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Organizing for America's President's Day Phone Bank-tonight | 
Organizing for America - North Texas is going to be having a phone bank on President's Day, February 20th, from 6:00-9:00 pm! This will be an opportunity for you to connect with community organizers and volunteers in Dallas who are working hard to give President Obama the second term he deserves.
We hope you can make it, as we're also going to discuss some of the exciting events OFA - NTX has coming up! It's important to us, just as it is to our President, to give everyone a voice and to organize with them and for them for progressive change.
Bring your friends, bring your neighbors, and bring your cell phones! We're going to be calling to encourage straight-ticket Democratic voting, votes for President Obama, and volunteerism in North Texas. |
Surveillance, Detention and the New Normal The Deteriorating State of the Bill of Rights A Talk by Shahid Buttar | 
Threats to the Bill of Rights have never been more dire. Government secrecy, domestic spying, arbitrary detention, and profiling according to racial, religious, and political stereotypes undermine our Constitution and national security. Whether in the White House or on Capitol Hill, our nation's leaders-Democrats and Republicans alike-have repeatedly disregarded the Constitution. But while our constitutional rights hang by a thread, We the People have the power to restore them. Join us to learn about the issues, connect with neighbors who share your concerns, and discuss what we can do to restore our rights. Saturday, February 25 at 2 pm Central Market Community Room (2nd Floor) 5750 E. Lovers Lane, Dallas (SE corner of Greenville Ave. and Lovers Lane) Map here Sponsors: Bill of Rights Defense Committee, Council on American-Islamic Relations-DFW, Dallas Peace Center, ACLU of Texas, Muslim Legal Fund of America, and Amnesty International Dallas Chapter Flyer here Flyer Contacts: Anne Shuttee 214-237-2922 /Hadi Jawad 214-392-2939 About Shahid Buttar: Shahid Buttar serves as Executive Director of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, a national network mobillizing grassroots action to resist and roll back the national security state. Since graduating from Stanford Law School in 2003, he served on the senior staff of the American Constitution Society for Law & Policy, as well as Muslim Advocates, after a public interest litigation career. Shahid's comments have been featured by news outlets including The Washington Post, The New York Times, USA Today, CNN, al-Jazeera, FOX News, Agence-France Presse, Huffington Post, Truthout, Democracy Now!, and many others, including dozens of radio stations around the country. In addition to his work as a civil rights lawyer and community organizer leading BORDC, Shahid serves on the advisory bodies of several national organizations and coalitions, and also supports populist constitutionalism as an independent columnist and hip-hop & electronica MC. |
Texas Democratic Women of Collin County- Save Texas Schools | 
Save Texas Schools - State of Public Education in Texas is the topic for the next General Meeting of Texas Democratic Women of Collin County. Join us February 27, 2012 at 6:45pm at the Preston Ridge Campus of Collin College, 9700 Wade Blvd Frisco, Texas, Founders Hall, Shawnee Room F148. As always there will be refreshments and time to socialize. Speakers: Michael Messer and Leesa Monroe will discuss the 2011 public education budget cuts. They will focus on the history of the cuts, the effects on the disctricts, and what we can do in the future. Mr. Messer is a graduate of University of North Texas, and currently works as an accountant. Since March 2011, he has been an organizer for Save Texas Schools, and serves on the 2011 Mensa Elections Committee. Mr. Messer is very involved with the issues surrounding the educational system.
