BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Houston Peace & Justice Center - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Houston Peace & Justice Center X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://hpjc.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Houston Peace & Justice Center REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20150308T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20151101T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20160313T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20161106T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20170312T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20171105T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20180311T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20181104T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20190310T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20191103T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20200308T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20201101T070000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190405T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190405T210000 DTSTAMP:20260509T062046 CREATED:20190313T201138Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190314T202722Z UID:10000616-1554490800-1554498000@hpjc.org SUMMARY:Undeterred: Community Resistance on the US/Mexico Border (film showing & meet-n-greet w/filmmaker) DESCRIPTION:Undeterred is a documentary about community resistance in the rural border town of Arivaca\, Arizona. Since NAFTA\, 9/11 and the Obama and Trump administrations border residents have been on the front-lines of the humanitarian crisis caused by increased border enforcement build up. Undeterred is an intimate and unique portrait of how residents in a small rural community\, caught in the cross-hairs of global geo-political forces\, have mobilized to demand our rights and to provide aid to injured\, oft times dying people funneled across a wilderness desert. The film was made by Eva Lewis\, a resident of Arivaca and long time member of People Helping People in the Border Zone (PHP). Undeterred was created in close collaboration with the Arivaca community and members of PHP.   Eva Lewis and other town members will be here to discuss the film. \n  \nThe Problem\n\nThe Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects Americans from random and arbitrary stops and searches.\nAccording to the government\, however\, these basic constitutional principles do not apply fully at our borders. For example\, at border crossings (also called “ports of entry”)\, federal authorities do not need a warrant or even suspicion of wrongdoing to justify conducting what courts have called a “routine search\,” such as searching luggage or a vehicle.\n\nhttps://www.aclu.org/other/constitution-100-mile-border-zone for more info on the situation. \nTrailer: \n \n \nUndeterred Trailer from Deep Dish TV on Vimeo. \n  \n  \n  URL:https://hpjc.org/event/undeterred-community-resistance-on-the-us-mexico-border-film-showing-meet-n-greet-w-filmaker-producer-eva-lewis-and-people-shown-in-the-film-will-be-here-to-discuss/ LOCATION:Dominican Center for Spirituality\, 6501 Almeda Rd\, Houston\, 77021 CATEGORIES:Film,Human Rights & Criminal Justice ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://hpjc.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Undeterred-Poster-COLOR-ENGLISH-e1552508097570.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Houston Peace and Justice Center Foreign Military Policy Workgroup":MAILTO:joe@metroretrofurniture.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190302 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190303 DTSTAMP:20260509T062046 CREATED:20190202T190552Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190218T074007Z UID:10001377-1551495600-1551519000@hpjc.org SUMMARY:Teaching Peace Literacy: A Two-Day Workshop DESCRIPTION:Teaching Peace Literacy\nLearn about Peace Literacy* and why we need it to bring healing in our world of challenging and ever-changing traumas. AND learn how to TEACH Peace Literacy.\nBe prepared for a hands-on learning experience for developing curriculum and activities that will provide skills for and resiliency in future peacemakers.