Dear nancy,
Wow - huge newsletter this week !
Welcome to our new sponsors the North
Texas Church of Freethought and please
note their special event in March. Jay
is a long time member (one of the
oldest!) of our Dallas Air America group
and it's wonderful that he is bringing
us this information about his church, I
know anyone would feel very welcome!
Make plans to attend the Eco Film
festival, the Maya Angelou event and
then delegate training!! Busy -busy -
busy!
Vote EARLY or better yet take the day
off from work on March 4th
and work at your candidate's campaign
office, they will need last minute
help at the phone bank or to drive folks
to the polls. Then REMEMBER this year
you must go back at 7:00 pm to the
precinct convention and sign in for your
candidate - you can stay for the meeting
, put forth a resolution or run to be a
delegate for your senatorial convention
OR YOU CAN just sign in for your
delegate and GO HOME! This is an
important step this year with the close
race! Let us know if you need any help
or information! Thanks, Nancy Cunningham
dallasairamerica@gmail.com
**we will have more on resolutions in
next weeks newsletter!
We've heard from lots of folks and DO
NOT hesitate to ask questions - maybe
we can help!
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March 4th Seymour
Hersh speaks at TCU
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 Location: Ed
Landreth Auditorium
MAPS
Event
Date: 3/4/2008
Event Time: 7:30 PM
TCU's Center for Civic Literacy presents
American Pulitzer Prize-winning
investigative journalist and author
Seymour Hersh.
Co-sponsored by the TCU Schieffer School
of Journalism, TCU's AddRan College of
Humanities and Social Sciences, and
Leadership Fort Worth.
Seymour Hersh is an American Pulitzer
Prize-winning investigative journalist
and author of eight books. He worked as
a correspondent for the Associated Press
beginning in 1963. Hersh gained
worldwide recognition for his exposure
of the My Lai Massacre and cover-up
during the Vietnam War, for which he
later received the Pulitzer Prize. More
recently, he uncovered the abuse of
detainees in Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq
by U.S. military personnel.
Tickets are $50 for priority seating and
reserved parking; $10 general
admission.
For more information on the Center for
Civic Literacy visit
http://www.civlit.tcu.edu/ .
For more
information on the lectureship series,
contact Karen Anisman, associate
director of the Center for Civic
Literacy at 817-257-7395 or k.anisman@tcu.edu.
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Air America Is
Changing Ownership (what again ?)
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Air America, one of the country's more
powerful radio networks and a major
progressive megaphone, is switching
ownership.
Charlie Kireker, a former political
official and creator of Pendulum Media
will succeed Stephen L. Green, the New
York real estate CEO who helped lift the
company out of bankruptcy, as chair of
the board. The move will be finalized in
mid March. Mark Green, Stephen's brother
and Democratic activist, will remain as
Air America's president.
"We look at what Steve and Mark Green
have done as the transition role of
saving and stabilizing the business and
now we think it is a good opportunity to
expand upon that," Kireker told the
Huffington Post. "The company has made a
lot of progress, we have consolidated
operations, and streamlined things to be
more efficient. We are yet to
profitability but we are heading there."
Read on
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St. Mark's School of Texas Eco Film Festival |
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North Texas Church of Freethought |
We are the Church for the Unchurched,
offering atheists and unbelievers
all the social, emotional and
inspirational benefits of
traditional faith-based religions,
but without the superstition.
Like other churches, we explore all
the most puzzling problems and
questions of the human condition -
but through the eyes of reason!
Our monthly services are held on the
first Sunday of every month
at the
Wyndham Hotel DFW Airport North
in Irving, located at the corner of
Hwy. 114 (John Carpenter Freeway) at
Esters Blvd. and
we
start promptly at 10:30 AM.
(Visit
our web page for more information).
**
Ellery Schempp to speak at March
service
Mr. Schempp is an accomplished
physicist, who is also famous for
being the primary student involved
in the landmark 1963 United States
Supreme Court case of Abington
School District v. Schempp, which
declared that public
school-sanctioned Bible readings
were unconstitutional.
He'll be speaking at our March
Service on the subject of
"Freethought vs. Religion" on March
2. The North Texas Church of
Freethought services are held on the
first Sunday of every month at the
Wyndham Hotel DFW Airport North
in Irving,
located at the corner of Hwy. 114
(John Carpenter Freeway) at Esters
Blvd., at 10:30 AM.
