HOUSTON PEACE NEWS
Calendar and Community Bulletins

FEATURES AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
(more to be added)

  • ISSUES IN IRAQ (from HPN March '98 issue)
  • Latest update on the Houston Radio Collective (94.9 fm)
  • Crisis in Fourth Ward: Statements to the Public and the Press
  • February calendar with updated articles, links, and other listings

    Below is HPN's March 1998 calendar (still under construction)

    * * * Progressive Links: * * * Political Debate, Anyone? * * * Free Prisoners of War! * * * Studio X on Cable * * *
    March 1998
    * * * Help save the world from Houston, Texas! Future Positive: Zen novelist Daniel Quinn moves to Montrose! * * *

    Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
    1st - ALL MONTH Catriona Ruana of Belfast speaks on "Ireland's Prospects for Peace" for INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY. 2nd + - Poet Cherie Moraga kicks off CHICANA WEEK 3rd - Common Cause meets monthly 4th - Amnesty International monthly meeting 5th + - On Mexican/Irish Unity: Catrioana Ruane and Cecelia Rodriguez (WOMEN'S DAY). Texas Coalition to Abolish Death Penalty. Sierra Club. 6th + - First Friday Forum. Catriona Ruana (WOMEN'S DAY). Also CHICANA WEEK benefit concert. 7th + - Catriona Ruana and Anthropologist Laura Nader on "Human Rights" (WOMEN'S DAY). FOURTH WARD meets weekly.
    8th + - INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY: Catriona Ruana - Celebrating heroic women of Allen Parkway Village/FOURTH WARD. 9th 10th - Alliance for Democracy monthly meeting 11th - Texans Against Gun Violence 12th - Mothers for Clean Air/ Houston Peace Forum monthly meetings 13th - Encodings Women's Reading 14th + - Humanists of Houston. Breakfast honoring women immigrants (WOMEN'S DAY). FOURTH WARD meets weekly. CPUSA meets bi-weekly.
    15th + - Fellowship of Reconciliation meets monthly (continues to collect items for children in IRAQ/BOSNIA). 16th - Drug Policy Forum meets montly 17th 18th - Citizen's Housing Coalition montly meeting 19th - Pax Christi/ Houston Greens montly meeting 20th - Gray Panthers meet monthly 21st - FOURTH WARD meets weekly to save this historic neighborhood. Join us for lunch!
    22nd/
    29th + - Foundation for a Compassionate Society: "Celebrating a Feminist Vision" (WOMEN'S DAY)
    23rd + - "Indigenous Women and the War in Chiapas" (WOMEN'S DAY) 24th + - "Voice Like Egypt" film/discussion, Rice U. library. (WOMEN'S DAY) 25th 26th - Academic women on "Women's Places: Assessing the International Landscape" (WOMEN'S DAY) 27th 28th - CPUSA meets bi-weekly. FOURTH WARD meets weekly.

    Send Calendar Items by the 20th of each month to:
    Scott Askew, 603 Harold, Houston, Texas 77006, or e-mail to: HPeaceNews@aol.com

    Articles for Houston Peace News may be e-mailed to the editors c/o:
    Marilyn White at marwhite@igc.apc.org

    To add links or addresses for other peace and justice organizations,
    e-mail Houston Progressive editors at: houprog@freewwweb.com

    Calendar table courtesy of Tess's Journal, who asks you to support Press For Change -- a political lobbying and educational organisation which campaigns to achieve equal civil rights and liberties for all transgendered people in the UK through legislation and social change.