Texas

Decades of struggle: Dallas-Fort Worth pushes back racism

Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas June 2 — Throughout the U.S., people have been both very afraid and outraged by what is…

June 10, 2020

Austin: ‘Justice 4 Mike Ramos!’

Austin, Texas The Austin Police Department carried out an extrajudicial killing of 42-year-old Michael Brent Ramos, known as “Mike,” on…

April 30, 2020

Texas health care workers report from inside the pandemic

The following are lightly edited testimonies about the health care system response to the coronavirus COVID-19 from several workers who…

March 26, 2020

After winning indefinite stay of execution, next step is to free Rodney Reed!

Nov. 17 -- It was a peoples’ victory! It was a legal victory! On Nov. 15, Texas’ highest criminal court…

November 19, 2019

A call to action: Save Rodney Reed!

Thousands of protestors demonstrated outside the Texas Governor’s Mansion for three hours Nov. 9 to demand “Free Rodney Reed!” Reed’s…

November 12, 2019

Free Rodney Reed! Urgent organizing to stop another execution in Texas

The historic Kerr Community Center in Bastrop, Texas, was filled to the rafters on Sept. 21 as chants of “Free…

September 24, 2019

El Paso, firme!

The chants rang out loud and clear all weekend: “El Paso!” Then: “Firme!”  After the racist mass murders on Aug.…

September 14, 2019

‘Unprecedented’ storm exposes gov’t failure as Harvey covers Houston with a lake

As of Monday evening, Aug. 28, 10 deaths have been reported since Hurricane Harvey hit the Texas coast near Corpus…

August 28, 2017

Activists surround jail where Sandra Bland died

Waller County, Texas -- Activists came by the hundreds to Waller County, Texas, on Aug. 9, the one-year anniversary of…

August 12, 2015

Cops kill unarmed college student in Texas

Aug. 10 -- The terror and killing spree by cops aimed at Black, Brown, Indigenous and other oppressed people continues…

August 10, 2015