\nThis is a two-day event. To get the most out of the training\, please plan to attend both days. Registration covers both days and includes lunches. \nLocation: \nThe Dominican Center for Spirituality \n6501 Almeda Road\, Houston\, TX 77021 \nDate and Time: \nSaturday\, March 2 Check in begins at 8:30 am. The day’s program ends at 3 PM. \nSunday\, March 3 The training reconvenes at 12:30 PM and ends at 3:30 PM. \nWorkshop Registration: \nSign up HERE    $40 registration fee is suggested\, but flexible pricing and scholarships are available to those of slim means! \nPaul K. Chappell\, our workshop leader\, is\, surprisingly\, a West Point graduate\, Iraq War veteran\, and former army captain. Along this unusual path\, he became convinced that people need to be as well trained in waging peace as soldiers are in waging war.  Chappell is the Peace Literacy Director of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and the author of six books\, most recently Soldiers of Peace. Lecturing across the country and internationally\, he also teaches college courses and workshops on Peace Literacy and Peace Leadership and leads a Peace Literacy curricular development team for k-12 and higher education. \n *Peace literacy provides a practical skill set of insights based on empathy\, conscience\, reason\, and realistic hope that inoculates us against manipulation and the seductive lies that spread hatred\, dehumanization\, and irrational fear.  Learn more at Peace Literacy.\n \nTwo days\nMarch 2\, 2019 –  9AM-3 PM  Breakfast Snacks & Lunch provided. Check-in begins at 8:30AM\nMarch 3rd 2019 12:30 – 3:30PM.  A light lunch will be provided as we reconvene.  Food is vegan/vegetarian friendly. URL:https://hpjc.org/event/paulchappell2018/ LOCATION:Dominican Center for Spirituality\, 6501 Almeda Rd\, Houston\, 77021 CATEGORIES:Presentation or Lecture,Training ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://hpjc.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/PaulChappell6-e1550076193782.png ORGANIZER;CN="Joe Marcinkowski":MAILTO:Joe@metroretrofurniture.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170909T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170909T150000 DTSTAMP:20260509T062046 CREATED:20170809T195853Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170814T140000Z UID:10000254-1504962000-1504969200@hpjc.org SUMMARY:Investigating Russia 2017 Natalie M. Smith PH.D DESCRIPTION: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.\n\nIn Moscow\, CCI delegates met with Mikhail Gorbachev\, ballistics expert Vladimir Kozin\, foreign policy expert Andrei Kortunov\, journalist Dmitri Babich and TV celebrity Vladimir Pozner to discuss areas of US and Russian concern. \nIn Yalta\, Simferopol and Sevastopol city officials\, school children\, Simferopol’s Rotary Club\, university students\, journalists and many others gave perspectives on Crimea’s 2014 referendum and Western sanctions\, extended by the EU to 2018. \nIn St.Petersburg entrepreneurs\, opposition politicians\, and educators shared their hopes for more cooperative work in the future. \nSharon Tennison’s website further describes her work: \nhttps://ccisf.org/ \nThe attached photo is during our meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev: URL:https://hpjc.org/event/investigating-russia-2017-natalie-m-smith-ph-d-2/ LOCATION:Live Oak Friends Meeting House\, 1318 W. 26th\, Houston\, TX\, 77008\, United States CATEGORIES:Foreign & Military Policy,Peace Education for Children & Families,Presentation or Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://hpjc.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Ekaterinburg-russia-Mtg-400x225.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Alex McDonald":MAILTO:peacenotapathy@gmail.com GEO:29.809315;-95.423516 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Live Oak Friends Meeting House 1318 W. 26th Houston TX 77008 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1318 W. 26th:geo:-95.423516,29.809315 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170908T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170908T210000 DTSTAMP:20260509T062046 CREATED:20170615T235757Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170615T235757Z UID:10000227-1504897200-1504904400@hpjc.org SUMMARY:INVESTIGATING RUSSIA—2017 Natalie M. Smith PH.D. DESCRIPTION: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. \n  \nIn Moscow\, CCI delegates met with Mikhail Gorbachev\, ballistics expert Vladimir Kozin\, foreign policy expert Andrei Kortunov\, journalist Dmitri Babich and TV celebrity Vladimir Pozner to discuss areas of US and Russian concern. \n  \nIn Yalta\, Simferopol and Sevastopol city officials\, school children\, Simferopol’s Rotary Club\, university students\, journalists and many others gave perspectives on Crimea’s 2014 referendum and Western sanctions\, extended by the EU to 2018. \n  \nIn St.Petersburg entrepreneurs\, opposition politicians\, and educators shared their hopes for more cooperative work in the future. \n  \n  \nSharon Tennison’s website further describes her work: \nhttps://ccisf.org/ \n  \n  \nThe attached photo is during our meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev: URL:https://hpjc.org/event/investigating-russia-2017-natalie-m-smith-ph-d/ LOCATION:Bay Area UU Church\, 17503 El Camino Real \, Houston\, TX\, 77058\, United States CATEGORIES:Foreign & Military Policy,Presentation or Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://hpjc.