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«	January 08, 2008 - February 07, 2008	»
01 / 8 (event) Film Screening: "SiCKO" Start: 7:00 pm Body: 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. more info (event) Dallas Sierra Club Start: 7:00 pm more info
01 / 9 (event) Amnesty Int'l and Peace & Justice Club -- Brookhaven College Start: 3:00 pm End: 4:00 pm Body: Call 972-860-4646 for details. more info (event) Jobs With Justice Start: 7:00 pm more info (event) Amnesty International Fort Worth Start: 7:30 pm more info
01 / 10 (event) Texas Inmates Families Association -- SW Dallas Chap Start: 7:00 pm Body: For information, call Micki Roark, 214-543-8043, or go to www.tifa.org. more info (event) PFLAG Start: 7:00 pm more info (event) Amnesty International Dallas Start: 7:30 pm more info
01 / 11 (event) Demonstration to Shut Down Guantanamo Start: 3:00 pm End: 6:00 pm Body: 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. more info (event) Freedom Readers Meeting Start: 6:00 pm Body: Are you a Global Citizen interested in local, World literature, and International Movies? LOVE POETRY AND CHAT OVER GOOD FRIENDS AND CHAI Are you interested in Enriching your World? Through “Literary Action”? Meet great speakers! 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 more info
01 / 12 (event) MLK Parade Sign-making Party Start: 10:00 am End: 12:00 pm Body: 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. more info (event) Animal Connection of Texas Start: 11:00 am Body: Contact Carol Ware, myminuit@yahoo.com, phone 972-551-2364, website is http://www.animalconnectiontx.org. more info (event) RESULTS Domestic Issues Start: 11:15 am End: 1:00 pm Body: Conference call and letter writing on domestic issues. Lunch provided. Contact Bob & Diane Baker at 214-739-6945. more info (event) Maryknoll Affiliates mtg. Start: 1:00 pm Body: Maryknoll Affiliates mtg., "spirituality, global vision, community, action.” Call Ken Eppes for location, 214-337-6867. more info (event) RESULTS Global Issues Start: 1:00 pm End: 2:15 pm Body: Conference call and letter writing on global issues. Snack provided. more info (event) Dallas Area Christian Progressive Alliance Meeting Start: 2:00 pm End: 4:00 pm Body: 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/. more info (event) 'Here Today, Here Tomorrow' Styrofoam Art Show Opening Start: 6:00 pm End: 8:00 pm Body: Join us for refreshments and see what can be made with Styrofoam and why we should NOT be using it. Sponsored by ArtSpirit. more info
01 / 13 (event) UUCOC Social Action Ministry Meeting Start: 12:00 pm Body: The Unitarian Universalist Social Action Ministry Meeting is open to the public. more info (event) Gandhi the Man Start: 2:00 pm End: 4:00 pm Body: 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. more info (event) Celebrate New Beginnings Start: 3:00 pm End: 5:00 pm Body: Presented by Thanks-Giving Square and the Multi-Faith Friends with joyous prayers and tasty nibbles from many cultures. more info
01 / 14 (event) Nuclear Free Texas Meeting Start: 2:00 pm Body: 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). more info (event) Don't Attack Iran Committee Start: 7:30 pm more info
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01 / 16 (event) Amnesty Int'l and Peace & Justice Club -- Brookhaven College Start: 3:00 pm End: 4:00 pm Body: Call 972-860-4646 for details. more info (event) Nonviolent Communications Foundations Class Start: 7:00 pm End: 9:30 pm Body: 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 more info (event) DFW Clean Air Start: 7:00 pm more info (event) Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty -- Dallas Chapter Start: 7:00 pm more info
01 / 17 (event) Amnesty International Group 663 Start: 7:00 pm more info
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01 / 19 (event) Martin Luther King Day Parade Start: 8:30 am Body: 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. more info (event) Peace & Justice in Sudan Meeting Start: 10:00 am End: 12:00 pm more info
01 / 20 (event) Peacemaking: A Quaker Perspective Start: 1:00 pm Body: 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. more info (event) Civil Disobedience Training Retreat Start: 3:00 pm Start: Jan 20 2008 - 3:00pm End: Jan 21 2008 - 3:00pm Body: 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. more info
01 / 21 (event) Civil Disobedience Training Retreat End: 3:00 pm Start: Jan 20 2008 - 3:00pm End: Jan 21 2008 - 3:00pm Body: 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. more info (event) MLK Parade -- Ft. Worth Start: 11:00 am Body: 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. more info
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01 / 23 (event) Amnesty Int'l and Peace & Justice Club -- Brookhaven College Start: 3:00 pm End: 4:00 pm Body: Call 972-860-4646 for details. more info (event) Nonviolent Communications Foundations Class Start: 7:00 pm End: 9:30 pm Body: CONTACT: Judith Stuart-Coale, 214-315-4288 more info (event) Amnesty International Tarrant County Start: 7:00 pm Body: Contacts: Curt Crum at 817 423-1372 or 817 645-9151 or Ellen Kaner at 817 691-7198. more info (event) Tarrant County Clean Air Now Start: 7:00 pm more info (event) Pax Christi Dallas Start: 7:00 pm Body: Contact Joyce Hall, 214-357-2173, for location. more info
