Event Description:

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.

Event Sponsor:
Move-On, Jeremiah C.

Event Description:

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.

Event Sponsor:
Houston Peace and Justice Center

Event Website:
www.hpjc.org/2008_springconf.html

Event Description:

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.

Event Sponsor:
Rothko Chapel

Event Website:
http://rothkochapel.org/events.htm

Event Description:

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

Event Sponsor:
KPFT

Event Website:
www.kpft.org

Event Description:

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.

Event Sponsor:
Houston Institute for Culture

Event Website:
june19.org

Event Description:

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

Event Sponsor:
US Human Rights Network

Event Website:
www.ushrnetwork.org

Event Description:

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)

Event Sponsor:
The Amazon Xociety, The Houston Women's Group, and Houston Area NOW

Event Description:

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:

Event Sponsor:
Multiple organizations

Event Description:

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.

Event Sponsor:
Multiple organizations

Event Website:
www.coalblock.net

Event Description:

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.

Event Sponsor:
Public Citizen

Event Website:
www.coalblock.net

Event Description:

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:

Event Sponsor:
National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights

Event Website:
nnirr.org/events/conference/2008/english.html

Event Description:

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.

Event Description:

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.

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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.

Event Description:

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).

Event Sponsor:
Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty

Event Website:
www.tcadp.org

Event Description:

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.

Event Description:

Texans for Peace presents it third annual "Teaching Peace in Texas Schools" conference. Workshops include "Teaching empathy through exercises in the math and science curricula," "Creating a culture of peace in the schools," "Encouraging student activism," "Working it out; empowering elementary school students to resolve their own conflicts," "Nonviolent communication in the schools," and "Peaceful vocations; a guide to counter-recruiting in our schools." Keynote speaker is noted author Jan Arnow, founder of the Louisville Kentucky-based Intercultural Institute and longtime proponent of nonviolent communication techniques in education.

Event Sponsor:
Texans for Peace, co-sponsored by Houston Peace and Justice Center and Decade of Nonviolence Houston

Event Website:
www.texansforpeace.org/ConferenceTeachingPeace.htm

Event Description:

Houston Anarchist Black Cross and Sedition Books present "The Corporation" 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 2, Sedition Books, 4816 Old Spanish Trail.*

The film charts the development of the corporation as a legal entity from its origins as an institution chartered by governments to carry out specific public functions, to the rise of the vast modern institutions entitled to some of the legal rights of a person. One central theme of the documentary is an attempt to assess the "personality" of the corporate "person" by using diagnostic criteria from the DSM-IV; Robert Hare, a University of British Columbia Psychology Professor and FBI consultant, compares the modern, profit-driven corporation to that of a clinically diagnosed psychopath.

Event Sponsor:
Houston ABC and Sedition Books

Event Website:
www.myspace.com/seditionbooks

Event Description:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

July 6, 2007

Houstonians Join Nationwide Call for Impeachment

Event Sponsor:
Progressive Action Alliance, Harris County Green Party

Event Website:
www.paa-tx.org

Event Description:

Organizing Meeting for the Texas' 8th Annual March to Stop Executions Monday, June 25, 2007, in Houston's Third Ward at SHAPE Community Center, 3815 Live Oak, 7-9 pm Get involved in building for the 8th Annual march which will be held in Houston for the 1st time this year. There's a broad grouping of people who want to make this not only a successful event but use it to intensify the organizing around the DP in Houston. Join with us and get involved. Be part of the movement to stop the machinery of death in Texas! For more information contact Sister Njeri at 713-237-0713. ***Important information: Harris County will execute its 100th person on July 24 if Lonnie Johnson does not get a stay. We are calling on all groups and individuals to join in a big protest downtown from 4-6 pm at the old hanging tree (on the corner of Capital and Bagby Streets behind Bayou Place and across from the Hobby Center). This horrible milestone in Harris County history must not go unchallenged!

Event Sponsor:
multiple organizations