Event

Event Description:

Oppose apartheid and grossly disproportionate reprisals
(100/1 ratio of Palestinian civilians killed per Israeli deaths)
Support immediate cease-fire and halt to hostilities.

Event Sponsor:
Multiple

Event Description:

"Life in occupied Iraq"

(2008, 60 minutes, video)

Filmed over the course of three trips to Iraq as an independent videographer, this is a documentary not about soldiers, not about governments, but about Iraqi civilians and a handful of independent journalists in a country being turned into hell. A cinema verite narrative of daily life, disintegration, and the humor that ordinary people adapt when living in a warzone.

Event Sponsor:
Sedition Collective

Event Website:
www.seditionbooks.com

Event Description:

WHAT: Meso-America Resiste!
WHEN: Saturday, December 20, 8 p.m.
WHERE: Sedition Books, 901 Richmond Ave.  (one block east of Montrose)

Sedition is pleased to announce this appearance of the Beehive Collective in Houston. The Beehive has produced a series of amazingly intricate drawings that represent the struggles in the Americas using insects as an extended metaphor. The art is incredible but the politics behind the drawings is the real clincher! So come out and listen to Juan from the Beehive Collective. Bring $$ if you want to purchase posters or patches!

Event Sponsor:
Sedition Books

Event Website:
seditionbooks.org/node/75

Event Description:

Self Respect, Self Defense & Self Determination

Featuring Mabel Williams and Kathleen Cleaver, with an introduction by Angela Davis.

Sunday. 12/21, 8pm @ Sedition Books (901 Richmond Ave.)

Event Sponsor:
Sedition Books

Event Website:
seditionbooks.org/node/79

Event Description:

SUBTITLE: Fighting Goliath: TX Coal Wars/Mountaintop Removal/clips from EF!, RT & others

Rising Tide Houston and Global Justice for Animals & the Environment present two short films on the coal industry, as well as clips from Earth First!, Rising Tide, and other groups.

Event Sponsor:
various

Event Website:
seditionbooks.org/node/80

Event Description:

Gold mining blossoms in the state of Guerrero in southern Mexico.

How do indigenous people feel about it? Are they being respected? Is their livelihood being threatened? Google Guerrero Gold and all you get is mining prospect reports. Learn more, another side, tonight

Event Sponsor:
Harris County Green Party

Event Website:
www.hcgp.org/getinvolved/greenwatch/greenwatch.htm

Event Description:

Final night of Iraqi Artists in Exile exhibit

Unveiling of line-up for 2009 Houston Palestine Film Festival

Gaza solidarity details to be announced

Reception with food, music, and other details to be announced

Event Sponsor:
Houston Palestine Film Festival (and others)

Event Website:
www.stationmuseum.com/

Event Description:

This Friday, November the 28th, local activists will host a report from last weeks Annual Vigil at the School of the America’s. The event will be at The Houston Institute for Culture, Gallery and Bookstore, located at 708 Telephone, 77023, on Houston’s East End. ( Next door to Bohemio’s). Frankie Flores, a torture survivor from El Salvador, and Tiel Rainelli, a prisoner of Conscience, will share their experiences from this years vigil.
There will also be a report on the status of the excommunication of Father Roy Bourgeois, from the Catholic Church. Father Roy has been a Maryknoll priest for 36 years and is the founder of the SOA Watch.
This event is free and open to all, and starts at 7:30 pm

Event Description:

The Society of P.E.A.C.E. is honored to present Dr. Will Tuttle, author of The World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony for our annual Holiday Event in Houston! Learn about the connection between world peace and our diet. Dr. Tuttle's insight will have a profound effect on the way you view the world and your food choices!

Event Sponsor:
The Society of P.E.A.C.E. (People for the Earth, Animals, Compassion & Enlightenment)

Event Website:
www.societyofpeace.org/downloads/SOPWorldPeaceDietHolidayEventDec2008.pdf

Event Description:

As part of its monthly film series, Houston Indymedia will screen "Ground Noise and Static: Free Speech Under Attack at the RNC" at 7:00pm Saturday, December 6th at Rice Cinema.

