On this episode of the
It’s Going Down show, we speak with participants in autonomous groups across Texas, including Cooperation Denton, Stop the Sweeps in Austin, Mutual Aid Houston, Houston Tenants Union, and North Texas Rural Resilience.
The first in a two part series, this episode discusses the devastating storms which rocked Texas and the Southwest and the context that the “big freeze” happened within: from anti-Black police violence and attacks on the homeless community, to widespread neoliberal policies that left infrastructure and housing stock dilapidated and on the verge of collapse.
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Texans were casualties in Republicans war on green energy
When the government won t save us, we have to save ourselves.
Camilla Swindle, 19, sits in a shopping cart as she and her boyfriend wait in a long line to enter a grocery store in Austin, Texas on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021, as people stock up ahead of another expected storm.Tamir Kalifa / The New York Times/ Redux
Feb. 25, 2021, 5:31 PM UTC
You can expect the U.S. government to wage a war. That is what our government does best. Sometimes it feels like that is all it does.
It’s how the U.S. government has described its actions against viruses, poverty, drugs and an assortment of other inanimate nouns. War is so overused it feels like the only metaphor around. But how else to describe the invasion of alien elements and their unwelcome occupation of local territory?
When the winter storm hit, Texans raised millions of dollars for each other
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Tags: People experiencing homelessness in Dallas receive a hot meal from volunteers with Harvest Project Food Rescue in the aftermath of last week s winter storm. The group distributes rescued produce to food-insecure communities in Dallas and expanded its operations to provide blankets, meals, warm clothes and water during the storm.
Credit: Shelby Tauber for The Texas Tribune
When the massive winter storm hit Texas last week, University of Texas at Austin student Sam Miles noticed that there seemed to be a lot of need expressed on social media that got lost “in the void” because there wasn’t a centralized system for keeping track of requests.
Twins D Aunjanee and L Aunjanee Carriere loaded meals onto a bus for distribution in Dallas by The Harvest Project Food Rescue. The group distributed rescued produce to food-insecure communities in Dallas and expanded its operations to provide blankets, meals, warm clothes and water during the storm. Credit: Shelby Tauber for The Texas Tribune
When the massive winter storm hit Texas last week, University of Texas at Austin student Sam Miles noticed that there seemed to be a lot of need expressed on social media that got lost “in the void” because there wasn’t a centralized system for keeping track of requests.