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01 / 26 (event) Crawford Peace House Annual Meeting Start: 10:00 am End: 5:00 pm Body: The Crawford Texas Peace House will have our annual meeting to discuss Peace presence in Crawford. Bree Walker the new owner of Camp Casey is making plans to join us to plan our united effort for success in this last Year of Bush's Presidency 10:00 Peace House at for Karma Yoga & house cleaning 12:30 to 1:00 lunch 1:00 to 2:00 meeting 2:30 to 5:00 scrap book party more info
01 / 27 (event) Gandhi the Man Start: 2:00 pm End: 4:00 pm Body: 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. more info (event) Envisioning a Sustainable Dallas Workshop Start: 2:00 pm End: 6:00 pm Body: On Sunday, January 27^th 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! more info (event) Peace & Justice Center - Arlington Start: 5:00 pm more info
01 / 28 (event) Nuclear Free Texas Meeting Start: 2:00 pm Body: 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). more info (event) Race Abuse Support Group Meeting Start: 7:00 pm more info (event) Don't Attack Iran Committee Start: 7:30 pm more info
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01 / 30 (event) Focus the Nation at Richland College Start: 9:00 am End: 9:00 pm Body: 9:05-10:00 Climate, Science, and Social Justice 10:10-11:05 Climate, Economics, and Good Business 11:15-12:10 Climate, Faith, and Stewardship 7:00-8:00 pm Webcast: The 2% Solution – A free, live, interactive webcast featuring Stanford University climate scientist Stephen Schneider, sustainability expert Hunter Lovins, green jobs pioneer Van Jones, and youth climate leaders. For more information, contact Scot Branks, Institute for Peace, Richland College, 972-238-6369, sbranks@dcccd.edu more info (event) Brown Bag: Update on Cuba Start: 12:00 pm Body: Rev Diane Baker & Wendy Drucker, who traveled to Cuba last summer with Pastors for Peace, will present their findings. Bring a bag lunch. more info (event) Amnesty Int'l and Peace & Justice Club -- Brookhaven College Start: 3:00 pm End: 4:00 pm Body: Call 972-860-4646 for details. more info (event) Nonviolent Communications Foundations Class Start: 7:00 pm End: 9:30 pm Body: CONTACT: Judith Stuart-Coale, 214-315-4288 more info (event) Season For Nonviolence Opening Ceremony Start: 7:00 pm End: 8:00 pm Body: 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. For further information contact Veronica Valles at veronica@csldallas.org or go to www.csldallas.org. more info
01 / 31 (event) Focus the Nation at Richland College Start: 9:00 am End: 12:20 pm Body: All Day Rebroadcast of “The 2% Solution” Webcast 9:30-10:50 Climate, Politics, and the Role of Government 11:00-12:20 Climate, the Future, and Our Choices For more information, contact Scot Branks, Institute for Peace, Richland College, 972-238-6369, sbranks@dcccd.edu more info (event) Training Session for Immigration Hearing Start: 6:30 pm Body: 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. more info
02 / 1 (event) Public Hearing to Review Immigration Enforcement Policies Start: 10:30 am End: 4:00 pm Body: 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. more info
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02 / 3 (event) World Peace Meeting Start: 10:00 am more info (event) Gandhi the Man Start: 2:00 pm End: 4:00 pm Body: 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. more info
02 / 4 (event) Cuba Friendship Committee Start: 6:30 pm Body: 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. more info (event) Downwinders at Risk Start: 7:00 pm more info
02 / 5 (event) Film Screening: "Who Killed the Electric Car?" Start: 7:00 pm Body: A murder mystery, a call to arms and an effective inducement to rage, Who Killed the Electric Car? is the latest and one of the more successful additions to the growing ranks of issue-oriented documentaries. - The New York Times 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. more info (event) NAACP Start: 7:00 pm more info
02 / 6 (event) Amnesty Int'l and Peace & Justice Club -- Brookhaven College Start: 3:00 pm End: 4:00 pm Body: Call 972-860-4646 for details. more info (event) Nonviolent Communications Foundations Class Start: 7:00 pm End: 9:30 pm Body: CONTACT: Judith Stuart-Coale, 214-315-4288 more info (event) Peace Action Tarrant County Start: 7:00 pm more info
02 / 7 (event) Urban Engagement Book Club: "Immigrants and Boomers" Start: 12:00 pm End: 1:15 pm Body: Dowell Myers' Immigrants and Boomers: Forging a New Social Contract for the Future of America looks to California as a bellwether state--where whites are no longer a majority of the population and represent just a third of residents under age twenty--to afford us a glimpse into the future impact of immigration on the rest of the nation. Myers opens with an examination of the roots of voter resistance to providing social services for immigrants. Drawing on detailed census data, Myers demonstrates that long-established immigrants have been far more successful than the public believes. more info (event) Lecture: Les Roberts Start: 7:00 pm Body: The Waco Friends of Peace will present a lecture by Les Roberts, PhD, Epidemiologist and Associate Professor at Columbia University. Dr. Roberts was the lead author of the groundbreaking Lancet medical journal article of 2006 that determined 655,000 Iraqis died due to the U.S. occupation of Iraq. Free pizza and lecture. For more information, visit www.friendsofpeace.org. more info

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