Dear nancy, Good Afternoon!
I love doing the holiday newsletters ! I love posting the wonderful parties and charity events of local progressive and Dem groups ! Check out these below - consider yourself invited!
Wonderful local rallies at WalMart over Black Friday and TARA rally this week !
Spend your holiday $$ carefully maybe have a " no gift holiday" or make something homemade!
Thanks,
Nancy Cunningham
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Very successful Wal-Mart employee rallies on Black Friday | 
* Dont think this didn't happen or that it didn't happen in Dallas (NTX) because your didn't see it on local news .
Wal-Mart employees and supporters rally at Dallas-area stores
More than an hour before protesters arrived Friday at the Wal-Mart Supercenter in Lancaster, a handful of security and sheriff's officers as well as several managers stood watch outside.
read on 
| Wal-Mart Worker Uprising: Protests Held At 1,000 Stores on Black Friday |
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Texas Alliance for Retired Americans event | 
Next Saturday, December 1 from 1:30-4 pm, Texas Alliance for Retired Americans will join with a number of other groups for the Move-On sponsored rally, "We The People Have Spoken". We feel that the election was a referendum on a number of issues facing decisions in the Lame Duck Congress and we must make our views clear to our representatives. Seniors could be severely impacted by these votes. Cong. Pete Sessions has been named Chair of the powerful House Rules Committee and we are set to rally at his office to make our voices heard! Please join us! Meet at the old Dart Parking Lot at Coit Road and Churchill Way to march to Sessions' office at 12750 Merit Way. Hobie Hukill will speak on "The Fiscal Cliff" and our President Gene Lantz will speak on "Hands off Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid!" Please mark your calendars for Monday, December 10 from 4-6 pm when we will rally in front of Sen. John Cornyn's office on Spring Valley. An email with complete details and a map will be sent out next week. |
Democracy Now | 
Commemorations are being held across the country this year to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of one of the country's greatest songwriters, Woody Guthrie. Born on July 14, 1912, in Okemah, Oklahoma, Guthrie wrote hundreds of folk songs, including, "This Land Is Your Land," "Pastures of Plenty," "Pretty Boy Floyd," "Do Re Mi" and "The Ranger's Command." While Guthrie is best remembered as a musician, he also had a deeply political side. At the height of McCarthyism, Guthrie spoke out for labor and civil rights and against fascism. In this one-hour special, you will hear interviews and music from folk singer Pete Seeger, the British musician Billy Bragg, and the historian Will Kaufman, author of the new book, Woody Guthrie, American Radical. Watch/Listen/Read |
Progressive Holiday Gift Giving | 
Buy Nothing Christmas from Adbusters . . . for generations, Christmas has been hijacked by commercial forces . . . this year, why not take the season back? Have a heart to heart with your family and decide to celebrate Christmas differently this year. Take the plunge: grab posters and Buy Nothing Xmas gift exemption vouchers here. Buy Nothing Xmas / wonderful Voucher Tarrant County Urban Homesteading Community Wreath Workshop Thursday, November 29, 2012 7:00 PM 1616 West Abram Street, Arlington, TX Leigh Cain will be our craft leader in this workshop. We will be making wreaths from natural and other materials. I have plenty of rosemary I'll be bringing! Leigh is putting together a list of materials we need, so bring a set of materials and something to snack on and we'll have a fun craft evening! For those bringing their own plant material, you'll want to cut i t in 6 to 12 inch branches. Cut it not too long before the event so it can remain green and bendy. A day or two before should be fine. Optional extras: Fabric for bows, small branches with berries, pine cones, etc. Any questions? Just let me know!" RSVP here |
Local Progressive Holiday events | 
Friday, November 30th Democratic Party of Collin County-"Final Friday" Social Event 6:30 - 9:30 p.m. The Pub in McKinney /204 W. Virginia St /McKinney, TX 75069 The Pub Has a Full Menu & Bar Come Hang Out With Us! Saturday, December 1: North Dallas Texas Democratic Women Holiday Party NDTDW will provide the meat and vegetarian main course and beverages, and we ask that your guests bring a dish based upon the first letter of their middle name: A-F = Salad, G-L = Appetizers, M-R = Dessert, S-Z = Vegetable or Starch Side Dish. We already have plenty of salsa, various types of chips and crackers, so please do not bring any of those! We will be gathering Unwrapped Toys for Donation to the North Dallas Shared Ministries. We are also repeating our Silent Auction. If you have items you wish to donate to the auction, please contact Lenna Webb. Items added will display at www.nddw.org. Even if you cannot attend the party, you will be able to submit your "opening and closing" bids and one of our board members will keep track of the bidding for you. All Democrats are welcome. RSVP is required by November 28th to Lenna Webb 972-732-7712 or by email to msnilknarf22 AT att.net. (6 PM, 17201 Hidden Glen Drive, Dallas) Sunday, December 2 : The Snowball Express is hosting a visit to Fort Worth for over 1,700 family members who have lost a loved one in military service. The Northeast Tarrant County Democrats are participating by welcoming the bus convoy with banners and signs of support and cheering. We'll meet at El Asadero, one of the best Mexican food restaurants in Fort Worth. It will be fun and it is a nice way to start the holiday season. what: Welcome the Snowball Express when: Sunday, Dec 2, 10:00 am for the convoy where: El Asadero Restaurant, 1535 N Main St, Fort Worth, TX website: http://fortworthtexas.gov/citynews/default.aspx?id=104322 contact: Mark Bauer mbauer@coltsoft.com (817)939-5671 |
| Texas Student's ID Protest Goes to Court | 
