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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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History and Context
This struggle did not begin on October 7th. ّIn reality it began over 100 years ago. This historic moment comes as a response to the decades of ongoing land theft, war crimes, and ethnic cleansing carried out by Israel, with the support of Western nations. The Palestinian struggle is a struggle between the colonizer and…
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Resolution Content
This resolution appeals to the Austin City Council to commit to the mission of the City of Austin in “fostering a community that embraces diversity and upholds the principles of equality and human rights” by “Vigorously” combatting “acts of antisemitism, Islamophobia, and anti-Arab sentiments
Austin for Palestine Coalition 