Event Description:

Please join HCDP for the upcoming Energy Workshop. Speakers include:

Tom Rowan PHD, owner , Rowan Marketing. Tom has spend forty years researching, working in and advising about technology and energy issues . He has worked with NASA, done market research on various industries including energy, published research and proprietary reports on
numerous energy and technology related topics. He is also a long time Democratic activist.

Stephanie Hrabar, PHD of ENVIRONMENATL INITIATIVE OF THE HOUSTON REGION DEMOCRATS. Stephanie has studied and talked and lobbied on issues of environment and energy for a number of years and brings to the
discussion her expertise and passion.

This is going to be a VERY HOT TICKET! Register early!
May 20, 2006 Schedule

Event Sponsor:
Sponsored by Harris County Democratic Party and Democracy For Houston

Event Contact Name:
Murvin Auzenne

Event Fee:
Suggested donation: $10.00

Event Description:

Voices Breaking Boundaries presents WORDS FOR PEACE 4, Voices of a People’s History

• Intros by Howard Zinn (via telephone) and Anthony Arnove, editor of Terrorism and War (in person)
  
• Featuring local artists/ activists rendering a dramatic version of Howard Zinn’s Voices of a People’s History.
  
• Artists include: Paula Anicete, Hitaji Aziz, Duane Bradley, City Council Member Ada Edwards, Chuck Jackson, Autumn Knight, Vivek Mittal, John Pluecker, Sehba Sarwar, Anita Wadhwa, students from Lee High School and Community Builders Cadre
  
• Open mic and poetry led by Equality, graffiti art by Hyroglifx Koncepts, capoeira by Grupo de N'Golo, music by Free Radicals, refreshments by Nusrat Malik, drinks and much more

For reservations, call 713.524.7821, or email escramble('info','vbbarts.org');

Event Sponsor:
Voices Breaking Boundaries, DiverseWorks, KPFT Pacifica Radio 90.1 FM

Event Phone Contact Information:
713.524.7821

Event Email Address:
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Event Website:
www.vbbarts.org

Event Fee:
$5.00, No one will be turned away

Event Description:

WHAT IS SOUTHERN GIRLS CONVENTION?

The Southern Girls Convention is an annual grassroots meeting for networking, organizing, educating, agitating, and activism, devoted to empowering women, girls, and transfolks in the South, and to furthering the struggle for social justice. Each year’s convention is hosted by a different Southern community and facilitated by local organizers. Past conventions have brought together hundreds of folks in Memphis, Tennessee; Louisville, Kentucky; Auburn, Alabama; Athens, Georgia; Asheville, North Carolina; and Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Event Email Address:
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Event Website:
southerngirlsconvention.org/2006

Event Description:

Please join the San Jacinto Democratic Veterans Brigade, Code Pink and Veterans for Peace in a Memorial Day observance for US military casualties from the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.

• Ceremony: May 28th - 10am - 5pm
• Flag Display May 29th - 30th

VOLUNTEERS are NEEDED to read names and place flags. For more information, please contact Jim Rine at escramble('sanjacsec','yahoo.com'); or at 281 414-1386 

Event Sponsor:
San Jacinto Democratic Veterans Brigade, Code Pink and Veterans for Peace

Event Contact Name:
Jim Rine

Event Phone Contact Information:
281 414-1386

Event Email Address:
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Event Description:

The Harris County Green Party is having a celebration Sunday evening,
and this invitation is to you and any others who support the Green
Party values:

* Grassroots Democracy
* Healthy Environment
* Sustainable Energy
* Social Justice
* Non-Violence

Please note that progressive Democrats, who support those values, are
invited.  If you are one of them, you can help with the petition
drive, even though you can't sign the petition yourself if you voted
in the primary.  I'm one of those Dems, I support the GP values, and
I've already been helping to gather signatures. -- Bill C.

When:
Sunday, April 23, 3-8 pm

Where:
Dan Electro's Guitar Bar
1031 E. 24th St.
Houston 77009
713-862-8707

Entertainment:
Sofa Kings
Fahl N' Folk
Soul Hustlers
Thunder Pants
Steven Hung on the Patio
Funky Mustard

Admission:
$10 or 10 signatures on the Green Party ballot access petition

Anyone who comes to Dan Electro's this Sunday with their voter
registration card will get in for half-price ($5.)

