We have limited space available for those who would love to attend this amazing GSA Camp (July 8-10th). You can go to our website to download the application and to gather more information. www.texasgsa.org If you have ANY questions feel free to contact me monica@outyouth.org This camp is FREE!!!!
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07 / 9
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Start: Jul 8 2008 - 1:00pm
End: Jul 10 2008 - 4:00pm
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07 / 10
End: 4:00 pm
Start: Jul 8 2008 - 1:00pm
End: Jul 10 2008 - 4:00pm
We have limited space available for those who would love to attend this amazing GSA Camp (July 8-10th). You can go to our website to download the application and to gather more information. www.texasgsa.org If you have ANY questions feel free to contact me monica@outyouth.org This camp is FREE!!!! Start: 7:00 pm
For information, call Micki Roark, 214-543-8043, or go to www.tifa.org. | ||
07 / 11
Start: 6:30 pm
End: 8:30 pm
Winner of the American Film Festival Blue Ribbon Award, Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Award, and Havana Film Festival Grand Coral Award, this re-released documentary tells the story of 30 years of U.S.-initiated and backed military dictatorships in Guatemala, through the family saga of Nobel Peace Laureate Rigoberta Menchú Tum. Start: 7:00 pm
Eco-minded storytime for preschool/elementary students. RSVP to coordinator@ecovision360.org. A $5 donation is requeted to benefit literacy and Akumal Primario Escuella Library. Includes stories, movie, puppetry and refreshments. | ||
07 / 12
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/. | ||
07 / 13
Start: 12:00 pm
The Unitarian Universalist Social Action Ministry Meeting is open to the public. | ||
07 / 14
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07 / 15
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
The Fort Worth Center for Compassionate Communication Facilitators: Tuesdays 7 – 9 pm Focus on the Process | ||
07 / 16
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07 / 17
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07 / 18
Start: 12:00 pm
Former DPC Executive Director Rita Calvert is in Dallas for a visit from her home in Costa Rica. Please join her to view the film Beyond Rangoon and discuss the political and human rights situation of Burma. Rita writes of the film, "It is based on a true story where an American woman visiting Burma was caught up in the student demonstration in 1988, and experienced the brutality of the government. Since the cyclone hit Burma, and after the monks' demonstrations of last September, I feel more people could understand the situation better, and hopefully the world community will put more pressure on this illegal government which would not even help the people after the cyclone hit, and still holds Aung |San suu kyi in house arrest." | ||
07 / 19
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm
Panelists will be US House of Representatives Judiciary Chairman John Conyers, Texas State Senator Rodney Ellis, Dallas District Attorney Craig Watkins and Jeff Blackburn of the Innocence Project of Texas. Presented by Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson. For information, call 214-922-8885. Free. | ||
07 / 20
Start: 2:30 pm
Come hear immigration attorney John Wheat Gibsdon speak about the Don T. Hutto Detention Facility. Gibson says, "...I hope to demonstrate that if one understands what the government is doing by imprisoning children for the profit of private businesses, then one understands fundamentally how the U.S. political system works, and should be able, therefore, to see how for-profit prisons for children are connected to the way oujr rulers use our resources both here and abroad." Admission is free, but there is a $10 suggested donation. All proceeds will benefit North Texas for Justice and Peace's trip to the Democratic National Convention. Start: 7:30 pm
A Concert Tour of Texas Cities working to raise the dialogue on the death penalty in Texas. Sara Hickman writes: “I’m someone who wants to start a dialogue. That’s all. I want to get Texas talking about the death penalty because we are the state with the greatest number of executions, and yet, no one wants to talk about what it means. I hope you will come out and join me, to ask questions, to meet family members of murder victims, to meet family members of those executed on death row. Come hear music and get involved at the same time. This isn’t easy. In fact, it’s scary. But the conversation must begin, and I hope it begins with you and me." Buy tickets online, beginning July 2, at www.h4pj.org/wagejustice/index.php | ||
07 / 21
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07 / 22
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
The Fort Worth Center for Compassionate Communication Facilitators: Tuesdays 7 – 9 pm Focus on the Process | ||
07 / 23
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Col. Wright is the senior-most U.S. official to publicly resign in protest of the Iraq War. After nearly 20 years of service with the State Department, Wright resigned citing the lack of U.N. support for the Iraq invasion, the lack of effort in Israel-Palestine and North Korea, and the threat to liberties in the U.S. as reasons for her departure. Since then, she has worked tirelessly to end the occupation of Iraq and bring U.S. soldiers home. Col. Wright is the second speaker in the DPC Summer Lecture Series. Reception at 6:00, Dinner at 7:00 and Lecture at 8:00 p.m. For tickets, go to http://dallaspeacecenter.org/SumDin/2008/Tickets. Start: 7:00 pm
