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Event Description:
Dr. Sleeth, author of Serve God, Save the Planet, will speak on the topic of "Responsibility, Simplicity and Environmental Stewardship". If you can not make this time, Dr. Sleeth will be presenting similar talks all weekend. Please check www.houstonclimateprotection.org for times and locations.
Event Sponsor:
Houston Climate Protection
Event Contact Name:
Nan Hildreth
Event Phone Contact Information:
713-842-6643
Event Email Address:
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Event Website:
www.houstonclimateprotection.org
Event Fee:
free
Event Description:
Hear James Goodwille Pierre, David Cobb, Michael Badnarik and others talk and take questions about democratic electoral reform in Harris County, Texas and the U.S.
Park free across Cullen Blvd in lot 15D, near entrance 14.
Event Sponsor:
UH Campus Greens, Verifiable Vote Coalition, Harris County Green Party
Event Contact Name:
Don Cook
Event Phone Contact Information:
713-705-5594
Event Email Address:
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Event Website:
www.hcgp.org
Event Fee:
Free
Event Description:
Americans United for Separation of Church & State, Houston, present Dr. Barbara Forrest, co-author of Creationism’s Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design and expert witness in the Dover, Pennsylvania ID case. The meeting will be free and open to the public, but AU asks for RSVPs at escramble('HoustonAU','flash.net');. Remember to bring $3 in change or bills if you plan to park in the lot across the street from the theatre.
Event Description:
The First Annual Y'all-Stock music and arts fair
Look at all the peace around you. Sometimes, it doesn't seem like there's very much peace at all, unless you know where to look. Coming up on September 16th we're gonna have a good ol' time. Ya'll Stock'06, is a comin' to the Cypress Creek Christian Church & Community center We'll have music to get our feet movin', speakers to stir our intellect and a shared community to let us all know we're not alone, that there are a significant bunch of us that want to make our world a peaceful place to live.
Event Sponsor:
Peace and Unity Network with Houston Peace and Justice Center
Event Contact Name:
John Basel
Event Phone Contact Information:
713-291-9357
Event Website:
www.messermedia.com/YallLogInfo.html
Event Fee:
$5
Event Description:
Ecstatic Dance Houston
presents
Earthdance 2006, a Global Festival for Peace
in HOUSTON, TX
Saturday, September 16, 2006 2:30 - 9pm
Earthdance is a Global Festival for Peace uniting over 222 locations in 50 countries with music and dance in celebration of Peace. A simultaneous link up of every Earthdance (big and small) across the world plays the Prayer for Peace. Morning in the Australian rainforest, midnight in London, and sunrise over the Himalayas, the Prayer for Peace (downloadable on http://www.earthdance.org ) is a profound and powerful moment that unifies our intentions for World peace and healing. The Houston event is a family festival & benefit for Light Way Schools http://www.lightwayschools.org/ ~ a new paradigm in education.
Event Sponsor:
Ecstatic Dance Houston
Event Contact Name:
Sydney Strahan
Event Phone Contact Information:
281-748-8080
Event Website:
www.earthdance.org/houston/
Event Fee:
Suggested Donation $10, Table reservations from $111.00 & up.
Event Description:
On Saturday, September 16, from 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm, in the Waldorf Astoria Room of the Hilton at the University of Houston, 4800 Calhoun St., Houston, TX 77004, the Green Party, the Libertarian Party, the Reform Party, and the Constitution Party will come together in search of common ground, and in the belief that the rules and procedures designed to limit politics in the U.S. to two parties is not only not fair to the third parties; it weakens our democracy.
Event Sponsor:
College Libertarians of UH
Event Contact Name:
Guy McLendon
Event Phone Contact Information:
832-372-8131
Event Email Address:
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Event Website:
www.hcgp.org
Event Fee:
Free
Event Description:
Deb schafto will host a party for David Cobb, a founder of the Harris County Green Party and the Green Party of Texas and Presidential Candidate of the Green Party of the U.s., at her house at 7260 Santa Fe, Houston, TX 77061, from 7pm to 9:30pm, Saturday, September 16.
Event Sponsor:
Harris County Green Party
Event Contact Name:
Don cook
Event Phone Contact Information:
713-705-5594
Event Email Address:
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Event Website:
www.hcgp.org
Event Fee:
Free
Event Description:
This is a worthy cause and If you oppose it, I welcome the discussion of opposing views. NO WEAPONS, please. Take Action to End the US War and Occupation in Iraq!
The Declaration of Peace is a nationwide campaign to establish by September 21, 2006 a concrete and rapid plan for peace in Iraq, including:
- a prompt timetable for withdrawal of troops and closure of bases
- a peace process for security, reconstruction, and reconciliation
- and the shift of funding for war to meeting human needs.
Visit the declaration-of-peace website
Notes:
If this plan for peace is not created and activated by Congress by September 21, the International Day of Peace, Declaration signers across the U.S. will engage in nonviolent action in Washington, D.C. and in communities throughout the nation.
A National Call for Congressional Visits
Register for Nonviolent Civil Disobedience taking place locally and in Washington, DC for the Week of Action, September 21-28
Week of Action Plan: September 21-28
From September 21-28, just days before Congress adjourns for the fall elections, Declaration signers will take action and support a comprehensive peace process by taking part in nonviolent action, marches, rallies, demonstrations, interfaith services, candlelight vigils and other creative ways to declare peace at the U.S. Capitol and in cities and towns across the country. Sign the Declaration of Peace
The Declaration of Peace campaign will continue after the September actions if no comprehensive plan to end the war is in place. Nationally coordinated nonviolent activities will continue until the United States withdraws from Iraq and supports a comprehensive peace process.
More than 180 antiwar, peace, and justice organizations are participating in the Declaration of Peace movement. Sign The Declaration of Peace ? and take tangible, nonviolent action to end this war and to declare a new era of peace and justice.
Event Website:
declarationofpeace.org
Event Description:
FILM EVENTS
Houston Institute for Culture and the
University of St Thomas Department of
Modern and Classical Languages Present
World Culture Movie & Discussion Series: Latin America
Free and Open to the Public
All films 12:30pm (unless otherwise noted)
Thursday, September 21, 12:30-1:30pm
The Other Side and Oaxacan Hoops
MILAB, Malloy Hall, 3815 Mt. Vernon (located on UST's Academic Mall bounded by Chapel of St. Basil on north end; Doherty Library on south)
University of St. Thomas
[Film Descriptions]
Tuesday, October 24, 12:30-1:30pm
Mexico City: The Biggest City and Pavements of Gold
MILAB, Malloy Hall, 3815 Mt. Vernon (located on UST's Academic Mall bounded by Chapel of St. Basil on north end; Doherty Library on south)
University of St. Thomas
[Film Descriptions]
Thursday, November 16, 12:30-1:30pm
Mexico: Rebellion of the Weeping Women
MILAB, Malloy Hall, 3815 Mt. Vernon (located on UST's Academic Mall bounded by Chapel of St. Basil on north end; Doherty Library on south)
University of St. Thomas
[Film Descriptions]
FILM DESCRIPTIONS
Thursday, September 21, 12:30pm
The Other Side, 2001, 27mins
Directed by Chris Walker; Produced by Television Trust for the Environment
Over the last century, hundreds of thousands of Mexicans have crossed the border to the United States in pursuit of permanent jobs, and a better life. But in the new millennium, that journey has become increasingly dangerous, and the costs are starting to outweigh the benefits.
This program reveals the devastating impact of Mexican-US migration. The people who attempt to cross suffer horribly and frequently die. The families and communities left behind are disabled and their languages and cultures are being destroyed. The Other Side tells the story of the villagers who have had enough - and now are trying to make sure their children will no longer have to migrate to realize their dreams.
Oaxacan Hoops, 2002, 20mins
Directed, Produced and Edited by Olga R. Rodriguez
Oaxacan Hoops explores how basketball, one of the most revered sports in the United States, has helped many Zapotec Indians living in Los Angeles build community, keep traditions alive and maintain a connection to their villages in Mexico.
The film opens in the mountains of the Sierra Norte, in the state of Oaxaca, where we find out how basketball became a cultural tradition for Zapotecs, the largest of 16 indigenous groups in the state and among Mexico's shortest people. The film crosses paths with "The Other Side," taking us to Los Angeles, where thousands of Zapotecs have gone looking for work. It is here that the biggest Oaxacan basketball tournament outside of Mexico, the Oaxaca Cup, takes place.
Tuesday, October 24, 12:30pm
Mexico City: The Largest City, 2004, 26mins
This program defines Mexico City's globalization in terms of winners and losers, examining how, in the world's largest metropolis, immigration challenges are linked to poverty and population influx from surrounding rural areas. Contrasting the city's high-tech facilities and fashionable neighborhoods with its sprawling slums and their struggling inhabitants, the program outlines the relationship between foreign investment and the worldwide need for cheap labor, which Mexico and its indigenous peoples readily supply. Glimpses into a tech-savvy youth culture and the persistent Zapatista movement reinforce the capital's nickname: City of Contrasts.
Pavements of Gold, 2001, 27mins
Directed by Steve Bradshaw; Produced by Television Trust for the Environment
Urban poverty is one of the biggest challenges facing the world in the 21st century. In 1950, three hundred million people were living in urban areas; by 2001 that figure had increased to 2.85 billion, or almost half the world's population. And the flow of rural migrants arriving in the world's mega cities shows no signs of slowing down. "It is a trend which cannot be stopped," says Anna Tibaijuka, the executive director of the UN Center for Human Settlements, "even in the developing countries..."
With the backdrop of Lima, Peru, this program examines the enduring magnetism of big cities and asks whether the migrants who have moved here now feel that city life is the answer to their dreams.
Thursday, November 16, 12:30pm
Mexico: Rebellion of the Weeping Women, 1992, 61mins
This is the story of Mexican women who have fought, and continue to fight, for equality and women's rights. They are women looking for children kidnapped during political pogroms, journalists, writers, and political activists. Machismo and the resulting sexism, as well as Catholicism and its perpetuation of the myth of the Virgin Mary as the standard for feminine behavior, are discussed as social factors contributing to the continued subjugation of Mexican women..
MORE FILM EVENTS
Topical Films at the Havens Center
Houston Institute for Culture is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to promoting cultural education and awareness through cultural activities. Our goal is to provide free and low-cost events, services and classes for the community. The organization's sphere of interest is Houston, the regions that have affected Houston's cultural history and the international origins of Houston's diverse population.
