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  • 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

  • A Resilient Future for All Rests on Prioritizing the Most Vulnerable

    Join Kristen Schlemmer, Legal Director at Bayou City Waterkeeper, as she considers how disasters, while affecting large portions of the Houston population, impact the vulnerable more severely and why building resilience is critical.  Hurricane Harvey and Winter Storm Uri showed us that disasters increasingly affect large portions of our region's population. While many of us […]

    Free

  • Say His Name: Commemorating How George Floyd Changed the World

    Free and open to the public, with donations encouraged. To reserve your spot and receive a Zoom link, please register below by May 23. To register after May 23, please email cfhr1@juno.com.   https://www.centerhealingracism.org/event/say-his-name-commemorating-george-floyd-one-year-later-on-zoom/  

  • Waking (Let’s Talk) 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

  • Contemplation & Sound: Unitarian Universalist Tradition

    Rothko Chapel 3900 Yupon St, Houston

    Join the Rothko Chapel for a livestream meditation in celebration of Pride month in the Unitarian Universalist tradition led by Rev. Dr. Colin Bossen and Mark Vogel of First Unitarian […]

    Free

  • Racism in Transportation

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

    Access to safe, reliable and affordable transportation is vital to all of us. Whether we travel in a car, bus, train, bicycle, wheelchair or on foot, we can’t get to where we need to go — work, school, healthcare, supermarket or socializing — without transportation.  All too often, government transportation policies promote driving a car […]

    Free. Donations appreciated

  • Houston Franchise Show – Free Tickets

    NRG Center 1 NRG Park, Houston

    You are invited to The Franchise Show at the NRG Center from June 5 – 6, 2021!   (*Safety Precautions are in Place*)   Buying a franchise or proven business […]

    Free

  • Faith & Resilience: Spiritual Hubs

    Faith & Resilience: Spiritual Hubs Sunday, June 6, 3 p.m, online Join Jim Blackburn, long-time environmental lawyer/planner and Professor in the Practice of Environmental Law in the Civil and Environmental […]

    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 […]

    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 […]

    Free

  • 28th Ally Awards Fundraiser / Special Honoree: Lupita Nyong’o

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

    Please join us to honor Lupita Nyong’o, recipient of our 28th Juneteenth Ally Award.  Don’t miss Lupita’s insightful conversation with Houston’s own Cherry Steinwender, co-founder and director of the Center for the Healing of Racism.  The Academy Award winning actress is being honored for being such an inspiring role model for young people of color throughout […]

    $25

  • Against the Current

    Veiga Grétarsdóttir is the first person in the world to attempt to kayak more than 1,200 miles around Iceland, counterclockwise and “against the current.” Veiga’s personal journey is no less […]

  • Houston’s Transition to a Low Carbon Future

    Join Dr. Bruce Race, FAIA, FAICP, Professor of Architecture at the University of Houston, as he considers how Houston could transition to a low carbon future.  Texas is the historic […]

    Free

  • Racism in Foster Care

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

    The foster care system is failing Black and Brown children and the death of Ma’Khia Bryant is just one of many examples.  Please join us for a presentation about Racism in Foster Care by Alan Dettlaff, Dean of the University of Houston Graduate School of Social Work on Monday, June 28, 2021, 12:00-2:00PM.  A facilitated […]

    Free. Donations appreciated

  • Sun Children

    This timely social drama from Iranian filmmaker Majid Majidi considers the human rights of children. The story follows a clever 12-year-old and his resourceful friends who live on the streets […]

  • 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). […]

  • Contemplation & Sound: Laughter Meditation

    Rothko Chapel 3900 Yupon St, Houston

    Join the Rothko Chapel for a Zoom laughter meditation led by Stephen Findley. This interactive, family-friendly offering will focus on the power of laughter and humor to encourage healing and […]

  • Hurricane & Flood Safety

    Join Jeff Lindner, Director of Hydrologic Operations, Harris County Flood Control District, as he discusses how to stay safe in a natural disaster.  Jeff’s presentation will cover the various hazards that impact a region during a hurricane landfall, including wind, rainfall and storm surge flooding.  Jeff will then go on to address how to prepare […]

  • Peace Camp

    Mission Milby Community Center 2220 Broadway St., Houston, TX, United States

    Peace Camp provides the Houston metropolitan area with an alternative day camp experience which fosters an understanding of peace, justice, and environmental awareness appropriate to the age of the child.   […]

  • Our Moral Obligation: Ensuring the Dignity of All

    Rothko Chapel 3900 Yupon St, Houston

    Join the Rothko Chapel for the first virtual lecture in our Beyond the Rhetoric: Civil Rights & Our Shared Responsibility summer lecture series featuring the Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, President and Senior Lecturer for Repairers of the Breach and Co-Chair of the Poor People's Campaign. In this virtual conversation, Rev. Dr. Barber will […]

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  • The Struggle for Equality: LGBTQIA+ Rights

    Rothko Chapel 3900 Yupon St, Houston

    Join the Rothko Chapel for a virtual conversation on the state of LGBTQIA+ rights in the US with Alphonso David, President of Human Rights Campaign and Adri Perez, Policy & Advocacy Strategist at ACLU of Texas. Alphonso David will address national LGBTQIA+ issues and initiatives, followed by Adri Perez who will focus on the state […]

    Free
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    HPJC Quarterly Board Meeting

    Zoom

    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 2021 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.

  • 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

  • Music for a Nonviolent Future

    Houston Peace & Justice Center, along with other non-violence & justice organizations across the country, are partnering with Pace Bene to promote a culture of nonviolence through music.  Register now for this important event!! The concert is free for those who register.  If you would like to make a donation and have it go to […]

  • Going Renewable at Houses of Worship!

    Does going renewable for power at your house of worship seem unattainable? In this talk, you'll learn about a host of attractive options, from those that would add solar panels to your property, to those that have no impact on your property at all. You'll learn about community solar projects, solar co-ops, pricing discounts available […]