Andrea Hernandez probably didn't think her Christian beliefs would cause a problem at her San Antonio, Texas, high school. But when she refused to wear a school ID badge implanted with an RFID tracking chip on grounds that it signified the Mark of the Beast (from the biblical Book of Revelation), she sparked a court battle and prompted discussions about how far schools should go in keeping track of their students. Hernandez, who was initially told she would be expelled from her magnet school on Monday if she continued her refusal, was granted a temporary restraining order allowing her to attend classes pending further hearings next week. Read it at BBC |
Benifits of fracking touted at new Perot Museum | 
Fracking at front and center in Perot Museum's energy hall A giant drill bit is on display in the Tom Hunt Energy Hall at The Perot Museum of Nature and Science. Visitors to Dallas' new Perot Museum of Nature and Science can study a video display about geological history before they enter the Tom Hunt Energy Hall. That's appropriate. Once they enter the hall, they'll be dunked, figuratively, in the products of that geology, oil and gas - especially the natural. read on DMN here Sierra Club readies for public comments Live near by fracking/gas/well operations? Having issues? Report them to Sierra Club The Sierra Club and others are working with national organizations who are preparing to give comments and info to EPA regarding those who are affected/or live near by fracking/gas/well operations. For those who live near these operations, we need your input. In your comments to John, I think it would be important to mention where you live in proximity to a well (or several), if you know who the operator is, approximately when these operations started, and what your experience/or possible health affects and quality of life have been. Describe where the well/or wells are in relation to your house. He would also need your contact info. John Rath of the Sierra Club has agreed to be the point person on this project. Contact John jrfree49@yahoo.com as soon as you can for details as he needs to collect this info within the week or no later than Sunday. http://www.nctca.net/home.html |
Mid-Cities Democrats meeting | 
Our November meeting will be held Thursday, November 29, 2012 due to Thanksgiving this week! It is VERY important that you attend this meeting as we will be voting on new officers. We do not have a guest speaker this month. The meeting will begin at 7pm - please come at 630pm if you plan on eating! Thanks! We will meet at Los Jimadores Tequila Factory, 3314 Harwood Road, Bedford 76021 (map) |
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| Fighting Fiscal Phantoms By PAUL KRUGMAN NYTimes | 
see image large here These are difficult times for the deficit scolds who have dominated policy discussion for almost three years. One could almost feel sorry for them, if it weren't for their role in diverting attention from the ongoing problem of inadequate recovery, and thereby helping to perpetuate catastrophically high unemployment. What has changed? For one thing, the crisis they predicted keeps not happening. Far from fleeing U.S. debt, investors have continued to pile in, driving interest rates to historical lows. Beyond that, suddenly the clear and present danger to the American economy isn't that we'll fail to reduce the deficit enough; it is, instead, that we'll reduce the deficit too much. For that's what the "fiscal cliff" - better described as the austerity bomb - is all about: the tax hikes and spending cuts scheduled to kick in at the end of this year are precisely not what we want to see happen in a still-depressed economy. read on | |
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Inauguration Events tickets on sale now ! | 2013 Presidential Inauguration Bus Trip The bus leaves Austin at 3 AM, Saturday, January 19, gets to Dallas at 6 AM, then heads to Washington, D.C. It will return Tuesday, January 22, 2013 about 12 AM. The bus fare and one night's hotel stay are $300. Get more details and contact information at this page. 2013 Inauguration Chicken & Waffle Swearing in Brunch For those not attending the inauguration in Washington. If you remember, over 450 attended in 2009. This year, 2013, all attendees must be prepaid at $20.00 each (no refunds). Only 350 tickets are available. There will be singing, fellow-shipping and fun for all. We are waiting for the final time of the inauguration. For more information please contact Edna Pemberton by email to ednapemberton AT yahoo.com.
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World's Aids Day - Dallas events | World's Aids Day Main Street Garden-Downtown Dallas Saturday, December 1, 2012 3:00pm - 6:00pm Get Involved For more information about becoming a sponsor or partner, please contact Travis Gasper, 214.943.4444, tgasper@aidsinterfaithnetwork.org more info here 2nd Annual Red Dress Party! for World AIDS Day - benefiting AIDS Interfaith Network Saturday, December 1, 201 8:00pm until 12:00am TMC 3903 Cedar Springs, Dallas, Texas 75219 Join us on World AIDS Day for our 2nd Annual Red Dress Party! After the World AIDS Day events in Main St Park, come down and join us for some drink specials, silent auction, dan cing, and more! Spinning all night will be guest DJ Sister Spinna DeVinyl (aka DJ Harmonix) from Portland, OR!! Cocktail Pre-Party to be announced. Admission at the door (no presale tickets this year):$20 per person $10 per person IF WEARING A RED DRESS Yes, it doesn't matter who you are or how you identify, our goal is to have as many people in a RED DRESS as possible! Why? To show our solidarity in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Besides, it's a fun way to raise a few bucks and have some fun! (And yes, kilts count!) Remember, if you wear a RED DRESS you get in the door for half off regular admission. If you don't wear a RED DRESS, then please make an effort to wear something RED! Beneficiaries for 2012 are: AIDS Interfaith Network (AIN) and Resource Center Dallas (RCD) We hope to see everyone there!!! more info here
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