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  • Demonstration against George W. Bush

    Houston, TX, United States

    George W. Bush will be honored at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Moral Courage Award Dinner at the Hilton Americas-Houston hotel, 1600 Lamar St., on Thursday, May 24. Bush should be imprisoned for life for war crimes and crimes against humanity--not honored for moral courage.
     
    As Governor of Texas, Bush approved more than 150 executions. As President, his invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 led to the deaths of over 250,000 people. His invasion of Iraq in 2003 led to the deaths of more than one million people. And U.S. troops remain in both countries today.

    The Bush administration tortured and abused prisoners in these countries, in Guantanomo Bay, and in secret sites around the world. Bush promoted passage of the PATRIOT Act, which increased unconstitutional surveillance and reduced civil liberties. Bush's neglect during Hurricane Katrina contributed to the suffering and deaths of hundreds of poor people, predominantly African Americans, in New Orleans. As one commentator has remarked, "The blood on Bush's hands will never dry."

  • A Year of Resilience Against SB4: We are Here to Stay

    City Hall 901 Bagby, Houston, TX, United States

    Please join United We Dream this Tuesday May 29, 2018 for a press conference at City Hall as we raise our voices on the anniversary of our Texas Capitol take over, we want to show the city of Houston that we are still resilient and fighting agaisnt SB4. There has been a 60% incrementation in deportations in Harris county making us the national capital of family separations, its time to make City Officials accountable and demand the implementations of policies that will protect our communities. No more racial profiling, no more criminalization of black and brown communities, no more deportations. Houston is our home and We are Here to Stay. #Undocumented #Unafraid #HeretoStay

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  • #FamiliesBelongTogether Rally in Brownsville, TX

    Linear Park 1501 E. 7th Street, Brownsviile

    On Thursday, June 28th, families, advocates, and allies will hold a rally in the park across the street from the Brownsville Federal Court, where immigrants are being prosecuted en masse for crossing the border into the United States, and then separated from their children. Instead of focusing on actually reuniting kids with parents, the Trump administration now wants to warehouse whole families in prisons. Children don’t belong in jail at all, even with their parents, under any circumstances.

  • National Day of Action – Families Belong Together

    Houston City Hall 901 Bagby Street, Houston

    Houstonians- UNITE! Join Indivisible Houston, PSR Houston, FIEL and other allied groups Saturday, June 30th at 10 AM for a rally at City Hall and march to Ted Cruz’s office to show solidarity with families and opposition to burdensome, ignorant, divisive immigration law.

    The horrors of the deportation machine and the Administration’s decision to kidnap children and use them as pawns in exchange for a fantasy real estate construction project along the southern border rip apart families and destroy communities.

    Join us to demand that our publicly elected employees take the following actions:

    1) End the new DHS policy of family separation in order to REUNITE FAMILIES;

    2) Vote against the Goodlatte Immigration plan;

    3) Defund ICE (an agency established after 9/11 with expanded powers beyond standard
    customs checks and enforcement); and

    4) End private prison donations and require reps return all private prison donations- both individual and PAC.

    #EndFamilySeparation #AbolishICE #AbolishCBP

  • Demonstration against the Houston Child Detention Center

    419 Emancipation Avenue 419 Emancipation Avenue, Houston, TX, United States

    Widespread, intense opposition to the separation of migrant families has led Trump to issue an executive order supposedly ending this practice. But this nightmare is far from over. About 2000 children remain separated from their moms and dads. Trump’s “zero-tolerance” policy of prosecuting migrants may mean more family separations or the long-term detention of entire families. The administration is talking about new detention centers for scores of thousands of migrants. And in Houston, plans for a new child detention center at 419 Emancipation Avenue are going forward.

    The Free Los Niños Coalition and its member organizations invite you to participate in another demonstration against the Houston child detention center at 419 Emancipation Avenue on Thursday, July 5, at 6 pm. This action will include lots of chanting, remarks from sponsoring groups, a march through the neighborhood, some wonderful entertainment, and—time permitting—an open mic. Please join us and help prevent the detention of migrants on a street which was recently renamed to honor the emancipation of African Americans from slavery.

  • Houston: Shut Down ICE

    Houston City Hall 901 Bagby Street, Houston

    The City of Houston is going to allow an ICE Detention Center open soon.
    We need Mayor Turner to stop pretending he's powerless.
    Together we an challenge Mayor Turner and Houston City Council to make an official statement to end any and all ICE contracts.

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