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/photo-3.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Joe Marcinkowski":MAILTO:Joe@metroretrofurniture.com GEO:29.5522601;-95.1109768 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Bay Area UU Church 17503 El Camino Real Houston TX 77058 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=17503 El Camino Real:geo:-95.1109768,29.5522601 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170820T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170820T190000 DTSTAMP:20260509T062046 CREATED:20170611T232927Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170821T170235Z UID:10000222-1503244800-1503255600@hpjc.org SUMMARY:Hannah Arendt movie "the Banality of evil" DESCRIPTION:Hannah Arendt is a 2012 German-Luxembourgish-French biographical drama film directed by Margarethe von Trotta and starring Barbara Sukowa. The film centers in the life of German-Jewish philosopher and political theorist Hannah Arendt.[3] It is distributed by Zeitgeist Films in the United States\, where it opened theatrically on 29 May 2013.[4][5] \nGerman director von Trotta’s film centers on Arendt’s response to the 1961 trial of ex-Nazi Adolf Eichmann\, which she covered for The New Yorker. Her writing on the trial became controversial for its depiction of both Eichmann and the Jewish councils\, and for its introduction of Arendt’s now-famous concept of “the banality of evil“. URL:https://hpjc.org/event/hannah-arendt-movie-banality-evil/ LOCATION:Bering Memorial United Church of Christ\, 1440 Harold St.\, Houston\, TX\, 77006\, United States CATEGORIES:Foreign & Military Policy,Human Rights & Criminal Justice ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://hpjc.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Hannah_Arendt_Film_Poster.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Houston Peace &%3B Justice Center":MAILTO:info@hpjc.org GEO:29.7416822;-95.3971046 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Bering Memorial United Church of Christ 1440 Harold St. Houston TX 77006 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1440 Harold St.:geo:-95.3971046,29.7416822 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170813T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170813T183000 DTSTAMP:20260509T062046 CREATED:20170611T232936Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170612T223220Z UID:10000223-1502636400-1502649000@hpjc.org SUMMARY:On The Beach (1959 Movie) DESCRIPTION:On the Beach is a 1959 American post-apocalyptic science fiction drama film from United Artists\, produced and directed by Stanley Kramer\, that stars Gregory Peck\, Ava Gardner\, Fred Astaire and Anthony Perkins.[2] This black-and-white film is based on Nevil Shute‘s 1957 novel of the same name depicting the aftermath of a nuclear war.[3] Unlike the novel\, no blame is placed on whoever started the war; it is hinted in the film that the threat of annihilation may have arisen from an accident or misjudgment. \nIn early 1964\, in the months following World War III\, the conflict has devastated the Northern Hemisphere\, polluting the atmosphere with nuclear fallout\, killing all life there. Air currents are slowly carrying the fallout south; the only areas still habitable are in the far reaches of the Southern Hemisphere. \nFrom Australia\, survivors detect an incomprehensible Morse code signal coming from the West Coast of the United States. The last American nuclear submarine\, USS Sawfish\, under Royal Australian Navy command\, is ordered to sail north to the United States to attempt to make contact with the sender of the Morse signal. The submarine is commanded by Captain Dwight Towers (Gregory Peck)\, who must leave his new friend\, the alcoholic Moira Davidson (Ava Gardner). \nThe Australian government arranges for its citizens to receive suicide pills or prepared injections so they may end things quickly before there is prolonged suffering from radiation sickness. An Australian naval officer\, Peter Holmes (Anthony Perkins) and his wife\, Mary\, who is in denial about the impending disaster\, have a baby daughter. Assigned to travel with the American