Events

Event Description:

YOU are invited to join with other progressives (and people who don't mind being around progressives talking about politics) to a pot-luck New Year's eve party at the home of Bill and Cheryl Crosier.

Bring:
Something to eat or drink, or your voice or a musical instrument
(one of the above is plenty)
Or just bring yourself.  Feel free to bring friends, too.  We never have to worry about enough food with a pot-luck party.
Bring flyers, signs, etc. for candidates or for upcoming events for your favorite organizations.  We'll have a literature table.

Event Sponsor:
Progressive Action Alliance

Event Phone Contact Information:
713-641-4941

Event Email Address:
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Event Website:
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Event Description:

YOU are invited to join with other progressives (and people who don't mind being around progressives talking about politics) to a pot-luck New Year's eve party at the home of Bill and Cheryl Crosier.

Bring:
Something to eat or drink, or your voice or a musical instrument
(one of the above is plenty)
Or just bring yourself.  Feel free to bring friends, too.  We never have to worry about enough food with a pot-luck party.
Bring flyers, signs, etc. for candidates or for upcoming events for your favorite organizations.  We'll have a literature table.

Event Sponsor:
Progressive Action Alliance

Event Phone Contact Information:
713-641-4941

Event Email Address:
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Event Website:
progressiveactionalliance.org/node/1120

Event Description:

Please join us for the campaign kick-off party of Goodwille Pierre, Democratic candidate for the office of Harris County Clerk. Goodwille is an attorney and a dynamic voting rights activist. He is also the former state director of People for the American Way, a progressive advocacy organization that promotes strong civil liberties.

Event Contact Name:
Stan Merriman

Event Email Address:
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Event Description:

From the Secretary of State:

First day of period for voter to submit an application for an early ballot by mail for the general primary, or for both the general primary and the runoff primary. The application is considered submitted at the time of receipt. (Secs. 84.001(d), 84.007).

Event Description:

On Sat., Jan 7, 2006, at the Moody Gardens Hotel, Spa and Convention Center, 7 Hope Blvd., Galveston, the Galveston County Democratic Party will host a banquet titled TURN TEXAS BLUE. Social hour is at 6 pm, 7 pm is the banquet. Following the banquet is the program that will be opened with a video message from DNC Chairman Howard Dean. Among others, Nick Lampson and Shane Sklar, candidates for Districts 22 and 14, respectively, will be in attendance. Tickets to the banquet are $50. RESERVATIONS MUST BE MADE PRIOR TO JAN.1, 2006. Make your checks payable to the Galveston County Democratic Party and mail to PO Box 519, LaMarque, TX 77568. Committee meetings start at 9 am and run until noon at which time the rally starts that will feature statewide and federal candidates. This is your chance to meet them all. The rally will last until 1 pm. It is followed at 1 pm by the quarterly meeting of the State Democratic Executive Committee. If you plan to stay over night, call the Moody Gardens Hotel at 1-888-388-8484 for reservations and tell them you are part of the Texas Democratic Party. For further information see www.democraticswin.com. Your participation will benefit a great cause for our state and nation. Help TURN TEXAS BLUE!

Event Sponsor:
Galveston County Democratic Party

Event Contact Name:
June Bennett Larsen

Event Phone Contact Information:
281-482-5621

Event Email Address:
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Event Website:
www.Democratswin.com

Event Fee:
$50. per seat for banquet.

Event Description:

Join HRC at the L-Word Season 3 Premiere Event at Guava Lamp!

• Doors open: 6:00 PM
• Show begins: 8:00 PM
• Party: Pre-Screening

Event Sponsor:
Human Rights Campaign (HRC)

Event Website:
www.sho.com/site/lword/home.do

Event Fee:
Admission to screening is free and open to the public. $5 Pre-Party donation to the Human Rights Campaign suggested.

Event Description:

Republican Governor Rick Perry will be at the Greater Houston Builder Association this Wednesday at 9:30 AM to surgically reattach his lips to the builder’s ass. Let’s gather to protest Perry’s the culture of corruption, dishonesty, and failed policies. We will meet at 9:00 AM.
 
We hope to see you there!

Event Contact Name:
John Cobarruvias

Event Phone Contact Information:
281-486-5203

Event Description:

Come to the monthly meeting of the Progressive Action Alliance starting at 7:30 p.m. (30 minutes later than usual) Thursday, Jan. 12, at Leisure Learning Unlimited, 6th floor, Room 6.

