Do you want to learn how:
The health care systems works? (Or doesn't?)
To give a 5-minute presentation on health care reform?
To answer hard questions about health care reform?

Then...
Join the Health Care for All Texas - Houston chapter for "Understanding Health Care, Making Reform! A Community Workshop" on July 31 from 5:30 pm to 9 pm at Coventry Baptist Church 4990 Caroline Street, Houston 77004. The workshop is free of charge. Dinner will be served at 5:30. Please RSVP at

North America's largest and most ancitipated annual event for wind energy

WIND: THRIVING AT THE EPICENTER OF ENERGY

Organized by leaders in the wind energy industry, WINDPOWER 2008 Conference & Exhibition benefits all wind professionals.  Whether you are an established industry veteran or a newcomer to this exciting and explosive industry, WINDPOWER 2008 has much to offer including 3 days of conference sessions, an interactive tradeshow of wind energy products and services, and numerous networking opportunities.  We hope you can join us in Houston, the energy capital of the world!

We started Democracy Now! for a simple reason: to uncover the truth and to tell the stories that most media ignore. One of the most important stories they are missing is the exciting grassroots movement for better media.

Support KPFT and independent media by volunteering for the Spring Fund Drive, Monday, May 12 through Sunday, June 1. Novice phone volunteers have phone training scheduled 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 7 at the station, 419 Lovett.

On Thursday, Move-On folks are making major news at events in Houston and around the country. They're unveiling a new poll showing that local voters want to stop wasting billions in Iraq, and want to help the economy by investing those resources here at home.

Come to the Houston Peace & Justice Center's conference on "The Widening Gap: Economic Inequality at Home and Abroad" and expand your understanding of how justice and peace are compromised by the ever-widening gap between rich and poor 8:30 a.m. - 4:15 p.m. Saturday, April 19, in the Honors College, MD Anderson Library, at the University of Houston.

The Oscar Romero Award was established in response to the turbulent and violent times of the 1980s in South and Central America, especially El Salvador and Guatemala, when unthinkable acts of terror, torture, and deaths dominated the news. These horrific acts continue—have even increased—as today more than 150 governments are engaged in torture.

Join KPFT and Jim Hightower at a book signing event for his latest:
Swim Against The Current: Even A Dead Fish Can Go With The Flow
Wednesday, March 19, 2008 at the Landmark River Oaks Theatre, 2009 W. Gray, Houston, TX

WHAT - A Gulf Coast Juneteenth

WHEN - 7 pm, Thursday, June 19, 2008
WHERE - Miller Outdoor Theatre, 100 Concert Drive (in Hermann Park),
Houston, Texas 77030

WHO - ReBirth Brass Band; Geno Delafose and French Rockin' Boogie
(Zydeco); Sherman Robertson and Trudy Lynn (Blues); and local
singer/songwriters and gospel artists.

Human Rights Conference that will focus on Creating a Human Rights Culture in the US and beyond.

Feminist Philanthropist Genevieve Vaughan

10:45am Sunday, March 9

Houston Women's Group
First Unitarian Universalist Church
5200 Fannin @ Southmore, Rm 302, Sojourner Truth Room
(Museum District, 5 blks south of Hwy59)

Building new coal plants is the greatest threat to our climate said
Dr. James Hansen, head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

Of the 150 new coal plants planned a couple of years ago, environmentalists have already stopped 50. But we need your help. Join us in these actions:

STOP THE COAL RUSH! Protest New Coal Plants by Dynegy and LS Power, March 29

Join us in a demonstration for clean air Thursday morning, March 29, just before special shareholder meeting to approve Dynegy’s merger with LS Power. We’ll meet at Dynegy headquarters, in downtown Houston at Lamar and Louisiana at 8:30 am and leave at 10:00.

Film Screening of Burning the Future

Coal is the second largest contributor of carbon dioxide and is detrimental to our health and the environment. The U.S. is experiencing the largest push ever to build more of these dirty plants across the country.

Claiming our Rights, Envisioning our Future:
Communities Organizing for Justice

Believing that 2008 - and beyond -- holds great promise and great peril for those who organize and advocate for an immigration policy based on human rights, dignity and justice, the National Network on Immigrant and Refugee Rights is convening a national conference in Houston Texas on January 18-20, 2008. Join us in Houston to:

After you get yourself elected (the evening of Mar. 4) as a delegate to the SD or county convention, here's your chance to promote your candidates and your issues through resolutions, and more.

Most SD and county conventions start around 8 or 9 AM and go until mid-afternoon.

After you vote in the primary (either in person on election day or during early voting), come back to your precinct's Mar. 4 voting location (not early voting location and join with others in electing yourself and others in your neighborhood as delegates to your state Senatorial district conventions (Sat. Mar. 29), and for resolutions that deal with issues you care about.

New Year's Eve
Party for Peace

Join other peace activists for an evening of relaxation,
friendship, and gathering strength for the new year.

It's safe to talk politics at this party! Other conversations are welcome, too, of course.
If you are reading this on the PAA home page, click on the event title for details.

The annual conference of the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty will be held in Houston this year.

Keynote Speaker: Mike Farrell, President of Death Penalty Focus (also a star of M*A*S*H).

Attend the regular monthly meeting of the Progressive Action Alliance at 6:45 Thursday, Dec. 13. Come early to visit; meeting is from 7-9 p.m. Bring something non-messy to eat or drink and share if you wish.