Events
month | week | day | tableEvent Description:
Attend any of Culberson's upcoming Town Hall Meetings:
Tuesday, February 20
Memorial High School
935 Echo Lane
6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Wednesday, February 21
Jersey Village High School
7600 Solomon
6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Thursday, February 22
Rice University
Shell Auditorium, McNair Hall
6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Enter the Rice campus at entrance Gate #20, Rice Blvd. at Kent Street. Follow signs to free parking at the Central Campus Garage in McNair Hall. Additional free parking lot on Greenbriar between Rice and University.
Contact Kathleen Kain for more info: 281-376-7066. escramble('kkain1','earthlink.net');
You may also share with Culberson the benefit of your views as follows:
Houston Office:
10000 Memorial Drive Suite 620 Houston, TX 77024-3490
p/(713) 682-8828 | f/(713) 680-8070
Washington Office:
428 Cannon House Office Bldg Washington, D.C. 20515-4307 (In person or postcards only)
p/(202) 225-2571 | f/(202) 225-4381
Privacy & Security Policy
Event Description:
Come join us in impeaching Bush, Cheney, Rice, Gonzales, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft, et. al.
Some of the factors we have discussed at past meetings include:
1. It is important to put forth the message to subsequent administrations that the reason for this impeachment is war. (Not sex scandals, hotel burglaries, etc.) Solutions for lasting peace require that our public servants understand that Americans do not tolerate war.
2. Impeachment efforts can work hand in hand with other groups toward this common goal.
3. There is a need for fundraising (see the Impeachment Fiesta committee meetings in this calendar) and for public education on the need for impeachment.
For Q's about this meeting, call Charles Mauch, 713-432-1277. escramble('chasMauch','aol.com');
For Q's about the Impeachment Fiesta fundraiser, call Ivan Espinosa, 713-269-7781
Event Sponsor:
Progressive Action Alliance
Event Description:
Honor Black History and join us Friday, Feb. 23 for refreshments and a visit with other activists, followed by the screening of the new documentary, 3 Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation. Learn about a history effectively erased from discourse.
Help us spread the word and invite your friends and family to come along. Fliers for distribution are linked below.
6:30 PM - social, potluck refreshments -- bring something to share, or more importantly just show up
7:30 PM - movie showing
9:00 PM - discussion, more refreshments
The Havens Center is located at 1827 W. Alabama. Parking available in lot next to Divino’s, or in St. Stephen’s parking lot, just east of the Center.
Event Sponsor:
Progressive Action Alliance
Event Description:
Comedy night benefiting the Houston Peace and Justice Center - Saturday, February 24
Join other progressive activists for the best pizza in town plus great stand-up comedy by Chuck Montgomery. Montgomery is a pioneer and 26-year veteran of the Houston comedy scene, having started his career at the Comedy Workshop in 1978. During the eighties and nineties, he headlined countless comedy clubs and college shows. In his pre-television years, Drew Carey opened for Chuck. He has worked with Sam Kennison, Rosie O'Donnell, Ellen DeGeneres, Pat Paulson, Brett Butler, and many others.
Event Sponsor:
Houston Peace & Justice Center
Event Website:
http://hpjc.org/majorevents.asp#2-24-2007
Event Description:
Join the Citizens League for Environmental Action Now (CLEAN) as we present a forum which will address the fast-tracking of coal fired power plants in Texas. Contrary to what some electric power companies and politicians are telling the public, we do not need dirty coal fired power plants to generate electrical power for our growing state.
Event Sponsor:
Citizens League for Environmental Action Now (CLEAN), UH Students fo
Event Website:
www.cleanhouston.org
Event Description:
The impeachment event on April 9th is fleshing out to become one heck of a gathering. At this meeting, we will be discussing three important things. The program of the event, The impeachment resolution to city council, and the Distribution of flyers (outreach).