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Event Sponsor:
HIFC and UST MCL
Event Contact Name:
Mark Lacy
Event Phone Contact Information:
713.521.3686
Event Email Address:
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Event Website:
www.houstonculture.org/film
Event Fee:
Free
Event Description:
Decade of Nonviolence-Houston will sponsor an observance focused on interfaith respect and understanding. Area schools will be encouraged to promote those goals during the week of September 18-22, and organizations that have endorsed the Decade will be asked to observe Peace Week with activities appropriate to their missions and programs.
Event Website:
www.decadeofnonviolencehouston.org
Event Description:
This is a worthy cause and If you oppose it, I welcome the discussion of opposing views. NO WEAPONS, please. Take Action to End the US War and Occupation in Iraq!
The Declaration of Peace is a nationwide campaign to establish by September 21, 2006 a concrete and rapid plan for peace in Iraq, including:
- a prompt timetable for withdrawal of troops and closure of bases
- a peace process for security, reconstruction, and reconciliation
- and the shift of funding for war to meeting human needs.
Visit the declaration-of-peace website
Notes:
If this plan for peace is not created and activated by Congress by September 21, the International Day of Peace, Declaration signers across the U.S. will engage in nonviolent action in Washington, D.C. and in communities throughout the nation.
A National Call for Congressional Visits
Register for Nonviolent Civil Disobedience taking place locally and in Washington, DC for the Week of Action, September 21-28
Week of Action Plan: September 21-28
From September 21-28, just days before Congress adjourns for the fall elections, Declaration signers will take action and support a comprehensive peace process by taking part in nonviolent action, marches, rallies, demonstrations, interfaith services, candlelight vigils and other creative ways to declare peace at the U.S. Capitol and in cities and towns across the country. Sign the Declaration of Peace
The Declaration of Peace campaign will continue after the September actions if no comprehensive plan to end the war is in place. Nationally coordinated nonviolent activities will continue until the United States withdraws from Iraq and supports a comprehensive peace process.
More than 180 antiwar, peace, and justice organizations are participating in the Declaration of Peace movement. Sign The Declaration of Peace ? and take tangible, nonviolent action to end this war and to declare a new era of peace and justice.
Event Website:
declarationofpeace.org
Event Description:
This month, the Progressive Action Alliance is teaming up with the Houston Institute for Culture for the 4th Friday Flicks event, on Sep. 22, and it's FREE. There are two short movies ("The Other Side" and "Oaxacan Hoops") scheduled for that date. Both are on the topic of immigration and globalization. See below for descriptions of the movies.
We'll have refreshments before (starting at 6:30 PM) and after the movies shown on on Sep. 22 only, along with a discussion afterwards. The complete schedule and descriptions of HIFC movies is listed below.
FILM EVENTS
Houston Institute for Culture
and the Havens Center Present
Topical Films and Discussions
Free and Open to the Public
All films 7:00pm (unless otherwise noted)
Havens Center - 1827 W. Alabama, Houston, Texas 77098
Immigration and Globalization
Cosponsored by Nuestra Palabra
Friday, September 22
-The Other Side
-Oaxacan Hoops
Saturday, September 23
-North of Ojinaga
-Pavements of Gold
-Mexico City: The Largest City
Sunday, September 24
-A World Without Borders: What is Happening with Globalization
-Cochise County USA: Cries from the Border
[Film Descriptions] Listen to Nuestra Palabra, Tuesdays, 7:30 - 8:30pm, on KPFT, 90.1FM
Indigenous Peoples and Environment
Cosponsored by People of Earth
Friday, October 6
-Drumbeat for Mother Earth - Persistent Organic Pollutants Threatening Indigenous Peoples
-Huicholes and Pesticides
Saturday, October 7
-Pavements of Gold
-Ecuador: The Indigenous Woman
Sunday, October 8
-In the Light of Reverence - Protecting America's Sacred Lands
[Film Descriptions] Listen to People of Earth, Thursdays, 11am – 12noon, on KPFT, 90.1FM
Consumerism and Sustainability
Thursday, November 16
-Affluenza
Friday, November 17
-The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream
Saturday, November 18
-The Power of Community - How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
[Film Descriptions]
Religion, Culture and Politics in Mexico
Sunday, October 29
-Darkness into Light: Following the Spirit
Sunday, December 10
-Guadalupe: Mother of all Mexico
[Film Descriptions]
Films cosponsored by KPFT, 90.1FM
Stay tuned; more film dates to be announced
-Argentina - Hope in Hard Times
-This Land is Our Land: The Struggle for Land in Brazil
-Approach of Dawn: Portraits of Mayan Women Forging Peace in Guatemala
-Hidden in Plain Site
FILM DESCRIPTIONS
Sexism and Discrimination
Thursday, September 14, 7:00pm
Havens Center Kids' Digital Story Project Debut "Talking About Sexism", 2006, 10mins
Middle School Children who are part of the Havens Center After-School Program produced a 10-minute digital story about sexism. They spoke with women in the community, including City Councilwoman Sue Lovell and Katrina survivor Mama Suma.
The soundtrack to the digital story will be aired on Houston radio stations in the fall and a DVD of their project will be distributed to area schools for classroom consideration of this important topic.
Who's Counting: Marilyn Waring on Sex, Lies and Global Economics, 1996, 52mins
Produced by The National Film Board of Canada
Marilyn Waring is the foremost spokesperson for global feminist economics, and her ideas offer new avenues of approach for political action. With persistence and wit she has succeeded in drawing attention to the fact that GDP has no negative side to its accounts - such as damage to the environment - and completely ignores the unpaid work of women. "Why is the market economy all that counts?" Ms. Waring asks?
In 1975, when she was just 22 years old, she was elected to the New Zealand parliament. She was re-elected three times and eventually brought down the government on the issue of making New Zealand a nuclear free zone. When she was chairperson of the Public Expenditures Committee, she perfected what she calls the "art of the dumb question." Ever since she has challenged the myths of economics, its elitist stance, and our tacit compliance with political agendas that masquerade as objective economic policy.
Immigration and Globalization
Cosponsored by Nuestra Palabra
Friday, September 22, 7:00pm
The Other Side, 2001, 27mins
Directed by Chris Walker; Produced by Television Trust for the Environment
Over the last century, hundreds of thousands of Mexicans have crossed the border to the United States in pursuit of permanent jobs, and a better life. But in the new millennium, that journey has become increasingly dangerous, and the costs are starting to outweigh the benefits.
This program reveals the devastating impact of Mexican-US migration. The people who attempt to cross suffer horribly and frequently die. The families and communities left behind are disabled and their languages and cultures are being destroyed. The Other Side tells the story of the villagers who have had enough - and now are trying to make sure their children will no longer have to migrate to realize their dreams.
Oaxacan Hoops, 2002, 20mins
Directed, Produced and Edited by Olga R. Rodriguez
Oaxacan Hoops explores how basketball, one of the most revered sports in the United States, has helped many Zapotec Indians living in Los Angeles build community, keep traditions alive and maintain a connection to their villages in Mexico.
The film opens in the mountains of the Sierra Norte, in the state of Oaxaca, where we find out how basketball became a cultural tradition for Zapotecs, the largest of 16 indigenous groups in the state and among Mexico's shortest people. The film crosses paths with "The Other Side," taking us to Los Angeles, where thousands of Zapotecs have gone looking for work. It is here that the biggest Oaxacan basketball tournament outside of Mexico, the Oaxaca Cup, takes place.
Saturday, September 23, 7:00pm
North of Ojinaga, 2004, 24mins
Directed by Rommel Eclarinal
Two young immigrants - a Chinese woman and a Mexican man - are smuggled across the U.S. border from Mexico and abandoned in the vast unforgiving Texas desert.
Pavements of Gold, 2001, 27mins
Directed by Steve Bradshaw; Produced by Television Trust for the Environment
Urban poverty is one of the biggest challenges facing the world in the 21st century. In 1950, three hundred million people were living in urban areas; by 2001 that figure had increased to 2.85 billion, or almost half the world's population. And the flow of rural migrants arriving in the world's mega cities shows no signs of slowing down. "It is a trend which cannot be stopped," says Anna Tibaijuka, the executive director of the UN Center for Human Settlements, "even in the developing countries..."
With the backdrop of Lima, Peru, this program examines the enduring magnetism of big cities and asks whether the migrants who have moved here now feel that city life is the answer to their dreams.
Mexico City: The Largest City, 2004, 26mins
This program defines Mexico City's globalization in terms of winners and losers, examining how, in the world's largest metropolis, immigration challenges are linked to poverty and population influx from surrounding rural areas. Contrasting the city's high-tech facilities and fashionable neighborhoods with its sprawling slums and their struggling inhabitants, the program outlines the relationship between foreign investment and the worldwide need for cheap labor, which Mexico and its indigenous peoples readily supply. Glimpses into a tech-savvy youth culture and the persistent Zapatista movement reinforce the capital's nickname: City of Contrasts.
Sunday, September 24, 7:00pm
A World Without Borders: What is Happening with Globalization, 2000, 26mins
As globalization gains momentum, industrialized and developing countries are, to a greater or lesser extent, becoming increasingly similar, with middle-class luxury and abject poverty coexisting side by side. This program explores the repercussions of globalization as well as a growing resentment toward the G8 countries and nongovernmental organizations. Concerns over third-world debt, environmental degradation, biodiversity, the concentration of power, and the future of democracy are aired by globally oriented young adults who are poised to inherit a world without borders, or rules.
Cochise County USA: Cries from the Border, 2005, 69mins (for discussion purposes we will view an except of the film)
Directed by Mercedes Maharis
Mercedes Maharis, a Mexican American resident of southeast Arizona, documented the activity of immigrants and anti-immigrant groups, as well as humanitarian organizations working to prevent deaths in the Arizona desert. A migrant trail for thousands of immigrants passes through Cochise County. The film reveals the dangers immigrants face, as well as related border issues of human and drug trafficking.
The film, which anti-immigrant activists point to as evidence for increased border protection, features interviews with Cochise County residents and officials, Border Patrol officials, "civil defense" organizers, civil rights activists and immigrants, and documents treacherous border crossings in the Arizona-Sonora desert.
