Gloria Rubac

Heat wave: Texas prison officials are murderers

Houston Prisoners are dying almost every day in Texas due to the extreme heat. They are dying in cells, dorms,…

July 19, 2023

Southern racism is trying to kill Rodney Reed

Houston When Rodney Reed was sent to death row 25 years ago, his crime was being a Black man in…

July 5, 2023

Abolitionists celebrate Juneteenth in Houston

Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement activists participated in the 10th Annual Acres Homes Juneteenth Parade on June 17, with signs…

June 20, 2023

Texas rally demands ‘Free condemned prisoner Rodney Reed now!’

Austin, Texas Rodrick Reed, told a crowd demonstrating for his brother Rodney Reed’s freedom May 19: “Twenty-five years is a…

May 22, 2023

8th annual event honors Joe Torres, victim of killer cops

Houston When Houston cops arrested and brutally beat Vietnam war veteran Joe Campos Torres on Cinco de Mayo (May 5),…

May 11, 2023

Positive news from Texas

Houston In a state with bad news almost every day for those incarcerated in Texas jails, prisons and detention centers,…

April 26, 2023

Houston activists say: “Free Mumia Now!”

Houston A multinational crowd of activists gathered at the SHAPE Community Center on April 23 to celebrate Mumia Abu-Jamal’s 69th…

April 25, 2023

Houston supports Starbucks workers

Houston — The Texas Star bar was packed with over 100 Houstonians in the evening, April 1, for a successful…

April 8, 2023

Hunger strikes at ICE detention centers protest slave labor

“GEO is a billion-dollar company, and they’re paying us $1 a day,” 21-year-old detainee Cruz Martinez said. “They’re getting rich…

April 5, 2023

Hunger strikes and a lawsuit over solitary confinement in Texas

Houston Texas prisoners have been organizing for over a year to bring attention to an issue that is wounding and…

February 22, 2023