sub for several weeks\, Peter tries to explain to Mary how to euthanize their baby and then kill herself in case he is not yet home when the end comes; Mary reacts very emotionally to the prospect of killing her daughter and herself. \nOne scientist’s theory is that the radiation level near the Arctic Ocean could be lower than that found in the mid-Northern Hemisphere\, which might indicate the radiation could disperse before reaching the Southern Hemisphere. The theory is to be explored along with the submarine’s main mission. After sailing to Point Barrow\, Alaska\, they determine that radiation levels are\, on the contrary\, intensifying. \nThis is a long film and will be shown in two parts with a meal between \nPart I  3 pm – 4:15 PM \nMeal Break 4;15- 5:15 \nPart II  5:15-6:30 URL:https://hpjc.org/event/beach-1959-movie/ LOCATION:Dominican Sisters of Houston Spirituality Center Meeting Room\, Dominican Sisters of Houston\, 6501 Almeda Rd\, Houston\, TX\, 77021\, United States CATEGORIES:Environmental & Environmental Justice,Foreign & Military Policy,Peace Education for Children & Families,Social,Video Showing ORGANIZER;CN="Joe Marcinkowski":MAILTO:Joe@metroretrofurniture.com GEO:29.7072291;-95.3832631 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Dominican Sisters of Houston Spirituality Center Meeting Room Dominican Sisters of Houston 6501 Almeda Rd Houston TX 77021 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=Dominican Sisters of Houston\, 6501 Almeda Rd:geo:-95.3832631,29.7072291 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170716T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170716T190000 DTSTAMP:20260509T062046 CREATED:20170611T232942Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170612T222938Z UID:10000224-1500220800-1500231600@hpjc.org SUMMARY:John Pilger's The coming war on China DESCRIPTION:  \nIT’S no secret that Beijing has been building up its military might in the South China Sea. \nBut there’s another superpower making an even bigger play to stay top dog and many of us wouldn’t event realize. The United States has surrounded China with 400 military bases in an almost perfect “noose”. \n  \nIn a new documentary set to air on Sunday night\, The Coming war on China\, award-winning journalist and filmmaker John Pilger challenges the notion of the world’s newest\, biggest trading nation as an enemy.  He also reveals the build-up to war taking place right on Beijing’s doorstep. \nFilmed over two years in the Marshall Islands\, Japan\, Korea\, China and the US\, Pilger highlights America’s secret history in the region. \n  \nThe eye-opening documentary reveals some surprising findings including that the people of the Marshall Islands were used as nuclear guinea pigs under the top secret “Project 4.1”. \nPilger also travels to Japan and Korea where he speaks to and observes people resisting the US expansion. \n  \nHe visits the Japanese island of Okinawa where 32 US bases are located and speaks to those who are challenging the world’s biggest military power. \nOn the Korean island of Jeju\, a world heritage site\, he witnesses farmers\, villagers\, priests and supporters who block gates to a base only to be removed every day. \nIn an interview with news.com.au ahead of the film going to air\, Pilger said he wanted to “help people make sense of a critical subject that is seldom more than a series of sound-bites.” \n“I say critical\, because a strange and dangerous atmosphere currently separates the world’s greatest military power\, the United States\, and a country that will almost certainly become the world’s greatest economic power\, China\,” he said. \n  \n“In the past few years\, the provocations\, threats\, contradictions and confusion have caused the kind of mistrust that make war by misunderstanding or by mistake or accident a real possibility. And both the US and China are nuclear-armed.” \nPilger also raises questions over whether it’s Beijing we should really be worried about. \n“China is surrounded by 400 US military bases in what one strategist describes as a ‘noose’\,” he said. \n“Many of these bases are on China’s doorstep\, armed with missiles\, naval battle groups\, nuclear bombers\, drones. US naval warships patrol just outside Chinese waters.” \nWhile the US has almost 1000 foreign bases\, China has just one which Pilger said was smaller and did not threaten California. \n  \n  \n“ \n  URL:https://hpjc.org/event/john-pilgers-coming-war-china/ LOCATION:Bering Memorial United Church of Christ\, 1440 Harold St.\, Houston\, TX\, 77006\, United States CATEGORIES:Environmental & Environmental Justice,Foreign & Military Policy,Peace Education for Children & Families,Video Showing ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://hpjc.