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INVESTIGATING RUSSIA—2017 Natalie M. Smith PH.D.

Bay Area UU Church 17503 El Camino Real , Houston, TX, United States

Natalie M Smith visited Crimea, Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia, as a delegate of the Center for Citizen Initiatives in May 2017. She has a Ph.D. in Russian literature and linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin and has traveled in the Russian Federation since 1995. CCI, the largest citizen diplomacy organization between the two nations, determined this year to carry out a first-ever “information-gathering” delegation of American citizen investigators who would travel to major Russian cities to learn what is happening in Russia – since many allegations are made in US mainstream media and few know whether it is truth or misinformation.

Free

Latinx History Month

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

In celebration of Latinx History Month, the Center for the Healing of Racism will present a screening and discussion of “Latino Americans” on Thursday, September 28, 2017 from 7:00 to 9:00 pm.  “Latino Americans” is the first major documentary series for television to chronicle the rich and varied history and experiences of Latinos and Latinas, […]

Free. Donations encouraged. Registration required.

Investigating Russia 2017 Natalie M. Smith PH.D

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

Natalie M Smith visited Crimea, Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia, as a delegate of the Center for Citizen Initiatives in May 2017. She has a Ph.D. in Russian literature and linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin and has traveled in the Russian Federation since 1995. CCI, the largest citizen diplomacy organization between the two nations, determined this year to carry out a first-ever “information-gathering” delegation of American citizen investigators who would travel to major Russian cities to learn what is happening in Russia – since many allegations are made in US mainstream media and few know whether it is truth or misinformation.

Free

Repair Cafe

TXRX Labs 6501 Navigation Blvd, Houston, TX, United States

Our society revolves around consumption. Personal consumption of durable goods add up to 8% of GDP, and non-durable goods add up to 15%, totaling about $4 trillion dollars annually in the USA! The more we buy, the more we throw away, often during the first year! And... most people no longer know how to repair things.

ACR Houston Lifetime Achievement Gala

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

A Salute to Leaders in the Field of Conflict Resolution

The Association for Conflict Resolution Houston (ACRH) Chapter, a 501c3 since 2001, is holding its inaugural benefit to raise funds for the professional commitment of local mediators to initiate Peer Mediation programs within schools in the Harris County and contiguous counties.

Houston Peace News 2017 Jazz Fundraiser

Houston Mennonite Church 1231 Wirt Rd., Houston, TX, United States

Featuring: Peace Camp Youth, Bob Henschen Jazz Quartet, Free Radicals, vegetarian Indian dinner, and an Art Auction

$10 – $30

Share Your Peace: Creatives Resist

Solidarity Houston 6733 Harrisburg Blvd, Houston, TX, United States

As part of our continued efforts to create platforms for peace, self-expression, and creativity, we our hosting our first "Share Your Peace" poetry/prose recitation. One of the most important tools for building a culture of peace, is self expression. Therefore, we invite all poets, writers, resisters, lovers, painters, and creatives of every kind to come and share your peace. Tell us how you live peace. Show us how you live justice. Guide us through your art journey and let's build a creative bond together.

$5 – $10
Event Series Palm Center Farmers Market

Palm Center Farmers Market

Palm Center Park 6017 Beekman Rd, Houston, TX, United States

Join us this weekend at the Houston Southeast Farmer's Market in the Park at Palm Center. Created to provide a way for the community to maintain a healthy eating lifestyle, Houston Southeast Farmer's Market occurs on the 2nd and 4th Saturday of the month.

This family outing offers sale items such as fruits, vegetables, herbs, homemade treats and apparel.

This a FREE family friendly event. We hope to see you there!

