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Black History Month: “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”

Center for the Healing of Racism 3412 Crawford Street, Houston, TX, United States

In celebration of Black History Month, the Center for the Healing of Racism will hold a dialogue on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.” Twelve Center members will review the contents of the letter and lead a discussion on it’s continuing importance.  The event will be held on Friday, February 8, 2019 from 7 to 9 PM at the Center for the Healing of Racism, 3412 Crawford Street (@Holman), Houston, TX 77004.  Free parking is available across the street in HCC’s Lot 9.  The event is free and open to the public, however, donations are welcome. Space is limited and registration is required. RSVP: 713-520-8226. or [email protected].

Free. Donations appreciated. RSVP required.
Event Series Dialogue: Racism

Dialogue: Racism

Center for the Healing of Racism 3412 Crawford Street, Houston, TX, United States

The Center for the Healing of Racism will present Dialogue: Racism, a two-day intensive workshop that educates participants about racism and facilitates the process by which they can begin to counter the effects of racism on their lives, empowering them to interrupt the cycle of racist attitudes. The workshop provides a safe, respectful and loving atmosphere for a diverse group of people to learn new information, share experiences, dispel fears and guilt, and get to know each another.

Fourth Annual “Dialogue on the Plantations”

Center for the Healing of Racism 3412 Crawford Street, Houston, TX, United States

The Center for the Healing of Racism presents it’s Fourth Annual “Dialogue on the Plantations”, a tour of three historic plantations in Louisiana, the weekend of March 30-31, 2019.  Learn about the role of slavery in the southern plantation economy.  Tour includes visits to St. Joseph Plantation (sugar cane), Laura Plantation (a Creole plantation) and the Whitney Plantation Museum, which pays homage to all slaves throughout the southern United States.  

$299,

Humanists Ideas Club: Universal Health Care through Cooperatives forming in Houston

Bayland Community Center 6400 Bissonnet, houston

"How to create Community-run Cooperatives that result in Universal Health Care." Ed Barr hosts the Ideas Club for Humanists of Houston (www.meetup.com/humanism-177/events/jmrcrpyzhbpb/) at Bayland Community Center. Sat. May 11, Don McCormick, founding CEO of the nonprofits TBT.com and PPC (Patient/Physician Cooperatives based in Houston), will address medical economics, and how to build member-owned Cooperatives around existing clinics and hospitals working with PPC to cut health care costs in half.

Free

Extinction Rebellion Houston – organizing meeting

AFL-CIO Hall 2506 Sutherland St., Houston, TX, United States

Extinction Rebellion Houston will engage in non-violent civil disobedience to get our elected representative to Tell the truth Act on the truth Follow citizen-led policy Our organizing meeting will be the Wednesday after Labor Day, from 6:30-8 pm at 2506 Sutherland, the AFL-CIO Hall

Event Series 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.

Refuse Fascism Mass Meeting-#OutNow Movement

Community House at St. Stephens Episcopal Church 1755 Sul Ross, Houston, TX, United States

We can no longer tolerate the constant attacks on our Constitution, the consistent pardons of war criminals, flagrant incarceration of immigrants and asylum seekers. What kind of person have I become if I continue to sit and wait for an election to determine IF my nation's people have civil rights or not.

Join us as we plan our nonviolent yet aggressive plans to demonstrate what kind of government we want and we deserve as human beings.

Taking Time to Exhale: A Zoom Workshop for Healing

So many have expressed feeling as though we have been holding our breath throughout 2020.  Between the individual and collective stress of a global pandemic, the murder of George Floyd and the national election we know people have high emotions. For this reason, the Center for the Healing of Racism will hold a safe space […]

Free. Donations appreciated

Ending Nuclear Weapons Before They End Us: Opportunities Under the Biden Administration to Take Action

Please join us on March 4, 2021 for a virtual policy briefing and workshop series to call on the Biden administration to prioritize the complete elimination of nuclear weapons. The event is convened by Back from the Brink (BftB) and the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) with support from many partner organizations. The virtual event will feature an […]

Faith, Climate Change & Justice: A Multifaith Panel Discussion

1st Unitarian Universalist Church 5200 Fannin St., Houston, TX

The Interfaith Environmental Network of Houston invites you to hear multiple faith perspectives on the topic of faith, climate change & justice. A panel of speakers of a variety of faith backgrounds will each address faith, climate change & justice from the perspective of their faith.  An opportunity for Q&A with the panel will follow, […]

Free

Houston Community Leadership Program

Houston Food Bank 535 Portwall St, Houston, TX

The Houston Community Leadership Program is a free, non-partisan half-day event where AIT, local partner organizations, and community leaders provide civic engagement training and tools to help underrepresented women develop civic leadership skills. The agenda includes a panel conversation with local elected officials, breakout sessions led by local nonprofits, interactive trainings, and tabling services from […]

Free

Houston Community Leadership Program

Houston Food Bank 535 Portwall St, Houston, TX

The Houston Community Leadership Program is a free, non-partisan half-day event where AIT, local partner organizations, and community leaders provide civic engagement training and tools to help underrepresented women develop civic leadership skills. The agenda includes a panel conversation with local elected officials, breakout sessions led by local nonprofits, interactive trainings, and tabling services from […]

Free

Houston Community Leadership Program

Houston Food Bank 535 Portwall St, Houston, TX

Join us at our CLP event in Houston! Whether you wish to attend as a participant or partner organization/volunteer, we invite you to take part in our interactive half-day civic education event. We will have a panel discussion with elected officials, workshops on advocacy and leadership, tabling and networking sessions, and more! Bring your children […]

Free

Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women Rematriate – a Zoom dialogue

Zoom Event

Four out of five indigenous women are affected by violence today, with murder rates more than 10 times the national average. So why don’t we hear more about this shocking issue? Join us as we close out Women’s History Month with an important discussion on the Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women’s (MMIW) crisis that has […]

Free

Waking (Let’s Talk) News!

Zoom Event

Bring a bag lunch!  Come; share an article with us on Zoom!  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 will be held on Zoom […]

Free. Donations appreciated. RSVP required:

Faithful Voter Weekly Online Discussion Group

Online TX

As people of faith and conscience, we believe elections are a referendum on the values that will shape our future. How can we renew our fragile democracy? How do we honor the human dignity of every person? Will we protect our Sacred Earth and our children’s future? What policies will prioritize the common good and […]

Free

Voter Registration Event

Christ the King Evangelical Lutheran Church 2353 Rice Blvd., Houston

Live in Harris county and need to register to vote or change the address on your registration? Get registered in time for the 2022 election in November!  Bring your TX driver’s license, or state-issued i.d. to register. Or, if you don’t have these forms of identification, you can register using the last 4 digits of […]

Free

2022 Houston Youth Voters Conference (HYVC)

University of Houston-Downtown, Academic Building (315 N Main St, Houston, TX 77002) 315 N Main St, Houston

The Houston Youth Voters Conference (HYVC) is a student-led, nonpartisan collaboration between Campus Vote Project, Rice University, University of Houston, and Houston area high schools with a mission to enact change in and around Houston by increasing youth voter registration, engagement, education, and turnout. Overall, the goals of HYVC are to increase youth civic education […]

Free

Preventing Youth Hate Crimes and Identity-Based Bullying Prevention Virtual Symposium

Virtual

The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) will host its Preventing Youth Hate Crimes and Identity-Based Bullying Prevention Virtual Symposium on October 17-18, 2023 from 12:00 to 5:15 PM ET. This two-day virtual symposium coincides with Bullying Prevention Month and will focus on how to prevent extremist hate groups from radicalizing youth and […]

Free