Events
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05 / 13
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05 / 14
Start: 3:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm
Call 972-860-4646 for details. | ||
05 / 15
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05 / 16
Start: 1:00 pm
Stephen Fagin, oral historian at The Sixth Floor Museum, will repeat his multi-media presentation that was reviewed in the March 2008 issue of the Dallas Peace Times, “Rev. McElvaney’s Unjust War,” about the movement in Dallas to oppose the Vietnam War. For more information call 214-747-6660 or visit www.jfk.org. | ||
05 / 17
Start: 2:00 pm
Spend the afternoon with award-winning singer-songwriter David Lamotte and friends! David will lead a thoughtful and inspirational discussion on Peacemaking, to be held in the Parlor of the church from 2:00-3:00. Learn how David weaves peacemaking into his daily life and work, and discover how we might use some of his peacemaking tools in the life of our church and community. The group will head by foot to downtown's hip Urban Market for dinner and visiting prior to an evening of great live music! The Knuckleheads will kick off the music entertainment from 6:00-7:00 pm in Byrd Hall, delivering a unique selection of traditional country and rock songs with their passion for music and entertaining! David Lamotte will headline the evening with a performance that begins at 7:00 pm. The Black Mountain, NC, native has traveled throughout the world singing his message of peace and engaging audiences with his significantly personal lyrics and beautiful guitar melodies. | ||
05 / 18
Start: 6:00 pm
Location, food, and music for this fundraiser are donated by Thai community of Dallas, which is planning to raise $10,000 for cyclone victims in Burma. The money will be donated to UNICEF to help victims in Burma. | ||
05 / 19
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 7:00 pm
Monday Night Mixer | ||
05 / 20
Start: 5:45 pm
Dallas will play host to a special premiere of the new HBO film, RECOUNT. The film follows the Florida recount from Election Day in November 2000 through the Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of George W. Bush over Al Gore five weeks later. RECOUNT, which stars Kevin Spacey, Ed Begley, Jr., Laura Dern, John Hurt, Denis Leary, Bob Balaban and Tom Wilkinson, pulls back the veil on the headlines and explores the human drama of characters involved in events that would determine the leadership of the country. Following the screening, Cal Jillson, author and professor of Political Science at Southern Methodist University, will lead a discussion with two of the influential participants who were on the ground in Florida during the 2000 recount. Mr. Ben Ginsberg, national counsel for the Bush-Cheney campaign in 2000, will be joined by Mr. Mitchell Berger, senior advisor to the 2000 Gore-Lieberman campaign, to discuss the problems with the election process that led to the Florida recount. | ||
05 / 21
Start: 3:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm
Call 972-860-4646 for details. | ||
05 / 22
Start: 7:30 pm
End: 9:30 pm
Paris, France: March 27, 2008 | ||
05 / 23
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05 / 24
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05 / 25
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05 / 26
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05 / 27
Start: 1:00 pm
State and national representatives have been invited to hear from experts and victims about the environmental justice issues related to emissions from ExxonMobil’s refineries and chemical plants in the Texas Gulf Coast. | ||
05 / 28
Start: 8:00 am
On this day, ExxonMobil shareholders will gather at the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas At the same time, in front of the building, the War Profiteering/Global Warming News Conference will be held to discuss Iraq war-profiteering, ExxonMobil’s dangerous role in Iraq, excess profits and high gas prices; and ExxonMobil’s lack of investment in clean renewable energy. Meanwhile, victims of refinery pollution and high cost of gas, as well as all who favor of ending war, will gather with banners to loudly voice objections to the way ExxonMobil is doing business. Start: 3:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm
Call 972-860-4646 for details. | ||
05 / 29
Start: 7:00 pm
Millions of people around the world work in garment sweatshops, struggling with extremely low pay, unsafe working conditions, and degrading treatment. 85% of these workers are young women ages 15 to 25. Many of these workers are fighting to improve conditions in their factories, but face sustained oppression and denial of their rights. The Texas Fair Trade Coalition invites concerned people and organizations from across Dallas to join together and begin a campaign to get the city of Dallas to pass an anti-sweatshop ordinance. This ordinance would require the city to make sure that the uniforms and other garments that the city buys are not being made in sweatshops. | ||
