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Help Recall Scott Walker in Wisconsin - you can work tonight and tomorrow from right here in Texas !! |  Joan wrote .. I'd like to sponsor Monday's newsletter or place an ad for
the WI recall of Scott Walker. We can help with GOTV canvassing and phone banks.Both MoveOn and DFA have national phone banking going on to reach voters in Wisconsin..... Republicans are going all-in for right-wing Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. Walker's campaign has already spent $21 million trying to whitewash his record of attacking middle class families. The RNC says they'll spend whatever it takes to win. And Super PACs are spending millions trying to tear Democrats down.
They're drowning us in attack ads, but the polls haven't moved an inch. We were neck and neck six months ago, and we're neck and neck today. There are virtually no undecided voters left, so it all comes down to Getting Out The Vote. Whoever best turns out their base will in.
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Democracy Now | 
The Justice Department has ordered Florida, a likely key swing state in the 2012 election, to end a controversial voter purge that has primarily targeted Latino, Democratic and independent-minded voters. The Justice Department says the process had not been cleared under the Voting Rights Act. We speak with Rep. Ted Deutch (D-FL); Diana Sen, lead counsel for LatinoJustice, part of a coalition of civil rights groups working to protect Latino voters in Florida and elsewhere; and Maureen Russo, a Fort Lauderdale resident who was among the voters initially purged even though she is a U.S. citizen who has voted for the past 40 years. Watch/Listen/Read The Labor Department has just announced the United States economy gained only 69,000 jobs in May and the unemployment rate rose to 8.2 percent. We air part two of our interview with Academy Award-winning director Charles Ferguson, who first examined the network of academic, financial and political players who contributed to the nation's financial crisis in his documentary, Inside Job. In his new book, Predator Nation: Corporate Criminals, Political Corruption, and the Hijacking of America, Ferguson draws on newly released court filings to continue his investigation. Watch/Listen/Read The Carter Center was one of three international organizations accredited to witness Egypt's historic presidential election last week. Its mission was led by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. Two days before the official election results were announced, Democracy Now! correspondent Sharif Abdel Kouddous interviewed President Carter in Cairo about the landmark vote. He also discusses the role of the military in post-Mubarak Egypt and the Camp David Accords. Watch/Listen/Read |
Human Rights DocU Weekend -Three Film Screenings |  In partnership with The Texas Theatre, Human Rights Watch, DALLAS Film Society and The Embrey Human Rights Program at SMU HERE
Please go to http://thetexastheatre.com for more information and to purchase tickets. This encounter between a team of Canadian intelligence agents and a child detainee in Guantánamo has never before been seen. Based on seven hours of video footage recently declassified by the Canadian courts this documentary delves into the unfolding high-stakes game of cat and mouse between captor and captive over a four day period. Maintaining the surveillance camera style this film analyzes the political, legal and scientific aspects of a forced dialogue.' $25 for all 3 tickets, $20 for all 3 tickets for senior citizens, then $10 for individual (1 movie) and $7.50 for senior citizen individual tickets. |
Don't spend your money with the Right Wingers working for and funding the Romney campaign |  It's time to stop doing business with right wing freaks - we need to change our spending habits and stop shopping and enriching right winger billionaires who are working against their middle class customers.
Change brands, eat somewhere else ! Don't support the RWNJ! Perry Homes ( Texas) /New Balance Shoes /Domino's Pizza Papa Johns/ Marriot Hotels /Koch brothers ( Angel Soft, Quilted Northern, Soft n Gentle, Brawny, Dixie plates, Sparkle, Vanity Fair and Zee ) Read on "Right Wing Billionaires behind Romney" here "Urban Outfitters loves Mitt "here "Romney at pizza tycoon's home" here |
North Texas Progressive Book Suggestion |  Visit Sunny Chernobyl: And Other Adventures in the World's Most Polluted Places
By Andrew Blackwell List Price: $25.99 Price: $16.80 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25 BUY HERE
Equal parts travelogue, expose, environmental memoir, and faux guidebook, Blackwell careens through a rogue's gallery of environmental disaster areas in search of the worst the world has to offer-and approaches a deeper understanding of what's really happening to our planet in the process.
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| Dallas area activists protest ExxonMobil shareholders for rejecting LGBT employment protections |  ExxonMobil shareholders have again voted down a proposal to add gay and transgender employees to the Irving-based corporation's nondiscrimination policy.
Meeting at the Meyerson Symphony Center in the Dallas Arts District, the ExxonMobil shareholders voted 80 percent to 20 percent Wednesday morning against a resolution asking the corporation to amend "its written equal emplo yment opportunity policy to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity and to substantially implement the policy." The proposal has been introduced each year since Mobil and Exxon merged in 1999. The highest level of support came in 2008 at nearly 40 percent. read on
'Billionaires' In Spotlight at Exxon Mobil Protest read on here
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Online Progressive Radio and Video shows/podcasts |  The purpose of the Progressive Information Project is to more widely share resources and information created to advance progressive causes. A lot of good work is being done, but the average progressive often doesn't learn about it or know what is available. This series is designed to help alleviate that problem.
This week's post is very simple-it's an attempt to round up all of the online progressive radio shows, podcasts, and video shows that are regularly produced. See them all here and here |
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| This Republican economy by Paul Krugman NYTimes |  What should be done about the economy? Republicans claim to have the answer: slash spending and cut taxes. What they hope voters won't notice is that that's precisely the policy we've been following the past couple of years. Never mind the Democrat in the White House; for all practical purposes, this is already the economic policy of Republican dreams.
Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times So the Republican electoral strategy is, in effect, a gigantic con game: it depends on convincing voters that the bad economy is the result of big-spending policies that President Obama hasn't followed (in large part because the G.O.P. wouldn't let him), and that our woes can be cured by pursuing more of the same policies that have already failed.
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Nick Hanauer on His Banned TED Talk & Why the Middle Class are the Job Creators on with Sam Seder | 
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The Sunlight Foundation Will Save Your Politicians' Embarrassing Tweets For History | 
For as long as politicians have been using Twitter, politicians have been embarrassing themselves on Twitter. This is because they're mostly dimwits who have only gotten where they've gotten in life because smarter people purchase them with special interest money, point them to where they can buy turd polish by the vat on Amazon and teach them how to lather up. read on
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Libertarian Party of Texas 2012 Convention in North Texas this week | FYI- For three days in June a phalanx of Libertarians will (peaceably, voluntarily, non-coercively) invade Ft. Worth and occupy the DFW Airport Marriott South Hotel for the purpose of executing the Libertarian Party of Texas State Convention. Resources: Official website: LP of Texas website
Last minute changes and additions: Convention Facebook page
Daily schedule: Tarrant County Libertarian Meetup Libertarian Party of Texas 2012 Convention June 8-10, 2012 DFW Airport Marriott South 4151 Centreport Blvd, Fort Worth, Texas
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Could Latino Voters Turn Deep-Red Texas Democratic by 2020? | Could Latino Voters Turn Deep-Red Texas Democratic by 2020? 
Some Republicans worry that the party, which goes to the polls Tuesday, could suffer from alienating the state's fastest-growing demographic. JASON MARGOLIS
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