Indigenous Peoples and Environment
Cosponsored by People of Earth
Friday, October 6, 7:00pm
Drumbeat for Mother Earth - Persistent Organic Pollutants Threatening Indigenous Peoples, 1999, 54mins
Directed by Joseph Di Gangi, PhD, and Amon Giebel; Produced by Indigenous Environmental Network and Greenpeace
Many scientists and tribal people consider persistent toxic chemicals to be the greatest threat to the long-term survival of Indigenous Peoples. "Drumbeat for Mother Earth" explores how these chemicals contaminate the traditional food web, violate treaty rights, travel long distances, and are passed from one generation to the next during pregnancy causing cancer, learning disabilities, and other serious health problems.
Indigenous Peoples' connection to Mother Earth places them on a collision course with these chemicals. Continued survival within a contaminated environment means making life and death decisions that could alter whole cultures, diets, ceremonies and future generations.
Huicholes and Pesticides, 1994, 27mins
Directed by Patricia Diaz-Romo
The indigenous Huichol people of Mexico consider themselves responsible for keeping the flames of life burning, and maintaining the forces of nature in balance. Paradoxically, as this documentary describes, they are also the primary victims of a disastrous environmental health crisis: their exposure to dangerous chemical pesticides, which are responsible for more than 1,500 deaths per year. In this film, doctors, anthropologists, and the Huichol people themselves describe this tragedy. The practitioners of subsistence agriculture for centuries, the Huichols' insertion into a market economy has led them to work as fieldworkers for multinational agribusiness concerns based in Mexico.
The film explains the pervasive use of pesticides there as an example of the exportation of environmentally and medically dangerous industries to the Third World, where low wages and lax enforcement of labor and environmental laws allow for the maximization of profits at catastrophic costs to the local population, especially for the marginalized indigenous populations, already suffering from the effects of poverty and malnutrition.
Saturday, October 7, 7:00pm
Pavements of Gold, 2001, 27mins
Directed by Steve Bradshaw; Produced by Television Trust for the Environment
Urban poverty is one of the biggest challenges facing the world in the 21st century. In 1950, three hundred million people were living in urban areas; by 2001 that figure had increased to 2.85 billion, or almost half the world's population. And the flow of rural migrants arriving in the world's mega cities shows no signs of slowing down. "It is a trend which cannot be stopped," says Anna Tibaijuka, the executive director of the UN Center for Human Settlements, "even in the developing countries..."
With the backdrop of Lima, Peru, this program examines the enduring magnetism of big cities and asks whether the migrants who have moved here now feel that city life is the answer to their dreams.
Ecuador: The Indigenous Woman, 1997, 57mins
Isolated in jungles, or crowded into large cities, Latin American Indians constitute the most exploited sector of society. This program traces the harsh life of indigenous women from several tribes, including the Otavalan, Puruha, and Quechua of Ecuador, from pre-Columbian times to the present. Topics discussed include rape as an ongoing practice; labor exploitation; the effects of acculturation; and racial and sexual discrimination.
Sunday, October 8, 7:00pm
In the Light of Reverence - Protecting America's Sacred Lands, 2001, 73mins
Directed by Christopher McLeod; Narrated by Peter Coyote and Tantoo Cardinal; Produced by the Sacred Land Film Project of Earth Island Institute
Across the United States, Native Americans are struggling to protect their sacred places. Religious freedom, so valued in America, is not guaranteed to those who practice land-based religion. Every year, more sacred sites - the land-based equivalent of the world's great cathedrals - are being destroyed. Strip Mining and development cause much of the destruction. But rock climbers, tourists, and New Age religious practitioners are part of the problem, too. The biggest problem is ignorance.
"In the Light of Reverence" tells the story of three indigenous communities and the land they struggle to protect: the Lakota of the Great Plains, the Hopi of the Four Corners area, and the Wintu of northern California.
Consumerism and Sustainability
Thursday, November 16, 7:00pm
Affluenza, 1997, 56 mins
Produced by John de Graaf and Vivia Boe; A Co-Production of KCTS-Seattle and Oregon Public Broadcasting; Hosted by Scott Simon
"Affluenza" is a groundbreaking film that diagnoses a serious social disease - caused by consumerism, commercialism and rampant materialism - that is having a devastating impact on our families, communities, and the environment. We have more stuff, but less time, and our quality of life seems to be deteriorating. By using personal stories, expert commentary, hilarious old film clips, and "uncommercial" breaks to illuminate the nature and extent of the disease, "Affluenza" has appealed to widely diverse audiences: from freshmen orientation programs to consumer credit counseling, and from religious congregations to marketing classes.
With the help of historians and archival film, "Affluenza" reveals the forces that have dramatically transformed us from a nation that prized thriftiness - with strong beliefs in "plain living and high thinking" - into the ultimate consumer society.
Friday, November 17, 7:00pm
The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream, 2004, 76mins
Directed by Gregory Greene. Produced by Barry Silverthorn.
Since World War II North Americans have invested much of their newfound wealth in suburbia. It has promised a sense of space, affordability, family life and upward mobility. As the population of suburban sprawl has exploded in the past 50 years, so too has the suburban way of life become embedded in the American consciousness. Suburbia, and all it promises, has become the American Dream.
But as we enter the 21st century, serious questions are beginning to emerge about the sustainability of this way of life. With brutal honesty and a touch of irony, The End of Suburbia explores the American Way of Life and its prospects as the planet approaches a critical era, as global demand for fossil fuels begins to outstrip supply. World Oil Peak and the inevitable decline of fossil fuels are upon us now, some scientists and policy makers argue in this documentary. The consequences of inaction in the face of this global crisis are enormous. What does Oil Peak mean for North America? As energy prices skyrocket in the coming years, how will the populations of suburbia react to the collapse of their dream?
Saturday, November 18, 7:00pm
The Power of Community - How Cuba Survived Peak Oil, 2004
Directed by Faith Morgan; Written and Produced by Faith Morgan, Eugene "Pat" Murphy and Megan Quinn
The independent documentary was inspired when Faith Morgan and Pat Murphy took a trip to Cuba through Global Exchange in August, 2003. That year Pat had begun studying and speaking about worldwide peak oil production. In May, Pat and Faith attended the second meeting of The Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas, a European group of oil geologists and scientists, which predicted that mankind was perilously close to having used up half of the world's oil resources. When they learned that Cuba underwent the loss of over half of its oil imports and survived, after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1990, the couple wanted to see for themselves how Cuba had done this.
During their first trip to Cuba, in the summer of 2003, they found what Cubans call "The Special Period" astounding and Cuban's responses very moving. Faith found herself wanting to document on film Cuba's successes so that what they had done wouldn't be lost. Both of them wanted to learn more about Cuba's transition from large farms and plantations, and reliance on fossil-fuel-based pesticides and fertilizers, to small organic farms and urban gardens. Cuba was undergoing a transition from a highly industrial society to a sustainable one. Cuba became, for them, a living example of how a country can successfully traverse what we all will have to deal with sooner or later, the reduction and loss of finite fossil fuel resources.
Religion, Culture and Politics in Mexico
Sunday, October 29, 7:00pm
Darkness into Light: Following the Spirit, 2003, 56min
By Patricia Lacy Collins and Robert S. Cozens (San Rafael Films), narrated by Edward James Olmos
To understand the role of public devotions in Mexican life today, one must understand what they have cost. From the 1840s until the 1990s, successive Mexican governments have sought to control and frequently to suppress the religious life of the people. Suppression became particularly bitter following the Constitution of 1917. In a country with almost 90% of the population professing the Catholic faith, how could this be? Following the Spirit, the third documentary in the Darkness into Light series, brings the story of the spiritual journey of the people of Mexico to the present time. It traces a long- standing friction between church and state that resulted, in the 19th and 20th centuries, in somber and bloody repression of religious and human rights in Mexico. Leading historians paint a broad canvas of multiple struggles little known outside of that country.
Sunday, December 10, 7:00pm
Guadalupe: Mother of all Mexico, 2003, 56min
By Patricia Lacy Collins and Robert S. Cozens (San Rafael Films), narrated by Edward James Olmos
Each year ten million people visit the shrine of our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City. The histories and miracles of our lady of Guadalupe come alive as Mexican scholars and pilgrims on the road tell the wondrous stories behind their devotion to their spiritual mother.
Guadalupe, Mother of All Mexico suggests the strength of pre-Christian life and seeking. Such ancient, impressive sites as Teotihuacan and Monte Alban were built by human hands in cultures that had no beasts of burden. In pre-Christian times, the Mexicans tell us, "there was always a mother, but never like the Virgin Mary." In 1531, she was received by people of the western hemisphere as Our Lady of Guadalupe, the beloved "Madrecita."
PAST FILMS
Event Sponsor:
Houston Institute for Culture
Event Contact Name:
Mark Lacy
Event Phone Contact Information:
713.521.3686
Event Email Address:
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Event Website:
www.houstonculture.org/film
Event Fee:
Free!
Event Description:
This is a worthy cause and If you oppose it, I welcome the discussion of opposing views. NO WEAPONS, please. Take Action to End the US War and Occupation in Iraq!
The Declaration of Peace is a nationwide campaign to establish by September 21, 2006 a concrete and rapid plan for peace in Iraq, including:
- a prompt timetable for withdrawal of troops and closure of bases
- a peace process for security, reconstruction, and reconciliation
- and the shift of funding for war to meeting human needs.
Visit the declaration-of-peace website
Notes:
If this plan for peace is not created and activated by Congress by September 21, the International Day of Peace, Declaration signers across the U.S. will engage in nonviolent action in Washington, D.C. and in communities throughout the nation.
A National Call for Congressional Visits
Register for Nonviolent Civil Disobedience taking place locally and in Washington, DC for the Week of Action, September 21-28
Week of Action Plan: September 21-28
From September 21-28, just days before Congress adjourns for the fall elections, Declaration signers will take action and support a comprehensive peace process by taking part in nonviolent action, marches, rallies, demonstrations, interfaith services, candlelight vigils and other creative ways to declare peace at the U.S. Capitol and in cities and towns across the country. Sign the Declaration of Peace
The Declaration of Peace campaign will continue after the September actions if no comprehensive plan to end the war is in place. Nationally coordinated nonviolent activities will continue until the United States withdraws from Iraq and supports a comprehensive peace process.
More than 180 antiwar, peace, and justice organizations are participating in the Declaration of Peace movement. Sign The Declaration of Peace ? and take tangible, nonviolent action to end this war and to declare a new era of peace and justice.
Event Website:
declarationofpeace.org
Event Description:
Houston Janitors are continuing their Campaign for Justice... AND THEY NEED OUR HELP
Last year, with the unwavering support of more than 100 community, elected, and faith leaders, Houston janitors won their struggle to unite with SEIU for a chance at the American Dream.
