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‘Power for Palestine’ Speakers Announce New Coalition to Challenge San Antonio’s Role in Genocide

Six local orgs announced a new coalition targeting San Antonio’s material support for Israel’s genocide and ethnic cleansing in Palestine—and to grieve more than 65,000 deaths since October 7, 2023.

By Marisol Cortez

/ 10 Oct 2025

‘Power for Palestine’ Speakers Announce New Coalition to Challenge San Antonio’s Role in Genocide

ARTS: ‘They Want to Kill Greta Thunberg’

A poem by Shelley Ettinger.

By Shelley Ettinger

/ 7 Jul 2025

ARTS: ‘They Want to Kill Greta Thunberg’

To Force Vote on Gaza Ceasefire—A First in Texas—San Marcos Activists Ran Their Own City Council Candidate

Even though the measure failed under withering threats from Governor Greg Abbott, organizers say the struggle for Palestinian liberation in this small college town has had positive cascading effects for other justice struggles.

By Kit O’Connell

/ 16 May 2025

To Force Vote on Gaza Ceasefire—A First in Texas—San Marcos Activists Ran Their Own City Council Candidate

Greg Abbott Could Defund San Marcos Police, Flood Control Over Resolution Decrying Israeli Violence

If the resolution passes, San Marcos would be the first city council in Texas to call for a ceasefire in Gaza. But the move could cost them funds that support expectant mothers and public safety.

By Kit O’Connell

/ 3 May 2025

Greg Abbott Could Defund San Marcos Police, Flood Control Over Resolution Decrying Israeli Violence

The Fight for Mahmoud Khalil Is a Fight for Us All

If we don’t successfully challenge the government’s unconstitutional seizure of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, this behavior will become the model for repressing labor organizers, racial justice advocates, reproductive justice efforts, climate activists, and more, the authors write.

By Sajida Jalalzai

/ 15 Mar 2025

The Fight for Mahmoud Khalil Is a Fight for Us All

Opposing Jewish National Fund, Dallas Protesters Plant ‘Tree of Life’ Against Genocidal Greenwashing

A dozen arrests and days of creative resistance spotlight determination to continue challenging Palestinian deaths and displacement, even in a new era promising increased crackdowns on protest.

By Kit O’Connell

/ 22 Nov 2024

Opposing Jewish National Fund, Dallas Protesters Plant ‘Tree of Life’ Against Genocidal Greenwashing

Protesters Disrupt VP Harris’s Houston Rally to Demand An End to Genocide

A local coalition faced a hostile crowd at Houston’s Shell Energy Stadium while repeatedly interrupting Presidential candidate Kamala Harris’s speech.

By Kit O’Connell

/ 2 Nov 2024

Protesters Disrupt VP Harris’s Houston Rally to Demand An End to Genocide

A Year of Grief, a Year of Solidarity: San Antonio Movement to Free Palestine Puts October 7 in Historical Context

A Deceleration Q&A with Alex Birnel of San Antonio for Justice in Palestine.

By Marisol Cortez

/ 11 Oct 2024

A Year of Grief, a Year of Solidarity: San Antonio Movement to Free Palestine Puts October 7 in Historical Context

VIDEO: The Land and Its Peoples: Indigeneity and Settler Colonialism from Texas to Palestine

Last Saturday, around 50 people gathered beneath an elder oak tree in San Pedro Springs Park, part of the headwaters complex of the San Antonio River. They gathered to discuss

By Greg Harman

/ 17 Sep 2024

VIDEO: The Land and Its Peoples: Indigeneity and Settler Colonialism from Texas to Palestine

Welcome to the People’s University for Palestine

The People’s University for Palestine is a new popular education project that compiles resources for educators and community members who see learning and teaching about genocide in Gaza as central to halting it.

By Marisol Cortez

/ 3 Sep 2024

People's University for Palestine graphic

Solidarity Lessons: Four Takeaways from the Pro-Palestine Student Encampments

For the encampments to alter America’s ‘common sense’ on Palestine, they must center solidarity, speak to the majority, and popularize an alternative to Zionism.

By Waging Nonviolence

/ 8 Jun 2024

Solidarity Lessons: Four Takeaways from the Pro-Palestine Student Encampments

Texas State Troopers Called the Real ‘Outside Agitators’ at UT Austin Protests

Anti-Zionist Jewish protestors speak with Deceleration against the occupation of Gaza and the violent crackdown on pro-Palestine demonstrators at the University of Texas at Austin campus.

By Kit O’Connell

/ 15 May 2024

Texas State Troopers Called the Real ‘Outside Agitators’ at UT Austin Protests