No Borders/Sin Fronteras

Shape Community Center 3903 Almeda Rd, Houston, TX

As part of Campaign Nonviolence-Houston's continued effort to educate the masses of the struggles that communities are going through and their creative ways of liberating themselves, we have partnered with Black Rose/Rosa Negra to bring you this film SIN FRONTERAS/NO BORDERS produced by Sur Negro Communicaciones
https://eng.surnegro.tv/

$10

Houston Anarchist Book Fair

MECA 1900 Kane St., Houston, United States

Announcing the 2017 Houston Anarchist Bookfair! On Sunday September 24, 2017, Houston Anarchist Black Cross will host a one-day convergence to network, grow, and celebrate anarchist and anti-authoritarian projects in Texas and the surrounding region. Join us for books, workshops, and discussion to celebrate and expand our southern radical communities of resistance!

Free

Connections between People & Nature: Biodiversity

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Sunday Evening Conversations on Creation Continue…  Christ the King Evangelical Lutheran Church invites you to attend Sunday Evening Conversations on Creation, an environmental education web meeting series whose theme in 2017 is Connections between People and Nature. At the September web meeting, we welcome Professor Kerri Crawford, Assistant Professor of Biology & Biochemistry at the […]

Free

Art and Incarceration: Poetry, Theatre and Music in and about Captivity

Rothko Chapel 3900 Yupon St, Houston

Concert, Ensemble Pi
For this interdisciplinary performance, Ensemble Pi presents music, text, and theater works that focus on the rise of mass incarceration, the racial disparities it reveals, and the emotional toll it takes on inmates and their families. The concert opens with Rzewski’s minimalist masterpiece, Coming Together, composed in the wake of the 1971 prison riots in upstate New York and powerfully expressing the frustration of life behind bars and anger about injustice.

Pay what you can

Double Jeopardy: Women and the Criminal Justice System

Rothko Chapel 3900 Yupon St, Houston

2017 Rothko Chapel Óscar Romero Award Pre-Program
Double jeopardy: Women and the Criminal Justice System
Conversation and Book Signing with Julie Bindel

Women of sex trafficking face the dual realities of being victims while also being prosecuted as offenders. Join Julie Bindel in conversation with Houston activists and advocates as they explore this topic from both local and global perspectives.

Pay what you can

Justice Without Death

First Congregational Church of Houston 10840 Beinhorn Road, Houston, TX, United States

Justice Without Death Shared stories from murder victim family members of healing through reconciliation, and Q&A with the Office of Kim Ogg, Harris County District Attorney. Told from personal experiences of loss of loved ones to murder, storytellers recount their tragedies and their struggles in a “Journey of Hope...From Violence to Healing.” These murder victim […]

Free

Calming the Mind: Joy of Living Level 1

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

In this weekend meditation workshop, we will learn how cultivating awareness can help create a peaceful mind and joyful heart. The practice of meditation enables us to transform all experiences, even difficult emotions and painful thoughts, into sources of joy. Over the course of this weekend, we will explore the landscape of our experience with mindful awareness, learning how to use the body, sensory experiences, thoughts, emotions, and even awareness itself as supports for meditation.

$75 – $125

Rescheduled: A Dialogue about “Tears We Cannot Stop”

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

Working as a white ally against racism is hard but not impossible.  One thing that doesn’t help is saying “I don’t see color.”  The failure to see color only benefits white America.  A world without color is a world without racial debt.     Help the Center for the Healing of Racism develop better allies […]

Free. Donations encouraged. RSVP required.

The Mask of Microaggressions: Studies of Racism in the US

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

Authors Mark Tschaepe and Ronald Goodwin will discuss their new book, The Mask of Microaggressions: Studies of Racism in the US, on Wednesday, October 4 from 7:00 to 9:00 pm at the Center for the Healing of Racism, 3412 Crawford St., Houston, 77004. Tschaepe and Goodwin, assistant professors at Prairie View A&M University, will also sign copies of books purchased at the event.

Free. Donations encouraged. Registration required.

White Like Me (screening and discussion)

Dominican Sisters of Houston Spirituality Center Meeting Room 6501 Almeda Rd, Houston

For there to be racial justice in America much work is needed within the white discussion.  Please join the Dominican Sisters of Houston for a discussion of the film that covers "Race, Racism and White Privilege in America.

Free