Dear nancy, Good Afternoon!
Sometimes I feel like I just have to stop typing ! Wow-- so much going on with all the wonderful debate watching events !
Remember Demtoberfest on Saturday in Denton - more info can be found in calendar section. Read up on school board candidates, in states like Texas these down ballot candidates can be so important and we can really effect change.
Great tool for education and informing in this issue and of course way you can get involved !
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Debate watching parties ! | 
Dallas County The Dallas County Democratic Party Invites you to attend THE FIRST PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE WATCH PARTY This is a FREE event - please join us! We will have great door prizes including Obama 2012 yard signs, Stand Up! teeshirts, and a variety of Obama 2012 buttons, stickers and rally signs. We will also have a photo booth available so you may have your photo made with "The President" courtesy of ShutterBoothDFW.com. We will also have FREE Stand Up! yard signs while supplies last. Don't miss this blockbuster event! Wednesday, October 3, 2012 6:30pm Texas Black Academy of Arts & Letters - Main Auditorium Southwest corner of Canton Street and S. Akard Street Complimentary Popcorn - Cash Bar Lot parking available on east side of Canton Street RSVP today Debate Watching Party Dallas Drinking Liberally Group Wednesday, October 3, 2012 7:30 PM / Bryan Street Tavern /4315 Bryan Street /Dallas, TX 75204 Mid-Cities Dems Presidential Debate Watch Party & FUNdraiser Sponsored by Mid-Cities Democrats Senator Davis will be there at 6:30PM for a VIP Meet and Greet. ALL our guests are VIPs in our book - if you can come early, please do so! Come Join Us! Other elected officials & candidates have promised to stop by, as well. Wednesday, October 3, 2012 6:30PM - 10:00PM at Los Jimadores Tex-Mex and Tequila Factory /3314 Harwood Road, Bedford 76021 Suggested Donation: $20.00 /Free appetizers! Debate starts at 8:00pm come early to socialize and eat before the debate starts! Denton County Presidential Debate Watch Party Wed, October 3, 7:30pm - 9:30pm Where 218 West Oak Street Denton, TX 76201 Description: Meet lots of Democrats as we watch our President Obama rattle sabers with Mitt Romney at The Labb Sports Bar & Grill. We will have yard signs and bumper stickers for a donation. Join us! Lewisville - Mariscos 2000 Seafood 1153 S Stemmons FWY I-35 & Hwy 121 Tarrant County Presidential Debate Oct 3rd Join us for the first of 3 Presidential Debates! This one is happening in conjunction with our local Organizing for America- President Obama's grassroots re-election organization! We will be at the Stagecoach Ballroom in Fort Worth (Just down the street from your TCDP Headquarters!), from 7:30-10PM, the debate will air from 8-9:30 PM. The debate will focus on domestic policy and be divided into six time segments of approximately 15 minutes each on topics to be selected by the moderator and announced several weeks before the debate. The moderator will open each segment with a question, after which each candid ate will have two minutes to respond. The moderator will use the balance of the time in the segment for a discussion of the topic. Donate $5 here
IDEA Guide to 2012 Presidential Debates The International Debate Education Association (IDEA) has published a free 157 page guide to the 2012 Presidential debates. The guide offers detailed overviews and opinion pieces about seventeen issues that could come up during the 2012 Presidential debates. The issues are divided into three categories; Domestic Policy, Foreign Policy, and Economic Policy. Download here |
Dallas Peace Center Fall Dinner Lecture presents A New Civil Rights Movement: From the Great Tradition to the Cutting Edge of Action for Human Rights | 
