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Education Crisis A Major Malfunction In The Engine Of Democracy

July 27, 2026 Mary Rose Quinn and Michael O'Dea, People's World. Educate! Democracy, Education, Houston, Literacy, Public schools, Texas

Houston, Texas — While students, parents, teachers, and school staff enjoy what remains of their summer, the nation’s literacy crisis continues to loom overhead. The results of three decades of educational “reform” reveal a dangerous backslide in education that has coincided with the broader backslide in democracy. Among the many factors identified as contributing to the education crisis are an overemphasis on standardized testing, remote learning that took off during the COVID-19 pandemic, the elimination of free reading time in schools, declining rates of reading for pleasure among both children and adults, the rise of digital technologies that compete for attention, and growing economic inequality.

Houston Father Killed By ICE Amid Surge In Arrests

July 10, 2026 Devin B. Martinez, Breakthrough News. Resist! Houston, ICE, Immigrant Rights, Murder, Police

On July 7, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican construction worker and father, was shot and killed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in Houston, Texas, during a vehicle stop as he was on his way to work. “My father was a simple man. A family man. A man of routine,” said Ronaldo Salgado, oldest son of Salgado Araujo, during an emotional press conference in response to the incident. Ronaldo detailed how he scrambled for information the morning of the incident. He drove an hour away to his father’s work site to find neither he nor his workers there.

How Car-Loving American Cities Fell So Far Behind Their Global Peers

May 12, 2026 Oliver Milman, The Guardian. Create! Houston, Mass Transit, Public transportation, Railroads, Trains

The only train station in Houston, the US’s fourth-largest city and one of the fastest-growing conurbations in the country, is a diminished, morose sight. Intercity trains arrive at this squat, shed-like Amtrak building, which cringes in the shadows of roaring highways, just three times a week. That such a meager train station could ostensibly serve a metropolitan area of about 7 million people is a stark symbol of how the sprawling, car-dominated US has fallen behind cities around the world where people can rely on extensive, high-quality public transport to get around.

Palestinian Man Detained At Houston Airport For Nine Days

July 17, 2025 Michael Arria, Mondoweiss. Educate! Airport, Detention, Houston, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Kidnapping, Palestine

The Attorneys of a 22-year-old Palestinian man say their client was detained by immigration authorities at Houston’s Bush Intercontinental Airport for nine days. According to a statement from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Muhanad J. M. Alshrouf obtained a U.S. immigrant visa before flying to Houston to visit his father on a flight from Dubai on July 5. Alshrouf reportedly spent days in a secondary screening room at the airport before being released on the evening of July 14. He was not allowed to obtain legal counsel, a change of clothes, or proper food, and authorities gave no reason for his release.

Join Groups In Houston Fighting Against Oil And Gas Billionaires!

February 22, 2025 People Vs Fossil Fuels, Popular Resistance. Resist! Big Oil and Gas, climate crisis, Fossil Fuels, Houston

Every year in Houston, the CEOs of the world’s most polluting oil and gas companies gather for a massive industry conference called CERA Week, where they conspire on new ways to increase their profits while continuing to harm our communities with their toxic products. We are witnessing in real time the results of unchecked corporate greed from oil and gas CEOs. We are seeing the destruction of raging wildfires, powerful hurricanes, and extreme flooding impacting communities across our country and the globe, caused by the continued burning of fossil fuels.

Nearly 50,000 US Dockworkers Strike And Flex Collective Power

October 2, 2024 People's Dispatch. Resist! Boston, Dockworkers, Florida, Houston, International Longshoremen's Association’s (ILA), Maersk, Massachusetts, Miami, New York (NY), Strikes, Texas, Worker Rights and Jobs

At midnight on October 1, nearly 50,000 dockworkers across the US’s East Coast walked off the job, shutting down ports across the coastline across cities including Boston, New York, Miami, and Houston. This is the International Longshoremen’s Association’s (ILA) first strike since 1977. ILA dockworkers are a lynchpin of the US economy. Ports affected by the strike include the Port of New York and New Jersey, the nation’s third largest port in terms of the volume of cargo. “When my men hit the streets from Maine to Texas, every single port will lockdown,” said ILA President Harold Daggett. “Everything in the United States comes on a ship.”