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Houston Justice for Janitors & SEIU
Event Contact Name:
Amber Goodwin
Event Phone Contact Information:
(713) 907-0008
Event Website:
www.houstonjanitors.org
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FILM EVENTS
Houston Institute for Culture
and the Havens Center Present
Topical Films and Discussions
Free and Open to the Public
All films 7:00pm (unless otherwise noted)
Havens Center - 1827 W. Alabama, Houston, Texas 77098
Immigration and Globalization
Cosponsored by Nuestra Palabra
Friday, September 22
-The Other Side
-Oaxacan Hoops
Saturday, September 23
-North of Ojinaga
-Pavements of Gold
-Mexico City: The Largest City
Sunday, September 24
-A World Without Borders: What is Happening with Globalization
-Cochise County USA: Cries from the Border
[Film Descriptions] Listen to Nuestra Palabra, Tuesdays, 7:30 - 8:30pm, on KPFT, 90.1FM
Indigenous Peoples and Environment
Cosponsored by People of Earth
Friday, October 6
-Drumbeat for Mother Earth - Persistent Organic Pollutants Threatening Indigenous Peoples
-Huicholes and Pesticides
Saturday, October 7
-Pavements of Gold
-Ecuador: The Indigenous Woman
Sunday, October 8
-In the Light of Reverence - Protecting America's Sacred Lands
[Film Descriptions] Listen to People of Earth, Thursdays, 11am – 12noon, on KPFT, 90.1FM
Consumerism and Sustainability
Thursday, November 16
-Affluenza
Friday, November 17
-The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream
Saturday, November 18
-The Power of Community - How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
[Film Descriptions]
Religion, Culture and Politics in Mexico
Sunday, October 29
-Darkness into Light: Following the Spirit
Sunday, December 10
-Guadalupe: Mother of all Mexico
[Film Descriptions]
Films cosponsored by KPFT, 90.1FM
Stay tuned; more film dates to be announced
-Argentina - Hope in Hard Times
-This Land is Our Land: The Struggle for Land in Brazil
-Approach of Dawn: Portraits of Mayan Women Forging Peace in Guatemala
-Hidden in Plain Site
FILM DESCRIPTIONS
Sexism and Discrimination
Thursday, September 14, 7:00pm
Havens Center Kids' Digital Story Project Debut "Talking About Sexism", 2006, 10mins
Middle School Children who are part of the Havens Center After-School Program produced a 10-minute digital story about sexism. They spoke with women in the community, including City Councilwoman Sue Lovell and Katrina survivor Mama Suma.
The soundtrack to the digital story will be aired on Houston radio stations in the fall and a DVD of their project will be distributed to area schools for classroom consideration of this important topic.
Who's Counting: Marilyn Waring on Sex, Lies and Global Economics, 1996, 52mins
Produced by The National Film Board of Canada
Marilyn Waring is the foremost spokesperson for global feminist economics, and her ideas offer new avenues of approach for political action. With persistence and wit she has succeeded in drawing attention to the fact that GDP has no negative side to its accounts - such as damage to the environment - and completely ignores the unpaid work of women. "Why is the market economy all that counts?" Ms. Waring asks?
In 1975, when she was just 22 years old, she was elected to the New Zealand parliament. She was re-elected three times and eventually brought down the government on the issue of making New Zealand a nuclear free zone. When she was chairperson of the Public Expenditures Committee, she perfected what she calls the "art of the dumb question." Ever since she has challenged the myths of economics, its elitist stance, and our tacit compliance with political agendas that masquerade as objective economic policy.
Immigration and Globalization
Cosponsored by Nuestra Palabra
Friday, September 22, 7:00pm
The Other Side, 2001, 27mins
Directed by Chris Walker; Produced by Television Trust for the Environment
Over the last century, hundreds of thousands of Mexicans have crossed the border to the United States in pursuit of permanent jobs, and a better life. But in the new millennium, that journey has become increasingly dangerous, and the costs are starting to outweigh the benefits.
This program reveals the devastating impact of Mexican-US migration. The people who attempt to cross suffer horribly and frequently die. The families and communities left behind are disabled and their languages and cultures are being destroyed. The Other Side tells the story of the villagers who have had enough - and now are trying to make sure their children will no longer have to migrate to realize their dreams.
Oaxacan Hoops, 2002, 20mins
Directed, Produced and Edited by Olga R. Rodriguez
Oaxacan Hoops explores how basketball, one of the most revered sports in the United States, has helped many Zapotec Indians living in Los Angeles build community, keep traditions alive and maintain a connection to their villages in Mexico.
The film opens in the mountains of the Sierra Norte, in the state of Oaxaca, where we find out how basketball became a cultural tradition for Zapotecs, the largest of 16 indigenous groups in the state and among Mexico's shortest people. The film crosses paths with "The Other Side," taking us to Los Angeles, where thousands of Zapotecs have gone looking for work. It is here that the biggest Oaxacan basketball tournament outside of Mexico, the Oaxaca Cup, takes place.
Saturday, September 23, 7:00pm
North of Ojinaga, 2004, 24mins
Directed by Rommel Eclarinal
Two young immigrants - a Chinese woman and a Mexican man - are smuggled across the U.S. border from Mexico and abandoned in the vast unforgiving Texas desert.
Pavements of Gold, 2001, 27mins
Directed by Steve Bradshaw; Produced by Television Trust for the Environment
Urban poverty is one of the biggest challenges facing the world in the 21st century. In 1950, three hundred million people were living in urban areas; by 2001 that figure had increased to 2.85 billion, or almost half the world's population. And the flow of rural migrants arriving in the world's mega cities shows no signs of slowing down. "It is a trend which cannot be stopped," says Anna Tibaijuka, the executive director of the UN Center for Human Settlements, "even in the developing countries..."
With the backdrop of Lima, Peru, this program examines the enduring magnetism of big cities and asks whether the migrants who have moved here now feel that city life is the answer to their dreams.
Mexico City: The Largest City, 2004, 26mins
This program defines Mexico City's globalization in terms of winners and losers, examining how, in the world's largest metropolis, immigration challenges are linked to poverty and population influx from surrounding rural areas. Contrasting the city's high-tech facilities and fashionable neighborhoods with its sprawling slums and their struggling inhabitants, the program outlines the relationship between foreign investment and the worldwide need for cheap labor, which Mexico and its indigenous peoples readily supply. Glimpses into a tech-savvy youth culture and the persistent Zapatista movement reinforce the capital's nickname: City of Contrasts.
Sunday, September 24, 7:00pm
A World Without Borders: What is Happening with Globalization, 2000, 26mins
As globalization gains momentum, industrialized and developing countries are, to a greater or lesser extent, becoming increasingly similar, with middle-class luxury and abject poverty coexisting side by side. This program explores the repercussions of globalization as well as a growing resentment toward the G8 countries and nongovernmental organizations. Concerns over third-world debt, environmental degradation, biodiversity, the concentration of power, and the future of democracy are aired by globally oriented young adults who are poised to inherit a world without borders, or rules.
Cochise County USA: Cries from the Border, 2005, 69mins (for discussion purposes we will view an except of the film)
Directed by Mercedes Maharis
Mercedes Maharis, a Mexican American resident of southeast Arizona, documented the activity of immigrants and anti-immigrant groups, as well as humanitarian organizations working to prevent deaths in the Arizona desert. A migrant trail for thousands of immigrants passes through Cochise County. The film reveals the dangers immigrants face, as well as related border issues of human and drug trafficking.
The film, which anti-immigrant activists point to as evidence for increased border protection, features interviews with Cochise County residents and officials, Border Patrol officials, "civil defense" organizers, civil rights activists and immigrants, and documents treacherous border crossings in the Arizona-Sonora desert.
Indigenous Peoples and Environment
Cosponsored by People of Earth
Friday, October 6, 7:00pm
Drumbeat for Mother Earth - Persistent Organic Pollutants Threatening Indigenous Peoples, 1999, 54mins
Directed by Joseph Di Gangi, PhD, and Amon Giebel; Produced by Indigenous Environmental Network and Greenpeace
Many scientists and tribal people consider persistent toxic chemicals to be the greatest threat to the long-term survival of Indigenous Peoples. "Drumbeat for Mother Earth" explores how these chemicals contaminate the traditional food web, violate treaty rights, travel long distances, and are passed from one generation to the next during pregnancy causing cancer, learning disabilities, and other serious health problems.
Indigenous Peoples' connection to Mother Earth places them on a collision course with these chemicals. Continued survival within a contaminated environment means making life and death decisions that could alter whole cultures, diets, ceremonies and future generations.
Huicholes and Pesticides, 1994, 27mins
Directed by Patricia Diaz-Romo
The indigenous Huichol people of Mexico consider themselves responsible for keeping the flames of life burning, and maintaining the forces of nature in balance. Paradoxically, as this documentary describes, they are also the primary victims of a disastrous environmental health crisis: their exposure to dangerous chemical pesticides, which are responsible for more than 1,500 deaths per year. In this film, doctors, anthropologists, and the Huichol people themselves describe this tragedy. The practitioners of subsistence agriculture for centuries, the Huichols' insertion into a market economy has led them to work as fieldworkers for multinational agribusiness concerns based in Mexico.
The film explains the pervasive use of pesticides there as an example of the exportation of environmentally and medically dangerous industries to the Third World, where low wages and lax enforcement of labor and environmental laws allow for the maximization of profits at catastrophic costs to the local population, especially for the marginalized indigenous populations, already suffering from the effects of poverty and malnutrition.
Saturday, October 7, 7:00pm
Pavements of Gold, 2001, 27mins
Directed by Steve Bradshaw; Produced by Television Trust for the Environment
Urban poverty is one of the biggest challenges facing the world in the 21st century. In 1950, three hundred million people were living in urban areas; by 2001 that figure had increased to 2.85 billion, or almost half the world's population. And the flow of rural migrants arriving in the world's mega cities shows no signs of slowing down. "It is a trend which cannot be stopped," says Anna Tibaijuka, the executive director of the UN Center for Human Settlements, "even in the developing countries..."
With the backdrop of Lima, Peru, this program examines the enduring magnetism of big cities and asks whether the migrants who have moved here now feel that city life is the answer to their dreams.