Thursday, October 4 6:00 PM Recepetion 7:00 PM Dinner 1210 East Belt Line Road Richardson, 75081 Speakers will Include: CAIR Houston Executive Direcor, Mustafaa Carroll The Council on American-Islamic Relations, Houston chapter (CAIR-Houston) is dedicated to presenting an Islamic perspective on issues of importance to the American public. In offering that perspective, we seek to empower the Muslim community in America through political and social activism. CAIR will continue to serve as a leader in the Houston Muslim community, by striving to improve relations between all races, religions and cultures. Rev. Charles L. Stovall From the streets of South Dallas to the voting booths of South Africa, Rev. Stovall has stressed peace and justice in his ministry. Rev. Stovall has been a strong and consistent voice for the rights of society's most marginalized members. Evening's Guest Host - Gloria Tercero Levario, Community Activist For orver 20 years, Ms. Levario has brought diverse groups of people and organizations together to work on achieving shared goals or addressing similar issues. She continues to collaborate with both the Muslim and Peace communities on humanitarian issues. President of LULAC Council 4782 Administration of Justice, Civil Rights and Economic Development Individual Tickets $50.00 or a Table of 10 $450.00 / Student Tickets $20.00 Purchase Tickets HERE |
Democracy Now | 
With less than 40 days to go before the 2012 presidential election, poet and activist Alice Walker reads her new poem, "Democratic Womanism," and discusses her thoughts on President Obama's legacy, including his use of drone strikes. Watch/Listen/Read Democracy Now! premieres The United States of ALEC, a special report by legendary journalist Bill Moyers on how the secretive American Legislative Exchange Council has helped corporate America propose and even draft legislation for states across the country. ALEC brings together major U.S. corporations and right-wing legislators to craft and vote on "model" bills behind closed doors. It has come under increasing scrutiny for its role in promoting "stand your ground" gun laws, voter suppression bills, union-busting policies and other controversial legislation. Although billing itself as a "nonpartisan public-private partnership," ALEC is actually a national network of state politicians and powerful corporations principally concerned with increasing corporate profits without public scrutiny. Moyers' special will air this weekend on Moyers & Company, but first airs on Democracy Now! today. The United States of ALEC is a collaboration between Okapi Productions, LLC and the Schumann Media Center. Watch/Listen/Read |
"Moyers & Company" ALEC Documentary | 
Bill Moyers examined the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) this weekend on his weekly television show "Moyers & Company." The show entitled "The United States of ALEC" will highlight the work of the Madison-based Center for Media and Democracy and its many allies in the effort to expose ALEC's inner workings. ALEC brings together major American corporations and right-wing legislators to craft and vote on "model" bills behind closed doors. These bills include extreme gun laws, like ratifying Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law, as well as pre-approving union-busting legislation, Arizona style anti-immigrant legislation and voter suppression laws that have sparked lawsuits across the nation. The bills are later introduced in state houses across the nation with no mention of their ALEC roots or the role global corporations had in voting on them or crafting them. The organization's agenda is so extreme that in the last few months, 40 major U.S. companies, including Wal-Mart, Coca-Cola, Kraft, and General Motors, have severed ties with ALEC.
Watch full show here
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State Board of Education Voter Guide: 2012 | 
The Texas Freedom Network Education Fund has assembled a nonpartisan voter guide to inform citizens about the positions of candidates for the State Board of Education. All information reported here was provided directly by each candidate or campaign in response to a questionnaire. (The guide includes positions only for candidates who responded to the questionnaire.)
