HCGP Workgroup Meetings:
Ballot Access
10am-2pm, 818 W 31st St (Heights area.)
Contact: Nathalie Paravicini 713-880-9929
Fundraising
7pm, 4015 Tartan (Meyerland area)
Contact: David Wager 713-771-3917
Green Screen (endorsement process) revision meeting
2pm, at 3400 Montrose, Suite 233
Contact: Jerry Larson 713-857-2076

We encourage you to walk with The Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride group in the Martin Luther King Parade sponsored by the Black Heritage Foundation. MEET AT 1 PM ON CORNER OF HAMILTON AND 59 IN DOWNTOWN HOUSTON. The struggle for freedom and immigrant and workers rights marches on! Let’s us show our support and meet great people – wear green!

GREEN PARTY General Meeting -- DIFFERENT LOCATION. The library is closed in honor of the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. (which actually was January 15).
Come out and join the Green Party at its General Monthly Meeting-- open to all interested people. We meet the third Monday of each month USUALLY in the Houston Downtown Public Library at 500 McKinney, but THIS time we will meet at

THE HARE KRISHNA TEMPLE
1320 West 34th Street
on the North side of of 34th
at the intersection with Golf Street
between Shepherd and Ella
just east of the YMCA

Our meetings start shortly after 6:30 PM and end before 9:00 PM when the library closes. Many of us continue to discuss matters afterwards outside the library or elsewhere.

Discussion items include February's Steering Committee elections, KPFT Local Station Board elections, Petition drive and Campaign 2004.

Guest speaker: May Walker, candidate for Constable Precinct 7
*** BRING A FRIEND TO ALL FUTURE MEETINGS!!!

“The Meaning of the Dream,” a panel discussion with Civil Rights era activists and current students. Sponsored by Univ. of St. Thomas' (UST) Social Justice Committee, the Rothko Chapel, Holocaust Museum Houston, The Decade of Non-Violence-Houston, and SHAPE Community Center. 7 p.m. in the Scanlan Room of UST’s Jerabeck Center. For more information, contact Sherra Theisen, 713/942-3494.

“Black Box Voting” is the name of a program about the vulnerabilities of the new computer voting systems. Dan Wallach, assistant professor of Computer Science at Rice, and Pokey Anderson, an investigative journalist whose reports on this subject have been broadcast on Pacifica and Free Speech Radio News, are the presenters. Sponsored by the River Oaks Area Democratic (ROAD) Women. RSVPs will help the host gauge the refreshments needed. 5:30-7:30 p.m. in St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church parish hall, 1805 W. Alabama at Woodhead. RSVP to 713/522-2224, roadie@roadwomen.com.

Globalization Forum will show the video “Banking on Life and Debt” with a speaker to lead the discussion of it. 7:30 p.m. in the Olive Branch Meeting Rm. of the Maryknoll House, 2360 Rice Blvd. (just west of Greenbriar). For more information, contact Joan Denkler, jndenkler@aol.com.

“Subdivide and Conquer” will be the first of three videos on the topic of urban sprawl that several area environmental groups are sponsoring. This documentary shows the growth of sprawl, how it impacts peoples' lives, and what some people are doing to change the way we grow. Subsequent offerings will be the PBS documentary “Save Our Land, Save Our Towns” (February 27), and “The Air We Breathe” (March 26). All screenings will be at 7 p.m. in the Houston Environmental Center, 3015 Richmond. For more information, contact Jane Laping, mfca@mothersforcleanair.org.

From: natlcomvotes@green.gpus.org On Behalf Of Ben Manski
Here and gone before you know it . . . spread the word!
* * * GREEN PARTY 2004 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN * * *

First: 6:30 PM EASTERN TIME (that's 5:30 PM Central)
WATCH GREEN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES DEBATE
( Cobb, Mesplay, Salzman debate at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government)
Information: http://www.iop.harvard.edu/calendar/cal_forum.php
WATCH LIVE: http://ksgwww.harvard.edu/events/

Then: 7:00 PM PACIFIC TIME (that's 9:00 PM Central)
LISTEN TO GREEN CANDIDATE CAMEJO DEBATE SOLOMON
The Question: Should the Greens run a presidential candidate?
Information: http://www.kvmr.org/events/forum2004.html
LISTEN LIVE:  http://www.kvmr.org/webcast.html

FOLLOW THE GREEN PARTY PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES ONLINE
Primary, caucus, and convention results reported online and updated regularly:
                http://www.gpus.org/convention/delegate_tally.html
General primary information with links to the candidates:
               http://www.gpus.org/convention/process.html

(This notice brought to you by the Presidential Campaign Support Committee Green Party of the United States . . . www.GP.org)

Campus Greens, 4-6pm
Plan to be at the Spring kickoff meeting of the Campus Greens, non-students are very welcome. Youth and students give the Green Party the passion and energy that will sustain and broaden it for the future. Time to get to work y’all!

