Dear nancy, Good Afternoon!
Another great newsletter this week ... some fun stuff going on in North Texas from solar cars, to candidate fundraisers, to civil rights lectures ! There is lots going on all over and you are invited !
Tell someone hosting the event when you attend these things that you came because of this newsletter, maybe more groups will sponsor ads !
Check out the Boycott Koch brothers app ! It's almost impossible to buy paper products in US with help or a list and this will be a great help !
Thanks,
Nancy Cunningham
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ACLU Texas recruiting for Community Watchdogs ! | 
What is a community watchdog? A community watchdog: - Pays attention to what's going on in the community;
- Gets involved in the political process;
- Has the skills and know-how to organize others and get decision makers' attention.
The four key aspects of being a community watchdog and launching an effective campaign :gathering information,organizing allies,lobbying policymakers and communicating to the press Whether it's stopping a law that would allow a corporation to build condos in your favorite park, taking a stand against police brutality, or fighting for cleaner air or fair wages in your community, you can make a difference. Sign up to become a community watchdog today!
More info here : http://communitywatchdogtx.org/
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Texas to test 1965 voting rights law in court | 
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Voting Rights Act - a cherished safeguard for minority voters since 1965 - has been under siege for two years and this week faces one of its toughest test on an apparent path to the U.S. Supreme Court. Twenty-five hours of argument, starting on Monday and spread over five days, will help the judges of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia decide whether Texas can require voters to present a photo identification at the polls. Formulated at a time of racial turmoil, the Voting Rights Act passed 77-19 in the U.S. Senate and 333-85 in the House of Representatives. read on |
Democracy Now | 
A Japanese parliamentary inquiry has concluded last year's nuclear meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was "a profoundly man-made disaster - that could and should have been foreseen and prevented." We speak to former nuclear industry executive Arnie Gundersen about the report and what it means for U.S. nuclear facilities, in particular the 23 with a similar design to the Fukushima plant. Watch/Listen/Read WikiLeaks announced today it has begun publishing the Syria Files - more than two million emails from Syrian political figures, ministries and associated companies, dating from August 2006 to March 2012. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange could not attend today's press conference announcing the release of the data trove because he is still inside the Ecuadorean embassy in London in an attempt to avoid extradition to Sweden. Longtime WikiLeaks supporter Glenn Greenwald praises the release of the secret files. Watch/Listen/Read As we discuss the spate of extreme weather in the United States, the author and professor Christian Parenti argues that the Republican-led assault on the public sector will leave states more vulnerable to global warming's effects. We're also joined by The Guardian's U.S. environment correspondent Suzanne Goldenberg and by Jeff Masters, director of meteorology at the Weather Underground website. Watch/Listen/Read |
Want To Boycott Koch Brothers' Products While Shopping? There's An App For That | 
There's a good chance billionaire industrialists and liberal whipping boys Charles and David Koch are making money off your weekly shopping cart. If you've ever bought Brawny paper towels, Angel Soft toilet paper or Dixie cups, you've contributed cash to Georgia-Pacific, a subsidiary of Koch Industries. Koch Brothers: Scott Walker Didn't Get A Dime From Us Clare O'Connor Clare O'Connor Forbes Staff Sheldon Adelson Tops Romney Donor List That Now Includes 32 Billionaires Clare O'Connor Clare O'Connor Forbes Staff Koch Fight! Obama Ramps Up Attack Vs. Billionaire Brothers Clare O'Connor Clare O'Connor Forbes Staff If you've purchased a pair of yoga pants containing Lycra or a Stainmaster carpet, you've indirectly handed the Kochs your money: Koch Industries bought Invista, the world's largest fiber and textiles company, in 2004 from DuPont. read on and download app ! HERE |
North Texas Progressive Book Suggestion | 
The Little Blue Book: The Essential Guide to Thinking and Talking Democratic By George Lakoff, Elisabeth Wehling List Price: $11.00 Price:$9.98 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25. Details
BUY HERE The indispensable handbook for Democrats Voters cast their ballots for what they believe is right, for the things that make moral sense. Yet Democrats have too often failed to use language linking their moral values with their policies. The Little Blue Book demonstrates how to make that connection clearly and forcefully, with hands-on advice for discussing the most pressing issues of our time: the economy, health care, women's issues, energy and environmental policy, education, food policy, and more. Dissecting the ways that extreme conservative positions have permeated political discourse, Lakoff and Wehling show how to fight back on moral grounds and in concrete terms. Revelatory, passionate, and deeply practical, The Little Blue Book will forever alter the way Democrats and progressives think and talk about politics. George Lakoff: How Right-Wingers Scam People Into Buying Their Toxic Philosophy Here is what progressives can learn from right-wing messaging. READ MORE |
North Texas Democrats : Notes and News | 
Tuesday, July 10: * PVL - A New Era (6:30 PM, Thurgood Marshall Rec Center. 5150 Mark Trail, Dallas) * Dallas County Young Democrats (6:30 PM, Zubar, 2012 Greenville Ave., Dallas) * Drinking Liberally Dallas (7 PM, Libertine Bar at 2101 Greenville Ave., Dallas) *Come Celebrate with Lon Burnam! Lon's Final Fiftieth Birthday Party Fundraiser! party is being held Tuesday, July 10th, from 530 to 730pm, at the Fort Worth Botanic Gardens Thursday, July 12: *Paul Sadler Candidate for US Senate Presented by Preston Hollow Democrats and many other area Democratic organizations. (6:30 - 8:30 PM, sanctuary of the Northaven United Methodist Church at the corner of Preston Road and Northaven, Dallas) Friday, July 13th: Drinking Liberally Plano (6:30 pm The Rugby House - back room SE Corner Preston Road and 121) |
| Rachel Maddow's Quiet War | 
Rachel Maddow's Quiet War America's leading lefty wonk has seen the enemy, and it's not just the GOP - it's the battles she fights every day with herself "So just who is Sarah Palin?" This is Keith Olbermann talking, back in the summer of 2008, when the Alaska governor is brand-new to the national scene and Olbermann himself is still in the position he pioneered, as the first great contemporary liberal television pundit, the face of MSNBC. Olbermann, in his smart-aleck way, is introducing Palin to the national in-crowd: "A former beauty queen and runner-up in the Miss Alaska contest, a star point guard who earned the nickname Sarah Barracuda," he says. Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/rachel-maddows-quiet-war-20120627#ixzz209BnwNpL |
8th Annual Summer Dinner Lecture -Thursday, July 12 | 6:00 PM Reception 7:00 PM Dinner Lecture Marc Events -1130 Dragon Street Suite #120 /Dallas, TX 75207 Don't Miss Out-Together We Can Make America As Good As Its Promise You're cordially invited to join us for our 8th annual summer dinner lecture. Civil rights attorney and executive director of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, Shahid Buttar, will be the second speaker in our 2012 Dinner Lecture Series. If you have any questions or need additional information on how to register for the 2012 Summer Dinner Lecture please feel free to reach us at 214-823-7793 or Office@DallasPeaceCenter.org. 