Click on any of the categories below to see where SBOE candidates stand on the issue. You can download and print a full version of the voter guide (PDF) that includes all issues. For more information and breaking news on state board races, visit TFN's SBOE Election Watch page. |
Play the election from Rand McNally | 
Play the Election is a free, collaborative, online tool that teaches students about the 2012 Election and the election process through a series of games, resources and competition. Students predict the election winners for each state on an interactive election map, and compare their predictions to their class and the country to see where they rank. The program also includes eleven digital mini-games that delve deeper into influential and battleground states, like California and Texas, and Ohio and Florida. Play the Election includes thirteen lesson plans that support core concepts to grades 7-12, crafted by expert teachers specializing in government and civics - and all aligned to the core curriculum and state standards. Go here |
North Texas Progressive Book Suggestion | 
The Courage to Hope: How I Stood Up to the Politics of Fear By Shirley Sherrod List Price: $24.99 Price: $15.02 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours BUY HERE Product Description In the summer of 2010, Shirley Sherrod was catapulted into a media storm that blew apart her life and her job doing what she'd done for decades: helping poor, hardworking people live the American dream. She was a lifelong activist who served as Georgia's first black director of rural development. A right-wing blogger, the now late Andrew Breitbart, disseminated a video clip of a speech Sherrod had given to the Georgia NAACP, intending to make her an example of "reverse racism." The right-wing media ramped up the outrage, and before Sherrod had a chance to defend herself, the Obama administration demanded her resignation. Then, after hearing from Sherrod herself and learning the entire truth of what she said in that speech, the administration tried to backtrack. As public officials and media professionals admitted to being duped and apologized for their rush to judgment, Sherrod found herself the subject of a teachable moment. |
North Texas Progressive Calendar | 
Tuesday, October 2: * Irving Democratic Women (6 PM, African Village Restaurant, 3003 N Beltline at Rochelle, Irving) * US Senate Debate Watch & After Party to see Democratic candidate Paul Sadler beat the Repugnant candidate. Complimentary hors d'oeuvres, cash bar. Contribution suggested for the campaign. (6:30 - 9 PM, Dallasite Club, 4822 Bryan at Fitzhugh, Dallas 75204) · October Dallas Dems Meetup Dallas Democrats7:00 PM La Madeleine (Near S.M.U.) /3072 Mockingbird Ln /Dallas, TX 75205 Wednesday, October 3: * HD 115 Candidate Forum at Farmers Branch Chamber of Commerce Mary Clare Fabishak will be attending. (7:30 am to 8:30 am, Luby's Cafeteria, 13455 Midway Rd., Farmers Branch) * First Presidential Debate Watch Party Watch the first debate with hundreds of fellow Democrats. Sponsored by the DCDP. RSVP is required to attend by email to events RSVP AT dallasdemocrats.org. (6:30 pm, Texas Black Academy of Arts & Letters - Main Auditorium, Southwest corner of Canton Street and S. Akard Street [Lot parking available on east side of Canton Street], Dallas) Thursday, October 4: * Tarrant County Young Democrats October Meeting. El Rancho Grande Restaurante The next meeting of the Tarrant County Young Democrats will be this Thursday, October 4th at 7 p.m. This month we will be going back to El Rancho Grande Restaurante, which is located at 1400 N Main St. in Fort Worth. Our guest speaker will be Brian Pendleton, who is the Field Director for the Tarrant County Democratic Party. In the past, Mr. Pendleton has also worked for the Texas Democratic Party and the Democratic National Committee. For more information, please contact us at 817-677-8937 or at president@tcyd.org. Saturday, October 6: * DCDP/OFA Megawalk for Irving (9:30 am meet up, 10 am - 12 noon walk, Meet up location TBD) * BBQ Liberally anyone? Dallas Drinking Liberally GroupSaturday, 7:00 PM Strubel-Scheiner house /Dallas, TX 75220 October 6, 2012 * Demotober Fest Location: 1125 Christopher Lane Lewisville TX 75077 Description: Please join Stonewall Democrats of Denton County, Democracy for America Denton County, & Texas Stonewall Democratic Caucus at the home of Gail Rutledge in Lewisville. Supporting Gary Brown for Texas House of Representatives. TX Stonewall is willing to match up to $550 in donations to support Gary's HD65 campaign. Please help us reach that goal and more so we can support all of our candidates! Sponsor levels $250, $100, $50 per person. Suggested donation to attend $25 per person. Donations go to Stonewall Democrats of Denton County and money will be dispersed by the PAC to Gary Brown. RSVP by ordering your tickets at https://secure.actblue.com/page/demtoberfest. You may also pay by personal check at the door if not using a credit/debit card on ActBlue. If you can not attend and wish to pay by personal check please make it payable to Stonewall Democrats of Denton County and mail it to PO Box 3086 Denton TX 76202 and include a note that it is for this event. Thanks Questions? Please email johntarheel76@gmail.com or call (214) 531-3214 Sunday, October 7: * DCDP/OFA Megawalk for LGBT Precincts (2:30 pm meet up, 3 - 5 pm walk, Resource Center of Dallas, 2701 Reagan St., Dallas) |
