Drawdown EcoChallenge
Drawdown EcoChallenge April 1 – 30, online You are invited to join the Interfaith Environmental Network of Houston team for the Drawdown EcoChallenge during the month of April. During […]
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The Path of Hope
The Path of Hope: A Study on Climate Action for Faith Communities Apr. 6 – Apr. 27, Tuesdays at 6 p.m. You are invited to join an online discussion series […]
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Contemplation & Sound: Zarathushti Tradition
Rothko Chapel 3900 Yupon St, HoustonJoin the Rothko Chapel for a livestream meditation in the Zarathushti (Zoroastrian) tradition, organized by Kaemerz Dotiwala and led by representatives of the Zoroastrian Association of Houston. This session will be focused on The Gathas, seventeen hymns composed by poet-prophet Zarathushtra around 1200 BCE that form the core of Zarathushti liturgy. Register to receive the livestream […]
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Actions Faith Communities Can Take to Reduce Pollution & Pollution-Related Health Effects
Actions Faith Communities Can Take to Reduce Pollution & Pollution-Related Health Effects Sunday, April 11, 2 p.m., online Concerned about pollution, and its impact on health? Loren Hopkins, Chief Environmental Science Officer for the City of Houston’s Health Department, will discuss current Houston Health Department programming and policies directed toward reducing pollution and pollution-related health effects. […]
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“An Unlevel Playing Field: The Myth of Access and Equality in Higher Education”
Center for the Healing of Racism 3412 Crawford Street, Houston, TXIn light of the recent Georgetown law professor’s comments about Black students' academic performance and the viral video of the Oxnard College professor who berated a deaf student for “not paying attention in class,” it’s time to talk about the myth of access and equality in higher education. Please join the Center for the Healing […]
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Bystander Intervention Training
Zoom EventLearn 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. […]
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Protect Our Vote Rally: #StopSB7! #HaltHB6!
TX, IndiaJoin VoteSimple, Indivisible Houston, Swing TX Left, Emgage, Gulf Coast ADAPT, and more for a rally this Saturday, April 17th, 10 AM CT at the Greater Houston Partnership building located at 701 Avenida De Las Americas, Houston, TX 77010 as we continue to raise awareness around voter suppression. All activities will follow social distancing and […]
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Save Myanmar Rally
Help protest against the violence and brutal suppression by the military against the peaceful pro-democracy protests. We will be holding the Protest in front of Chevron Headquarters in Houston to […]
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Earth Day Barter Fair
Live Oak Friends Meeting House 1318 W. 26th, Houston, TX, United StatesTrade objects and services without using common currency Support Earth Day efforts to decrease our carbon foot print Opportunity to share in the Quaker testimonies of simplicity, stewardship, and community by creating a space to practice thinking together in a new way about how we place value on objects and services within our community. Kid […]
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Jim Presley in Concert–old school acoustic blues and Native American music
Live Oak Friends Meeting House 1318 W. 26th, Houston, TX, United StatesFor the second barter fair in a row, we will also welcome blues guitarist Jim Presley to the Barter Fair sound stage. Jim will play Old School Acoustic Blues plus original creations in this tradition and others, as well as Native American songs interspersed with delightful stories. Learn more about Jim and his music here Concert will […]
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Brian Greene Livestream
The Progressive Forum WebsiteWorld-renowned theoretical physicist to discuss his book, Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe, in a half-hour interview with Progressive Forum president Randall Morton. Don’t miss this discussion of the ultimate story: The beginning of the universe to the end; the evolution of stars; cellular life; and the […]
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Waking (Let’s Talk) News!
Center for the Healing of Racism 3412 Crawford Street, Houston, TXBring 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. […]
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Contemplation & Sound: Islamic Tradition
Rothko Chapel 3900 Yupon St, HoustonJoin the Rothko Chapel for a livestream meditation in the Islamic tradition led by Mohamed Hussein and organized by the Minaret Foundation. Comparing elements of sound in different Quran recitation styles, this contemplative practice will showcase thematic recitations where tunes and melodies match the stories being read, allowing the audience to get lost in the […]
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HPJC Quarterly Board Meeting
ZoomPlease join the Houston Peace & Justice Center via Zoom 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 welcome members to send in their agenda items. Hope to see everyone there!
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100 Climate Solutions for Houses of Worship & Their Members
100 Climate Solutions for Houses of Worship & Their Members Sunday, May 9, 2 p.m., online “Can we reverse global warming by 2050?” is the question addressed by Project Drawdown. Project Drawdown’s research into all possible solutions yielded the top 100 most impactful solutions to climate change, in priority order, with estimates of cost […]
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Bystander Intervention Training
Zoom EventLearn 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. […]
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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 […]
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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/
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Waking (Let’s Talk) News!
Center for the Healing of Racism 3412 Crawford Street (@ Holman), Houston, TXBring 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. […]
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Contemplation & Sound: Unitarian Universalist Tradition
Rothko Chapel 3900 Yupon St, HoustonJoin 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 Universalist Church of Houston. This family-friendly offering will include songs of social justice, readings and interactive meditations. Register to receive the livestream link.
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Racism in Transportation
Center for the Healing of Racism 3412 Crawford Street, Houston, TXAccess 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 […]
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Houston Franchise Show – Free Tickets
NRG Center 1 NRG Park, HoustonYou 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 opportunity eliminates all the hard work of opening a business independently and will help avoid much of the risk of starting a new business. Take […]
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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 Engineering Department at Rice University, for a talk on faith and resilience. Jim’s talk will focus on physical, economic and spiritual resilience in the context of […]
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Explore Rothko’s Design Process & the Chapel Paintings with Art Historian Sheldon Nodelman
Join us for a livestream lecture and conversation exploring the Rothko Chapel paintings with art historian Sheldon Nodelman and Christopher Rothko! In 1997, Sheldon Nodelman authored Rothko Chapel Paintings: Origin, Structure, Meaning, where he explored the Rothko Chapel as a "masterpiece of twentieth century art and incontestably the greatest work of pictorial installation to date, […]
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NEW SOCIAL DEMOCRATS READING GROUP – George Orwell – The Road to Wigan Pier
Please join us for our first reading group event. We have chosen the work of George Orwell. He was a socialist, author, and war correspondent for the BBC. If you would like the Webex link for it, and for the free online book, please go to our website at newsocdems.org and click the subscriber button […]
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Bystander Intervention Training
Zoom EventLearn 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. […]
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Bystander Intervention Training
Zoom EventLearn 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. […]
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28th Ally Awards Fundraiser / Special Honoree: Lupita Nyong’o
Center for the Healing of Racism 3412 Crawford Street, Houston, TX, United StatesPlease 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 […]
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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 remarkable: she was born as a boy 44 years ago in an Icelandic fishing village. Veigar had a wife and family but decided at the […]
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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 global epicenter for the carbon economy. Oil and gas represent over one third of the state economy. Texas’ $1.9 trillion GDP, if a country, would […]
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