Ecuador: The Indigenous Woman, 1997, 57mins
Isolated in jungles, or crowded into large cities, Latin American Indians constitute the most exploited sector of society. This program traces the harsh life of indigenous women from several tribes, including the Otavalan, Puruha, and Quechua of Ecuador, from pre-Columbian times to the present. Topics discussed include rape as an ongoing practice; labor exploitation; the effects of acculturation; and racial and sexual discrimination.
Sunday, October 8, 7:00pm
In the Light of Reverence - Protecting America's Sacred Lands, 2001, 73mins
Directed by Christopher McLeod; Narrated by Peter Coyote and Tantoo Cardinal; Produced by the Sacred Land Film Project of Earth Island Institute
Across the United States, Native Americans are struggling to protect their sacred places. Religious freedom, so valued in America, is not guaranteed to those who practice land-based religion. Every year, more sacred sites - the land-based equivalent of the world's great cathedrals - are being destroyed. Strip Mining and development cause much of the destruction. But rock climbers, tourists, and New Age religious practitioners are part of the problem, too. The biggest problem is ignorance.
"In the Light of Reverence" tells the story of three indigenous communities and the land they struggle to protect: the Lakota of the Great Plains, the Hopi of the Four Corners area, and the Wintu of northern California.
Consumerism and Sustainability
Thursday, November 16, 7:00pm
Affluenza, 1997, 56 mins
Produced by John de Graaf and Vivia Boe; A Co-Production of KCTS-Seattle and Oregon Public Broadcasting; Hosted by Scott Simon
"Affluenza" is a groundbreaking film that diagnoses a serious social disease - caused by consumerism, commercialism and rampant materialism - that is having a devastating impact on our families, communities, and the environment. We have more stuff, but less time, and our quality of life seems to be deteriorating. By using personal stories, expert commentary, hilarious old film clips, and "uncommercial" breaks to illuminate the nature and extent of the disease, "Affluenza" has appealed to widely diverse audiences: from freshmen orientation programs to consumer credit counseling, and from religious congregations to marketing classes.
With the help of historians and archival film, "Affluenza" reveals the forces that have dramatically transformed us from a nation that prized thriftiness - with strong beliefs in "plain living and high thinking" - into the ultimate consumer society.
Friday, November 17, 7:00pm
The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream, 2004, 76mins
Directed by Gregory Greene. Produced by Barry Silverthorn.
Since World War II North Americans have invested much of their newfound wealth in suburbia. It has promised a sense of space, affordability, family life and upward mobility. As the population of suburban sprawl has exploded in the past 50 years, so too has the suburban way of life become embedded in the American consciousness. Suburbia, and all it promises, has become the American Dream.
But as we enter the 21st century, serious questions are beginning to emerge about the sustainability of this way of life. With brutal honesty and a touch of irony, The End of Suburbia explores the American Way of Life and its prospects as the planet approaches a critical era, as global demand for fossil fuels begins to outstrip supply. World Oil Peak and the inevitable decline of fossil fuels are upon us now, some scientists and policy makers argue in this documentary. The consequences of inaction in the face of this global crisis are enormous. What does Oil Peak mean for North America? As energy prices skyrocket in the coming years, how will the populations of suburbia react to the collapse of their dream?
Saturday, November 18, 7:00pm
The Power of Community - How Cuba Survived Peak Oil, 2004
Directed by Faith Morgan; Written and Produced by Faith Morgan, Eugene "Pat" Murphy and Megan Quinn
The independent documentary was inspired when Faith Morgan and Pat Murphy took a trip to Cuba through Global Exchange in August, 2003. That year Pat had begun studying and speaking about worldwide peak oil production. In May, Pat and Faith attended the second meeting of The Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas, a European group of oil geologists and scientists, which predicted that mankind was perilously close to having used up half of the world's oil resources. When they learned that Cuba underwent the loss of over half of its oil imports and survived, after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1990, the couple wanted to see for themselves how Cuba had done this.
During their first trip to Cuba, in the summer of 2003, they found what Cubans call "The Special Period" astounding and Cuban's responses very moving. Faith found herself wanting to document on film Cuba's successes so that what they had done wouldn't be lost. Both of them wanted to learn more about Cuba's transition from large farms and plantations, and reliance on fossil-fuel-based pesticides and fertilizers, to small organic farms and urban gardens. Cuba was undergoing a transition from a highly industrial society to a sustainable one. Cuba became, for them, a living example of how a country can successfully traverse what we all will have to deal with sooner or later, the reduction and loss of finite fossil fuel resources.
Religion, Culture and Politics in Mexico
Sunday, October 29, 7:00pm
Darkness into Light: Following the Spirit, 2003, 56min
By Patricia Lacy Collins and Robert S. Cozens (San Rafael Films), narrated by Edward James Olmos
To understand the role of public devotions in Mexican life today, one must understand what they have cost. From the 1840s until the 1990s, successive Mexican governments have sought to control and frequently to suppress the religious life of the people. Suppression became particularly bitter following the Constitution of 1917. In a country with almost 90% of the population professing the Catholic faith, how could this be? Following the Spirit, the third documentary in the Darkness into Light series, brings the story of the spiritual journey of the people of Mexico to the present time. It traces a long- standing friction between church and state that resulted, in the 19th and 20th centuries, in somber and bloody repression of religious and human rights in Mexico. Leading historians paint a broad canvas of multiple struggles little known outside of that country.
Sunday, December 10, 7:00pm
Guadalupe: Mother of all Mexico, 2003, 56min
By Patricia Lacy Collins and Robert S. Cozens (San Rafael Films), narrated by Edward James Olmos
Each year ten million people visit the shrine of our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City. The histories and miracles of our lady of Guadalupe come alive as Mexican scholars and pilgrims on the road tell the wondrous stories behind their devotion to their spiritual mother.
Guadalupe, Mother of All Mexico suggests the strength of pre-Christian life and seeking. Such ancient, impressive sites as Teotihuacan and Monte Alban were built by human hands in cultures that had no beasts of burden. In pre-Christian times, the Mexicans tell us, "there was always a mother, but never like the Virgin Mary." In 1531, she was received by people of the western hemisphere as Our Lady of Guadalupe, the beloved "Madrecita."
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Event Contact Name:
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This is a worthy cause and If you oppose it, I welcome the discussion of opposing views. NO WEAPONS, please. Take Action to End the US War and Occupation in Iraq!
The Declaration of Peace is a nationwide campaign to establish by September 21, 2006 a concrete and rapid plan for peace in Iraq, including:
- a prompt timetable for withdrawal of troops and closure of bases
- a peace process for security, reconstruction, and reconciliation
- and the shift of funding for war to meeting human needs.
Visit the declaration-of-peace website
Notes:
If this plan for peace is not created and activated by Congress by September 21, the International Day of Peace, Declaration signers across the U.S. will engage in nonviolent action in Washington, D.C. and in communities throughout the nation.
A National Call for Congressional Visits
Register for Nonviolent Civil Disobedience taking place locally and in Washington, DC for the Week of Action, September 21-28
Week of Action Plan: September 21-28
From September 21-28, just days before Congress adjourns for the fall elections, Declaration signers will take action and support a comprehensive peace process by taking part in nonviolent action, marches, rallies, demonstrations, interfaith services, candlelight vigils and other creative ways to declare peace at the U.S. Capitol and in cities and towns across the country. Sign the Declaration of Peace
The Declaration of Peace campaign will continue after the September actions if no comprehensive plan to end the war is in place. Nationally coordinated nonviolent activities will continue until the United States withdraws from Iraq and supports a comprehensive peace process.
More than 180 antiwar, peace, and justice organizations are participating in the Declaration of Peace movement. Sign The Declaration of Peace ? and take tangible, nonviolent action to end this war and to declare a new era of peace and justice.
Event Website:
declarationofpeace.org
Event Description:
FILM EVENTS
Houston Institute for Culture
and the Havens Center Present
Topical Films and Discussions
Free and Open to the Public
All films 7:00pm (unless otherwise noted)
Havens Center - 1827 W. Alabama, Houston, Texas 77098
Immigration and Globalization
Cosponsored by Nuestra Palabra
Friday, September 22
-The Other Side
-Oaxacan Hoops
Saturday, September 23
-North of Ojinaga
-Pavements of Gold
-Mexico City: The Largest City
Sunday, September 24
-A World Without Borders: What is Happening with Globalization
-Cochise County USA: Cries from the Border
[Film Descriptions] Listen to Nuestra Palabra, Tuesdays, 7:30 - 8:30pm, on KPFT, 90.1FM
Indigenous Peoples and Environment
Cosponsored by People of Earth
Friday, October 6
-Drumbeat for Mother Earth - Persistent Organic Pollutants Threatening Indigenous Peoples
-Huicholes and Pesticides
Saturday, October 7
-Pavements of Gold
-Ecuador: The Indigenous Woman
Sunday, October 8
-In the Light of Reverence - Protecting America's Sacred Lands
[Film Descriptions] Listen to People of Earth, Thursdays, 11am – 12noon, on KPFT, 90.1FM
Consumerism and Sustainability
Thursday, November 16
-Affluenza
Friday, November 17
-The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream
Saturday, November 18
-The Power of Community - How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
[Film Descriptions]
Religion, Culture and Politics in Mexico
Sunday, October 29
-Darkness into Light: Following the Spirit
Sunday, December 10
-Guadalupe: Mother of all Mexico
[Film Descriptions]
Films cosponsored by KPFT, 90.1FM
Stay tuned; more film dates to be announced
-Argentina - Hope in Hard Times
-This Land is Our Land: The Struggle for Land in Brazil
-Approach of Dawn: Portraits of Mayan Women Forging Peace in Guatemala
-Hidden in Plain Site
FILM DESCRIPTIONS
Sexism and Discrimination
Thursday, September 14, 7:00pm
Havens Center Kids' Digital Story Project Debut "Talking About Sexism", 2006, 10mins
Middle School Children who are part of the Havens Center After-School Program produced a 10-minute digital story about sexism. They spoke with women in the community, including City Councilwoman Sue Lovell and Katrina survivor Mama Suma.
The soundtrack to the digital story will be aired on Houston radio stations in the fall and a DVD of their project will be distributed to area schools for classroom consideration of this important topic.
Who's Counting: Marilyn Waring on Sex, Lies and Global Economics, 1996, 52mins
Produced by The National Film Board of Canada
Marilyn Waring is the foremost spokesperson for global feminist economics, and her ideas offer new avenues of approach for political action. With persistence and wit she has succeeded in drawing attention to the fact that GDP has no negative side to its accounts - such as damage to the environment - and completely ignores the unpaid work of women. "Why is the market economy all that counts?" Ms. Waring asks?
