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Occupy the SEC: Former Wall Street Workers Defend Volcker Rule Against Banks' Anti-Regulatory Push |  Don't fall for the media meme that Occupy is dead or that they are just homeless, anarchists or hippies ... make sure you watch this
The latest offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street movement, Occupy the SEC, has submitted a 325-page comment to the Securities and Exchange Commission that calls on regulators to resist the financial industry's lobbying efforts to water down the Volcker Rule, a section in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, that aims to prevent large banks from making certain kinds of risky, speculative investments. The group is made up of former Wall Street professionals who once worked at many of the largest financial firms in the industry. We're joined by Alexis Goldstein, who worked as a computer programmer for seven years at Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch and Deutsche Bank. She left Wall Street in 2010 and joined the Occupy Wall Street movement soon after the encampment began. Watch/Listen/Read
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This Fracking Map: Activists Plot More Than 100 Drilling Leases on City-Owned Property |  This afternoon, Dallas Residents at Risk, a coalition of of anti-fracking activists, will unveiling their map featuring what they say are more than 100 drilling leases on city-owned land totaling some 1,400 acres. The colorful visual shows that the extent of gas drilling leases in Dallas goes well beyond the eight with pending zoning cases, including five on private property and three on city property -- so far the only locations that have been directly addressed by the city's gas drilling task force, which began the process of updating the city's drilling ordinance in June. The activist group -- which includes representatives from Dallas Area Residents for Responsible Drilling, Dallas Sierra Club, Downwiders at Risk, Earthworks' Oil and Gas Accountability Project, Mountain Creek Neighborhood Alliance and Texas Campaign for the Environment -- will put their map on display in about 30 minutes in the Flag Room at City Hall, shortly before the start of what's scheduled to be the task force's penultimate meeting.
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Democracy Now | 
One of the newly named co-chairs of President Obama's re-election campaign is openly criticizing the President's decision to accept super PAC funds, his record on civil liberties, and his handling of the war in Afghanistan. Former U.S. Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin has described Obama's decision on super PACs as "dancing the with the devil." At the time Feingold was named a campaign election co-chair on Wednesday, the lead headline on his organization's website read: "The President is Wrong." Feingold served in the U.S. Senate for 18 years. During that time, he wrote the landmark campaign finance law, McCain-Feingold. He also opposed the war in Iraq and was the only senator to vote against the USA PATRIOT Act. After he lost his re-election bid in 2010, he founded the organization Progressives United. His new book is called While America Sleeps: A Wake-Up Call for the Post-9/11 Era. Watch/Listen/Read The Associated Press has revealed the New York City Police Department monitored Muslim college students at schools throughout the Northeast, including Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania. In one case, the NYPD sent an undercover agent on a whitewater rafting trip in upstate New York, where he recorded students' names and noted in police intelligence files how many times they prayed. We speak to one of the students on the trip, Jawad Rasul. He is the only student who was under surveillance to now publicly speak out about his experience. We're also joined by Mongi Dhaouadi, executive director of the Connecticut chapter of Council on American-Islamic Relations, which is calling for a state probe into the spying on Muslims. Watch/Listen/Read |
Texas' War on Women Includes Those Transvaginal Ultrasounds |  Texas Director of Health and Human Services Tom Suehs signed into law yesterday a state ban on giving Medicaid funds to any doctor or clinic affiliated with organizations that provide abortion (government funds are already barred from directly funding abortion). The law may shut down the state Women's Health Program, which funds basic health services such as mammograms and Pap smears for over 130,000 low-income Texas women-44 percent of which are provided by Planned Parenthood. Read more
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North DFW 99% (Occupy Wall Street movement) meeting |  North DFW 99% (Occupy Wall Street movement)
Saturday, March 3, 2012 4:00 PM Carrollton Public Library 4220 N Josey Ln # 130 Carrollton, TX 75010
For residents of the northern DFW communities, centered on the Plano / Carrollton area, we hold weekly meetings to support the Occupy Dallas group and to promote the Occupy movement within our communities. If you want to learn more about the movement or just join with others who share your concern about the 1% controlling the rest of us, come check us out! We are building a movement, one relationship at a time.