Who: Anyone interested in youth/student organizing is welcome
When: Saturday January 31, 2004 4-6pm
Where: Mid-town Art Center, 3414 LaBranch at Taft #3
Why: to take back our democracy from unaccountable corporate thugs

If you have questions, suggestions, connections or need a ride/directions feel free to contact Karla Lorena Aguilar at 832 283 5585 or at aguilak@stthom.edu

Some of the things on the agenda:

-voter registration on campus/petitioning for ballot access
-tabling to recruit membership, re-organizing Campus Greens
-finding supportive professors for in-class workshops
-a symposium on the Middle East
-Green Party national Youth caucus forming

Please be on time, we have lots to talk about and we need you there!

(PS: Think about students at Prairie View A&M in Waller County, our neighbor!)

Coyote on a Fence -- a play about living on Death Row. "Don't be scared by the subject matter... It's a piece that will make you think." At The Midtown Art Center, corner of LaBranch and Holman, 7:30 PM (for 8); call 832-465-4563 for reservations.

Coyote on a Fence -- a play about living on Death Row. "Don't be scared by the subject matter... It's a piece that will make you think."
at The Midtown Art Center, corner of LaBranch and Holman, 7:30 PM; call 832-465-4563 for reservations. (Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement invites you especially for tonight.)

As part of the continuing struggle for peace and justice, and in commemoration of last year's historically unprecedented protests, an anti-war march and rally will be held 1:30-4:30 pm in HOUSTON! We'll assemble at the corner of 75th St. and Lawndale at 1:30 pm, then march down 75th St. to Mason Park, where the rally will be held. Together, we will demand: End the Occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan Now! Free Palestine! Abolish the Patriot Act! Stop the War on Workers! Stop Racist Detentions and Attacks on Immigrants! This will be a peaceful and legal demonstration of popular opposition to unpopular policies and actions.

If you would like to endorse the event, get involved, or receive more information, please contact David and Rona at (281) 534-7638, (832) 493-0508, (713) 530-8999, or (713) 942-9752.

Harris County GREEN PARTY General Membership Meeting
Houston Public Library, Downtown Branch, 500 McKinney
6:30-9:00 PM, 3rd Monday of every month.
Come out and join members of Harris County Green Party for this regular meeting -- open to all interested people. Once you get to the library, make your way to the Concourse Meeting Room (go down the escalator to the basement, turn left, and go through the turnstile marked EXIT). The Downtown Library offers underground (paid) parking, or free onstreet parking after 6pm. Our meetings start shortly after 6:30 PM and POSITIVELY end before 9:00 PM, when the library closes. Many of us continue to discuss matters afterwards outside the library and elsewhere.

THIS MONTH, WE ELECTED SOME NEW STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBERS. Several of the eight current seats were open as we rotated members. Note: This was another chance to practice preference voting method(s); IRV for Co-chair, and cumulative voting for at-large members. Click HERE for a list of candidates

Coyote on a Fence -- a play about living on Death Row. Fridays and Saturdays, through February 28. At The Midtown Art Center, corner of LaBranch and Holman, 7:30 PM (for 8); call 832-465-4563 for reservations.

Ralph Nader speaks at University of Houston, 6:00 to 7:30 PM
E. Cullen Performance Hall: DIRECTIONS

Support HCC employees and immigrant students... who are being denied entrance as HCC erases its bi-lingual, bi-cultural staff. Stand up between 3:30 and 4:30 PM at the HCC Board meeting. (HCC is the Houston Community College System.) Thanks to TACHE for its seeking justice to all people.
MORE INFO

“Dead Man Walking” author Sr. Helen Prejean and renowned actress Susan Sarandon, who played Sr. Helen’s role in the film, are the featured guests at a dinner benefiting the work of Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty.
7-9 p.m. at the Warwick Hotel, 5701 Main (intersection with Montrose). Tickets are $75; other support categories are available. Make checks payable to TCADP and mail to TCADP, 3400 Montrose, Suite 312, Houston 77006. For more information, contact Dave Atwood, 713/529-3826, dpatwood@igc.org