Anyone who brings a sheet of signatures will get in for free!

There will be notaries there to notarize petitions.

There will be a raffle for $50 - one ticket for each sheet of
petition signatures!

For more information, or to download a petition form for the ballot
access drive:  http://hcgp.org

Questions about the petition drive?  Call 713-515-3433

Event Sponsor:
Harris County Green Party

Event Contact Name:
Earl Gerhard

Event Phone Contact Information:
713-515-3433

Event Website:
www.hcgp.org

Event Fee:
$10 or 10 signatures (see details)

Event Description:

Mountain Top Removal coal mining is a radical form of strip mining.  “Appalachian Treasures” is a stunning multi-media presentation about mountaintop removal coal mining, with stories from the coalfields and music from the area.  Also, meet and talk with 2 Appalachian coalfield residents, Mary Miller and Pauline Canterberry, who will speak about daily life in the shadow of MTR mines.   Free and open to the public (Donations to Appalachian Treasures happily accepted). 

Event Sponsor:
Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church

Event Contact Name:
Bridget Jensen

Event Phone Contact Information:
713-417-2056

Event Email Address:
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Event Description:

Mountain Top Removal coal mining is a radical form of strip mining.  “Appalachian Treasures” is a stunning multi-media presentation about mountaintop removal coal mining, with stories from the coalfields and music from the area.  Also, meet and talk with 2 Appalachian coalfield residents, Mary Miller and Pauline Canterberry, who will speak about daily life in the shadow of MTR mines.   Free and open to the public (Donations to Appalachian Treasures happily accepted).  

Event Sponsor:
Unitarian Fellowship of Houston

Event Contact Name:
Sarah Berel-Harrop

Event Phone Contact Information:
281-813-0660

Event Email Address:
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Event Description:

Mountain Top Removal coal mining is a radical form of strip mining.  “Appalachian Treasures” is a stunning multi-media presentation about mountaintop removal coal mining, with stories from the coalfields and music from the area.  Also, meet and talk with 2 Appalachian coalfield residents, Mary Miller and Pauline Canterberry, who will speak about daily life in the shadow of MTR mines.   Free and open to the public (Donations to Appalachian Treasures happily accepted).  Seating is limited, please rsvp to Irv at escramble('hirv','aol.com.');  
 

Event Sponsor:
Thoreau UU Congregation Adult Discussion Group

Event Contact Name:
Irv Smith

Event Phone Contact Information:
281-813-0660

Event Email Address:
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Event Description:

Join your fellow Democrats who care about your State Party Platform to express your view on issues you believe should be in our Platform - State of Texas issues and National Issues impacting Texans.  Click on the title of this event to read the details.

Event Sponsor:
Texas Democratic Party and the Harris County Democratic Party

Event Contact Name:
Stan Merriman

Event Phone Contact Information:
713-666-8444

Event Email Address:
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Event Description:

You are cordially invited to a backyard BBQ Benefit for the MARK MCDAVID CAMPAIGN. Mark McDavid is a native Houstonian running for State Representative in district 138. District 138 encompasses North and Northwest Harris County neighborhoods including Garden Oaks, Oak Forest, Spring Branch, Cy-Fair, and Bear Creek. Mark McDavid is a strong environmentalist who will fight for a stronger focus towards stewardship of our air and water. He will fight for legislation that will make health pollution screening levels stricter and he will fight for alternative fuel sources. Mark McDavid is running against Republican Dwayne Bohac, a right-wing radical that benefited from Tom DeLay's alleged felony criminal conspiracy.

Have you had enough of the corruption, cronyism, and polluted politics taking place in the state house in Austin? If so, Come join us for some good old Texas BBQ and join us in supporting the campaign of a pro-people, PROGRESSIVE Democrat.

Event Phone Contact Information:
713-812-9368

Event Email Address:
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Event Website:
www.votemcdavid.com

Event Fee:
$10.00 Suggested Donation

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:

3 Years in Iraq

CANDLELIGHT VIGIL FOR PEACE

March 21 Dunlavy Bridge 6:30P

This week begins the fourth year of the criminal war and occupation of Iraq. The consequences have been enormous. Deaths for U.S. service people now number 2,311. Officially, over 17,000 more U.S. service people have been reported wounded — unofficial estimates are between 18,000 to 48,000 wounded. The number of Iraqi civilian deaths are reported at over 33,000 with an average of 36 people per day. An additional $92 billion dollars of more U.S. taxpayer money is slated to pass approval this week for a new total of $400 billion dollars being spent, there is no end in sight. The Senate has now permitted the national debt to grow to $9 trillion. And the war has brought new assaults on civil liberties and democratic rights.