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North Texas Progressive Book Suggestion |  Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power
By Rachel Maddow List Price: $25.00 Price: $16.24 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25. Details Availability: Not yet published PRE ORDER HERE will ship March 27th Ships from and sold by Amazon.com
"One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier," Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1792. Neither Jefferson nor the other Founders could ever have envisioned the modern national security state, with its tens of thousands of "privateers"; its bloated Department of Homeland Security; its rusting nuclear weapons, ill-maintained and difficult to dismantle; and its strange fascination with an unproven counterinsurgency doctrine.
Written with bracing wit and intelligence, Rachel Maddow's Drift argues that we've drifted away from America's original ideals and become a nation weirdly at peace with perpetual war, with all the financial and human costs that entails. To understand how we've arrived at such a dangerous place, Maddow takes us from the Vietnam War to today's war in Afghanistan, along the way exploring the disturbing rise of executive authority, the gradual outsourcing of our war-making capabilities to private companies, the plummeting percentage of American families whose children fight our constant wars for us, and even the changing fortunes of G.I. Joe. She offers up a fresh, unsparing appraisal of Reagan's radical presidency. Ultimately, she shows us just how much we stand to lose by allowing the priorities of the national security state to overpower our political discourse.
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North Texas Democrats : Notes and News | 
Tarrant County Democratic Party -Social Media Training Mark your calendar for 11:00 a.m., Wednesday, February 29, for the TCDP's social media training at the party headquarters. Help your Tarrant County Democratic Party spread the Democratic values of economic growth, affordable health care, open and accountable government, a secure nation and the protection of civil rights and liberties. R.S.V.P. with Communications Director Kathleen Thompson, kathleen@tarrantdemocrats.org. Tejano Democrats of North Texas Domingo Garcia will be our speaker on the 29th! Come and listen to Domingo as he speaks about the redistricting battle and the plan to get Latino's to the polls in DFW. Latino's make up the Democratic base that we all need to engage! Our new meeting location is at Zorro's Buffet on Wednesday, February 29th at 630 @ 4421 South Freeway 76115 DACED February General Membership Meeting Wednesday 7:00pm until 10:00pm DACED General Membership Meeting February 29, 2012 @ 7pm (come at 6 for networking) at Martinez Restaurant 901 Gross Rd in Mesquite- DACED Welcomes DCDP Chair Darlene Ewing Tarrant County Young Democrats Thursday 7:00pm until 10:00pm The next meeting of the Tarrant County Young Democrats will be on Thursday, March 1st at 7 p.m. This month we will be meeting at Magnolia Motor Lounge which is located at 3005 Morton in Fort Worth. Our guest speaker will be Taylor Holden who is the North Texas Regional Field Coordinator for Organizing for America. We will be holding officer elections at the end of the meeting. For more information, please contact us at 817-677-8937 or at president@tcyd.org Park Cities/Central Dallas Democrats Candidates for Dallas County Commissioner District 1 to Debate at Our March Meeting Democratic Primary Candidates to Debate in Race for County Commissioner Date: March 3rd TIME: 10:30 am to 12:00 pm LOCATION: Oak Lawn Branch Library Cedar Springs at Knight in the parking lot for Kroger http://www.pccdallasdems.org |
| Dallas Democratic Forum: Understanding the Euro Crisis: How It Could Affect Europe, the US and the World with James F. Hollifield, Ph.D |  Director, SMU John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies What are the implications of the Euro Crisis for the future of Europe, the United States and world economies? Come hear about how events in Europe could affect the outcome of the 2012 General Election.
Friday, March 2, 2012, luncheon The Belo Mansion /2101 Ross Ave at Olive /Dallas, Texas 11:30 AM -Registration 12:00 Noon - Luncheon and Program RSVP here (needed by Wed., February 29) 2012 Regular members $25.00 on Paypal Guests $35.00 on Paypal To RSVP by Voice Mail - 214-855-7151 |
Green Source DFW Environmental Leadership Awards | 
Tuesday, February 28, 2012 from 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Dallas Eco-Op 10137A Shoreview Dallas Texas 75234
Memnosyne Foundation presents Green Source DFW Environmental Leadership Awards
Finalists Grass Roots Group or Organization
In-Sync Exotics Wildlife Rescue - Down Winders at Risk- Plano International Festival
Volunteer Josephine Keeney - Katie Jensen - Grace Darling
Entrepreneur Bonnie Bradshaw 91 1 Wildlife LLC - Thomas Kemper Dolphin Blue
Heather Rinaldi Texas Worm Ranch For Profit / Business Professional
Tom Bazzone, Green Living - Grier Raggio, We Consume Too Much - Mitch Fine, Earth NT
You are invited to a reception honoring the finalists and announcing of the winner in each category
Benefiting
Dallas Eco-Op and GreenSourceDFW.org
Attendee $25 Supporter $50 Tax Deductable
Memnosyne Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization
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| Can One Man Change Apple? | 
Physically large and in charge, Mike Daisey's performance style suggests a peculiar combination of the late Spalding Gray and Lewis Black of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He sits at a table on a bare stage with some notes and a glass of water and simply tells his story; at times hysterically funny, at others, poignant, withering and accusatory. Some might find his manner a bit loud and overbearing: the night we were there last fall, media moguls Barry Diller and David Geffen were sitting a couple of rows in front of us and walked out after the first fifteen minutes or so. (Don't try to deny it: we have your ticket stubs.) But maybe it wasn't Daisey's profanity and mild bellicosity that got under their skin and instead, some simple truths. Daisey begins by detailing his own passion for all things Apple ("I am an Apple fanboy, I am a worshiper in the cult of Mac.") and slowly segues into stories from the company's history and its increasing dependence on Chinese labor. Daisey traveled to China to see it all firsthand. read on
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Donate $5 and win chance to attend DNC convention | 
Earlier this month, Vice President Biden invited you to enter to win free airfare and accommodations to join us here in Charlotte for the week of the Convention. We are about half way through our contest and have had a tremendous response already from people who want to join us here in Charlotte. If you haven't had the chance to enter, please take a minute to get registered and support our grassroots movement. Give $5 or whatever you can right now to be entered to be in Charlotte the week of the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte. We are not raising money from corporations or lobbyists. We are building this convention with grassroots supporters just like you. With your help, we will make this the most open and accessible convention ever. Give whatever you can right now -- even if it's just $5 -- and you'll be entered to win airfare and accommodations for the week of the convention.
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Farm to Table Brunch and Silent Auction | At Sundown at Granada
What: Promise of Peace, (POP), Community Garden Farm to Table Brunch and Silent Auction Date: Sunday, March 4, 2012 Time: Door at 10:30am Brunch from 11am - 2:00pm Location: Sundown at Granada 3520 Greenville Avenue Dallas, TX 75206
The Promise of Peace, (POP), Community Garden Farm to Table Brunch and Silent Auction will be held on March 4th at Sundown at the Granada from 10:30 - 2:00pm. It will feature local Chefs Rolo Cantu, Marc Cassel, Billy Cooper, Suzanne Fries, and Sundown at the Granada's Chef Patrick Stark. The chefs have designed a stunning five-course menu that will deliver local goodness to your pallet as you experience the remarkable ambiance at the new Sundown at the Granada, beer garden and restaurant which was recently opened by Mike Schoder. Greenlings will be donating local produce that follows the restaurant's mission to serve locally grown ingredients in their unique menu. This brunch will get some local love on your plate in a most eloquent fashion. A brand new brunch menu from Sundown at Granada is slated for April.
Tickets are $60 and include a five-course menu, a specialty cocktail and gratuity. There are only 50 tickets available. Purchase your tickets at www.granadatheater.com. The silent auction will open at 10:30am. Guests will sip and shop as they are presented with auction items from local artists and entrepreneurs who reflect the efforts of POP as we connect the rich resources in our community.
Proceeds from the Farm to Table Brunch and Silent Auction will benefit the Promise of Peace Garden as it continues to offer its free kids gardening camps and low cost / high nutrition cooking classes this spring. These classes are free on Sunday afternoons beginning April 22n. This spring will be the gardens third Eco Fest on April 15th. Visit www.promiseofpeace.us for more information.
PROMISE OF PEACE COMMUNITY GARDEN
- Where Dreams are Grown! -
Transformation of a vacant lot into a thriving sanctuary
http://www.promiseofpeace.us/
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7446 East Grand, 1 block south of Gaston, near the Spillway, across from Mexico Lindo
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