Contacts: Curt Crum at 817 423-1372 or 817 645-9151 or Ellen Kaner at 817 691-7198. | ||
07 / 24
Start: 7:00 pm
Join a coalition of organizations from across Dallas to 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. For more information, email sweatfreedallas@gmail.com. | ||
07 / 25
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07 / 26
Start: 10:00 am
End: 11:30 am
Clean Elections Texas-Dallas & the League of Women Voters of Dallas are hosting a Citizen Lobbyist Training session with Andy Wilson from Public Citizen. There is free parking right in front of Fondren Science. The parking lot is accessible from Hilltop Lane/Boaz Lane, which runs behind Dallas Hall. For information, contact League member Cody Meador, Campus Coordinator, Democracy Matters SMU. Email CodyLM@gmail.com Tel 214-893-0352. | ||
07 / 27
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07 / 28
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07 / 29
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
The Fort Worth Center for Compassionate Communication Facilitators: Tuesdays 7 – 9 pm Focus on the Process | ||
07 / 30
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07 / 31
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08 / 1
Start: 4:30 pm
End: 6:00 pm
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08 / 2
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08 / 3
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08 / 4
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08 / 5
Start: 7:00 pm
On June 7, 1998, the most vicious racially motivated murder since the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till occurred in Jasper, Texas. James Byrd, an African American, was chained to a pick-up truck and dragged behind it for three miles until his body disintegrated. Three white men from Jasper, with ties to white supremacist groups, were arrested and later convicted for the crime. Two film crews, one black and one white, led by Marco Williams and Whitney Dow, set out to record the repercussions of this modern-day lynching by following the trials of the men charged with the crime and the reactions of the community members. Two Towns of Jasper integrates footage from an all white crew documenting the white community and an all black crew filming the black community. Many documentaries and dramatic films have been made about the racial divide in America, but none have used segregated crews as a lens on the subject. Filming within the respective races as opposed to across the races provides a unique and rare occasion for audiences to have “insider” access, to witness intimate moments typically not shared with anyone outside a closed community. | ||
08 / 6
Start: 7:00 am
End: 9:00 am
A day to pay homage to the suffering wrought by nuclear weapons and to remind the public we do not want any more nuclear wars. We want areturn to the Non-Proliferation Treaty. Join the Don't Attack Iran Committee of the Dallas Peace Center to work toward preventing nuclear war. At Ferris Plaza, corner or Young and Houston St. Start: 6:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
The August 6 dinner will feature Dr. Erika Frank, president of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR). Dr. Frank, who specializes in preventative medicine, will explore the connections between climate change and global health issues. Dr. Frank is the third speaker in the DPC Summer Lecture Series. Reception at 6:00, Dinner at 7:00 and Lecture at 8:00 p.m. For tickets, go to http://dallaspeacecenter.org/SumDin/2008/Tickets. | ||
08 / 7
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 1:15 pm
From Booklist: "Economist [Robert] Frank argues that rising economic inequality harms the middle class, and he uses familiar examples to teach us about consumer behavior. One interesting example is the buying of larger and larger houses by those at the top levels of income and wealth, which leads families in the middle to spend a greater percentage of income on housing in order to send their children to a school of average quality. They must then spend less on other important categories while their real purchasing power over decades stagnates. We learn about the role of technology in shaking out industries where a few become big winners and the rest hardly make it, explaining why foreign competition isn't always the reason. Frank's recommendation in favor of a progressive consumption tax is certain to draw controversy." | ||
08 / 8
Start: 7:00 pm
Eco-minded storytime for preschool/elementary students. RSVP to coordinator@ecovision360.org. A $5 donation is requeted to benefit literacy and Akumal Primario Escuella Library. Includes stories, movie, puppetry and refreshments. Start: 7:00 pm
Show the world that we still care about Burma, we still hold the Burmese junta accountable for their atrocities; we realize the Chinese government's link to the junta through trade and investment; and we demand that the United Nations and other world governments continue to push for aid and reform in Burma. | ||
