September electoral work: registering voters, block walking when it cools off, phone banking, postcarding, and letter writing. I was reminded today that registering voters in Texas has become more dangerous this year, and voter rolls are being aggressively purged, making voter registration an important way to show up as an ally to targeted groups.

Every Tuesday at 2:00 City Council and Mayor listen to public comments. Sign up to speak.

First and Third Saturdays – cleanup at Olivewood Cemetery

Second Saturdays – cleanup at College Park Cemetery

Sept 1 – October 13 at Stages:  Miss Rhythm. We have tickets Sept 20.

Sept 1 – 22 Artists on Site at Asia Society Houston

Sept 1 – October 12 Phillip Pyle II: So Far So Good at Houston Museum of African American Culture

Sept 1-14 Blue Helmets in Action at Buffalo Soldiers National Museum

Sept 1 – December 29 This Way: A Houston Group Experience at Houston Freedmen’s Town

Sept 1 – 11 City of Houston Water Conservancy is taking public comments on its water and Drought plan. Please ask Becky Smith for talking points and make your comments.

Sept 1 Dance Afrikana at MATCH

Sept 3-6 Harris County Budget Hearings Schedule

Sept 5 Learning from the Texas Slave Narratives with Dr. Ron Goodwin at Heritage Society

Sept 5 Molly Cook and Lauren Ashley Simmons LGBTQIA+ voter engagement at Montrose Center 6:30 (I don’t have a link)

Sept 6-7 The Crimson Vagabond Road Show at M.A.T.C.H.

Sept 7 Dance/Hunger/Action at MATCH

Sept 7 Coming to the Table National Zoom

Sept 8 – Sarhad Partition Stories

Sept 9 Pure Justice monthly meeting, discussing Project 2025 and campaign updates. Typically many candidates are in attendance and give talks.

Sept 10 City of Houston Public Safety Committee meeting 10:00 901 Bagby. I plan to attend.

Sept 10 Harris County Commissioner’s Court Special meeting 10:00 1001 Preston

Sept 11-22 Flow: Fade to Black Monologue Series

Sept 12 The Bias Inside Us at Holocaust Museum Houston

Sept 12 Friends Peace Team The Leading Edge of Indigenous Resilience: Past, Present, and Future. I am registered.

October 6 at Stages:  The Hispanic/Latina/Latino/Latinx/Latine Vote   

Sept 14 and 28 From Plantation to Emancipation at Heritage Society. I am registered.

Sept 14 Mid Autumn Festival – Asia Society 

Sept 14 Moon Festival – Chinese Cultural Center

Sept 16 Embrace Race Building Cross Racial Solidarity with our kids and ourselves – 6 session experience / I am registered.

Sept 18 Center for the Healing of Racism presentation about the history and legacy of Joe Campos Torres, for Hispanic Heritage Month. I am registered.

Sept 18 Being Jewish and Latinx at Holocaust Museum Houston

Sept 18 at Rice CERCL Mia X: Soldier. Survivor. Savant. Inducted into CERCL’s hip-hop archival collection.

Sept 19 Raza Schools presentation at Houston Heritage Society.

Sept 19 Joel Goza speaking on Reparations at Buffalo Soldier’s National Museum.

Sept 19 Texas Senate hearing on border security. No online comments will be accepted.

Sept 19 Throwback Thursdays at The Studio 7511 South Freeway (288) presented by the Birdwalker Music Group

Sept 20-Oct 13  at Ensemble:  Stew  

Sept 20 – Aba Diop Trio at Performing Arts Houston

Sept 21 Open House for Molly Cook, Texas Senator for SD-15

Sept 21 Hip Hop Civic Quest with Tre Tha Truth

Sept 22 MECA Salena Sip and Paint

Sept 22 Free screening of Bad Faith: Christian Nationalism’s Unholy War on Democracy at M.A.T.C.H.

Sept 23 free, virtual Linking Arms for a Healthy Multiracial Democracy. I am registered.

Sept 24 Pure Justice Community Journalism 101

Sept 24 virtual screening of Suppressed and Sabotaged film about voter suppression, sponsored by Christians Against Christian Nationalism.

Sept 25 Embrace Race Coloring Outside the Lines-Helping Kids Explore Race Through Art

Sept 27 Soul Revival powered by the T.R.U.T.H Project

Sept 27-28 Austin Disability Film Festival Touching Disability 

Sept 27-29 at Rutgers Conference on Building Anti-Racist MultiRacial Community (Center for the Healing of Racism is presenting)

Sept 28 Houston Pride Band Power to the People concert at M.A.T.C.H.

Sept 29 virtual Friends Peace Teams Towards Right Relationship with Native Peoples. I’ve attended this in the past; very impactful; highly recommended.

Sept 29 10:30am at The Montrose Center, a talk on Reproductive Freedom is Religious Freedom.

Sept 30 Texas House hearing on Operation Lone Star. Comments can be submitted online. Contact Mo Cortez for talking points.

READING FOR HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH (please consider buying from Kindred Stories – in Houston or online)

Fiction – Amazon’s top 100 Hispanic American fiction. Goodreads Latin American fiction. Houston authors: No One Will See Me Cry (novel), My favorites: The Book of Unknown Americans, anything by Julia Alvarez, Laura Esquivel, Rudolfo Anaya, Esmeralda Santiago.

Nonfiction – Facing history list, Brown not White (Houston school desegregation)

Memoir – HIpLatina list

Latinx/Hispanic Poet Laureates of Texas- Laurie Ann Guerrero,  ire’ne lara silva, Lupe Mendez, Carmen Tafolla, Emmy Pérez

Latina/o/x authors in Texas – Nuestra Palabra, Texas Highways list

LGBTQIA+ Latina literature – Houston Public Library , GLSEN, LGBTQreads, A library list

Latino Book Review

Podcast – Chicano Squad a Houston story,

Houston Public Library Hispanic & Latino History Guide

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