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Upcoming Events and Items of Interest

Braeswood Democrats Meeting
Voter Suppression
Occupy Houston/Occupy Wall Street
Implications of the 2010 Census for Texas

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Braeswood Democrats Meeting

Date:Sunday, December 4, 2011
Time: 6:00 pm - Potluck Supper, 7:00 pm - Program
Where: 4046 Drummond, Houston TX, 77025

Topics:

• Meet City Council Candidates for At Large Districts 2 & 5 for the Demember 10th runoff
• Voter Suppression & King Street Patriots
• Redistricting - State and Federal maps have changed
• New County Chair
• March primaries

Join your fellow Democratic neighboors for a potluck supper. Bring an item according to your last name, or bring whatever you want. Or just come to the meeting at 7:00 pm.

Last Name	Bring
A-E	Meat or Vegetarian Entree
F-K	Vegetable or Salad
L-R	Bread or Pasta
S-Z	Dessert or Chips

For more info: Contact Norma Eiman at 713-665-4357 or e-mail norma.eiman@sbcglobal.net

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Voter Suppression

An excellent article by Ari Berman in Rolling Stone magazine on the Republican/Tea Party national voter suppression movement operating under the guise of preventing vote fraud can be found at http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-gop-war-on-voting-20110830.

The Brennan Center for Justice has additional information regarding the war on voting at http://www.brennancenter.org/content/resource/voting_law_changes_2012/"

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Occupy Houston/Occupy Wallstreet

At the October 23rd meeting of the Braeswood Democrats, the members present voted unanimously to stand in solidarity with Occupy Houston. The Braeswood Democrats signed on to the Occupy Houston solidarity statement from Democracy Houston:

Braeswood Democrats joins Democracy For Houston and stands in solidarity with Occupy Houston and the 99% in their struggle for fairness, justice, jobs and the restoration of power to the people:

• The 1% who benefited the most must accept their responsibility and contribute their fair share.
• The financial barons who abused the law to enrich themselves at our expense should be held accountable at the bar of justice.
• Our elected representatives must work to protect and create American Jobs, not work to protect the wealth of the richest 1%.
• There must be an end to the corruption of "corporate democracy" and we must return government power to "We the People!"

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Implications of the 2010 Census for Texas

At the May 1, 2011 meeting of the Braeswood Democrats, Steve Murdock, the Director of the Hobby Center for the Study of Texas and the Allyn and Gladys Cline Professor of Sociology at Rice University gave an excellant presentation on Population Change in Texas: Implications of the 2010 Census for Education and Human and Economic Development.