This documentary, by subMedia TV and PepperSpray Productions, is a 30 minute video report on the demonstrations that were held outside the Republican and Democratic National Conventions. The filmmakers went there not to report on either party's convention, but to cover the creative actions that were taking place outside which the corporate media would all but ignore. The film contains from-the-streets footage capturing protests from both conventions, and arrests made at the RNC. "Don't be diverted by the ground noise and static..." is the phrase John McCain used to dismiss the protesters who shouted out during his acceptance speech.

Event Sponsor:
Houston Independent Media Center

Event Website:
www.himc.org

Event Description:

The "SOAW Journey for Justice 2008 Caravan" will be stopping into Houston on their way to the November Vigil to close down the School of Americas (SOA/WHINSEC) in Ft. Benning, Georgia.
Come learn more about the SOA with a short film, followed by testimonials of Community Activists involved in the movement.

Event Sponsor:
Journey for Justice 2008 Caravan

Event Website:
www.soaw.org/

Event Description:

Anna Baltzer, a Jewish-American Columbia graduate, Fulbright scholar, and granddaughter of Holocaust refugees, will present photographs and stories from her work documenting human rights abuses and supporting nonviolent resistance in the West Bank with the International Women's Peace Service. Her presentation will cover checkpoints, the Wall, Israeli activism, censorship, nonviolent resistance, and other topics rarely covered by US media. Baltzer is currently touring the US with her acclaimed presentation and book Witness in Palestine: A Jewish American Woman in the Occupied Territories.

Event Sponsor:
Mandel Group

Event Description:

Cynthia McKinney will be back in town this Thursday,
7 PM at S.H.A.P.E. Community Center, 3815 Live Oak.

She will be touring Galveston during the day to review damage caused by Hurricane Ike before her appearance at SHAPE.

Event Sponsor:
Harris County Green Party

Event Website:
houston.indymedia.org/news/2008/10/65439.php

Event Description:

Green Party VP Candidate and Hip-Hop Activist Rosa Clemente
will appear at the opening of a new location for the
Houston Institute for Culture
9 PM at 807B Telephone Road
in Tlaquepaque Market
(by Bohemeo's on Lockwood near Leeland)

Event Sponsor:
Harris County Green Party

Event Website:
houston.indymedia.org/news/2008/10/65439.php

Event Description:

On Friday November 14th Join the new Houston chapter of Iraq Veterans
Against the War (IVAW) and Houston Indymedia at 8pm at Rice Cinema for a
screening of the Big Noise Films Documentary 'Deserter'

Event Sponsor:
Iraq Veterans Against the War and Houston Indymedia

Event Description:

Harris Co. is the death penalty capital of the US, and executes more people than most countries in the world.
Join activists, families of death row inmates, and others from Houston and across Texas in the 9th Annual March to End Executions.
Help us shut down the state killing machine.

Event Website:
protest.net/HIMC/calendrome.cgi?span=event&ID=1210965

Event Description:

Grassroots Media Tour -
Presenting Knowledge and Tools for Spreading Justice

In this time of war and economic collapse, what stories are the corporate media ignoring? Where can you turn for grassroots information and analysis, and to connect with movements for justice?

Event Sponsor:
Many, Houston Indymedia

Event Website:
http://www.seditionbooks.org/node/36

Event Description:

Again this election year, the Progressive Action Alliance is hosting a debate watch party for the last presidential "debate"/candidate Q&A.

Our party may be a little different than others, and we hope more fun -- as we did previously, we encourage everyone to bring balled-up socks or other soft objects to throw at the screen whenever one of the candidates says something you don't like. We all enjoyed this in the past, and spontaneous, enthusiastic comments about the candidates are often uttered. Use your imagination to think of what people would say when McCain says some of his usual lines...

Event Sponsor:
Progressive Action Alliance

Event Description:

Houston Institute for Culture, The Artery and KPFT present an important Environmental Film Series

Sunday, October 19 - Tuesday, October 28, 2008 - Free and Open to the Public

All films 7:00pm (unless otherwise noted)

Event Sponsor:
Houston Institute for Culture and The Artery

Event Description:

Houston Institute for Culture, The Artery and KPFT present an important Environmental Film Series

Sunday, October 19 - Tuesday, October 28, 2008 - Free and Open to the Public

All films 7:00pm (unless otherwise noted)

Event Sponsor:
Houston Institute for Culture and The Artery

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