In 1975, when she was just 22 years old, she was elected to the New Zealand parliament. She was re-elected three times and eventually brought down the government on the issue of making New Zealand a nuclear free zone. When she was chairperson of the Public Expenditures Committee, she perfected what she calls the "art of the dumb question." Ever since she has challenged the myths of economics, its elitist stance, and our tacit compliance with political agendas that masquerade as objective economic policy.
Immigration and Globalization
Cosponsored by Nuestra Palabra
Friday, September 22, 7:00pm
The Other Side, 2001, 27mins
Directed by Chris Walker; Produced by Television Trust for the Environment
Over the last century, hundreds of thousands of Mexicans have crossed the border to the United States in pursuit of permanent jobs, and a better life. But in the new millennium, that journey has become increasingly dangerous, and the costs are starting to outweigh the benefits.
This program reveals the devastating impact of Mexican-US migration. The people who attempt to cross suffer horribly and frequently die. The families and communities left behind are disabled and their languages and cultures are being destroyed. The Other Side tells the story of the villagers who have had enough - and now are trying to make sure their children will no longer have to migrate to realize their dreams.
Oaxacan Hoops, 2002, 20mins
Directed, Produced and Edited by Olga R. Rodriguez
Oaxacan Hoops explores how basketball, one of the most revered sports in the United States, has helped many Zapotec Indians living in Los Angeles build community, keep traditions alive and maintain a connection to their villages in Mexico.
The film opens in the mountains of the Sierra Norte, in the state of Oaxaca, where we find out how basketball became a cultural tradition for Zapotecs, the largest of 16 indigenous groups in the state and among Mexico's shortest people. The film crosses paths with "The Other Side," taking us to Los Angeles, where thousands of Zapotecs have gone looking for work. It is here that the biggest Oaxacan basketball tournament outside of Mexico, the Oaxaca Cup, takes place.
Saturday, September 23, 7:00pm
North of Ojinaga, 2004, 24mins
Directed by Rommel Eclarinal
Two young immigrants - a Chinese woman and a Mexican man - are smuggled across the U.S. border from Mexico and abandoned in the vast unforgiving Texas desert.
Pavements of Gold, 2001, 27mins
Directed by Steve Bradshaw; Produced by Television Trust for the Environment
Urban poverty is one of the biggest challenges facing the world in the 21st century. In 1950, three hundred million people were living in urban areas; by 2001 that figure had increased to 2.85 billion, or almost half the world's population. And the flow of rural migrants arriving in the world's mega cities shows no signs of slowing down. "It is a trend which cannot be stopped," says Anna Tibaijuka, the executive director of the UN Center for Human Settlements, "even in the developing countries..."
With the backdrop of Lima, Peru, this program examines the enduring magnetism of big cities and asks whether the migrants who have moved here now feel that city life is the answer to their dreams.
Mexico City: The Largest City, 2004, 26mins
This program defines Mexico City's globalization in terms of winners and losers, examining how, in the world's largest metropolis, immigration challenges are linked to poverty and population influx from surrounding rural areas. Contrasting the city's high-tech facilities and fashionable neighborhoods with its sprawling slums and their struggling inhabitants, the program outlines the relationship between foreign investment and the worldwide need for cheap labor, which Mexico and its indigenous peoples readily supply. Glimpses into a tech-savvy youth culture and the persistent Zapatista movement reinforce the capital's nickname: City of Contrasts.
Sunday, September 24, 7:00pm
A World Without Borders: What is Happening with Globalization, 2000, 26mins
As globalization gains momentum, industrialized and developing countries are, to a greater or lesser extent, becoming increasingly similar, with middle-class luxury and abject poverty coexisting side by side. This program explores the repercussions of globalization as well as a growing resentment toward the G8 countries and nongovernmental organizations. Concerns over third-world debt, environmental degradation, biodiversity, the concentration of power, and the future of democracy are aired by globally oriented young adults who are poised to inherit a world without borders, or rules.
Cochise County USA: Cries from the Border, 2005, 69mins (for discussion purposes we will view an except of the film)
Directed by Mercedes Maharis
Mercedes Maharis, a Mexican American resident of southeast Arizona, documented the activity of immigrants and anti-immigrant groups, as well as humanitarian organizations working to prevent deaths in the Arizona desert. A migrant trail for thousands of immigrants passes through Cochise County. The film reveals the dangers immigrants face, as well as related border issues of human and drug trafficking.
The film, which anti-immigrant activists point to as evidence for increased border protection, features interviews with Cochise County residents and officials, Border Patrol officials, "civil defense" organizers, civil rights activists and immigrants, and documents treacherous border crossings in the Arizona-Sonora desert.
Indigenous Peoples and Environment
Cosponsored by People of Earth
Friday, October 6, 7:00pm
Drumbeat for Mother Earth - Persistent Organic Pollutants Threatening Indigenous Peoples, 1999, 54mins
Directed by Joseph Di Gangi, PhD, and Amon Giebel; Produced by Indigenous Environmental Network and Greenpeace
Many scientists and tribal people consider persistent toxic chemicals to be the greatest threat to the long-term survival of Indigenous Peoples. "Drumbeat for Mother Earth" explores how these chemicals contaminate the traditional food web, violate treaty rights, travel long distances, and are passed from one generation to the next during pregnancy causing cancer, learning disabilities, and other serious health problems.
Indigenous Peoples' connection to Mother Earth places them on a collision course with these chemicals. Continued survival within a contaminated environment means making life and death decisions that could alter whole cultures, diets, ceremonies and future generations.
Huicholes and Pesticides, 1994, 27mins
Directed by Patricia Diaz-Romo
The indigenous Huichol people of Mexico consider themselves responsible for keeping the flames of life burning, and maintaining the forces of nature in balance. Paradoxically, as this documentary describes, they are also the primary victims of a disastrous environmental health crisis: their exposure to dangerous chemical pesticides, which are responsible for more than 1,500 deaths per year. In this film, doctors, anthropologists, and the Huichol people themselves describe this tragedy. The practitioners of subsistence agriculture for centuries, the Huichols' insertion into a market economy has led them to work as fieldworkers for multinational agribusiness concerns based in Mexico.
The film explains the pervasive use of pesticides there as an example of the exportation of environmentally and medically dangerous industries to the Third World, where low wages and lax enforcement of labor and environmental laws allow for the maximization of profits at catastrophic costs to the local population, especially for the marginalized indigenous populations, already suffering from the effects of poverty and malnutrition.
Saturday, October 7, 7:00pm
Pavements of Gold, 2001, 27mins
Directed by Steve Bradshaw; Produced by Television Trust for the Environment
Urban poverty is one of the biggest challenges facing the world in the 21st century. In 1950, three hundred million people were living in urban areas; by 2001 that figure had increased to 2.85 billion, or almost half the world's population. And the flow of rural migrants arriving in the world's mega cities shows no signs of slowing down. "It is a trend which cannot be stopped," says Anna Tibaijuka, the executive director of the UN Center for Human Settlements, "even in the developing countries..."
With the backdrop of Lima, Peru, this program examines the enduring magnetism of big cities and asks whether the migrants who have moved here now feel that city life is the answer to their dreams.
Ecuador: The Indigenous Woman, 1997, 57mins
Isolated in jungles, or crowded into large cities, Latin American Indians constitute the most exploited sector of society. This program traces the harsh life of indigenous women from several tribes, including the Otavalan, Puruha, and Quechua of Ecuador, from pre-Columbian times to the present. Topics discussed include rape as an ongoing practice; labor exploitation; the effects of acculturation; and racial and sexual discrimination.
Sunday, October 8, 7:00pm
In the Light of Reverence - Protecting America's Sacred Lands, 2001, 73mins
Directed by Christopher McLeod; Narrated by Peter Coyote and Tantoo Cardinal; Produced by the Sacred Land Film Project of Earth Island Institute
Across the United States, Native Americans are struggling to protect their sacred places. Religious freedom, so valued in America, is not guaranteed to those who practice land-based religion. Every year, more sacred sites - the land-based equivalent of the world's great cathedrals - are being destroyed. Strip Mining and development cause much of the destruction. But rock climbers, tourists, and New Age religious practitioners are part of the problem, too. The biggest problem is ignorance.
"In the Light of Reverence" tells the story of three indigenous communities and the land they struggle to protect: the Lakota of the Great Plains, the Hopi of the Four Corners area, and the Wintu of northern California.
Consumerism and Sustainability
Thursday, November 16, 7:00pm
Affluenza, 1997, 56 mins
Produced by John de Graaf and Vivia Boe; A Co-Production of KCTS-Seattle and Oregon Public Broadcasting; Hosted by Scott Simon
"Affluenza" is a groundbreaking film that diagnoses a serious social disease - caused by consumerism, commercialism and rampant materialism - that is having a devastating impact on our families, communities, and the environment. We have more stuff, but less time, and our quality of life seems to be deteriorating. By using personal stories, expert commentary, hilarious old film clips, and "uncommercial" breaks to illuminate the nature and extent of the disease, "Affluenza" has appealed to widely diverse audiences: from freshmen orientation programs to consumer credit counseling, and from religious congregations to marketing classes.
With the help of historians and archival film, "Affluenza" reveals the forces that have dramatically transformed us from a nation that prized thriftiness - with strong beliefs in "plain living and high thinking" - into the ultimate consumer society.
Friday, November 17, 7:00pm
The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream, 2004, 76mins
Directed by Gregory Greene. Produced by Barry Silverthorn.
Since World War II North Americans have invested much of their newfound wealth in suburbia. It has promised a sense of space, affordability, family life and upward mobility. As the population of suburban sprawl has exploded in the past 50 years, so too has the suburban way of life become embedded in the American consciousness. Suburbia, and all it promises, has become the American Dream.
But as we enter the 21st century, serious questions are beginning to emerge about the sustainability of this way of life. With brutal honesty and a touch of irony, The End of Suburbia explores the American Way of Life and its prospects as the planet approaches a critical era, as global demand for fossil fuels begins to outstrip supply. World Oil Peak and the inevitable decline of fossil fuels are upon us now, some scientists and policy makers argue in this documentary. The consequences of inaction in the face of this global crisis are enormous. What does Oil Peak mean for North America? As energy prices skyrocket in the coming years, how will the populations of suburbia react to the collapse of their dream?