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/MV5BZjlhNDJkNWQtODliZC00OTA5LWEwMTQtYzJhMmUwOWRiMDMyXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNjk1NDU0NDM@._V1_.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Houston Peace &%3B Justice Center":MAILTO:info@hpjc.org GEO:29.7416822;-95.3971046 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Bering Memorial United Church of Christ 1440 Harold St. Houston TX 77006 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1440 Harold St.:geo:-95.3971046,29.7416822 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170627T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170627T210000 DTSTAMP:20260509T062046 CREATED:20170615T235812Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170615T235812Z UID:10000228-1498590000-1498597200@hpjc.org SUMMARY:Palestinian Scientist speaks on Conflict Resolution DESCRIPTION:  \nMazin Qumsiyeh; he is a medical geneticist who trained in the U.S. and taught at Duke and Yale. He is a Palestinian Christian who teaches at Bethlehem University in Bethlehem in the West Bank and has co-founded a museum of natural history which just opened recently. He is interested in promoting awareness of the museum and its important work in educating children and young people about recycling\, sustainability\, and nature conservation. The museum is a very exciting endeavor that has already reached many children and youth there and draws a steady stream of visitors and volunteers. \n  \nThe topics Dr. Qumsiyeh covers include Palestinian Christian perspective on Islam and on teaching conflict resolution in the Peace Studies MA program at Bethlehem Bible College as well as presenting information about the flora and fauna of the Holy Land. He received the 2011 Social Courage Award from the Peace and Justice Studies Association and has written several books\, including one titled Sharing the Land of Canaan. He is interested in reaching beyond the usual political audiences for a Palestinian speaker and educating people here about the work of his museum and also topics related to religion and peace/conflict resolution studies. \n  URL:https://hpjc.org/event/palestinian-scientist-speaks-conflict-resolution/ LOCATION:Bay Area UU Church\, 17503 El Camino Real \, Houston\, TX\, 77058\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://hpjc.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Mazin-Qumisyeh-Conflict_Resolution-Talks.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Joe Marcinkowski":MAILTO:Joe@metroretrofurniture.com GEO:29.5522601;-95.1109768 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Bay Area UU Church 17503 El Camino Real Houston TX 77058 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=17503 El Camino Real:geo:-95.1109768,29.5522601 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170525T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170525T210000 DTSTAMP:20260509T062046 CREATED:20170410T182046Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170417T125403Z UID:10000193-1495738800-1495746000@hpjc.org SUMMARY:Meet filmmaker Regis Tremblay 11:59:30-Thirty Seconds to Midnight DESCRIPTION:Reception with  Regis Tremblay \nMy new documentary\, Thirty Seconds to Midnight\, is ready and we will show it in Houston\, TX \nThis has been a very long\, three year project that began with my first feature documentary\, The Ghosts of Jeju. It was then that I realized the U.S. plan for full spectrum dominance of the planet. My research and interest since then has focused on the trajectory of Manifest Destiny since the white\, European explorers came to the Americas in the 15th Century. Blessed by the Pope of Rome\, the Doctrine of Discovery gave the illegal immigrants from Europe the right to the land and its resources and permission to kill all of the savages that inhabited those lands. From that time on\, these white\, European\, illegal immigrants\, and later the newly formed United States of America\, continued to massacre millions of Native Americans. Those that were not killed either died of disease\, starvation or were herded onto reservations where they lived in squalor. As the film makes clear\, violence and killing have been part of the American narrative from the very beginning. \nThe United States of America was built on slavery and later the commodification of labor. Eventually\, the Doctrine of Discovery and Manifest Destiny were applied to the entire world. Since 1798\, the United States has invaded more than 500 countries and murdered tens of millions of innocent