Events
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Harris Co. is the death penalty capital of the US, and executes more people than most countries in the world.
Join activists, families of death row inmates, and others from Houston and across Texas in the 9th Annual March to End Executions.
Help us shut down the state killing machine.
Event Website:
protest.net/HIMC/calendrome.cgi?span=event&ID=1210965
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Houston Institute for Culture, The Artery and KPFT present an important Environmental Film Series
Sunday, October 19 - Tuesday, October 28, 2008 - Free and Open to the Public
All films 7:00pm (unless otherwise noted)
Event Sponsor:
Houston Institute for Culture and The Artery
Event Website:
houstonculture.org/film/env_fall08.html
Event Description:
Sunday, October 26, 8pm @ Sedition Books (901 Richmond Ave.), we will be screening the film:
What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire
Climate change, peak oil, overpopulation, resource depletion, pollution, deforestation, mass extinction, war...
Event Sponsor:
Sedition Books
Event Website:
www.protest.net/HIMC/calendrome.cgi?span=event&ID=1211007&d
Event Description:
Houston Institute for Culture, The Artery and KPFT present an important Environmental Film Series
Sunday, October 19 - Tuesday, October 28, 2008 - Free and Open to the Public
All films 7:00pm (unless otherwise noted)
Event Sponsor:
Houston Institute for Culture and The Artery
Event Description:
Cynthia McKinney will be back in town this Thursday,
7 PM at S.H.A.P.E. Community Center, 3815 Live Oak.
She will be touring Galveston during the day to review damage caused by Hurricane Ike before her appearance at SHAPE.
Event Sponsor:
Harris County Green Party
Event Website:
houston.indymedia.org/news/2008/10/65439.php
Event Description:
Green Party VP Candidate and Hip-Hop Activist Rosa Clemente
will appear at the opening of a new location for the
Houston Institute for Culture
9 PM at 807B Telephone Road
in Tlaquepaque Market
(by Bohemeo's on Lockwood near Leeland)
Event Sponsor:
Harris County Green Party
Event Website:
houston.indymedia.org/news/2008/10/65439.php
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Come to the regular monthly meeting of the Progressive Action Alliance (second Thursday of each month). This month, we're going to talk about priorities and do some strategizing for the future. Come early (about 6:45PM) to visit; meeting is from 7-9 p.m. Bring something non-messy to eat or drink and share if you wish. If you are reading this on the PAA home page, click on the event title for more info.
Event Description:
On Friday November 14th Join the new Houston chapter of Iraq Veterans
Against the War (IVAW) and Houston Indymedia at 8pm at Rice Cinema for a
screening of the Big Noise Films Documentary 'Deserter'
Event Sponsor:
Iraq Veterans Against the War and Houston Indymedia
Event Description:
The "SOAW Journey for Justice 2008 Caravan" will be stopping into Houston on their way to the November Vigil to close down the School of Americas (SOA/WHINSEC) in Ft. Benning, Georgia.
Come learn more about the SOA with a short film, followed by testimonials of Community Activists involved in the movement.
Event Sponsor:
Journey for Justice 2008 Caravan
Event Website:
www.soaw.org/
Event Description:
Anna Baltzer, a Jewish-American Columbia graduate, Fulbright scholar, and granddaughter of Holocaust refugees, will present photographs and stories from her work documenting human rights abuses and supporting nonviolent resistance in the West Bank with the International Women's Peace Service. Her presentation will cover checkpoints, the Wall, Israeli activism, censorship, nonviolent resistance, and other topics rarely covered by US media. Baltzer is currently touring the US with her acclaimed presentation and book Witness in Palestine: A Jewish American Woman in the Occupied Territories.
Event Sponsor:
Mandel Group
Event Description:
This is the sixth year of this premiere celebration of Houston's vibrant progressive community. Please RSVP now!
This year, the National Peacemaker Award will be given to the Center for Constitutional Rights http://ccrjustice.org which was founded in 1966 by attorneys who represented civil rights movements in the South. Over the last four decades, CCR has lent its expertise and support to virtually every popular movement for social justice. Its cases involving Guantánamo, Blackwater, and extraordinary rendition (for torture) are making legal history.
Event Sponsor:
Houston Peace & Justice Center
Event Website:
hpjc.org/awardsdinner_6.html
