After Representative Lon Burnam of Fort Worth demanded that George W. "Bill" Ceverha resign from the board of the Employee Retirement System (ERS), North Texas Jobs with Justice found a way to join in defense of state workers. The ERS Board guards almost $20 million in taxpayer dollars that is supposed to be there when state employees retire.

Ceverha agreed to be investigated on Burnam's conflict of interest charges, then went home to Dallas. On his first day at his office on Cedar Springs in Dallas, a group of us stood outside to demand his resignation!

related link: http://www.labordallas.org

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NOTE: Special thanks to Randy Lee Loftis, environment reporter for The Dallas Morning News, for making the first investigative report on this incident, and for providing much of the information used in this IMC report.

Federal and state officials report they still have not located two vials of radioactive material that went missing November 3 as they were being shipped by truck from Albuquerque to Kilgore, Texas.

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On December 10, International Human Rights Day, North Texans assembled Wal-Mart on I-30 at the St Francis exit in East Dallas. Teamsters from mighty Local 745 constituted about half of the crowd of 150, which strung out along the freeway access road for in a line more than 3 city blocks.

The United Food and Commercial Workers, also part of the new "Coalition for Change" joined in. The other half of the group consisted of AFL-CIO affiliated unionists and a handful of supporters from the peace and immigrants' rights movements. Rudy Anderson of Jobs with Justice brought signs and shrill whistles for everyone.

related link: http://www.labordallas.org

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I am an animal rights activist. Although I marched against the Iraq war 2 years ago, I didn't become an anti-war protester until October 25, 2005 when I was arrested for trying to visit my Senator's Dallas office.

The experience of being arrested was surreal. I couldn't believe an everyday VOTER was not only being questioned outside the building with a heavy police presence, but not being allowed entry at all.

I would love to say my reason for visiting the senator's office was as admirable as voicing my objection to the 2000th soldier killed in Iraq. Alas, my reason was less honorable. I was perplexed when Mrs. Hutchison stated on Meet the Press that Rove's perjury was a "technicality" while Clinton's was worthy of impeachment. I wanted to voice my dismay in person.

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North Texas was pleased an honored to welcome Saturday Night Live alum , comedian and radio talk show host , Al Franken to Dallas yesterday.

Al Franken was in town at the invitation of KXEB 910 AM Dallas’s own AAR affiliate. Al broadcast live his daily national Air America Radio Network show called, The Al Franken Show.

The three hour-long program broadcast live from the Dallas’ Hard Rock Cafe from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. featured special Texas home-grown guests; author Lou Dubose, author and former CBS producer Mary Mapes, Texas Attorney General candidate David Van Os, and Mark Birnbaum and Jim Schermbeck, producers of the documentary, "The Big Buy."

For those who missed the program, it may be downloaded as an MP3 file from the Air America archives.

related link: http://www.dallasairamerica.org/

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Sheehan to support the call for a town hall meeting.

The Camp Casey Dallas Coalition met , and decided that CCD will pitch its tents outside Kay Bailey Hutchison's office through December. We will be there on December 2, December 9, December 16, (not December 23) and December 30. At that time, we will meet and decide where to go from there.

This Friday, we have a special guest coming. Cindy Sheehan is going to join us! When Hadi told her what we were outside of KBH's office every Friday and that people had been arrested trying to go see her, she clapped and cheered. Hadi asked her to join us this Friday, and she agreeed! She has to catch a 2:45 flight, so CCD will begin at 11:00 instead of noon.

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With smiling faces and blaring Hip-Hop music, the United States’ Army Recruiters talked to hundreds of passers-by outside the University Of North Texas Student Union on Thursday, November 3.

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