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