The PBS documentary “Save Our Land, Save Our Towns” is the second of three videos on the topic of urban sprawl sponsored by several area environmental groups. 7:00 PM in the Houston Environmental Center, 3015 Richmond. For more information, contact Jane Laping, mfca@mothersforcleanair.org.
The third offering will be "The Air We Breathe" (March 26); the first was "Subdivide and Conquer" (January 23)

PASA (Politically Active Students Association) hosts a pretty cool event, a night of political awareness and free speech with spoken word, poetry, musical performances, and more..
WHERE: Helios, 411 Westheimer
WHEN: Starts at 7pm with open mike, then at 8pm we'll be joined by special guest speaker UT Professor Robert Jenson, who will talk about the importance of politics and the case against patriotism. Local activist Nick Cooper will take a look at US foreign policy. Poetry performances follow along with musical guests the award winning Free Radicals and the Second Society. ($5 suggested donation)

Justice For Nanon Williams will hold an informational and support meeting featuring several speakers. Williams was charged with capital murder at the age of 17, convicted and sentenced to death in 1995. There is widespread belief in his innocence based on evidence once suppressed and since revealed. 4:30-6:00 p.m. at Shape Community Center 3815 Live Oak Houston, TX

Coyote on a Fence -- a play about living on Death Row. "Don't be scared by the subject matter... It's a piece that will make you think." Thise is the last showing in Houston! At The Midtown Art Center, corner of LaBranch and Holman, 7:30 PM (for 8); call 832-465-4563 for reservations.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations–Houston is holding a panel discussion on civil rights history to observe Black History Month. Represented will be the NAACP, the ACLU, the Japanese American Citizens League, the Organization of Chinese Americans, and others. 2:00 to 4:30 p.m. at the Islamic Dawah Center, 202 Main Street. For more information, visit www.cairhouston.org or call 713/838-2247.

Photofest and Voices Breaking Boundaries present the recent Indian film “Drowned Out,” about the 16 million people of India displaced by dam construction. Renowned author and activist Arundhati Roy speaks up for the
latest victims, the people of Jalsindhi in central India who are being flooded out by the giant Narmada Dam. Discussion will follow the screening, then music and refreshments. 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. at The Artery, 5401 Jackson
at Prospect St.

Precinct Conventions and Fundraising Committee
pick up clipboards and petition forms
7-9 PM, 818 W.31st Street
Kick Off for the Ballot Access Petition Drive
10 PM, Last Concert Cafe

Harris County GREEN PARTY General Membership Meeting
Houston Public Library, Downtown Branch, 500 McKinney
6:30-9:00 PM, 3rd Monday of every month. AGENDA
Actions: Elected new Secretary/Steering Committee member Deb Shafto; discussed non-violence, 2004 campaign and petition drive; announced actions regarding Haiti, Rachel Corrie; agreed upon participation in March 20 march against war.

The World Still Says NO to War: Global Day of Action against War and Occupation. Here's the Houston website: http://www.march20houston.org/

A contingent of Harris County Green Party members will carry the banner in the US Labor Against War feeder march. US LAW will muster in front of Annunciation Church, right across from Minute Maid Park at Texas & Crawford, then march west on Capitol toward Main Street Square, to meet up with the other feeders on McKinney Street. Of course, you're welcome to join the feeder march closest to your heart, but the Green Party banner will be with Labor. All will converge on City Hall for the main rally!

For national info, see: www.unitedforpeace.org and/or www.internationalanswer.org

12-1 PM: Samuel Walker at UH Law Center Criminal Justice Institute and the Houston Area Coalition for Police Accountability (HACPA);
144 BLB, U of H Law Center. Attendance is free to the public.

“The Air We Breathe” is the third of three videos on the topic of urban sprawl sponsored by several area environmental groups. 7:00 PM in the Houston Environmental Center, 3015 Richmond. For more information, contact Jane Laping, mfca@mothersforcleanair.org.
The first offering was "Subdivide and Conquer" (January 23); the second was “Save Our Land, Save Our Towns” (February 27)

Petition Workshop @ AFSCME Union Hall
(details)

Cesar Chavez Parade started shortly after 9:00 AM; All assembled starting at Capital and Cesar Chavez Blvd on the East side of downtown. Cesar Chavez Blvd. is slightly west of South Wayside; Capital is halfway between Buffalo Bayou and I-45. The Parade proceeded for more than a dozen blocks, ending at a park near the bayou in an area I'd like to check out with my canoe...