Event Sponsor:
Impeach Bush Houston Meetup Group
Event Description:
Join us for an interactive Panel Discussion with:
Sam Millsap, Former San Antonio district attorney
Event Sponsor:
KPFT, Houston Peace & Justice,SHAPE Center
Event Description:
Speak Out!
The Bush Agenda. Understanding It. Stopping It.
The world faces a grave emergency. The very nature of U.S. society and its relationship to other countries are being reshaped in horrific ways before our eyes. Yet the full implications of these sweeping changes are not widely understood, even among those who oppose the Bush administration. This must change and resistance must grow.
Event Sponsor:
World Can't Wait Drive Out the Bush Regime
Event Website:
www.worldcantwait.org
Event Description:
At the DFA Training Academy, experienced campaign professionals will cover practical strategies and tactics including communications, fundraising, voter targeting, online organizing, and building a sustainable grassroots movement. We design the program so you can go out and use the skills you learn right away. Then, we follow up with you to make sure you have the support you need to organize your community. March 3,4, 2007 - 9:00 am - 6:00 pm, fee includes both days and lunch.
Event Sponsor:
Democracy for Houston
Event Website:
democracyforhouston.org
Event Description:
Spread the word and come to the free screening of China Blue 7 p.m. Saturday, March 3, 1827 W. Alabama, west of Woodhead (The Havens Center). China Blue, 2006, 88 mins Directed by Micha X. Peled Saturday, March 3, 7:00pm Free and Open to the Public Houston Institute for Culture Havens Center 1827 W. Alabama Street Houston, Texas 77098 http://www.houstonculture.org/film Summary: CHINA BLUE takes us on a poignant journey inside a blue-jeans factory, where the working conditions Jasmine and her teenage friends must endure are harsh beyond imagination. They are also unlawful by international standards, and tensions in the factory are running high. So when the factory owner strikes a deal with a Western client and demands around-the-clock production to meet the deadline, a confrontation becomes inevitable. Shot clandestinely in China, under difficult conditions, this is a deep-access account of what both China and the international retail companies don’t want us to see - how the clothes we buy are actually made.
Event Sponsor:
Houston Institute for Culture
Event Website:
www.houstonculture.org
Event Description:
At the DFA Training Academy, experienced campaign professionals will cover practical strategies and tactics including communications, fundraising, voter targeting, online organizing, and building a sustainable grassroots movement. We design the program so you can go out and use the skills you learn right away. Then, we follow up with you to make sure you have the support you need to organize your community. March 3,4, 2007 - 9:00 am - 6:00 pm, fee includes both days and lunch.
Event Sponsor:
Democracy for Houston
Event Website:
democracyforhouston.org
Event Description:
Mayor White will host a Town Hall Meeting on our energy future. Texas sits at an energy crossroads.
Speakers include:
Tim Bradley, Prsident Kinder Morgan CO2 Company
Dr. Bob Pierce, Memorial Drive United Methodist Church
Joel Surface, Austin Clean Energy Incubator
Event Sponsor:
Texas Impact, Interfaith Ministries, NRDC, Citizen's Environmental Coalition
Event Website:
www.reenergizeTexas.org
Event Description:
Tim Mock will talk briefly about how climate change may have killed over half of life on earth multiple times. From Scientific American, October 2006: "Impact From the Deep: Strangling heat and gases emanating from the earth and sea, not asteroids, most likely caused several ancient mass extinctions. Could the same killer-greenhouse conditions build once again?" Location: Nature Discovery Center in Bellaire, www.NatureDiscoveryCenter.org (part of the regular monthly free talks, The Inquisitive Naturalist).
Event Sponsor:
Nature Discovery Center & Houston Climate Protection Alliance
Event Website:
www.HoustonClimateProtection.org
Event Description:
Attend the regular monthly meeting of the Progressive Action Alliance, as we plan actions to promote impeachment, withdrawal from Iraq, and progressive political change. If you are reading this on the PAA home page, click on the event title for more details.