As Israeli Genocide Continues: Protesters Stay In The Streets

December 8, 2023 Toni Arenstein, Workers' World. Resist! Genocide, Houston, International Solidarity, Israel, New York City (NYC), Oregon, Palestine, Portland, Texas, Wars and Militarism

Hundreds demonstrated in Center City Philadelphia on a rainy evening Dec. 3. Called by the Philadelphia Palestine Coalition, the event started with a rally and prayer service in Rittenhouse Park, followed by a march that ended at 40th and Market streets for a solidarity rally with the Save UC Townhomes Coalition. Two sound trucks led the way, followed by lead banners calling out the murderous genocide, carried out by Israel but funded by the U.S., that has taken the lives of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza. Along the route, protesters stopped to call out two Zionist-run restaurants. They marched by the University of Pennsylvania campus, where activist students are under attack by university trustees with major investments in Israel.

The Dystopian Future Of US Public Education Is On Display In Houston

July 13, 2023 Jackie Anderson, Ruth Kravitz and Jay Malone, In These Times. Resist! Democracy, Houston, Privatization, Public Education, Texas

On June 1, the state of Texas removed Elizabeth Santos, an elected school board trustee, from office and replaced her with Janette Garza Lindner, the candidate she defeated in December 2021. The ousting was part of a larger takeover of the Houston public school system by the Republican-led Texas state government — a process that began in late 2019 and became formalized June 1 when Mike Miles, a charter school owner whose school administrator license lapsed five years ago, was installed as the new superintendent of the district by Gov. Greg Abbott along with an appointed Board of Managers.

Organizations File Complaint Against Texas’ Takeover Of Houston Schools

April 1, 2023 Brian Lopez, The Texas Tribune. Resist! Democracy, Houston, NAACP, Public schools, Texas

Civil rights organizations have filed a federal complaint on behalf of several parents against the Texas Education Agency because of its plan to replace the Houston Independent School District’s democratically elected school board, claiming the move takes away the rights of Houston voters of color to choose their own school officials. The complaint was filed with the U.S. Department of Justice Friday morning, with a claim by the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, the Houston NAACP, the League of United Latin American Citizens and the Greater Houston Coalition for Justice that the state’s takeover violates the Voting Rights Act and the U.S. Constitution.

Ahead Of The Final Four, Houston Criminalizes Homelessness

March 25, 2023 Arturo Dominguez, Unicorn Riot. Educate! Homelessness, Houston, Human Rights, Sports, Texas

In Houston, TX., where the NCAA Final Four (college basketball tournament championship games) will take place March 31 – April 3, the mayor’s office has taken it a step beyond displacing the unhoused. Mayor Sylvester Turner’s office has ordered police to target people feeding those in need. After opening a facility to move people miles from downtown from a homeless encampment near Minute Maid Park and the Toyota Center, Mayor Turner began invoking old city ordinances to ticket Food Not Bombs Houston (FNBH) food-sharing volunteers and trying to discourage them from doing what they’ve done for decades: feeding people at the Houston Public Library every night.

Houston’s Fight To Decriminalize Mental Illness And Homelessness

July 16, 2022 Atirikta Kumar, The Real News Network. Create! Health Care, Homelessness, Housing, Houston, mental health, Texas

While Harris County is spending millions of dollars on mental health services and service-providing agencies to reduce the number of mentally ill people entering its county jails, activists on the ground are tackling the problem from another angle—by providing direct support to the county’s homeless population. “We don’t have the best safety nets in Texas, and from the mental health standpoint, there really aren’t the mental health services available that people need,” Catherine Villarreal, director of communications at the Coalition for the Homeless, told TRNN. But Villarreal also stressed that, for people experiencing homelessness and/or mental health crises, the lack of healthcare resources and social support is a crisis unto itself: “when someone ends up homeless, often that didn’t happen overnight.”

