The Houston Peace & Justice Center is excited to announce the Peacemaker Awardees who we will recognize at our annual Peacemaker Awards Ceremony on Nov. 10, and encourage you to make your reservations soon for this event - which is also the primary fundraiser for the year, for all of HPJC's activities. Photo credit for […]
All HPJC members, and especially Board members, are invited to participate in our annual Board orientation and planning retreat. We'll gather in person to learn and discuss together how to make HPJC more effective, answer questions, and plan activities for 2024. This includes what we want to do more or less of, or differently than […]
HPJC is recognizing the wonderful work of these recipients of the 2023 Peacemaker Awards at our annual Awards Ceremony: The Texas Observer, Kristen Schlemmer, Jacilet Griffin, and Lorena Perez McGill
The Dominican Sisters of Houston invite you to join us as we continue and deepen the conversation around race.
Is Race for Real?
We all know that people look different. Anyone can tell a Czech from a Chinese. But are these differences racial? What does race mean? Come learn the answers to these and other questions as we explore the Power of Illusion.
"When people in a democracy are not educated in the art of living --- to strengthen their conscience, compassion, and ability to question and think critically --- they can be easily manipulated by fear and propaganda. A democracy is only as wise as its citizens, and a democracy of ignorant citizens can be as dangerous as a dictatorship."
A nine-person Veterans For Peace delegation visited Palestine/Israel earlier this year. While there, they met with Palestinian popular resistance leaders as well as members of the Knesset. They participated in nonviolent direct action and witnessed the resiliency, solidarity, creativity and courage of the Palestinian resistance to the Israeli occupation and the settlements that steal their land, water, and other resources.
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.
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. This black-and-white film is based on Nevil Shute's 1957 novel of the same name depicting the aftermath of a nuclear war. 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.
Reception with Regis Tremblay
My new documentary, Thirty Seconds to Midnight, is ready and we will show it in Houston, TX
This 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.
And 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.”
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.
Based on the premise that we will not save what we do not love, and that we do not love what we do not know, this multi-faceted presentation engages participants in a variety of ways to remember, to celebrate and to renew our commitment to live in harmony with each other and with Earth, our beloved home. “Let us sing as we go. May our struggles and our concern for this planet never take away the joy of our hope.” Pope Francis Laudato Si
Medea Benjamin and Ann Wright will speak in Houston. Medea will draw upon her first-hand knowledge of the Middle East to share her insights, and she'll introduce her latest book, Kingdom of the Unjust; Behind the U.S.-Saudi Connection. Ann was recently - once again - captured in international waters and imprisoned by the Israelis while attempting to reach shore on the Women's Boat to Gaza. She can speak on the human and environmental costs of war and militarism around the globe and the possible effects of a Trump administration's policies on all of us