Come early (6:30-7:00 PM) if you'd like to visit with others before the meeting, swap stories, and enjoy refreshments (pot luck -- whatever people decide to bring). You can bring something to eat or drink later, too, although it isn't required.
Agenda items include: * More discussion on goals & objectives for 2007 - bring your ideas * Promoting impeachment * Ending the Iraq Occupation & promoting peace * 4th Friday Flicks movies We'll also have both styles of our Impeach T-shirts available, for donations ($10-20 suggested).
We meet the 2nd Thursday of each month to discuss recent and upcoming activities. Join us!
Park either: * on the north side of Alabama, across street from Havens Center * just east of the Havens Center in the parking lot for St. Stephen's Episcopal Church
Event Sponsor:
Progressive Action Alliance
Event Description:
Attend the regular monthly meeting of the Progressive Action Alliance, as we plan actions to promote impeachment, withdrawal from Iraq, and progressive political change. If you are reading this on the PAA home page, click on the event title for more details.
Event Sponsor:
Progressive Action Alliance
Event Website:
paa-tx.org
Event Description:
Progressive organizations from around Texas are coming together on Saturday, March 10, in San Antonio, to network and build alliances so we can all have a more powerful political influence, both in Texas and nationally.
Event Sponsor:
Progressive Populist Caucus, Progressive Action Alliance, others
Event Description:
The PPC annual meeting will be held in conjunction with the Progressive Alliance Conference of Texas. There are NO registration fees to attend the PPC annual meeting, it is open to everyone, however, if you wish to attend the Progressive Action Conference of Texas, please register and there are fees for lunch and the remaining part of the PACT conference.
Dennis Kucinich, presidential candidate for 2008 and long time progressive Democrat, will be the keynote speaker for the Progressive Alliance Conference of Texas, taking place at the same location. Also speaking at the conference will be Julie Coniglio, representative of the Progressive Democrats of America. We hope you will join us in San Antonio on March 10, 2007.
Location
The PPC annual meeting and PACT conference is at San Antonio's Northeast Service Center "Toolyard" at 10303 Toolyard, in northeast San Antonio. Note that this is a change from the original tentative location. It's off Wurzbach Parkway---between Perrin Beitel and Thousand Oaks --- west of I-35 and north of the north loop I-410.
Event Description:
Following the annual general meeting of the Progressive Populist Caucus (PPC) and the Progressive Alliance Conference of Texas (PACT) satewide meeting of progressive organizations, with Dennis Kucinich as the keynote speaker (details), Texas friends of Dennis will have two fund raisers for the Kucinich campaign in the evening.
The first will be a San Antonio fund raiser, and the second will be an Austin fund raiser. Click on these links for details.
Event Description:
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 St, Houston, Texas 77098
Event Sponsor:
Houston Institute for Culture
Event Website:
www.houstonculture.org
Event Description:
YOU and your friends are invited to a SIGN MAKING PARTY for PEACE
Why: Make giant signs and banners to use on Mar. 20 for the coordinated freeway blogging and candlelight vigil, on freeway overpasses for the 4th anniversary of the Iraq invasion. Make your own sign stressing the need for peace and for bringing the troops home now. And of course, you can use your sign later, or donate it to someone else who will, as the freeway blogging is a continuing activity as long as US troops are in Iraq.
Event Description:
The "Million Musician March Against the War" in Austin, Saturday, March 17th, commemorates the beginning of the war against Iraq.
Musicians from near and far will participate, but that's just a way to make noise.
Event Sponsor:
Austin Against War, Texans for Peace, Code Pink, Instruments for Peace, Austin Center for Peace and Justice.
Event Website:
www.austinagainstwar.org
Event Description:
JOIN WORLD CAN’T WAIT - DRIVE OUT THE BUSH REGIME Event Sponsor: Event Contact Name: Event Phone Contact Information: Event Website: Event Fee:
And a massive coalition of anti-war organizations to
MARCH ON THE PENTAGON Saturday March 17
End the War NOW! Impeach Bush for War Crimes!
