotdogs, chips, and drinks provided. Bring your favorite side or dessert to share. Spirited conversation on upcoming elections. Pick up voter information. $5 donation requested [kids 12 and under no charge]. Stonewall Democrats Denton May 26, 7:00 Banter Restaurant /219 W. Oak St. /Denton, 76201 Democracy for America Denton June 1, 7:00 Chilitos Mexican Restaurant / 619 S. Denton Dr. / |
| Drinking Liberally Addison This Thursday | 
Thursday May 19th starting at 6pm at The Quarter, 15201 Addison Rd in Addison. We'll be on the patio, weather permitting. Join your fellow liberal drinkers for some political discussion. New mayor of Dallas. New and old city council people? Maybe some school board stuff. Any and all will be on the plate of topics. Come hang out with the longest continuously running chapter in DFW. |
Fracking chemical disclosure bill passes Texas House | 
Fracking chemical disclosure bill passes Texas House The Texas House gave tentative approval Wednesday to a bill requiring natural gas drillers to publicly disclose the chemicals they use in the controversial practice known as hydraulic fracturing.
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HBO' s "Too Big to Fail" the movie, debuts May 23 on HBO! | 
Major stars pack the upcoming film version of Andrew Ross Sorkin's best-seller "Too Big to Fail," but Charlotte viewers will find their hometown banks to be minor characters. The movie, which debuts May 23 on HBO, focuses mostly on the Washington officials who scrambled to save the financial system in the fall of 2008, according to a copy previewed by the Observer. Much of the drama revolves around the demise of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.
Read more: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/05/13/2292494/too-big-to-fail-coming-to-hbo.html#ixzz1MX1fQYHS
http://www.hbo.com/movies/too-big-to-fail/index.html |
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| 6 State Battlegrounds in the Right-Wing War Against Teachers, Firefighters, Caregivers and the Entire Middle Class by Jim Hightower | 
Our nation has devolved into a new and nasty civil war, with moneyed elites now charging into legislatures and courts to establish themselves as a de facto plutocracy. You're not likely to have known Robert Clark, Ruth West, Chet Newall, Webb Kamp, or Darrell Odom, but I wouldn't be who I am without them. And you might have a similar honor roll of those who spurred, inspired, lured, intrigued, goaded, and otherwise motivated you to do more than you might otherwise have done -- a list of your special public school teachers. The junior-high, senior-high, and college teachers on my list largely sparked my lifelong interests in language, history, politics, and how (and for whom) government really works.
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Freedom Riders May 16th PBS- tonight! | Freedom Riders May 16th PBS 
FREEDOM RIDERS is the powerful harrowing and ultimately inspirational story of six months in 1961 that changed America forever. From May until November 1961, more than 400 black and white Americans risked their lives-and many endured savage beatings and imprisonment-for simply traveling together on buses and trains as they journeyed through the Deep South. Deliberately violating Jim Crow laws, the Freedom Riders met with bitter racism and mob violence along the way, sorely testing their belief in nonviolent activism. Commentary: The courage of the Freedom Riders When he was 21, Ernest "Rip" Patton made out his will. He didn't have much beyond an old set of drums he used in the jazz club gigs that helped him pay his way through college. He willed them to his parents, then climbed aboard a freedom bus bound for Jackson, Miss.
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Michael Moore, Ken Burns Tapped As Contributors For Keith Olbermann's Current TV Show | Michael Moore, Ken Burns Tapped As Contributors For Keith Olbermann's Current TV Show 
Countdown will return to TV on Current June 20, and host Keith Olbermann is lining up a stable of contributors to appear regularly on the program. TVNewser has learned that filmmaker Michael Moore, documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, comedian Richard Lewis, Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas, and National Association of Free Clinics executive director Nicole D. Lamoureux are among those on board. Adweek: The lineup of contributors is no minor announcement, since they serve as a backbone of his show format.
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Sam Seder- Majority Report | You are listening every day aren't you ??
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