Despite HPD’s cowardly show of aggression from the very start of our demonstration leading into our march, Houston’s Palestinian, Muslim, and Arab communities showed that the repressive police force is no match for a people fighting for their land, their sovereignty, and their dignity! The police treated protestors with brutality and three of our comrades were unjustly arrested by the cops who have simply grown tired of our continued resistance week after week, month after month. The community immediately mobilized at the Harris County Joint Processing Center and demanded the release of our comrades! We made clear we would not leave until our brave comrades were freed! After almost 6 hours, the people were victorious and all three were released! There is no slowing. The momentum is in our favor. Israel is backed into a corner. We fight harder than we ever have! FREE FREE PALESTINE!
I hope Texas becomes an independent socialist republic
The plight in the South is routinely ignored. The South is usually seen as being filled with backwards conservatives while ignoring the huge swaths of Black people and other minorities that live here, not to mention that most people - at least in “dense” (in Texas terms) urban areas - aren’t raging MAGA-ers.
Houston itself is probably the most diverse of the major Texas cities: the only “blue” city (not that that’s good but it’s a stark difference compared to the rest of the state’s voting patterns), situated east enough to mix elements of the deep south along with the rest of Texas and southwest culture, and is nearly majority non-white. It’s also why we’ve had such large showings for Palestine in a city that historically hasn’t had that strong of a “protest culture” and where events in the past were always fairly small and unattended; Houston has one of the largest Palestinian and Arab populations in the country.