Dear nancy, Good Morning!
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Great stuff this week join the Stonewall Democrats for a Super Tuesday watching night and then "Bust the Bankers" on Saturday with some fantastic action/ street theatre !
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Autographed Books 1 autographed While America Sleeps: A Wake-up Call for the Post-9/11 Era by Russ Feingold 1 autographed Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right by Thomas C. Frank 1 autographed Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress--and a Plan to Stop It by Lawrence Lessig 1 autographed Here Comes Trouble: Stories from My Life by Michael Moore 1 autographed Toxic Talk: How the Radical Right Has Poisoned America's Airwaves by Bill Press 1 autographed Last hour of ancient sunlight by Thomas Hartmann 1 autographed Air America: The Playbook: What a Bunch of Left Wing Media Types have to Teach you about a World Gone Right by hosts of AAR (chapter written and signed by Sam Seder) 1 autographed The Jerusalem Syndrome: My Life as a Reluctant Messiah by Marc Maron (collector's item) More prizes see them all below |
Women Say: BUST THE BANKSTERS! |  Calling on all women - and men - across the globe to rise up against the big banks that have caused the current economic crisis.
In observance of this INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY, we'll join the collective efforts initiated by Occupy activists, particularly the women-led campaigns of Women Occupy, Public Citizen and Rainforest Action Network, to hold Bank of America - the biggest of the big banks - accountable for the predatory economic policies that are destroying our families and communities. Please join us for a peaceful, nonviolent direct action - a march and demonstration to: BUST THE BANKSTERS! 11:00 a.m., Saturday, March 10, 2012 Inwood Station, 2720 Inwood Rd Dallas, TX 75235 (SW corner of Inwood Rd & Denton Drive, Mapsco 34Q) Gather at the Inwood Station parking lot at 11 a.m. to "get it together" for a street-theater march to Bank of America, 5636 Lemon Ave. Join the Pink Police to "arrest" Bank of America and say: BUST THE BANKSTERS! BUST UP THE BIG BANKS! (Even the Dallas Fed. Chair says too-big-to-fail banks should be broken up!) If you can, wear pink (black pants and a pink top if you think you might want to be deputized). Let's bust out & bust up the banks! WHY? --Women have long been the prime targets of predatory bank policies and economic collapse: women are 32 percent more likely than men to receive sub-prime mortgages and Latina and African-American women borrowers are most likely to receive sub-prime loans at every income level. --Women make up 51% of the world's population but 70% of the world's poor. We perform 66% of the world's work, produce 50% of the food, but earn 10% of the income and own less than 1% of the world's property. --Our work continues to be unpaid, underpaid and undervalued, making us invisible to economic indicators and ineligible for the rewards reaped by the most "productive" members of society. --It's time we turned the tables and started going after the big banks! And what better suspect than the biggest of the big banks - Bank of America? --Bank of America not only leads the pack in illegal foreclosure practices, faulty loans, and tax evasion, it also pillages its customers with exorbitant fees and denies them their right to free speech! Plus, as the official bank of the US military, BofA has been accused of improperly foreclosing on active-duty troops. --Need more reasons? http://www.womenoccupy.org/2012/02/why-target-bank-of-america-on-international-womens-day/ Endorsers: CodePINK Greater Dallas, Dallas Peace Center, Pax Christi Dallas, Occupy Dallas contact: jharris866@aol.com, ttrr@sbcglobal.net More info |
Texas Redistricting and Primary 2012 |  Everything you need to know.
The new primary date in Texas is set for May 29, 2012. For your convenience, we have collected much of the important information about this election on our website. Please see our important blog post about this topic here. |
Democracy Now | 
The U.S. Senate has narrowly rejected an effort to vastly expand conscience exemptions in President Obama's new birth control coverage rule that already allows exemptions for religiously affiliated institutions. The Blunt Amendment, sponsored by Republican Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri, would have let any U.S. employer deny contraceptive health coverage on religious or moral grounds, but it failed in a 51-48 vote largely along partisan lines. In other reproductive rights news, a Virginia bill mandating ultrasound exams for women seeking abortions has cleared its final legislative hurdle and is expected to be signed into law. We speak with Terry O'Neill, president of the National Organization for Women, and Dr. Willie Parker, an abortion provider and board member of Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health. Watch/Listen/Read As presidential hopeful Mitt Romney campaigns ahead of next week's Super Tuesday primary vote, we look at the winners and losers under his proposed tax plan. Romney has vowed tax breaks for all Americans, but a recent analysis by the Tax Policy Center found his plan would mostly benefit the wealthy, while raising taxes on the poorest 125 million Americans. We speak with David Cay Johnston, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who writes about tax issues for Reuters and author of Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You With the Bill). Watch/Listen/Read The whistleblowing website WikiLeaks has begun publishing what it says are 5.5 million emails obtained from the servers of Stratfor, a private U.S.-based intelligence-gathering firm known to some as a "shadow CIA" for corporations and government agencies. The emails were reportedly obtained by the hackers group, Anonymous. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said the files implicate some of the world's largest firms in corporate espionage. Firms with ties to Stratfor include Coca-Cola, Goldman Sachs, Dow Chemical, and sectors of the U.S. government, including the Department of Homeland Security, the Marine Corps and the Defense Intelligence Agency. We speak with Kristinn Hrafnsson, a WikiLeaks spokesperson who has been a key member of the project to release the Stratfor emails. Watch/Listen/Read |
HBO new film Game Change" premieres on March 10th. | 
| HBO Films: Game Change Trailer |
This new HBO film follows John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign, from his selection of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, to their ultimate defeat in the general election. "Game Change" premieres on March 10th.
