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SUMMARY:The Racist History of the Death Penalty
DESCRIPTION:This program is free and open to the public.  Registration is required to assure enough seating and hand outs are available. \nFor further information and to register contact Ceil Roeger croeger@domhou.org or 713-440-3714
URL:https://hpjc.org/event/the-racist-history-of-the-death-penalty/
LOCATION:Dominican Center for Spirituality\, 6501 Almeda Rd\, Houston\, 77021
CATEGORIES:Presentation or Lecture
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SUMMARY:Film showing - Abby Martin's Gaza Fight for Freedom
DESCRIPTION:The documentary was made during\, and depicts\, the Great March of Return protests\, whose images Palestinians of slain medics\, journalists\, women\, children\, and disabled people resounded throughout the world in 2018. The Trump administration’s deepened support for the most extreme Israeli positions is also displayed in the film\, with clips of Trump’s moving of the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem and preparation for the “Deal of the Century.” \nThe government of Israel tightly restricts the presence of journalists in the Gaza. In order to work around these restrictions\, The Empire Files team collaborated with Palestinian videographers from Gaza. \nGaza is  the 25-mile long\, seven-mile wide strip of occupied and blockaded land that the World Health Organization has said will be unfit for human occupation by 2020. The description of Gaza as an “open-air prison” is commonly used these days\, but Gaza Fights for Freedom gives a visceral and painful view of this descriptor. Narrated by Martin\, the camera winds us through the streets of Gaza\, through the rubble of past Israeli aerial assaults–2008\, 2012\, 2014\, and intermittent years.  The attack in 2014 alone destroyed nearly 20\,000 homes. Gaza is unable to recover from this destruction\, rebuild or remove the debris due to the blockade. The film takes us through densely populated cities\, where families have no choice but to drink water unsafe for consumption. \nThe height of the Great March Of Return protests\, it features exclusive footage of demonstrations where 200 unarmed civilians have been killed by Israeli snipers since March 30\, 2018.
URL:https://hpjc.org/event/film-showing-abby-martins-gaza-fight-for-freedom/
LOCATION:Dominican Center for Spirituality\, 6501 Almeda Rd\, Houston\, 77021
CATEGORIES:Film,Foreign & Military Policy,Human Rights & Criminal Justice,Protest
ORGANIZER;CN="Houston Peace and Justice Center Foreign Military Policy Workgroup":MAILTO:joe@metroretrofurniture.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20191019T123000
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SUMMARY:Conversation & Book Signing with Joel Edward Goza
DESCRIPTION:Please join \nThe Dominican Sister of Houston \nfor a conversation with \n Joel Edward Goza \nauthor of \nAmerica’s Unholy Ghosts:  \nThe Racist Roots of Our Faith and Politics \n  \nSaturday\, October 19th \n12:30 pm: Doors Open \n1 pm: Program Begins \nDominican Center for Spirituality \nMeeting Room \n6501 Almeda Road\, Houston TX 77021 \nBook Signing Before & After the Program \n \n  \n  \nFree & Open to the Public \nTo assure seating\, please RSVP to Ceil Roeger\, OP \nat croeger@domhou.org or 713-440-3714 \n  \n“In his sharp debut\, Goza… writes with passion about the racist and classist roots of America’s political and religious institutions… \nGoza’s ability to sharply discern and clearly explain ideas underlying American thinking will open important conversations about the nature of equality.” \n— Publishers Weekly\, starred review
URL:https://hpjc.org/event/conversation-book-signing-with-joel-edward-goza/
LOCATION:Dominican Center for Spirituality\, 6501 Almeda Rd\, Houston\, 77021
CATEGORIES:Human Rights & Criminal Justice,Presentation or Lecture
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SUMMARY:Celebrate World Fair Trade Day
DESCRIPTION:The Chocolate Case asks “Is eating chocolate linked to child slavery?” Join Fair Trade Houston and the Dominican Sisters for this entertaining and shocking documentary film about the journalists investigating global chocolate production. \nCelebrate World Fair Trade Day with us and enjoy some of Tony’s Fair Trade Ch0colonely chocolate.
URL:https://hpjc.org/event/celebrate-world-fair-trade-day/
LOCATION:Dominican Center for Spirituality\, 6501 Almeda Rd\, Houston\, 77021
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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
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ORGANIZER;CN="Houston Peace and Justice Center Foreign Military Policy Workgroup":MAILTO:joe@metroretrofurniture.com
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190302
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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
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ORGANIZER;CN="Joe Marcinkowski":MAILTO:Joe@metroretrofurniture.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190113T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190113T170000
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SUMMARY:Screening of "Nefarious: Merchant of Souls"
DESCRIPTION:This documentary exposes the disturbing trends in modern day sex slavery.  With footage shot in over nineteen different countries\, it tells stories through the eyes of both the enslaved and their traffickers.  A q&a  on Human Trafficking will follow the screening.
URL:https://hpjc.org/event/screening-of-nefarious-merchant-of-souls/
LOCATION:Dominican Center for Spirituality\, 6501 Almeda Rd\, Houston\, 77021
CATEGORIES:Film
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