Houston Chronicle: “In recent years, new social justice groups have sprouted up in Houston, joining the ranks of established organizations like the Texas Organizing Project and the Texas Gulf Coast Area Labor Federation.
Driven primarily by left-leaning activists, these new groups aim to tackle a range of issues – from flood protection and environmental justice to racial equity and police reform. Ben Hirsch of West Street Recovery, a nonprofit focusing on community resilience, said these initiatives emerged because traditional solutions failed.
“These groups aren’t coming out of Marxist reading circles,” Hirsch said. “They came from being frustrated with the lived experience of being in Houston.”…”