This is the day that we come together as a peace and justice community to plan activities for the new year.
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01 / 8
Start: 7:00 pm
SiCKO, a 2007 movie by filmmaker Michael Moore, investigates the American health care system, focusing on its for-profit health insurance and pharmaceutical industry. The film compares the non-universal and for-profit U.S. system with the universal and non-profit systems of Canada, the United Kingdom, France and Cuba. Ist Tuesday Social Action Film Festival (held on the 2nd Tuesday this month), is presented by the Unitarian Universalist Church of Oak Cliff Social Action Committee in cooperation with the Dallas Peace Center. Films are free, but a donation is suggested to defray costs. | ||
01 / 9
Start: 3:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm
Call 972-860-4646 for details. | ||
01 / 10
Start: 7:00 pm
For information, call Micki Roark, 214-543-8043, or go to www.tifa.org. | ||
01 / 11
Start: 3:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm
On the sixth anniversary of the first prisoners being brought to Guantánamo, join other human rights activists in Dallas and throughout the nation in a demonstration demanding that the prison be shut down. Visit http://dallaspeacecenter.org/Gitmo to sign up if you are willing to wear an orange jumpsuit and a black hood. Sponsored by the End the Occupation of Iraq Committee of the Dallas Peace Center; The Council on American-Islamic Relations- DFW; Amnesty International, Dallas Chapter; CodePink- Dallas; and the Bill of Rights Defense Committee (BORDC) Dallas Chapter. Start: 6:00 pm
Are you a Global Citizen interested in local, World literature, and International Movies? Are you a Teen that wants to meet other teens who are interested in making Global contributions through local venues and want to explore all that there is to explore: 360 degrees? Come to Freedom Readers! Email to RSVP: Freedomreaders@aol.com | ||
01 / 12
Start: 10:00 am
End: 12:00 pm
Make signs for the Jobs With Justice/Dallas Peace Center entry in the MLK Parade (January 19). We will be concentrating on MLK's peace and justice quotes. Start: 11:00 am
Contact Carol Ware, myminuit@yahoo.com, phone 972-551-2364, website is http://www.animalconnectiontx.org. Start: 11:15 am
End: 1:00 pm
Conference call and letter writing on domestic issues. Lunch provided. Contact Bob & Diane Baker at 214-739-6945. Start: 1:00 pm
Maryknoll Affiliates mtg., "spirituality, global vision, community, action.” Call Ken Eppes for location, 214-337-6867. Start: 1:00 pm
End: 2:15 pm
Conference call and letter writing on global issues. Snack provided. Start: 2:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm
This group is dedicated to living the radical love, compassion and justice of Jesus and promoting these values in religious and public discourse and policy. For more information, go to www.matthew-25.org/. Start: 6:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
Join us for refreshments and see what can be made with Styrofoam and why we should NOT be using it. Sponsored by ArtSpirit. | ||
01 / 13
Start: 12:00 pm
The Unitarian Universalist Social Action Ministry Meeting is open to the public. Start: 2:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm
Join a six-week exploration of the book Gandhi the Man by Eknath Easwaran and Michael N. Nagler, sponsored by the Peace Education Team of the Dallas Peace Center. Free to members of the Peace Center (memberships start at $35). Register online at www.dallaspeacecenter.org or call 214-823-7793. Start: 3:00 pm
End: 5:00 pm
Presented by Thanks-Giving Square and the Multi-Faith Friends with joyous prayers and tasty nibbles from many cultures.
