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TAKE A “TOXIC TOUR” OF HOUSTON WITH ROTHKO CHAPEL AND TEXAS ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ADVOCACY SERVICES

Rothko Chapel 3900 Yupon St, Houston

Rothko Chapel in collaboration with Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services (t.e.j.a.s.) will host a bus tour of toxic sites in and around the greater Houston community on Saturday, February 8, 2020 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.  The tour will be led by Juan Parras and Yvette Arellano of t.e.j.a.s. and will explore the East End of Houston, a neighborhood which borders Houston’s Ship Channel and is comprised of mostly Latino residents.  This frontline community is situated next to some of the largest refineries and chemical plants in the city.  Air pollution from nearby plastics-producing plants floats over schools, offices, and, homes.  The goal of the tour is to show participants the structural reality of these massive industrial complexes and to offer a first-hand understanding of environmental justice issues the community faces.

$20.00

HPJC Quarterly Board Meeting

Talento Bilingue de Houston 333 S. Jensen Drive, Houston, TX, United States

Please join the Houston Peace & Justice Center for our Quarterly Board Meeting. Organizational members are asked to send a representative to each Quarterly Board Meeting. Individual members are always welcome to attend. We will be discussing our 2020 plans for activism towards peace and justice in the areas of peace and family education, foreign and military policy, environmental justice, economic justice, and human rights and criminal justice.

Living the Change!

Emerson Unitarian Universalist Church & online 1900 Bering Dr., Houston

The Interfaith Environmental Network of Houston invites you to learn how to get started
Living the Change in your life/your house of worship. Living the Change is an international
interfaith initiative to address climate change. This event will explain the components of
Living the Change, resources available, how to host an event, and how to leverage this
initiative to make real change in addressing climate change.

Free

“Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North”

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

The Center for the Healing of Racism will celebrate Black History Month with a screening of the film “Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North.” The documentary follows filmmaker Katrina Browne as she discovers that her New England ancestors were the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history. She and nine cousins retrace the Triangle Trade and gain powerful new perspectives on the black/white divide.  The film will be followed by a dialogue.

Free. RSVP required. Donations appreciated

Impeach, Remove and Disbar Attorney General William Bar

Corner of Westheimer and Montrose

Join us this Friday to protest the illegal actions of William Barr. He has consistently protected Trump and his cronies.

Within the last 4 days, 1100 Attorney Generals in the Unites States are calling for Barr's resignation or immediate removal.

Join us as we jump on board with this demand.

Dialogue: Racism

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

Dialogue: Racism is an intensive workshop that provides a safe, respectful, and loving atmosphere where participants can learn about racism, share personal experiences, dispel fears and guilt and get to know one another.

$40

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

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.

The Wonders of Soil

Think that soil is just dirt? Think again! Join John Ferguson, soil scientist, owner of Nature’s Way Resources, and an organic gardening expert, in February as he explains the wonders of soil. You’ll leave this talk amazed at what lies beneath your feet.

Free

Foreign Policy Social

Cafe Express River Oaks 1422 West Gray Street, Houston, United States

Come gather for coffee, tea, and great food options while we discuss what's on your mind with regard to recent foreign policy developments and concerns. 

Free

Waking (Let’s Talk) News

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

Come share an article with us on the last Friday of the month. Bring a sack lunch and articles clipped from newspapers, magazines, journals or online publications. Anything related 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.

Free

A Conversation on Living the Change

Live Oak Friends Meeting House & online 1320 W 26th St, Houston

The Interfaith Environmental Network of Houston invites you to a conversation on Living the Change. Living the Change is an international interfaith initiative to address climate change.  This event demonstrates how to hold a Living the Change event/discussion in your home/house of worship, by doing so in an interfaith setting.   Please join us!  You'll not only learn how you can address climate change, but how to hold an event to influence others to do so.

Free

Artistic Social for HPJC

Mother Dog Studios 720 Walnut, Houston

The Houston Peace & Justice Center, Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, Pax Christi Houston, and Alianza Latina Internacional invites you to meet and greet for criminal, economic, and environmental justice.

Come and meet like minded individuals in a non violent atmosphere of art and free beer.

Free

Julia Reichert: 50 Years in Film: Growing Up Female

Brown Auditorium Theater 1001 Bissonnet, Houston

Controversial upon its release, the first feature-length film of the modern women’s movement looks at female socialization through a peek into the lives of six women, ages 4 to 35, and the forces that shape them: teachers, counselors, advertising, music, and marriage. The film was widely used by consciousness-raising groups to generate interest and help explain feminism to a skeptical society. Viewers now have a chance to see how much has changed and how much remains the same.

$7 – $65

Escalting Resistance: Mass Rebellion Training

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

Extinction Rebellion Houston is hosting a nonviolence workshop with longtime nonviolence trainer and activist Lisa Fithian.

Lisa will be offering a three hour training to hone our strategies and tactics to impact power holders and create social disruption at increasingly larger scales. This organizing requires attention to how we build collective power that heals and liberates us from our socialization in the dominant culture of superiority – white, male, rich and Christian.

Free

Julia Reichert: 50 Years in Film: Seeing Red: Stories of American Communists

Brown Auditorium Theater 1001 Bissonnet, Houston

Nominated for Best Documentary Feature, Seeing Red recounts the experiences of ordinary Americans who joined the Communist Party, and the high price many of them paid during the Red Scare in the 1950s. Compiled from more than 400 interviews with former and current Party members, the film delivers an engaging, funny, and human portrait of 50 years of activism. Iconic folk singer Pete Seeger and a dozen other members share personal stories that take on a special resonance today.

$7 – $65

Income inequality reform

Lambo Restsurant 6159 Westheimer, Houston

Discuss how to make a dent in income and wealth inequality.

Free

Lunch & Learn Dialogues: Racism in K-12 Education

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

Bring your lunch to the Center for the Healing of Racism for a presentation by local education activist and school psychologist Sarah Becker.  The talk will be followed by a dialogue.

Free. Donations appreciated. RSVP required

Embodying Nonviolent Communication – David Weinstock

Dominican Sisters of Houston 6501 Almeda Rd, Houston, TX, United States

Practice embodying nonviolence through movement and play. Whole mind/body/linguistic practice, engaged over time, is where we come face to face with the history we’ve embodied, our deeper selves, our most profound gifts, and the motivation to connect more compassionately in the world.

• Develop your empathic listening faculties
• Cultivate a centered presence in stressful times
• Make decisions and take actions that align with your values
• Nurture intimate connections and cultivate community

$390

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