Dear nancy, Good Afternoon! (Morning!)
Happy MLK Day .. I'm trying to get the newsletter out a little early. I posted the only MLK event I saw that was happening later in the week, but there may be others. There are quite a few other interesting meetings and events this week, please check the calendar.
Of note is the DFW NORML meeting next Saturday in Ft Worth with rapidly changing marijuana laws in other states it will be interesting to watch Texas.
Thanks,
Nancy Cunningham
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Dr Martin Luther King birthday events | 
Thursday, Jan. 23 - Plano ISD MLK Tribute: Event is titled "We Belong: Celebrating Five Decades of the Dream." Enjoy PISD students' Parade of Nations, featuring special television and film guest star Irma P. Hall. Williams High School Auditorium, 1717 17th St., Plano. You can see pictures and get more information on Plano's MLK events at the Plano MLK website. http://www.planomlk.org/ |
Taxpayer-funded Texas schools blame world wars on evolution and lack of religion | 
Texas students in publicly funded charter schools run by Responsive Education Solutions are learning that, "in the beginning, God created the Heavens and the Earth," as well as that feminism is responsible for single women turning to the federal government as "surrogate husband[s]." According to Zack Kopplin at Slate, Responsive Education Solutions has been "infiltrating and subverting" the charter school movement in order to push an explicitly Christian, conservative agenda. Responsive Education Solutions has 17,000 students, more than 65 schools, and receives $82 million in public funding annually. Texas students in publicly funded charter schools run by Responsive Education Solutions are learning that, "in the beginning, God created the Heavens and the Earth," as well as that feminism is responsible for single women turning to the federal government as "surrogate husband[s]." According to Zack Kopplin at Slate, Responsive Education Solutions has been "infiltrating and subverting" the charter school movement in order to push an explicitly Christian, conservative agenda. Responsive Education Solutions has 17,000 students, more than 65 schools, and receives $82 million in public funding annually.
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North Texas Progressive Calendar | Monday, January 20, 2014: North Texas Asian Democrats Special Endorsement General Membership Meeting. For more information please email NTAD President Michele Wong Krause to michele AT wongkrauselaw.com. (7:30 pm to 8:30 pm, Jeng Chi Restaurant, 400 N. Greenville Ave. Suite 11, Richardson)  Tuesday, January 21, 2014: Stonewall Democrats of Dallas (6:30 pm, Ojeda's Restaurant, 4617 Maple Ave, Dallas) Wednesday, January 22, 2014: H-E-B City Group Monthly Meeting 6:30PM Pizza Garden 217 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. North Central Democrats City Group Come and join in us at the Grand Re-Opening of the North Central Democrats City Group! 7pm Oscar's Mexican Restaurant 3408 Denton Hwy Haltom City, TX 76117 Thursday, January 23, 2014: Rowlett Democrats For more information, call Jeff Sheldon at 972-475-1836. (6:30 pm, Rowlett Library) 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 Price: $2.00 per person Friday, January 24: North Dallas Texas Democratic Women (6:30 PM, Northaven United Methodist Church, 11211 Preston Rd, Dallas) Saturday, January 25: Debate between County Chair Candidates "What is the Future Direction of the Dallas County Democratic Party?" County Chair candidates Darlene Ewing and Heath Harris moderated by Rev. Dr. Frederick D. Lewis. (2:00 pm, Smith A.M.E. Chapel, 2406 Childs Street, Dallas)  DFW NORML's January 2014 Meeting 4:00pm Whiskey Girl Saloon in Fort Worth, Texas |
| RFK, Jr. and Seder: Water Crisis Shows Our Regulatory Flaws | 
| RFK, Jr. and Seder: Water Crisis Shows Our Regulatory Flaws |
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| Objectively Pro-Unemployment by Paul Krugman NY Times | 
Jonathan Chait makes a good point about the deficit scolds: whatever they may say, they have in practice played a key role in promoting short-run fiscal austerity and therefore in keeping unemployment high. That's not what they say, of course. Talk to almost any tentacle of the Peterson octopus, and he or she will say "Of course I'm against spending cuts in a depressed economy - in fact, I'm for more stimulus." But this will be followed by a declaration that such stimulus must be accompanied by an agreement on long-term deficit reduction. Confidence, don't you know. See, for example, Robert Rubin's latest. read on | |
Tests show Texas well water polluted by fracking, despite EPA assurances | Environmentalists and residents of Parker County, Texas, were dismayed last year when the EPA dropped an investigation into  complaints that fracking by Range Resources was contaminating local water supplies with methane. As part of a legal settlement that got the EPA off its back, the company agreed to test well water in the city of Weatherford, where the complaints were centered. Sure enough, Range's test results found minimal levels of methane in the water. read on
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Denton County GOP Chair Calls Wendy Davis "Abortion Barbie" | 
| Denton County GOP Chair Calls Wendy Davis "Abortion Barbie" |
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