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  • Waking (Let’s Talk) News

    Waking (Let’s Talk) News
    Center for the Healing of Racism 3412 Crawford Street, Houston, TX, United States

    Come; share an article with us! Bring a bag lunch and your articles clipped from newspapers, magazines, journals or online sources relating to discrimination, oppression and all forms of racism.  Join us in a lively discussion and contribute your ideas and materials to the Center for the Healing of Racism. During 2019, we will meet on the last Friday of each month (January through October) from Noon to 2:00 pm at 3412 Crawford Street (corner of Holman), Houston, TX 77004.

    None. Donations encouraged.

  • Close the Detention Centers! End the Raids and Deportations!

    Never Again Action-Houston will hold a demonstration at the home of David Denenburg at 3043 Locke Ln, on Monday, December 23, beginning at 5:30 pm. Denenburg is a co-owner of the building at 419 Emancipation Avenue which is being leased to Southwest Key for use as an immigrant child detention center. We demand that Denenburg cancel the lease with Southwest Key and that this facility and all other immigrant detention centers be closed! We demand that all the raids and deportations targeting immigrants end!

  • Potluck and Movie: Imprisoning a Generation

    Live Oak Friends Meeting House 1318 W. 26th, Houston, TX, United States

    Imprisoning a Generation is a 50-minute documentary film that follows the stories of four young Palestinians who have been detained and imprisoned in the Israeli military detention system and prosecuted in Israeli military courts. Their perspectives, along with the voices of their families, combine to form a lens into the entangled structures of oppression that expand well beyond the prison walls.

    Free

  • Know Your Rights! Workshop

    Barbara Jordan-Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs, Texas Southern University 3401 Cleburne Street, Houston

    Learn about what your rights are, how to exercise them, and what to do when your rights are violated. Come out and learn about 2nd amendment rights, 4th amendment rights, how to file a grievance against law enforcement, record expungement opportunities, courtroom procedures, and more!

    Free

  • Gaza Freedom Flotilla Captain Presentation

    Live Oak Friends Meeting House 1318 W. 26th, Houston, TX, United States

    Join Norwegian Herman Reksten as he shares his experiences as captain of the fishing vessel Al Awda which was intercepted and boarded in international waters and taken to Israel on July 29, 2018.  This was his third attempt at breaking the blockade of Gaza even though he is not quite 30 years old.  Get a feel for life on a boat trying to break the over 10 year old Gaza blockade!

    Free

  • Amnesty Houston Welcomes Guest Speaker

    Olive Branch Room 2360 Rice Blvd., Houston

    Please join Amnesty International Houston, local 23, in welcoming special guest speaker Gislaine Williams, Community Relations Director for The Alliance (Alliance for Multicultural Community Services).

    Free

  • Community Restorative Justice Training

    Smith Neighborhood Library 3624 Scott St, Houston

    Restorative justice is a philosophy that promotes community building and healing after harm takes place. Come learn from youth experts about how circles can be used to transform families, institutions, and ourselves!

    Free

  • Lobby Training With Amnesty Houston

    Olive Branch Room 2360 Rice Blvd., Houston

    Free and open to the public, including nonmembers. Amnesty International, Houston, local 23 will offer lobby training: getting petition signatures, letter writing,  public events and lobbying your political leaders.  We hope you'll attend and put another tool in your activist toolbox as we work for human rights change here in Houston.

    Free

  • Close the Camps! Free Them All! April 19 Demonstration at SWK!

    Never Again Action-Houston will hold a second COVID-safe, car-only demonstration to demand the closure of the Southwest Key detention center at 419 Emancipation Avenue on Sunday, April 19, at 1:30 pm. We will assemble in the parking lot diagonally across from the detention center and place signs on our cars--at a safe distance from each other. Please bring your own signs and tape! Then we will form a caravan and drive around the detention center, honking and chanting as we go, for about one hour.

