May 13Deer Park Residents Barely Show Up for Themselves at ITC Permit HearingIntercontinental Terminals Company (ITC), the organization responsible for the major chemical fire in Deer Park in 2019, is currently seeking to renew its operating permit under Title V as determined by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ). Environmental organizations showed up to pushback on May 4, 2023, at the…Deer Park Texas7 min readDeer Park Texas7 min read
Mar 1How Can Neighbors Help Each Other During a Disaster?With climate change getting worse and the government barely in sight to help, it’s important that neighbors know they can band together. There are still residents in Harris County recovering from Winter Storm Uri and even Hurricane Harvey as they wait for government assistance that may never come — especially…Mutual Aid5 min readMutual Aid5 min read
Feb 18#StopCopCity Connection to HoustonThe South River Forest, originally known as the Weelaunee Forest by the Muscogee Creek people, is one of the largest urban forests in the United States with over 400 acres near Atlanta, Georgia. It has been at the forefront of the #StopCopCity and Defend the Atlanta Forest social movements as…Stop Cop City4 min readStop Cop City4 min read
Nov 5, 2022Movement for a Community Safety Budget in Harris CountyOrganizers across groups created a coalition and worked since April to create a Community Safety Budget ahead of Harris County Commissioner’s Court budget hearings that happened in late August. …Harris County6 min readHarris County6 min read
Oct 2, 2022Movement to Unionize Climate Jobs Before the Jobs Exist in Gulf Coast5k — 10k potential jobs are coming to the Gulf Coast to build wind turbines and harness the energy for an estimated 2 million homes. Texas Climate Jobs Project hosted an event on October 1, 2022, to bring attention to this wave of jobs and to strategize on ensuring these…Climate Action4 min readClimate Action4 min read
Oct 2, 2022Houston’s Starbucks Union Goes on Unfair Labor Practice StrikeHouston’s first Starbucks Union went on a strike October 1, 2022, over an unfair labor practice in which Starbucks fired a worker-organizer prior to the union election count. This action violates the National Labor Relations Act, and workers picketed to demand they reinstate the unlawfully fired union organizer and want…Union Busting4 min readUnion Busting4 min read
Sep 17, 2022Communities Can Now Easily Combat Air Polluters with AirMail“Pollution” can feel like a vague idea that isn’t tangible enough to action. How can we have cleaner air? Where is it happening? Who is doing the polluting? Better yet — How can I, as an individual, help prevent more pollution from happening? AirMail is a free, web-based tool for…Air Pollution3 min readAir Pollution3 min read
Apr 1, 2022First Black-Founded Home Care Services Cooperative in TexasCommunity Care Cooperative is a state-licensed cooperative business that enables neighbors to help neighbors live their best lives by providing personal care and home care services to seniors and disabled people. …Cooperatives3 min readCooperatives3 min read
Jan 22, 2022Movement for Medicare for All in Harris CountyThe pandemic has exacerbated an already failed healthcare system that prioritizes profit over people. There is a federal bill in Congress, H.R.1976, the Medicare for All Act of 2021, that was introduced in March 2021, and the Senate bill is still pending introduction by Bernie Sanders. Medicare for All is…Medicare For All3 min readMedicare For All3 min read
Nov 27, 2021Movement to Push the Unitarian Universalist Church to Divest from Line 3The Unitarian Universalist Young Adults group is organizing after seeing the Unitarian Universalist Common Endowment Fund (UUCEF) invested in several corporations not only backing the Line 3 tar sands pipeline, but also financially facilitating multiple human rights violations as Water Protectors' activism to protect the sacred Ancestral Land continues. One…Enbridge Pipeline8 min readEnbridge Pipeline8 min read
