Dear nancy, Good Afternoon!
Great volunteer opportunities abound in this week's newsletter. Help keep the Saint Patrick's Day parade " green" by helping recycle refuse and have a fun time with others who care about the planet. Help others learn to read, or maybe help grow vegetables for food pantries.
Also check out the movie theaters for some great docs on hunger and corporate corruption in politics! Lots going on -check the calendar below for Dem meetups !
Make sure I'm on your groups announcement list !
Thanks,
Nancy Cunningham
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How the Texas 1% Live | 
From time to time, I am asked to address one of the several hundred women's clubs that dot the urban landscape near me. The point is to provide a program for their meetings that, otherwise, would consist mostly of drinking coffee and eating sweetmeats and gossiping.
The other morning, I was invited to review two new biographies of Dwight Eisenhower for a particular chapter of a self-proclaimed patriotic women's group, founded in the certainty that each of them had descended from some individual who was in some way augustly connected to one of our nation's several antique and noble wars. It was quite an experience.
READ Jim Hightower | The GOP's Pitch-Perfect Platform Jim Hightower, Op-Ed: Here's some unexpected news. It comes from what purports to be an official document of the National Republican Party. And - wow - the policy positions it contains show that party leaders really are serious about coming to their senses and rejecting the far-right wackiness that has stained their recent electoral campaigns. Right at the top, this 18-page manifesto proclaims that, "Our government was created by the people for all the people, and it must serve no less a purpose." READ |
Great progressive volunteer opportunity | 
Dallas Public Library seeks evening GED volunteer instructors to teach math or reading comprehension ~ Regional We are in desperate need of evening GED volunteer instructors (to teach math or reading comprehension).Commitment is one evening a week (6-8pm) for 12 weeks starting end of February. Training and lesson plans provided! Email literacy@dallaslibrary2.org for more info. GED Assistants - work one-on-one or with small groups to prepare students for GED subject tests at a library "guided instruction" center or manage GED class material, including sign-in process, book and calculator check-out, and personal instruction forms for GED guided instruction classes. Special training provided. http://www.lift-texas.org/ and http://www.dallaslibrary2.org/literacy/ |
Celebrate St Patrick's Day at parade and help recycle | 
Dallas St. Patrick's Day Parade - Volunteer Recycling Team The Dallas St. Patrick's Day Parade is one of the largest St. Patrick's Day parades in the country (~100K people, 100+ floats). This iconic Dallas event creates lots of recyclable waste AND opportunity for fun! This will be our 6th year (!!) to help make St Patrick's Day in Dallas even greener! We've collected over two tons of materials in that time and are seeking volunteers to join the 2013 Parade Recycling Team to help divert as many recyclables as possible from the landfill! Click here to RSVP (Eventbrite RSVP - select the Volunteer ticket): General Info: * Date: Saturday - March 16th, 2013! * Approximate Volunteer Time: 9:30 am - 1:30 pm (4 hrs) - Rain or Shine! * What to do between now and then? RSVP to Volunteer on Eventbrite (click the link above)! Share with your friends and social networks (Dallas Sierra Club Facebook Page Events)! More details will be provided to RSVPs as the event nears. All are welcome to participate. |
North Texas Progressive Calendar | 
Monday, March 11: - Drinking Liberally Oak Cliff (5 PM, Tradewinds Social Club, 2843 West Davis Street, Dallas)
Tuesday, March 12: - PVL - A New Era (6:30 PM, 5150 Mark Trail, Dallas)
- Dallas County Young Democrats (6:30 PM, The Foundry, 2303 Pittman St., Dallas)
- Dallas Drinking Liberally (7 PM, Libertine Bar at 2101 Greenville Ave., Dallas)
Wednesday, March 13: - Texas Coalition of Black Democrats (7 PM, Quick's Bar & Grill, 1011 Corinth St., Dallas)
- Labor Dallas Meeting (7 PM, union hall, 2218 E Main in Grand Prairie)
Saturday, March 16: Southwest Democrats (10 AM, Southwest Center Mall in the Community Room, 3662 W Camp Wisdom Rd., Dallas Breakfast Club Rockwall Democrats Where: Rockwall Community Center, Harry Myers Park - 815 E Washington, Rockwall When: 9:00 AM Join fellow democrats in your community for some socialization and refreshments this Saturday. A morning with Democrats always makes your day better! |
| Spring is coming !! | 
North Haven Gardens in Dallas Eco-Fair-North Haven Gardens in Dallas is sponsoring an Eco-Fair on Saturday, March 16th and we are looking for people who would like to staff a table from 10:00 am until about 2:00pm, much like the Homestead Mini-Fairs held in September. This event will be bigger as there will be tabling outside if needed and will feature demonstrations on canning, organic gardening, herbs, soap making, using solar electricity, water purification, rainwater harvesting, composting, reuse of items, everything on chicken raising and keeping and beekeeping, etc. Unity of Arlington Garden Spaces are available in the community garden of Unity of Arlington--It's time to prepare the garden! 10ft. X 10ft. spaces are available in the community garden of Unity of Arlington, 3525 S. Bowen. If interested contact garden coordinator http://www.unityarlingtontx.org/ |