Event Sponsor:
(Independent Hosts)

Event Contact Name:
Cyndy Allard

Event Email Address:
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Event Fee:
free

Event Description:

Let's party!  Let's tell the world that change is in the air!  Let's make signs!

We're having a sign making party, before the First Amendment is taken away, for those needing a sign for the March 18 demonstration or for freeway blogging, or for anything else for which you need a political sign.

Where:
Bill & Cheryl Crosier's garage/sign-making laboratory
7445 Santa Fe Dr.
Houston 77061
713-305-5346
just northwest of Hobby airport
map: http://tinyurl.com/4f6xq

When:
Sat. Mar. 11, 2-6 pm

Bring any of this if you have it, but don't go out and buy any:
*Dark paint (latex only, please -- alkyd or oil-based paint takes too long to dry)
*LARGE cardboard, old sheets, old political yard signs, or anything large, lightweight, & paintable
*1.5 - 3" Paint brushes (we already have some, including larger ones and rollers)
*Something to share for dinner if you want to stay afterwards (or money for something to be delivered)

To find large pieces of cardboard, go by your favorite dumpster or call a nearby appliance store to ask when is a good time to get large boxes when their trucks return from delivery.
Fold the cardboard parallel to the corrugations if needed, to fit into your car.
We can duct tape smaller cardboard pieces together.
Old sheets make great signs/banners, too, and hold up if it rains better than cardboard.

Be sure to wear clothes and shoes that are OK to get paint on.  We have several old T-shirts you can borrow.

The Freeway Blogger web site http://www.freewayblogger.com/ has lots of great examples, with photos of some of the hundreds and hundreds of signs that have been placed on freeway overpasses and other visible locations in all 50 states.

The simple procedure: http://www.freewayblogger.com/howto.htm

Everyone is invited to help us make signs, so feel free to forward this to others who may believe in the 1st Amendment.

Event Sponsor:
Progressive Action Alliance

Event Website:
www.paa-tx.org

Event Description:

"WHAT I HEARD ABOUT IRAQ"

a theatrical reading, multimedia performance

& artistic act of dissent & vigil~  

Event Sponsor:
Code Pink, First Unitarian Universalist Church, co-sponsored by KPFT, Voices Breaking Boundaries, and the Miranda Project

Event Contact Name:
Cathy Courtney (more noted above)

Event Phone Contact Information:
713-864-6724

Event Email Address:
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Event Description:

Join us for an international day of solidarity and make the 3rd anniversary of the criminal war & occupation of Iraq the last one.

BRING THE TROOPS HOME NOW!

From New Orleans to Baghdad

STOP the War Abroad and HERE at HOME!

Money for jobs, health care, housing, schools and veterans benefits – NOT WAR!

Build levees, not bombs
Support the struggle of Katrina evacuees
Stop the illegal surveillance
Overturn the USA PATRIOT Act

NO CUTS IN VA FUNDING
NO WAR FOR OIL & EMPIRE

Hands off Iran & Venezuela
End all colonial occupations - From Iraq & Afghanistan to Palestine & Haiti
From Latin America & the Caribbean, to Africa, Asia & the Middle East – no more interventions

Please bring signs to remind the public about the thousands in the US military (as well as Iraqis) who have been severely wounded, disabled, and who need ongoing help, but who the US government is ignoring.

We want to support the VA Hospital and bring attention to how US funding of the occupation of Iraq is causing tremendous grief to both US and Iraqi families, and demonstrate the hypocrisy of a government that claims to be supporting the troops and hurricane survivors, while it spends money instead on death and destruction.

Keep the Heat in the Street!

Let us unite with Texas activists who are protesting in Austin, Dallas, Denton, San Antonio, and Galveston!