people\, stealing their resources and destroying entire civilizations. Just since WWII\, the United States has planned and orchestrated coups\, assassinations\, regime changes\, color revolutions\, drone killings\, and murdered more than 20 million innocent men\, women and children. And the slaughter continues today in Afghanistan\, Pakistan\, Iraq\, Libya\, Syria\, Yemen\, Somalia and throughout Africa and South America. \nWith the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki\, America ushered in a new era in human history that has all life on earth on the brink of extinction\, and this is the theme of Thirty Seconds to Midnight. There are only three threats to life on the planet\, and only three. They are\, a nuclear holocaust\, nuclear power that is not safe\, and climate change. As Dr. Helen Caldicott says in the film\, “We are like lemmings walking towards the cliff and worrying about things that don’t matter.” \nSince going to Jeju Island\, I have returned to the Pacific to document the presence and effects of U.S. militarism from Hawaii all the way down to the Marshall Islands. In this past year\, I travelled to Germany\, Ukraine and to Russia because not only is America threatening to choke off China with the Pivot to Asia\, but America has also been threatening Russia since the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Soviet Union with thousands of US/NATO troops\, bases and missiles on Russia’s borders. The threat of nuclear war with these two nuclear-armed countries is greater now than during the Cold War. \nAnd so it is\, America’s destiny has all life on the planet on the very brink of extinction. As Dr. Caldicott wonders at the end of the film\, “Are we an evolutionary aberration designed in an evolutionary sense not to survive? I wonder.” URL:https://hpjc.org/event/meet-filmmaker-regis-tremblay-115930-thirty-seconds-midnight/ LOCATION:Dominican Sisters of Houston Spirituality Center Meeting Room\, Dominican Sisters of Houston\, 6501 Almeda Rd\, Houston\, TX\, 77021\, United States CATEGORIES:Environmental & Environmental Justice,Foreign & Military Policy,Human Rights & Criminal Justice,Peace Education for Children & Families,Presentation or Lecture,Social,Video Showing ORGANIZER;CN="Houston Peace &%3B Justice Center":MAILTO:info@hpjc.org GEO:29.7072291;-95.3832631 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Dominican Sisters of Houston Spirituality Center Meeting Room Dominican Sisters of Houston 6501 Almeda Rd Houston TX 77021 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=Dominican Sisters of Houston\, 6501 Almeda Rd:geo:-95.3832631,29.7072291 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170522 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170523 DTSTAMP:20260509T062046 CREATED:20170405T031353Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170405T031353Z UID:10001346-1495422000-1495497599@hpjc.org SUMMARY:13 Colors of the Honduran Resistance DESCRIPTION:Melissa Cardoza\, an afro-indigenous feminist leader from Honduras\, is coming to Houston on May 22\, together with Honduran singer-songwriter Karla Lara\, as part of a tour of the U.S. promoting the new bilingual Spanish-English edition of Melissa’s book\, 13 colores de la resistencia hondureña / 13 Colors of the Honduran Resistance. \nThe book tells the stories of several women who were involved in the massive movement of resistance that arose after the coup d’état that took place in Honduras in 2009. The coup unleashed conditions of greatly increased corruption and impunity. The violence and harms stemming from this have not diminished to this day. \nAlicia Garza of the Black Lives Matter Network comments: \n<<13 Colors of the Honduran Resistance by Melissa Cardoza is a must read for anyone who wants to learn about the many contours of Honduran feminists fighting for self-determination and dignity. These stories of bravery\, of struggle and pain\, and ultimately of a resilience rooted in a love for freedom will grip your heart. Cardoza is brilliant in storytelling\, and ensures that\, in memory of our sister Berta Cáceres\, feminisms are three dimensional and span multiple experiences—trans\, Black\, elderly\, and more. The lessons contained in these stories offer important reflections for all revolutionaries.