Texas

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

Justice for Sandra Bland!

LYNCHED IN TEXAS JAIL Houston -- How can someone, whose only mistake is to forget to use her car’s turn…

July 23, 2015

A very hot summer

It gets very hot in June in McKinney, Texas, 30 miles north of Dallas. So when 19-year-old high school senior…

June 16, 2015

The Indian Removal Act and the Trail of Tears

A grassroots campaign to remove President Andrew Jackson’s portrait from the $20 bill is receiving some attention. Why Jackson especially?…

June 10, 2015

‘Texas Rising’: An unhistorical TV series hides slavocracy

On May 25, a highly promoted TV miniseries with many big-name stars premiered on the cable network History Channel, which…

May 28, 2015

Oil strike breakthrough

March 22 — The U.S. oil refinery strike, which began Feb. 1, appears to be moving toward a resolution. The…

March 26, 2015