Leesa Monroe has worked as a Texas public school employee since 1987, and is currently the Assistant Principle of Nichols Junior High in Arlington. She serves on the steering committee of Save Texas Schools and is an active member of numerous organizations including Texas Association of Secondary School Administrators, Texas Council for Exceptional School Children, and the Nichols PTA |
Democracy Now | 
In a dramatic scene on Capitol Hill, several Democrats walked out of a congressional hearing on the Obama administration's rule that would require health insurance plans, including those provided by Catholic-affiliated hospitals and universities, to offer free contraceptives for health-related issues and birth control. The lawmakers took action after the committee chair blocked testimony from a female witness who supports the mandate. We're joined by D.C. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, who walked out of the hearing, and the witness who was barred from testifying, Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke. Georgetown is a Catholic university whose health plan does not cover contraception. Watch/Listen/Read "Senior ranking U.S. military leaders have so distorted the truth when communicating with the U.S. Congress and American people in regards to conditions on the ground in Afghanistan that the truth has become unrecognizable." That's the assessment of a damning new report by Army Lt. Col. Daniel Davis, who returned in October from his second year-long deployment in Afghanistan and says military officials have misled the American public about how poorly the decade-long war is going. He argues that local Afghan governments are unable to provide the basic needs of the people and that insurgents control virtually all parts of Afghanistan beyond eyeshot of a U.S. base. We speak with Michael Hastings of Rolling Stone, who obtained a copy of the full report and published it last week. Watch/Listen/Read |
Paul Quinn College turns a football field into a farm to end a food desert. | 
The football games ended years ago at Paul Quinn College. The Tigers' purple jerseys were packed away, marking the conclusion of a tradition that dated back almost a century. In 2006, the football program was canceled to save money as enrollment declined and financial troubles mounted at the private, Christian, historically black college in Dallas. Then, in 2010, Michael Sorrell, president of Paul Quinn, had an idea for transforming the struggling college and, at the same time, helping the surrounding community of Highland Hills: Convert the idle football field into an organic farm. The goal was to provide healthy food to a low-income community that has no supermarket. Today Paul Quinn sells produce from the farm to restaurants and to Cowboys Stadium, and offers fresh produce to residents of its South Dallas neighborhood. In the process, read on |
It's Official: Money Now Governs America by Jim Hightower | 
The rich are different from you and me, but the really, really, really rich are also different from the merely rich.Sheldon Adelson, the moneybags who's pumped $11 million so far into Newt Gingrich's right-wing run, made $3.3 million dollars per hour last year. (File). For example, the rich can buy caviar and Champagne, but the Triple-R Rich can buy entire presidential campaigns. Take Sheldon Adelson, the moneybags who's pumped $11 million so far into Newt Gingrich's right-wing run. He has single-handedly kept Gingrich's White House ambitions alive. Without this one guy's money, The Newt would've been long gone. Thanks a lot, Sheldon. read on |
North Texas Democrats : Notes and News | 
Denton County Democratic Party New Volunteer 101: On February 25, we will host a meeting for new volunteers: Landmark Grill in Lewisville, 1297 FM 407 Suite #310 12:00 p.m. (noon) Come prepared to work, because a number of committee chairs and party officials will have projects to work on. North Texas Asian Democrats Monday, February 20 7:30 PM, Hunan Dynasty, 8150 N Macarthur Blvd., Irving Stonewall Democrats of Dallas Tuesday, February 21 6:30 PM, Ojeda's Restaurant, 4617 Maple Ave., Dallas Irving Democratic Club Candidate forum For candidates in the eventual Democratic primary. Tuesday, February 21 7 PM, 228 Chamberlain [Senter Park East Building], Irving
Mid-Cities Democrats Monthly Meeting
Thursday, February 23rd - 7:00PM @ Los Jimadores Tequila Factory /3314 Harwood Road, Bedford TX 76021 (map) Our Guest Speaker is Gilbert Hinojosa, candidate for Texas Democratic Party Chairperson. Mr. Hinojosa will speak on his vision for the future of the Texas Democratic Party. Come early to eat; the meeting starts at 7PM. Grassroots Democratic Coalition Thursday, February 23, 2012 7:30 PM Black Eyed Pea Restaurant /7979 Belt LIne Rd at Coit Rd - Next to Shell Service Station Dallas, TX 75287 Price: $2.00 per person Rowlett Democratic Clubs February Meeting, Reverend Peter Johnson, will be the featured speaker at the Rowlett Democratic Clubs February Meeting, in honor of Black History Month. Reverend Johnson, Civil Rights Leader, and Community Organizer, was a member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference founded by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and became the youngest man on Dr. King's original staff. He will speak to his experiences in the Civil Rights movement and working for nonviolent change.Plan on attending this meeting on Saturday, February 25, 3:30-5:30 PM at Dos Charros Mexican Cantina, 5203 Rowlett Rd., Rowlett 75088. (Please share this post). |
| ADBUSTERS TACTICAL BRIEFING #25 May 1st Chicago | 
Hey you redeemers, rebels and radicals out there, Against the backdrop of a global uprising that is simmering in dozens of countries and thousands of cities and towns, the G8 and NATO will hold a rare simultaneous summit in Chicago this May. The world's military and political elites, heads of state, 7,500 officials from 80 nations, and more than 2,500 journalists will be there. And so will we. On May 1, 50,000 people from all over the world will flock to Chicago, set up tents, kitchens, peaceful barricades and #OCCUPYCHICAGO for a month. With a bit of luck, we'll pull off the biggest multinational occupation of a summit meeting the world has ever seen. And this time around we're not going to put up with the kind of police repression that happened during the Democratic National Convention protests in Chicago, 1968 ... nor will we abide by any phony restrictions the City of Chicago may want to impose on our first amendment rights. We'll go there with our heads held high and assemble for a month-long people's summit ... we'll march and chant and sing and shout and exercise our right to tell our elected representatives what we want ... the constitution will be our guide. And when the G8 and NATO meet behind closed doors on May 19, we'll be ready with our demands: a Robin Hood Tax ... a ban on high frequency 'flash' trading ... a binding climate change accord ... a three strikes and you're out law for corporate criminals ... an all out initiative for a nuclear-free Middle East ... whatever we decide in our general assemblies and in our global internet brainstorm - we the people will set the agenda for the next few years and demand our leaders carry it out. http://www.adbusters.org/ |
Al Franken: You Can Call Me Senator : The satirist and comedian has a new role: statesman | 
Paul Wellstone didn't mind taking unpopular positions. In 1990, his first year as junior U.S. senator from Minnesota, he voted against the Gulf War. President George H.W. Bush's reaction: "Who is that chickenshit?" An equal-opportunity offender, Wellstone was the only Democrat to vote against President Bill Clinton's welfare-reform bill. And when the second Bush administration was rounding up votes for an invasion of Iraq, Wellstone said he heard from Vice President Dick Cheney: "If you vote against the war in Iraq, the Bush administration will do whatever is necessary to get you. There will be severe ramifications for you and the state of Minnesota."
