Coming up on Memorial Day, 5/25 at The VORTEX, join us to watch this powerful documentary on a big screen, followed by a community discussion with local organizers.
Synopsis: From Executive Producer Macklemore, The Encampments offers an urgent, intimate portrait of America’s student movement, ignited at Columbia University as students protested their universities’ ties to the war on Gaza. Their actions sparked a nationwide uprising, with encampments spreading across hundreds of campuses. Featuring detained activist Mahmoud Khalil, alongside professors, whistleblowers, and organizers, the film captures the deeper stakes of a historic moment that continues to reverberate across the globe.
Trailer: https://youtu.be/wD3fpHjwsbw?si=6CbChFxy6zfMsFyg
The VORTEX, 5/25, doors open at 6:00, show at 6:30. Free admission.
Organized by Watermelon Film Club.
Co-sponsors: Palestinian Youth Movement, Palestine Solidarity Committee, Party for Socialism and Liberation, and the Austin for Palestine Coalition.
🖋️ bit.ly/CCFLETTER
🧑🏽⚕️ARE YOU A HEALTHCARE OR BIOMEDICAL WORKER OR STUDENT WHO STANDS AGAINST WAR? SIGN OUR OPEN LETTER AGAINST WARFARE IN HEALTHCARE
This week, on May 13th/14th, Capital Factory, the Austin startup accelerator that accelerates genocide, is smuggling warmongering and AI into the medical industry at its annual Health Supernova conference, with an event track on “dual-use medicine.” This is your opportunity to reject complicity in your field.
📝 SIGN THE OPEN LETTER to show we as medical and biotech workers refuse to contribute to the death machine and demand that Capital Factory drop all ties to genocide.
We save lives. We don’t destroy them.
🩺 NOT IN THE HEALTHCARE SPACE? Please share widely and send to people you know in the medical field.
AUSTIN — THE FIGHT IS NOT OVER — WE NEED YOU AT CITY COUNCIL ON 5/7
🗓️ TOMORROW — Thursday, 7 May
⏰ 9:15am - sign up DEADLINE (in person)
🗣️10am - City Council meeting and public comment begins
We’ve won a major milestone against the militarization of our city: City Council released a revised Economic Development Resolution (EDR) that officially removes AI data centers and defense technology from the list of target industries.
This change is a direct result of our collective power and the pressure we’ve put on the mayor and council!
But the fight is not over: the current resolution leaves open the possibility of military (defense), surveillance, and AI industries setting up shop in Austin with our tax dollars.
We must let the city know: we’re watching. We remain vigilant and will keep up the pressure through the next phase: when this resolution gets turned into policy.
Austinites refuse to allow our city to be tied to war, destruction, and oppression. NO TAX BREAKS FOR AI AND WAR TECH.
Join us tomorrow. When we organize, we win.
Texas and Oklahoma SJP chapters stand with the students at UT Dallas following the suspension of their SJP.
We affirm our commitment to continue organizing until all schools in the region divest from companies complicit in the genocide and occupation of Palestine.
WE WILL NOT STOP. WE WILL NOT REST. UNTIL OUR SCHOOLS DIVEST. 🇵🇸🇵🇸
TECH WORKERS SAY NO TO GENOCIDE!
Today we joined hundreds of workers in downtown to demand ICE out of Austin, Zionism out of Austin, and genocide profiteers out of Austin!
We’re asking all workers to boycott capital factory until our demands are met.
Sign the pledge at bit.ly/ccfpledge
Thank you to everyone who came out and contributed to our events throughout Israeli Apartheid Week.
Despite the repression we faced from our university administration, our community made one thing absolutely clear: no amount of obstacles placed in our path can silence the truth of the oppressed. Year after year, our moral conviction and our dedication to the struggle for liberation remain unshakable.
Across five days of programming, our community came together with intention, grounding our movement in both political education and Palestinian culture.
We began with a Brown Bag Lunch and Learn centered on the meaning of homeland, where members of our Palestinian community shared personal stories, photos, and reflections, rooting our struggle in lived experience, memory, and connection to land across the diaspora.