Let's make signs for this march: Si se Puede! (Good Ideas here!) Petition Signature Gathering Opportunity

It's Tax Day Again!
Join the Billionaire$ for Bu$h on Tax Day
THURSDAY, APRIL 15th
Main Post Office @ 401 Franklin
9 p.m. ‘til Midnight
Get your tux at the dry cleaners! Take the mink stole out of storage!
Put on your ball gown! Chill the champagne! Cash in that Enron stock!

“Only the little people pay taxes.” Leona Helmsley

For info, contact Bob Buzzillionaire at buzzanco@yahoo.com
http://billionairesforbush.com
Posters, flyers, etc., are up at
http://billionairesforbush.com/taxday.php
The color posters can be printed in black and white too.
More signs are up at the regular campaign material page
http://www.billionairesforbush.com/signs.php
Banner File 3ft by 8ft is up at
http://billionairesforbush.com/blog/filestore/

420 FESTIVAL 2004
FOUR NIGHTS, THREE PLACES
Be Heard, Think Green, Vote !
Petition Signature Gathering Opportunities

Harris County GREEN PARTY General Membership Meeting
Houston Public Library, Downtown Branch, 500 McKinney
6:30-9:00 PM, 3rd Monday of every month.
Come out and join members of Harris County Green Party for this regular meeting -- open to all interested people. Once you get to the library, make your way to the Concourse Meeting Room (go down the escalator to the basement, turn left, and go through the turnstile marked EXIT). The Downtown Library offers underground (paid) parking, or free onstreet parking after 6pm. Our meetings start shortly after 6:30 PM and POSITIVELY end before 9:00 PM, when the library closes. Many of us continue to discuss matters afterwards outside the library and elsewhere.

The REAL Earth Day
Code Pink and Global Exchange
remind us:
HUMMERS are BUMMERS

Honor Cesar Chavez on the 11th anniversary of his passing
United Farm Workers ask for support regarding Gallo
http://www.ufw.org/

Gather Petitions at Houston International Festival!!!

Houston Earth Day -- 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM -- Sam Houston Park downtown
(cancelled due to inclement weather)

Save Women's Lives: MARCH for Freedom of Choice, Washington, D.C.
Cosponsors: Feminist Majority, Naral Pro-Choice America, National Organization for Women, Planned Parenthood Federation of America (http://www.marchforchoice.org/index.php)
local Contact: http://www.pphouston.org
see also http://www.taral.org/marchforchoice/

IN HOUSTON: 1 PM, Hermann Park http://www.choicehouston.com

Art Car PARADE: main event, 9:00 A M- 3:30 PM; FREE!
Related events also Friday before and Sunday after
see website -- www.orangeshow.org/artcar

Harris County GREEN PARTY General Membership Meeting
Houston Public Library, Downtown Branch, 500 McKinney
6:30-9:00 PM, 3rd Monday of every month.

IMPORTANT: Elections for delegates to State Green Party convention will be held this month; this will lead to voting for presidential race options in late June at the national convention. Read HERE about voting procedures.
[RESULTS]

Generic announcement: Come out and join members of Harris County Green Party for this regular meeting -- open to all interested people. Once you get to the library, make your way to the Concourse Meeting Room (go down the escalator to the basement, turn left, and go through the turnstile marked EXIT). The Downtown Library offers underground (paid) parking, or free onstreet parking after 6pm. Our meetings start shortly after 6:30 PM and POSITIVELY end before 9:00 PM, when the library closes. Many of us continue to discuss matters afterwards outside the library and elsewhere.

Queria informarles que HERE--sindicato de trabajadores de hoteles y restaurantes--va ha tener una accion para questionar la falta de incumplimiento de su contrato con la cadena Hilton. Se partira el martes 25 de mayo de su oficina en el local del Sindicato de los Carpinteros--2600 Hamilton y McGowen-a las 12:30 del dia hacia la junta del Concilio de la Ciudad.

El objetivo es tener presencia masiva en la reunion del Concilio de la Ciudad de Houston, 900 Bagby, a la 1:00 pm. Este es quien aprovo el acuerdo de que el Hilton del Centro de Convenciones fuese sindicalizado si asi lo votaban los empleados--75% de ellos votaron a favor de HERE.

HERE--union of hotel and restaurant workers-needs our presence tomorrow at City Hall, 900 Bagby, at 1:00 pm to pressure compliance with the Hilton Convention Hotel to sit down with workers and negogiate a collective bargaining contract---75% of the workers voted union.