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Keystone XL protests in Texas included a mix of tea party supporters, independents, Democrats, Republicans and even Occupy Dallas protesters. | 
As Congressional Republicans and Big Oil allies allies in Washington try to resuscitate the massive Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, people on the frontlines have opened a new campaign to stop the massive $7 billion project. In Texas, landowners are locking arms to fight would-be pipeline builder TransCanada over eminent domain cases that may determine where the 1700-mile project will be built read on Another great article here at LA Times |
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| Pain Without Gain By PAUL KRUGMAN NYTimes | Last week the European Commission confirmed what everyone suspected: the economies it surveys are shrinking, not growing. It's not an official recession yet, but the only real question is how deep the downturn will be. And this downturn is hitting nations that have never recovered from the last recession. For all America's troubles, its gross domestic product has finally surpassed its pre-crisis peak; Europe's has not. And some nations are suffering Great Depression-level pain: Greece and Ireland have had double-digit declines in output, Spain has 23 percent unemployment, Britain's slump has now gone on longer than its slump in the 1930s.
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The Republican and Democratic Conventions Dates and sites | The Republican and Democratic Conventions After all of the primaries are completed, the major parties gather in a convention to formally nominate their candidates and to establish their party platform. When the primary system was created in the 19th century and well into the 20th century, no one knew for sure which candidate would gain the party's nomination until the convention was completed. In recent times, however, the nominees have been clearly established well before the convention and the conventions have served as opportunities for the parties to present their nominees to the American people. For an introduction to the Republican and Democratic conventions, visit: *NEW* 2012 GOP Convention http://gopconvention2012.com/ Official site of the Republican National Convention (Tampa Bay, FL, August 27-31, 2012). *NEW* 2012 Democratic National Convention Democratic Convention site Official site of the Democratic National Convention (Charlotte, NC, Sept. 3-7, 2012).
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2012 Speaker Series "Faith Voices on Justice" | Co-sponsored by Northaven United Methodist Church and the Dallas Area Christian Progressive Alliance "Let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream." Amos 5:24 Thursday, February 23, 7:00 - 8:45 pm Northaven UMC Sanctuary 11211 Preston Rd, Dallas 75230 Each evening includes presentation, Q&A and small-group networking to share ideas and encourage action Interactive Peace and Justice: Compatibility and Conflict Kelli Obazee Executive Director, Dallas Peace Center . John Fullinwider Educator and Social Activist Rev. Ryan Koch Sr. Pastor, Peace Mennonite Church When strong stands on justice are taken, it can result in alienating those with whom peace and reconciliation are sought. stice leaders experience these issues in the Dallas area, and what specific recommendations do they have for us? How do you make peace AND work for justice? For more information, franbillmc@sbcglobal.net or Matthew-25@earthlink.net
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The Interrupters on Frontline | 
An intimate journey across the violent landscape of our cities through the eyes of those fighting to sow peace and security.
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Urban Sustainable Ecosystem (USE) workshop - at Coppell Comm. Garden | 
Saturday & Sunday, February 25 & 26, 2012 Urban Sustainable Ecosystem (USE) workshop - at Coppell Comm. Garden Transform your property into a sustainable, food producing and eco-friendly habitat! Our workshops feature some of the best and brightest eco-minded enthusiasts in the DFW area. By the end of an Urban Sustainable Ecosystem workshop, students should be able to apply what they have learned on their own homestead. Our students' successful application of these principles will enable a healthy individual, family, community and planet.
Location - Coppell Community Garden
Classes, Information and how to register - http://www.coppellcommunitygarden.org
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Sam Seder on Current TV | 
| Sam Seder denounces state legislators for advancing 'Don't Say Gay' and 'Saggy Pants' bills |
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