Upcoming Progressive Events, 10/7/05
Highlights of some selected upcoming events are
below, with links to get more details, so you can
add them to your calendar.
Remember especially our monthly PAA meeting next Thursday.
Also check http://houston.indymedia.org and their
online calendar, and the HPJC calendar for
details on other important events in our area.
Links to both of these calendars are on the old
PAA web site at
http://progressiveactionalliance.org/ . (We
don't have these calendars or some other things
moved over to our new web site yet at
http://paa-tx.org/ but we should have them there
soon.)
The bi-weekly e-mail calendar from the Houston
Peace and Justice Center has many additional
events listed. To sign up for it, e-mail
.
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Meetings, special events, and other topics below
(click on any of the underlined links below for
more info):
*New web site and e-mail lists
*Oct 8: PAA Steering Committee meeting
*Oct 8: Rally against Intolerance
*Oct 8: Voter Outreach to stop amendment 2
*Oct 9: HPJC's Annual Peace Picnic
*Oct 11: Voter Registration Deadline for Nov. elections
*Oct 13: Progressive Action Alliance monthly meeting
*Oct 14: Film opening "Occupation Dreamland"
*Oct 14-16: 16th Annual Bioneers Conference
*Oct 22: Decade of Nonviolence-Houston dinner
*2000th US military casualty memorial
*Can you help compile info for these listings?
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New web site and e-mail lists
In case you missed the earlier announcements, our
new web site is at http://paa-tx.org/ Please
check it out and let us know what you think.
We haven't moved everything over yet from our old
web site (links to other calendars, text of
resolutions/issues, downloads, and links to other
organizations). Therefore, in the meantime, we
still have our old web site at
http://progressiveactionalliance.org/ . There's
a link near the top of the home page there to our
new web site.
We've moved everyone from our old announcements
list to our new one, and we did the same for our
general discussion list. We also have additional
new discussion lists and forums (on our new web
site) for people who want to keep up with certain
topics but who may not want to get mail on every
topic.
The new e-mail lists include Military
Recruiting/Truth-in-recruiting, Department of
Peace, Election Reform/verifiable voting, Empire
Building/Iraq/globalization,
Environment/sustainability/resource depletion/
peak oil, Houston Social Forum, Impeach Bush and
Cheney, and Media Reform.
The new e-mail lists, and the corresponding
forums for each one, are listed at
http://www.paa-tx.org/forum . You can get more
details on each list, and/or sign up for them, by
clicking on the subscribe/unsubscribe links there.
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Sep 6: PAA Steering Committee meeting (Sat.)
This is the meeting where we plan the agenda for
our general monthly Progressive Action Alliance
meeting (Thurs.), and see which committees/action
groups need help or more time to discuss what
they're doing. Everyone is welcome.
2:30 pm Saturday
at Field of Greens
2320 W. Alabama St., Houston 77098
about 1/4 mile east of Kirby
Phone: 713-533-0029
Map: http://tinyurl.com/9y55q
Contact Bill at ,
713-641-4941, or 713-305-5346 for questions or
suggestions for the agenda for Thursday's
meeting, especially if you can't come to
Saturday's meeting.
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Oct 8: Rally against Intolerance (Saturday)
A "Rally against Intolerance and for Respect" is
a response to the efforts of the para-military
Minutemen to foster racial hatred in Houston by
targeting Hispanic day laborers. Featuring
speakers, musicians, and poets.
Saturday, October 8 at 3:00pm
Burnett Bayland Park, 6000 Chimney Rock At Gulfton
Organized by the Coalition Against Intolerance and for Respect (ICAVIR)
For more information, see
http://houston.indymedia.org/ or call (832)
392-8777 or (832) 282-6997.
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Oct 8: Voter Outreach to stop amendment 2 (Saturday)
Saturday night, join me and others who want to
preserve our Texas Bill of Rights and keep
discrimination out of our state constitution, by
educating folks on the marriage bigotry amendment
(#2 on the ballot in Nov.).
The No Nonsense in November campaign (see
www.nononsenseinNovember.com ) is organizing a
large voter outreach effort in gay bars, where
permission of the owners has already been
obtained, Saturday night. We'll be distributing
literature on amendment 2 and registering people
to vote, from 8 PM until 2 AM. We have people
lined up for ten bars in Houston, plus others in
other Texas cities, but we still need a few more
volunteers.
If you can help for part of the time Saturday
night at one of the bars, contact one of the
following Houston coordinators for this effort:
John Grothues - 713-516-6728
John G. Ibanez 713-516-7047
Jennifer Poche 832-661-3467
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Oct 9: HPJC's Annual Peace Picnic (Sunday)
Attend the Houston Peace and Justice Center's
Annual Peace Picnic to celebrate the work of
Houston's communities of conscience. It was
re-scheduled due to hurricane Rita.
State Senator Garnet Coleman will be on hand to
give an insider's view of the school finance
fiasco.
Bring a covered dish and news of your group's
activities. Drinks will be provided.
Time: 5:30-8 p.m., but later arrivals are welcome.
At the First Congregational Church
10840 Beinhorn in Houston, just west of Voss.
(Take Bingle/Voss exit off I-10, go south and turn right
at first stop light.)
For more information contact Bob Henschen at 713-661-9889 or
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Oct. 11: Voter Registration Deadline for Nov. elections (Tue.)
If you've moved or know someone who will be 18
years old on or before Nov. 8, be sure to
register to vote, or re-register with your new
address, by Tuesday at the latest.
Everyone in Texas can vote on the proposed state
Constitutional amendments (including the awful
one, #2, noted above).
There are also candidates for Houston city
council, Harris Co. school boards, and more on
the ballot.
General information on the election (Harris Co.):
http://www.harrisvotes.com/non_frames/electinfo.htm
Details on Houston & Harris Co. candidates
(including party affiliations and links to
candidate web sites), Texas constitutional
amendments, etc.:
http://hcdp.org/upcoming.html
Other good general election info is at the League
of Women Voter's web site at
http://www.lwvhouston.org/ They usually have
their Voter's Guide available online and in
libraries and other locations by the start of
early voting.
We'll have an early voting schedule (dates,
times, places) up on our web site soon at
http://paa-tx.org/
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Oct 13 ~ Progressive Action Alliance monthly meeting (Thur)
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm (come early to visit & gab: 6:30 pm social)
Leisure Learning Unlimited, 2990 Richmond, Houston, 6th floor, rm 6
map: http://tinyurl.com/4gwo7
Topics include:
*November elections: