Dear nancy, Good Afternoon!
Great stuff happening this week ! Please remember groups are geographically based but your participation in events IS NOT ! I have never heard of any event held by any progressive/ Democratic group that didn't welcome people from anywhere ! Please don't think you can't attend because you don't live there !
Start by buying your ticket to the WOW / Colin County Young Democrats Halloween Bash today even if you don't live in North Dallas / Collin Co. YOU ARE WELCOME to attend ! Republican haunted house " Ha ! What could be more spooky fun !
Thanks,
Nancy Cunningham
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Women Organizing Women Democrats & Collin County Young Democrats Liberally Spooky Halloween Bash | 
Friday, October 25, 2013 7:30 PM Fairview Farms 3312 N. Central Expressway Plano, TX 75074 Price: $15.00 per person You are cordially invited to the 1st Annual "Liberally Spooky" Halloween Bash at Fairview Farms in Plano (3312 N. Central Expressway) on Friday, October 25th from 7:30pm-11:30pm, co-hosted by Women Organizing Women Democrats (WOW Dems) and Collin County Young Democrats. Join us for an evening of food, fun and a fiendish crowd of progressive individuals! DJ Pat and Dancing Haunted House/Republican Policy Maze Complimentary Appetizers & Non-alcoholic Beverages Cash bar Silent Auction Crazy Costume Contest Proceeds from the event help WOW Dems and CCYD in their efforts to find, cultivate and promote Democratic candidates for the 2014 election year. It will be FREAKY, FRIGHTENINGLY fun!!! Tickets are $15 though October 20 and $25 at the door, so make sure and get them early. Buy your ticket early and save $10 GO HERE Special thanks to our sponsors: Will and Mary Lou Smith, Jack and Ashley Ternan, Shawn Stevens (County Chair), Matt Lagos, Kevin Numerick (Hayd & Izzy Designs), Mike Rawlins (Candidate for County Chair), Danny Kim, Cynthia Fitzgerald, and the Democratic Party of Collin County. For questions, contact Jihaan Karjeker, Event Chair, at 214-264-2335. |
Meet the Churchgoers Helping Lead an Uprising Against Big Oil in Texas | 
Activists in Texas are connecting the fight against the Keystone pipeline with the struggle for environmental justice. One morning in mid-July, I drove north out of Houston at the crack of dawn, three hours up Highway 59 into the cleaner air and dense, piney woods of deep East Texas. It was Sunday, and I was on my way to church. I'd been up that way before: my father was born and raised in northeast Texas-in fact, my whole family is from Texas-and I'm no stranger to Bible Belt Christianity. But I'd never been to a church like the one where I was headed that morning: the small, progressive Austin Heights Baptist Church in Nacogdoches, which meets in an unassuming building on the edge of town. read on |
North Texas Progressive Calendar | Monday, October 21:  - Early Voting Begins for November 5 Election Early Voting will run from October 21 through November 1. (For a list of locations and times, see the Dallas County Election Department.)
- North Texas Asian Democrats (7:30 PM, Jeng Chi Restaurant, 400 N. Greenville Ave. Suite 11, Richardson)
Tuesday, October 22: - Dallas County - Texas Democratic Women (6:30 pm, sixth floor Club House, 1400 Hi Line Drive @ 35E)
- Denton County Democrats The Affordable Care Act, The Insurance Marketplace
& You October 22nd, 2013 from 2PM-3PM Emily Fowler Central Library: 502 Oakland St., Denton,TX Find out how you can take advantage of new health coverage options! RSVP at: RSVP Enroll America https://www.getcoveredamerica.org Wednesday, October 23: - The Civil Rights Legacy of JFK and LBJ Presented by the Dallas Democratic Forum. A Conversation with Dennis Simon, Ph.D., Professor and Director, U.S. Policy and Politics, Southern Methodist University, and Max Sherman, J.D, Max Sherman Chair Emeritus in State and Local Government and Former Dean of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas. 2013, 2014 Regular Forum Members -- $25, Non Members -- $40, Table of Up to Ten - $300. RSVP by Monday, October 21 Voice Mail: 214-855-7151. (11:30 am, The Belo Mansion, Ross and Olive, Dallas)
Thursday, October 24: - North Dallas Texas Democratic Women Finding Your Way Around the Health Care Law -- A lot of the confusion about ACA will be cleared up in this important meeting. We will get an overview of the key benefits and protections within the Affordable Care Act for several groups: those who have insurance, those who do not have insurance and people on Medicare. Information on how to get insurance via the new marketplace will also be provided. Our speaker is Susan J. Williams, Associate State Director of AARP, Texas. She will address members' questions and concerns about themselves and also about unemployed, underemployed children and grandchildren vis-a-vis the ACA. (6:30 pm, Northaven United Methodist Church, 11211 Preston Rd, Dallas)