>> \nThe book’s English translator\, Matt Ginsberg-Jaeckle writes: \n<> \nAt the event\, Melissa Cardoza and Karla Lara will perform stories from the book using a mixed-media format of storytelling\, acting and song. That will be followed by discussion about the situation in Honduras\, Berta Cáceres\, her legacy and #JusticeforBerta campaign\, and transnational movement-connections. \nBoth were close friends of the late Berta Cáceres\, who was assassinated a year ago\, and led COPINH (http://copinhenglish.blogspot.com/)\, a resistance movement of the indigenous Lenca people of western Honduras that has stopped dams\, mines\, and other destructive “projects of death” as Berta called them. \nRelated links: \nTour info: http://ggjalliance.org/book-tour-2017-13-colors-honduran-resistance \nA poetic and musical presentation by Melissa Cardoza (in Spanish):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruEmqjnZhKE \nPlease come and invite your friends to join in this unique experience! URL:https://hpjc.org/event/13-colors-honduran-resistance/ LOCATION:Dominican Sisters of Houston Spirituality Center Meeting Room\, Dominican Sisters of Houston\, 6501 Almeda Rd\, Houston\, TX\, 77021\, United States CATEGORIES:Economic Justice,Environmental & Environmental Justice,Foreign & Military Policy,Human Rights & Criminal Justice,Live Performance ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://hpjc.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/FB_IMG_1489021873545.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Joe Marcinkowski":MAILTO:Joe@metroretrofurniture.com GEO:29.7072291;-95.3832631 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Dominican Sisters of Houston Spirituality Center Meeting Room Dominican Sisters of Houston 6501 Almeda Rd Houston TX 77021 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=Dominican Sisters of Houston\, 6501 Almeda Rd:geo:-95.3832631,29.7072291 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170322T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170322T210000 DTSTAMP:20260509T062046 CREATED:20170224T055338Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170228T021416Z UID:10000168-1490209200-1490216400@hpjc.org SUMMARY:How Wealth Inequality is Wrecking the World and What We can do about it DESCRIPTION:The BAUUC Service and Justice Ministry (SJM) invite all to hear acclaimed author and scholar Chuck Collins discuss\, “How wealth inequality is wrecking the world and what we can do about it”.  The event is scheduled for March 22nd\, 7 to 9PM \nThe year Chuck Collins turned 16\, his father took him aside for a man-to-man talk. Edward Collins told his son that he had set up a substantial trust fund for him.\nChuck remembers feeling utter amazement. The great-grandson of Oscar Mayer and an heir to the wiener fortune\, he had grown up living comfortably\, but not lavishly\, in suburban Detroit. Now\, as his father spelled out\, he realized he would not have to work for money unless he wanted to. His dad also stressed his hope that the money would not change his son or his life goals. It didn’t. However\, events took a very different course from the one the elder Collins had so carefully planned. Ten years later\, in 1985\, Chuck Collins gave away every penny of his inheritance\, nearly half a million dollars\, to foundations and groups that he knew needed funding—organizations working for the environment\, peace\, racial equality\, and indigenous and gay people’s rights.\nChuck Collins is a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) and directs IPS’s Program on Inequality and the Common Good where he co-edits He is an expert on U.S. inequality and author of several books\, including 99 to 1: How Wealth Inequality is Wrecking the World and What We Can Do About It.\nHe is co-author with Bill Gates Sr. of Wealth and Our Commonwealth\, (Beacon Press\, 2003)\, a case for taxing inherited fortunes. He is co-author with Mary Wright of The Moral Measure of the Economy\, a book about Christian ethics and economic life. His new book is Born on Third Base: A One Percenter Makes the Case for Tackling Inequality\, Bringing Wealth Home\, and Committing to the Common Good (Chelsea Green\, Sept. 2016).\nHe is co-founder of Wealth for the Common Good\, a network of business leaders\, high-income households and partners working together to promote shared prosperity and fair taxation. This network merged in 2015 with the Patriotic Millionaires.\nIn 1995\, he co-founded United for a Fair Economy (UFE) to raise the profile of the inequality issue and support popular education and organizing efforts to address inequality. He was Executive Director of UFE from 1995-2001 and Program Director until 2005. URL:https://hpjc.org/event/wealth-inequality-wrecking-world-wat-can/ LOCATION:Bay Area UU Church\, 17503 El Camino Real \, Houston\, TX\, 77058\, United States CATEGORIES:Economic Justice,Environmental & Environmental Justice,Human Rights & Criminal Justice,Presentation or Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://hpjc.