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Stephanie Miller is the new morning show for Current TV | From Steph...  We are proud and excited to announce that The Stephanie Miller Show will now be video simulcast on CURRENT TV five mornings a week; Mon-Fri from 9am-12N ET or 6am-9am PT. Check your local cable tv provider for listings, see the list below or go to www.current.com Direct TV- Channel 358 Comcast -Channel 107 Time Warner Cable NY- Channel 103 Time Warner LA- Channel 142 Verizon FIOS- Channel 192 AT&T UVerse- Channel 189 *Bill Press will also be telecast on Current Can Current TV Establish Itself as a Real Competitor in Political Broadcast--With or Without Keith Olbermann? Current TV made a rapid switch to progressive political programming--and some big-name talent with big-time personalities that might conflict with what the network wants. READ MORE at Salon |
North Texas Progressives : Notes and News |  Tarrant County Democrats
Tarrant County Push Back Coalition meeting will be Mar 5th, 6 p.m. Please plan to attend and provide your input on the most effective ways that we can "push back" and communicate how our Democratic values will improve quality of life for working people! More info here
ACLU of Texas Monday, March 5:Educate, Don't Incarcerate: Sealing the School-to-Prison Pipeline with Gislaine Williams of the ACLU of Texas. 6:30 -7:30 PM, Central Market Meeting Room, 5750 East Lovers Ln, Dallas Treasurer Stonewall Democrats of Dallas Super Tuesday Watch Party March 6th Tuesday 6:30pm until 9:30pm The Brick & Joe's /2525 Wycliff Ave. Suite #120, Dallas, TX 75219 Please join us for a fun Super Tuesday Watch Party as we jeer or cheer the republicans to continue to bang up their nominees! The large screen will be used to display the results as they come in. Please consider bringing friends, family, coworkers, etc who are not members yet and introduce them to the group! Let them see first hand that Stonewall Democrats are FIRED UP & READY TO GO! For more information please contact Vice President Michael Wetter info@stonewalldemocratsofdallas.org Drinking Liberally McKinney will meet at 6:30 on Thurday, March 8 at The Pub - 204 W. Virginia - in McKinney. North DFW 99% (Occupy Wall Street movement) Saturday, March 10, 2012 4:00 PM Carrollton Public Library /4220 N Josey Ln # 130 /Carrollton, TX 75010 |
| Valentino's Ghost Screening |  A hard hitting 93 minute documentary by Michael Singh Productions, Inc. of Hollywood, CA Sponsored by: North Texas B.D.S.
Dallas Peace Center One Democratic State Angelika Theatre 5321 E. Mockingbird Street, Dallas (inside Mockingbird Station) Saturday, March 10, 6-9 pm 6:00 pm - Program with MC Pervez Malik, Diane Wood, Director Producers Michael Singh and Catherine Jordan 6:30 pm - Valentino's Ghost (93 minutes) 8:00 pm - Discussion Tickets are $10. Seating is limited! Reserve your seats today call Inayat Lalani at 817-504-0636 or Diane Wood at 817-800-4249 The documentary narrates and illustrates, in exquisite but dispassionate detail, the systemic nature of the pervasive negative perception of Arabs and Muslims in America, nurtured in Hollywood and persistently reinforced by other mass media, with special reference to the history of Arab-Israeli conflict and the issues related to America's role in perpetuating it. For the uninformed and naive American public, this documentary may be an eye-opener. At the very least, it would ignite a much needed public debate on the subject. |
North Texas Renewable Energy Group Meeting | 
When: Saturday, March 10, 2012 Time: 10:00 AM to 12:00 Noon Topic: "FIELD TRIP! Want to See How Solar Panels are Made?" Hosted By: 1SolTech, 1920 Diplomat Drive, Farmers Branch, Texas 1SolTech is a leading US manufacturer of quality, cost-effective solar solutions. The March 2012 meeting of the North Texas Renewable Energy Group will be a tour of the facilities of 1SolTech <http://www.1soltech.com/> , manufacturer of solar electric panels. We will not meet at REI on IH635 in Dallas this month only. Instead, here is a map. Please go directly to 1SolTech They are located east of the President George Bush Turnpike, and north of I-635 near Luna Road and Valley View Lane. Meetings and field trips are free and open to the public. Our meeting this month is part of NTREG's ongoing series of member-oriented presentations, where at each meeting, attendees select topics for future meetings. http://www.txses.org/NTREG/events.htm The North Texas Renewable Energy Group (NTREG) was established in 2001 with the primary goal of educating North Texans about the power of renewable energy and Energy Efficiency. |
Attend Embracing Israel/Palestine: A Strategy to Heal and Transform the Middle East Rabbi Michael Lerner Speaks at Dallas Peace Center Spring |  2012 Roger Kallenberg Spring Lecture