A caravan of cars will depart the HERE office, located at the Carpenters Union, on Hamilton and McGowen, at 12:30 pm [Sorry for late notice; posted ASAP]

Harris County GREEN PARTY General Membership Meeting
Houston Public Library, Downtown Branch, 500 McKinney
6:30-9:00 PM, 3rd Monday of every month.
Come out and join members of Harris County Green Party for this regular meeting -- open to all interested people. Once you get to the library, make your way to the Concourse Meeting Room (go down the escalator to the basement, turn left, and go through the turnstile marked EXIT). The Downtown Library offers underground (paid) parking, or free onstreet parking after 6pm. Our meetings start shortly after 6:30 PM and POSITIVELY end before 9:00 PM, when the library closes. Many of us continue to discuss matters afterwards outside the library and elsewhere.
This month we included a special program segment about REPARATIONS. We supported having Houston City Council pass a resolution encouraging the US Congress to pass HR40
GreenWatchTV had a show about this three years ago; you can follow a LINK for more information. Even more importantly, check out Congressman John Conyers' web site link above on HR 40, the bill proposing a commission to study proposals on the topic.

National Green Party Convention: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Check our summary with lots of LINKS and information
or go directly to US GP Convention pages
Possible road trip! Charter bus?
KEY DAYS: SAT-SUN

GreenWatch TV
The Harris County Green Party's own call in talk show on public affairs and local issues. Tune in at 9pm on Public Access Cable Channel 17 (Kingwood 98). TOPIC: Electronic Elections, Potential for Highjacked Votes!

Harris County GREEN PARTY General Membership Meeting
Houston Public Library, Downtown Branch, 500 McKinney
6:30-9:00 PM, 3rd Monday of every month.
THIS MONTH'S MAJOR TOPIC: Non-Violence
Come out and join members of Harris County Green Party for this regular meeting -- open to all interested people. Once you get to the library, make your way to the Concourse Meeting Room (go down the escalator to the basement, turn left, and go through the turnstile marked EXIT). The Downtown Library offers underground (paid) parking, or park onstreet (but be ready to feed the meter, because we hear that starting July 1 lots of downtown parking rules will change). Our meetings start shortly after 6:30 PM and POSITIVELY end before 9:00 PM, when the library closes. Many of us continue to discuss matters afterwards outside the library and elsewhere.

Presentation about Interstate Vote Trading at Leisure Learning, 2990 Richmond (on the sixth floor). Starts at 7:00 PM.

In Solidarity with Animals: Join vigil and protest of the treatment of circus animals during Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey’s Circus performances in Houston. 6:30 p.m. at Reliant Stadium both nights.

Houstonians Against the Draft is forming to organize opposition to HR 163 and SB 89, bills pending in Congress to bring back the military draft. 6-8 p.m. at Milroy Park Community Center, West 12th & Yale (in the Heights).

STOP THE WALL
Israel and the U.S. Must abide by International Law
World Opinion Matters
What: Send a postcard to your legislators telling them to abide by International Law
When: Thursday July 29 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm*
Where: The Houston Peace and Justice Center, upstairs at Ecclesia. 2115 Taft at Welch**

Sponsored by Not In Our Name, Houston, Tikkun-Houston and others

There will be blank, pre-addressed postcards to your legislators and to Kerry and Edwards. Write what you wish or use a STOP THE WALL sticker. Donations for stamps appreciated.

*Sorry for the short notice, but let's try to get these in the mail to greet Kerry and Edwards on their way back from the National Convention

**(Welch is 4 blocks south of W. Gray and Taft is 2 blocks east of Montrose.
Park in back or on the street.)

Feel free to pick up postcards to take to your friends.

PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY
(see GreenWatchTV next week!)

PROTEST Invasion of Civil Rights -- 9:00 AM
Rescind The USA Patriot Act (multiple sponsors - see HPJC calendar for late-breaking information) Federal Court Building, 515 Rusk.