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01 / 14
Start: 2:00 pm
We will be meeting every Monday to prepare for the February Texas tour of Arjun Makhijani, president of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER). | ||
01 / 15
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01 / 16
Start: 3:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm
Call 972-860-4646 for details. Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:30 pm
Nonviolent Communication, inspired by Marshall Rosenberg, will be presented at Dallas Peace Center! Join with a new NVC community and learn the underlying foundation and practice of communicating with the heart consciousness of honoring and valuing oneself while releasing judgments and diagnoses of others. The energy of nonviolent communication is one of enriching life while connecting with each other at the human universal needs level. HIGHLIGHTS Learn the contrast of: Empathy and Sympathy Power With and Over Choice and Submission | ||
01 / 17
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01 / 18
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01 / 19
Start: 8:30 am
Come honor one of the peace heroes of the last millennium. The Dallas Peace Center will join with Jobs With Justice in the Martin Luther King Day Parade. The parade starts at 9:00 a.m. at City Hall Plaza, 1500 Marilla, and will cover 2.9 miles from Akard south to Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. and east to Fair Park. To take the shuttle to the step-off point (so you don‘t have to walk the whole way back at the end of the parade) drive your car through the MLK Boulevard gate into Fair Park by 8:30 a.m. Turn to the right to park over toward Pennsylvania Street. City-provided shuttle vans will then carry you back to City Hall, where you should look for the Jobs With Justice banner. | ||
01 / 20
Start: 1:00 pm
Ann Guthrie of the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) will speak about how individuals and churches can become more active in the pursuit of peace. Ann has worked in Namibia with the Namibia Institute for Democracy with their Civil Society Support Program and spent three and a half years on the Hill working for Representative Sam Farr of California. Before working on Capitol Hill, she served as a Health Educator in the Peace Corps in Quilali, Nicaragua. A delicious boxed lunch from Jason’s Deli will be available at 12:30 for $6.00. Contact Bill Maxwell at 214.274.6322 to reserve lunch. Start: 3:00 pm
Start: Jan 20 2008 - 3:00pm
End: Jan 21 2008 - 3:00pm
Celebrate the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday in an appropriate manner – by learning how to be a more affective advocate for peace and justice in the world! Get all your stuff done on Saturday, so you can use Sunday evening and your Monday holiday in the most meaningful way. Kathy Kelly of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, Dallas's own Ernest McMillan and other prominent activists will be on hand to share their wisdom. Join us in a return engagement at the Catholic Renewal Center in Fort Worth – great food, fun, community building and lots of empowering information and resources. To register, go to www.dallaspeacecenter.org or call 214-823-7793. | ||
01 / 21
End: 3:00 pm
Start: Jan 20 2008 - 3:00pm
End: Jan 21 2008 - 3:00pm
Celebrate the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday in an appropriate manner – by learning how to be a more affective advocate for peace and justice in the world! Get all your stuff done on Saturday, so you can use Sunday evening and your Monday holiday in the most meaningful way. Kathy Kelly of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, Dallas's own Ernest McMillan and other prominent activists will be on hand to share their wisdom. Join us in a return engagement at the Catholic Renewal Center in Fort Worth – great food, fun, community building and lots of empowering information and resources. To register, go to www.dallaspeacecenter.org or call 214-823-7793. Start: 11:00 am
Peaceful Vocations, a counter-military recruitment group, will march in the parade and will convey Dr. King's the message of non-violence. We are advocating a military free zone, and the ceasing of militarism our schools. We will be carrying signs and banners. We invite you to join us. For more information call: 817-800-4249. Peaceful Vocations is an all volunteer collective that works to raise awareness of the aggressive and deceptive tactics of the military recruiting practices in the Fort Worth public schools and to offer youth (and their families) information and resources about non-military and educational options. Peaceful Vocations is based in Fort Worth and serves North Texas. The parade will be held on the East side of the Fort Worth Convention Center, Main Street and 9th or 10th Street. Or Jones, Throckmorton, Houston, all of which intersect with 9th, 10th, & 12 Streets. | ||
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01 / 23