World Can't Wait & ANSWER Coalition
Lea Mesa
866-973-4463
www.MarchOnThePentagon.org
Free
Event Description:
Hello friends of peace,
Below is a press release for an event we are planning for Sat. March 17. We would love for each of you to come and walk with us. I plan to speak about the Department of Peace and give each walker a brochure about it. Please come and pass this information to any and all! I hope to see you there. Wear a peace t-shirt if you have one!
Event Sponsor:
Lonestar Democratic Club
Event Website:
www.lonestardemocraticclub.org
Event Description:
March 17, 2007
SHAPE Community Center
3903 Almeda Rd., Hou, TX 77004
5:00 PM to 6:30 PM Film Screening
6:30 PM to 7:30 PM Open Forum Discussion
7:30 PM to 8:00 PM Light Reception
Event Sponsor:
The Isis Pages (www.isispages.com)
Event Website:
www.racetoexecution.com
Event Description:
CLEAN cordially invites you to an evening with environmentalist and CODEPINK co-founder, DIANE WILSON, author of An Unreasonable Woman. Wilson will be signing copies of her book to raise funds for her organization, Calhoun County Resource Watch and CLEAN, a Houston-based non-profit environmental organization.
Event Sponsor:
CLEAN
Event Website:
www.cleanhouston.org/wilson.pdf
Event Description:
The event will honor and remember all the casualties of the Iraq war on the fourth anniversary of this war. There will be a flag planted for each American casualty, and a display memorializing the estimated Iraqi and civilian deaths resulting from the war.
Event Sponsor:
Military Families Speak Out, Houston, - Veterans for Peace - Chapter 12
Event Description:
The event will honor and remember all the casualties of the Iraq war on the fourth anniversary of this war. There will be a flag planted for each American casualty, and a display memorializing the estimated Iraqi and civilian deaths resulting from the war.
Event Sponsor:
Military Families Speak Out, Houston, - Veterans for Peace - Chapter 12
Event Description:
THIS MEETING IS THE EVENING OF THE DAY THE UNITED STATES STARTED THE WAR IN IRAQ FOUR YEARS AGO. If you are not too tired, and are still in town, it could be a good time to rally, share stories, make plans. (Unless we have all been rounded up and detained.)
Event Sponsor:
Harris County Green Party
Event Website:
www.hcgp.org
Event Description:
The event will honor and remember all the casualties of the Iraq war on the fourth anniversary of this war. There will be a flag planted for each American casualty, and a display memorializing the estimated Iraqi and civilian deaths resulting from the war.
Event Sponsor:
Military Families Speak Out, Houston, - Veterans for Peace - Chapter 12
Event Description:
March 20 - Dialogue: Racism - A program developed by The Center for the Healing of Racism to promote the sharing of thoughts, feelings, experiences and perspectives on racism among diverse groups of people.
Event Sponsor:
The Center for the Healing of Racism
Event Description:
Mark the 4th anniversary of the invasion/occupation of Iraq with a Houston-style freeway blogging & candlelight vigil 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, March 20, on the six suspension bridges spanning Highway 59 (Southwest Freeway), west of downtown Houston. This will be on the Montrose, Graustark, Mandell, Dunlavy, Woodhead, Hazard Bridges, bounded on the west by Shepherd Street and on the east by Main Street. Please come and join one of these groups, as we stand up for peace.
If you are reading this on the PAA home page, click on the event title for details.
Event Sponsor:
Harris County Green Party, Progressive Action Alliance, Military Families Speak Out, World Can't Wait, KPFT, more
Event Website:
www.paa-tx.org
Event Description:
The event will honor and remember all the casualties of the Iraq war on the fourth anniversary of this war. There will be a flag planted for each American casualty, and a display memorializing the estimated Iraqi and civilian deaths resulting from the war.