Come visit the only church that
teaches physics in its Sunday
School, North Texas'
Fellowship for
Unbelievers!
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Front Groups Beware of
Full Frontal Scrutiny |
Today, the Center for Media and
Democracy and our partners at
Consumer Reports WebWatch launched
an exciting new project:
Full Frontal
Scrutiny.
The
site seeks to shine a light on
front groups
--
organizations that state a particular
agenda, while hiding or obscuring their
identity, membership or sponsorship, or
all three. Google the term "front
groups" and the number one return is
CMD's extensive articles on its
SourceWatch site.
WebWatch and CMD will create original
content for Full Frontal Scrutiny, which
will also publish selected content from
WebWatch and from the CMD's SourceWatch
and PRwatch sites, as well as
aggregating news about front groups from
other reliable sources.
As CMD Research Director Sheldon Rampton
said,
"Full
Frontal Scrutiny will
be like no other site on the Web.
Fakers, phonies and front groups beware
-- you will be exposed."
Full Frontal Scrutiny adds to the CMD
mix the extensive experience that
Consumer Reports' WebWatch brings in
looking specifically at the Web presence
of organizations. "For six years,
Consumer Reports WebWatch has
evaluated sites against five simple
guidelines for credibility and
trustworthiness," said Beau Brendler,
WebWatch's director. "Who owns the site?
What's its purpose and mission? Does it
disclose sources of funding or key
relationships with third parties? These
are important questions for consumers to
ask about any Web site, and they're also
remarkably effective for ferreting out
sites that intend to spin, obfuscate or
dress up an unpopular agenda
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When Change Is Not Enough: The Seven Steps
To Revolution |
By
Sara Robinson
"Those
who make peaceful evolution impossible
make violent revolution inevitable."
- John F. Kennedy
There's one thing for sure:
2008 isn't anything like politics as
usual.
The corporate media (with their unerring
eye for the obvious point) is fixated on
the narrative that, for the first time
ever, Americans will likely end this
year with either a woman or a black man
headed for the White House. Bloggers are
telling stories from the front lines of
primaries and caucuses that look like
something from the early 60s
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people lining up before dawn to vote
in Manoa,
Hawaii yesterday;
a thousand black college students
in Prairie
View, Texas marching 10 miles to cast
their early votes in the face of a
county that tried to disenfranchise
them. In recent months, we've also been
gobstopped by the sheer passion of the
insurgent campaigns of both Barack Obama
and Ron Paul, both of whom brought
millions of new voters into the
conversation - and with them, a sharp
critique of the status quo and a new
energy that's agitating toward deep
structural change. Read
on
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XM radio has great political channels! |
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Want to Stop the War
in Iraq? Boycott the Big Three Oil
Companies! |
The Dallas Peace Center's End the
Occupation of Iraq Committee is joining
forces with Consumer's for Peace and
London based Hands Off Iraqi Oil to wage
a boycott of those companies that are
benefiting the most from the war:
Exxon/Mobil, Shell and BP.
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan
Greenspan recently admitted what many
have known, that "the Iraq war is
largely about oil." The Bush
administration's desire to control
Iraq's vast oil reserves-and to ensure
that major international, private
corporations have cheap access to those
reserves-has become increasingly obvious
over the course of the war, and is the
primary reason why the US is still in
Iraq.
ExxonMobil, Shell, and British
Petroleum, the world's largest
non-governmentally-owned oil companies,
are leading the push for corporate
access to Iraqi oil, and may have helped
lead the US and the United Kingdom to
war in 2003. These companies are also
the top three sellers of oil products to
the Pentagon. While ordinary Iraqis and
Americans bear the brunt of the war,
these companies have enjoyed enormous
profits as a direct result of the
ongoing US presence in Iraq.
According to the Hadi Jawad, Iraq
Committee chair of the Dallas Peace
Center, "What Big Oil is doing today, in
bygone years was known as 'looting and
plundering'. Today it is called 'war
profiteering'. Big Oil has made $80
billion simply because of the
uncertainty in world oil markets caused
by the war in Iraq. This money should be
returned to those afflicted by the war.
Five years of lobbying Congress have
failed to end the war; we as
consumers must use our buying power
to apply direct pressure to the
companies most involved in the war.
ExxonMobil, Shell, and BP have great
influence on the US Congress and the
administration. Faced with strong
enough threats to their profits,
they will pressure our government to
withdraw from Iraq.