Grand Jury Refuses Felonies For Greenpeace Activists And Others Charged In Houston Oil Industry Protest

March 5, 2020 Ryan Schleeter, Greenpeace.org Resist! Activists, Houston, Oil, Protests

Houston, Texas — Today, a grand jury refused to issue felony indictments against the Greenpeace USA activists and others charged following the peaceful protest on September 12, 2019 at the Houston Ship Channel [1]. Thirty-one people had been charged with a felony by the Harris County District Attorney’s Office under Texas’ controversial new anti-protest law, but none were indicted on this charge by a Harris County grand jury.

Greenpeace Protesters Arrested After Hanging From Bridge; Shuting Down Section Of Houston Ship Channel

September 13, 2019 Staff, Nbcdfw.com Resist! Greenpeace, Houston, Protesters Arrested, Protests

Nearly a dozen Greenpeace protesters were arrested after hanging from the Fred Hartman bridge in Houston and forcing the closure of part of the Houston Ship Channel Thursday while taking on President Donald Trump and the oil industry. The U.S. Coast Guard confirms a portion of the upper channel near Baytown was closed during the protest, between Light 102A and Light 104. This happened as the city was preparing for Thursday's Democratic presidential debate. Greenpeace tweeted Thursday morning that they were in Houston to protest the use of fossil fuels outside the country's largest oil port...

White Nationalists Terrorize Houston Book Fair

October 4, 2017 Alex Reid Ross, www.alternet.org Educate! Houston, Racism, White Nationalism

By Alex Reid Ross for AlterNet - Together, they raised their arms in a salute of "Sieg hiel." On Sunday, September 24, about 25 men in masks and balaclavas descended on an anarchist book fair in Houston. The group call itself Patriot Front and is loosely affiliated with Vanguard Front, a fascist organization that includes Heather Heyer's murderer, James Alex Fields, as one of its members. They rushed the door of a multicultural community center, igniting a pair of smoke bombs. Witnesses say the assault was led by construction worker and area neo-Nazi, William Fears. Fears, 30, has made a name for himself in recent weeks. After returning from the Charlottesville demonstration, he began camping out at the Robert E. Lee statue in Dallas before its eventual removal. Activists allege Fears also pulled a knife on unarmed protesters with the local migrant justice group, Indivisible Houston, at a rally at George Bush Intercontinental Airport earlier this year. “[The Patriot Front] were being really irresponsible,” a member of the San Antonio chapter of the Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation who witnessed the altercation told AlterNet. “There were children inside of that building, and they were outside with smoke bombs.” Volunteer security saw the fascist group approaching and rushed to lock down the building's entrances, while organizers looked after the book fair's attendees.

Toxic Waste Sites Flooded In Houston Area

September 3, 2017 Jason Dearen and Michael Misecker, a href="http://www.AP.org" target="_blank" >www.AP.org Educate! Houston, Hurricane Harvey, Toxic Chemicals, TX

By Jason Dearen and Michael Misecker for Associated Press. The Associated Press surveyed seven Superfund sites in and around Houston during the flooding. All had been inundated with water, in some cases many feet deep. On Saturday, hours after the AP published its first report, the EPA said it had reviewed aerial imagery confirming that 13 of the 41 Superfund sites in Texas were flooded by Harvey and were "experiencing possible damage" due to the storm. The statement confirmed the AP's reporting that the EPA had not yet been able to physically visit the Houston-area sites, saying the sites had "not been accessible by response personnel." EPA staff had checked on two Superfund sites in Corpus Christi on Thursday and found no significant damage. AP journalists used a boat to document the condition of one flooded Houston-area Superfund site, but accessed others with a vehicle or on foot. The EPA did not immediately respond to questions about why its personnel had not yet been able to do so.

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