Protests are happening around the world!  See http://answercoalition.org/ and http://unitedforpeace.org/

Houston Actions on Saturday, March 18: 

11 AM – Demonstration & Leafleting at the VA Hospital, corner of OST and Almeda Rd.

1 PM – Rally 1/2 mile north of demonstration, at the southeast corner of Hermann Park, corner of Holcombe Blvd. and Almeda Rd.
Performances by local musicians and poets, open mic for our youth to voice their ideas on "Taking Back Our Future"

 
Parking is available near the rally location, and it's a short walk down to the demonstration.  The Almeda Rd. entrance to the VA medical center may not be open on the weekend.
 

Event Sponsor:
See list above

Event Contact Name:
Gloria

Event Phone Contact Information:
713.503.2633

Event Email Address:
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Event Website:
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Event Description:

THE WOODLANDS, TX – Feb. 19, 2006 – A group of local clergy and other Woodlands residents have formed a new advocacy group that will address a range of issues affecting our community, our country, and our world.  The public is invited to learn more about the Peace and Justice Network of Montgomery County at an Open House on Saturday, March 4, from 4 to 6 pm at Montgomery College (Room B102).

            Leaders of the recently incorporated non-profit organization include Rev. Don Gebert, the first Director of Interfaith of The Woodlands; Rev. David Cobb, pastor of The Woodlands Christian Church (Disciples of Christ); and Rev. Danita Noland, pastor of Northwoods Unitarian Universalist Church. 

            The Peace and Justice Network of Montgomery County will address such issues as poverty, access to healthcare, youth and senior concerns, equal justice for all and peace.  For more information, contact Steve Harr, (713) 301-1012.

Event Description:

U. S. Tour of Duty's Real Intelligence Project presents

Former UN Weapons Inspector

Scott Ritter

and

U. S. Representative Sheila Jackson Lee 

at an emergency public discussion about Iraq, Iran, and America's constitutional crisis

"We Won't Get Neo-CONNED! Again"

A citizen response to lying, spying, and dying for the "war on terror" 

Event Sponsor:
US Tour of Duty, KPFT http://kpft.org, Light in the Darkness Publications http://www.ihspress.com/

Event Phone Contact Information:
713-655-0050

Event Website:
www.ustourofduty.org

Event Fee:
$10 suggested donation (nobody turned away)

Event Description:

Join us for an evening PEACE RALLY in The Woodlands with Cindy Sheehan and The Gold Star Families For Peace.

Additional speakers may include Mimi Kennedy and Ann Wright.  We're waiting on confirmation on them. 
Sorry, but NO SIGNS inside:
We won't be allowed to bring signs inside the building/auditorium 
We will be selling copies of Cindy's book at the event. 
Limited space will be available for tables.  Groups wanting to set up a table should contact Stephen Harr, stephenharr[at]yahoo[dot]com, 713.301.1012, and be at the site by 5:45 PM Sunday.

 Campus police will be on site to handle security for the event.

Directions to Montgomery College:

To Montgomery College from NORTH:
- Take I-45 south to exit #79 (Needham Rd./Hwy. 242/College Park Dr.).
- Turn right (away from interstate) and head approximately 1/4 mile.
- Main college entrance is on the right.

To Montgomery College from SOUTH:
- Take I-45 north to exit #79 (Needham Rd./Hwy. 242/College Park Dr.).
- Turn left under interstate and head approximately 1/4 mile.
- Main college entrance is on the right.

Event Sponsor:
North Houston Peace Group, Gold Star Families for Peace, Potlucks for Peace and Concerned Citizens of Montgomery County

Event Contact Name:
Steve Harr

Event Phone Contact Information:
713-301-1012

Event Email Address:
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Event Description:

This event will go on, rain or shine.  Thousands of US troops and Iraqis are dying in Iraq -- The least we can do is to show our support for this event even if the weather is not spring-like and sunny.  Bring rain gear, your long underwear, and a hat.  Let's show Houston that we won't let a little weather interfere with our stand for peace, and that we want our troops home now.

Event Sponsor:
Gold Star Families for Peace, Veterans for Peace, Code Pink

Event Contact Name:
Amy Branham

Event Phone Contact Information:
281-251-3307

Event Email Address:
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Event Description:

Molly Ivins Can’t Say That Can She?

Monday, April 17 | Wortham Cullen Theater

BUY TICKETS

Event Sponsor:
The Progressive Forum

Event Website:
www.progressiveforumhouston.org

Event Fee:
Seats $54, $34 / Senior and student discounts