| Voting - what you need to know right now ! | 
Register To Vote: easy online process - last day to register Last day to register to vote; Tuesday 10/9 Last day to receive mail ballot request; Tuesday 10/30 - send in by 10/15 Early Voting: Monday 10/22 - Friday 11/2 Register To Vote To vote in Texas, you must be registered. Simply pick up a voter registration application, fill it out, and mail it at least 30 days before the election date. Get your application here. http://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/voter/reqvr.shtml You are eligible to register to vote if: * You are a United States citizen; * You are a resident of the county where you submit the application; * You are at least 18 years old on Election Day; * You are not a convicted felon (you may be eligible to vote if you have completed your sentence, probation, and parole); and * You have not been declared by a court exercising probate jurisdiction to be either totally mentally incapacitated or partially mentally incapacitated without the right to vote. * Are you already registered? To confirm your voter registration status, you may select one of three methods to perform a search: * Your Texas driver's license number, if you provided it when you applied for voter registration; * Your Voter Unique Identifier (VUID), which appears on your voter registration certificate; * Your first and last name. Find out if you are already registered. http://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/voter/reqvr.shtml Help other folks register and vote. Oh, TX, FL and others are making registration and voting more difficult. http://www.dalcoelections.org/nov62012/EVLocations.htm More state information http://www.votexas.org/ Candidate Info League of Women Voters has new site to cover entire USA; http://www.vote411.org League has not published Dallas Voter Guide yet. Still has lots of useful info. Dallas County League of Women Voters isn't just for Women. In 2008 their voter guide was published in Dallas Observer and other papers as a pull out. Good resource to get quotes, bio, background .. from candidates. www.lwvdallas.org League of Women Voters has new site to cover entire USA; http://www.vote411.org/ League has not published Dallas Voter Guide yet. Still has lots of useful info. Dallas County League of Women Voters isn't just for Women. In 2008 their voter guide was published in Dallas Observer and other papers as a pull out. Good resource to get quotes, bio, background .. from candidates. www.lwvdallas.org" Nifty guide thanks to Moonlady News http://moonlady.com |
Democracy Now - Third Party Candidates To Join in Real Time on Democracy Now!'s Live Coverage of First Pres. Debate | 
Third Party Candidates To Join in Real Time on Democracy Now!'s Live Coverage of First Pres. Debate Denver, CO October 03, 2012 | Wednesday | 8:30 pm Central Presbyterian Church 1660 Sherman Street /Denver, CO 80203 As President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney square off in the first presidential debate in Denver on October 3, Democracy Now! will broadcast live from Denver with a special expanded presidential debate from 8:30 to 11:30 p.m. ET. We will air the debate, pausing after questions to include equal time responses from two presidential contenders who were shut out of the official debate: Jill Stein of the Green Party and Rocky Anderson of the Justice Party. http://www.democracynow.org/ |
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| The real Referendum by Paul Krugman for NY Times | 
| Republicans came into this campaign believing that it would be a referendum on President Obama, and that still-high unemployment would hand them victory on a silver platter. But given the usual caveats - a month can be a long time in politics, it's not over until the votes are actually counted, and so on - it doesn't seem to be turning out that way. read on |
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Mitt Romney's Supreme Court Time Machine | 
| Back to the Future with Mitt Romney's Supreme Court Time Machine |
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No Shows: Why So Few Texans Bother to Votet | 
I WAS SITTING IN A COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER in the Houston suburb of Alief trying to get a glimpse of the state's future. Alief is a mostly working-class neighborhood on the western rim of the city. Twenty years ago, Alief was a rural rice-farming community touted as the next big suburb; today it has grown into one of the most racially diverse areas in the state, if not the country. More than 70 percent of Alief's residents are minorities. The area has a huge Latino population as well as a large Vietnamese community. Alief's strip malls are dotted with businesses advertising in Spanish, Vietnamese, Thai and even Arabic. Yet Alief is represented in government, almost entirely, by white Republicans.