  • the black SIT

    the black SIT
    gather. grieve. rest. restore.
    w/ Zen teacher Rev. angel Kyodo williams

  • MFAH Films Virtual Experience: AI WEIWEI: YOURS TRULY

    Museum of Fine Arts Houston 1001 Bissonnet St, , Houston

    In 2014, Ai Weiwei, the renowned Chinese artist and activist, assisted by curator and filmmaker Cheryl Haines, transformed the former penitentiary
    on Alcatraz Island into an astonishing exhibition of socially engaged art, focusing on the plight of the unjustly incarcerated. Visitors were invited to send postcards to prisoners in the exhibition. Several of the formerly imprisoned activists, including Chelsea Manning, speak about the impact of receiving those messages of hope.

    $10

  • International Day of Peace 2020

    The International Day of Peace was first celebrated in 1982, and is recognized by many nations and organizations with events all over the world every September 21st, including day-long pauses in wars that reveal how easy it would be to have year-long or forever-long pauses in wars.

  • The Radical King and the Quest to Change America

    Today MLK is celebrated for his 'dream' of a just America, but by the end of his career King was calling for a "radical reconstruction" of the United States. What compelled the transformation of King's ideas and what do they tell us about our society today? Join the Rothko Chapel for our livestream 2021 Annual MLK Birthday Celebration featuring Princeton University professor of African-American Studies Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor who will engage these questions in hopes of unlocking the ideas and strategies necessary to enact effective and lasting change the United States.

    Free

  • Bystander Intervention Training

    Zoom Event

    Learn how to help people targeted by identity-based bigotry and harassment. Register today at https://houstonagainsthate.org/BIT This FREE 1.5-hour, interactive training will teach you Hollaback!’s 5D’s of bystander intervention methodology. We’ll start by talking about the types of disrespect — from microaggressions to violence — that people with marginalized identities face and the history of identity-based violence. […]

    Free

  • Texas Welcomes Refugees

    Join us for a webinar update on refugee resettlement at the national and state level. We will be joined by an advocacy expert from Church World Service, a refugee leader from Texas, and faith leaders from multiple faith traditions. Join us to learn how YOU can support refugee resettlement in Texas! Register for the webinar […]

    Free

  • Zoom for Victim of Police Abuse

    Zoom Event

    In a shocking case of police brutality, Montgomery County Precinct 5 Constables broke the neck of Gary Berger, a 40 year old local resident. While riding his motorcycle home, Berger was suddenly thrown from his bike. Apparently, he was rear-ended by a police cruiser who was allegedly pursuing him for a traffic violation.  To raise […]

  • Women In Refugee Resettlement

    Join us for a panel discussion with refugee and SIV women as we discuss what it means to be a refugee or Special Immigrant Visa holder and what it is like to work in refugee resettlement. Our speakers will include Aisha Koroma, Dina Al Bayati, and Geeta Farahmand. Register for this virtual event here:  FB […]

  • “Waking News”

    Center for the Healing of Racism 3412 Crawford Street (@ Holman), Houston, TX

    Bring a bag lunch!  Come; share an article with us!  Bring your articles clipped from newspapers, magazines, journals, or computers relating to discrimination, oppression and all forms of racism.  Join us in a lively discussion and contribute your ideas and materials to the Center’s tool kit. This event is free and open to the public. […]

    Free. Donations appreciated

  • Bystander Intervention Training

    Zoom Event

    Learn how to help people targeted by identity-based bigotry and harassment. Register today at https://houstonagainsthate.org/BIT This FREE 1.5-hour, interactive training will teach you Hollaback!’s 5D’s of bystander intervention methodology. We’ll start by talking about the types of disrespect — from microaggressions to violence — that people with marginalized identities face and the history of identity-based violence. […]

    Free

  • Bystander Intervention Training

    Zoom Event

    Learn how to help people targeted by identity-based bigotry and harassment. Register today at https://houstonagainsthate.org/BIT This FREE 1.5-hour, interactive training will teach you Hollaback!’s 5D’s of bystander intervention methodology. We’ll start by talking about the types of disrespect — from microaggressions to violence — that people with marginalized identities face and the history of identity-based violence. […]

