Over a thousand Greens from all over the world gather in Chicago from July 10th-13th for the 2008 U.S. Green Party National Nominating Convention. On Thursday and Friday, they join in Workshops to learn from one another. On Saturday, a National Party Platform will be adopted; then the National Nominating Convention will select the Green Party candidate for the 2008 Presidential Election. Sunday morning: workshops and connecting with fellow Greens.

Rice University Professor and perhaps the best local climate-change scientist, Dr. Droxler will speak on a list of questions posed by a former Gulf Oil Vice President:
How do we know it is happening?
What are greenhouse gases?
How do they cause global warming?
How is human activity involved?
What are the likely consequences?
How sure are we?
What can we do about it?
7:30-9:30 PM, Friday, May 16, 2008
St. Paul's Methodist, 5501 S. Main, 2nd floor gym
Free, optional donation for Foundation for Contemporary Theology expenses
Questions -- Dick Whanger, 713-723-0858, or Houston Climate Protection Alliance,

The Green Party Free Speech and Ballot Access Festival
University of Houston Main Campus
Lynn Eusan Park
(near the giant red, white, and blue jumping jack).

Wednesday, April 23 * 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
- free food
- live music
- grandiose, long-winded speeches
- FREE Green Party buttons!- Petitions to sign -- if you qualify (see fine-print on flyers available here and there)

Green Party Candidate Forum in Houston
2-5 PM at The Havens Center, 1827 W Alabama

Speakers include: kat swift, presidential candidate; SKCM Curry, VP candidate; Tom Davis, candidate for US Senate from Texas; Art Browning, candidate for Texas RR Commissioner. (We may move downtown to join direct action.)

Writers, musicians, cartoonists will offer a window into the culture of Iraq, Lebanon, and Iran as well as their personal responses to war and invasion at Voices Breaking Boundaries’ annual event Words For Peace 5: Condemn Invasion. VBB will partner up with Words Without Borders and will showcase readings from Najem Wali, Hayan Charara, Farnoosh Moshiri, and Zara Houshmand, music by Inaam Wali, cartoons by Mazen Kerbaj, as well as performances by students from Lee High School. Community organizations will have tables at the event. Those include KPFT Pacifica Radio (90.1 FM), Artists Rescue Mission, Houston Palestine Film Festival, Peace Jam, and Brazos Bookstore, which will be selling many books including A Mirror Garden and Literature from the Axis of Evil. Writers and musicians will be available to sign their work after the performance. This event is cosponsored by DiverseWorks, Brazos Bookstore, and KPFT Pacifica Radio 90.1 FM.

Ann Wright, one of all too few public officials to resign in protest of the impending invasion and now occupation of Iraq, returns to Houston Monday, March 24 through Tuesday, March 25, to speak at the University of Houston, Brazos Books and the University of St. Thomas.

This is an event to die-in at the Marine Recruiting Station on 701 San Jacinto. We will also be doing street theater and agitation with whatever crowd we happen upon. It will begin at noon on March 19th, the 5th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq.

Activists across the country are marking the 5th anniversary of the invasion and occupation of Iraq with activities spanning several days. Join the Houston freeway bloggers 4-6 p.m. Thursday, March 20, on the Hwy 59 bridges and show your allegiance with the majority of Americans who want peace and an end to the Iraq occupation. Approximately 6000 vehicles pass under these bridges in each direction, EACH HOUR during the period we'll be there, so you WILL be noticed. If you don't have a sign, come anyway, and help hold large signs that others have made, and wave to the traffic.

Event simulating waterboarding and press conference condemning the use of waterboarding, stress positions and other forms of torture in response to president Bush's veto of the bill outlawing torture techniques.

Lenwood Johnson is well know to Houston's progressive community as the leader of the fight to stop destruction of Allen Parkway Village, a model low-income housing project on land near downtown that developers wanted (and partially succeeded) in getting their hands on. Bill Quigley, a leading activist for poor people in New Orleans, is a professor at the Loyola University College of Law and director of its law clinic. Architectural historian Stephen Fox will introduce the speakers. 7:30 p.m. at the Rothko Chapel, 1409 Sul Ross. For more information, call the Chapel, 713/524-9839 or visit www.rothkochapel.org.

The World Matters Film Festival
Presented by Houston Institute for Culture and University of St Thomas

April 1 - 10, 2008
Free and open to the public
http://www.houstonculture.org/film

In What A Way to Go, a middle class man comes to grips with Peak Oil, Climate Change, Mass Extinction, Population Overshoot and the demise of the Culture of Empire. The film addresses the questions: What is it doing to us as thoughtful human beings as we face the overwhelming challenges of: * Peaking fossil fuel flow rates? * Critically degraded ecosystems? * A changing climate? * An exploding global population? * Teetering global economies? * An unstable political climate? And what is it doing to the rest of the life on this planet? Following the film a special guest speaker will address questions from the audience.
The event is free and open to the public.

The Peace and Justice Network of Montgomery County is hosting this memorial candlelight silent vigil "to remember all of those who have been harmed and their families."

The fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq is coming up soon, and people in the Houston area want to express their opposition to the war and their demand that all the troops be brought home now. Although the Progressive Workers Organizing Committee has been pretty busy with the struggle in Spring for the past four months, we could not let the fifth anniversary of this immoral, illegal, and imperialist war pass without opposition. And we know you feel the same way.

February 20th-- Manufactured Landscapes
Description: Manufactured Landscapes is the portrait of one man's voyage as it follows celebrated still photographer Edward Burtynsky on a tour of Asia. Burtynsky takes large-format stills of industrial landscapes: factory workers lined up to infinity, giant ships eviscerated, massive recycling dumps, expansive strip mines. His goal is to portray humanity's relationship to nature as we pursue progress. Director Jennifer Baichwal makes insightful choices. The film perfectly balances the images of Burtynsky with those of talented cinematographer/creative consultant Peter Mettler And when Burtynsky speaks, he neither celebrates nor condemns but simply explores who we are in relation to our planet. We extract things from the environment to survive, and that is damaging the world

Attend the Town Hall Meeting:
7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 29 at
Good Hope Missionary Baptist Church,
north side of MacGregor, east of 288 South Freeway

Join the rally:
NOON Thursday, Jan. 31
Outside Harris County Criminal Courthouse
1201 Franklin Street

In a performance by The New Zulu Mardi Gras Indians, Houstonians will have a rare opportunity to experience the unique rhythms, chants and elaborate costumes on New Orleans' Black Indians during Martin Luther King weekend.

The Harris County Women's Political Caucus will have a reception at Cafe Express at Uptown Park on February 26th at 6:30pm. The Caucus invites interested members to attend and learn more about the organization and candidates seeking election in 2008!

Wednesday, January 16 Houston Indymedia Presents: Films Beyond Borders

Houston Indymedia is proud to continue our series of progressive documentary
films at Rice Cinema this January the 16th at 8pm, with 5 short films on
struggles for human dignity and freedom of movement. From Indiana, California
and Texas, the experiences of immigrant youth, anti-border activists and
detained migrants tell stories that can break through the systems of exclusion
and give a glimpse of our common humanity. The films include: