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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. Some highlights:
Texans for Peace: 4th
Annual Teaching Peace in Texas Schools Conference,
Oct 11, Austin - CANCELED
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October
2008
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Monday
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Tuesday
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Wednesday
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Thursday
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Friday
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Saturday
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2 AUS - Gandhi Birthday
and ACPJ
Fundraiser, 6pm Huston-Tillotson
University
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3 AUS - 8th
Annual Bill of Rights Dinner,
Texas Civil Rights Project 6pm UT
Alumni Center
AUS - National
Conference to Honor Freedom of Conscience,
including Walter WInk
SA - Victims' Families
Gather to Oppose Death Sentences
for the Mentally Ill, 3pm University
of the Incarnate Word, Bonilla Science
Hall auditorium
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4 AUS - National
Conference to Honor Freedom of Conscience,
including Walter WInk
HOU - Rally for universal
health care. 4pm Houston CIty Hall
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5 ROCKPORT - Gathering
For Peace, 6pm Rockport Beach Park
Band Shell
SA - Solidarity
Sunday, 5:30pm Madison Square
Presby. Church
AUS - National
Conference to Honor Freedom of Conscience,
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7 AUS - Film: Daniel
Ellsberg:
"Secrecy and Presidential Wars:
Lessons of '68", 7:30
PM
UT Jessen Auditorium
AUS - Lecture: Mark
Potok of the Southern Poverty Law
Center, 2pm UT Flawn Center Auditorium
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10 AUS - 2nd Annual
Bilingual Symposium on Immigration,
Mexican-American
Cultural Center
AUS - 1968, a Global
Perspective: An Interdisciplinary
Conference, UT
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11 AUS - 2nd Annual
Bilingual Symposium on Immigration,
Mexican-American
Cultural Center
AUS - 1968, a Global
Perspective: An Interdisciplinary
Conference, UT
HOU - World Day Against
the Death Penalty Teach In, 10am
Crooker Center at Un. of St. Thomas
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12 AUS - Last Sunday
Discussion
with author Naomi Klein,
"The Shock Doctrine: The Rise
of Disaster Capitalism
" 6pm St. Andrew's Presby.
Church
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13 DAL - Discussion:
Iran Challenge After Nov. 4, Cathedral
of Hope - 5910 Cedar Springs Road,
7pm
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14 EL PASO - Peace
Prayer Vigil, 7pm St. Pius X Parish
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15 ABILENE - Texas
Jail Project takes it to
ABILENE, 1pm Taylor County Courthouse,
300 Oak St.
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16 SA - Film: "Kansas
vs Darwin, 6:30pm University of
the Incarnate Word Library Auditorium
HOU - Ninth annual
Texas Conference for Women, George
R. Brown Convention Center
HOU -Art exhibit to
mark 60th anniversary of Universal
Declaration of Human Rights, 10am
2101 Winter St.
AUS -Iraq War Veteran
Camilo Mejía
Author of
Road from ar Ramadi: An Iraq War
Memoir, 7pm, UT Garrison
0.102
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17 DAL - Protest:
Unified
Community against Gay Hate Crimes
(U.C.A.G.H.C.), 7pm J.R.s
Bar and Grill
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18 AUS - Forum: "Fighting
for a Fair Trade Future"
1pm Conley-Guererro Activity Center,
808 Nile Street
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22 AUS - Workers
Defense Project
6th Anniversary Celebration! 6:30
pm Mercury Hall
DENTON - Grassroots
Media Justice Tour
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23 DAL - Town
Hall Meeting on Transgender Issues,
7pm 2701 Reagan St.
HOU - Fr. John Dear
Speaking: Dominican Sisters Meeting
Room, 6501 Almeda Rd. 7pm
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25 HOU - 9th Annual
March to End Executions, 2pm SHAPE
center at 3903 Almeda
HOU - Greater
Texas PeaceJam SLAM, U.
of H.
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28 AUS - Discussion:
journalist John
Pilger "Journalism and the
'War on Terror" 7pm,
UT Welch (WCH) 1.120
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Coming
Soon
Oct, 2008 Houston - Mahatma
Gandhi Week 2008
Nov 1, 2008 HOU - 3rd Annual
Quaker Peace Festival, noon-7pm, Live Oak Friends Meeting,
1318 W 26Th St.
Nov 21, 2008 Hitting
Stops Here! Statewide - Nationwide Campaign for
Banning Corporal Punishment
in US Public Schools

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