News from the North Texas Progressive july 6 2015

North Texas Progressive Newsletter ...bringing North Texas news and discussion since 2004 July 6,  2015 Dear nancy, Good Afternoon! Lots going on this week, special invitation for all to attend the North Texas Civil Rights Project Grand Opening celebration and fundraiser July 9th  --see all the information below. Gotta love that North Texas Light Brigade gave everyone at Kaboom town a taste of " Democracy illusion" on the 4th , see photos below and pre-order Ari Berman's new book on voting! Thanks, Nancy Cunningham Email /Webpage /Facebook /Twitter / Tumblr /Donate /Newsletter archive / Amazon link     In This Issue Denton County Dems want YOU to consider running for office !.. Hillary for Texas : North Texas Grassroots Organizing Meeting Democracy Now Park Cities Central Dallas Democrats Poverty.. Buy new book : Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America North Texas Progressive Calendar... Texas Board of Education to be headed by a homeschooler. Hood County issues marriage license to same-sex couple after they filed federal lawsuit. The Supreme Court and the Politics of Fear by...Linda Greenhouse NY Times   Denton County Dems want YOU to consider running for office ! Considering running for office should not be taken lightly and we will be happy to talk to Democrats who are weighing this decision.   Please contact us at your earliest convenience by reply email or at (940)566-1165 for more information. In the meantime, the Texas Secretary of State has not yet updated their Candidate page (found under the Elections tab) on their website below, but here are filing dates to keep in mind: *Tuesday, September 15, 2015 - First date for precinct chairs to file to be on the March 1 Primary Election ballot. *Saturday, November 14, 2015 - First day to file for all other candidates for offices that are regularly scheduled to be on the 2016 Primary ballot. *Monday, December 14, 2015, 6:00 PM - FILING DEADLINE FOR CANDIDATES; filing deadline for independent candidates to file intent declaration. The Texas Secretary of State election website is: http://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/index.shtml  .     Hillary for Texas : North Texas Grassroots Organizing Meeting  Be among the first to kick off Hillary's 2016 Presidential Campaign! Tuesday, July 7, 2015 Plano Environmental Education Center 4116 W. Plano Parkway Plano, Tx Sign-In: 6:30 p.m. Meeting Begins: 7:00 p.m. RSVP: OUTREACH@WOWDEMS.ORG  http://wowdems.com/   https://www.hillaryclinton.com/       Democracy Now "What to the Slave is 4th of July?": James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass' Historic Speech In a Fourth of July holiday special, we begin with the words of Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery around 1818, Douglass became a key leader of the ... Read More → "This Flag Comes Down Today": Bree Newsome Scales SC Capitol Flagpole, Removing Confederate Flag On Saturday, Bree Newsome, a 30-year-old African-American woman, was arrested at the state Capitol after scaling the 30-foot flagpole and unhooking the ... Read More →     Park Cities Central Dallas Democrats Poverty   "Park Cities Central Dallas Democrats July 11, 2015, Meeting:   " Join us on July 11, 2015, to hear Dr. Timothy Bray, Director of the Institute for Urban Policy Research at the University of Texas Dallas, who will speak to us on poverty in the City of Dallas, Dallas County, and the communities to our north, as a recent study showed a startling increase in poverty in North Texas. Everyone is welcome for this enlightening presentation and discussion.   We meet from 10:30 AM-12:00 PM, 1st Saturday of the month, at the University Park Library, 8383 Preston Center Plaza, Suite 200, University Park, TX 75225.   NOTE: Our July meeting is on the second Saturday of the month this time due to the July 4th holiday."      Buy new book : Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America  By Ari Berman Pre-order will be released on August 4th:    Give us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America By Ari Berman List Price: $28.00 Price:$15.21 & eligible for FREE Shipping on orders over $35. Details   BUY HERE    North Texas Progressive Calendar Tuesday, July 7:   Irving Texas Democratic Women -- (6:30 pm, East China Buffet, 4023 W. Airport Fwy., Irving 75062)   Hillary For Texas North Texas Grassroots Organizing Meeting -- Be among the first to kick off Hillary's 2016 Presidential Campaign. RSVP by email to outreach AT WOWDEMS.org. (Sign-In: 6:30 p.m. Meeting Begins: 7:00 p.m., Plano Environmental Education Center 4116 W. Plano Parkway, Plano 75093)   Thursday, July 9:   Dallas Democratic Forum Panel The U.S. Supreme Court: Impact of Recent Decisions -- With Jeff Kahn, Professor of Law, SMU, Paul D. Castillo, Attorney, Lambda Legal, and Jason Steed, Appellate Attorney and Supreme Court Commentator; moderated by John Turner, Partner, HaynesBoone. 2015 Patron & Sustaining Members of the Forum -- Free; 2015 Regular Members -- $25, Non Members -- $40. RSVP by Tuesday, July 7, by email to WDGriggs AT yahoo.com. (11:30 am Registration/Buffet, 12:00 Noon Program, Belo Mansion, 2101 Ross Avenue at Olive, Dallas 75201)      Preston Hollow Democrats -- (6:00 pm, Preston Royal Library Auditorium, 5626 Royal Lane, Dallas)   Coppell Drinking Liberally -- (6:30 pm, Esparza's Restaurante Mexicano, 817 S. MacArthur Blvd. #125, Coppell)   Garland Area Democratic Club -- (7:00 pm, Garland Women's Activities Building, 713 Austin St. [at Glenbrook], downtown Garland)   Saturday, July 11:   Fort Worth Chorizo and Menudo Community Breakfast -- (9:00 am, Nuevo Leon Restaurant, 1544 Ellis Ave., Fort Worth 76164   Park Cities Central Dallas Democrats -- [Meeting moved from July 4 because of the holiday] (10:30 AM - 12 PM, University Park Library, 8383 Preston Center Plaza, Suite 200, University Park, TX 75225.)   