News from the North Texas Progressive june 17 2013

 

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June 17,  2013

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Please make sure you plan on attending the great WOW film screening event and maybe even the Denton Democrats Gun Club Event -find out lots more below.

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In This Issue

WOW Dems (Women Organizing Women Democrats) Fundraiser Event.

Democracy Now

Could Texas Be Turning Blue?...

North Texas Democrats : Notes and News

350.org and Texas Drought Project asks you to : Sign the Keystone XL Pledge of Resistance

nteractive to track energy and environmental lobbying in Texas

Fight the Future...By PAUL KRUGMAN.

 

WOW Dems (Women Organizing Women Democrats) Fundraiser Event  Announcement screening of the award-winning documentary 'The Invisible War'

WOW Dems (Women Organizing Women Democrats) Fundraiser Event  Announcement

WOW Dems is hosting a screening of the award-winning documentary The Invisible War And Panel Discussion with Distinguished Women Veterans

 

Thursday, June 27, 6:30-9:30 p.m.

Angelika Film Center-Plano, Shops@Legacy

 

The Invisible War is a groundbreaking investigative documentary about the rape of women within the US Armed Forces. Following the screening will be a panel discussion by Women Veterans who will share their experiences and detail actions to take to support legislation to stop the epidemic. We will have updates on Congressional activities as they unfold.

 

Panelists:

Lisa Skier, Air Force Captain -1975-1992, now Program Coordinator for Grace After Fire. (The mission of Grace After Fire is to provide the means for women Veterans to gain knowledge,insight and self-renewal.)

Cindi Koehn, U.S Army Veteran, achieved rank of Army Staff Sergeant with 16 years of service,first in Air Defense Artillery and then in Military Intelligence. Cindi received the Joint Service Commendation Medal, Four Amy Commendation Medals and Five Army Achievement Medals Penny Phillips, commissioned officer for 10 years, 6 years on active duty as an Air Force JAG officer ending service with rank of Captain. Prior to military service, she was a criminal prosecutor which included prosecution of all crimes with women or children as victims in Haleand Swisher Counties, Texas.

 

Go to www.wowdems.org to RSVP and purchase tickets.

WOW Dems is a North Texas-based organization dedicated to expanding the participation of women in politics and government. Donations will go to WOW Dems Political Action Committee and are not tax-deductible. 

 

Democracy Now

James Bamford on NSA Secrets, Keith Alexander's Influence & Massive Growth of Surveillance, Cyberwar

As the U.S. vows to take "all necessary steps" to pursue whistleblower Edward Snowden, James Bamford joins us to discuss the National Security Agency's secret expansion of ... Read More 

Digital Blackwater: How the NSA Gives Private Contractors Control of the Surveillance State

As the Justice Department prepares to file charges against Booz Allen Hamilton employee Edward Snowden for leaking classified documents about the National Security Agency, the role of private ... Read More 

Medgar Evers' Murder, 50 Years Later: Widow Myrlie Evers-Williams Remembers "A Man for All Time"

Fifty years ago today - June 12th, 1963 - 37-year-old civil rights organizer Medgar Evers was assassinated in the driveway outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi. In the early 1960s ... Read More   

 

Could Texas Be Turning Blue?

Hillary Clinton joined Twitter this week and set in motion speculation about her possibly running for President in 2016 - and further fueled the possibility that Texas might just be ready to go blue.

Could Texas, where Democrats did not exactly go out of their way to gain any of the state's 38 electoral votes in 2012, be truly poised to be a battleground state?

read on

 

North Texas Progressive Calendar

calendar

Monday, June 17:

*  North Texas Asian Democrats (7:30 PM, Maxim's Restaurant located at 1531 Terrace Drive, Richardson)

 

Tuesday, June 18:

*  Stonewall Democrats of Dallas (6:30 PM, Ojeda's Restaurant, 4617 Maple Ave., Dallas)

 

  • Denton Democrats Business Mixer  6 - 8 p.m. Mellow Mushroom - Denton 217 E Hickory Street Just east of the Historic Downtown Square

·         H-E-B City Group Monthly Meeting T 6:30PM Pizza Garden217 Harwood Road, Bedford TX 76021 (map)Go through the buffet line as you enter, and we will be meeting in the group room at the back of the restaurant.

