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2+ years of the coalition (& Download Resources!)
One year of attending city council meetings and filling up speaker slots. Two years of weekly banner drops over the highway. State wide protests with thousands of people. A city wide conference with 400 attendees. Successful campaigns like War Profiteers out of SXSW, ADL out of We All Belong, and Austin Pride committing to BDS.…
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706 Days of Genocide, 3 Community Conversations: Reflections
Since November 2024, Austin for Palestine Coalition, the Palestinian Youth Movement, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, and other organizations advancing the movement for Palestine in Central Texas have convened the community at critical moments. Routinely bringing in upwards of 100 people, our Community Conversations have served as grounding spaces to check in, to articulate…
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Statement on the Austin mosque vandal
On Thursday 5/22, a vandal attacked several Austin-area mosques by crudely spray-painting them with a blue Star of David. The attacks— targeting Nueces Mosque at UT Austin, the Islamic Ahlul Bayt Association, and the Turkish Diyanet Center— are part of a larger pattern of appropriating Jewish religious symbols to threaten Zionist violence against Palestinians, Arabs,…
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