Birthday Party for Nanon Williams
He turns 30. He was 17. He's grown up on death row.
(Reflecting Pool at City Hall, 3:00 PM)

HIMC presents a screening of EVERY MOTHER'S SON
a film that is both "a tragic account of police power gone awry" and a "a heartening and intimate portrait of three women who would not stand by silently when their sons had been unjustly silenced forever."
7:30 PM at Rice Cinema, entrance #8 of Rice U Campus, University Boulevard and Stockton Drive. For more info, see houston.indymedia.org

Harris County GREEN PARTY General Membership Meeting
6:30-9:00 PM, 3rd Monday of every month.
(NOT at the Library)
Due to a scheduling conflict with the library, the August General membership meeting of the Harris County Green Party will be held at the AFSCME local 1550 Union Hall at 2608 Sutherland, 77023.
from downtown Houston, take I-45 south, exit Telephone rd, turn right on telephone go about 1/4 mile and turn right on Sutherland. the hall is the middle building (surrounded by a chain link fence). the meeting space will start to get "cozy" after about 25 of us get there, but we should be ok.

THIS MONTH'S MAJOR TOPIC: Changing Organized Labor in Texas
Come out and join members of Harris County Green Party for this regular meeting -- open to all interested people. Our meetings start shortly after 6:30 PM and POSITIVELY end before 9:00 PM, when the library closes. Many of us continue to discuss matters afterwards outside the library and elsewhere.
AGENDA

7:30 p.m. in HPJC’s meeting space in Ecclesia, 2115 Taft Street
UT Professor of Journalism Robert Jensen will read excerpts from his latest book, "Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity."
Folks in Houston perhaps best know Jensen for drawing down the wrath of the UT establishment when he published a Chronicle editorial after 9/11 asking people to reflect on what we mean by terrorism and whether U.S. actions might merit that name. For more information on Bob and to read some of his latest articles on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the war in Iraq, and other topics, visit: http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~rjensen/freelance/freelance.htm
This event is co-sponsored by the Greater Houston Chapter of Peace Action and the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee-Houston chapter.
For more information, contact info@adchouston.org.

“The End of Suburbia,” a new documentary about the end of cheap oil and how it will affect our driving, food, and economy, will be shown at Al Molison‘s home. BYO snacks and drink. 7 p.m. at 4822 Spellman (from SW corner of Loop 610, exit South Post Oak and go south 1.6 miles, turn left on Benning, take first right on Waxwing, then first left onto Spellman). RSVP to Al, 713/726-9009, alfredm123@hotmail.com. For more on the film, visit www.EndofSuburbia.com.

Communities of Color Consulta
Coincides with 34th anniversary of the Chicano Moratorium
AND
the Republican National Convention

Issues include gentrification, military recruitment, youth and criminal justice
12:30-2:30 p.m. at the SHAPE Community Center, 3815 Live Oak
After the consulta, there will be a screening of a new film featuring longtime activist women Kathleen Cleaver
and Mabel Williams. For more information, call 713/968-9006, email black_star@ziplip.com, or visit www.focusonfreedom.org.

Unity 2004 Labor Day Celebration, Harris county AFL-CIO.
Labor Day isn’t for shopping, but to reflect on how the courage of union organizers secured for all U.S. workers the 8-hour day, paid vacations, health benefits, pensions, and workplace safety. All these gains are under attack as the percentage of the workforce belonging to unions continues to shrink. There will be food available for purchase at a nominal cost, activities for the children, exhibits, elected officials, candidates for office, entertainment, silent auction, and some surprises.
Afternoon at the Pasadena Convention Center, 7902 Fairmont Pkwy, Pasadena
For more information, contact Richard Shaw, Shawtrek@aol.com.

1000th Soldier Candlelight Memorial for Peace in memory of the over 1,000 U.S. service members that have been killed in Iraq, and the many other casualties caused by this war.
What: A candlelight vigil, a brief memorial ceremony led by Cardinal Aswad Walker of the Shrine of the Black Madonna, and 1000 luminarias representing the U.S. troops killed in Iraq.
Where: Mecom Fountain, located at the intersection of Main and Montrose.
When: Gathering for the vigil begins at 7:30 PM, ceremony held at 8:30, concluding with a symbolic extinguishing of the luminarias beginning at 9:00.

Please join us as we come together to show our sorrow for those killed, our heartache for those maimed, and our opposition to this unjust war.

This event is being held by a partnership of peace groups, churches, and concerned individuals.

For more information contact Melissa Patrick at anothermotherforpeace@earthlink.net or visit www.mamabrigade.org/1000soldiers.

Seventh WILDSCAPES WORKSHOP and PLANT SALE: Landscaping with Native Plants to Attract Wildlife. 9:00 am - 3:00 pm at the University of Houston - Central Campus (Registration Fee $30; sponsored by Native Plant Society of Texas - Houston Chapter & Texas Parks and Wildlife Department)
See this PDF for which Acrobat Reader is required.