  • The Dallas Alternative Energy Meetup Group6:00 PM Keller Public Library 640 Johnson Road Keller, TX 76248

Wednesday, June 19:

*  Garland Democratic Woman's Club Speaker: Rachel Baker Ford on the Garland Voice.(11:30 A.M., Siciliano's Italian Restaurant, 2210 W. Buckingham Rd., Garland)

*   Northwest Dallas Democrats (7:30 pm to 10:00 pm, 11824 Webb Chapel Road, Farmers Branch)

 

Saturday, June 22:

  • Democratic Gun Club  1:30 p.m.Quail Creek Gun Range FM 1171 & I35W (1/4 mile west)$14 Adults, $8 Kids, RSVP Required Learn more here.
  • Summer FUNdraiser 6:00 p.m.815 Ector Street, Denton$15 per person It's that time of year when we enjoy hot dogs, ice cream and great Democratic company at the annual FUNdraiser in the Keffer's backyard! There will be an auction and Democratic goodies for sale. If you can bring homemade ice cream, please let us know.Whether you plan to pay at the door or on-line, please RSVP to help us plan for your attendance. RSVP or inquire at 940-387-906 or 940-566-1165, or purchase your ticket on-line here: Summer FUNdraiser 2013   

Sunday, June 23:

  •  The Dallas Alternative Energy Meetup Group 12:00 PM REI, Dallas 4515 LBJ Frwy, Dallas TX located between Midway and Welch on the north access road to I-635 between Guitar Center and Haverty's. Dallas, TX 7524

350.org and Texas Drought Project asks you to : Sign the Keystone XL Pledge of Resistance

The State Department's release of its Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement in March was one of those days that remind us of just how steep a hill to climb this fight against climate change is.

 

Even with a president who recently professed a lofty goal of getting all cars off of oil, even with one of our stronger climate hawk senators as the new secretary of state, the State Department still released a joke of an environmental assessment of the Keystone XL pipeline, taking us one big step closer to approval of this project that should be a no-brainer of a rejection.   Go here  

  

 

Interactive to track energy and environmental lobbying in Texas

From protecting endangered lizards to changing industry standards on fracking, energy and environmental groups have many - sometimes competing - political interests in Texas.

Use this interactive to track campaign contributions by some of the most influential energy and environmental lobbying groups and individual donors in Texasrom protecting endangered lizards to changing industry standards on fracking, energy and environmental groups have many - sometimes competing - political interests in Texas.

Use this interactive to track campaign contributions by some of the most influential energy and environmental lobbying groups and individual donors in Texas
here 

 

Open House at Dallas Peace Center

All Are Welcome to Attend Thursday, June 20 7:00 - 8:30 pm

 

Dallas Peace Center (On the campus of First Community Church)

9120 Ferguson Rd, Dallas 75228

 

If you want to change the world, if you believe that a better world is possible, and if you want to join with others who share your passion and commitment to peace and justice, then make the Dallas Peace Center your center. Join us!

For More Information or to RSVP: email: admin@DallasPeaceCenter.org or call 214-660-7676

Plenty of food, give-a-ways, plus an update on what is taking place at the DPC and how you can

make a difference in the lives of others.

www.DallasPeaceCenter.org

Fight the Future

By PAUL KRUGMAN

Fight the Future

By PAUL KRUGMAN

 

 

Last week the International Monetary Fund, whose normal role is that of stern disciplinarian to spendthrift governments, gave the United States some unusual advice. "Lighten up," urged the fund. "Enjoy life! Seize the day!"

O.K., fund officials didn't use quite those words, but they came close, with an article in IMF Survey magazine titled "Ease Off Spending Cuts to Boost U.S. Recovery." In its more formal statement, the fund argued that the sequester and other forms of fiscal contraction will cut this year's U.S. growth rate by almost half, undermining what might otherwise have been a fairly vigorous recovery. And these spending cuts are both unwise and unnecessary.

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Time Out: Federal Complaint Alleges Rampant Abuse in Texas Truancy Program

 

 

Students are handcuffed, often jailed. Fines can reach into the thousands of dollars. Accused students and their families are never provided with legal counsel. According to a complaint seeking federal intervention, that is the strange and possibly illegal world of the Dallas County truancy court.

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