05 / 30
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05 / 31
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06 / 1
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06 / 2
Start: 7:00 pm
Be a part of facilitating the 2008 Pastors for Peace Cuba Friendship Caravan. | ||
06 / 3
Start: 7:00 pm
Michael Franti, world-renowned musician and human rights worker, travels to Iraq, Palestine and Israel to explore the human cost of war with a group of friends, some video cameras and his guitar. A compelling soundtrack, visual and musical montages and Franti's intimate voiceovers make the film speak to the MTV, X, Y & Z generations, as well as the baby-boomers. A true armchair travel film pulling the audience into these war zones in the company of Michael's guitar, eloquence and wit - you feel the humanity, artistic resilence and sometimes horrific experience of what it's like to live under the bombs and military occupation. | ||
06 / 4
Start: 6:00 pm
The Dallas Peace Center Summer Dinner series welcomes Rita Marie Johnson as keynote speaker. Johnson is Director of the Peace Army of Costa Rica. Come at 6:00 for reception; 7:00 for dinner, and 8:00 for the lecture. | ||
06 / 5
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 1:15 pm
From Publishers Weekly: "Overall, the book will delight and encourage first-year (or for that matter, 40th-year) teachers who need [Jonathan] Kozol's reminders of the ways that their beautiful profession can bring joy and beauty, mystery and mischievous delight into the hearts of little people in their years of greatest curiosity. But his encouraging words rarely lapse into treacle. In fact, he offers tough observations on American education addressed to a larger audience. His forceful opinions are convincingly argued—most notably, that educational vouchers will deepen divisions between diverse groups in racially decided cities; that middle schools demoralize students and should be abolished entirely; and that the Gates Foundation made a damaging mistake in aggressively funding a small school craze that will reinforce the racial isolation of the students they enroll." Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
The purpose of our meeting is two-fold: 1.) To brainstorm about nonviolent standards for the Dallas Peace Center. 2.) Discuss ideas for a Fall '08 course. This meeting will be the only one for the summer so please make every effort to attend. Your voices need to be heard. | ||
06 / 6
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06 / 7
Start: 10:00 am
End: 3:00 pm
The BePeace Workshop, presented by Rita Marie Johnson, will introduce the practice of BePeace, the synergistic combination of HeartMath for “feeling peace” and Nonviolent Communication for “speaking peace”. It will include exercises so that the transformational power of this method can be experienced. BePeace is highly effective in preventing and resolving conflicts. As Rita Marie explains, “In achieving my goal to be a true peacemaker, I was missing a solid how-to in resolving day to day conflicts. I researched social and emotional learning methods for 10 years, looking for the way to “be peace” in every moment. Now I can progress each day rather than being stuck for years in the same reactive patterns.” BePeace is also being used in counseling, team building, mediation, small group work and creative problem solving. Start: 6:30 pm
If you're visiting Austin for the Democratic state convention, or if you just like the weather, attend the Texans for Peace fundraiser. All proceeds benefit the fourth annual Teaching Peace in Texas Schools conference which this year will focus on ending gang activity. Concert line-up: 6:30 to 8:20 The Melancholy Ramblers 8:30 to 9:20 We go to Eleven 9:30 to 10:00 Bill Johns 10:00 to 11:30 Shelley King and her band Master of Ceremonies--Pedro Gatos of KOOP Radio $10 donation | ||
06 / 8
Start: 12:00 pm
The Unitarian Universalist Social Action Ministry Meeting is open to the public. | ||
06 / 9
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06 / 10
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06 / 11
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06 / 12
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 9:30 pm
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) invites you to attend an informational meeting on the proposed Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant Units 3 and 4 License Application. The new owner, Luminant, has notified NRC of their intent to submit the application in September 2008. This is the beginning of the public process to double the number of nuclear reactors in north Texas. Remember the 15-year $11 billion over-runs for the first two? Is this deja vue all over again? 6:00-7:00 p.m. Open House For more information, contact Stephen Raul Monarque, Project Manager, Office of New Reactors, USNRC, Washington, DC, 20555-0001, 301-415-1544. Start: 7:00 pm
For information, call Micki Roark, 214-543-8043, or go to www.tifa.org. Start: 8:00 pm
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