We then moved into preparation and skill-building, hosting an art build and workshop where our community created posters, learned how to respond to Zionist talking points, practiced Arabic chants, and printed their own IAW shirts.
That energy carried directly into our Day 3 protest of the “Israel Block Party,” where students mobilized to reject the normalization and celebration of a state built on displacement and violence. In the face of ongoing genocide, our presence made it clear that we refuse to remain silent or complicit.
On Day 4, in honor of Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, we gathered for a teach-in and community discussion. This space deepened our understanding of the broader struggle and reaffirmed our commitment to their liberation.
We closed the week with Café Resistance, a night of poetry, music, dance, food, and art that honored the inseparable connection between culture and resistance. It was a powerful reminder that our traditions and creative expression are not just celebrations, but acts of preservation and tools of resistance in the face of ongoing erasure.
Throughout the week, it was made clear: our movement is strong, our community is thriving, and no amount of Zionist propaganda will crush our spirit or our unwavering commitment to liberation.
Abolition is philosophy’s highest stage.
Notes on the Collaborationist University, Season 2: The Murder(s) of Black Studies. Ep. 3: Idris Robinson.
Full episode on furtherBlack.com. Link in bio. #blackstudies #abolition #palestine #academicfreedom
Texas and Oklahoma SJP Chapters stand in solidarity with Professor Idris Robinson, unjustly fired by Texas State for his speech in support of Palestinian liberation. The more they try to silence us, the stronger we become–committed to fighting for the freedom and dignity of the Palestinian people until liberation, from the river to the sea.
April 17 marks Palestinian Prisoner’s Day, and this year we say: FROM AUSTIN TO PALESTINE: FREE OUR PRISONERS!
Last night, Austinites joined us for a teach-in about Palestinian political prisoners, the history of the Palestinian prisoners’ movement, and how our political prisoners have led a national liberation struggle even from inside Zionist dungeons. Their contributions to the movement endure even as Israel’s abuse, torture, and starvation of prisoners has escalated since October 2023. Their accomplishments in confronting this inhumane carcerality, and their steadfastness in resisting occupation and the fragmentation of our people, are the reason that our prisoners are the compass of our struggle.
Follow the campaign to free all Palestinian prisoners and end the genocide behind bars: @freepalestinianprisoners
And join PYM Central TX tomorrow, Saturday April 18, for a special screening of Palestine ‘36 at Austin Film Society, with an introduction by PYM organizers to highlight the long history of Palestinian revolutionary resistance to colonial occupation. See our ig grid for more details!
Join PYM Central Texas and Watermelon Film Club for a screening of Palestine ‘36, a historical epic that brings to life the 1936-1939 Palestinian revolt against British colonial rule, a pivotal chapter in modern Palestinian history.
🗓️ Saturday, April 18th
⏱️ 3 PM Screening
📍 Austin Film Society (6406 N. IH-35, Suite 3100)
🎟️ Tickets: PALESTINE36FILM.COM
PYM organizers will be introducing the film to provide historical context and thematic framing for what the film teaches us about our role in the Palestinian liberation struggle today.
Austinites, makes sure to follow us @pymcentraltx for events and organizing opportunities for Palestine, and @watermelonfilmclub if you’re interested in Palestine film
🗓️ Thursday, April 16
⏰6:30 PM
📍Austin Public Library, University Hills Branch, 4721 Loyola Ln, Austin, TX 78723
This Prisoner’s Day, we honor our heroes who continue to guide our movement even from within the Zionist dungeons. Join PSC and PYM Central Texas for a teach-in and community discussion on Palestinian Prisoners, their resistance movement and current conditions, and the Zionist entity’s latest attempt to legalize genocide through the recent death penalty law.
Freedom for our Prisoners! Victory to their struggle!
🗓️ PSC’s 2026 “israeli” Apartheid Week is here!
We are dedicating this week of April 13th-17th to educate, to show our solidarity, and to continue to oust zionism from our community.
We hope to see you all throughout this week! 🇵🇸
