TOP Statement on Injunction on Dallas Earned Paid Sick Leave Ordinance
The following is a statement by Brianna Brown, deputy director of the Texas Organizing Project (TOP), on the decision today to grant an injunction against the City of Dallas Earned Paid Sick Leave...
View ArticleTOP Statement on Injunction on Dallas Earned Paid Sick Leave Ordinance
The following is a statement by Brianna Brown, deputy director of the Texas Organizing Project (TOP), on the decision today to grant an injunction against the City of Dallas Earned Paid Sick Leave...
View ArticleTOP Bails People Out of Dangerous Jails
The Texas Organizing Project today announced it is bailing people out of the dangerous conditions in our jails. “This is a matter of life and death,” said Synnichia McQueen, a TOP leader from Harris...
View ArticleTOP Thanks San Antonio City Council for Filling Gaps Left by Federal Stimulus...
Today, the San Antonio City Council voted to make $9.1 million available to San Antonians unjustly left out of the federal COVID-19 stimulus package. The money will go to people who desperately need...
View ArticleTOP Thanks Harris County Commissioners Court for Fund to Help Families Left...
Thanks to the leadership of Commissioner Rodney Ellis, today, the Harris County Commissioners Court gave preliminary approval for the creation of a $15 million fund to help people affected by the...
View ArticleTOP Demands Independent Investigation of Latest Deadly Police Shooting
The Texas Organizing Project is asking for an independent investigation of last week’s shooting death of Nicolas Chavez by Houston police officers.The shooting was captured by a bystander’s video, and...
View ArticleSan Antonians to Continue Fighting to Keep Housing
Today, the San Antonio City Council voted against mitigating an impending disaster that will have devastating consequences on our people and economy when they voted against the Right to Cure ordinance,...
View ArticleHarris County Approves $30 Million Fund for Vulnerable Residents
Today, the Harris County Commissioners Court stepped into the leadership void left by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and President Trump, and voted to create a $30 million fund that will allow low-income...
View ArticleTOP celebrates DACA being upheld
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the Trump Administration’s attempt to end DACA, a program that has allowed hundreds of thousands of immigrants across the country to live and contribute more...
View ArticleJuneteenth: A Day of Reflection
Recent events, the killing of Black people by police, the pandemic and white people calling the police on Black people for living, have given new urgency to finally ending the systemic oppression Black...
View ArticleDemand in Houston is Clear: Defund the Police
Again today, Houston residents made it clear that they want the Houston Police Department defunded. At today’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee hearing, speaker after speaker, including...
View ArticleNew Report “Justice Can’t Wait” Calls on City Leaders to Act Immediately
Civil rights and community groups say city hasn’t enacted existing recommendations to address police violence and racial disparities, provide model ordinances for policing reform HOUSTON – Mayor...
View ArticleTOP Presents Reform Demands to Chief Hall
David Villalobos, a campaign coordinator for the Texas Organizing Project, made the following statement in response to an organizational meeting with Dallas Police Department Chief Hall: “Having...
View ArticleTOP Helps Propel Progressive Candidates to Victory
The Texas Organizing Project (TOP) again grew the electorate in Black and Latino communities across Texas, helping elect progressive candidates whose viability was questioned, proving that the Texas...
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