Event

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 Website:
www.houstonculture.org/film/env_fall08.html

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 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:

This event is a rally in support of Universal Single Payer Health Care. Change in health care insurance in our country is imminent. Learn why and how to help make health care a right and not a privilege. Enjoys speakers, music, poetry and more.

Event Sponsor:
Coalition of the Working People and the Poor & PAA among many others

Event Description:

An Evening of Native American Dance

Tewa Dancers from the North
Friday, October 10
Performance at 7:00 pm, Documentary at 8:00 pm

Saturday, October 11-Repeat dance performance at 1:00 pm

Event Sponsor:
Rothko Chapel

Event Website:
www.RothkoChapel.org

Event Description:

Jim Blackburn on the Environment

A Spiritual Quest: Enough? Enough!
Tuesday, September 30
7:00 p.m.

With climate change promising massive ecological disruptions, pioneer environmental attorney Jim Blackburn will offer observations about living things, our connectedness to them and our need to take effective action soon. Fundamental to this discourse is the concept of ENOUGH, a theme that will be woven through the presentation. Blackburn will introduce the concept of CONNECTUALITY and its power to transform our thinking, perception and will to act. Is some form of environmental triage our destiny or can we find the will to take action to combine economic and ecologic visions and recover our lost spirituality? Blackburn’s presentation of “A Spiritual Quest” will address these issues and more.

Event Sponsor:
Rothko Chapel

Event Website:
www.RothkoChapel.org

Event Description:

Sunday, September 28

Lecture 1- Don't Trust the Press: Why Intelligence Sources Are Not Good Enough, 3:00 p.m.

Lecture 2-The Lessons of History: Why We Should Not Have Invaded Iraq, 7:00 p.m.

Event Sponsor:
Rothko Chapel

Event Website:
www.RothkoChapel.org

Event Description:

The movie Kamp Katrina focuses on the dialectic between madness and hope in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. (See the web site cited.)

Event Sponsor:
Houston Institute for Culture

Event Website:
houstonculture.org/film/

Event Description:

Intimidad is an in-depth poetic story of life on the Mexico-Texas border, as the filmmakers follow a family on their quest for financial security in Reynosa. (See web site for more.)

Event Sponsor:
Houston Institute for Culture

Event Website:
houstonculture.org/film/

Event Description:

Thank you, Houston (an event to celebrate Gulf Coast traditions and commemorate the third anniversary of Katrina), Saturday, September 13, 6:30pm at Discovery Green

This event will feature live music by Bluebonnet Brass Band and Al "Carnival Time" Johnson, and audio and video media with survivors' stories. May also have an informative workshop on Mardi Gras Indian suit making.

Event Sponsor:
Houston Institute for Culture

Event Website:
houstonculture.org/houston/index.html

Event Description:

Lecture: Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy by author, Michael Klare

How is America’s energy dependence altering our country’s place in the world and how might this affect your future? On 18 September at 7:00pm, hear Michael Klare, discuss his latest book Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy, and describe how the neocons’ prediction of a “new American century” didn’t pan out because of shrinking energy resources and US dependence on foreign petroleum. Klare, who is a frequent guest on NPR and Democracy Now, will speak and sign books in Fondren Hall at St Paul’s United Methodist Church, 5501 Main St., across from the Houston Museum of Fine Arts. Klare will sign books after his talk. For more information, see the event calendar at www.hpjc.org or call 281 414 1386. This free public event is sponsored by the Houston Peace & Justice Center.

Event Sponsor:
Houston Peace & Justice Center

Event Website:
www.hpjc.org

Event Description:

We'll be showing a free screening of the educational film Sustainable Table at the Aurora Theater in Houston.  This film is about the connections between what's on your plate, where it comes from and how it affects our health and the environment.

Event Sponsor:
Society of PEACE (People for the Earth, Animals, Compassion & Enlightenment)

Event Website:
www.societyofpeace.org/downloads/SustainableTableMovieNightVeganBakeSaleAugust2008.pdf

Event Description:

The 2008 Mahatma Gandhi Peace Walk is now open for on-line registration! Please register at: http://www.gandhilibrary.org At the website the registration button is on the right top, just below "NEWS".

Event Sponsor:
Gandhi Library

Event Website:
www.gandhilibrary.org

Event Description:

2:00 pm - 10:00 pm, Friday-Saturday-Sunday
Title Prison Reform Film Festival
Houston, TX
Location Rice Media Center
Topic / Issue Prisons, Police & Repression
Sponsor KPFT 90.1 FM radio
Many films, Friday Saturday Sunday afternoon and evening.

Event Sponsor:
KPFT Prison Program

Event Website:
www.theprisonshow.org/the%20prison%20show_007.htm

Event Description:

2:00 pm - 10:00 pm, Friday-Saturday-Sunday
Title Prison Reform Film Festival
Houston, TX
Location Rice Media Center
Topic / Issue Prisons, Police & Repression
Sponsor KPFT 90.1 FM radio
Many films, Friday Saturday Sunday afternoon and evening.

Event Sponsor:
Ray Hill, KPFT

Event Website:
www.theprisonshow.org/the%20prison%20show_007.htm

Event Description:

2:00 pm - 10:00 pm, Friday-Saturday-Sunday
Title Prison Reform Film Festival
Houston, TX
Location Rice Media Center
Topic / Issue Prisons, Police & Repression
Sponsor KPFT 90.1 FM radio
Many films, Friday Saturday Sunday afternoon and evening.

Event Sponsor:
Ray Hill, KPFT

Event Website:
www.theprisonshow.org/the%20prison%20show_007.htm

Event Description:

In conjunction with the exhibition "Defending Democracy" the Station Museum of Contemporary Art will host a film screening of "The Murder of Fred Hampton", a story about the Chairman of the Chicago Chapter of the BPP. It is located at 1502 Alabama Street at the corner of La branch.

Event Website:
www.itsabouttimebpp.com/

Event Description:

Carl Bernard Hampton People's Party II (Panther Modeled Formation) Leader murdered by Houston Police July 26, 1970 in infamous standoff with HPD vs. the People on Dowling St. In remembrance:
Saturday July 26, 2008
3:30pm - Meet BPP Headquarters 2800 Dowling Street, Houston Texas
Caravan to 8400 Hirsch Rd.
4:00pm - Gravesite Remembrace
6:30pm - Return to HQ for Candlelight Vigil

Event Sponsor:
Black Panther Party alumni

Event Description:

Ralph Nader is speaking in Houston. Come see what this dedicated public servant has to say! I copied the issues below that no other candidate supports. Need I say more?

Nader for President 2008 Rally
With both Presidential Candidate Ralph Nader and VP Candidate Matt Gonzalez.

Event Sponsor:
NADER FOR PRESIDENT 2008

Event Website:
www.votenader.org

Event Description:

The Justice Coalition and Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee will hold an Inquiry of the state of Harris County criminal justice system. Congressman John Conyers, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, will be present to hear our concerns. To show these congressional representatives the great depth of the problems and the reasons we must have a national hearing, we need to fill the City Council Chamber and the overflow area in City Hall Annex.

Event Sponsor:
Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee and the Justice Coalition