Thursday, March 15 6:00 - 7:00 PM Fellowship and Food 7:00 - 8:30 PM Program and Lecture Cost: Adult $35 Student $15 Where:Unity of Dallas /6525 Forest Lane /Dallas, TX 75230 Register today because Rabbi Michael Lerner is coming to Dallas! The Dallas Peace Center's 8th annual lecture event features best-selling author Michael Lerner, PhD, rabbi of Beyt Tikkun synagogue in San Francisco. Rabbi Lerner is the editor of Tikkun magazine, one of the most respected intellectual/cultural magazines in the Jewish world. Rabbi Lerner will examine how the mutual demonization and discounting of Israel's and Palestine's legitimate needs drive ongoing antagonism in the Middle East. He will explore the underlying psychological dynamics that fuel the seeming intransigence on both sides. Lerner speaks to the importance of being both pro-Israel and pro-Palestine, challenges the master narratives in both Israel and Palestine to the extent that they demean the other side, and exposes the false idea that "homeland security" (either for Israel or for the U.S.) can be achieved through military, political, economic, or cultural domination. Lerner argues that real security is best achieved through an ethos of caring and generosity toward "the other" and presents a Global Marshall Plan whose first location would be the Middle East. Click on the link below to register or RSVP. Please feel free to contact us at office@dallaspeacecenter.org or call 214-823-7793 with any questions about the event or how to register. |
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| States of Depression By PAUL KRUGMAN | 
The economic news is looking better lately. But after previous false starts - remember "green shoots"? - it would be foolish to assume that all is well. And in any case, it's still a very slow economic recovery by historical standards. There are several reasons for this slowness, with the most important being the overhang of household debt that is a legacy of the housing bubble. But one significant factor in our continuing economic weakness is the fact that government in America is doing exactly what both theory and history say it shouldn't: slashing spending in the face of a depressed economy. read on | |
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Occupy Lubbock : Occupiers in Conservative Texas City Have Support of Mayor, Some Tea Partiers (Video) | 
| Occupy Lubbock 2012 |
William John Cox, Truthout: "Although protesters have been driven from their peaceful occupations of almost every location across the nation, including Wall Street, Los Angeles, UC Davis and Oakland, they have managed to hang on at a busy intersection across the street from Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, one of the most conservative cities in the country." Watch the Video and Read the Article
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PETITION: TELL RICK PERRY TO REVOKE RUSH LIMBAUGH'S STATUS AS AN "HONORARY TEXAN" | 
Rush Limbaugh called Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown law student who was asked to testify at the "No-Girls-Allowed" Congressional hearing Republicans held about women's health, a "slut" and a "prostitute" and went on to say that, "if we're going to pay for your contraceptives and thus pay for you to have sex, we want something for it. We want you to post the videos online so we can all watch." There is nothing Texan, and nothing honorable, about these comments. Tell Rick Perry to revoke Rush Limbaugh's status as an "Honorary Texan."
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Join the Occupy Dallas Culture Committee for an art show and live music! | 
Sunday, March 11, 2012 6:00pm until 9:30pm The collective artwork of the Occupy Dallas Culture Committee. ART OPENING IS AT 6PM WITH BANDS STARTING AT 8:30 Music performances by: UNCONSCIOUS COLLECTIVE (Dallas Shamanic Rock) DOGGEBI (Improv. Flute/Percussion Duo from Houston) CHAIRS (Noisy chaos rock from Houston) LOIC BEARTRAND (Circuit bent electronic from Paris, France) Art opening at 6 pm. Bands at 8:30 pm OPEN BAR, 21 & UP, BYOB $10 at the door.
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Texas sonogram law has some patients unhappy | 
Texas sonogram law has some patients unhappy Women seeking abortions at Whole Woman's Health in south Fort Worth often arrive upset or angry about Texas's new sonogram law, which began being fully enforced three weeks ago, a health center official says. Some are unhappy about the requirement that the physician verbally describes the fetus during a sonogram. But it's the hardship of having to schedule two appointments - one for the sonogram and another for the surgery no fewer than 24 hours later - that draws the most consistent ire.
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