Saturday, November 18, 7:00pm
The Power of Community - How Cuba Survived Peak Oil, 2004
Directed by Faith Morgan; Written and Produced by Faith Morgan, Eugene "Pat" Murphy and Megan Quinn
The independent documentary was inspired when Faith Morgan and Pat Murphy took a trip to Cuba through Global Exchange in August, 2003. That year Pat had begun studying and speaking about worldwide peak oil production. In May, Pat and Faith attended the second meeting of The Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas, a European group of oil geologists and scientists, which predicted that mankind was perilously close to having used up half of the world's oil resources. When they learned that Cuba underwent the loss of over half of its oil imports and survived, after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1990, the couple wanted to see for themselves how Cuba had done this.
During their first trip to Cuba, in the summer of 2003, they found what Cubans call "The Special Period" astounding and Cuban's responses very moving. Faith found herself wanting to document on film Cuba's successes so that what they had done wouldn't be lost. Both of them wanted to learn more about Cuba's transition from large farms and plantations, and reliance on fossil-fuel-based pesticides and fertilizers, to small organic farms and urban gardens. Cuba was undergoing a transition from a highly industrial society to a sustainable one. Cuba became, for them, a living example of how a country can successfully traverse what we all will have to deal with sooner or later, the reduction and loss of finite fossil fuel resources.
Religion, Culture and Politics in Mexico
Sunday, October 29, 7:00pm
Darkness into Light: Following the Spirit, 2003, 56min
By Patricia Lacy Collins and Robert S. Cozens (San Rafael Films), narrated by Edward James Olmos
To understand the role of public devotions in Mexican life today, one must understand what they have cost. From the 1840s until the 1990s, successive Mexican governments have sought to control and frequently to suppress the religious life of the people. Suppression became particularly bitter following the Constitution of 1917. In a country with almost 90% of the population professing the Catholic faith, how could this be? Following the Spirit, the third documentary in the Darkness into Light series, brings the story of the spiritual journey of the people of Mexico to the present time. It traces a long- standing friction between church and state that resulted, in the 19th and 20th centuries, in somber and bloody repression of religious and human rights in Mexico. Leading historians paint a broad canvas of multiple struggles little known outside of that country.
Sunday, December 10, 7:00pm
Guadalupe: Mother of all Mexico, 2003, 56min
By Patricia Lacy Collins and Robert S. Cozens (San Rafael Films), narrated by Edward James Olmos
Each year ten million people visit the shrine of our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City. The histories and miracles of our lady of Guadalupe come alive as Mexican scholars and pilgrims on the road tell the wondrous stories behind their devotion to their spiritual mother.
Guadalupe, Mother of All Mexico suggests the strength of pre-Christian life and seeking. Such ancient, impressive sites as Teotihuacan and Monte Alban were built by human hands in cultures that had no beasts of burden. In pre-Christian times, the Mexicans tell us, "there was always a mother, but never like the Virgin Mary." In 1531, she was received by people of the western hemisphere as Our Lady of Guadalupe, the beloved "Madrecita."
PAST FILMS
Event Sponsor:
Houston Institute for Culture
Event Contact Name:
Mark Lacy
Event Phone Contact Information:
713.521.3686
Event Email Address:
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Event Website:
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Event Fee:
Free
Event Description:
This is a worthy cause and If you oppose it, I welcome the discussion of opposing views. NO WEAPONS, please. Take Action to End the US War and Occupation in Iraq!
The Declaration of Peace is a nationwide campaign to establish by September 21, 2006 a concrete and rapid plan for peace in Iraq, including:
- a prompt timetable for withdrawal of troops and closure of bases
- a peace process for security, reconstruction, and reconciliation
- and the shift of funding for war to meeting human needs.
Visit the declaration-of-peace website
Notes:
If this plan for peace is not created and activated by Congress by September 21, the International Day of Peace, Declaration signers across the U.S. will engage in nonviolent action in Washington, D.C. and in communities throughout the nation.
A National Call for Congressional Visits
Register for Nonviolent Civil Disobedience taking place locally and in Washington, DC for the Week of Action, September 21-28
Week of Action Plan: September 21-28
From September 21-28, just days before Congress adjourns for the fall elections, Declaration signers will take action and support a comprehensive peace process by taking part in nonviolent action, marches, rallies, demonstrations, interfaith services, candlelight vigils and other creative ways to declare peace at the U.S. Capitol and in cities and towns across the country. Sign the Declaration of Peace
The Declaration of Peace campaign will continue after the September actions if no comprehensive plan to end the war is in place. Nationally coordinated nonviolent activities will continue until the United States withdraws from Iraq and supports a comprehensive peace process.
More than 180 antiwar, peace, and justice organizations are participating in the Declaration of Peace movement. Sign The Declaration of Peace ? and take tangible, nonviolent action to end this war and to declare a new era of peace and justice.
Event Website:
declarationofpeace.org
Event Description:
This is a worthy cause and If you oppose it, I welcome the discussion of opposing views. NO WEAPONS, please. Take Action to End the US War and Occupation in Iraq!
The Declaration of Peace is a nationwide campaign to establish by September 21, 2006 a concrete and rapid plan for peace in Iraq, including:
- a prompt timetable for withdrawal of troops and closure of bases
- a peace process for security, reconstruction, and reconciliation
- and the shift of funding for war to meeting human needs.
Visit the declaration-of-peace website
Notes:
If this plan for peace is not created and activated by Congress by September 21, the International Day of Peace, Declaration signers across the U.S. will engage in nonviolent action in Washington, D.C. and in communities throughout the nation.
A National Call for Congressional Visits
Register for Nonviolent Civil Disobedience taking place locally and in Washington, DC for the Week of Action, September 21-28
Week of Action Plan: September 21-28
From September 21-28, just days before Congress adjourns for the fall elections, Declaration signers will take action and support a comprehensive peace process by taking part in nonviolent action, marches, rallies, demonstrations, interfaith services, candlelight vigils and other creative ways to declare peace at the U.S. Capitol and in cities and towns across the country. Sign the Declaration of Peace
The Declaration of Peace campaign will continue after the September actions if no comprehensive plan to end the war is in place. Nationally coordinated nonviolent activities will continue until the United States withdraws from Iraq and supports a comprehensive peace process.
More than 180 antiwar, peace, and justice organizations are participating in the Declaration of Peace movement. Sign The Declaration of Peace ? and take tangible, nonviolent action to end this war and to declare a new era of peace and justice.
Event Website:
declarationofpeace.org
Event Description:
This is a worthy cause and If you oppose it, I welcome the discussion of opposing views. NO WEAPONS, please. Take Action to End the US War and Occupation in Iraq!
The Declaration of Peace is a nationwide campaign to establish by September 21, 2006 a concrete and rapid plan for peace in Iraq, including:
- a prompt timetable for withdrawal of troops and closure of bases
- a peace process for security, reconstruction, and reconciliation
- and the shift of funding for war to meeting human needs.
Visit the declaration-of-peace website
Notes:
If this plan for peace is not created and activated by Congress by September 21, the International Day of Peace, Declaration signers across the U.S. will engage in nonviolent action in Washington, D.C. and in communities throughout the nation.
A National Call for Congressional Visits
Register for Nonviolent Civil Disobedience taking place locally and in Washington, DC for the Week of Action, September 21-28
Week of Action Plan: September 21-28
From September 21-28, just days before Congress adjourns for the fall elections, Declaration signers will take action and support a comprehensive peace process by taking part in nonviolent action, marches, rallies, demonstrations, interfaith services, candlelight vigils and other creative ways to declare peace at the U.S. Capitol and in cities and towns across the country. Sign the Declaration of Peace
The Declaration of Peace campaign will continue after the September actions if no comprehensive plan to end the war is in place. Nationally coordinated nonviolent activities will continue until the United States withdraws from Iraq and supports a comprehensive peace process.
More than 180 antiwar, peace, and justice organizations are participating in the Declaration of Peace movement. Sign The Declaration of Peace ? and take tangible, nonviolent action to end this war and to declare a new era of peace and justice.
Event Website:
declarationofpeace.org
Event Description:
THE BUSH AGENDA
Invading the World One Economy at a Time
Talk and book-signing by author
Antonia Juhasz
Event Sponsor:
Progressive Action Alliance
Event Contact Name:
Herb Rothschild
Event Email Address:
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Event Website:
www.paa-tx.org
Event Fee:
Free!
Event Description:
This is a worthy cause and If you oppose it, I welcome the discussion of opposing views. NO WEAPONS, please. Take Action to End the US War and Occupation in Iraq!
The Declaration of Peace is a nationwide campaign to establish by September 21, 2006 a concrete and rapid plan for peace in Iraq, including:
- a prompt timetable for withdrawal of troops and closure of bases
- a peace process for security, reconstruction, and reconciliation
- and the shift of funding for war to meeting human needs.
Visit the declaration-of-peace website
Notes:
If this plan for peace is not created and activated by Congress by September 21, the International Day of Peace, Declaration signers across the U.S. will engage in nonviolent action in Washington, D.C. and in communities throughout the nation.
A National Call for Congressional Visits
Register for Nonviolent Civil Disobedience taking place locally and in Washington, DC for the Week of Action, September 21-28
Week of Action Plan: September 21-28
From September 21-28, just days before Congress adjourns for the fall elections, Declaration signers will take action and support a comprehensive peace process by taking part in nonviolent action, marches, rallies, demonstrations, interfaith services, candlelight vigils and other creative ways to declare peace at the U.S. Capitol and in cities and towns across the country. Sign the Declaration of Peace
The Declaration of Peace campaign will continue after the September actions if no comprehensive plan to end the war is in place. Nationally coordinated nonviolent activities will continue until the United States withdraws from Iraq and supports a comprehensive peace process.
More than 180 antiwar, peace, and justice organizations are participating in the Declaration of Peace movement. Sign The Declaration of Peace ? and take tangible, nonviolent action to end this war and to declare a new era of peace and justice.
Event Website:
declarationofpeace.org
Event Description:
Interested in helping David Van Os become our next Attorney General of Texas?
Ready for a real People's Lawyer, who has vowed to go after big oil, insurance gougers, and other big corporations after he's elected?
Event Sponsor:
Houston area David Van Os supporters
Event Contact Name:
Bill Crosier
Event Phone Contact Information:
713.641.4941
Event Description:
WE ARE WITHIN REACH!
We have thousands of voters still to reach by election day. Help us give out materials at the Renaissance Fair in Old Town Spring, Blockwalking and calling on True Blue Action.com.
