The Occupy movement scored its biggest slap at the Obama administration over the weekend when U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk was punk’d MTV-Ashton Kutcher style at the Dallas meeting of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations. After Kirk finished speaking, an Occupy demonstrator and actor dressed in a suit went to the microphone to announce that Kirk’s [...]
Read more →City Council Briefing: Gas Drilling Ordinance Wednesday, May 16th, 1PM City Hall Briefing Room: 1500 Marilla, Room 6ES The Dallas Gas Drilling Task Force will brief the Dallas City Council on their recommendations for re-writing the gas drilling ordinance on Wednesday, May 16, at Dallas City Hall, room 6ES – briefing room. We have been [...]
Read more →Here is a flyer for Occupy TPP, print some out and help spread the word! Occupy The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)
Read more →Dear Activists, Take Action for Fair Trade! Bob Cash of Texas Fair Trade Watch is organizing protest activities against the Trans Pacific Partnership “free trade agreement” that is being negotiated in Dallas May 8-18. See http://www.citizenstrade.org/ctc/texas and RSVP please. About 130 government representatives and over 600 corporate lobbyists will gather at the Intercontinental Hotel, 15201 [...]
Read more →Meeting announcement, please print and share! Thursday, April 26th 6:30pm El Centro Community College, West Campus, 3330 N. Hampton Thursday, May 3th 7:00pm North Hills Prep School 606 E Royal (near L.B. Houston) Tuesday, May 8th 7:00pm Harmony School 8120 W. Camp Wisdom Dallas Residents, Property Values at Risk Don’t Let the Dallas City Council [...]
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Read more →MSNBC reports that a scientific paper published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature on Wednesday concluded that during the end of the last Ice Age (12,000 years ago), global temperatures rose after carbon dioxide levels started to rise. This provides even more scientific evidence that there is a connection between warming temperatures and rising carbon dioxide. [...]
Read more →By Sam Pizzigati at Too Much Behind last week’s record-smashing $2 billion sale of the Los Angeles Dodgers, a global economy that’s enriching only the world’s super rich. [Full story]
Read more →The Dallas Observer is reporting that there is a good chance that Energy Future Holdings (EFH) (or TXU for most of us) the state’s largest power generator, will go broke – click here to read their story. The question now becomes – are Texas ratepayers going to have to pay for EHF’s bad bet? Texas Vox
Read more →While cell tracking by local police departments has received some limited public attention in the last few years, the A.C.L.U. documents show that the practice is in much wider use — with far looser safeguards — than officials have previously acknowledged. Grits for Breakfast
Read more →Labor Notes A stream of supporters, Occupy activists, postal workers, their families, and retirees stood up to speak about their outrage at a January 4 meeting. The hall filled to capacity as 500 people turned out on a cold winter weekday evening. The entire Vermont congressional delegation and the governor attended. National union officers say [...]
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