Sign the
PLEDGE TO
BOYCOTT THE "BIG THREE" GASOLINE
COMPANIES
www.dallaspeacecenter.org /
www.consumersforpeace.org /www.handsoffiraqioil.org
Need more
information ? Email
Hadi Jawad
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Voices of
Peace :Maya Angelou event at Meyerson |
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Audio / Video you don't want to miss !
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Two videos from
the Sam Seder blog
crap you pants
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stop the spying
DEMOCRACY
NOW!:Musical Legend Willie Nelson on
Farm Aid, Biodiesel Fuel, Outlaw Country
Music, Marijuana Laws, the Impeachment
of President Bush, the 9/11 Attacks &
More. Country music legend Willie Nelson
joins us for the hour to talk politics
and to play some songs, including ³A
Moment of Forever,² ³On the Road Again,²
³Youıre Always on My Mind² and ³To All
the Girls Iıve Loved Before.²
Listen/Watch/Read
Howard Zinn
Presents Progressive American History in
"The People Speak"
Marisa Tomei,
Danny Glover, Josh Brolin and many more
join Howard Zinn to celebrate some of
America's frequently overlooked heroes
"Barack With You": A Collection of All
Your Favorite Obama Inspired Hits
Anything as
earnest as Will.i.Am's "Yes We Can"
Obama video was inevitably going to be
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Holes in the Wall |
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Homeland Security won't say why the
border wall is bypassing the wealthy and
politically connected.
Melissa del Bosque
Texas Observer
As the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
marches down the Texas border serving
condemnation lawsuits to frightened
landowners, Brownsville resident Eloisa
Tamez, 72, has one simple question. She
would like to know why her land is being
targeted for destruction by a border wall,
while a nearby golf course and resort remain
untouched.
Tamez, a nursing director at the University
of Texas at Brownsville, is one of the last
of the Spanish land grant heirs in Cameron
County. Her ancestors once owned 12,000
acres. In the 1930s, the federal government
took more than half of her inherited land,
without paying a cent, to build flood
levees.
Read on
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Listen
to the Errington Thompson Show
Saturdays - 9am EST
Air America - Asheville, NC
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Cracking the Code by Thom
Hartmann |
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Too many Americans are acting
against their best interests,
buying into a right-wing line
whose practical effect is to
leave them marginalized and
struggling. Why are the
representatives of the Right
able to make their message so
appealing? Because they've
learned the techniques of
effective communication-and you
can too.
More
information and how to buy this
great book.
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Most valuable political book of the year
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In an end-of-year column, John Nichols
of
The Nation named Naomi Wolf's
book
The End of America: A Letter of Warning
to a Young Patriot as the most
valuable political book of 2007.
Of her book, Nichols said, "[H]er
detailing of the parallels between steps
taken by the current administration and
moves made by the 20th century's most
notorious dictators to transform
democracies into authoritarian states is
as convincing as it is chilling. And
Wolf is not just complaining; she's the
'face' of the American Freedom
Campaign's important drive to identify
and confront assaults on basic liberties
and the system of checks and balances."
Congratulations, Naomi and thanks to
John Nichols for adding this important
book to his list. It's good company to
be sure, and Nichols knows books. He
penned an excellent book in 2006, called
The
Genius of Impeachment: The Founders'
Cure for Royalism.
To read the full article,
click here.
Check out Naomi's side project, the
American Freedom Campaign.
Currently, they are seeking 1,000
lawyers to
sign a petition calling for a special
prosecutor to investigate the crimes of
the Bush Administration.
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Precinct
Conventions and Delegate information |
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DATE: March 1, 2008
TIME: 10:30 am to 12:00 pm
LOCATION: Oak Lawn Library
Cedar Springs at Knight in the Kroger
parking lot
Everyone is talking about attending the
caucus at one's precinct on Election
Day. Come learn what this is all
about. We'll discuss what happens at
7:15 pm on Election Day and the rules
that are involved. This year, Texas
voters will play a significant role in
determining the Democratic presidential
nominee.
Let's all be "players"!
The Primary Election Day is March 4th,
and Early Voting ends Feb. 29th.
Everyone is welcome this event is hosted
by PARK CITIES/CENTRAL DALLAS DEMOCRATS
ContactMary
Warrenif
you need more info
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