Events

August 29 marks the third anniversary of Hurricant Katrina and Rita. A host of marches, rallies, community forums and organizing events taking place across the nation to commemorate those who lost their lives in the great flood and to organize around the issues survivors are facing in the Gulf Coast and throughout the Diaspora three years later. Click here for more information

Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign 2008 Republican National Convention August/September 2008 Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota August 1-23 Minnesota poverty bus tour. For more information

West Coast CERD strategy session for organizatoins interested in racial justice. Register Now August 21, 2008 CADRE Los Angeles, California. Geneva was a success but now it is time to put our collective energy into action through ICERD implementation. Join the strategy session to draw up concrete legislative and campaign actions that build off the success of the CERD U.S. Shadow Reporting process. Click here for more information

American Muslim Voice: Striving to create a culture of peace, acceptance, mutual respect and harmony Annual Open House in Palo Alto, CA August 23, 2008 "To Spread the Miracle Movement." No forums, no teach-ins and no speeches, just one rule to follow. Nurture old friendships and sow the seeds of new friendships to create an inclusive nation. For more information

The impact of national security policies on religious freedom: Dearborn/Detroit, MI. September/October 2008 With the ACLU of Michigan, as well as Arab/Muslim community organizations in Metro-Detroit, the Human Rights Program is planning a workshop examining the chilling effect of national security policies on the religious liberty of Arab, Muslim and Middle-Eastern communities in southeastern Michigan. Surveillance and wiretapping, designations of religious organizations on watch lists, charitable giving, and racial profiling are among the issues that could be explored during the workshop. Click here for more information

September 4-7, 2008 New Orleans, Louisiana Many Stories, One Voice the North American Convocation of pro-LGBT Christians. We come from many different contexts. We are Protestant, Catholic, Pentecostal, Evangelical, Anabaptist. We are African American, Asian and Pacific Islander, Latino/a, First Nation People, European American. We are queer, questioning, intersex, lesbian, gay, transgender, bisexual, heterosexual. We are a diverse mix of theological and political beliefs: progressive, moderate, conservative.Designed as a leadership development event, this conference offers rich Bible study, challenging and profound worship and praise, genuine relationship-building across and amidst our differences, concrete skills-building, reflective and incisive theological analysis, and strategic action. For more information

September 11-12 Atlanta, GA. Torture is a Moral Issue Evangelicals for Human Rights, with the National Religious Campaign Against Torture and Mercer University, will host a national summit on torture in Atlanta, GA, on the campus of Mercer University. Featuring some of the nation's top thinkers and leaders in the anti-torture community, this conference is co-sponsored by an unprecedented group of organizations. For more information

Critical Resistance To celebrate 10 years of Critical Resistance, thousands will converge once more, September 26-28, 2008, in Oakland, California, for CR10, a 10th Anniversary Celebration and Strategy Session. Over the past decade, the movement to eliminate the PIC has faced tremendous challenges. We have witnessed rising levels of imprisonment in the US and around the world. We have endured passage of the USAPATRIOT Act of 2001, the Military Commissions Act of 2006, increasing surveillance and policing in our lives. Info

Social forum of the Americas The 3rd ASF will take place on a continent which is facing a two-pronged challenge today: to broaden and consolidate the move toward change that has opened up in the last few years, and to resist the ongoing forms of domination that are striving to persist and to extend their reach, while seeking to recover lost ground so as to impede this transformative stream. Guatemala October 2008- For more information

Latin American & Caribbean Community Center OUR VOICES, OUR STRUGGLES, OUR MEDIA: THE DIASPORA SPEAKS 2nd HUMAN RIGHTS, POLITICAL ACTIVISM AND MEDIA INSTITUTE November 20th- 23rd, 2008 El Paso, Texas The Latin American and Caribbean Community Center and the US Human Rights Network will be hosting its second annual Human Rights, Political Activism and Media Institute. This intensive 2.5 days institute is aimed at seasoned human rights and social justice activists that will come together to share human rights and political strategies and get hands on training on alternative media, including radio, video and print mediums as well as online and virtual activism. For Application & more information

The Southwest Workers' Union (SWU) is celebrating 20 years as a membership-based organization uniting low-wage workers, community residents, families and youth in the struggle for environmental justice, worker rights and community empowerment. The SWU 20th anniversary celebration will take place on December 5-7 in San Antonio, Texas. For more information

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