CALENDAR - THIS MONTH

Check out the many events scheduled for this month. Listed below are just a small selection of the many workships, panels, film showings, and other events going on around the state. Visit the peace centers in your community to learn more about what is happening on in your neck of the woods.

October 2 (WORLDWIDE) - Gandhi Jayanti - 1st Annual International Day of Nonviolence on Mahatma Gandhi's birthday

October 8 (NATIONWIDE) - The National Council of Church is calling local communities to create Interfaith fasts. The event theme is "Conquest to Community, from Violence to Reverence" and people of faith are invited to join their Muslim sisters and brothers who will be fasting for Ramadan.

October 21-27 (NATIONWIDE) - "No War, No Warming" - Week of activities to tie together concerns over war with those of the environment

October 27, New Orleans, LA UFPJ regional "Fall Out Against the War" - Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and Oklahoma regional United for Peace and Justice.

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1 AUS - Film: "Words on Water" UT Campus, ACES 2.302, Avaya Aud., 7pm

2 DAL - FILM: "Marjoe", UU Church of Oakcliff, 3839 W. Kiest Blvd., 7pm

AUS - Film: "Jeshn-e-Azadi" UT Campus, ACES 2.302, Avaya Aud., 7pm

HOU - Lecture: "Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal" Anthony Arnove, Rothko Chapel, 7:30 pm

3 AUS - Concert: Music For Life, Sara Hickman on behalf of the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, First Methodist 1201 Lavaca St, 7-9 pm

HOU - Film: "Maxed Out": A film about debt American style, Professor Donna Rhea, HCCS Northwest College, 1pm

AUS - Film: "Lost Boys of Sudan", St. Edwards University, Ragsdale Center, 7pm

4 HOU - Exhibit: "A Refugee Camp in the Heart of the City", Doctors Without Borders, Fish Plaza, Wortham Center
500 Block of Texas (between Smith and Bagby) 9am-5:30 pm

AUS - Art Exhibit: Patterns of Peru and Texas Art Exhibition
Fundraiser for the Victims of the August 15th Earthquake in Pisco, Peru, through Oct 31, International Center of Austin, 201 E. 2nd St.

AUS - Lecture: Leadership, Spirituality and the Environment , Father Richard Rohr, St. Edwards University, Ragsdale Center, 7pm, $35

5 HOU - Exhibit: "A Refugee Camp in the Heart of the City", Doctors Without Borders, Fish Plaza, Wortham Center
500 Block of Texas (between Smith and Bagby) 9am-5:30 pm

HOU - Forum: "Aid to Africa: A Quandary" Marykonoll House, 2360 Rice Blvd, 7:30 pm,

6 Del Rio - Caravan to Protest Val Verde Correctional Facility (in Austin susie@texasjail project.org)

7 HOU - 1,000 Lights for Peace, Miller Outdoor Theatre, 5-7 pm

AUS - Walk for Peace, State Capitol to Congress Ave. Bridge, 2 pm

8 AUS - Film: "Journey to a Hate Free Millennium", St. Edwards University, Ragsdale Center, 7:30 pm

9 DAL - Lecture: "Global Genocides since WWII", Rick Halperin, SMU Human Rights Education Program, SMU Hughes-Trigg Student Center, 5:30 pm

10 DAL - Lecture: "Not On Our Watch", John Prendergast for ENOUGH and International Crisis Group, Highland Park UMC, 3300 Mockingbird Lane, 7 pm

11 DAL - Exhibit: "A Refugee Camp in the Heart of the City", Doctors Without Borders, Flagpole Hill at White Rock Lake Park
(Buckner and Northwest Highway)
9am-5:30 pm

12 AUS - Presentation and Gallery Opening "Iraqi Refugee Women in Jordan" Ventana del Sol Coffee House, 1834 East Oltorf, 7:30 pm

SA - El Dia de la Raza, Milam Park, 6 pm

SA - Conference: "Welcoming Newly Arrived Immigrants", Mexican American Cultural Center, $75 (continued through Saturday)

13 HOU - Texans for Peace, 3rd Annual Teaching Peace in Texas Schools Conference, 50 Waugh Dr., $55

DAL - Symposium: Immigration: How will we answer? First UMC, Grand Prairie

HOU - "Journey of Hope: From Violence to Healing" Sr. Helen Prejean at the University of St. Thomas

14 EL PASO - Prayer for Peace interfaith celebration, Keystone Heritage Park, 2-3 pm

DAL - Exhibit: "A Refugee Camp in the Heart of the City", Doctors Without Borders, Flagpole Hill at White Rock Lake Park
(Buckner and Northwest Highway)
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19 AUS - UT Project on Conflict Resolution - Willie Nelson Award Dinner, 7 pm, Erwin Center, $300

20 SA - Women, Power & Peace
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with Sr Joan Chittister, Our Lady of the Lake University, $25

DAL - GuluWalk for the children of northern Uganda

21 AUS - Forum on Fair Trade and Latin America, UT Thompson Center, 1-5 pm

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24 AUS - Film: "War Made Easy", Alamo Drafthouse Downtown, 7 pm

25 AUS - Talk: "50 Years of the Warfare State"
A talk by Norman Solomon, UT Thompson Center, 7 pm

26 Kerrville - Workshop: Non-Violent Communication, UGRA, 125 Lehman Drive, 7-9 on Friday, 9:30-4:30 Saturday, $200 janakih @yahoo.com

27 New Orleans, LA UFPJ regional "Fall Out Against the War" - Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and Oklahoma regional United for Peace and Justice, Co-sponsored by Texans for Peace

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Coming Soon

November 3, AUS - Texas Civil Rights Project, 17th Annual Bill of Rights Dinner, UT Alumni Center, 6:00 pm $125

November 9, HOU - Houston Peace & Justice Center 5th Annual Awards Dinner, Univerisity Hilton

November 13, AUS - "The Conscience of a Liberal"
Talk by by Paul Krugman, UT Teaching Center, 7 pm

November 14, SA - "Soul of a Citizen: Faith & Politics" Forum, San Fernandy Cathedral

November 16-18, Ft. Benning, GA - Thousands will gather at Ft. Benning to demand closure for the School of the Americas

November 17, HOU - Rally against the war in Iraq. Begin at
Ervan Chew Park, 4507 Dunlavy, at 1 pm. At 1:30 pm--march to Bell Park, 4800 Montrose. Speakers, musicians to be announced.

November 21, HOU - Stand up for Peace, Comedy and Music Peace Rally, Fitzgerald’s - 2706 White Oak Dr, 8 pm

November 29, DAL - 21st annual Peacemaker Awards Dinner, Dallas Peace Center, Double Tree Hotel at Midway and LBJ

February 4-5, 2008 SA - 22nd Annual Conference on the Prevention of Child Abuse, Omni Hotel

March 28-30, AUS - Wars and Conflicts in Africa UT