The Wabash Antiques & Feed Store, a Houston landmark for organic farming and gardening, is hosting a dinner and talk on "The Soil Food Web." This is a new model of soil fertility and management released by the USDA a couple years ago. It explains why organic and biological techniques work so well, and links many aspects of soil care to human health and environmental issues. Practical tips for home gardening and lawn management as well. Reservations required. 6:30-9:00 PM at 5701 Washington Ave. Contact Diane, 713/863-8322, dianne@wabashfeed.com.

The Baha’i Community is holding its 17th Annual Peace Dinner. 6:00 PM at George R. Brown Convention Center-Ballroom C. For ticket information, call Jennifer Padilla, 281-384-6638, jenandabbas@hotmail.com.

Showing of "Revolution: Why It's Necessary, Why It's Possible, What It's All About" a talk by RCP Chairman Bob Avakian. 7:00 PM at SHAPE Community Center, 3815 LIve Oak at Alabama. (See www.threeQvideo.com, especially the contents listing.) For more info, call 713.684.4701, or email emiliobateman@yahoo.com.

7:30 PM Globalization Forum -- Film: End of Suburbia
Vast changes are ahead on the peaking of oil production which T. Boone Pickens says is now. Join us at 2460 Rice Blvd, garage apt. 4 doors from Greenbriar, Info Joan Denkler 713-467-2996 jndenkler48@ev1.net Film and Discussion.

Harris County GREEN PARTY General Membership Meeting
Back at the downtown Library through December
6:30-9:00 PM, 3rd Monday of every month
THIS MONTH'S MAJOR TOPIC: Electronic Voting, Paperless
Come out and join members of Harris County Green Party for this regular meeting -- open to all interested people. Once you get to the library, make your way to the Concourse Meeting Room (go down the escalator to the basement, turn left, and go through the turnstile marked EXIT). The Downtown Library offers underground (paid) parking, or park onstreet (but be ready to feed the meter, because we hear of changes in downtown parking rules). Our meetings start shortly after 6:30 PM and POSITIVELY end before 9:00 PM, when the library closes. Many of us continue to discuss matters afterwards outside the library and elsewhere.

Recycled Construction: A Right Brain Attack on a Left Brain World,” a talk by an architect who uses waste construction materials to provide affordable housing. Dan Phillips will explain, with a slide show, how we can make the American Dream come true for low income families by using these recoverable resources. 7 PM at Christ Church Cathedral, 1117 Texas Ave.

(The 5th Annual March to Stop Executions will be in Austin on Saturday, October 30. We will leave S.H.A.P.E. Community Center at 8 AM for the march.)
Sponsored by the Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement

Call our office at 713-521-0629 during the day or 713-503-2633 anytime

Email: AbolitionMovement@juno.com

Speak Truth to Power opening.
Photographs by the late Eddie Adams taken for the book “Speak Truth to Power” by Kerry Kennedy, will be at The Station, 1502 Alabama (at LaBranch). The first speaker of the series. For additional programs, see October 15, 19, 21, 28, and November 4 below.
*** At 3:30 PM, hear Sister Dianna Ortiz, Director, Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition in Washington, DC. Rothko Chapel, 1409 Sul Ross Street (at Yupon). Suggested donation is $5. Seating is limited and on a first come, first served basis.
*** At 6:30 PM, the traveling photo exhibit will open. Sr. Dianne will be on hand to sign copies of the book “Speak Truth to Power.” The Station, 1502 Alabama (at LaBranch). For more information, contact Bridgette Wilkins, 713/524-9839, bridgette@rothkochapel.org.

Harris County GREEN PARTY General Membership Meeting
Back at the downtown Library through December
6:30-9:00 PM, 3rd Monday of every month.
THIS MONTH'S MAJOR TOPIC: Presidential Election - David Cobb / Pat LaMarche Campaign
Come out and join members of Harris County Green Party for this regular meeting -- open to all interested people. Once you get to the library, make your way to the Concourse Meeting Room (go down the escalator to the basement, turn left, and go through the turnstile marked EXIT). The Downtown Library offers underground (paid) parking, or park onstreet (but be ready to feed the meter, because we hear of changes in downtown parking rules). Our meetings start shortly after 6:30 PM and POSITIVELY end before 9:00 PM, when the library closes. Many of us continue to discuss matters afterwards outside the library and elsewhere.