    Free

  • Amnesty International-Bay Area (Houston) July meeting

    Our next monthly virtual meeting will be on Monday, July 5th, 2021 at 6:15 PM (Central).  The speaker for this meeting is Diana Mushtaha, Member of the Palestinian American Bridge (PAB). The title of her talk is “Eye Witness to the Gaza Crisis”. She will be joining us, live, from the West Bank.  Please register for […]

  • Bystander Intervention Training

    Zoom Event

    Learn how to help people targeted by identity-based bigotry and harassment. Register today at https://houstonagainsthate.org/BIT This FREE 1.5-hour, interactive training will teach you Hollaback!’s 5D’s of bystander intervention methodology. We’ll start by talking about the types of disrespect — from microaggressions to violence — that people with marginalized identities face and the history of identity-based violence. […]

    Free

  • Bystander Intervention Training

    Zoom Event

    Learn how to help people targeted by identity-based bigotry and harassment. Register today at https://houstonagainsthate.org/BIT This FREE 1.5-hour, interactive training will teach you Hollaback!’s 5D’s of bystander intervention methodology. We’ll start by talking about the types of disrespect — from microaggressions to violence — that people with marginalized identities face and the history of identity-based violence. […]

    Free

  • Celebrating Success: Five Years in the Making – CrossWalk Center’s Annual Fundraising Breakfast

    The Junior League of Houston 1811 Briar Oaks Lane, Houston, United States

    CrossWalk Center, a Houston-based nonprofit which strives to stop the cycle of recidivism, will host its annual fundraising breakfast on Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021, from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. at the Junior League of Houston located at 1811 Briar Oaks Lane. Now in its fifth year, the organization bridges critical social services and ministry […]

    Free

  • Amnesty International, Houston local 23 monthly meeting

    Tracy Gee Community Center 3599 Westcenter Drive, Houston

    Feel free to share and repost; Please attend Free and open to the public; Amnesty International, Houston local 23 monthly meeting. We resume "in person" meetings  Tuesday, October 5th at 6:00 PM at the The Tracy Gee Community Center 3599 Westcenter Drive, Houston, Texas 77042 Tracy Gee Community Center https://www.pct3.com/Community-Centers/Tracy-Gee-Community-Center Tracy Gee Community Center - […]

    Free

  • Undeterred Movie, online

    Live Oak Friends Meeting House 1318 W. 26th, Houston, TX, United States

    Undeterred is a documentary about community resistance in the rural border town of Arivaca, Arizona. Since NAFTA, 9/11 and the Obama and Trump administrations border residents have been on the front-lines of the humanitarian crisis caused by increased border enforcement build up. Undeterred is an intimate and unique portrait of how residents in a small rural […]

    Free

  • Amnesty International, Houston local 23 November meeting

    Tracy Gee Community Center 3599 Westcenter Drive, Houston

    *Please* share and repost; Free and open to the public; Amnesty International, Houston local 23 monthly meeting. "In person" meeting  Tuesday, November 2nd at 7:00 PM at the The Tracy Gee Community Center 3599 Westcenter Drive, Houston, Texas 77042 Tracy Gee Community Center https://www.pct3.com/Community-Centers/Tracy-Gee-Community-Center Tracy Gee Community Center - Google Maps We ask the unvaccinated […]

    Free

  • Rothko Chapel’s World AIDS Day Observance

    Online Houston

    Vimeo Livestream, 8am CT Free event with suggested contributions $5-10 In commemoration of World AIDS Day, the Rothko Chapel hosts a morning observance to show support and stand in solidarity with the millions of people living with and impacted by HIV/AIDS. The morning program includes live music, personal testimonials, and guided reflection. Jeffrey Campbell, Chief Program Officer […]

    $5 – $10

  • Amnesty International, Houston local 23 monthly meeting.

    Tracy Gee Community Center 3599 Westcenter Drive, Houston

    Amnesty International,  Houston local 23monthly meeting. Tuesday, December 7th at 7:00 PM The Tracy Gee Community Center3599 Westcenter Drive, Houston, Texas 77042 https://www.pct3.com/Community-Centers/Tracy-Gee-Community-CenterWe ask the unvaccinated to please mask up. […]

    Free