Mexican American Democrats of Texas - Dallas CAUSA Chapter -- Guests are welcome but must RSVP by calling Sylvana Alonzo 972-900-0882. (11 AM, 2223 W. Jefferson, Dallas 75208)   Muslim Democratic Caucus of Dallas County -- Contact: Tariq Jaffery, 972-523-7536, email to tjaffery AT gmail.com. (2:30 p.m., Kasbah Grill, 2851 Esters Rd, Irving 75062)   Drinking Liberally - Plano Collin County Liberally Groups -- 6:30 PM The Rugby House Pub 8604 Preston Rd ste 100 Plano, TX 75024 Texas Board of Education to be headed by a homeschooler The Texas Board of Education creates "policies and standards for Texas public schools." Gov. Greg Abbott's choice to head this body setting policies and standards for Texas public schools is a woman whose own children never attended those public schools-they were homeschooled and then sent to a private high school. But hey, she's a former aide to the state's Republican lieutenant governor. http://is.gd/WzcW91      Hood County issues marriage license to same-sex couple after they filed federal lawsuit Update at 9:44 a.m.: The Hood County Clerk's office has issued a marriage license to Jim Cato and Joe Stapleton - "handwritten on the same form they said they couldn't use last week," says Jan Soifer, the couple's attorney. But Cato and Stapleton aren't taking the document until they confer with Soifer, who says a statement is forthcoming. http://is.gd/289uL9       Texas ACLU letter writing campaign on hold- out clerks here : http://is.gd/v7yfZb    The Supreme Court and the Politics of Fear by   Linda Greenhouse NY Times    ....I thought of Nixon last week as I watched the parade of Republican would-be presidents outdoing one another in denouncing the "lawless" and "brazen" Supreme Court. With its "hubris and thirst for power," the court threatens "the very foundations of our representative form of government," the most Nixonian of them all, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, warned. http://is.gd/Dv25CG   Happy 4th of July ! Kaboom town gets a taste of Democracy from the Texas Light Brigade http://is.gd/0O93I5      North Texas Progressive Newsletter Nancy Cunningham   Editor Contact: Nancy   This newsletter is a project of the North Texas Progressive , it  grew out of the Dallas Air America group, which was founded in 2004 to promote and support progressive talk radio and independent media in North Texas.   Visit the North Texas Progressive  web page to get more information. Newsletter archive Sponsor the newsletter here !      The State's "Do-Nothing" DFW Air Plan is Falling Apart. Here's Our Chance to Have a Real One. We can get new controls on major polluters of DFW air   Breaking News:The new deadline for the State's DFW Air Plan is now 2017 - instead of 2018 EPA agrees with us that the State's air plan for DFW is inadequate and unlikely to work without more cuts in pollution EPA can reject the state's plan AND submit a federal plan of its own Our Job: organizing support for EPA rejection of the state's plan and a better federal alternative This is an opportunity to require new pollution controls on the Midlothian cement plants, East Texas Coal plants, and DFW gas compressors For a blow-by blow explanation of the current situation, please read our new blog post here. http://www.downwindersatrisk.org/   Majority Report with Sam Seder daily live show 11:00am Listen daily and call in to the show M-F 11:00am CST: Call-in and talk to Sam @ 646-257-3920  Please become a Member Download new app Choose a level of memberships start as low as $10 a month. That's only 50 cents per show!   http://majority.fm/   We need you to be a sponsor! Sponsor an edition today   Pastors for Peace Caravan to Cuba   Pastors for Peace Caravan to Cuba Get on the Little Yellow School Bus to Break the Blockade! http://is.gd/7cf0By Dallas July 11th http://ifconews.org/   Do you buy stuff from Amazon ? Use our link and you will help us get the newsletter out to more progressives in North Texas    Do you buy stuff from Amazon.com?  If you do, please use the link below. The North Texas Progressive will get a few cents on every purchase you make and it doesn't cost you an extra cent.     Just click the link (the Amazon.com logo) and bookmark it in your favorite browser and you'll help the NTXProgressive get the weekly newsletter out to progressives in North Texas every time you shop.   Thanks link here or click on logo above     Big Texas Oil and Gas Torpedo a Small City's Effort to Ban Fracking - Bye Bye Local Democracy http://is.gd/7COMZN
NORTH TEXAS CIVIL RIGHTS PROJECT GRAND OPENING CELEBRATION and FUNDRAISER!   WHAT? Join us and hear about what NTCRP does, why it's needed, and how you can support it! Jim Harrington, founder of the Texas Civil Rights Project, will be joining us that evening! WHEN? Thursday, July 9, 2015, 6:00pm - 8:00pm WHERE? The Grove, 501 Elm St., #450, Dallas, TX 75202 (directions below) Wine and hors-d'oeuvres will be served. RSVP to ntxcivilrights@gmail.com or (972) 333-9200, ext. 1003.   More info here : https://www.facebook.com/events/776967629085037/

 

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