| Shahid Buttar - Protecting the Civil Liberties of Your Community - UMAA Convention 2012 |
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The Winston Solar Car Challenge July 12-19, 2012 | 
Solar Car Challenge was established in 1993 to help motivate students in science and engineering, and to increase alternative energy awareness. The Challenge teaches high school students around the world how to build roadworthy solar cars.
The Solar Education Program provides a safe environment for teams to display their solar cars. On alternating years, we share the fun of the world-famous Texas Motor Speedway or drive cross-country to share their projects with millions of people.
Come share the fun... meet the kids and see their solar cars. For more information click here. http://www.solarcarchallenge.org/chall |
North Texas Jobs with Justice meets Wednesday July 11th | 
North Texas Jobs with Justice meets Wednesday July 11th at 7 PM at 2218 E Main in Grand Prairie. All invited. We're going to show this movie: Koch Brothers Exposed investigates of the 1% at its very worst.
This full-length documentary shows how Charles and David Koch-two of the world's richest and most powerful men-are polluting the environment and bankrolling a vast network of organizations dedicated to serving the interests of large corporations
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| Mitt's Gray Areas
By PAUL KRUGMAN NY Times | 
Once upon a time a rich man named Romney ran for president. He could claim, with considerable justice, that his wealth was well-earned, that he had in fact done a lot to create good jobs for American workers. Nonetheless, the public understandably wanted to know both how he had grown so rich and what he had done with his wealth; he obliged by releasing extensive information about his financial history. But that was 44 years ago. And the contrast between George Romney and his son Mitt - a contrast both in their business careers and in their willingness to come clean about their financial affairs - dramatically illustrates how America has changed
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Who Owns the News Media - interactive database of companies that own news properties in the U.S. | 
News Corp Split, Buffett's Bet Top Year of Big Media Ownership Changes: "According to the investment banking firm of Dirks, Van Essen & Murray, which monitors newspaper transactions, a total of 71 daily newspapers were sold as part of 11 different transactions during 2011, the busiest year for sales since 2007. And newspapers were not the only media to undergo major changes. The last 18 months also saw local television sales reach new heights, the merging of Newsweek and the Daily Beast, Comcast's acquisition of NBC Universal, the Huffington Post's movement into web TV and further reach among U.S. broadcast companies into the Hispanic market. The Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism has compiled a new interactive database to help users make sense of the changes at the highest levels. Who Owns the News Media provides detailed statistics on the companies that now own our nation's news media outlets, from newspapers to local television news stations to radio to digital, and this accompanying summary highlights the major changes of the year."
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Texas Has The Worst Health Care Services In The Nation, Agency Says | 
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A scorecard issued by a federal agency has ranked Texas health care services and delivery as among the worst in the nation. The Agency for Health Care Research and Quality issued the ratings as part of a national review of state health care programs. In nine out of 12 categories Texas rated weak or very weak. The only area where Texas ranked good was in maternal and child health care measures. A spokeswoman for the Texas Health and Human Services Commission did not immediately reply to a request for comment. read on Texas Gov. Rick Perry, in a letter today to Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, will announce his opposition to implementing a health-insurance exchange AND expanding Medicaid. Perry will write : "[W]e in Texas have no intention to implement so-called state exchanges or to expand Medicaid under Obamacare, I will not be party to socializing healthcare and bankrupting my state in direct contradiction to our Constitution and our founding principles of limited government. I stand proudly with the growing chorus of governors who reject the Obamacare power grab. Neither a 'state' exchange nor the expansion of Medicaid under this program would result in better 'patient protection' or in more 'affordable care.' They would only make Texas a mere appendage of the federal government when it comes to health care."
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The Terrifying Texas GOP Platform | 
I named this blog Pragmatic Economics in part because of my desire to avoid politics. That's why my tag line is, "I want to explain how things work, not what you should believe." However, I am so distressed by the 2012 platform released by the Texas Republican Party that I find it impossible not to comment. While I am hardly in agreement with everything forwarded by the Democrats (and have taken aim at President Obama on a number of occasions, especially with respect to his desire to balance the federal budget), it is difficult to believe that what the Republicans put together during their convention in Fort Worth was even written in the 21st century. It is anything but pragmatic. read on Forbes |
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