Rally for the Liberation of Palestine - a peaceful and non-violent rally at Hermann Square (Opposite Tranquility Park), 901 Bagby St. from 2-4 p.m
This day coincides with the Worldwide Day of Quds (Jerusalem), which is observed throughout the world on the last Friday of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.

Second annual awards dinner of the Houston Peace and Justice Center (HPJC).
National Peacemaker Honoree and keynote speaker will be Kathy Kelly, founder of Voices in the Wilderness, leader of the effort to end the murderous sanctions against Iraq, courageous defier of U.S. bans against travel to Iraq, and Close-the-SOA activist. Three awards will be presented to local justice and peace activists: Dave Smith, founder of Texans Against Gun Violence; Marilyn White, Central America Solidarity activist; and S.H.A.P.E. Community Center. Reception 5:30-7 p.m., dinner following in the Grand Ballroom of the UH Hilton. $50 per ticket. MAKE CHECKS TO HPJC and mail to P.O. Box 66234, Houston, TX 77266. There will be subsidized seats on request. Another option is a $5 admission at the door for program only at 7:45 p.m. For more information, call 713/522-9850 and leave name and number.

Help Warm the new HPJC Headquarters
2990 Richmond, suite 616, right next to the Leisure Learning Unlimited classrooms.
12:00 noon to 1:00pm, right before our quarterly board meeting
Snack foods and beverages will be provided. See you there!

Guerilla Theater Brigade presents another double feature
(this time with a new and improved sound system)
7pm "Preventive Warriors"
8pm "A Patriot Act"
Ehran Chew Park on Dunlavy @ bridge over 59
(See related website: Houston Coalition for Justice Not War)

Harris County GREEN PARTY General Membership Meeting
Back at the downtown Library through December
6:30-9:00 PM, 3rd Monday of every month.
THIS MONTH'S MAJOR TOPIC: Problems with Elections
Come out and join members of Harris County Green Party for this regular meeting -- open to all interested people. Once you get to the library, make your way to the Concourse Meeting Room (go down the escalator to the basement, turn left, and go through the turnstile marked EXIT). The Downtown Library offers underground parking for several dollars, or park onstreet (be alert for pending changes in downtown parking rules about meter hours). Our meetings start shortly after 6:30 PM and POSITIVELY end before 9:00 PM, when the library closes. Many of us continue to discuss matters afterwards outside the library and elsewhere.

The Arab American Educational Foundation invites you to attend a timely lecture:
*Edward Said and the Arab American Challenge*
by Dr. Hosam Aboul-Ela (Professor of English at Univ. of Houston)
7:30pm; Rice University
Anderson Family Commons, in the Jones Graduate School building
Entrance 13 off Rice Blvd., 2nd stop sign; paid visitor parking under the building, free parking in the stadium lot.
What does it mean to be an Arab in America after September 11th? Are Arab Americans different from other American minorities? What role does U.S. foreign policy play in Arab American culture? Hosam Aboul-Ela will provoke discussion on these important issues in a lecture presenting the life and work of famed Palestinian intellectual Edward W. Said.

GreenWatch TV
The Harris County Green Party's own call in talk show on public affairs and local issues. Tune in at 9pm on Public Access Cable Channel 17 (Kingwood 98).
TOPICS:
1: Radical Encuentro Camp (Houston, Dec 3-5) building solidarity amongst diverse communities, grassroots organizers and activist groups in Tejas and beyond.
2: David Cobb discussing the movement for FULL COUNT of votes in Ohio (see www.votecobb.org).

HIMC video showing: RNC protests in NYC
7:30 PM at Rice Media Center
meet one another, hook up
PDF flyer longish download
or just see http://houston.indymedia.org/

Harris County GREEN PARTY General Membership Meeting
Back at the downtown Library through December
6:30-9:00 PM, 3rd Monday of every month.
THIS MONTH'S MAJOR TOPIC: The End of Suburbia
Come out and join members of Harris County Green Party for this regular meeting -- open to all interested people. Once you get to the library, make your way to the Concourse Meeting Room (go down the escalator to the basement, turn left, and go through the turnstile marked EXIT). The Downtown Library offers underground (paid) parking, or park onstreet (but be ready to feed the meter, because we hear of changes in downtown parking rules). Our meetings start shortly after 6:30 PM and POSITIVELY end before 9:00 PM, when the library closes. Many of us continue to discuss matters afterwards outside the library and elsewhere.

O Little Town of Bethlehem,
The hopes and fears of all the years...

Let there be Peace On Earth.

last updated: 2004-12-31