Agenda items this month include:

Event Sponsor:
Progressive Action Alliance

Event Contact Name:
C. Lee Taylor

Event Phone Contact Information:
713-524-1944

Event Email Address:
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Event Website:
www.paa-tx.org

Event Fee:
Free

Event Description:

Harris County Democratic Party, Democracy for Houston, the Progressive Populist Caucus, and the Bay Area New Democrats invite you to a workshop for precinct organization. escramble('johncoby','sbcglobal.net');/workshop" target="_blank">Please RSVP! Registration starts at 8:00 am.

Event Sponsor:
Harris County Democratic Party

Event Contact Name:
John Cobarruvias, BAND

Event Phone Contact Information:
281-486-5203

Event Fee:
FREE to all Democrats and progressives

Event Description:

Please join us in the presentation of “The Trapped Flea Principle Other Weapons of Mass Instruction” with John Taylor Gatto, Author of  Dumbing Us Down & The Underground History of American Education.

Event Sponsor:
Houston Sudbury Group, a self-directed, democratic learning environment

Event Phone Contact Information:
713-880-2489 or 713-201-6704

Event Website:
www.houstonsudbury.org

Event Fee:
$16

Event Description:

The annual Martin Luther King, Jr. parade is in downtown Houston, and we plan to be there to remind people that the struggle for peace and justice continues and that we need changes now as much as we did in the 1960's.

Event Description:

Harris County GREEN PARTY General Membership Meeting
6:30-9:00 PM, 3rd Monday of every month.

Tentative MAJOR TOPIC: Education Alternatives
Come out and join members of Harris County Green Party for this regular meeting -- open to all interested people.

Event Phone Contact Information:
713-705-5594

Event Website:
www.harriscountygreenparty.org/calendar/calendar.htm

Event Description:

US OIL COMPANIES CONTINUE TO RAVAGE THE NIGER DELTA (NIGERIA) REMEMBER KEN SARO-WIWA, SLAIN OGONI LEADER

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

January 7, 2005

LOCAL CONTACT: Dino Marcaccio, 281-788-5879, Email:

Event Sponsor:
MOSOP, Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People

Event Contact Name:
Dino Marcaccio

Event Phone Contact Information:
281-788-5879

Event Email Address:
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Event Description:

Gary Anderson, our country’s renowned portrayer of Clarence Darrow, brings America’s most hated and celebrated attorney to Florida to recount his life and his greatest trials. Including the Scopes “Evolution Versus Creationism” Trial, murder and civil rights trials and his defense of the most hated in our society.

One show only. Friday January 20 at 7:30 pm $15/$12 student with advance reservation, $20 at the door. Reserve tickets by calling Sarah at 281-813-0660 or email escramble('sbh930','sbcglobal.net');">

Event Sponsor:
Unitarian Fellowship of Houston

Event Contact Name:
Sarah Berel-Harrop

Event Phone Contact Information:
281-813-0660

Event Email Address:
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Event Fee:
$20 at the door, $15/$12 student/senior w/ adv. reservation

Event Description:

Former foreign service diplomat and U.S. Army colonel Ann Wright said recently,"... dissent or criticism during wartime is many times considered by administration politicians as anti-patriotic or traitorous."  

Hear Ann Wright speak on Dissent in A Democracy at the Montgomery College Theater, Building D, at 7 p.m., Wednesday, January 25.  A suggested donation of $10 is requested for this event.

Event Sponsor:
Northwoods Unitarian Universalist Church

Event Phone Contact Information:
281-298-2780

Event Fee:
A suggested donation of $10 is requested for this event

Event Description:

The SE Texas Progressive Populist Caucus will join Democracy For Houston and the Progressive Action Alliance by hosting a workshop training session focused on the Precinct Convention(s) that are held immediately following the closing of the polls on Primary Election Day on March 7th.

Event Sponsor:
Progressive Populist Caucus, Democracy for Houston and the Progressive Action Alliance

Event Description:

Let's party!  Let's tell the world that change is in the air!  Let's make signs!

I have a 1st Amendment, and I plan to use it before it's completely taken away.  How about you?

Event Contact Name:
Bill Crosier

Event Email Address:
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Event Fee:
please RSVP and say what you can bring, so we can get a head count and see what other supplies may be needed