Start: 3:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm
Call 972-860-4646 for details. Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:30 pm
CONTACT: Judith Stuart-Coale, 214-315-4288 Start: 7:00 pm
Contacts: Curt Crum at 817 423-1372 or 817 645-9151 or Ellen Kaner at 817 691-7198. | ||
01 / 24
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01 / 25
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01 / 26
Start: 10:00 am
End: 5:00 pm
The Crawford Texas Peace House will have our annual 10:00 Peace House at for Karma Yoga & house cleaning | ||
01 / 27
Start: 2:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm
The second session of a six-week exploration of the book Gandhi the Man by Eknath Easwaran and Michael N. Nagler, sponsored by the Peace Education Team of the Dallas Peace Center. Free to members of the Peace Center (memberships start at $35). Register online at www.dallaspeacecenter.org or call 214-823-7793. Start: 2:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm
On Sunday, January 27th we will be hosting a workshop in Dallas and would like to invite you to join us. Terms like “sustainability, LEED, ecology, carbon emissions” are becoming more and more central to the conversation throughout our country. Mainstream publications, such as Time, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, and USA Today, continue to dedicate front-page coverage to the issue of global warming, environmental devastation and renewable energy innovations. But even as awareness builds, there is much left to be done! | ||
01 / 28
Start: 2:00 pm
We will be meeting every Monday to prepare for the February Texas tour of Arjun Makhijani, president of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER). | ||
01 / 29
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01 / 30
Start: 9:00 am
End: 9:00 pm
9:05-10:00 10:10-11:05 11:15-12:10 7:00-8:00 pm For more information, contact Scot Branks, Institute for Peace, Richland College, 972-238-6369, sbranks@dcccd.edu Start: 12:00 pm
Rev Diane Baker & Wendy Drucker, who traveled to Cuba last summer with Pastors for Peace, will present their findings. Bring a bag lunch. Start: 3:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm
Call 972-860-4646 for details. Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:30 pm
CONTACT: Judith Stuart-Coale, 214-315-4288 Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
A rich and powerful midweek experience of music and message for today, with multimedia, silent meditation and community dialogue to deepen and enliven your spiritual and personal growth. Tonight's event is dedicated to the opening of the Season for Nonviolence. Led by Rev. Dr. Petra Weldes, Senior Minister, Michael Gott, RScP, Music & Fine Arts Director. | ||
01 / 31
Start: 9:00 am
End: 12:20 pm
All Day 9:30-10:50 11:00-12:20 For more information, contact Scot Branks, Institute for Peace, Richland College, 972-238-6369, sbranks@dcccd.edu Start: 6:30 pm
The Texas House Committees on Corrections and County Affairs will hold a joint public hearing at the University of Texas at Dallas in Richardson, Texas from 10:30am to 4:00pm on Friday, February 1, 2007, on issues surrounding the role of criminal justice personnel in enforcing federal immigration law and the impact of "illegal immigration" on the criminal justice system in Texas. The purpose of the hearing is two-fold: The first is fact-finding, i.e. for legislators to determine how jails, prisons, and probation departments currently identify and process undocumented immigrants. The second purpose is for legislators to hear public input on these issues. | ||
02 / 1
Start: 10:30 am
End: 4:00 pm
The Texas House Committees on Corrections and County Affairs will hold a joint public hearing at the University of Texas at Dallas in Richardson, Texas from 10:30am to 4:00pm on Friday, February 1, 2007, on issues surrounding the role of criminal justice personnel in enforcing federal immigration law and the impact of "illegal immigration" on the criminal justice system in Texas. The purpose of the hearing is two-fold: The first is fact-finding, i.e. for legislators to determine how jails, prisons, and probation departments currently identify and process undocumented immigrants. The second purpose is for legislators to hear public input on these issues. | ||
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02 / 3
Start: 2:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm
The third session of a six-week exploration of the book Gandhi the Man by Eknath Easwaran and Michael N. Nagler, sponsored by the Peace Education Team of the Dallas Peace Center. Free to members of the Peace Center (memberships start at $35). Register online at www.dallaspeacecenter.org or call 214-823-7793. | ||
02 / 4
Start: 6:30 pm
The DPC Cuba Friendship Committee will meet the first Monday of every month. Be a part of facilitating the 2008 Pastors for Peace Cuba Friendship Caravan. | ||
