Week of Events
Houston Anarchist Book Fair
Houston Anarchist Book Fair
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!
Art and Incarceration: Poetry, Theatre and Music in and about Captivity
Art and Incarceration: Poetry, Theatre and Music in and about Captivity
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.
Double Jeopardy: Women and the Criminal Justice System
Double Jeopardy: Women and the Criminal Justice System
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.
Justice Without Death
Justice Without Death
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 […]