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featherNovember is Native American Heritage Month. This year’s theme is “Celebrating Tribal Nations: America’s Great Partners.”

Two points of celebration are: the honoring of Native American Veterans, who have maintained the highest active service as a group in the nation, and the honoring of Native American artists poets and writers. A third point of celebration is to honor educators.

I’ve attempted to introduce you to some terrific women in honor of the month. You’ll know their special status by the turkey feather. Do a search for “feather” in the box above right to find them.

In addition, today, November 28, 2008, is the First National Native American Heritage Day. (more…)

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November

This month the seventeen year old  Sacagawea, or Sakakawea, saw the Pacific Ocean for the first time, hunted for food to feed men who were tired of dried fish, and voted over where the Lewis and Clark Expedition would winter along the Oregon coast. She had begun her travels at sixteen with her French Canadian husband, Charbonneau, an black slave named York, who despite his efforts and another’s promise, would never be freed, and a gaggle of white men who did not speak her language. (more…)

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b16_days_topEach year the Center for Women’s Global Leadership at Rutgers highlights sixteen women, men and organizations that standout in the fight against gender violence. Representing November 27th, is: (more…)

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Think you know who gave the first Thanksgiving?

Test what you know against Wikipedia’s LIST below: (more…)

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 Read what Heidi Li SAID about Hillary.

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Each year the Center for Women’s Global Leadership at Rutgers highlights sixteen women, men and organizations that standout in the fight against gender violence. Representing November 26th, is: (more…)

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Texas Dems, set your schedules to include:

Hearings In Dallas, Houston and San Antonio Set for Dec 17, 19, 20

November 25, 2008 by End the Texas Two Step  

The following dates for hearings in Dallas, Houston and San Antonio have been posted to the TDP website. The actual hearing locations have not yet been annnounced.

 

December 17, 2008

Dallas, TX

 

4 p.m.

December 19, 2008

Houston, TX

 

9 a.m.

December 20, 2008

San Antonio, TX

 

9 a.m

And don’t forget to ask if your neighbor wants a ride or needs a sitter. If they couldn’t make it to the caucuses, they really need to be heard.

I Own My Vote, PUMA, The Denver Group, Just Say No Deal

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Since the trace amount of the discovered melamine was less than the designated risk factor, the name of the manufacturer was withheld. However, that same manufacturer had tested previously with no result. (more…)

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Born this day a great American abolitionist, writer, and suffragist: (more…)

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Written Testimony of Precinct Chair Reuben Leslie

November 25, 2008 by End the Texas Two Step   (more…)

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I’m shaking my head, and trying not to waste perfectly good rage over this by howling and breaking things.

Michael Luo has been writing about Obama’s campaign donations, from the beginning. Mr Huo and I even had an email exchange over Obama’s reporting. I sent my concerns about donor counts in June, 2008.  So I wonder why we had to wait for the NYT to give us the truth after the election is over? If I can find this stuff over at the FEC, why can’t they? (more…)

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