- Rowlett Democrats The topic will be Obamacare, it's here what will it mean for US and what do we need to know. We will have an industry expert (Rache Perry) to give us the in's and out's on this most important improvement on our national healthcare system. Please come to this meeting and bring a friend or a relative, we need to get the word out that Obamacare is good for US! If you live in the Metroplex, please consider taking DART Light Rail, simply hop on the Blue Line to Downtown Rowlett and you will be right across the tracks from the Library. Again, please bring a friend! Ms. Rache Perry will be able to answer your questions about the ACA, and give you vital information to add to your knowledge about the new law. Please bring food donations that are taken to the local food pantry, and clothing donations which are taken to the local organization for those in need. For more information, call Jeff Sheldon at 972-475-1836. (6:30 pm, Rowlett Library, 3900 Main Street, Rowlett)
· Grassroots Democratic Coalition Monthly Meetup Grassroots Democratic Coalition 7:30 PM Black Eyed Pea Restaurant 7979 Belt LIne Rd at Coit Rd - Next to Shell Service Station Dallas, TX 75287 · Mid Cities Democrats October Meeting 7p at Los Jimadores 3314 Harwood Rd Bedford, TX 76021 (121 and Harwood, Tom Thumb shopping center) MAP: http://goo.gl/dCzdzz -- Please come early if you plan on eating! Friday, October 25: - Dallas County Democratic Party Annual Fish Fry Fundraiser [see article above]. Individual tickets now on sale. (6 PM, Sokol Hall, 7448 Greenville Ave. [at Walnut Hill], Dallas)
- Liberally Spooky Halloween Bash WOW Dems and the Collin County Young Dems are co-sponsoring this fun event. There will be music and dancing, complimentary appetizers and non-alcoholic beverages, cash bar, silent auction, a crazy costume contest, a haunted house/Republican policy maze, and much more. Tickets are available here for $15 through October 20. (7:30 pm to 11:30 pm, Fairview Farms, 3321 N. Central Expwy, Plano)
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| Fish Fry Tickets Now On Sale For Friday Oct. 25 | Each y ear the Dallas County Democratic Party's Fish Fry is our largest gathering of Democratic voters, officeholders and candidates, coming together for food, fellowship, and fun. This year's 13th Annual Fish Fry celebration will be on Friday, October 25, at 6 PM, at the same location as last year, the Sokol Hall, 7448 Greenville Ave. (at Walnut Hill), Dallas. Individual tickets are now on sale for this year's DCDP Fish Fry. These are $35 each, but only $25 for a DCDP Sustaining Member. Tickets include a catfish dinner with all the fixings. Beer & soft drinks are available. Please feel free to bring desserts to share! (Call or email and let us know if you're bringing some.) You can buy tickets on-line at this page, or mail your payment to or bring it by the party office, or call 214-821-8331 to charge your credit card. You will not receive physical tickets in the mail: we will have a list to check off at the door of the event. More info here |
Labor Dallas and Jobs for Justice events | 
Invitation to North Texas Jobs with Justice October Meeting October 23, 2013 7PM 1408 N Washington Ave, Dallas (East Dallas) You are invited to the monthly meeting of Jobs with Justice on October 23. We will be meeting at 1408 N. Washington Ave, Dallas (the home of the Dallas AFL-CIO, CWA Local 6215, and others) at7PM. If you haven't had a chance to meet Mark York, the new principal officer of the Dallas AFL-CIO Central Labor Council, this is your chance! Mark will give us an update on all the new developments at the AFL-CIO since the convention in August. Since August Mark has been front and center for his brothers and sisters in the movement. He has been a part of many rallies held the past months and he has even gone so far as to be arrested for civil disobedience with Walmart workers and organizers! He is a true champion of justice for workers. So come and meet Mark and discuss upcoming action opportunities and ideas. Jobs with Justice is hosting an Introduction to Community Organizing (within a faith-based context) October 31, 4-8PM Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas The event is sponsored by Interfaith Worker Justice based in Chicago, IL and with North Texas Jobs with Justice. There is a limit of 20 participants. Members of NorthTexas Jobs with Justice are free. The training will cover basic concepts, values and skills of organizing within a faith-based context. For more information about these events e-mail Rosemarie Rieger at jobswithjusticetexas@gmail.com or contact us through Facebook by becoming our friend: Jobs-with Justice-Texas. |
Anti-fracking protesters target Perot Museum exhibit | 
DALLAS - Activists in Dallas and around the world staged what they called a Global Frackdown Saturday demanding an end to the process of "fracking" for natural gas. Chanting "Keep propaganda out of science," more than a dozen sign-bearing protesters stood in front of the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in downtown Dallas. They want the museum to change the facts in its fracking exhibit at the facility's Tom Hunt Energy Hall
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| The Damage Done By PAUL KRUGMAN | 
The government is reopening, and we didn't default on our debt. Happy days are here again, right? Well, no. For one thing, Congress has only voted in a temporary fix, and we could find ourselves going through it all over again in a few months. You may say that Republicans would be crazy to provoke another confrontation. But they were crazy to provoke this one, so why assume that they've learned their lesson? read on
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