Dear nancy, Good Afternoon!
More great holiday events this week ! These organizations would love to have you join them for their celebrations.
If you want to get your head around commercialization of the Holidays and how you can combat it in your own life attend the screening of the great documentary " What would Jesus buy " information below.
Please change you Amazon bookmark to the one below that earns us a few cents when you shop -- just another way for you to help us get the word out to progressive in North Texas !
Remember our furry friends too -see the Human Society holiday raffle!
Thanks,
Nancy Cunningham
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Ho Ho ! Holidays Parties ! Please come ... | 
Sierra Club Annual Holiday Party - Sunday, December 9 Our annual Holiday Party will be held at El Fenix Restaurant at 255 Casa Linda Plaza. We'll party on Sunday, December 9 from 6:00 pm until 9:00 pm. Here is a Google map. Club members and guests will share the holiday spirit, some great Mexican food, and the company of others at this annual event. Join us for some camaraderie, door prizes, silent auction, and perhaps some surprise speakers, you never know. We'll celebrate some of our outstanding volunteers and have plenty of time to mingle. There's bound to be talk about issues of the day -- air, water, veganism, fracking, coal, nuclear, whatever strikes your green fancy. The entire menu will be available so you can order whatever you want to eat or drink, including liquid spirits. We'll provide a free round of margaritas. Support the Club by getting a 2013 Sierra Club Calendar or Planner!. Invite your family and friends. So come on out for a great party, low price, no clean up, and lots of like minded people. What could be better? See you there, and bring your appetite. Happy Holidays!! DACED HOLIDAY CELEBRATION (Dallas County East Democrats) You are invited to join us, Saturday December 8, 2012 at the Islamorada Fish Company located at 1800 E Interstate 30, Garland, Texas (inside Bass Pro Shops) From 6pm until 10pm. As is DACED tradition we have adopted a family in need from within our community through the Mesquite Social Services Christmas Cheer Program, and will will be collecting donations for our adopted family. Please bring an unwrapped toy or one of the items listed below for our adopted family to the party , If you are unable to make the party and would still like to donate, please let me (Shannon) or Sergio know and I will be more than happy to come by and pick the items up from you. Gift cards or cash donations will be accepted as well. |
Democracy Now | 
In his most extended interview in months, Julian Assange speaks to Democracy Now! from inside the Ecuadorean embassy in London, where he has been holed up for nearly six months. Assange vowed WikiLeaks would persevere despite attacks against it. On Tuesday, the European Commission announced that the credit card company Visa did not break the European Union's antitrust rules by blocking donations to WikiLeaks. Assange also speaks about his new book, Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet, and discusses the United States' targeting of WikiLeaks. Watch/Listen/Read We're joined by someone who has fought tirelessly for women's rights here in the United States and around the world: Eve Ensler. Her new play is called "Emotional Creature" and is now playing in New York City. Ensler is the award-winning playwright and creator of "The Vagina Monologues" and V-Day, a global movement to stop violence against women and girls. Her new campaign is called One Billion Rising. Ensler will be speaking tonight on "The State of Female America," moderated by Laura Flanders, in New York City. "One of the things we are trying to deal with and make happen with One Billion Rising is to look at the intersection between the violence that happens to women in the homes, in the streets, and at their jobs," Ensler says.
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Progressive talk radio also losing ground? | 
Meanwhile, the drumbeat continues on progressive talk stations being dropped since the election. Clear Channel is removing progressive radio from KPOJ in Portland. Mid-West Family Broadcasting has laid off Madison's John "Sly" Sylvester of radio station WTDY, who resisted political labels but stood with workers when they were under the gun from Wisconsin's Governor Scott Walker. Sly had been on the air in Madison for more than 25 years. Seattle's KPTK is expected to switch from progressive talk to sports read on |
Help make Texas a "blessed" state. Sign on to tell Gov. Perry to opt-in to Medicaid. | 
Texas has the highest rate of uninsured (24%) of any state in the country, and Dallas has the second highest number of uninsured of any city in the nation. Expanding Medicaid would ensure 1.5 million more Texans get the medical care they need, including preventive care that will save money and lives. - 100% of the expansion will come from federal dollars for three years, phasing down to 90% thereafter
- Estimates show just $3.1 billion in state investment will bring $28.6 billion in federal revenue to Texas from 2014-2017.
- Expanding Medicaid would be an economic windfall for our state, generating additional state revenues and creating tens of thousands of medical care jobs.
- Texas hospitals, both public and private, provide over $5 billion a year in uncompensated care, and local county taxes help pay for much of this care. Insuring more Texans through Medicaid will lower county costs for this care.
As concerned Texas citizens, we call on our state leaders to opt Texas IN to the Medicaid Expansion Provisions of the Affordable Care Act. Sign Dallas Area Interfaith's petition, and spread the word www.DallasChristians.org |
| Dallas Peace Center 26th Annual Peacemaker Awards Dinner | 
26th Annual Peacemaker Awards Dinner Thursday, December 6, 2012
DoubleTree Hilton 4099 Valley View Lane, Dallas 75244 5:30 p.m. Reception 7:00 p.m. Program Join us for the peacemaker gala of the year. On the first Thursday of December people will gather from all over the North Texas region and beyond to reconnect with friends and share stories of our success as we forge forward together in our work for a more just and peaceful world. A wide array of fair trade vendors will offer one-of-a-kind holiday gifts. The silent auction is enjoyed by all. The 2012 Peacemaker Honorees are:Peacemaker of the Year Dr. Basheer Ahmed / Lifetime Achievement Awards Vivian Castleberry and Richard Sambrano / Media Person of the Year Bob Ray Sanders / Organization of the Year Unity of Arlington To Register or RSVP Click on the link below. Reserve Your Tickets Today Go to www.DallasPeaceCenter.org |
Video screening "What Would Jesus Buy?" presented by Unitarian Universalist of Oak Cliff | 
If you haven't seen this you really must ! "What Would Jesus Buy?" is the latest film to be presented by the First Tuesday Film Festival http://www.firsttuesdayfilms.org/index.shtml, on Dec. 4 starting at 7:00 pm. The public is invited to view this free screening and participate in the audience talk back that follows. The film will be shown at The Unitarian Universalist Church of Oak Cliff (UUCOC), 3839 W. Kiest Blvd., Dallas, Texas 75233 The film follows Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir on a cross-country mission to save Christmas from the Shopocalypse: the end of mankind from consumerism, over-consumption and the fires of eternal debt! For more about the Church of Stop Shopping, see their website at http://www.revbilly.com/ and film clips. 
| What Would Jesus Buy? - Official Trailer! |
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| Lines Blur in Texas as Industries Seek Givebacks | 
Under Gov. Rick Perry, Texas offers more incentives to attract businesses than any other state, around $19 billion a year, an examination by The New York Times has found. Texas justifies its largess by pointing out that it is home to half of all the private sector jobs created over the last decade nationwide. read on
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Barack 'Black Eagle' Obama loses his adoptive father | As a freshman senator campaigning for president in May of 2008, Barack Obama made a stop on the Crow Indian Reservation in southern Montana, where he became part of a new family.
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