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.
Events
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02 / 7
Start: 7:00 pm
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. | ||
02 / 8
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02 / 9
Start: 10:00 am
End: 12:00 pm
Rev. L. Charles Stovall, Senior Pastor at Munger Place and co-sponsor of the Children Defense Fund’s Community Roundtable, inviting concerned citizens to participate in this local forum stated, “We face an urgent national crisis at the intersection of poverty and race that puts Black boys at a one in three lifetime risk of going to jail, and Latino boys at a one in six lifetime risk of the same fate.” What: Community leaders, youth advocates and concerned persons contemplate measures for dismantling the “cradle to prison pipeline”. 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
End: 2:15 pm
Conference call and letter writing on global issues. Snack provided. Start: 1:00 pm
Maryknoll Affiliates mtg., "spirituality, global vision, community, action.” Call Ken Eppes for location, 214-337-6867. 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/. | ||
02 / 10
Start: 12:00 pm
The Unitarian Universalist Social Action Ministry Meeting is open to the public. Start: 2:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm
The fourth session of an exploration of the book Gandhi the Man by Eknath Easwaran and Michael N. Nagler that will run through March 16, sponsored by the Peace Education Team of the Dallas Peace Center. Free to members of the Peace Center (memberships start at $35). Feel free to come, even if you have missed the other sessions. Register online at www.dallaspeacecenter.org or call 214-823-7793. Start: 2:30 pm
Arjun Makhijani, scientist, nuclear engineer and president of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER), will lecture on nuclear energy as an alternative to oil based fuels, and on the proliferation of nuclear arms throughout the world. Book signing afterward. Sponsored by Peace Action Denton, Sierra Club, and Peace Studies of University of North Texas. For more information, call 940-382-8815. | ||
02 / 11
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02 / 12
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02 / 13
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 | ||
02 / 14
Start: 7:00 pm
For information, call Micki Roark, 214-543-8043, or go to www.tifa.org. Start: 7:00 pm
Arjun Makhijani, scientist, nuclear engineer and president of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER), will lecture on nuclear energy as an alternative to oil based fuels, and on the proliferation of nuclear arms throughout the world. | ||
02 / 15
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02 / 16
Start: 10:00 am
For more information, contact Jan Sanders, 214-369-9388 or Nuclear@DallasPeaceCenter.org. Start: 10:00 am
End: 3:00 pm
CONTACT: Judith Stuart-Coale, 214-315-4288 | ||
02 / 17
Start: 2:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm
The fifth session of an exploration of the book Gandhi the Man by Eknath Easwaran and Michael N. Nagler that will run through March 16, sponsored by the Peace Education Team of the Dallas Peace Center. Free to members of the Peace Center (memberships start at $35). Feel free to come, even if you have missed the other sessions. Register online at www.dallaspeacecenter.org or call 214-823-7793. | ||
02 / 18
Start: 5:30 pm
End: 8:30 pm
A true, candid - and civil - dialogue among diverse community leaders and committed citizens about Immigration, to gain a full 360-degree view of this topic's interrelated issues. Register at https://www.creatorsguide.com/registration_form.php. $10 per participant. | ||
02 / 19
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02 / 20
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 | ||
02 / 21
Start: 8:00 am
End: 2:15 pm
Conference convened by the national Council of Jewish Women, Greater Dallas Section, will explore the complex issues surrounding immigration, highlight the needs of immigrants and promote communication and coordination among area groups that serve immigrants. Keynote Speaker: Doris Meissner, former commissioner of the US Immigration and Naturalization Service, and a senior fellow atr eht Migration Policy Institute. Meissner is also director of MPI's Independent Task Force on Immigration and America's Future. For more information on workshops and registration, go to www.ncjwdallas.org. Start: 12:00 pm
Learn how to present peace resolutions at your precinct convention, become a delegate to political party conventions, and how to support a peace caucus at the conventions. Bring a brown bag lunch. | ||
02 / 22
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02 / 23
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02 / 24