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Event Description:
Mark your calendars for Saturday, September 30, as the Harris County Democratic Party will be holding its annual big dollar fund raiser: the Johnson-Rayburn Dinner. This year the event has attracted as its featured speaker one of the darlings of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, United States Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin. Feingold is presently rumored to be exploring a Presidential race in 2008.
Featured speaker: US Senator Russ Feingold
Event Sponsor:
Harris County Democratic Party
Event Phone Contact Information:
713-802-0085
Event Website:
hcdp.org/
Event Fee:
$125 per person (parking and payment details forthcoming)
Event Description:
On October the 5th, people throughout the country will be stepping forward in a day of mass resistance. Join us here in Houston for a spirited demonstration calling for an end to the lies and corruption of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and Karl Rove. We will protest the Bush regime and make a clear statement: We will not tolerate a unethical, theocratic, reckless presidency to violate our constitutional liberties! NO MORE ILLEGAL WAR, NO MORE IMMORAL TORTURE, NO MORE LAWLESSNESS, NO MORE MASSIVE DEBTS, NO MORE SCANDALOUS, NO MORE BUSH!
Event Sponsor:
World Can't Wait - Drive out the Bush Regime
Event Contact Name:
Jamilah
Event Phone Contact Information:
713-894-0932
Event Email Address:
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Event Website:
houstonworldcantwait.tripod.com/
Event Description:
A statewide televised debate with Chris Bell, Kinky Friedman, Rick Perry, and Carole Strayhorn will happen on Friday, October 6. Details to come as they are available. Following the debate watch party at the location below, local supporters of David Van Os for Attorney General will meet nearby to plan for David's Oct. 18 visit to Houston and other ways of helping him in our area.
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FILM EVENTS
Houston Institute for Culture
and the Havens Center Present
Topical Films and Discussions
Free and Open to the Public
All films 7:00pm (unless otherwise noted)
Havens Center - 1827 W. Alabama, Houston, Texas 77098
Indigenous Peoples and Environment
Cosponsored by People of Earth
Friday, October 6
-Drumbeat for Mother Earth - Persistent Organic Pollutants Threatening Indigenous Peoples
-Huicholes and Pesticides
Saturday, October 7
-Pavements of Gold
-Ecuador: The Indigenous Woman
Sunday, October 8
-In the Light of Reverence - Protecting America's Sacred Lands
[Film Descriptions] Listen to People of Earth, Thursdays, 11am – 12noon, on KPFT, 90.1FM
Consumerism and Sustainability
Thursday, November 16
-Affluenza
Friday, November 17
-The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream
Saturday, November 18
-The Power of Community - How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
[Film Descriptions]
Religion, Culture and Politics in Mexico
Sunday, October 29
-Darkness into Light: Following the Spirit
Sunday, December 10
-Guadalupe: Mother of all Mexico
[Film Descriptions]
Films cosponsored by KPFT, 90.1FM
Stay tuned; more film dates to be announced
-Argentina - Hope in Hard Times
-This Land is Our Land: The Struggle for Land in Brazil
-Approach of Dawn: Portraits of Mayan Women Forging Peace in Guatemala
-Hidden in Plain Site
FILM DESCRIPTIONS
Event Sponsor:
Houston Institute for Culture
Event Contact Name:
Mark Lacy
Event Phone Contact Information:
713.521.3686
Event Email Address:
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Event Website:
www.houstonculture.org/film
Event Fee:
Free!
Event Description:
You are invited to join the Katy Area New Democrats for a
CANDIDATE APPRECIATION BRUNCH
Hank Gilbert, Candidate for Texas Agricultural Commissioner
Event Sponsor:
Katy Area New Democratic Organization (KANDO)
Event Contact Name:
Rhonda Coleman
Event Phone Contact Information:
713-304-2975 or 713-269-7781
Event Email Address:
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Event Website:
www.katykando.org
Event Fee:
THERE IS NO EVENT FEE. THIS IS A FREE EVENT AND KANDO WILL PROVIDE FREE SNACKS & REFRESHMENTS FOR EVERYONE.
Event Description:
FILM EVENTS Event Sponsor: Event Contact Name: Event Phone Contact Information: Event Email Address: Event Website: Event Fee:
Houston Institute for Culture
and the Havens Center Present
Topical Films and Discussions
Free and Open to the Public
All films 7:00pm (unless otherwise noted)
Havens Center - 1827 W. Alabama, Houston, Texas 77098
Indigenous Peoples and Environment
Cosponsored by People of Earth
Friday, October 6
-Drumbeat for Mother Earth - Persistent Organic Pollutants Threatening Indigenous Peoples
-Huicholes and Pesticides
Saturday, October 7
-Pavements of Gold
-Ecuador: The Indigenous Woman
Sunday, October 8
-In the Light of Reverence - Protecting America's Sacred Lands
[Film Descriptions] Listen to People of Earth, Thursdays, 11am – 12noon, on KPFT, 90.1FM
Consumerism and Sustainability
Thursday, November 16
-Affluenza
Friday, November 17
-The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream
Saturday, November 18
-The Power of Community - How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
[Film Descriptions]
Religion, Culture and Politics in Mexico
Sunday, October 29
-Darkness into Light: Following the Spirit
Sunday, December 10
-Guadalupe: Mother of all Mexico
[Film Descriptions]
Films cosponsored by KPFT, 90.1FM
Stay tuned; more film dates to be announced
-Argentina - Hope in Hard Times
-This Land is Our Land: The Struggle for Land in Brazil
-Approach of Dawn: Portraits of Mayan Women Forging Peace in Guatemala
-Hidden in Plain Site
FILM DESCRIPTIONS
Houston Institute for Culture
Mark Lacy
713.521.3686
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www.houstonculture.org/film
Free
Event Description:
12:30 low-cost lunch
1:30 Inconvenient Truth,
3:30 panel discussion
at First Unitarian Universalist Church in the Museum District, www.firstuu.org Two Rice University professors will lead a discussion between 3:30 and 5:30 pm. . Dr. Ronald Sass is Professor of Natural Sciences (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology), award winning teacher, and frequent lecturer on global warming. Dr. Elizabeth Long is Chair of the Department of Sociology, Texas Professor of the Year, and published in the sociology of culture and knowledge. Come to one part or all three of the event which will be at First Unitarian Universalist Church, 5200 Fannin at Southmore in the Museum District. An RSVP to the church office, not required, would help planning -- 713-526-5200 More information: escramble('Tim_Mock','usa.com');
Event Sponsor:
Houston Climate Protection
Event Contact Name:
Tim Mock
Event Phone Contact Information:
713-842-6643
Event Email Address:
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Event Website:
www.houstonclimateprotection.org
Event Description:
FILM EVENTS Event Sponsor: Event Contact Name: Event Phone Contact Information: Event Email Address: Event Website: Event Fee:
Houston Institute for Culture
and the Havens Center Present
Topical Films and Discussions
Free and Open to the Public
All films 7:00pm (unless otherwise noted)
Havens Center - 1827 W. Alabama, Houston, Texas 77098
Indigenous Peoples and Environment
Cosponsored by People of Earth
Friday, October 6
-Drumbeat for Mother Earth - Persistent Organic Pollutants Threatening Indigenous Peoples
-Huicholes and Pesticides
Saturday, October 7
-Pavements of Gold
-Ecuador: The Indigenous Woman
Sunday, October 8
-In the Light of Reverence - Protecting America's Sacred Lands
[Film Descriptions] Listen to People of Earth, Thursdays, 11am – 12noon, on KPFT, 90.1FM
Consumerism and Sustainability
Thursday, November 16
-Affluenza
Friday, November 17
-The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream
Saturday, November 18
-The Power of Community - How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
[Film Descriptions]
Religion, Culture and Politics in Mexico
Sunday, October 29
-Darkness into Light: Following the Spirit
Sunday, December 10
-Guadalupe: Mother of all Mexico
[Film Descriptions]
Films cosponsored by KPFT, 90.1FM
Stay tuned; more film dates to be announced
-Argentina - Hope in Hard Times
-This Land is Our Land: The Struggle for Land in Brazil
-Approach of Dawn: Portraits of Mayan Women Forging Peace in Guatemala
-Hidden in Plain Site
FILM DESCRIPTIONS
Houston Institute for Culture
Mark Lacy
713.521.3686
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www.houstonculture.org/film
Free
Event Description:
Hold the date we are coming to you!
Dot Nelson Turrnier Fundraiser to be held in Montrose October 11, 5 pm - 7:30 pm
Hosts: Candidate for Lt. Governor Maria Luisa Alvarado, Representative Glen Maxey
Invited Guest: Represntative Sefronia Thompson, who is also running for Speaker of the House
More details to follow
Event Email Address:
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Event Website:
www.votedot.org
Event Description:
Free Screening of movie, Iraq for Sale. You probably remember a few of Robert Greenwald's other movies such as Outfoxed and WalMart: The High Cost of Low Price. In Iraq for Sale, Robert takes you inside the lives of soldiers, truck drivers, widows and children who have been changed forever as a result of profiteering in the reconstruction of Iraq. The film uncovers the connections between private corporations making a killing in Iraq and the decision makers who let it happen.
Halliburton, Dick Cheney and Republican leaders everywhere don't want you to see this movie, especially in October, just a few weeks before Election Day.
Event Sponsor:
Democracy for Houston
Event Contact Name:
Dawn Newcomer
Event Phone Contact Information:
281-537-7654
Event Website:
www.dfalink.com/event.php
Event Description:
The Progressive Action Alliance has a regular monthly meeting the 2nd Thursday of each month. Join us for discussions of recent activities, planning for upcoming ones, sharing and visiting with fellow activists. If you are reading this on the PAA home page, click on the event title for details.
Event Contact Name:
C. Lee Taylor
Event Phone Contact Information:
713-524-1944
Event Fee:
Free! (Donations, however, always cheerfully accepted.)
Event Description:
A Film showing REAL STORIES FROM IRAQ VETS ABOUT THE REALITIES OF WAR
Bring everyone you know to find out the REAL TRUTH about IRAQ!
Panel discussion to follow film.
Event Sponsor:
Military Families Speak Out & Veterans for Peace
Event Contact Name:
Mikal Hutto
Event Phone Contact Information:
713-472-3711
Event Email Address:
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Event Website:
www.thegroundtruth.org
Event Fee:
Suggested $10 donation, MFSO & VFP & families no charge, no one turned away for lack of funds
