Texas

Death Row, Texas: A lonely birthday for innocent Rodney Reed 

Bastrop, Texas Rodney Reed’s family and supporters had a press conference and rallied outside the Bastrop County Courthouse, with its…

December 24, 2020

Build solidarity with prisoners: Fight for abolition!

This slightly edited talk was given at an Aug. 13 Workers World Party webinar, “From Black August to Black Lives…

August 21, 2020

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