Seizing the Airwaves | 
Community-driven radio has always played a significant role in winning the hearts and minds of people in movements for social change, economic justice and human rights. But the history of dramatic media consolidation in this country has made it extraordinarily difficult for all but an elite few to control their own media. Today, after years of activism, a new law on low-power FM (LPFM) radio is paving the way for the greatest expansion of FM radio in decades. This is a huge victory for media justice: Communities across the U.S. now have the power to transform the media landscape and fight corporate media owned and controlled by the 1 Percent. It's an unprecedented opportunity for historically marginalized communities of color, immigrant and low-income folks to own and operate their own means of media production and infrastructure-through their own LPFM radio station. read on Support Progressive Talk Radio, Listen To WeAct Radio Since we're so disgusted with most corporate media, we take it as part of the C&L mission to plug progressive media, especially when it's independently owned. If you still don't know about We Act Radio, Washington DC's progressive station, you should. After all, we have this station right in the heart of our nation's capital that's on our side, and influences policy every day. (I happen to believe progressive talk radio is even more important than TV.) It's owned by progressive fighters Alex Lawson, Cliff Schecter and Kymone Freeman. There are great shows, from David Shuster's Take Action News to Joshua Holland's AlterNet Radio Hour and Moms Rising, Sam Seder, Angie Coiro, and Nicole Sandler. All great stuff! listen here http://www.weactradio.com/ 1480 AM in Washington |
Take yourself out to the movies .. | GREEDY LYING BASTARDS- Angelika Rating: PG13 A revelatory documentary about climate change that demands to be seen, GREEDY LYING BASTA RDS investigates the power, corruption, and greed within the fossil fuel industry and the impact it has on people and the planet. The film details the people and organizations casting doubt on climate science and claims that greenhouse gases are not affected by human behavior. From the Koch Brothers to ExxonMobil, to prominent Senators and Justices, this provocative expose unravels the layers of deceit
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A PLACE AT THE TABLE - Magnolia
Hunger is not just a third world problem. Forty-nine million people in the U.S.-one in four children-don't know where their next meal is coming from. Directors Kristi Jacobson and Lori Silverbush examine this issue through the lens of three people struggling with food insecurity: Barbie, a single mother who grew up in poverty and is trying to provide a better life for her kids; Rosie, a fifth-grader who often has to depend on friends and neighbors to feed her and has trouble concentrating in school; and Tremonica, a second-grader whose asthma and health issues are exacerbated by the largely empty calories her hardworking mother can afford.
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| Dwindling Deficit Disorder
by Paul Krugman | 
For three years and more, policy debate in Washington has been dominated by warnings about the dangers of budget deficits. A few lonely economists have tried from the beginning to point out that this fixation is all wrong, that deficit spending is actually appropriate in a depressed economy. But even though the deficit scolds have been wrong about everything so far - where are the soaring interest rates we were promised? - protests that we are having the wrong conversation have consistently fallen on deaf ears.
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NRA to sponsor NASCAR Sprint Cup race in Texas aily_News_Update#storylink=cpy |  The National Rifle Association, a touchstone for gun-rights advocates in the national debate about gun control, is putting its name on the NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Texas Motor Speedway in April. The NRA 500 will be the name of the race scheduled for April 13 at the 1.5-mile track, part of a one-year deal announced Monday by speedway president Eddie Gossage. Read more here:
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Keeping Creationism Out of Public Schools |  Zack Kopplin, a 19-year-old Rice University student waging a national campaign in defense of science education, spoke with Bill Moyers about his opposition to laws that make it easier to teach creationism in public schools.
Kopplin's crusade began in 2008 when his home state passed the Louisiana Science Education Act. The law permitted public schools to teach their students that life, the world and everything in it may have been created by a supernatural being, and that despite a lack of evidence, this view was a scientifically valid alternative to biological evolution. read and watch
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