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Nominate Peacemaker of the Year ! | Dallas Peace Center 26th Annual Peacemaker Awards Dinner Thursday, December 6, 2012 
Submit your nominations by October 1st for the following categories: Peacemaker of the Year Organization of the Year Media Person of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award Awards are presented annually to individuals and organizations in the DFW Metroplex whose work best exemplify the mission of the Dallas Peace Center: to promote a just and peaceful world through constructive action in reconciliation, education, dialogue and advocacy. Submit nominations by October 1, 2012 to peacemaker@dallaspeacecenter.org or by mail to Dallas Peace Center, 5910 Cedar Springs Rd., Dallas, TX 75235. Nominations should include: Name of nominee Contact Phone number of nominee Description of nominee's work for peace Your name and phone number
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FREE SCREENING - ANGELIKA DALLAS HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE | FREE SCREENING - ANGELIKA DALLAS HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE 
Wednesday, Oct 3rd at 7:00pm YOU AND A GUEST ARE INVITED TO AN ADVANCED FREE SCREENING AT THE ANGELIKA DALLAS. Email me and I will forward you the email to print out northtexasprogressive@gmail.com Synopsis: How to Survive a Plague is the story of two coalitions-ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group)-whose activism and innovation turned AIDS from a death sentence into a manageable condition. Despite having no scientific training, these self-made activists infiltrated the pharmaceutical industry and helped identify promising new drugs, moving them from experimental trials to patients in record time. With unfettered access to a treasure trove of never-before-seen archival footage from the 1980s and '90s, filmmaker David France puts the viewer smack in the middle of the controversial actions, the heated meetings, the heartbreaking failures, and the exultant breakthroughs of heroes in the making.
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Defend Tar Sands Blockade Protesters! | Defend Tar Sands Blockade Protesters! Call: TransCanada Ethics Hotline : 1-888-920-2042 TransCanada Head Office : 1-800-661-3805 
Right now, 9 protesters from the Tar Sands Blockade are sitting in the trees of Winnsboro, East Texas, where they have stopped construction on the Southern leg of Keystone XL for days running. TransCanada has responded with recklessness and bullying -- encouraging police to pepperspray and tase handcuffed protesters, and felling trees just feet from the treesit. There is no excuse for endangering the safety of nonviolent protesters. None. Please call TransCanada and tell them to respect the safety of our friends in Texas. more on how you can join/support other North Texans http://www.facebook.com/TarSandsBlockade What Fascism Looks Like: TransCanada and Brutality in East Texas Also read this
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James Taylor Sings "Romney & Bain" ("Fire & Rain" Parody) - Jimmy Fallont | 
| James Taylor Sings "Romney & Bain" ("Fire & Rain" Parody) - Jimmy Fallon |
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Dallas ISD launches new smartphone app for parents | 
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Great call to get involved with links ! | I received this from Nancy and I thought it was a great example how to reach out an involve folks on your contact list and on Facebook My dear friends, relatives, and acquaintances, I made 10 calls while my grandson was in piano lesson for 30 min. I have been doing my small part to support the Democrats and specially President Obama and VP Joe Biden to be reelected by using a FABULOUS COMPUTERIZED TOOL. You can call any time, anywhere you have signal, a computer and a phone, to any state. I mostly have devoted my calls to Florida (as I used to live there for a few years and am fluent in Spanish). It is such a thrill to reach others who are supporting the Obama campaign too and to help people understand the issues and the barriers to voting that could occur. I encourage ALL OF MY FAMILY AND FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES TO ALSO DO YOUR PART. 
Just set up an account and go: www.Dashboard.barackobama.com You can call any state you wish and the data is saved on the program and you get positive reinforcement for your efforts like: "Way to Go, Keep calling!" I just tell myself, how would I feel if for some WTF reason he LOST, and I had not done all I could've done to get him elected.... let's don't go there.....the time is now to get off our duffs and get to work! Be the Change that You've been waiting for,
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