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

Solidarity with Anti-fascist Prisoners & J20 Defendants

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

Solidarity with Anti-fascist Prisoners & J20 (Inaugural Protest) Defendants Tuesday, July 25th, 7pm Solidarity Houston 6733 Harrisburg Blvd hosted by Houston Anarchist Black Cross https://www.facebook.com/events/1568923629818647/ Join us for short films, snacks, and discussion – and send cards to folks behind bars. July 25 is the annual International Day of Solidarity with Anti-Fascist Prisoners! July 20-27 […]

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“If a Tree Falls” Film Screening and Vegan Tamale Sale

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

June 11 is the International Day of Solidarity with Marius Mason and All Long-Term Anarchist Prisoners! We will be screening If A Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front (2011), writing letters and cards of support to anarchist political prisoners, and selling vegan tamales at a sliding scale to raise money for Marius!

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Radical Coffee Hour: Let’s End Militarism

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

Campaign Nonviolence-Houston wants to meet with young radicals who are interested in abolishing war, ending militarism at home & abroad, transforming weapons into tools, and building a new world!
JOIN US as we share a cup of coffee, share our stories, and envision a world free from militarism, war, weapons, and the epidemic of social/global violence.

A Tilted Guide to Being A Defendant: Book Presentation and Community Discussion

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

From Black Lives Matter to Standing Rock to the resistance against the Trump regime, thousands of people across the country have faced arrest and prosecution in recent years for their political actions and activity. They find the legal system confusing, alienating, and isolating, and the government is often successful at using criminal charges to disrupt, destroy, and neutralize radical and revolutionary struggles for liberation.

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Resistance Roadshow Coming to Houston

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

tejas & Center for Biological Diversity will be hosting an event in Houston Jan 10th that's both forum and way to build up to the climate justice convergence in DC before the inauguration:

The roadshow is rallying and empowering defenders of civil rights and the environment to resist Trump's dangerous agenda. Stopping in 16 cities on its way to Washington, D.C., it will bring thousands of people to protest at the presidential inauguration

Conflict Transformation and Nonviolent Communication Workshop

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

Join Ethan Hughes of the Possibility Alliance for a 2 hour workshop on Conflict Transformation and Nonviolent Communication. Ethan has studied NVC for many years and practices it daily at his permaculture homestead. He has organized and been part of restorative circles, and notes that his community wouldn't exist without them.

This class will focus on NVC in group situations like Food Not Bombs. What approach can be taken when someone in like cuts and a fight breaks out? What if someone wants to call the police for a non-emergency? How can we understand peoples motivations and what drives them to anger and aggression?

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