This month has already been a year. A lot of us are feeling down. Our movement elders and ancestors know this pain.

“Ours is the struggle of a lifetime, or maybe even many lifetimes, and each one of us in every generation must do our part. And if we believe in the change we seek, then it is easy to commit to doing all we can, because the responsibility is ours alone to build a better society and a more peaceful world.”― John Lewis

“Change never happens at the pace we think it should. It happens over years of people joining together, strategizing, sharing, and pulling all the levers they possibly can. Gradually, excruciatingly slowly, things start to happen, and then suddenly, seemingly out of the blue, something will tip.”― Judith Heumann

“If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”― Reverend Dr Martin Luther King Jr.

“To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.” — Bayard Rustin

“We who believe in freedom cannot rest” – Sweet Honey in the Rock

July 1-19 FotoFest Magic of Life exhibit

July 1-20 The Shape of Home Auction – Project Row Houses

July 1-July27 Ensemble Theater The Tap Dance Kid

July 1-August 16 Sonya Clark We Are Each Other at HMAAC

July 1 – August 22 Off the Wall: Karyn Olivier

July multiple dates Weaving Waters

July 2 Re-Storying the Story of Sunnyside

July 2 City of Houston Disaster Preparedness Workshop

July 4 virtual The Constitution in 90 Days

July 4 DSA Canvass to Demand Immigrant Justice

July 5 Wicked (movie) at Miller Outdoor Theater

July 5 DJ Screw Day

July 5 Crooklyn Cookout at Deluxe Theater

July 6 Hope Beyond Apartheid at First UU

July 6 DSA EcoSocialism Working Group Meeting

July 8 Houston City Council Budget and Fiscal Affairs Subcommitee meeting

July 8 Kindred Stories Author Talk Love Spells Trouble with Nia Davenport

July 10 virtual Climate Justice, Human Rights and Migration 5 part training session

July 10 DSA General Meeting

July 11 Third Act Houston meetup 2-3P at McGovern-Stella Link Neighborhood Library. 7405 Stella Link Rd, Houston, TX 77025

July 11-13 The W.O.M.E.N Play at Deluxe Theater

July 12 Emancipation Park Juneteenth in July

July 14 virtual Third Act Media Outreach Training: Sharing Your Story in the Public Square

July 14 virtual Welcome to Third Act: Let’s Get Started Training

July 14 Pure Justice General Meeting

July 14 Solidarity Gathering: Social Justice and Immigration at Buffalo Soldiers National Museum

July 15 Rothko Chapel vigil for the Texas Hill Country led by the Institute for Spirituality & Health July 15, 5:30-6:45pm at the Chapel

July 16 virtual Kinder Institute Shifting Demographics in Early Childhood Education

July 16 virtual TERC (Texas Election Reform Coalition) Pre-Special Session call

July 17 Redistricting Town Hall with Rep Jolanda Jones. Boynton Chapel Methodist Church. 2812 Milby St, Houston, TX 77004. 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

July 17 Good Trouble Lives On Protest. 7:00-8:30PM Houston or 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Katy, TX 77450 or 6:30-8:30 The Woodlands or 6:30-8:00PM Sugar Land Town Square or 6:30-8:00PM Clear Lake

July 19 Houston SAFE Summer Peace Pop-up

July 19 Moody Center for the Arts Summer Jam

July 19 Justice and Java (Pearland)- Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty

July 19 Rocky Horror Picture Show at River Oaks Theater

July 21 Houston City Council Public Safety Committee Meeting

July 21 Houston City Council Resilience Committee and Government Operations Committee combined meeting

July 21 Opening day of the Special Legislative Session of the Texas Legislature

July 21-23 in NOLA Undoing Racism – People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond

July 22 Galveston Foundation Conversations: The Underground Railroad South to Mexico

August 2 – Sept 21 Floyd Newsome Summer Row Houses at Project Row House

August 7-9 Netroots Nation (in NOLA)

August 10 Cleopatra Live Taping at the Deluxe Theater

August 16 Miller Outdoor Theater Summer Mixtape

August 20 virtual Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty Book Club

August 22 With Malice Towards None at Miller Outdoor Theater – Ebony Opera Guild, Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton and Apollo Chamber (live and virtual)

August 22-24 Houston Mariachi Festival at Society for the Performing Arts

September 21 Sun Day National Day of Action

October 10-November 2 Mud Row at Stages

November 13-15 Texas Tribune 15th annual TribFest in Austin