Start: 2:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm
The sixth session of an exploration of the book Gandhi the Man by Eknath Easwaran and Michael N. Nagler that will run through March 16, sponsored by the Peace Education Team of the Dallas Peace Center. Free to members of the Peace Center (memberships start at $35). Feel free to come, even if you have missed the other sessions. Register online at www.dallaspeacecenter.org or call 214-823-7793. Start: 3:00 pm
End: 7:00 pm
Join us for a Peaceful afternoon of inspiring speakers, open discussion, a little poetry and great music. Two Texans will share their stories of transformation from Warriors to Conscientious Objectors. Hart Viges was raised in West Texas, graduated from San Angelo High in 1994, and joined the Army after 9/11. He served in Iraq with the 82nd Airborne and was awarded an Honorable Discharge in Dec. 2004 as a CO. Hart resides in Austin and is active in counter-recruitment & the GI Rights Hotline. He is currently working on HR 1921 - Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund Act - a bill that would extend one's CO status to the taxes one pays and their use. | ||
02 / 25
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02 / 26
Start: 6:45 pm
Jim Goodenow, member of Veterans For Peace, will speak to the Richardson Democratic Club on "the trials and tribulastions of where our nation is today and what we, the citizens, can do about it." | ||
02 / 27
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. | ||
02 / 28
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02 / 29
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03 / 1
Start: 2:00 pm
Hope for Peace & Justice presents Dr. Maya Angelou as keynote speaker at “Voices of Peace,” beginning a month-long, worldwide effort to bring thousands of voices together to proclaim, during the month that marks the fifth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, that peace in our world is of fundamental importance. The Voices of Peace Chorus, under the direction of Dr. Tim Seelig and made up of singers from various local choruses, will lead all in attendance as we form a 2,000-voice choir singing “Dona Nobis Pacem.” For tickets, click HERE. | ||
03 / 2
Start: 2:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm
The seventh session of an 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. | ||
03 / 3
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. Start: 7:00 pm
This award winning 90-minute documentary film about the destruction of Darfur will be shown, followed by a short reflection and discussion session led by Robert and Paulette Cooper of the Dallas Peace Center. Presented as part of the UT-Arlington Freshmen Leaders on Campus (FLOC) Program on Darfur. | ||
03 / 4
Start: 7:00 am
End: 7:00 pm
Vote at your polling place in the Democratic or Republican elections. Go back for Precinct Convention at 7:15 p.m. Start: 7:30 pm
American Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and author Seymour Hersh discusses foreign policy. Reserved tickets are $50/person which includes a reception with the author prior to the lecture, reserved parking and seating. These tickets need to be purchased in advance. To charge by phone, call Karen Anisman at 817-257-5004, or send a check to TCU, Box 297021, Fort Worth, TX 76129. General admission is $10/person and may be paid at the door.
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03 / 5
Start: 3:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm
Call 972-860-4646 for details. | ||
03 / 6
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 1:15 pm
Amazon's description of the book by Ron Hall, Denver Moore and Lynn Vincent: "Meet Denver, a man raised under plantation-style slavery in Louisiana in the 1960s; a man who escaped, hopping a train to wander, homeless, for eighteen years on the streets of Dallas, Texas. No longer a slave, Denver's life was still hopeless-until God moved. First came a godly woman who prayed, listened, and obeyed. And then came her husband, Ron, an international arts dealer at home in a world of Armani-suited millionaires. And then they all came together. "But slavery takes many forms. Deborah discovers that she has cancer. In the face of possible death, she charges her husband to rescue Denver. Who will be saved, and who will be lost? What is the future for these unlikely three? What is God doing? | ||
03 / 7
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03 / 8
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
End: 2:15 pm
Conference call and letter writing on global issues. Snack provided. Start: 1:00 pm
Maryknoll Affiliates mtg., "spirituality, global vision, community, action.” Call Ken Eppes for location, 214-337-6867. 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/. | ||