Event Sponsor:
Military Families Speak Out, Houston, - Veterans for Peace - Chapter 12
Event Description:
March 20 - Dialogue: Racism - A program developed by The Center for the Healing of Racism to promote the sharing of thoughts, feelings, experiences and perspectives on racism among diverse groups of people.
Event Sponsor:
The Center for the Healing of Racism
Event Description:
The event will honor and remember all the casualties of the Iraq war on the fourth anniversary of this war. There will be a flag planted for each American casualty, and a display memorializing the estimated Iraqi and civilian deaths resulting from the war.
Event Sponsor:
Military Families Speak Out, Houston, - Veterans for Peace - Chapter 12
Event Description:
March 20 - Dialogue: Racism - A program developed by The Center for the Healing of Racism to promote the sharing of thoughts, feelings, experiences and perspectives on racism among diverse groups of people.
Event Sponsor:
The Center for the Healing of Racism
Event Description:
The event will honor and remember all the casualties of the Iraq war on the fourth anniversary of this war. There will be a flag planted for each American casualty, and a display memorializing the estimated Iraqi and civilian deaths resulting from the war.
Event Sponsor:
Military Families Speak Out, Houston, - Veterans for Peace - Chapter 12
Event Description:
March 20 - Dialogue: Racism - A program developed by The Center for the Healing of Racism to promote the sharing of thoughts, feelings, experiences and perspectives on racism among diverse groups of people.
Event Sponsor:
The Center for the Healing of Racism
Event Description:
The event will honor and remember all the casualties of the Iraq war on the fourth anniversary of this war. There will be a flag planted for each American casualty, and a display memorializing the estimated Iraqi and civilian deaths resulting from the war.
Event Sponsor:
Military Families Speak Out, Houston, - Veterans for Peace - Chapter 12
Event Description:
March 20 - Dialogue: Racism - A program developed by The Center for the Healing of Racism to promote the sharing of thoughts, feelings, experiences and perspectives on racism among diverse groups of people.
Event Sponsor:
The Center for the Healing of Racism
Event Description:
March for Economic Justice – 1 p.m. Saturday, March 24
Houston Coalition of Working People and the Poor has called this major march and rally to advance its 2007 agenda: raising the federal minimum wage, healthcare for all, and adequate funding of human needs programs, especially the critical entitlement programs that are up for re-authorization this year—Food Stamps and State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).
Event Sponsor:
Houston Coalition of Working People and the Poor
Event Description:
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 St, Houston, Texas 77098
Havens Center is located about 1/4 mile east of Shepherd on W. Alabama Street, on the south side of the street at 1827. Parking is available at St Stephens Episcopal Church (on the south side of the street near Woodhead and Alabama) or in the parking lot directly across the street from Havens Center (on the north side of Alabama).
Havens Center is accessible. Please call 713-521-3686 for accessibilty information.
Saturday, March 24
Women of Latin America Series
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.
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.
Next Screening:
Saturday, April 14
Thirst, 2004, 62mins
Directed by Alan Snitow and Deborah Kaufman
Thirst offers a piercing look at the global corporate drive to control and profit from water. Is water part of a shared "commons", a human right for all people? Or is it a commodity to be sold and traded in a global marketplace? Thirst tells the stories of communities in Bolivia, India, and the United States that are asking these fundamental questions, as water becomes the most valuable global resource of the 21st Century.
Global Banquet, 2001, 50mins
Directed by Ann Macksoud and John Ankele
Details how several large multi-national corporations have come to dominate the food production business, driving small family farmers both in the US and developing world out of existence, controlling markets, destroying the ability of developing nations to feed themselves and perpetuating the structures which promote poverty and hunger.
More information: http://www.houstonculture.org
Event Sponsor:
Houston Institute for Culture
Event Website:
www.houstonculture.org