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/chuck.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Joe Marcinkowski":MAILTO:Joe@metroretrofurniture.com GEO:29.5522601;-95.1109768 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Bay Area UU Church 17503 El Camino Real Houston TX 77058 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=17503 El Camino Real:geo:-95.1109768,29.5522601 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170217T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170217T170000 DTSTAMP:20260509T062046 CREATED:20170209T041231Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170213T013958Z UID:10000159-1487336400-1487350800@hpjc.org SUMMARY:Love Thy Neighbor Rally in Clear Lake! DESCRIPTION:Residents from across the southern suburbs of Houston will be publicly showing our support for our Muslim neighbors and for refugees and immigrants from predominately Muslim countries. Recent efforts to restrict immigration\, turn away refugees\, and incidents of anti-Muslim violence and harassment make this an important time for us all to come together and let our voices of respect and compassion be heard. \n  \nOn Friday February 17 at 1:00pm\, the Bay Area Unitarian Universalist Church in Clear Lake will be welcoming all of our neighbors from every religious tradition\, culture and background to gather for a HUGE rally to demonstrate our support for the members of the Clear Lake Islamic Center\, their families\, and their friends as they arrive for their weekly Friday worship. We’ll gather along the private road (Beacon Street) which leads from El Camino Real to the Islamic Center with signs of support for Muslims and for immigrants and refugees in Houston\, across America and around the world. \nWe invite you to join us in this local\, passionate and positive event! This rally will be non-partisan and is aimed at expressing of our shared values of inclusion\, compassion and respect for diversity in these challenging and difficult times. It is not a protest but a celebration of the gifts of unity and community. We’ll be rallying and then enjoying snacks and refreshments together with our Muslim friends. \n  \nThe Rally will take place on Friday February 17 starting at 1:00 at 17503 El Camino Real in Clear Lake (near the big blue water tower off of El Camino Real\, just south of Bay Area Boulevard and just north of NASA Road 1). For more information or directions\, please visit www.bauuc.org or call \n281-488-2001. \n  \nCome\, bring your friends\, bring your positive signs of support and love for our neighbors\, and help us make a joyful noise as we stand on the side of love together! \n  \n  \n  URL:https://hpjc.org/event/love-thy-neighbor-rally-clear-lake/ LOCATION:Bay Area UU Church\, 17503 El Camino Real \, Houston\, TX\, 77058\, United States CATEGORIES:Human Rights & Criminal Justice,Peace Education for Children & Families ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://hpjc.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/love.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Joe Marcinkowski":MAILTO:Joe@metroretrofurniture.com GEO:29.5522601;-95.1109768 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Bay Area UU Church 17503 El Camino Real Houston TX 77058 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=17503 El Camino Real:geo:-95.1109768,29.5522601 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160313T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160313T150000 DTSTAMP:20260509T062046 CREATED:20160305T214808Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160309T042112Z UID:10000021-1457870400-1457881200@hpjc.org SUMMARY:T.E.J.A.S. Toxic Tour visit to communities affected by fossil fuel and other pollution. DESCRIPTION:Visit toxic sites in SE Houston where neighborhoods surrounded by refineries and chemical plants spewing toxins. \nLunch n learn presentation & bus tour \nJuan Parras Sierra Club Enviromental Justice receipient and founder director T.e.j.a.s. \n12 – 12-30 lunch  $7 \n12-30-1:00 presentation \n1:00-3:00 toxic tour URL:https://hpjc.org/event/t-e-j-a-s-toxic-tour-2016/ LOCATION:Bay Area UU Church\, 17503 El Camino Real \, Houston\, TX\, 77058\, United States CATEGORIES:Environmental & Environmental Justice ORGANIZER;CN="Joe Marcinkowski":MAILTO:Joe@metroretrofurniture.com GEO:29.5522601;-95.1109768 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Bay Area UU Church 17503 El Camino Real Houston TX 77058 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=17503 El Camino Real:geo:-95.1109768,29.5522601 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR