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Texas People's Tribunal, 7717 Louetta Road #12203, Spring, TX (2026)

01/30/2024

Join us on Thursday for our final teach-in on Palestine! Learn how various forms of state violence are used against freedom fighters, and about strategies to strengthen international solidarity.

About our Participants:

Jihad Abdulmumit

Jihad is a Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army veteran. He served 23 years in prison for his involvement in revolutionary struggle. Jihad is Chairperson for the National Jericho Movement and Coordinating Committee Member for the Spirit of Mandela Coalition. Jihad played an integral role in developing the International Tribunal on US Human Rights Abuses against Black, Brown, and Indigenous Peoples.

Tunde Osazua

Tunde is the Chair of Political Education for the Atlanta chapter of Community Movement Builders and the Outreach Coordinator for the Black Alliance for Peace. He is also the Direct Action Committee Lead for the International Campaign to Free Kamau Sadiki, and a member of the Demilitarize! Atlanta to Palestine Coalition.

Nina Farnia

Nina is a legal historian and scholar of Critical Race Theory, focusing on the role of modern imperialism in U.S. law and politics. Her doctoral dissertation, “Imperialism in the Making of U.S. Law, 1940-2008,” is the 2023 co-winner of the Julien Mezey Dissertation Award from the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities, and is the basis of her forthcoming book, “The Imperialist State.” Nina is Co-chair of the International People’s Tribunal on U.S. Imperialism: Sanctions, Blockades, and Economic Coercive Measures.

Charlotte Kates

Charlotte is the International Coordinator of Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, an international network of activists that work to support rights and freedom for Palestinian political prisoners. She is the Coordinator of the US National Lawyers Guild’s International Committee, and an organizer with the Palestine Right to Return Coalition.

Michelle Smith

Michelle is the Co-Director of Missourians to Abolish the Death Penalty and the Founder and Director of Missouri Justice Coalition.

Tania Siddiqi- Texas People’s Tribunal Coordinator & and the International Teach-in Coordinator

01/12/2024

Join us for our second teach-in on January 18! We will be discussing Gaza’s history and how it became the world’s largest concentration camp, the link between the death penalty and genocide, and the global response to Israel’s genocide against the Palestinians.

About our Participants:

Dr. Maha Nassar

Dr. Maha Nassar is a cultural and intellectual historian of the twentieth-century Arab world, with a focus on Palestinian history. In 2018, her monograph “Brothers Apart: Palestinian Citizens of Israel and the Arab World” received a Palestine Book Award for academic titles. Her next book project is centered on telling the story of how Palestinian identity has been constructed and maintained under the conditions of statelessness and transnational dispersal.

Dr. Gerald Horne
Dr. Gerald Horne holds the Moores Professorship of History and African American Studies. His research has addressed issues of racism and how it intersects with settler colonialism, politics, civil rights, international relations, and war. Dr. Horne is the author of more than thirty books, which includes “The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy and Capitalism in Seventeenth Century North America and the Caribbean.”

Huwaida Arraf, Esq.

Huwaida Arraf is a Palestinian American human rights attorney and activist. She is Co-Founder of the Nobel Peace Prize nominated International Solidarity Movement, a Palestinian civil society-led movement which utilizes nonviolent direct action to confront and challenge Israeli military occupation and colonial violence. She was one of the primary organizers of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and was traveling with it when it was lethally attacked by Israeli forces on 31 May 2010.

Michelle Smith

Michelle Smith is a criminal punishment system-impacted abolitionist and organizer. Michelle is the Co-Director of Missourians to Abolish the Death Penalty and the Founder and Director of Missouri Justice Coalition. Her organizing efforts extend to all facets of mass incarceration, including wrongful convictions, higher education for systems impacted people, humane and adequate healthcare, and decarceration.

Tania Siddiqi

Tania Siddiqi is the Coordinator for the Texas People’s Tribunal and the Palestine International teach-in Coordinator. Her forthcoming research article “Genocide, Punishment, and History: The ‘State’ of Texas and Judgement in Imperialist USA” explores the function of state-sanctioned violence against racialized peoples within the context of US imperialism and the Anglo-American colonization of Mexican Texas.

Artwork by: Rubén Darío Acosta

01/02/2024

On Thursday, join us in our discussion about the colonization of Palestine, ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian peoples, and Israel’s methods of continuing its settler colonial project in Palestine. Be sure to register for this virtual event!

About our Participants:

Dr. Linda Quiquivix

Dr. Linda Quiquivix is a critical geographer focusing on environmental justice, knowledge production, and Black and indigenous land struggles in the Americas and Middle East. She is an expert on Israel and Palestine’s borders, and her forthcoming book “Palestine 1492” contextualizes Palestine within the genocidal world of 1492. Her writings have been translated into Arabic, Spanish, French, and Italian.

Dr. M. Muhannad Ayyash

Dr. M. Muhannad Ayyash was born and raised in Silwan, Al-Quds, before immigrating to Canada, where he is now Professor of Sociology at Mount Royal University. He is the author of A Hermeneutics of Violence, and a policy analyst at Al-Shabaka, the Palestinian Policy Network. He is currently writing a book on settler colonial sovereignty in Palestine/Israel.

Mirinda Rose Crissman

Mirinda is a co-chair of the Prisoners Solidarity Committee and a co-editor of "Tear Down the Walls," the Workers World Newspaper’s section about prison abolition. They are the Communications Director for the Texas People’s Tribunal and a member of the Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement.

Matt Meyer

Matt Meyer is Secretary General of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA). He also serves as Co-committee member for the Spirit of Mandela Coalition, and played an integral role in organizing the historic October 2021 International Tribunal on US Human Rights Abuses Against Black, Brown, and Indigenous Peoples.

Tania Siddiqi

Tania Siddiqi is the Coordinator for the Texas People’s Tribunal. Her forthcoming research article “Genocide, Punishment, and History: The ‘State’ of Texas and Judgement in Imperialist USA” explores the function of state-sanctioned violence against racialized peoples within the context of US imperialism and the Anglo-American colonization of Mexican Texas.

05/23/2023

📣Featured Speaker Announcement 📣 Dr. Abdul Haleem Muhammad will be speaking at our upcoming conference, Lethal Violence & the Lone Star State: A Southwest Conference on State Authorized Executions!

Dr. Abdul Haleem Muhammad is the student Minister of Muhammad Mosque no. 45 in Houston, Texas. His ministry encompasses local jails, state, and federal correctional facilities across the USA. He served as Shaka Sankofa’s spiritual advisor before the state murdered Shaka on June 22, 2000. Dr. Muhammad is the host of Connect the Dots Radio Show, and has appeared on numerous news outlets, including BET News, ABC's Nightline and Fox News’ O’Reilly Factor.

This event is ✨FREE✨ and open to the ✨PUBLIC✨. The registration link is our bio—we hope to see you there!

05/23/2023

📣Featured Speaker Announcement 📣 Kalonji Changa will be speaking at our upcoming conference, Lethal Violence & the Lone Star State: A Southwest Conference on State Authorized Executions!

Kalonji Changa, an organizer and founder of the FTP Movement, is author of How to Build a People’s Army and co-producer of the documentary Organizing Is the New Cool. Kalonji has aided in the growth and development of programs such as International Feed The People, Urban Survival Preparedness Institute, Siafu Youth Corps, National Coalition to Combat Police Terrorism and Mama's Army to name a few. He is a Co-founder of Black Power Media.

This event is ✨FREE✨ and open to the ✨PUBLIC✨. The registration link is our bio—we hope to see you there!

05/23/2023

📣Featured Speaker Announcement 📣 Dr. Rick Halperin will be speaking at our upcoming conference, Lethal Violence & the Lone Star State: A Southwest Conference on State Authorized Executions!

Dr. Rick Halperin is Director of the Southern Methodist University Human Rights Education Program, and teaches on a wide range of human rights issues including genocide and the death penalty. He is a member of the National Death Penalty Advisory Committee, the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty and the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (serving as President from 2000-2006 and from 2007 to present).

This event is ✨FREE✨ and open to the ✨PUBLIC✨. The registration link is our bio—we hope to see you there!

05/09/2023

📣Featured Speaker Announcement 📣 Dr. Joy James will be speaking at our upcoming conference, Lethal Violence & the Lone Star State: A Southwest Conference on State Authorized Executions!

Dr. Joy James is Ebenezer Fitch Professor of Humanities at Williams College, and has authored numerous articles about human rights, antiblackness and genocide, and political theory. She is the editor of, among other works, The New Abolitionists, Imprisoned Intellectuals, Warfare in the American Homeland, and The Angela Y. Davis Reader. Dr. James’s most recent books include: In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love and New Bones Abolition.

This event is FREE and open to the PUBLIC. The registration link is our bio—we hope to see you there!

05/09/2023

📣Featured Speaker Announcement 📣 Dr. Gerald Horne will be speaking at our upcoming conference, Lethal Violence & the Lone Star State: A Southwest Conference on State Authorized Executions!

Dr. Horne holds the Moores Professorship of History and African American Studies. He has written extensively on U.S. imperialism, racism, and white supremacy. Dr. Horne has authored more than thirty books and one hundred scholarly articles and reviews; his most recent books include The Counter-Revolution of 1836 and Revolting Capital.

This event is FREE and open to the PUBLIC. The registration link is our bio—we hope to see you there!

04/20/2023

Exciting News‼️Recently, Texas People’s Tribunal Planning Committee Member Tania Siddiqi was on Freedom Now, and discussed Texas’s death penalty and the Southwest Conference with acclaimed author and people’s scholar Dr. Gerald Horne. Link to the full discussion is in our bio.

04/15/2023

📣ANNOUNCEMENT📣 To streamline our registration process, we have added the registration information to our website’s the home page.

Links to both the registration page and home page are in our bio, and we look forward to seeing you in May!

04/12/2023

Thank you for covering our Houston Teach-in! We were so grateful to be in conversation with everyone who attended, and are looking forward to our upcoming coalition-building initiative. 🙏🏾

04/12/2023

Registration for “Lethal Violence & the Lonestar State: A Southwest Conference on State Authorized Executions” is now open! Link in bio.

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